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21. Yeah. There's always that.

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #20)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 05:32 PM

Jan 2013

By the time people start connecting the dots, it's already too late.

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The, Why am I not dead, thread. [View all] Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 OP

Did you also have sword fights with fluorescent lights? Downwinder Jan 2013 #1

No. We didn't have to. We used machetes. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #3

Gee, we used the original light sabers. Downwinder Jan 2013 #6

We used Fluorescent Lights for Grapevine Jousting SEMOVoter Jan 2013 #50

If you got near a ham radio tower Downwinder Jan 2013 #51

If only we knew that then, SEMOVoter Jan 2013 #52

That's why I said we had the original light sabers. Downwinder Jan 2013 #54

Asbestos was a 'miracle fiber' of the 50's and 60's. They put it into so many things... PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #2

I played with mercury and rode my bike without a helmet. GoCubsGo Jan 2013 #4

That's a given. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #5

Yes, I was about to post the same thing. femmocrat Jan 2013 #7

I used to drive a Mercury ashling Jan 2013 #16

I did both of those. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #8

I used mercury soap. Downwinder Jan 2013 #13

Forgot about the mercury! csziggy Jan 2013 #18

Mercury wasn't very easy to get for me Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #37

When I was a kid, we pipi_k Jan 2013 #9

I have a co-worker . . . fleur-de-lisa Jan 2013 #10

Oh, I tried to play hide and seek with the DDT truck too. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #11

Because you're lucky ? n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #12

'Fess up... your proboscis fell off, didn't it? MiddleFingerMom Jan 2013 #14

I lost my thirst for blood. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #15

I grew up in a house with asbestos siding csziggy Jan 2013 #17

I had some crazy close calls with horses. Looking back, I'm amazed I escaped major injury. Arugula Latte Jan 2013 #19

All joking aside - I can't help but notice the rise in cancer among my contemporaries....... hedgehog Jan 2013 #20

Yeah. There's always that. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #21

Remember Mr. Potato Head ? agracie Jan 2013 #22

Help me understand "jungle floors". n/t agracie Jan 2013 #23

Our forts were built in the "jungle" Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #25

Oh, and a 24" bike when I was 5 yrs. old... agracie Jan 2013 #24

My mom had the sense to get me a bicycle that matched my size Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #38

I got bored at work one night... bobclark86 Jan 2013 #26

Played tag in the mosquito fogger. Sweet, sweet DDT... nolabear Jan 2013 #27

Last summer saw a kid following the BUG TRUCK on a bike SEMOVoter Jan 2013 #53

Throwing lawn darts over the house landing near a sidewalk TrogL Jan 2013 #28

Then there's just general youthful exuberance HarveyDarkey Jan 2013 #29

When you use commas like that in the heading, I'm surprised Grammar Nazis haven't killed you. Bucky Jan 2013 #30

Just, for, you,,,,, Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #32

This message was self-deleted by its author darkangel218 Jan 2013 #31

Reading YouTube comments Jamaal510 Jan 2013 #33

Crashed and rolled three cars in my teens mokawanis Jan 2013 #34

I shit my pants during the draft. sadbear Jan 2013 #35

Heh heh pinboy3niner Jan 2013 #55

We had those too. geardaddy Jan 2013 #36

In our neighborhood, the illegal rockets are sounding cannon loud. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #41

If you removed the sissy bar from your bicycle, it made a great double-barreled rocket launcher Tom Ripley Jan 2013 #44

Oooh! geardaddy Jan 2013 #49

We used to get inside of huge cardboard boxes and pretend we were robots! RedCloud Jan 2013 #39

I pick-up-truck surfed, had a g/f's mom shoot at me, went the wrong way in the mosh pit... Rhythm Jan 2013 #40

My friends and I played in the railroad yard, under, in, and over the rail cars. texanwitch Jan 2013 #42

Jump seats in cabs. Maybe the cabbies drove more safely back in the day... Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2013 #43

35 cents worth of gasoline and a box of matches would keep us entertained all afternoon Tom Ripley Jan 2013 #45

As I tell my wife when our kids get into trouble(little crap) benld74 Jan 2013 #46

... snuck into bars underage, got insanely drunk & went home with ... Myrina Jan 2013 #47

You WERE lucky. Baitball Blogger Jan 2013 #48

You .... Sound.... Vagely..... Familiar..... WCGreen Jan 2013 #57

No seat belts riding around in the Country Squire wagon. RiffRandell Jan 2013 #56