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This is to all of us who are old enough to remember and to the youngsters who didn't get to live and enjoy the good old days !
 
 
 
Congratulations--From me to you

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
 
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. 
     
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.  We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
   
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.  We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a water bottle.
   
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and NO ONE  actually died from this. ;D  We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.   No one was able to reach us all day.  And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.  We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........

WE HAD FRIENDS . . . we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
 
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out any eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.  We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
                                             
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
 
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
   
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
 
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
   
And YOU are one of them!
 
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids. That is before the government regulated our lives for our own good. :'(

Hello Dreamweaver,

Brother, I only want to know one thing:


;D

You better believe it brother!!! ;D ;D ;D

that was great Dw...life was ALOT different for me then it is for my kids today!,the power goes out and there  no TV of PS2 and they think their lives have come to a holt LOL..

Good one DW..
Tigerlily ;)

Thank you tigerlily I don't think the kids here, like it though. ;D

Does anyone remember your parents getting a couple of loads of topsoil for the lawn when you were a kid?

Keep in mind that this was just a pile of plain old dirt. This was like an invitation for every kid in the neighborhood. How many things could a bunch of kids do with a pile of dirt and how long did it take? I'll give you a few ideas and see if you remember:

King of the mountain.
Roads up the mountain.
Forts with plastic soldiers.
Caves.
Streams and rivers.
Bridges and other structures from Popsicle sticks.
Wet mud molded structures.
Last but not least - mud-ball fights.

 ;D

Oh yeah! I loved it when it was dumped! And I hated when they took that wonderful hill and spread it out to grow grass!
You could make the coolest roadways for Matchbox cars!

ROFl... ok like minded here SH... matchbox cars,, they were my all time favorite toy when i was young,, and LOVED making roads and toens and all hehe.. my poor mom would buy me barbies and all but guess i took after my big bro and rathered the cars!

I loved king of the castle and all that, see, here, in the freezing cold winters of Canada.. we looked forward to the HUGE snow "mountains" from when the driveways were plowed to play aot of them games with snow instead of mud (mud was fun to tho hehe), alot of my memories of that kind of thing are about going down over huge hills of snow on our crazy carpets and of course almost always going off course and landing head first into the snow of the little side cliffs!!wearing myself totally out trying to get back up that hill so that i could fly down it once again!ahh the memories  ;) ;D
TL

Yeah they would spread the soil out and grow grass. The fun was gone and the work began with a motorless push mower.

We had a city lot across the street though that still had dirt piles year round. Snow piles in the winter even when there wasn't much snow it was fun sliding on the snow covered dirt piles.

I see that nobody else mentioned mud-ball fights, so maybe you were too intellectual for that.  ;D

YES, I remember the old manual mowers. I also remember asking dad to let me try it and him telling me that I was too little. What I didn't know is that I would be guaranteed a chance to use it often when I did get big enough.  ;D

OK - here's a few more to remember:

Tether-ball
Tops
Duncan Yo-Yo
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Snap, crackle, and pop.............Which cereal?

You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with...............?

King of the mountain.
Roads up the mountain.
Forts with plastic soldiers.
Bridges and other structures from Popsicle sticks.
Wet mud molded structures.
Mud-ball fights.

These are the ones, I remember. ;D  :o

Snap, crackle, and pop.............Which cereal?

You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with...............?

snap crackle pop,,, RICE KRISPIES heheh

hmm the only yellow thing i remember was the mellow yellow commercial and i think it was for butter lol...

hey i remember we used to have a crap apple tree orchid behind the house. so we used to get two teams together and have crap apple fights,, sheeesh when you got shot with one you felt it for several days lol, i was always coming outta it with a few bruises..,

ok another... we used to have an old car that my dad junked and we used to play driving in!!

used to jump off of the garage and patio(2nd story one) into the snow...see who cold jump the furtherest lol..
No wonder im in the physical shape im in hehe..

hmm have to think up some more..
Tigerlily :D

You know you're showing your age when you can answer this one .....   ;) ;D



We had an old crab apple tree. I would have been killed for using the apples that way. My parents didn't believe in waste and used everything for some useful purpose.

well the crap appples were really sour and there were tons of them,,, more then parents could ever use.. LOl..
we would get in alot of trouble for pummeling each other with hard apples.. but then wheres the fun if its allowed LOL

TL

Yeah our crab apples were real sour, too. The only thing I got to do with them was to collect them and help can them into candied apple rings and candied apple bits. What we didn't put up in the basement  would then get sold. Now there were some laying on the ground that had rotted too much to use. I do remember throwing one of them at my older brother. I think that was when I learned how to run really fast.

ROFL... ok that slayed me... we had to be good at running and good at hiding REALLLY well...hehe

PA-R.... you totally crack me up!!! ;)

 ;D   ;D

You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

Here's another way to learn how to run long and hard, but only if you can keep from laughing:

Your older brother is in a steaming, hot shower getting ready for his Saturday night date. Little brother sneaks in with a 5 gallon bucket full of ice water, stands on a stool, and dumps the entire 5 gallon bucket over the shower curtain. OH! - I forgot - AND THEN RUNS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE HOUSE AND DOWN THE BLOCK!

LOL.....   I wasn't quite as bold. I just turned the hot water off at the hot water heater. That gave me at least another 50 ft lead on them.

 ;D   ;D

I'm sure glad to know that I wasn't the only mean little kid while growing up. However, I must add that I was on the receiving end many times from my brothers.

That was me, the recieving end. I think my actions was more a matter of survival, it was fight back or get tromped. I was #5 in 8 kids. With Four of the older ones being brothers I got picked on quite a bit.

I remember throwing an old empty purse of my mothers at my oldest brother in response to him picking on me. I didn't mean for it to hurt him but there was a metal closer on top that hit him in the face. I ran barefooted down a freshly layed white gravel driveway to get away from him. It's funny how fear removes all sensation of pain.

OHH man these stories are so funny...
ROFL... got a mental pic of that, im betting once u stopped running the pain came racing back huh?? hehe


ohh mean little boys hehe.. ok here goes one that i was a victim(hehe) of

i had a aunt and unclethat had alot of kids LOL and when they and my parent went out for the evening.. the older kids looked after the younger.. well i was part of the younger.. so one night the older guys decided to scare the bejeebers outta me.. so they lived in an old scarey farm house that alot of creepy things happened in and most of them were the older kids doing lol. anways.. they got one of the boys to stand in the living room (at night , pitch black, and i mean cant see your hand BLACK)
anyways got one to stand at the far corner of that room and then one of them put me on his shoulders and told me this horrifying story of this meant man that loved to eat little girls.. and while telling me this.. walked me on his shoulders toward this DARK room.. well when we got about half way in, the guy that was in the far corner turned on this flashlight under a horrfying halloween mask.. and then they told me he was the meat man.. and that they were taking me to him for his night time snack.. well needless to say it scared me so bad i can rmemeber every detail.. they got into a little trouble lol but that only stopped them till the next time! soo i was bad and mischievious little girl.. but i got it back twice as bad LOL

Beat that one LOL

Hugs TL

Nope, never felt it even afterwards.

