Things that give your age away…

Oh the fashion:

JELLIES!!!

I had glittery pink ones

Mark Fairchild said:

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But, you did win UIL for Extraneous Speech. We in the family always knew that you would "ACE' that.

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Oh yes I thrive in speaking....never lacked in the talking arts!!!

missinAggieland said:

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Things that give your age away…

Oh the fashion:

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Oh Lord those used to melt to my feet during hot summers. But we loved them.

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Items that give away your age...

If you grew up when playgrounds were made of solid steel and were built on a mix of grass and concrete....this is for you!

aggiewilliford said:

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Items that give away your age...

If you grew up when playgrounds were made of solid steel and were built on a mix of grass and concrete....this is for you!

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That plinker grid of steel haunts me. I hit my chin and bit through my tongue - 4 years old. I just can't.

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My elementary school had two playgrounds. One brand new one with a plastic slide, but the other one was still the burning metal slide. We also had the metal balance beams and pull-up bars that everyone learned to do flips on.

Instead of the plinko tower we had the hexagon version. And if anyone else was from Amarillo, do they remember climbing on the wooden pirate ship or climbing up inside tower at the park by southwest and bell?

The park my grand parents took us to had a metal firetruck for climbing and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

Yep we had a wooden pirate ship in midland, and I got giant splinters in my hand every time I climbed it. I also had several leg burns from the metal slide of doom.

We had the metal slide that was 200 degrees, monkey bars and parallel bars like a dip bar height that we would have races on

You would swing legs over one side, run to other side and repeat until one person tagged the other.

That usually happened when someone banged the **** out of their knee and stopped.

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If you are old enough to remember these...

My mom made us do stamp duty. We had to take rows of these and fill up the books so we could get something from the stamp gift catalog.

True Story:
One time I got the bright idea to take a whole page of stamps and use a sponge to activate the glue and do a full page at a time, so I could go outside and play. Well the glue doesn't stick as well when you do too many stamps at a time, so a couple of pages of stamps ended up falling out. Needless to say my mother was none too happy with my so called "short cut method" of stamping.
When they moved a couple of years ago I found some old S&H Stamp books still in their antique icebox where we kept them. Those were the days. And I know my mom will read this later....I LOVE YOU MOM, AND STILL SORRY ABOUT THOSE LOST STAMPS.

Howdy, as the Dad in the Picture, must confirm this to be a true story!!!

Sea Pony 07 said:

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… and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

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I thought that was the goal???

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Items that give away your age...

If you remember the days when your school desk was an impenetrable fortress, than this is for you!

greg.w.h said:

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Sea Pony 07 said:

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… and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

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I thought that was the goal???

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Oh it was definitely the goal!

aggiewilliford said:

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Day 194
If you are old enough to remember these...

My mom made us do stamp duty. We had to take rows of these and fill up the books so we could get something from the stamp gift catalog.

True Story:
One time I got the bright idea to take a whole page of stamps and use a sponge to activate the glue and do a full page at a time, so I could go outside and play. Well the glue doesn't stick as well when you do too many stamps at a time, so a couple of pages of stamps ended up falling out. Needless to say my mother was none too happy with my so called "short cut method" of stamping.
When they moved a couple of years ago I found some old S&H Stamp books still in their antique icebox where we kept them. Those were the days. And I know my mom will read this later....I LOVE YOU MOM, AND STILL SORRY ABOUT THOSE LOST STAMPS.

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I recall the mid-1970s, when my Dad got a Citizens Band (CB) radio to use while we were driving in our family car. We mostly drove across Texas to visit family and used the CB to avoid getting speeding citations from law enforcement, which on the CB was known as "a Smokey the Bear handing out Green Stamps."

After the National Maximum Speed Limit was lowered to 55 by the U.S. Congress in 1974 in response to the 1973 Oil Crisis, the CB radio alert and warning of "double nickel time" meant there was a car with "bubble gum machines" (360-degree rotating strobe lights atop a police car) in the area "handing out Green Stamps," so you had better slow down to avoid being pulled over and issued a speeding citation.

Items that give your age away…

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome and included these wonderful "shorts." You know you're singing along!

missinAggieland said:

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Items that give your age away…

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome and included these wonderful "shorts." You know you're singing along!

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I still show this in my 1302 modern US history class! It's awesome

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Items that give away your age...

If you ever grabbed this and thought you were a criminal mastermind for finding and eating the hidden chocolate stash...only to be confronted with the soul crushing realization that it was bakers chocolate you stole and not milk chocolate. OH THE HUMANITY!

Right:



Wrong:


They make them close to kill children's hopes and dreams!

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Baking chocolate isn't from a bygone era! It's still alive and well!

ensign_beedrill said:

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Baking chocolate isn't from a bygone era! It's still alive and well!

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Bitter chocolate is bitter…

greg.w.h said:

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ensign_beedrill said:

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Baking chocolate isn't from a bygone era! It's still alive and well!

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Bitter chocolate is bitter…

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It's a horrible realization that it's not the chocolate you thought it was.

missinAggieland said:

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Items that give your age away…

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome and included these wonderful "shorts." You know you're singing along!

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My hubby reworded this one as Executive Function Junction -- we're a neurodivergent household.

aggiewilliford said:

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missinAggieland said:

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Items that give your age away…

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome and included these wonderful "shorts." You know you're singing along!

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I still show this in my 1302 modern US history class! It's awesome

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Similarly, I have taught my 12th-grade U.S. government students and my college-sophomore U.S. government students about U.S. Congress lawmaking and the U.S. Constitution Preamble using the "School House Rock" videos "I'm Just A Bill" and "Preamble." My high school and college students love learning in this manner.

Ever since the mid-1970s, when I was watching "School House Rock" in between Saturday cartoons, I learned about U.S. lawmaking, the words of the U.S. Constitution Preamble, and all kinds of other facts about U.S. history and English grammar.



"I'm Just A Bill"

I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.


"Preamble"


In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers did agree
To write a list of principles
For keepin' people free.
The U.S.A. was just startin' out.
A whole brand-new country.
And so our people spelled it out
The things that we should be.

And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it's been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.

We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.