Knoch-knock. Can Ledgie come out and play?

[darklinensuit]

What did you guys play when you were little?

There were a lot of kids on my street growing up. It was like something from the '50s suburbia (NO, I'm not that old) - the houses on the hill, the connecting streets, the cul-de-sac at the end with the park, the neighbors we all knew.

We played the following:
- running bases
- superheroes
- practicing plays such as Grease ( :lol: ) and an original ghost story
- with weeble wobbles, Colorforms, Micronauts, Sit & Spin, trading cards
- Pong, Atari, air hockey
- catch, blowing bubbles
- on swingsets
- hide and seek (Best in the dark in a basement, where the seeker gets to use a flashlight)
- drawing on sidewalks, & that thing that spun around as you dripped paints on it
- Mousetrap, & that plastic thing with the boxers punching each other
- kick the can, capture the flag, steal the bacon, baby in the air
- Trouble, Sorry, Operation
- Zim-Zam (Does ANYONE remember this? We had one in my backyard.)

I remember the hot days where our mothers would tell us we HAD to go outside to play because the weather was so nice, and we would get mad at our mothers. :rolleyes:

Can you come play? I'll let you choose the game. :)

[darklinensuit]

I just had a weird sort-of-Stevie-moment RIGHT after posting this thread.
One of the toys I played with, I couldn't remember the name. The thing where you use the oddly shaped plastic tools to move your writing utensils in patterns & make interesting designs.
I gave up thinking about it & for some reason clicked onto the lyrics & interp.s forum, where I NEVER EVER go. I saw several threads & clicked FIRST on the Stevie review from 1983.
The article begins:

"Stevie Nicks Twirling In Her Fantasy World
by Steve Pond

Question: Who has more scarves than Elvis Presley? Who giggles more than the girls at a sixth-grade slumber party? Who twirls around more than a boxful of gyroscopes? Who sells more records than Fleetwood Mac?"

This freaks me out! "Gyroscopes" was what I was just trying to think of! It's like something supernatural directed me to this very article at this moment! How weird is that!

- Jake

[DeadliestPoison]

I used to play Power Rangers during recess in Elemenatary school. :laugh: We have, like, no kids on our street, so recess was all I got.

[estranged4life]

Baseball (From the age of 6 to 17, A wrist injury ended my career or otherwise I would still be playing. My best friend Trina was the best pitcher on an opposing team, And I enjoyed creaming the s--t outta her 70-80 MPH pitches as a teen! When we grew to older teens we played...uh..."Doctor", We were inseparable, More like Brother & Sister than anything else.)

Army (The field near our home had an ol' Civil War battlefield look to it, With bunkers, hideaways & a large pond right in the middle.)

Fireworks Stand (Around this time of year my 2 older brothers & myself would take all the fireworks we had bought and set 'em up on the porchsteps and pretend we ran a fireworks stand, I still have vivid memories of this when I was between the ages 5-7)

Atari 2600 (I enjoyed buying all the new games and figuring out how to cheat at 'em...I had "Raiders of The Lost Ark" figured out in a days time, And at the time it was one of the hardest Atari games to decypher)

Music (The only time music will leave my life is when my life ends...)

Beating the living s--t outta the other kids in the neighborhood-Our fave pastime, If ya moved into our neighborhood ya got yer ass kicked, Especially if yer last name was Gann (We owned those b-tches)...It comes with the territory.

Going to the Silvermine arcade at Curt's Mall (We knew the owner and always got to play free arcade classics like Pac-Man, Pong, Star Wars, Tank Zone & the ever popular Kiss Pinball machine)

Monopoly-I am the undisputed world champ at Monoppoly...That is cheating at Monopoly, My Mother even lets people know how much I would cheat, hehehehe!!!!

[darklinensuit]

I used to play Power Rangers during recess in Elemenatary school. :laugh: We have, like, no kids on our street, so recess was all I got.

Power Rangers is after my time, you whippersnapper. (Where's the smilie with a cane & the words "Get off my lawn!")
Did you have a favorite Power Ranger? (Is there a difference besides the gender & unifiorm colors?)

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Baseball (From the age of 6 to 17, A wrist injury ended my career or otherwise I would still be playing. My best friend Trina was the best pitcher on an opposing team, And I enjoyed creaming the s--t outta her 70-80 MPH pitches as a teen! When we grew to older teens we played...uh..."Doctor", We were inseparable, More like Brother & Sister than anything else.)

Army (The field near our home had an ol' Civil War battlefield look to it, With bunkers, hideaways & a large pond right in the middle.)

Fireworks Stand (Around this time of year my 2 older brothers & myself would take all the fireworks we had bought and set 'em up on the porchsteps and pretend we ran a fireworks stand, I still have vivid memories of this when I was between the ages 5-7)

Atari 2600 (I enjoyed buying all the new games and figuring out how to cheap at 'em...I had "Radiers of The Lost Ark" figured out in a days time, And at the time it was one of the hardest Atari games to decypher)

Music (The only time music will leave my life is when my life ends...)

Beating the living s--t outta the other kids in the neighborhood-Our fave pastime, If ya moved into our neighborhood ya got yer ass kicked, Especially if yer last name was Gann (We owned those b-tches)...It comes with the territory.

Going to the arcade at Curt's Mall (We new the owner and always got to play free arcade classics like Pac-Man, Pong, Star Wars, Tank Zone & the ever popular Kiss Pinball machine)

The army thing sounds cool. The park at the cul-de-sac was nothing special, except there were hills for cool sledding on either side, & the older kids made up these stories about Indians killing people with a fallen tree and a boulder that are still there. I had cool nightmares about headhunters marching up the street to my bedroom.

Were you always a big kid, or did you also get beaten up?

- Jake

[DeadliestPoison]

Power Rangers is after my time, you whippersnapper. (Where's the smilie with a cane & the words "Get off my lawn!")
Did you have a favorite Power Ranger? (Is there a difference besides the gender & unifiorm colors?)

- Jake

Hee. My favorite was always the yellow ranger. No matter who it was - Trini, Aisha.. the other ones. I stopped watching in 3rd grade.

After I posted, I remembered I'd swing all recess after I realized that the Power Rangers were lame.

[darklinensuit]

Hee. My favorite was always the yellow ranger. No matter who it was - Trini, Aisha.. the other ones. I stopped watching in 3rd grade.

After I posted, I remembered I'd swing all recess after I realized that the Power Rangers were lame.

It's tough, comng of age. I remember how my world was rocked when in the first grade Mrs. Warner gave us a stern lecture that the Fonz was not cool. You don't recover easily from those hard life lessons. :distress: :cool:

- Jake

[GardenStateGirlie]

Hee. My favorite was always the yellow ranger. No matter who it was - Trini, Aisha.. the other ones. I stopped watching in 3rd grade.

After I posted, I remembered I'd swing all recess after I realized that the Power Rangers were lame.


Wow...you were in 3rd grade...damn i'm old.

We played a lot of jailbreak during the summertime, streethockey, capture the flag, hide and seek (sometimes we'd be asses and not look for the person :laugh: ) , we'd jump on the trampoline, play soccer, play with dolls, put on shows....ahhh...sometimes I'd like to go back to that...

[darklinensuit]

Wow...you were in 3rd grade...damn i'm old.

We played a lot of jailbreak during the summertime, streethockey, capture the flag, hide and seek (sometimes we'd be asses and not look for the person :laugh: ) ...