I would flush the toliet on the bathroom. Least when one of my younger brothers needed a lesson. ;D It never scalded them but, it got hot. ;D

 ;D ;D ;D

come now DW, that cant be all u did as a boy to be bad lol or mischievous..!!!

loving these stories.. keep them coming.. they are always good for a good LOL when its so needed. :D

hugs
TL

Thats about the worst thing I did, when I was young. Except putting 55 gallons of concentrated  liquid soap in the City Hall fountain, back in 1975. ;D

Here you are hearing our stories, what about you tigerlily? ;D

Dreamweaver, are there any other "EXCEPTS"?   ;D   ;D

That would be enough soap bubbles to cover several city blocks, and it would have definitely cleaned that fountain. Did you send the city a bill for services rendered, or did you simply consider it a civic duty?   ;D

That actually happened in a city near us a few months back!  :D
The city was MAD and my husband and I drove by and just laughed!  :D
And we snickered every time the news reports tried to make it sound so terrible!  :D

WAIT! Was that you, Pastor Roger?  :o

It was my civic duty, in front of city hall was always dirty. So two friends and myself cleaned it up. ;D

Nope there are no other excepts after that.

ROTF!!!!! Well it can't be me, I'm in Arizona. You got caught Pastor Roger.........  ;D

Nope not me either. It might have been my older brother. I remember him saying that city hall where he lives needed a good cleaning.

 ;D ;D

hmm me,, other then throw hard apples and people , let me think what was something un bad i did.. gracious its hard to think of something that id have done that wasnt angelic!!! HEHEHEHE ;)
k hmm let me think....
i mixed some exlax in my brothers drink before.. man alive did he run a marathon that night ROFL..

ahhh one time my older brother and some of our cousins were staying all night in thier little log camp, and me and some others decided to scare then to death.. that was rather funny,, scaring guys 4-5 yrs older then me..

another time a friend of mine and I was with our church group at an all night camp and there was a older guy there(well older then we were , we were teens he was in 40s at that time) and he was always bouncing at her and I for one thing or another.. so that night we snuck out and put his car in nutruel and pushed it to the opposite side of the huge yard, he um spent quite some time looking for it the next mornin,, man was he M_A_D when he discovered who and how that had happened
 hehe
 See,, as i said its hard to htink of anything other then being angelic..
hehe
 TL ;D ;D

Something good and something bad at the same time.

My younger brother had a bed wetting problem when he was younger. One of my older brothers teased him mercilessly. My older brother was a heavy sleeper so one night I took some warm water and stuck his hand in it. It worked. He never teased my younger brother again. Instead he started helping him out.

Well 55 gallons of concentrated liquid soap does wonders. ;D

Here are a few more things to remember:
Red light, Green light.
hide and go seek at dusk
Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on.
Mother May I?
Red Rover
Hula Hoops
Running through the sprinkler
Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages,
G-Force & He-Man Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos Playing Dukes of Hazard



can yous think of more? or am i alone in these? hehe.
TL :D

How about a stick and old tire?


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Red light, Green light.
hide and go seek at dusk
Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on.
Mother May I?
Red Rover
Hula Hoops - I was the hula hoop champ of the block, way back when. ::)
Running through the sprinkler
Hop Scotch
Bike Hikes, back when it was safe. :'(
In 1969 Durning the Apollo 11 mission, 3 of us spent time, in our own Apollo, and lander we made. That was in the back yard. Course ours, wouldn't stand the rigers of space travel. :)

  ;D ;D ;D cool hehe ;)

How about pie tin frisbees before the frisbees were even made.

Making a night light with fireflys and a canning jar. Then camping out in a homemade tent made with old blankets drapped over the clothes line.

I forgot about my moms old pie tins. ;D

hmm how old would you be dw?? seems you r ALOT older then me... hehehe. ;) :-*


J/k Dw.. u r just ummmm a wee bit older then Me... ;) ;D
sigh.. im just now realising how much i missed yous all and missed messing with ya'll!! :D

hugs, Tiger..

I seem to remember hearing something about Noah's flood and dinosaur bones here.

 ;) ;D ;D ;D

ROFL.... ohh my.. them might be fighting words PastorR

I'm a young 48................. :P

Nope, that was beps! ;D  I don't remember those........................... ;D Heck PR, your older then I am. ;D ;D ;D :P

ahh thats young.. you not even close to be being old  ;D my mistake..I sorry! :-*

hmm, im still ALOT younger heheheh  hmm like around 33 ;D

ROTF! I'm 15 years older then you......... :o

DreamWeaver said: I would flush the toilet on the bathroom.....

Wow! You had a bathroom to flush lol!
I remember the two hole out house. A sears roebuck catalog beside one of the holes :-[

In the summer time we didn't get any shoes, that was for winter time only, and (school).
In the summer it was pig party time! In other words us younguns had to round up the older pigs, run them through a shoot to be loaded up on a truck to be sold.
It was messy but boy was it fun, we would feast on ice cold watermelon and didn't care how sticky our elbows got from it!
If we had grits for breakfast and there was some left over, you knew what was for snack, baked grits pudding! Don't ask me how to make that, I never got the recipe! I'm not sure if I'd want it.
If we were outside got a cut or a scrape we didn't run to Ma crying, we would fill the wound full of dirt and go on doing what we were doing.
We had one television station; CBS, and I ate more dirt than I care to remember.
We would catch junebugs tie strings around them and fly them till they died!
That was fun!
We had china berry wars with sling shots; OUCH!
We would play outside from daylight to just about dark. We would jump out of the loft of the barn on huge mounds of hay. We didn't care if it was used or not, we were having fun!

We also had to work!

Even the youngest of us had stuff to do. If it was to pick up the house they had to do it. We worked in the cotton fields too. We had vegetables like butterbeans, peas, squash, corn, tomatoes, and whatever else you can think of that had to be gotten in and prepared.
In the autumn it was time to run chichens, we would put them in the freezers for winter.
We never lacked for anything! And we never got sick, no had ear infections or any of the other ailments prevalent today with our grand kids. We were very healthy.

