shipmodeler Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 If you got in trouble at school you would get the paddle and when your father came home from work and found out he would side with the teacher and give you the belt across the rear end. Damn right! When me and little Johnnie got in a fight we took our licks (if caught) and would be friends the next day. Now if my boy gets in a fight... Little Johnnie might shoot him! Good job social workers... Taking corpral punishment away has been such a boon to society! Also, we didn't grow up with the sense of entitlement that they have today! I had to work for everything I ever got! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twobjshelbys Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Ate worms? Yep. Figgered if they were good enough for the fish. On;ly once though. Tasted like chicken. Also crawdaddys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twobjshelbys Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 So TRUE.......... I can't believe he did not mention "LAWN DARTS".......................... :happy feet: Remember those........Huge Two Foot Darts with Sharp Metal Tips. David. Oh yeah, "Jarts". Lethal weapons. The people who were hurt probably stood in front of horseshoes too. Imagine one of them upside the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDT Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Oh yeah, "Jarts". Lethal weapons. The people who were hurt probably stood in front of horseshoes too. Imagine one of them upside the head. Try getting hit in the head with a "Discuss"??????????? That happened to a nieghbors daughter in High School.............. We have not banned this one yet.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormeaston Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I can remember when the only real "NO SMOKING" area was 10 feet from a gas pump! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpretzel Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Life - is - change. Embrace it - or get left behind. Our kids don't care about how "we had it." Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mywickedshelby Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I can remember when the only real "NO SMOKING" area was 10 feet from a gas pump! and people still did it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SexyStang Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I was born November 23rd 1967, GREAT YEAR...... :happy feet: AND I'm a Turkey Butt....... No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK........This one was so True!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss Doctor Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I can identify with all of that! I would like to add that I am the product of a one room school house, eight rows of kids, eight different grades, one teacher, one oil fired pot bellied stove and bathrooms outside, sack lunches carried to school and water out of a bubbler in rural southern WI. Had a library card and really can't remember how old I was when I got it, just remember always having one. I might add we didn't have TV until 1964. Learned how to learn, read everything and managed to survive and prosper dispite being "disadvantaged". Good night, John-boy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss Doctor Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Lawn darts...as one comic put it you'd throw them straight up into the air, and if you were unlucky enough to have one land on your head you were getting coloring books for the rest of your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest markham51 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 You missed it! It isn't what we didn't have...it is what we did have! We had parents that believe being a parent was how to do it, not being a friend, our parents taught us the importance of doing a job to the best of our ability, our parents taught us humility, our parents taught us how to deal with failure and how to turn it into successes, most importantly our parents taught us the value of family. Of the 100 + employees where I work there is only one stay at home mom, the rest are working their but off so they can "give" their children all they want. Seams to me they are missing the important thing. Right on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shel-b001 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 You missed it! It isn't what we didn't have...it is what we did have! We had parents that believe being a parent was how to do it, not being a friend, our parents taught us the importance of doing a job to the best of our ability, our parents taught us humility, our parents taught us how to deal with failure and how to turn it into successes, most importantly our parents taught us the value of family. Of the 100 + employees where I work there is only one stay at home mom, the rest are working their but off so they can "give" their children all they want. Seams to me they are missing the important thing. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandros Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 So very true...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDan Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 You missed it! It isn't what we didn't have...it is what we did have! We had parents that believe being a parent was how to do it, not being a friend, our parents taught us the importance of doing a job to the best of our ability, our parents taught us humility, our parents taught us how to deal with failure and how to turn it into successes, most importantly our parents taught us the value of family. Of the 100 + employees where I work there is only one stay at home mom, the rest are working their but off so they can "give" their children all they want. Seams to me they are missing the important thing. +1 Also, the word "no" wouldn't lead to dysfunction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
07SHELBY GT Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Agreed with damn near all of this!Lawn Darts were called Jarts when i was a kid in the 70's.How much fun was it to hurl a heavr pointed object in the air and yell"Look Out!"HAHA!My 15 year old thinks it's great to ride in a FINISHED car or on my old ass dirt bike when it is running right.As far as fixing either of them,Oh well. How about when a time out equaled you knocked out on the floor by your Father for smart assing your Mother?Time out.I gotcher time out right here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolftraplight Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 We had guns in gun racks in the back window of our trucks at school not to shoot teachers or other kids with but to go hunting with after school!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersnake94 Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 AND YOU GUYS CONSIDERED IT A TREAT TO SIT ON TO OF THE FRONT SEATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hawkins Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 Then Dr. Spock came along and messed it all up.................................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svtkeith Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 Remember this guys.....NO meant YES.....and you didn't end up in court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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