We did that a few times, if somebody was the seeker in hide & seek or the kicker in kick the can. We'd all go into somebody's house and watch TV in the air conditioning. :shocked: :angel:
I'm going to be making this up in my next life.

- Jake

[estranged4life]

the baby (My oldest brother Bill is 6 years older and Geary is 4 years older) so the only time when I got my ass kicked was by my brothers.

We used to play kickball too, I remember never beating Geary and I hated it, He enjoyed annoying the s--t outta me, But life has a payback...His daughter Kendra is basically my clone (She has my looks & personality, So much it is eerie...Poor girl!!!) and she is as hyper now as I was as a child.

Going to the midnight movie/drive-in was also cool. I remember seeing Star Wars the weekend it was released and only 5 people were at the cinema: MY brothers Bill & Geary, My brother Bill's girlfriend Carrie & her sister Tonya (Who I think is Christine McVie's long lost daughter, The resemblance is uncanny) & myself. We (Geary & myself) sat in the front row and chuncked popcorn at Darth Vader when he talked in the deep breath voice, Telling him to "Wake up".

Football was another fave-My Mother loved to play tackle the man and we would all play in the field across from our home (My Mother could also play baseball), But she would pin me down and tickle me til I p-ssed myself (Trust me, If anyone tries to tickle me now I "run like hell"!!!!)

Another childhood memory I have is when my Mother bought her 1976 Pontiac Trans-Am (I come from a long line of auto mechanics & race car drivers, My late Father was an auto mechanic & TV repairman, I inherited his technical ability)...She had it tuned up so it could exceed the 180MPH on the speedometer. It was clocked by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol at 186MPH...This one cocky patrolman had a 1979 Bandit Limited Edition Turbo TA he thought was hotsh-t, So he challenge my Mother to a dragrace on a highway while the other OHP troopers in his unit watched to make sure the race happened without accident and they thought he would win, So this dumbass wanted to make it a "pinkslip" race which my Mother accepted happily...My Mother smoke his happy ass so bad the other troopers were laughing at his humilated ass when the race was over. He is lucky we didnt bring out the 1969 SS Camaro we owned, It was faster than my Mom's TA!!!

[DeadliestPoison]

My sister & I played Hide & Seek in the house. Before she became EVIL. (Ask Riss!)

I remember when I was little I used to be obsessed with... I wanna say Mighty Max? He was like Polly Pocket for boys. I remember having a little science lab one and I remember finding a huge mountain thing in my mom's closet.... that I was getting for Christmas.

I just thought Santa dropped it off early. :laugh:

I didn't find out about Santa until... 3rd grade, maybe. I learned the hard way. I was telling people in the lunch line about the stuff I got and the 5th graders were like "You LOSERS. Santa isn't REEEEEAL." :( I should have picked up on it when I was throwing something in the trash can in the kitchen and I saw all of the cookies we had left out for Santa in there. -_- I figured he just knew where the trash can was. :laugh:

My parents LOVED messing with us re: Santa. My dad would put fake deer hoove prints in the snow in the backyard and we fell for it every. time.

G-d we were lame.

[darklinensuit]

It was faster than my Mom's TA!!!

I'm not touching this line. :shocked: ;)

For some reason we almost never played football, though we played every other sport.
And we played Star Wars. I had a plastic light saber that would glow in the darkif you held it ahile to a light. Being too lazy and clever for my own good, I put the light saber under the bathroom lights, ontop of the mirrored medicine cabinet. When I remembered it was there, I found it had melted. :shocked:
Do you own fast cars these days?

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

My sister & I played Hide & Seek in the house. Before she became EVIL. (Ask Riss!)

I remember when I was little I used to be obsessed with... I wanna say Mighty Max? He was like Polly Pocket for boys. I remember having a little science lab one and I remember finding a huge mountain thing in my mom's closet.... that I was getting for Christmas.

I just thought Santa dropped it off early. :laugh:

I didn't find out about Santa until... 3rd grade, maybe. I learned the hard way. I was telling people in the lunch line about the stuff I got and the 5th graders were like "You LOSERS. Santa isn't REEEEEAL." :( I should have picked up on it when I was throwing something in the trash can in the kitchen and I saw all of the cookies we had left out for Santa in there. -_- I figured he just knew where the trash can was. :laugh:

My parents LOVED messing with us re: Santa. My dad would put fake deer hoove prints in the snow in the backyard and we fell for it every. time.

G-d we were lame.

Is your father Chevy Chase/Clark Griswald? :laugh: :shrug:

- Jake

[estranged4life]

I didn't find out about Santa until... 3rd grade, maybe. I learned the hard way. I was telling people in the lunch line about the stuff I got and the 5th graders were like "You LOSERS. Santa isn't REEEEEAL." :(

in our house, Well kinda.

My Mother would buy the presents early and try to hide 'em from us 3 boy, So was she ever surprised one Christmas when we found the presents in her bedroom and opened 'em up to see what we were receiving....The only problem was that we rewrapped the presents in different paper!!! Man, was she po'd or what :laugh:

Not as po'd as when I dialed a pay-per-call sports line and ran up a several hundred dollar phone bill, Let's say we definitely werent a "spare the rod, spoil the child" family :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[DeadliestPoison]

It was Mighty Max!!

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mightymax.html

It's got a picture of the mountain playset I found in mom's closet. It opened up and there was a whole bunch of random stuff inside you could stick Max in. It owned.

EDIT: This is the science lab one I had:

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_skull_1_crop.jpg
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_skull_2_crop.jpg

I also had these: http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_snake_2_crop.jpg
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_bat_1_crop.jpg

My sister just walked in here when I was looking at them and she freaked. out. She was like "Homahgah! I remember those!!"

[darklinensuit]

in our house, Well kinda.

My Mother would buy the presents early and try to hide 'em from us 3 boy, So was she ever surprised one Christmas when we found the presents in her bedroom and opened 'em up to see what we were receiving....The only problem was that we rewrapped the presents in different paper!!! Man, was she po'd or what :laugh:

Not as po'd as when I dialed a pay-per-call sports line and ran up a several hundred dollar phone bill, Let's say we definitely werent a "spare the rod spoli the child family" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

My parents would have KILLED me for that. :shocked:
My Chanukah gifts were often so lame they weren't worth searching out. Eventually my parents would just take us to the store and say Here, pick what you want.

- Jake

[estranged4life]

Do you own fast cars these days?


No. All we have (Debbie & myself) is a 1996 Nissan Sentra GXE (The "War horse"/"Black Death"). Our Nissan has a fetish with large wildlife (Only when Deb drives) because it has splattered alot of animals (Including a deer which tore the sh-t outta the front fender weld)

My brother Geary owns a Shelby Avenger though (Even had the legendary Carroll Shelby sign the dash, That is one fast ass car).

[darklinensuit]

No. All we have (Debbie & myself) is a 1996 Nissan Sentra GXE (The "War horse"/"Black Death"). Our Nissan has a fetish with large wildlife (Only when Deb drives) because it has splattered alot of animals (Including a deer which tore the sh-t outta the front fender weld)

My brother Geary owns a Shelby Avenger though (Even had the legendary Carroll Shelby sign the dash, That is one fast ass car).

I'm scared of hitting animals. I saw a lot of deer when I lived in Austin, and since these days when I go there I usually drive back late at night, it pays to be careful.
But it says something especially about the quality of life in Oklahoma that woodland creatures are seeking to hurl themselves into a moving vehicle. :cool: :lol:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

It was Mighty Max!!!!

Never seen it before. Wait, yes I have. (Hi, Marissa. :wavey: )

Seriously, what the hell did you do with that?