The good old days... Things were a lot less complicated, a lot more fun! You knew who your neighbors were and you could trust them.
Sunday after church we would go visiting! The front porch was the place to be if you were an adult.
If you were a kid, you'd best not be hanging around the adults, you'd better be in the yard playing but where they could watch you. It was great!
I wished it was like that again...

Hello Anyah,

Ah YES, the gold old days. Thanks, I really enjoyed your post.

I was just reflecting on the times and how they have changed. It's really pretty shocking to compare 50 years ago with today. I'll simply say that things were simple, clean, and moral 50 years ago. I would happily go back to those times.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Galatians 4:4-6 NASB  But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

Hello Anyah, I can remember on my grandfathers farm (dairy,) milking cows, picking corn, strawberries (some how I never had much, when I got back, ;D )  I also remember the outhouse, outside of the barn. I also remember the poison ivy............ :o

His farm is also where I learned how to drive, at 9 years old. In a 1949 International stakebed truck, no brakes. I also drove the tractor, durning harvest, pulling the wagon, fo hay, alafa, and corn feed. :P

Yes things were simpler in the mid-sixtys.

When I was little my mom used to baby sit the neighbor's kids. I remember going down to the creek and catching frogs, turtles, snakes and fish.  We would come home and fill up the kiddy pool with the animals that we caught.  My mom would be mad but it was fun. ;D  I also would catch bugs and put them on a string, they were flying grasshoppers.  June bugs scared me.  They get in your hair and stuff. Yuck.  We had a field by my house and we made bicycle jumps, that was fun but is also how I broke my wrist. 

What about forts?  No one I think said anything about forts.  I remember one time we wanted to make a fort in this bush but there was a nest of hornets that lived in the ground.  It was my bright idea to make a soap water solution to pour into the hole.  We designated John to go and pour it on the bees.  He poured it down the hole and all the sudden a swarm of angry bees were chasing him.  Boy could that kid run fast!

Other things I remember growing up:

Wild strawberry picking

Neighborhood praides (we would all dress up and praide around the neighborhood waving an American flag) My mom has a picture of that some where.

Ice-skating on a near by pond.  Scott once pushed me down and I fell through the ice.  It was only knee high water. I went home freezing and wet. :(

We also used to go one nature walks in the woods.  Thank goodness I never found poison ivy.

See?  I was born in 1985 and growing up we still knew how to have fun :)

What sweet memories you all have!

And they gave me pause to be thankful that my kids are now being raised in the country where they, too, will have many of the same types of memories!

 :D




Well, with some modern additions like indoor plumbing and triple antibiotic creams.  ;D

;D ;D ;D

Heeheehee... ;D

Not me. It must have been DreamWeaver.   ;D ;D

I bet he ran fast, LOL! My grandparents lived in the Appalachian country, and we moved there to take care of grandma. It was great, woods and creeks and hilly fields. My sister and I made forts with branches and rocks, with moss for carpets, as well as bridges and paths...

wild blackberries and raspberries, for me!
Hey! I'm finally OLDER than someone on this thread!!  8)

A what?
You did what??
Oh, dear!  :o

(My mom won't let me say 'crap', I can only say 'poop' or 'dirty'.)


  :-* Just kidding, I know you meant crab apples.

HAHAHA... ;D

:D ;D

How did I miss this thread?
DW I agree with everything you said, but you forgot to mention that if we got caught doing something wrong even if it was just a neighbor, the neighbor would grab us by the ear and take us straight home to mom, mom would spank, and then tell dad and he would spank too. It never killed us.

I don't mind showing my age, it just means that I have survived longer.

the answer is Pepsodent.
NOw who remembers choo-choo Charlie?

ROFL, that is funny DW. Did you out do Lawrence Welk?

Maybe it was posted while you were sleeping?   ;) ;D

The town I grew up in was so small that everyone knew everyone. There was no getting away with anything no matter where a person may go. If I did something wrong my parents would be sure to get a phone call, then everyone in town knew because we had party lines back then and no phone call was private.

how about monkey in the middle?
marbles, and soda bottle caps?
and don't forget those home made sling shots.

Are you talking about the engineer who fueled his train with GOOD & PLENTY candy?

Now that one had me on the floor.

I didn't like that one. I always ended being the one in the middle.   :-\ :-\


I was good at that one.


I made a few of those but with my older brothers I had to go bigger. I had homemade crossbows.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :-\  we didn't have a telephone back then, in fact we got our first telephone when I was about 10 and then it was a party line  :(

The town I grew up in is only 1 square mile, so everyone was related in one way or another, you know like 3 degree separation?

anyways, I remember when westen union would deliver messages to the door, there was nothing scarier than having the western union man knock on the door in the middle of the night.

yep that's the one.

I don't remember when we got our first phone. The first memory of a phone that I have was when my grandpa passed away. My mother got the call (it was her dad). That was in 1955.

 ;)

That was a relatively knew one.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Nope, I haven't been on the east coast in the past 25 years. ;D

Yup!!

I grew up in Los Angeles, California. ;D :o :o

Marbles, I was a marble shark............ ;D

Perhaps by proxy.   ;D ;D ;D

Nothing small there.

Thats easy to believe........................... Oh I found your walker brother........................

We got our first phone, I was about 16. :'(  Then I wasn't allowed to use it.

There goes that shark again ......


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I know..............

I wondered where that went.  ;D ;D

Hey, what you doing with my shark? :o

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Well at least it is in good hands. ;D

Here we are with that "I know" again also ......  what do you jnow?   ;) ;D ;D

It just keeps swimming by here.

Must have been a ground squirrel.   ;D ;D

I know, what I know, and don't know, what I don't know. One thing I do know though............

Amen!

[scarsm]Right!!![/scarsm] ;)

Amen!

I want to see you get that walker back, from her. ;D

Yep.

Right on brother, right on!

I think I'll just go buy another one.

;)

I grew up in Hoboken, infact I lived there from the time I was 2 till I turned 33.

Do you remember Brylcreme? A little dab'll do ya

I'm not going to laugh at the squirrel, I ended up useing my walker for the first time in 4 years again yesterday, and today. I fell, the Myasthenia Gravis has flared up making my muscles very weak. But, when I get thru with the walker Pr, I'll loan it to ya  ;D
Oh by the way I went back to the eye doctor yesterday too, and he had to fix my script, now I need tri-focals, he said I am almost leagally blind

Long before spiked hair was a fad   ......   "Butch hair wax, makes your hair stand on end". It was popular during the flat tops, crew cuts, Blackjack or Cloves chewing gum, Head lights dimmer switches on the floor ........

I'm sorry to hear that sister. I will be praying for you.

Actually I do pretty good with my cane so the squirrel can keep the walker.

