This says it all!

>From: edward watt
>To: bev mackenzie
>Subject: Fw: Before my time! Turn on the sound
>Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:29:17 -0400
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Glen Amirault
>To: edward watt
>Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 4:16 PM
>Subject: Fw: Before my time! Turn on the sound
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Gordon Hanshaw
>To: Glen
>Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:02 AM
>Subject: FW: Before my time! Turn on the sound
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>From: Gordon Hanshaw [mailto:gordon.hanshaw@ns.sympatico.ca]
>Sent: March 8, 2005 9:09 PM
>To: Glen (glenami@ns.sympatico.ca)
>Subject: FW: Before my time! Turn on the sound
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> Hi Glen:
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> Hope this gets to you okay.
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> Gordon
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> This was MY life!!!
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> DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
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> All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
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> It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
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> Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from
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> Nobody owned a purebred dog?
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> When a quarter was a decent allowance?
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> You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
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> Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
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> All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
> their hair done every day and wore high heels?
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> You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
> without asking, all for free, every time?
> And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to
>boot?
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> Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden
>inside the box?
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> It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
> at a real restaurant with your parents?
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> They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. .
>.and they did?
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> When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
> peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went
>steady?
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> No one ever asked where the car keys were
> because they were always in the car,
> in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
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> Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
> and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ."
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> and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the
>rules of the game?
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> Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic
>seals
> because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
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> And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
> you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
> and share it with the children of today?
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> When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
> compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
> Basically we were in fear for our lives,
> but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs,
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> Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
> But we survived because their love was greater than the
>threat.
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> Send this on to someone who can still remember
> Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
> Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
> the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
> Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
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> As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
> Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
> and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
> Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I
>remember that"?
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> I am sharing this with you today
> because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
> To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.
> And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> old enough to know better and too young to care.
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> How many of these do you remember?
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> Candy cigarettes
> Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
> Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> Newsreels before the movie
> P.F. Fliers
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> Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-6801).
> Party lines
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> Peashooters
> Howdy Dowdy
> 45 RPM records
> Green Stamps
> Hi-Fi's
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> Metal ice cubes trays with levers
> Mimeograph paper
> Beanie and Cecil
> Roller-skate keys
> Cork pop guns
> Drive ins
> Studebakers
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> Washtub wringers
> The Fuller Brush Man
> Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
> Tinkertoys
> Erector Sets
> The Fort Apache Play Set
> Lincoln Logs
> 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
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> 5 cent packs of baseball cards -
> with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
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> Penny candy
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> 35 cent a gallon gasoline
> Jiffy Pop popcorn
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> Do you remember a time when...
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> Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
> Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
> "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
> Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
> It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
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> The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
>"cooties"?
> Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
> A foot of snow was a dream come true?
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> Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for
>action figures?
> "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
> Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for
>giggles?
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> The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
> War was a card game?
> Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
>motorcycle?
> Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
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> If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
>lived!!!!!!!
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> Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
> their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
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