- Jake

[estranged4life]

I'm scared of hitting animals. I saw a lot of deer when I lived in Austin, and since these days when I go there I usually drive back late at night, it pays to be careful.

But it says something especially about the quality of life in Oklahoma that woodland creatures are seeking to hurl themselves into a moving vehicle. :cool: :lol:

- Jake

that deer was depressed because of a lovers spat and decided to end it all on our car :laugh:

Brian "Debbie-2 Wildlife-0" j.

[darklinensuit]

that deer was depressed because of a lovers spat and decided to end it all on our car :laugh:

Brian "Debbie-2 Wildlife-0" j.

Virginia is for lovers...Oklahoma is for splatters.
Nice ring to it.

- Jake

[DeadliestPoison]

Never seen it before. Wait, yes I have. (Hi, Marissa. :wavey: )

Seriously, what the hell did you do with that?

- Jake
Dude, honestly? I don't know. lol.

I guess it's one of those things you let your imagination go haywire with. All I really remember about it is me thinking it was the best. thing. ever.

Apparently, there was a cartoon that went along with the toys. Maybe the toys represented stuff he did on the show? I never watched it (I didn't even know there was show until now).

Man. Trip down memory lane much?

[estranged4life]

Never seen it before. Wait, yes I have. (Hi, Marissa. :wavey: )

Seriously, what the hell did you do with that?

- Jake

I havent seen one of those before either...

I still own 3 of the toys I had as an infant:

A pink stuffed elephant

A plastic Tweety Bird

And a Playmate (I think thats the name of the toymaker) Pull-string firetruck with 2 wooden figures (The ladder works, The hoses are still in tact & the bell rings when it is pulled by the string, Except for the paint fading it is in excellent condition for a wooden 34 year old toy)

[darklinensuit]

Dude, honestly? I don't know. lol.

I guess it's one of those things you let your imagination go haywire with. All I really remember about it is me thinking it was the best. thing. ever.

Apparently, there was a cartoon that went along with the toys. Maybe the toys represented stuff he did on the show? I never watched it (I didn't even know there was show until now).

Man. Trip down memory lane much?

It reminds me slightly of the Micronauts toys (before your time). My brother & I liked to shoot the rockets out of the bad guys' arms. We would build forts in the basement, fire at each other, and eventually just throw whatever was within reach.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

I still own 3 of the toys I had as an infant:


And a Playmate

Why'd you have to ruin it with a description? :shrug: I was picturing her with the bunny ears and all in your playpen, thinking WOW, Brian has the coolest folks ever! :lol:

- Jake

[estranged4life]

It reminds me slightly of the Micronauts toys (before your time). My brother & I liked to shoot the rockets out of the bad guys' arms. We would build forts in the basement, fire at each other, and eventually just throw whatever was within reach.

- Jake

"Stretch Arm-strong"? Man, That was one elastic rubberized action figure...

My fave toys are still any of the Evel Knievel toys, Slot car race sets (I love slot cars) & "SST Smash 'Em Up Derby" (My brother Geary bought my Mother an "SST" set...Man, I need to find one for myself.)

[GardenStateGirlie]

We did that a few times, if somebody was the seeker in hide & seek or the kicker in kick the can. We'd all go into somebody's house and watch TV in the air conditioning. :shocked: :angel:
I'm going to be making this up in my next life.

- Jake

We'd do that too....bad kids... :angel:

[DeadliestPoison]

We would build forts in the basement
This reminds me that one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid was making forts in my bunk bed (Yeah. There's only one of me, but I wanted a bunk bed. My Dad built it! +10! Too bad I was afraid to go to the top bunk. Eventually, I'd realize that I didn't need to top bunk so I told Dad & he cut that part off). I built forts in the family room, too. :D

What else did I do... When Dexter's Laboratory (show on Cartoon Network) first came out, I was determined that I was going to build my own lab.... in the crawlspace. :laugh:

[DeadliestPoison]

"Stretch Arm-strong"? Man, That was one elastic rubberized action figure...

I had him!! And his dog!! I never tried to see what was inside, but I think mine busted. Laaame.

I also LOVED building things with blocks. The best were Lincoln Logs. I? Loved those things.

I'd love to find some of the stuff I played with when I was little. I remember when my mom made me throw away all my action figures (Power Rangers, of course). I was a wreck. :( She said I was too old to play with toys. Psh.

[darklinensuit]

"Stretch Arm-strong"? Man, That was one elastic rubberized action figure...

My fave toys are still any of the Evel Knievel toys, Slot car race sets (I love slot cars) & "SST Smash 'Em Up Derby" (My brother Geary bought my Mother an "SST" set...Man, I need to find one for myself.)

I had Even on his cycle. Ultra-Man, too, who would slide down a rope. My brother had the Stretch thing until I cut him open. (Stretch, that is, not my brother.) I also managed to break open a Weeble Wobble, believe it or not. And I broke the bee off the See & Spell. I always wanted to see the insides. I had a white-haired action figure (forget the name) where you'd press a button in his back & you could see his blood pumping & his internal organs (his front chest & torso were clear). It was cool, but I think I melted him or something.

- Jake

[estranged4life]

Why'd you have to ruin it with a description? :shrug: I was picturing her with the bunny ears and all in your playpen, thinking WOW, Brian has the coolest folks ever! :lol:

- Jake

was and is cool. She used to drive my oldest brother Bill to high school in her Trans Am and Bill's friends would say "Who is that groovy chick?" to which he replied "My Mom"...They thought she was his girlfriend, Bwa-hahahahaha!!!!

Ya gotta think, This was round 1979-1982, During the first hey-day of Fleetwood Mac when my Mother thought becoming a blonde was hella cool (Why my Mom became a blonde is beyond me, But she had the guys chasing after her...Maybe she wanted to be Stevie-like, Who knows, But I laughed when I visited my Mom last and saw FM's "Greatest Hits" was now included in her music collection)

[darklinensuit]

This reminds me that one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid was making forts in my bunk bed (Yeah. There's only one of me, but I wanted a bunk bed. My Dad built it! +10! Too bad I was afraid to go to the top bunk. Eventually, I'd realize that I didn't need to top bunk so I told Dad & he cut that part off). I built forts in the family room, too. :D

What else did I do... When Dexter's Laboratory (show on Cartoon Network) first came out, I was determined that I was going to build my own lab.... in the crawlspace. :laugh:

I never slept in a bunk bed until my first year of college, & I insisted on the top bunk. I hate bunk beds. You feel the person move. But when I was little I really wanted bunk beds. Hell if I know why. We hafd a kajillion sofa beds in the house.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

was and is cool. She used to drive my oldest brother Bill to high school in her Trans Am and Bill's friends would say "Who is that groovy chick?" to which he replied "My Mom"...They thought she was his girlfriend, Bwa-hahahahaha!!!!

Ya gotta think, This was round 1979-1982, During the first hey-day of Fleetwood Mac when my Mother thought becoming a blonde was hella cool (Why my Mom became a blonde is beyond me, But she had the guys chasing after her...Maybe she wanted to be Stevie-like, Who knows, But I laughed when I visited my Mom last and saw FM's "Greatest Hits" was now included in her music collection)

My mom started going blond (from dark brunette) in those days because she got tired of strangers asking if I was adopted because of my blond hair and blue eyes. Of course, once she went blond, my hair got dark. Always rebelling.