We may end up "legally blind" but there are others that have 30/30 vision that are fully blind. Praise God that we can see and hear.

Amen to that Brothe! We may not be able to see with our physical eyes, but we sure can see with our spiritual eyes.

Do you remember those cars, with the little jump seat in the back? I thought that was so cool. I also remember how bit the car was, I was about 6 years old and I was avle to stand up straight in the back. Now some of my brothers, might have you believe that I can still do that, but don't believe a word they say.   ;D

That was called a "rumble seat" and it came in the old Ford Roadsters in 1929 through 1932 I think. Yes it was a popular car to be restored or souped up in the 50's. That car can really move if a 302 is dropped under the hood.  ;D ;D Some of them were soft top convertibles so you probably could still stand up in them.  ;) ;D ;D

nah you're going back way too far. The car I'm talking about was a sedan, not convertible and the little jump seats were inside the car there was a big space between the back seat and the front seart and inbetween there was this little round stool that would pop out as an extra seat. The car mut've been an early 50's model. Possibly a Buick or a Pontiac.

It sounds more like a Cadilac. My uncle had his own Cadilac transmission shop and owned somewhere around 20 caddies from 1949 to 1958. I remember a couple of those cars seemed to fit the discription you are giving. If it was a Buick or Pontiac it would have to have been a pretty unique model where not many were made.

I was just a little girl (yes! believe it or not I was young once),  ;D
so It may have been a Cadillac, I just remember I loved sitting in that little seat and when I got tired of sitting I would stand up.

I did find an old Merc' on the internet that had a jumpseat but I don't think it was original equipment.



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I believe in 1954 or 1955 they started putting rear facing jump seats in some of the station wagons of domestic cars .... Buick, Pontiac, Ford, etc .....

YES, I remember the old party lines, and I also remember that kids weren't allowed to use them. Phones were for adults who had important business. Our entire telephone number was 3 digits, and I can't remember how many families used the same phone line.

AND, someone had to remind me about the homemade sling-shot. If you guessed anything about a broken window and someone getting into trouble, you guessed right.  ;D

Someone also mentioned forts. YES, we had a good one, and we had mud-ball fights with the neighbors. I found all kinds of ways to get into trouble, and it seemed that I always got caught. I learned to just plead guilty and throw myself on the mercy of the court.  :D

That did usually result in a lighter sentence.   ;) ;D

Brother,

Say it ain't true, not you.... you were a cop!! Or is that why you became a cop.............. ;D

DreamWeaver sleeps?  :o

:'(

Yes I do sleep.......... there you got it from the horses mouth.............. ;D

Must have been Mr Ed seeing as how the horse was talking.

Or Francis, the Talking Mule........................... ;D

Naww .... couldn't be him because said it came from the horses mouth not the mules mouth.   ;) ;D ;D

Well it was worth the try............... ;) ;D ;D

Dreamweaver,

Brother, I really never had a single thought about becoming a police officer until I saw a job opening notice one day. I still feel like I was led to become a police officer, and I don't regret the decision at all.

I certainly wasn't any little angel while growing up. Maybe the experience of being caught helped me to learn how to be a catcher.  :D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 3:21-22 NASB  But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

Who among us was an angel, while we were growing up.

Jesus Christ was and He is among us still today.  ;)

Yes Pastor Roger I know Christ is among us today. What I was referring to was us, before we came to Christ. ;)

I know that's what you meant. I was just trying to be funny. Guess I failed in that.  ;) :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\

 ;D


AND, I still got caught every time.

Brother, I got caught most of the time as well.

Me, too .....  I was always the one to get caught even when it was my brother that did it and not me.  ;) ;) ;D ;D

My brothers got caught all the time. They never got asway with anything. But then again I use to plan things out, they didn't. ;D

My brothers would plan things out when I was younger but wouldn't let me in on the plans. As a result I ended up being the fall guy. As I got older I got wise to that and would see their plans working and would get clear away from them and would get an alibi, sitting with my mother. I ended spending a lot of time with my mother.  ;D ;D ;D

Smart brother..................... ;D

Of course I am the one, that ratted on my brothers. ;D Specially when they would do something that, would harm someone.

Not me .... ratting on my brothers would have got me beat up. I was way smaller than all of them. I simply stayed out of the way. With my alibi any trouble that came up would fall back on them anyway.

LOL................. I am the oldest..... ;D

I had three older brothers.  :-\ :-\

I have 5 younger brothers.......... I ratted on all of them
 ;D ;D ;D

Aieeeeehhhhhh .... I'm surrounded by tattletales.

So then you were mr. nice................... ;D

They probally needed it, like my brothers did sister. (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/4.gif)

Not by choice ....  by fear of death ....    ;D ;D ;D ;D

I was 80 lbs soaking wet at 5 ft tall my brothers were 5 ft 4 to 5 ft 6 and weighed 180 lbs of all muscle. It was definitely a life or death issue.

When I was in Jr high 8th grade.  I beat up the school bully, for picking on my brother. He was a senior, at that time. He out weighed me by a good 75-100 pounds, and was about 5ft 10 inches.  ;D  But thats about what I weighed at that time, except, add maybe 10 pounds. I was on the swim team, swimming butterfly.

I could out do my brothers on endurance but if they got a good hold on me I was finished.

*SNICKER* (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif)

I used to tattletale on my brothers, but I also fought a lot of fights for them, yes a girl fighting boys, how about that. To this day my brothers look at me and wonder how such a small framed and petite person could have been so fierce. I am only 5'1" now and I nver weighed more that 93 pounds, but I DID some heavy duty fighting for my brothers.
Yea, I tattled on my brother for the first time when I found out one of them and his friends were playing 'chicken' on the railroads, after that it was a piece of cake, all I had to do was hear that one of my brothers was doing anything out of line and after I beat them up, I went and told my dad. They used to call me the 'stick cop' cause I would carry a stick and I would hide it behind my back (and because I was skinny as a stick)  ;D  and when I cought them doing wrong I would whack em and then I would go and tell my dad. They turned out to be very self respecting and responsible men though, all of them served in the military and only 1 of them was ever arrested and that was for DUI. And they "all" still respect me, even my nieces and nephews used to call me the seargent when I went to visit they would hide cause I would make them field day their rooms. ;D ;D (their mom was dying of cancer).

Sister Maria = Aye Aye Sarge (or is the title bantam rooster? )

 ;D  ;D  ;D

No, he MADE the angels.  ;D

Though she be but little, she is fierce!
-A Midsummer Night's Dream

I think bantam rooster is a good title for sister Maria. Shes fiesty like a bantam rooster. ;D ;)

I had a little banty as a pet one time. I called him Charlie Wooster after the cook on Wagon Train. He was gentle as a newborn kitten to me but was just as fiesty as Charlie when it came down to others.

