The Midway Rebel
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Sun Aug-01-10 10:33 AM
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"You haven't lived in the good ol' USA unless you have had your arm broken by the hand crank on a Model T."
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| -Just exactly when were the good old days in America? |
bluestateguy |
Jul-31-10 10:48 PM |
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The Good Ol Days... |
CoffeeCat |
Jul-31-10 10:50 PM |
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I don't believe there were any. I work with the |
shraby |
Jul-31-10 10:51 PM |
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I personally like to romanticize that period because I believe that people were really working |
Brickbat |
Jul-31-10 10:53 PM |
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Today was a pretty good day. In three minutes it will be |
alfredo |
Jul-31-10 10:54 PM |
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It's just something people say. |
proteus_lives |
Jul-31-10 10:54 PM |
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All eras have their problems |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-31-10 10:55 PM |
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If you were'nt white, never. n/t |
miyazaki |
Jul-31-10 11:00 PM |
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Or male |
NC_Nurse |
Jul-31-10 11:03 PM |
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I Believe... |
Steely_Dan |
Jul-31-10 11:05 PM |
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I'd say the 50s to late 60s were the best... |
Frustratedlady |
Jul-31-10 11:06 PM |
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not while i've been an adult |
shanti |
Jul-31-10 11:06 PM |
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The Good Old Days |
Old Codger |
Jul-31-10 11:09 PM |
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We make our own 'good ol'days', |
pipoman |
Jul-31-10 11:17 PM |
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Emerson: "This time, like all times, is a very good one... |
Psephos |
Jul-31-10 11:22 PM |
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It's all depicted in Leave It To Beaver |
lunatica |
Jul-31-10 11:27 PM |
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Generally, Sir, the 'Good Old Days' Are When The Speaker, Or the Speaker's Parents, Were Young |
The Magistrate |
Jul-31-10 11:31 PM |
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You have that right Sir, |
SunsetDreams |
Jul-31-10 11:39 PM |
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You're asking historically, but it can be hard to separate the personal |
pinboy3niner |
Jul-31-10 11:38 PM |
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The "good old days", no matter how old you are, are those days when we were basically oblivious |
Subdivisions |
Jul-31-10 11:40 PM |
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there's some truth in that, but i believe there's also some data showing |
Hannah Bell |
Aug-01-10 03:44 AM |
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the 50s |
ce_qui_la_baise |
Jul-31-10 11:42 PM |
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Every day's a good old day for the very rich. nt |
valerief |
Jul-31-10 11:51 PM |
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been around since the early fifties, ain't seen them |
spanone |
Jul-31-10 11:53 PM |
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Conservatives want to live in the 50s and work in the 90s |
Recursion |
Jul-31-10 11:56 PM |
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whenever you were young |
upi402 |
Aug-01-10 12:01 AM |
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Let's see Reagan was president and Clint Eastwood had his own police force. |
Skink |
Aug-01-10 12:17 AM |
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The good old days were when you or your parents were children - |
haele |
Aug-01-10 12:32 AM |
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For me, when I was a kid and knew nothing about politics. Those were the good old days! nt |
Speck Tater |
Aug-01-10 12:36 AM |
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It all went rapidly downhill after that first Thanksgiving... |
Amerigo Vespucci |
Aug-01-10 12:49 AM |
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Thursday and Friday |
Dogmudgeon |
Aug-01-10 12:57 AM |
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Never. |
flvegan |
Aug-01-10 01:04 AM |
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Good Ole Days and Golden ages are Myth-remembered eras... |
Ozymanithrax |
Aug-01-10 01:04 AM |
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Good ol days = July 4, 1776 to Aug 1,2010 |
SmileyRose |
Aug-01-10 03:14 AM |
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That's the myth... |
MellowDem |
Aug-01-10 12:54 PM |
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1566 in St. Augustine Florida...the first wine grapes had fermented.. |
RagAss |
Aug-01-10 07:18 AM |
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But wasn't Drake about to sack the town? NT |
Recursion |
Aug-01-10 10:17 AM |
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The period between the end of the Korean War and the Race Riots of the mid-60's |
ThomWV |
Aug-01-10 07:26 AM |
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Must be why people like "Mad Men" NT |
Recursion |
Aug-01-10 10:16 AM |
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I'm afraid that one shot way over my head .... |
ThomWV |
Aug-01-10 11:01 AM |
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TV show set in exactly those years |
Recursion |
Aug-01-10 11:04 AM |
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"Race Riots"? |
WinkyDink |
Aug-01-10 12:01 PM |
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You are right about that era, and also wrong about it |
Motown_Johnny |
Aug-01-10 10:23 AM |
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We agree and not |
ThomWV |
Aug-01-10 11:04 AM |
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Gandpa O' said... |
The Midway Rebel |
Aug-01-10 10:33 AM |
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Good Days |
Kalun D |
Aug-01-10 10:43 AM |
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Some of the good ol' days ended on 08-09-95 |
Morning Dew |
Aug-01-10 10:50 AM |
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when you were too young to have real responsibilities |
Fleshdancer |
Aug-01-10 10:59 AM |
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These are the good old days... |
SidDithers |
Aug-01-10 11:24 AM |
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LOL - my rec stays at "0" - the trolls and rich folk have been busy this |
TBF |
Aug-01-10 11:31 AM |
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For working families, 1945 - 1980, give or take a few years. |
Warren Stupidity |
Aug-01-10 11:35 AM |
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65 Million years, B.C.E. |
pipi_k |
Aug-01-10 11:36 AM |
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Whenever they were, the era ended for good on 11/22/63. |
WinkyDink |
Aug-01-10 12:00 PM |
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"Golden Eras"... |
MellowDem |
Aug-01-10 12:12 PM |
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I am 52 and still waiting for the good ole days |
lefthandedlefty |
Aug-01-10 01:40 PM |
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1491 |
asdjrocky |
Aug-01-10 01:40 PM |
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The Good Old Days are sort of like Atlantis |
jdp349 |
Aug-01-10 02:10 PM |
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