- Jake

[estranged4life]

I never slept in a bunk bed until my first year of college, & I insisted on the top bunk. I hate bunk beds. You feel the person move. But when I was little I really wanted bunk beds. Hell if I know why. We hafd a kajillion sofa beds in the house.

- Jake

had bunk beds while I had my own bed.

The most fun I ever had in life was from about 1978-1982 (Our Father died in a car-wreck in Oct.77 which nearly killed my Mother & seriously injured Bill & myself, Geary was uninjured as was my Grandmother...I still have horrible memories of the BS in 1977 after my Father died), I wished I could go back and relive 'em over again :nod:

[DeadliestPoison]

My mom started going blond (from dark brunette) in those days because she got tired of strangers asking if I was adopted because of my blond hair and blue eyes. Of course, once she went blond, my hair got dark. Always rebelling.

- Jake
My mom went blonde when I was iiiin... second or third grade (sheesh, everything happens in 3rd grade for me). She started out with frosting, then she went full-on blonde. She said it was to hide the grey.

Last month, she went back to brown. It freaked me out at first because I was so used to her being blonde. I'm used to it now, though.

[darklinensuit]

had bunk beds while I had my own bed.

The most fun I ever had in life was from about 1978-1982 (Our Father died in a car-wreck in Oct.77 which nearly killed my Mother & seriously injured Bill & myself, Geary was uninjured as was my Grandmother...I still have horrible memories of the BS in 1977 after my Father died), I wished I could go back and relive 'em over again :nod:

Sorry to hear about your dad. That's rough, especially on kids.
I'm not clear on why '78-'82 were so great for you. :confused:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

My mom went blonde when I was iiiin... second or third grade (sheesh, everything happens in 3rd grade for me). She started out with frosting, then she went full-on blonde. She said it was to hide the grey.

Last month, she went back to brown. It freaked me out at first because I was so used to her being blonde. I'm used to it now, though.

That's what my mom did, first with the frosting, then with the full blond.
There were a couple of perms involved, too.
Why copy Barbra. :rolleyes:

[GardenStateGirlie]

My mom started going blond (from dark brunette) in those days because she got tired of strangers asking if I was adopted because of my blond hair and blue eyes. Of course, once she went blond, my hair got dark. Always rebelling.

- Jake

I used to swear up and down that I was adopted. My mom has loong blonde hair. My friends used to call her Stevie :laugh: My dad has dark curly hair. No..no one calls him Lindsey...he's a big guy :laugh:

[DeadliestPoison]

That's what my mom did, first with the frosting, then with the full blond.
There were a couple of perms involved, too.
Why copy Barbra. :rolleyes:
Hee. My mom had a perm after she & dad got married and moved into their first house. She always tells me she remembers seeing the Stand Back video then (black widow, I can bend - right, Riss? ;) :wavey: ) and everyone wanted to be Stevie.

After that, she had short brown hair. Then bam - blonde.

[estranged4life]

Sorry to hear about your dad. That's rough, especially on kids.
I'm not clear on why '78-'82 were so great for you. :confused:

- Jake

was the time when alot of the stuff I mentioned happened...Those were great times (Before my Mother remarried to a total a--hole which we boys hated, Thank God she divorced his drunken wife beating ass before he ended up suckin' on the end of the .22 rifle I owned!!!)

[GardenStateGirlie]

Hee. My mom had a perm after she & dad got married and moved into their first house. She always tells me she remembers seeing the Stand Back video then (black widow, I can bend - right, Riss? ;) :wavey: ) and everyone wanted to be Stevie.

After that, she had short brown hair. Then bam - blonde.

LOL...yep...some nights, your mom still thinks she's Stevie :lol:

[DeadliestPoison]

LOL...yep...some nights, your mom still thinks she's Stevie :lol:
And who can forget "Maybe I'm still thinking that your rooms they're all on fire."

Or the fan favorite, "I'm tired, I'm crazy, I'm wild-eyed in my mystery, Yeah, yeah."

:rolleyes:

[GardenStateGirlie]

And who can forget "Maybe I'm still thinking that your rooms they're all on fire."

Or the fan favorite, "I'm tired, I'm crazy, I'm wild-eyed in my mystery, Yeah, yeah."

:rolleyes:

One of these nights, she's going to get all Mirage SOTM-like. You need to digi-cam that :nod:

[DrummerDeanna]

When I was really little I played with Fisher Price Little People....I called them "goors" basically I was trying to say girls...but couldn't...so yeah....I had a farm and a school house and a regular house with which to play...oh and a circus train (these FP toys were my sister's - who is ten years older than I, they no longer make those toys like they used to :( )

I also had a bunch of little records that came with books...I had all of my favorites memorized..and I'd recite them for my (probably very bored) parents and grandparents...

When I was a bit older we moved to a neighborhood with kids, we played:

Barbies (for hours at a time...)
School (we were SO lame)
trouble, sorry or monopoly
we'd roller skate (in the days before roller blades)
we'd ride bikes
make prank calls....(call ID has ruined what was my favorite slumber party antic!)

[Violet]

Some of our favorites that involved all the kids on our block were:

Flashlight Tag -- We'd have up to like 6 yards that would be the territory where you could hide, and have probably 15 kids playing

Tarzan and Jane -- my best friend and I always ended up being the monkey, whose name escapes me...was it Cheetah?

Kickball -- My dad would get in on this and kick the ball not only out of the yard but over the neighbor's house behind us.

Orphanage -- One lucky kid got to be Mr. Meanie, who ran the orphanage.

I had a Skip-It (at least that's what they're called now..not sure what they were called in the '70s). It had a thing that went around your ankle and a lemon on the end of it, you spun it around and jumped over it. Hard to explain, but I loved that thing. I'll still play with my daughter's current version which uses a wheel instead of a lemon.

We also had some kind of ride-on toy that you operated by spinning the big wheels with your hands, and you would go in circles. Again, not a great description....

Carol

[darklinensuit]

I used to swear up and down that I was adopted. My mom has loong blonde hair. My friends used to call her Stevie :laugh: My dad has dark curly hair. No..no one calls him Lindsey...he's a big guy :laugh:

My family was so nuts that I used to torment my little brother by telling him he WASN'T adopted. "Those are your real parents." :lol:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

was the time when alot of the stuff I mentioned happened...Those were great times (Before my Mother remarried to a total a--hole which we boys hated, Thank God she divorced his drunken wife beating ass before he ended up suckin' on the end of the .22 rifle I owned!!!)

:shocked: (Gulp)

Glad your mom got rid of him.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Hee. My mom had a perm after she & dad got married and moved into their first house. She always tells me she remembers seeing the Stand Back video then (black widow, I can bend - right, Riss? ;) :wavey: ) and everyone wanted to be Stevie.

After that, she had short brown hair. Then bam - blonde.

I can't imagine my mom trying to look like Stevie. Stevie would have to wear diamonds and play mah- jong. :shocked:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

When I was really little I played with Fisher Price Little People....I called them "goors" basically I was trying to say girls...but couldn't...so yeah....I had a farm and a school house and a regular house with which to play...oh and a circus train (these FP toys were my sister's - who is ten years older than I, they no longer make those toys like they used to :( )

I also had a bunch of little records that came with books...I had all of my favorites memorized..and I'd recite them for my (probably very bored) parents and grandparents...

When I was a bit older we moved to a neighborhood with kids, we played:

Barbies (for hours at a time...)
School (we were SO lame)
trouble, sorry or monopoly
we'd roller skate (in the days before roller blades)
we'd ride bikes
make prank calls....(call ID has ruined what was my favorite slumber party antic!)