(My brothers couldn't come near me when Charlie was around.  ;D ;D ;D   )

Thats sounds like a banty, brother.

yes..... fiesty.... but that was before.. now I've mellowed out.
but fiestiness is still there IF I let it come out which I haven't 'cause I  must have self control.
Tell you what though sometimes it REALLLLLY hard to keep fiestiness in check.

I know what you mean sister, I have to watch it myself.......... ;D

It pays to have a mellow character (sometimes).    ;) ;D ;D

It's quite hard DW, imagine a 57 year old woman raising 2 more girls with BIG Attitude!! Sometimes I feel my blood pressure zooming past my eyeballs and then I have to go in my room and take a deep breath and say a quick prayer! They are home on spring break this week, so far I've had to go in my room and take a deep breath and say aquick prayer twice and that is just today!!

Sorry, I couldn't go to my room in that situation. I would be on top of that in a heart beat. Not even my grandkids get away with having an attitude around Pa-paw.

PR, these are my step daughters, and they had a lot of emotional problems when they came to live with me 7 years ago, at the time my husband was not a Christian and he absolutely did not want me to correct them, spank them, or punish them in any way. Today he is trying hard to correct the problem he created for himself and me, but it's not very easy. I think he was that way at the begining because he had never taken any active part in their life before then. But their childhood was very disturbing before they came to me. Now they feel like they don't need to listen to me because they have dad. This caused a lot of problems in my marriage too, but  thank God that now my husband is saved and he cees his mistakes and is trying to correct them. He still doesn't let me correct them, because as he puts it he is looking out for my health. Needless to say I'm still praying abouth that.

You 57?? Here I though you were about my age, about 47-49. 57, now thats old............... ;) :o ;D

They are in my prayers, I remember when you asked that they be put into prayer.

Only because you're such a youngster.

Okay, old man..........................  ;)  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

No it'ss not it just means that I am a survivor. See?? a fiesty survivor who loves the Lord. Besides everybody tells me I look like I'm 40.

Thanks PR, they need it as much as I do. I will PM you later will specific prayer needs.

 :D  No Way!  13 more years and Sister Maria will be middle-aged.

Thanks BEP's
I'm just a spring chick   ;D  ;D

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 ;D ;D ;D ;D

YEAH!!! That's me alright a spring chick.
And when I start feeling a little older, I fly to my mountain (GOD) and renew my strength like and eagle.

 ;D ;D ;D

Amen sister.

I was teasing you sister, thats all.

Yeah ... yeah .... we know how you youngsters are towards their seniors.   ;) ;)

Oh Brother DW, you'll get there one day too!!!

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Amen, sister, and quick.

Thats the way I feel right now.

It does hit quick sometimes doesn't it?

To much, here of late  :'(

Just look in the mirror and say to yourself, "That's not me, the real me is on the inside, and will never grow old". Then smile and thank God the real you is still in the earth suit you're wearing no matter how it looks or feels.

I do understand all to realistically.

Amen sister, Thank God that we will not have to put up with this shell for long.

Yes mother........ :D

AMEN brother

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MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!??????

....and a very good one at that.   ;)

Yes I agree  ;D

 ;) ;D ;D

you better lookout DW.  :o :o

Just 23 more posts to go Sister Maria.

notice how he got out as soon as he said that?
Hmmmmmm

21 now

I think he left just before that .....   he must have known what was coming.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

Just a whittlin away.

 ;D ;D

YUP, I think you would be a good one... ;D

See, I know what I know..............  :D

WHy I only told the truth.

I left before that sister. God willing, I will be around alot longer.

I did, and nope whats coming?

Because CU Momma is here to insure you stay in line.

 ;D ;D

Amen!

ROTF Okay, I needed that laugh..... :D

AMEN SISTER MARIA!

I like the way you expressed that. That's just one reason why real beauty is in the heart. I do like to daydream from time to time about what our glorified bodies might be like. I certainly wouldn't debate it, but I keep thinking they might be like LIGHT. There are some Biblical reasons for this thought, but it's mainly just a pleasant thought about eternity with JESUS.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Matthew 5:11 NASB  "Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Brother Tom

That is something I am working on, what our glorified bodies might be like.

Hello Dreamweaver,

Brother, please keep me in mind as you progress with your study. I would be very interested. I just made some guesses based on pretty vague Scripture... "fashioned like unto His Glorious Body." Several beautiful portions of Scripture refer to JESUS as LIGHT. I'm thinking right now especially of a portion in Revelation regarding no need for the sun because of the LIGHT OF JESUS. I know this isn't anything concrete, but it's at least a beautiful thought. AND, obviously we wouldn't have the brightness of JESUS.

Love In Christ,
Tom

1 Thessalonians 5:8-10 NASB  But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

I haven't done a thorough study on this myself but from what I remeber on this I would think our bodies would be similar to what we have but more perfect just by looking at the fact that we were created in His image. Could that be in the form of light though .....  possibly so.

Well, I'll post what I have right now, for y'all to see.

Well I hope you at least went and looked in the mirror and thanked God that the real you is still inside the earth suit God gave you!!!!

We will have eternity to work on that, one thing you can be absolutely certain of is they will be perfect. Not capable of growing old, or feeling pain. But right now we have to take the best care we can of the ones we have here and now, because God gave them to us for a purpose.

Amen, sister.

What are you still doing up PR, green tea didn't work?

Prolly started that remedy a little too late... or early.  ;D

maybe he mstakenly drank the brown tea that somehow smells a lot like coffee,

Just another one of those nights.  ;) ;D

Yep. I still had some coffee to finish.

 ;D ;D ;D

I see you are confessing  ;D  ;D

That coffee was too good to throw away.

I do everyday sister, and give praise to God, that I am who I am.

And you were going to drink tea.................... bad boy..................... ;) ;D ;D

Good coffee is never thrown away, brother. Just reheated the next day. ;D

Why? I finished the coffee first then got the tea.

No reheating it for me ...... it gets drank.

But its better reheated brother................... ;D

Sorry DW, but coffee tastes better when it's fresh brewed, especially in the morning

Yuck, too stale for me.

I second that one.

It doesn't sound like anyone here likes coffee.

I just crunch my coffee at room temperature - raw, right out of the bag, whole bean, and untouched by anyone but Juan Valdez.        :P









 ;D

There is a store at the mall near here that sells coffee beans, all flavors they are not to make coffee with they are to eat. They tastes so good. Especially the chocolate covered ones.

