Your most pressing decision was Trix or Fruity Pebbles?
Gun control was when mom found out you shot the neighbors cat with your BB gun.
When capitol punishment was getting caught smoking by your dad.
Murder was what you mom would do to you if she caught you looking at Playboy.
Relaxing was what you had to do after punching the neighbor kid.
Inappropriate was the “Tonight Show.”
Abuse was pulling the wings off of flies.
The good times. 
Brian!
Trix dry and fruity pebbles in milk.
Thanks Brian, now I have the song by Asia in my head.
It was the heat of the moment…
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The good times.
Trix dry and fruity pebbles in milk.
Everyone knows it’s Pebbles dry and Trix in milk.
but you were just testing to see who was paying attention, right ?
I think the most difficult thing was deciding who had to get up off of the chair, turn the knob on the TV, then turn the antennae until dad said it was ok.
Then it was a choice of:
The Prisoner
The Forsyte Saga
Coronation Street
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Lucy Show
The Saint
Z-Cars
Doctor Who
General Hospital
Bewitched
Crossroads
Jeopardy!
Peyton Place
Top of the Pops
Hogan’s Heroes
I Dream of Jeannie
Tom and Jerry
Star Trek
The Monkees
Running to a neighbors house after school to watch the only tv in the neighborhood to watch the round screen showing the channel emm colors and then the Howdie Doodie show. Any real old guys out there.
….and we, as kids were never bored!
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….and we, as kids were never bored!
Absolutely… and if we were bored we certainly didn’t whine to our parents. We just found something to do. One of my favorites was a nightly game of kick the can. All the kids in the neighborhood just showed up and we played until we heard our parents yell for us. The good old days….
We had to head home when the street lights came on.
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….and we, as kids were never bored!
Playing with the neighbor kids a block away. Didn’t dare play with the kids 2 blocks away ’cause we couldn’t here when it was time for dinner.
Riding the bike into the country shooting bird off the wires with the sling shot. Then later with the .22. Did that once with dad aught six. All the farmers knew dad and he got a phone call…and I got what I had coming. 
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We had to head home when the street lights came on.
Oh Yea !!!
those were the days !!!
I remember sneaking a few of dads Koren Smokes(from the Koren War) from a box in the basement…
Not one of my better moves !!! 
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Riding the bike into the country shooting bird off the wires with the sling shot. Then later with the .22. Did that once with dad aught six. All the farmers knew dad and he got a phone call…and I got what I had coming.
your first can of tannerite ?
Remember when a “treat” was a pack of baseball cards with that old pink bubble gum? (pack of 5 cards & gum was a nickel)
The Saturday TV lineup included:
N E S T L E S…Nestles makes the very best…..chocolate.
Mighty Mouse
Sky King
Gene Autry
Hopalong Cassidy
Combat
Zoro
The Lone Ranger
The Rifleman
Warner Brother Cartoons
…and you lived for Wide World of Sports with Jim McKay.
Racing was covered by Chris Iconomaki
College Football was Keith Jackson
Boxing and the first years of Monday Night Football was Howard Cosell (and Don Meredith/Frank Gifford).
and when Dad said “I’m getting the belt”, you knew you weren’t going to be able to sit for a couple days. A punishment meant something back then.
Whirlybirds was right after Sky King. 
Lived on a farm and Dad was always doing improvements which meant pouring concrete. Never used redi-mix, mixed our own. So there was always a sand pile someplace. I used to take a small flat board and pick out and hit the rocks for hours. Eventually my board bat would break so I’d just find another one. I never used my good bat to hit rocks.
You drank whole milk, and it was delivered by the milkman. Sometimes Mom even let us have half & half on our rasin bran.
That damn Atari 2600 was the beginning of the downfall! Luckily we couldn’t afford one when I was a whippersnapper. 
drank (raw) whole milk that was carried from the barn to the house in a stainless steel bucket
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That damn Atari 2600 was the beginning of the downfall! Luckily we couldn’t afford one when I was a whippersnapper.
PONG
Squirted FRESH milk into the mouth once. 
‘ell I was 20 when Pong came out!
Remeber when Fred and Barney advertised Winstons to kids?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdTBDkUEEQ
-J.
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Squirted FRESH milk into the mouth once.
used to go to the barn with dad when he milked the cow (before I was old enough to start doing that chore myself)
I would stand at the end of the hitching rail and all the barn cats would sit on the hitching rail … dad would squirt a stream of milk that direction once in a while
was frustrating as a tyke seeing the cats could catch that stream in their mouth every time; but when I tried to, I always seemed to get it in the eye
Remember the Tommy Burst – my first assault rifle! $3.00
The WASP 6 shot snub nose revolver was my first hand gun. Used the caps that looked like little red cups. Much better then regular cap or Mattel’s Greenie Stickem caps.
If you didn’t think Evil Knievel was the coolest person in the world, something was seriously wrong with you!
-J.
Funniest memory is when a high school friend put a case of beer (24 bottles) in the milk bulk tank to chill them and forgot to disable the agitator. Dumping hundreds of gallons of milk on the ground and disassembing the entire system to remove all of the brown glass from the broken beer bottles didn’t go over very well with his old man. 
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