So basically your first paragraph tells me that you tried to turn your house into Little House On The Prairie. Why am I not surprised. ;)
I can't remember if I listed bike riding, but we did that a lot. I never road after my early teen years (still haven't learned hand brakes), but I had a cool dirt bike called the Hornet 1 that was made to look like a yellow and black fake cheesey motorcycly, complete with a fake tank. My parents are finally hiring a crew to clean out the garage (nobody has been in there for YEARS), and I told my mom to throw out everything except that bike!

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Tarzan and Jane -- my best friend and I always ended up being the monkey, whose name escapes me...was it Cheetah?


Orphanage -- One lucky kid got to be Mr. Meanie, who ran the orphanage.


Carol

These two are too funny!

- Jake

[Violet]

These two are too funny!

- Jake

Yeah...Eileen and I were the youngest of the kids, so that's why we were always Cheetah. All we got to do was sit in the tree making monkey noises!

The orphanage thing is kind of weird. Not sure where we got that. But as it turns out my daughter spent her first 9 months in an orphanage, and I don't think I'll ever share this game with her. I want her to have a positive image of orphanages!

We rode bikes a LOT, too. Did you have one with a banana seat and those big, high handlebars?

Carol

[darklinensuit]

Yeah...Eileen and I were the youngest of the kids, so that's why we were always Cheetah. All we got to do was sit in the tree making monkey noises!

The orphanage thing is kind of weird. Not sure where we got that. But as it turns out my daughter spent her first 9 months in an orphanage, and I don't think I'll ever share this game with her. I want her to have a positive image of orphanages!

We rode bikes a LOT, too. Did you have one with a banana seat and those big, high handlebars?

Carol

No offense, but weren't those girls' bikes?
(And no, my bike did notr have ribbons, a bell, or a basket. ;) )

- Jake

[Violet]

No offense, but weren't those girls' bikes?
(And no, my bike did notr have ribbons, a bell, or a basket. ;) )

- Jake

I think boys' bikes had those seats. My brother I'm pretty sure had one. And if memory serves, did the bikes on the Brady Bunch have those seats?? If you ask me those seats were a LOT more comfortable than the teeny seats on bikes now.

I didn't have a bell or ribbons, but I did have a big orange flag on a pole on the back. What the hell was that all about??!?!? :shrug: Maybe so you could find your bikes easier in those crowded bike racks? Who knows. Makes me think of all the old people in FL who put flowers and crap on their car antennas so they can find them in parking lots!

Carol

[wondergirl9847]

I was a tomboy (still am) as a kid. Me and my cousin would play with baby frogs and catch crawdads at my grandmother's house. LOL

We played four square....remember that game? If not, you had four people, drew a tic-tac-toe on the ground and closed it up so you have four squares...dur. LOL Then, you got a kickball (another game we played, in school, anways) and hit it into the other person's square. If the ball went out of the square, you're out. Stupid game. LOL

In PE class, we played:

Red Rover (!!!)
Kickball
Softball (My fave game!! I hit a homer in 5th grade!! Shocked the boys who were screaming "Move in....easy out!!" LOL)
Soccer (HATE soccer!!)
Basketball
Tennis (HATE tennis!!)

For fun, some would play:
Butt's Up (LMAO!! Who in their right mind....)
Football
Volleyball

At home, I'd play:

Detective on my bike (Yeah, I was VERY imaginative as a kid. LOL Also, we just sold my favorite bike in our garage sale recently and a little part of me, died, I think. LOL)
Atari and later...Nintendo
Volleyball
Badmitton
School (with friends....why would I wanna be a teacher, I don't really like kids. :shrug: LOL)
rollerskate (My fave thing to do as a kid!!)
I played so much music as a kid...records, tapes, the radio...whatever. I made tapes of myself singing and talking. I'm an only child, so...LOL

[Violet]

Butt's Up (LMAO!! Who in their right mind....)


WTH is that?!!? :shrug:

We also played four square, and two square....my 4th grade teacher LOVED to play two square with a tennis ball. Every recess that's what he'd do, find some poor kid to annihilate (sp?) at two square. But he was the coolest teacher I ever had....Mr. Paul....quite a cutie, too!

Carol

[wondergirl9847]

I think I remember the rules, but I'm kinda fuzzy....it was a stupid game that the boys would play where they'd get this tennis ball, they'd all line up and race to the wall, whoever was last, had to stand at the wall, while they took turns throwing the tennis ball at his butt. I think that's the gist.

Like I said, STUPID game. :laugh:

Brian, your mom and my mom sound like they were separated at birth. LOL My mom loves fast cars and hanging out with guys. She has a 1972 Ford Mustang and wants to be buried in it. LMAO!! I keep telling her no, I'm gonna sell it when she's gone....yep, we've fought about it. :laugh: She raced some guy back in the day and got caught by a cop, (the other guy saw the cop and bailed) and my dad "took" the car away from her. It was his car at first, but my mom kinda took it over.

[estranged4life]

Brian, your mom and my mom sound like they were separated at birth. LOL My mom loves fast cars and hanging out with guys. She has a 1972 Ford Mustang and wants to be buried in it. LMAO!! I keep telling her no, I'm gonna sell it when she's gone....yep, we've fought about it. :laugh: She raced some guy back in the day and got caught by a cop, (the other guy saw the cop and bailed) and my dad "took" the car away from her. It was his car at first, but my mom kinda took it over.

had a fail-proof way of getting outta traffic tickets, A lil' cleavage was all it took :laugh:

Speaking of being buried, My Mom now wants to be buried face down, So at the funeral ceremony those in the world of the living will have pass her by to kiss her ass.

The most important thing I ever learned from my Mother is the following:
"If you can't dazzle 'em with intelligence, Dazzle 'em with Bullsh-t".

[amber]

I was an only child and there were mainly boys to play with in my neighborhood (thank god!!!). I didn't really like toys, I hated to be inside, and outside, my favorite toys were basically ball and jumprope. Mostly what me and my boy playmate did was run. we played baseball a lot, a lot of times with "stick and plum" yes, the fruit. We played hide and seek, cartoon tag, tunnel tag, regular tag, freeze tag, and probably some others that i'm forgetting. We played race, rugby. There were trees, so we were always trying to build some kind of fort, or just climbing them (we played "race-climb" a lot). We also like to play "start small fires while chewing tobacco in our tree fort" I have a small burn scar from that one. We also liked to walk to our school and play on the roof, there was a way to climb up. We also slept outside in the summer. We were basically wild jungle children. I hated playing inside, and when i had to, I usually read a book, or practiced writing or fixing my hair. (We didn't have a TV, usually). The thing I hated most is when I asked my friend to come out and play, and he'd say "no, I'm watching TV" or "no, I'm playing ATARI" he let me play once or twice, I LOOOOVED "Pitfall". But also we lived on a big hill (everything in my town is on a big hill) and I had to walk about a mile to the grocery store every day to get our groceries, usually a gallon of milk at least every other day, plus sundries, cause we didn't have a car, then back up the giant hill, from the time I was 7 'till 10. That sucked. Also, the few times when I invited one of my school girlfriends over to play (they were invariably skinny, smart sickly types) it was so boring and they asked "can we play dolls?" or something equally lame, and i would force them to play jumprope or foursquare and would beat them (at the game, not physically) so much that it wasn't that fun. When i went to their house, they wanted me to play dolls, but i didn't really know what to do with them and begged them to play outside with me.
The End.
Wait, omigod, I forgot about taking the bigwheel or the wagon down the hill!!!! sooooooo fun!!! I wish I had a bigwheel now....