Sister Maria,

I was just kidding, but I like coffee enough to try just about anything. I also like the smell of coffee, brewed or otherwise. I've only tried the really fancy coffee a couple of times. I just can't see paying $5 for a cup of coffee, but some stores charge more than that and they are doing big business.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 5:17-18 NASB  For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.  So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

lol .....  I used to go to the coffee shops in the malls that would give out samples. Their samples usually consisted of a small ounce cup of coffee. I would usually ask them instead for just one bean of a certain type. They would be more than generous in doing so and sometimes would give me one bean of quite a few different types. I would pop the bean in my mouth whole and walk around the mall with quite a buzz.

I had to give them up though. The coffee beans that way were too much for my old ticker.

Bep's I would never spend 5 dollars on a cup of coffee, even if it was served in a golden cup. For 5 bucks I could buy a can of Folgers and drink coffee for 2 weeks  ;D

:D

Sister, I don't usually do that either, and I did feel pretty silly in spending that much for a cup of coffee. Curiosity just got the better of me, and I had to find out how that famous chain sells all that coffee for such outrageous prices. My answer was that I don't know how they do it. BUT, I was silly enough to try a different flavor some time later, thinking that I might have just ordered a type that wasn't very good. They got me.  :D

I wouldn't pay five buck, for a cup of coffee either sister. ;D  A can of Foldgers last you 2 weeks?? ???  It lasts me a week and a half.

Whats a coffee shop? Better yet, whats a mall?  We don't have them thing-a-mc-bobbers here. ;D

DW, you're not missing a thing, like BEP's said a coffee shop is where they sell you  'BRAND' name coffee for $5.00 a cup, and a mall is where you will find the coffee shop where you can buy the coffee to make yourself feel better after spending your paycheck and topping off your credit cards  ;D  ;D
(Well not you but a lot of people)

My only reason for going to the mall was that was where the only book store in town was. Otherwise it was all too expensive and anything else I wanted could be gotten for less elsewhere.

Am I the only one who likes "those" kind?  :o

It's a real treat to me when we go somewhere new and I get a cup of "brat" coffee!  ;D I've tried all kinds all over the southern states! And I liked most all of them!  :P

And I even get coffee beans for gifts! I won't normally pay the extra for the flavored beans - just a cup once in awhile. But I got an old-fashioned coffee grinder (crank, not electric), so I love to get new flavors of coffee beans!  :-*

But in the mornings - I like need the plain ole kind.  ;D

Nope. I like a few of them but I go to the local Grocer (kroger) for them not the mall, there cheaper. But that is a rare event. Most of the time I just get regular Folgers and add the flavoring. MOCHA!

Has anyone else noticed that Folgers is now trying to keep up and they are coming out with all diferrent kinds of grinds and flavors also? It is getting ridiculus.

ROFL! That's them things in the big cities! I done did see some!  8)

I think you need to get out of them thar hills once in a while.

Yup, I have noticed that brother. I get Farmers bros., coffee (at 13.89 for 5 pounds.) Generously supplied by a local restaurant here, I pay them their cost. A restaurant, I worked for before being forced to retire.

You did??  :o

I do twice a year now, when I go to PIR.  ;D

13.89?? WOW! I though I was paying a lot at 5.99 for 5 lbs.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

You must not go shoppin in no big city then when you do.

I don't I go to PIR, Phoenix International Raceway. ;D

Folgers costs here 9.98 for 3 pounds. I think you can understand why, I buy Farmers.

That figures.

Yep. I think I would, too. I sure am glad I can get it cheaper. The only thing cheaper than Folgers here is the WalMart brand and it always taste burnt.

One of the reasons, I don't buy Wally world coffee.

;D ;D ;D

YOU DID?? (http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Why does that figure??  ??? :-\ :-\

Races and you ...... it figures .....

Why thank you brother............. speaking of which, the Alanta race is about to begin. (http://bestsmileys.com/happy/1.gif)

If there is a Publix nearby try their coffee it's the same as Folgers

DW the only race that I like is the one Paul mentions in the Bible  ;D

Publix?? I take it that's some kind of store??

I haven't seen one around here.

Amen, sister. The best one.

Big supermarket chain in the southeast.

I kinda figured that. We have a Kroger, a County Market, Schnuck's, Aldi's and a Sav-A-Lot but Wal Mart's Super Store is still the cheapest.

We have sav a lot, and walmart neighborhood store, vey cheap.

We light up!

Rev. 22:5 ...because the Lord God shall illumine them, and they shall reign forever.

The city is "illumined" too (24:23).

God dwells with Man in His orchard of delight. Wherever God dwells, there are bright things, which take their "illumination" from God; shining angels, seraphim like copper fire, Moses whose face was so brilliant that it terrified the Israelites. God is the "Father of Lights". Stephen's face, when he beheld a vision of Christ standing in Heaven, "shone like the face of an angel"; but we will have more than a vision, because Jesus Himself will be there to "speak plainly of the Father" when there are no more riddles and all secrets are judged.

"When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we'd first begun"

Well, I think you've discovered how they do it.  ;D

Hello Willowbirch,

Sister, thanks for the beautiful thoughts about JESUS. I do like to daydream about what HE might look like and how things will be for eternity. These are very pleasant thoughts to think about often as we run our course here in this short life.

:D  And, thanks for telling me about my discovery on the expensive coffee. Now I feel like an explorer and wonder if I should record this for posterity.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Psalms 111:3 NASB  Splendid and majestic is His work, And His righteousness endures forever.

??? I've never heard of it.  ???

You must mean, 1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.

AMEN sister!!

Thats what I thought brother...........

I'm in the southwest, sister............... ;D

I have Safeway, Wal-mart Super Store, and Bashas.  ::)

Is there really a difference?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

All you yankees are the same..................... :P :P :P :P ;) :P :P :P :P

I don't doubt that either.

Another Amen!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Like I said is there really a difference??

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I resemble that remark.   ;D ;D

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We know...................................... (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/4.gif)

YUP a big difference.................. (http://bestsmileys.com/silly/1.gif)

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Mostly just in miles.

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I think those smilies need to sit down awhile. The danced so much their faces turned red.

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They probably will be.

(http://bestsmileys.com/signs12/5.gif) I take it your getting ready to head on off?

Yep in a few minutes.


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GI issue... $3.00/5 lbs.  ;D

I done did! And it was all bright and shiny and new. But thar weren't any trees.  :o

I used to get that for free.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

....... and it was goooooddddd coffee.

They must've needed lots of firewood.   ;D ;D ;D

*smacks lips* It still is!  ;D

That's what I thunked - till I seed they wasn't wood buildings. ???

