I REMEMBER WHEN

[gambleone]

I remember if you didn’t have a gun in your gun rack in your pickup in the school parking lot and didn’t smoke lucky strikes you were kinda weird

Dang, we musta went to the same school. lol

 

[gambleone]

All you can eat deep fried smelt (pronounced shmelt here) and french fries.

My buddy putting a finishing nail down the barrel of his bb gun, shooting it at a tree, and the nail coming back and bouncing off his tooth.

Making a pitfall trap in the straw bales in our barn and my best friend walking right into it (I might've pushed him but hey, trap still worked).

The pounding that 870 gave 12 year old me when shooting trap for the first time at hunter's safety.

The bruise 14 year old me got sighting in my Mossberg 500 12 gauge for deer. Only took me 35 rounds.

The 30 minutes of hearing loss when I discovered what happens to a 209 primer sitting on the basement floor when a hammer meets it.

Regulating the express sights on a custom Mauser in .458 Lott. That was a real charge. I think I'm starting to see why I don't like heavy recoiling guns...

I guess we weren't the only ones doing this. My friend & I were about 12 and were out at a dump behind the house. Friend found a shot glass and put it on the end of the bb gun barrel & shot it thinking it would shatter. Well the shot glass stayed intact & the bb went right around the glass, came back & hit him in the cheek. bb stuck in there, We got scared & went to my house & my parents thought I shot him. Thankfully his parents believed him and his mom popped the bb out.

 

[mensajd]

I remember Yosemite Sam, The Three Stooges , Bugs Bunny, Road Runner ,Sky King and some the rest.
They were more entertaining than some of this crap that they say is entertainment.
The political agenda said ole Yosemite was too violent. I think the Three Stooges became politicians. Bugs was too smart for them,Road Runner was too fast for them,Sky King was too honest for them.
Oh well,life goes on.

Looney Tunes in particular were awesome! Enough humor and slapstick to entertain kids while including more subtle satire for adults. Even taught some of us ignorant peons from cultural deserts (central California) to appreciate Wagner and Rossini (e.g., What's Opera Doc, Rabbit of Seville, etc.).

 

[Coonman300]

My grandparents lived in an old house in a very small town and the water tasted awful- I can remember going to one of their friends home and getting water from their well. I thought that was so cool to drop that bucket down a deep hole and crank it back up. I could also walk anywhere in town with a pellet gun shooting sparrows and squirrels and no on thought a thing about it. This would have been in the early 70’s

 

[Cecil S.]

Looney Tunes in particular were awesome! Enough humor and slapstick to entertain kids while including more subtle satire for adults. Even taught some of us ignorant peons from cultural deserts (central California) to appreciate Wagner and Rossini (e.g., What's Opera Doc, Rabbit of Seville, etc.).

Foghorn Leghorn was one of my favorites.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

I remember "The Great Blizzard of 1978"

Great Blizzard of 1978 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Guess global warming wasn’t a thing yet on 1978.

 

[AccelR8]

Guess global warming wasn’t a thing yet on 1978.

No, I think we had just recently gotten off the "coming ice age" thing

Ya know...I remember hearing about the “coming ice age” from teachers in grade school and being actually afraid. Hearing that where I live will one day be covered by a thick sheet of ice and wondering how will we survive. Feeling like this might happen even within my lifetime. I guess at six years old I wasn't mature enough to know my teachers were full of baloney yet.

This may be why I'm skeptical of made-made global warming.

 

[Murray Brook]

Foghorn Leghorn was one of my favorites.

He was great along with Yosemite Sam and the rest of the Looney tunes gang. They were changed because the "snowflakes" found them to violent, but the irony of it all is that it isn't the Bugs Bunny generation that shot all the schools up it was the Sesamie Street/ Care Bears generation that done so.

 

[MikeT49]

Looney Tunes in particular were awesome! Enough humor and slapstick to entertain kids while including more subtle satire for adults. Even taught some of us ignorant peons from cultural deserts (central California) to appreciate Wagner and Rossini (e.g., What's Opera Doc, Rabbit of Seville, etc.).

If you get the Boomerang channel, Looney tunes are on twice daily.

 

[snert]

Bingo! It will ignite and shoot the strike anywhere kitchen matches about 15 feet. What's not to like as a young nub? You got pyro and projectile launching at the same time.

DEMONSTRATION!!!!!!!!! Video link!!!!!

 

[mike a]

I remember when taking a pee I could look down and see my shwance.

 

[KMart]

Foghorn Leghorn was one of my favorites.

Yes, the PC police shut him down because of his best lines. "Boy, I say Boy" Too racist and an unnamed source said at least one person was butt hurt.

 

[hogpatrol]

I remember when I could catch the bus from the mainland to Atlantic City, and for five bucks, walk the boards, get lunch, a bag of peanuts, take in the Steel Pier for a movie, the diving horse show and see a rock and roll star (Bobby Darin singing Mack the Knife, among others) and maybe have enough left over for some salt water taffy. Went a few years ago with wife & granddaughter. Parked a block off the boardwalk and was immediately hit up by a crackhead panhandler. The ocean is no longer in view, sand is piled up to protect the casinos. Bought lunch for three at the Rain Forest Cafe, sixty some bucks. Should have stayed home. Yeah, I remember when it was a nice place.

 

[Bc'z]

I remember Volkswagen's having drum brakes.
With a Porsche motor up grade,out with the old and in with the new.
Rear disk brake system design and fabricated $10,000 to fit early 50's 16" wheels widened 2" with no backing plate.

I need my helmet and crayons....
I'll be takin a ride on the short bus!!

Here's a early 50's getting mocked up.

 

[M W R]

I remember taking my dad's Remington Target Master to school on Fridays, parking it in my hall locker and when getting out of 5th hour class taking it out the front door of the high school and hitch hiking with it up to by buddies camp, 60 miles away. ....and people would actually pick me up and give me a ride.

 

[dave@aDave]

I remember...........

Riding the handlebars of my friends bike going down a long hill on a gravel road. We lost control and ended up sliding in the gravel on the palms of our hands, our elbows and knees.

Mom cleaned me up, said ''Be more careful the next time" and pushed me back out the door.

 

[MikeT49]

I remember when taking a pee I could look down and see my shwance.

There's a cure for that. Take 1/2 of a Viagra.

 

[mike a]

There's a cure for that. Take 1/2 of a gave

 

[mike a]

There's a cure for that. Take 1/2 of a Viagra.

Gave my eyes a hard on. Not good

 

[Adam in WI]

You're not supposed to snort it...