[wondergirl9847]

This thread is fun!! Remember Ghost in the Graveyard!!?? We played it at my grandmother's house. It's basically hide and seek and you play it in the dark. Always scared the crap outta me too.

I also used to make forts in my room/living room with chairs and sheets. THAT was fun! My dad had an old tent that he put up in the backyard for me. It stunk, smelled old and musty, but I sprayed lots of Lysol in it. LOL I put up a cot in there and made it my lil home away from home. Ahhhh, good times. :)

I keep thinking of stuff...I used to play in my room for hours with my stuffed animals, lil figures, dolls, etc. making them talk to one another. I loved playing with Lego too, I went through a serious Lego phase, building houses and stuff. Also, I had Barbies, but never really played with them. LOL I had a few Cabbage Patch Kids...but I also played with Hot Wheels. LOL!!!!

The swingset I had was awesome!! My, my friends, cousins, etc. wore that thing OUT.

I had a friend who lived next door, and she was REALLY into books. I never really was, like her, anyways. She would read those horror books, Christopher Pike and Sweet Valley High books. *GAG* She would call me and go "OMG, Christy, let me read you the back of my new Sweet Valley High book!!" I was like, "Okay." Then, I put the phone down or held it out so I wouldn't have to listen to her. LMAO!!!!!! I didn't care. Her mom let her watch horror and Rated R movies, my mom didn't like when I'd watch that at her house.

[darklinensuit]

I think boys' bikes had those seats. My brother I'm pretty sure had one. And if memory serves, did the bikes on the Brady Bunch have those seats?? If you ask me those seats were a LOT more comfortable than the teeny seats on bikes now.

I didn't have a bell or ribbons, but I did have a big orange flag on a pole on the back. What the hell was that all about??!?!? :shrug: Maybe so you could find your bikes easier in those crowded bike racks? Who knows. Makes me think of all the old people in FL who put flowers and crap on their car antennas so they can find them in parking lots!

Carol

My "Hornet 1"'s seat was made to look like a motorcycle's. And in those days we didn't wear helmets.(Explains a lot. :rolleyes: ) Born to be wii-ii-iild...

I always thought those flafs looked dumb, BTW.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

I was a tomboy (still am) as a kid. Me and my cousin would play with baby frogs and catch crawdads at my grandmother's house. LOL

We played four square....remember that game? If not, you had four people, drew a tic-tac-toe on the ground and closed it up so you have four squares...dur. LOL Then, you got a kickball (another game we played, in school, anways) and hit it into the other person's square. If the ball went out of the square, you're out. Stupid game. LOL

In PE class, we played:

Red Rover (!!!)
Kickball
Softball (My fave game!! I hit a homer in 5th grade!! Shocked the boys who were screaming "Move in....easy out!!" LOL)
Soccer (HATE soccer!!)
Basketball
Tennis (HATE tennis!!)

For fun, some would play:
Butt's Up (LMAO!! Who in their right mind....)
Football
Volleyball

At home, I'd play:

Detective on my bike (Yeah, I was VERY imaginative as a kid. LOL Also, we just sold my favorite bike in our garage sale recently and a little part of me, died, I think. LOL)
Atari and later...Nintendo
Volleyball
Badmitton
School (with friends....why would I wanna be a teacher, I don't really like kids. :shrug: LOL)
rollerskate (My fave thing to do as a kid!!)
I played so much music as a kid...records, tapes, the radio...whatever. I made tapes of myself singing and talking. I'm an only child, so...LOL

In PE we used to play bombardment, which was like dodgeball but with a pin on each side that the teams had to protect. What we called dodgeball was when one team would form a circle around the other & the team making the circle would try to peg those inside the circle.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

rollerskate (My fave thing to do as a kid!!)

Skating was huge in the late '70s/early '80s. My tenth birthday party was at a rink. (Many of my friends had bowling parties, which I hated. :rolleyes: We should only have known the kinds of extravagant parties that my current students have. :shocked: )

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

WTH is that?!!? :shrug:

We also played four square, and two square....my 4th grade teacher LOVED to play two square with a tennis ball. Every recess that's what he'd do, find some poor kid to annihilate (sp?) at two square. But he was the coolest teacher I ever had....Mr. Paul....quite a cutie, too!

Carol

I never played that, but how much fun was Keep Away!

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

but I'm kinda fuzzy

Please, no more details about your butt. :shocked: :lol:

I think I remember that game. Reminds me of the card games we played with sadistic glee, like Bloody Knuckles. :cool:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

had a fail-proof way of getting outta traffic tickets, A lil' cleavage was all it took :laugh:

Speaking of being buried, My Mom now wants to be buried face down, So at the funeral ceremony those in the world of the living will have pass her by to kiss her ass.

The most important thing I ever learned from my Mother is the following:
"If you can't dazzle 'em with intelligence, Dazzle 'em with Bullsh-t".

I thought the cleavage strategy was the most important thing you ever learned from her. :lol: :shrug:

- Jake

[estranged4life]

I thought the cleavage strategy was the most important thing you ever learned from her. :lol: :shrug:

- Jake

the most important stategy was to be like John Wayne toiletpaper:

"Rough and tough and doesnt take sh-t from anyone"

[darklinensuit]

I had to walk about a mile to the grocery store every day to get our groceries, usually a gallon of milk at least every other day, plus sundries, cause we didn't have a car, then back up the giant hill, from the time I was 7 'till 10. That sucked. Also, the few times when I invited one of my school girlfriends over to play (they were invariably skinny, smart sickly types) it was so boring and they asked "can we play dolls?" or something equally lame, and i would force them to play jumprope or foursquare and would beat them (at the game, not physically) so much that it wasn't that fun. When i went to their house, they wanted me to play dolls, but i didn't really know what to do with them and begged them to play outside with me.
The End.....

:lol: Sorry, I hope you're not offended, this just sounds like something in the musical "Annie", or something an old person would brag about to great-grandchildren. "In my day, there weren't no automobiles, we walked for our milk...uphill...And the girls was all sickly, I tell ya...And we was po..." :lol: ;)

- Jake

[GardenStateGirlie]

My family was so nuts that I used to torment my little brother by telling him he WASN'T adopted. "Those are your real parents." :lol:

- Jake

Ahhh so your brother is adopted? So the insanity was thrown upon him...poor guy... :laugh:

[darklinensuit]

I keep thinking of stuff...

I know, it's amazing the memories that come back.

I played with Legos as well, plus my brother had Lincoln Logs. Remember Silly Putty and Play-Doh (which I teach with!)?