I'm too far away from any commisaries to get it now. I used to get it in 25 lb cans. (drolling thinking about it)

Maybe 'cause they needed it in their fireplaces.

 ;D ;D

 :o

That's sad!  :'(

I have to drive an hour and a half -- but it's worth it!  ;)

The closest one to me is 3 and half hours and that's if the traffic is not backed up in the Chicago area.

 

Smiley tomatos they look mean.

At least they are flying ones.   ;D ;D ;D

they don't look like thy're flying to me they look like they are kicking

Ooops I forgot the word not. I meant at least they are not flying.

ROFL  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D What a big difference a 3 letter word makes.

even 1 letter would make a big difference come to think of it.
frying tomatos vs. flying tomatos  ;D

Yes it does.   :o :o ;D ;D

That's a fact, too. I would rather have frying tomatoes than those that are flying especially if they are ones flying at me.

 ;D ;D ;D

Why not, you use them for firewood?

BRAT!! ;)

They didn't seed no more?

Clean-up on aisle 3, we have a drooler........................  ;D

30 minutes from me................ ;D

They are marching............ :D :o

YUM, fried green tomatoes.................... ;D

Whut's firewood?

Yeh, she is.   :-\ :-\ :-\

Not seed but seed.

But coffee is on aisle 10.

Now look whose being the brat.

 ;D ;D ;D

...... and a young one at that.   ;D ;D ;D

They can march right on into my pan.    ;D ;D ;D ;D

I like the red ones fried better.

Thats been covered........................  ;D

No not seed but seed.......... ;D

Nope, you don't know............. they moved the coffee...............(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

YUCK!

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Covered in whut .... snow .....

 ;D ;D ;D

That's whut I saed.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Not here they didn't.

 ;D ;D

Hmmmm......

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rotten ones at that

I've had that happen. Yuck!!

I will see y'all in a while, as I have a date. So I must get ready for that. YES a date!

 :o :o :o :o


Have a good time, brother.

I'm happy for you Brother.

I did have a very enjoyable lunch.. ;D

That didn't last long.

It was a first meeting between us, she had to get back to work.

Since you called me mother in another thread, now I have to act like a mother.
How did you meet her?

...more questions to follow
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

How did I figure this was coming?   ;D ;D ;D ;D

Better answer up DW.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

More questions still to come .....    ;D ;D ;D ;D

I met her at Church, she has never been married. Before you ask mother, she is 44. ;D

Yes, tommorrow morning for breakfast.

I have answered all them, so far. :P :P :P

Where??

 ;) ;)

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Yep .. so far.

Forthwith ....

I wonder if sister Maria, will look at her quote. The one where I bolded mother.

Thanks brother

I'm sure she'll see it.   ;D ;D

You're welcome.

For those that remember the times before modern conviences:


 Outhouse


I remember when I was a kid,
We were the poorest folk in town.
And we had a wooden outhouse,
You could smell for blocks around.

I remember in the summer,
How the aroma burned your eyes--
And how that old two holer
Would collect a million flies

And I remember in the winter
When it was nine below,
How I used to sit down easy
On that cold and icy hole.

And there was poor Aunt Millie
After she had sipped some cider.
Was bitten in the outhouse
By a darned black widow spider.

Well, she came running in the house
And it gave us such a scare.
And where that spider bit her at--
She wouldn't tell us where.

But ma took her in the bedroom
And called old Doctor Brown.
It seemed to me at least two weeks
Before she could sit down.

Then there was cousin Ollie,
Who came here from the city.
Oh the smartness that old Ollie had
Well it was such a pity.

He came running in the house--
And he began to blush.
He said I used the outhouse
But I can't get it to flush.

Well, I got the best of Ollie
And I'd do it every time.
I said we don't use water
All us rich folk all use lime.

Old Ollie took some lime home
After he had spent his hitch.
So the folks there in the city
Would think that he was rich.

Well lightning struck the outhouse
On a cold and stormy night.
And the folks there in the city
Thought that it was alright.

Well, it burned throughout the evening,
Until the break of day.
When the neighbors found the cranny gone--
They cheered for blocks away!

Well, the church built us an outhouse--
The kind that goes inside.
And when I sit upon that throne--
It fills my heart with pride.

I think of all those winters
The smell and all those flies.
And the bliss that I have sitting there--
Brings teardrops to my eyes.

Now Pa's got into money--
Throughout his later years--
So now we all use Charmin
Instead of books from Sears.

Do you think this will develop into a serious relationship?
And I'm glad you mentioned you met her at church cause you know what my next qyestion would've been.

yes I saw mother in bold letters and??

Nope, she missed it brother. ;D

If it develops or not, thats I will leave to the Lord. I guess I should mention, I've known Lizzie for 30 years.

Nothing sister. ;D

Nope she did seed it.   ;D ;D ;D

Now that's the way to go!  :D

ROFL!
Is that our "Ollie"??

AMEN Brother. The Lord has someone especially made for each of us, as you said though, we must leave it to Him. He's never wrong.
She must be pretty special, 30 years that almost half a lifetime.

YEP, I sure sawd it...

AHH yes, the modern conviniences *I wonder*  ::) what did they used before outhouses, and seasr books   ???  ???

Where is Ollie? Haven't seen him in awhile.

I don't know??

Nope not that one.

The bushes behind the trees.   ;D ;D ;D

::)

Thanks, I think................

Nope, that was Pastor Roger.

I see that you didn't read it.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I met her, when she worked with me at Sambo's. Course thats where I also met my late wife. She was employed under me.

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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I used to go to the Sambo's in Calif before they went out of buiseness. Good food at all of them.

And for y'all ask, yes I've been to breakfast already. :P

I miss them to this day, they didn't care about color, race or creed. As long as you did your work, that was all that mattered.

Well when you gotta go you gotta go :D

Never heard of Sambo's   :(    sounds like a great place though

 ;D ;D ;D

They were great to work for sister.

It used to be a big restaurant chain that had 1200 units from 1957 to somewhere around 1969. The theme came from a children's story book called "Little Black Sambo". Their specialty was pancakes even though they did serve other things. The grandson of one of the prior owners is trying to reopen the chain now.

In 1977 they had a total of 1500 Restruants. I have over 800 different wooden nickels, from Sambo's to this day. I also have other odds and ends, from Sambo's.

They must have good butter.

Has anyone read Little Black Sambo, where the little African boy tricks a tiger into chasing him around a tree? And then the little boy sneaks away from the tree, and the tiger is just chasing himself, round and round, so fast that he turns into butter. Then the little boy takes some of the butter home to his mama and it is the best butter they've ever had.

