Then I remember me and a friend of mine decided to build a mini-bike. We used lead pipes we threaded for the frame. Then we made axles out of solid bar round stock. Got a bicycle seat on it. We were ready for and engine and a sprocket with a chain for a drive mechanism! Well it was right at that time his father found out we used his pipes, his round stock etc..etc.. We just took it without permission! The "project" never got finished and we were in hot water! The mangled mess of pipes from a a hacked off father let us know quick that when using "Dads expensive stuff" you had better get permission or work to get your own "stuff"! LOL!!!
You know you are getting older when..............
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hogpatrol
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More memory lane stuff, black and white TVs with or without snow, depending on the weather and position of the rabbit ears, green film stuck to the TV screen so you had something else besides B&W, carbide cannons, pea shooters, chinese handcuffs and other junk won at the local carnivals.
swd
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Vacuum tubes warming up so the B/W TV would come on and testing tubes at the grocery store.
SEM
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My dad built radios and amplifiers and even turn tables as a hobby we had tubes every where, I was as young as 6 or 7 he would send me to the electronics store to get a tube tested or pick up a resistor he had fried, the store closed before he got off work. LOL I completely forgot about this, The green film was a big let down.
muleman69
USMC -1st marine Div. RVN
Loved there papa burgers and root beer .
Snuggie
F/TR
There’s an A&W in Baton Rouge still. Frosty is what I grew up on in the 50’s with a hand made burger from the little restaurant around the corner. Ahhhh! Had a bunch of cap guns too. They made a little pistol that fired gray plastic bullets. They were bad ass! First car was a new tan 67 VW. My dad paid $1,370 for it. No a/c but I was in heaven. I found a JC Whitney catalogue that offered an oversized carb jet for $.70. The bug would get second gear rubber! Those were the days guys!
Or your Dr tells you at your age eat whatever you want but stay with the dally exercise
Ben
Now Foghorn Leghorn was my absolute fav cartoon! He was a riot! No doubt!!
My older sister's Alvin and the Chipmunks on a red see thru vinyl lp record. Not too scratched up. From 1959. I was 1 yr old when she got it.
snert
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Cortland NY has one
He was..I say, he was awful hard on chicken hawk. Now listen boy, you can't find those original cartoons...are you listening boy...you can't find the originals any more 'cause they were too vi-o-lent. See here, boy, you keep lookn' for a chicken and you'll end up like Popeye and Bluto, fight'n all over and for what? Some chick with no drumsticks!
NZ_Fclass
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Worst is waking for a pee at 4am - then trying to get some sleep before you need the next one!Better than NOT waking to pee.
Laughed at my Mother once while she was hitting me with a belt, she then grabbed the other end and hit me with the buckle! I stopped laughing! Don't recall the original offense but there is no doubt in my mind the punishment was deserved...
I'm not a chicken boy, I'm a rooster..
On one of the Foghorn's cartoon's he was being "admired" by an old-biddy hen, who was always "after him"! Well Foghorn did not like the "old-biddy" and just ignored her advances. One day he was strolling around with his "little buddy the chicken hawk" when he saw "the old-biddy" sitting on a fence up ahead. So Foghorn leaned over to the chicken hawk and said "Watch this, I am going to make her day! I am going to say hello"!! LOL I thought that was one of, if not his best, one liners! Hehehehe...
NorCalMikie
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When I got "bigger", my Mom would tell me "You'll NEVER be too big. You'll have to go to sleep sometime and when you do, I'll tie you in bed and beat the hell out of you". And she would have!! 
She did real good for a single Mother.
Got a couple of Grand Sons that she sure would have loved.
She did real good for a single Mother.Got a couple of Grand Sons that she sure would have loved.
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