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

the most important stategy was to be like John Wayne toiletpaper:

"Rough and tough and doesnt take sh-t from anyone"

You do realize this is toilet paper you're supposedly describing. What good is it if it doesn't take Sh!t?! :confused: :wavey:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Ahhh so your brother is adopted? So the insanity was thrown upon him...poor guy... :laugh:

No, neither one of us is adopted. I would just tell him that because neither one of us wanted to believe we were related to those wack jobs. :angel:

- Jake

[amber]

:lol: Sorry, I hope you're not offended, this just sounds like something in the musical "Annie", or something an old person would brag about to great-grandchildren. "In my day, there weren't no automobiles, we walked for our milk...uphill...And the girls was all sickly, I tell ya...And we was po..." :lol: ;)

- Jake
:lol: I know, I know, but that was really my life. But i was in hella good shape, got a great education, know how to amuse myself BY myself (only child) and since i am such a good reader, school was always pretty cake-walk for me. Well, math and science were more of a pie walk, or a scone walk, but....
That reminds me of a good story where i accidentally made my sickly friend break her arm. We were on the parallel bars at school, see. I didn't really understand that not everyone was as good at athletic things as i was. So i was like, c'mon, do a cherry drop, they're easy and fun!!! Look!!!! See!!! Nothing to it!!!! C'mon, you'll love it!!! then - *flail* snap! the arm was broken. She got the last laugh, she got to play Helen Keller in community theatre play, and she got a better part in the class play. And of course everyone paid attention to her cause she had a cast and had to write with her left hand. Even though I didn't do anything on purpose, I still feel Karma exacted it's retribution!
Amber

[wondergirl9847]

Please, no more details about your butt. :shocked: :lol:

Shhh...I told you to not tell people about my freakishly hairy buttocks!! Damn you, Jake! :mad:

I had roller skating parties too. :)

Dodgeball...the game from HELL! My friend lost her sight temporarily because some jerkoff hit her in the face.

[wondergirl9847]

But i was in hella good shape

"Stop saying hella, Cartman!"

Sorry, that was funny and made me think of South Park.

[amber]

"Stop saying hella, Cartman!"

Sorry, that was funny and made me think of South Park.
Gaahdammmit, iii seh hella if i wanna seh hella. Respect my authoritah!
By the way, I love dodge ball. If your friend with the eye thing woulda jumped out the way, she woulda been fine. DODGE ball, yah know? :] like the smiley, but faster! heheh. Just teasing, except for the part about loving dodge ball.
Amber

[darklinensuit]

:lol: I know, I know, but that was really my life. But i was in hella good shape, got a great education, know how to amuse myself BY myself (only child) and since i am such a good reader, school was always pretty cake-walk for me. Well, math and science were more of a pie walk, or a scone walk, but....
That reminds me of a good story where i accidentally made my sickly friend break her arm. We were on the parallel bars at school, see. I didn't really understand that not everyone was as good at athletic things as i was. So i was like, c'mon, do a cherry drop, they're easy and fun!!! Look!!!! See!!! Nothing to it!!!! C'mon, you'll love it!!! then - *flail* snap! the arm was broken. She got the last laugh, she got to play Helen Keller in community theatre play, and she got a better part in the class play. And of course everyone paid attention to her cause she had a cast and had to write with her left hand. Even though I didn't do anything on purpose, I still feel Karma exacted it's retribution!
Amber

Wasn't that the premise of A Separate Peace, where the one friend hurts the other? :shocked:
Tell me, does friendship with you come with insurance? ;) :lol:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Shhh...I told you to not tell people about my freakishly hairy buttocks!! Damn you, Jake! :mad:

I had roller skating parties too. :)

Dodgeball...the game from HELL! My friend lost her sight temporarily because some jerkoff hit her in the face.

Take it easy, NairButt. :cool:

But for you, was dodgeball played in a circle like I described, or on different sides of a line, as seems to be the current way?

And BTW, I'm sure your friend forgave you for hitting her in the face. :p

- Jake

[amber]

Wasn't that the premise of A Separate Peace, where the one friend hurts the other? :shocked:
Tell me, does friendship with you come with insurance? ;) :lol:

- Jake

:lol: We can laugh, but that's really not a bad idea. Perhaps you'd like to come "rockhopping" with me at the river? It's not dangerous! It's easy! Look! You just balance when you land! no, you won't break your ankle or fall in!!!!
C'mon!!!! :thumbsup:
Amber
P.S. Dodgeball in a line? WTF? Couldn't you just easily bean the person standing straight across from you?

[darklinensuit]

:lol: We can laugh, but that's really not a bad idea. Perhaps you'd like to come "rockhopping" with me at the river? It's not dangerous! It's easy! Look! You just balance when you land! no, you won't break your ankle or fall in!!!!
C'mon!!!! :thumbsup:
Amber
P.S. Dodgeball in a line? WTF? Couldn't you just easily bean the person standing straight across from you?

No, that's not what I mea. What we called bombardment was like what people today call dodgeball (if you get rid of the pins part). The teams are separated by a line. As I said, what we called dodgeball was played in a circle - NO escape. :shocked:

- Jake

[amber]

No, that's not what I mea. What we called bombardment was like what people today call dodgeball (if you get rid of the pins part). The teams are separated by a line. As I said, what we called dodgeball was played in a circle - NO escape. :shocked:

- Jake
Yeah, ok, we had the same things, called the same things. Dodgeball=circle
Bombardment=line. BTW, after I wrote that thing about insurance and rockhopping, I checked my email, and look what my mom just wrote to me:

"I'm glad you take care to be safe in/around the water. When you were jumping rocks you practically gave me a heart attack at rock creek, and both me and your dad were very nervous when we took you to the "foresthill" swimming hole. :). "
How apropos!! :D hehehehehe
Amber

[Violet]

But for you, was dodgeball played in a circle like I described, or on different sides of a line, as seems to be the current way?


- Jake

We played dodgeball just like you described, in a circle. That was fun, taking out the people you didn't like!

We also did a LOT of skating in the late '70s/early '80s. I'd go every single Friday night in junior high to the Star Skating Center in Harrisburg. Every time I hear Blondie's "Call Me" and certain other disco songs that's what I think of. One thing I could never do was "shoot the duck," though.....

Carol

[wondergirl9847]

Dodgeball was played with one team on one side of the gym, the other, on the other side. No circles or anything like that.

[GardenStateGirlie]

No, neither one of us is adopted. I would just tell him that because neither one of us wanted to believe we were related to those wack jobs. :angel:

- Jake


:lol:

That's why I'm glad I don't really look like anyone....I can pretend I am :nod: :angel:

[ryan8472]

We played a lot of Cops and Robbers, and we used to build a lot of forts in the woods. More than that, we played with a lot of Star Trek toys. Yeah, we were geeks :laugh: I did play T-Ball for two years. Ahh, fond memories of the 94/95' undefeated T-Ball Yankees...

[GypsySorcerer]

I am an only child, so I entertained myself most of the time. I rode my bike a lot and enjoyed my time in the sandbox. :) With the neighbor kids, we'd play police, kickball, I don't remember what all else.

At school, I played jump-rope (then Chinese jump-rope) a lot. We'd also make up dances. I can still do the one to "I Think We're Alone Now." :laugh:

[Ledgegirl]

I played "Mom and Dad", "Hide and Seek", "Musical Chairs" and "The blind rooster" :)

[darklinensuit]

and both me and your dad were very nervous when we took you to the "foresthill" swimming hole. :). "


Attacking your parents. Aren't you ashamed. ;)

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

We played dodgeball just like you described, in a circle. That was fun, taking out the people you didn't like!

We also did a LOT of skating in the late '70s/early '80s. I'd go every single Friday night in junior high to the Star Skating Center in Harrisburg. Every time I hear Blondie's "Call Me" and certain other disco songs that's what I think of. One thing I could never do was "shoot the duck," though.....

Carol

I have a skating flashback when I hear Diana Ross's "Upside-Down".

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

:lol:

That's why I'm glad I don't really look like anyone....I can pretend I am :nod: :angel:

What, human? ;)

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Dodgeball was played with one team on one side of the gym, the other, on the other side. No circles or anything like that.