I have the book, that Sambo's use to sell. ;D

Sorry that was a typo. I meant 1980's. There is now a Sambo's in Santa Barbara area where the first original one was. It was opened up by one of the grandsons.

 

I don't have one anymore but I did read it while eating some Sambo's pancakes.

That store was never closed, as it wasn't Incorporated into the chain. The only time it has been closed is for remodeling. I've been to that restruant several times. Including back in 1983, when all the other Sambo's were closed. The address is  216 West Cabrillo Street.

Really?? I was there in 1975 and then again in 1986 and 1987.

Yes, It was open when I was there.

Wow! :o You guys did alot of yack'n since the last time I visited this thread.

yep, everyday.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Because we are family. ;D

Yep and families should talk a lot.

Good point. ;D 

And sometimes at night too..... ;D

And I have another date tommorrow, so y'all behave (PR) while I'm gone. ;) ;D

Oh Boy! Time for a pie fight!    ;D   ;D

That's a part of some peoples day.   ;D ;D

ROFL! Woo Hoo!  ;D

That's the best time to behave our selves.   ;D ;D ;D

Yeah!  Be sure to save some to throw at DW when he gets back.   ;D ;D ;D

....... another ....   Woo Hoo!

I've never read the book, but I recall hearing about it when I was a little girl.

Wow a date 3 days in a row.  :D
PR behave ?   ???
He's probably  ::) wondering what that is.  ;D
he might even be thinking be-have, be-have what?  ;D ;D ;D
Just kidding with you Brother PR.  ;D  ;D

YEAH we haven't had a pie fight in a couple of months.

make mine stawberries and 'real' whipped cream  ;D

Here ya go:
http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/sambo.htm
Complete with text AND photos.  ;D

Too bad, it's a cute story for kids.

lol .... but I do behave ..... I behave my normal self.    ;D ;D ;D ;D

Sister Maria gets the first one.

 ;D ;D ;D

Wow. Gee thanks sister sincereheart.

Be afraid! Be very afraid! ;D

I was thinking more in the line of Missouri Mud pie.

Yeah that's it.

Of what??

 ;D ;D ;D

Sssshhhh:



 ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Did I start something with W00 H00? :-\

I must have............................ :-\ :-\

And heres your brother.......................

(http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/strangelove/images/pie_fight1.jpg)

And another one Saturday........ Lizzie likes NASCAR!! W00 H00!! ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D

(http://www.hollywoodhangover.com/copyof15.JPG)

To late sister............... ;D ;D

Nope, brother Tom did................ ;D then sister Maria got one.............. ;D

Oh ya, heres yours PR..........................

(http://www.lincolntheatre-belleville.com/images/PieFight%20001.jpg)

Be afraid, in fact, be very afraid.................... :o :o

Yes, cause I knows whats coming...................... ;D

Your pie...................

(http://members.aol.com/ianrice/pieface.jpg)

To late brother............ ;D

You started me "Woo Hooing" but you didn't start me using "Woo Hoo"... or even "Yee Haw".  :o
But I do forget what I was "Woo Hooing" about.  :-\  ???

Sorry! All I have is what looks like, mebbe blueberry?:
(http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0RQD7AmoVwfn2Bg8GlslEmdnYXCuStuXKUIlzG1K!myrLpdymzIyics5SP34skd96FKok*WrGLoAQ6lka*G6r3MIzwW3ZJXba5LmtLHh5MDQ/guypie.bmp?dc=4675556496685619053)

I think so.   ;D ;D ;D

You did it.   ;D ;D

That's his brother??

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Oh oh ....  look out .....  a perfect match??

 ;D ;D ;D

That looked like a perfect 4.0 hit.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Thank you that was good.

 ;D ;D

I think I heard that line somewhere else.

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

..... and another time??

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

(http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgDRAhoUyKEDeumSzIFA90Z26oJD4hmoaHrAn3wWpI9lU3!pxJ*koPPqr90xks!ir5kClJhvU3oEIuHQO!tNUb48jK*7p1kdeU6cv5T1jcQ/ugh.bmp?dc=4675562607204942068)

Definite confusion.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

hmmmmmm  my favorite.

Yours looks like custard with whipped cream.

Pastor Roger .................. (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/4.gif)

Your confused sister, there is no confusion................. :'( :'(  ::) ::) :o :o :-\ :-\ ;D ;D (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif) (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif)

Nope, thats brother Tom..................................(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

It was brother......................... a 3.8 :-\

Your welcome (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/4.gif)

Where??

Are you a time traveler? (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/12.gif)

No he's just been around for a looong time ;D

Oh my, thats old then............................ ;D

Brother Bob ........

That's where you are .......

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Brother Roger .................. (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

But you said "And heres your brother......................."

 ??? ??? ??? ???

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

3.8 is close enough.

 ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

That should have been "yours"

Back there .......


 ;D ;D

Okay, I'll take it then. ;D

Not me ...........

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

I have ??

Back where? (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

Not me ..........

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Longer then I have, old man. ;) (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

Brother Bob .........   (http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Yes you! (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

Brother Roger Doger............................. (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

One letter makes a difference ........ 

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Nope nope nope .............

Splat ........... you got it .............


(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Somewhere behind us ...................


(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

It dooooooooo??

Y'all want to go look? (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/4.gif)

Youngster .............


 ;D ;D

Nope nope nope .....

Brothe Bobber dobber ..........

Sometimes .......


 ;D ;D ;D

Nop .... I'll let you do that sometime when you get bored again ......

 ;D

Yes you did you guys are always starting something.

Someone has to.

 ;D ;D ;D

No you have started something as well. ;)  ;D

A real instigator.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

;D

HUH???  Instigator??? Hummph!
go look in the mirror and see who the (well at least 1 of) instigator is ;D

insti-gator is short for instant aligator.  :P

 ;D ;D ;D ;D  I did and I don't see one.     ;D ;D ;D ;D

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

That proves it you are an insti-gator, you look in the mirror and your a man, then you come to the forum and you are an insti-gator   :P  ;D

 :o :o :o :o :o :o

what a friendly looking instigator.
Will one of you go pet it?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

That's a job for Mikey.   ;D ;D ;D

Mikey likes everything, do you think he'll like this gator?

I don't know but I do know the gator will like him.   ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D   ;D  ROFL!

Me thinks that Dreamweaver has been loose with his graphics program again.

We'll let you pet the gator................... :o :o :o :o :o :o

Who me............................................................ ;D ;D ;D

I think DW is very artistic. Dw did you ever think of becoming a dentist Brother?   ;D ;D ;D

Did you say autistic?   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :o ::) ::) :(

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Just because you'll let me don't mean I will  ;D ;D ;D