As I said, to me, that's bombardment minus the pins. You don't know from dodgeball until you've been inside that circle. :eek:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

We played a lot of Cops and Robbers, and we used to build a lot of forts in the woods. More than that, we played with a lot of Star Trek toys. Yeah, we were geeks :laugh: I did play T-Ball for two years. Ahh, fond memories of the 94/95' undefeated T-Ball Yankees...

We didn't live near woods, but one day a few of us decided to run away to live under a tree in the back driveway on the other side of the street. It was not Eden, it turns out. :shrug:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

I am an only child, so I entertained myself most of the time. I rode my bike a lot and enjoyed my time in the sandbox. :) With the neighbor kids, we'd play police, kickball, I don't remember what all else.

At school, I played jump-rope (then Chinese jump-rope) a lot. We'd also make up dances. I can still do the one to "I Think We're Alone Now." :laugh:

What's Chinese jump-rope?

BTW, you know now if we ever meet you at a show, we're going to make you do that dance. :nod:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

I played "Mom and Dad", "Hide and Seek", "Musical Chairs" and "The blind rooster" :)

Blind rooster? :shrug: :confused:

- Jake

[GretaRhiannon]

I used to play with barbies a lot with my sisters...man those were good times, I'd also play power rangers with the neighbors lol, the jungle gym at school, and role playing with my sisters, we'd play like cahracters in our fave tv shows then mix them together to make a story line...good fun....

[GypsySorcerer]

What's Chinese jump-rope?

BTW, you know now if we ever meet you at a show, we're going to make you do that dance. :nod:

- Jake

It's a thin, elliptical-shaped rope. Two people stand facing each other a few feet apart with the rope around their ankles or legs. Then everyone else jumps in, out, and over the rope. There's lots of variations on the tricks you can do.

[darklinensuit]

I used to play with barbies a lot with my sisters...man those were good times, I'd also play power rangers with the neighbors lol, the jungle gym at school, and role playing with my sisters, we'd play like cahracters in our fave tv shows then mix them together to make a story line...good fun....

Which shows, which characters? Come on, make me laugh. Were you Jim from Taxi? ;)

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

There's lots of variations on the tricks you can do.

No there isn't. I never even learned regular jump-rope. I don't think I could handle it in a different language. ;)

- Jake

[Violet]

It's a thin, elliptical-shaped rope. Two people stand facing each other a few feet apart with the rope around their ankles or legs. Then everyone else jumps in, out, and over the rope. There's lots of variations on the tricks you can do.

Jump "in it, out it, side it, side it, on it, in it, out it"!! hehehe....Then do it clapping, with your eyes closed, etc. After you pass each round without messing up, you raise the rope to mid-calf....Then after you pass each round at mid-calf, you raise it to knee height. I loved Chinese jump rope!

Carolo

[Ledgegirl]

Blind rooster? :shrug: :confused:

- Jake

yep, you get blindfolded and you must catch the other kids while they're running near you. If you catch one, the one that gets caught is the blind rooster this time.

[GretaRhiannon]

Which shows, which characters? Come on, make me laugh. Were you Jim from Taxi? ;)

- Jake

Haha who's Jim??? No, mostly like I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched put together, and me and my twin sister would often play the Olsen Twins :rolleyes: , now we ahte them hah, then we'd pretend to be cartoons haha

[darklinensuit]

yep, you get blindfolded and you must catch the other kids while they're running near you. If you catch one, the one that gets caught is the blind rooster this time.

That sounds like another opportunity for us bastards to head inside for the air conditioning. :lol:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Haha who's Jim??? No, mostly like I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched put together, and me and my twin sister would often play the Olsen Twins :rolleyes: , now we ahte them hah, then we'd pretend to be cartoons haha

And who would win, Samantha or Jeannie? ;)

- Jake

[GretaRhiannon]

And who would win, Samantha or Jeannie? ;)

- Jake

Well seeing as i was jeannie (cause she was the coolest), and i'm better than my sister lol, I naturally won haha

[darklinensuit]

Well seeing as i was jeannie (cause she was the coolest), and i'm better than my sister lol, I naturally won haha

Sorry, my money was on Samantha. Jeannie's voice bugged me.

- Jake

[jadegypsy]

Well Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog were the main video games.
Outside mostly frisbee, dodgeball, tetherball, grab ball (velcro mits), skateboarding, army/spy, and Pickle (not sure how it explain, like running bases kinda)
Boardgames:
Monopoly, Sorry, Clue, Labrynith, Enchanted Forrest, Stretego, Cards, Battleship.

And of course the usual TV, Music (LOTS of MTV and VH1), and other typical stuff, Computers had just come out so Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego were about it...

[GretaRhiannon]

Sorry, my money was on Samantha. Jeannie's voice bugged me.

- Jake

Haha well that "Oh my stars!" Really bugged the crap outta me...seriously who else says that? lol Althought the first Darren was kinda hot heh, the other one... :shocked:

[darklinensuit]

Haha well that "Oh my stars!" Really bugged the crap outta me...seriously who else says that? lol Althought the first Darren was kinda hot heh, the other one... :shocked:

I don't recognize that line. I never really watched much of either show.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Well Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog were the main video games.
Outside mostly frisbee, dodgeball, tetherball, grab ball (velcro mits), skateboarding, army/spy, and Pickle (not sure how it explain, like running bases kinda)
Boardgames:
Monopoly, Sorry, Clue, Labrynith, Enchanted Forrest, Stretego, Cards, Battleship.

And of course the usual TV, Music (LOTS of MTV and VH1), and other typical stuff, Computers had just come out so Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego were about it...

You know, I think I've played Clue & Battleship once each, but never Stratego.
My brother did the skateboard thing, but I never got into it.
And what were your dodgeball rules? ;)

- Jake

[jadegypsy]

Jake-

I think the doge ball rules were of the typical type: circle with a ring of ppl outside and then ppl inside, the ppl outside had rubber balls that they tried to hit the ppl inside with, they had to hit them below the waist, then they switched in and the other person switched out. There was also the version where you throw the ball against a wall and then had to avoid getting hit as it bounce off, don't remember this being called dodge ball though.

Oh about the skateboarding, my version was usually to sit on one and ride it down a hill, not very intelligent, but I remember clibing on the roof and jumping off as well...

Also can't believe I forgot 2 square and 4 square...

[darklinensuit]

Jake-

I think the doge ball rules were of the typical type: circle with a ring of ppl outside and then ppl inside, the ppl outside had rubber balls that they tried to hit the ppl inside with, they had to hit them below the waist, then they switched in and the other person switched out. There was also the version where you throw the ball against a wall and then had to avoid getting hit as it bounce off, don't remember this being called dodge ball though.

Oh about the skateboarding, my version was usually to sit on one and ride it down a hill, not very intelligent, but I remember clibing on the roof and jumping off as well...

Also can't believe I forgot 2 square and 4 square...

Good, you played dodgeball the right way, in a circle.

I've never played the square thing.

- Jake

[DrummerDeanna]

I HATE Dodgeball....mostly because there's this little known law of physics...it states that if there is something flying through the air near Deanna G. it WILL hit her in the head or face....

I hated dodgeball, mostly because I was so bad at it...and I've had a fear of games with balls since I was 6 and my two front teeth got knocked out in tee-ball :rolleyes: and this chick threw a ball at me without, ya know, telling me...and I got it right in the mouth....lots of blood....it was gross...


Anyway, I forgot...when I was in elementary school Chinese Jumprope became a big rage....it was fun....we all had a Chinese Jumprope...:D

[GretaRhiannon]

I don't recognize that line. I never really watched much of either show.

- Jake

Haha you're lucky then.