We know what mimiograph means.
We played pinball.
Simon was the cool electronic toy.
We road the green machine.
We played tackle football without helmets (1 mississippi.....)
We road these and thought we were bad asses:
backyard football has been mentioned a few times and what did you do when you couldn't get enough kids or had an odd number, you played (don't get offended, I didn't name the game and it was 1982) Smear the Queer.
The rules, toss the ball up. A kid grabs it and runs until everyone else crushes him. Then he'd toss it up.
I've met Rob
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
backyard football has been mentioned a few times and what did you do when you couldn't get enough kids or had an odd number, you played (don't get offended, I didn't name the game and it was 1982) Smear the Queer.
The rules, toss the ball up. A kid grabs it and runs until everyone else crushes him. Then he'd toss it up.
i see kids playing football in my neighborhood all the time (it's part of the reason i had a fence put up to keep them off my yard and away from my dog )
backyard football has been mentioned a few times and what did you do when you couldn't get enough kids or had an odd number, you played (don't get offended, I didn't name the game and it was 1982) Smear the Queer.
The rules, toss the ball up. A kid grabs it and runs until everyone else crushes him. Then he'd toss it up.
i see kids playing football in my neighborhood all the time (it's part of the reason i had a fence put up to keep them off my yard and away from my dog )
Our township started a huge flag football league over the summer which is a ton of fun and good for the kids. But I haven't seen a backyard game of tackle in years.
I've met Rob
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
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it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.....
I'm sure the name of this game has gone the way of the dodo, but did anyone play Smear the Queer as a kid? (forgive thy, P.C. gods, for thou dost not suggest what ye thinks.)
Anyway, it was a game that consisted of someone running around the playground with a ball with everyone else chasing him in hopes of catching and beating the crap out of him until he dropped the ball. Then whoever picked up the ball got chased, beaten, and so on. There wasn't a scoring system that I was aware of and the game went on until the recess bell rang.
we didn't have our own water bottles, we all drank from the same jug or even the hose on the side of a house
we didn't get rides to and from school, practice, friends houses, etc.
we collected and traded baseball cards
we ate mcdonald's and didn't get fat
we had energy because we were kids, not because we drank soda and ate chocolate...ok maybe that was the real reason but no one ever scolded it for us...
the weird kids were weird, not ADHD, ADD, bipolar, etc.
as we got a bit older we got high by smoking pot
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backyard football has been mentioned a few times and what did you do when you couldn't get enough kids or had an odd number, you played (don't get offended, I didn't name the game and it was 1982) Smear the Queer.
The rules, toss the ball up. A kid grabs it and runs until everyone else crushes him. Then he'd toss it up.
i see kids playing football in my neighborhood all the time (it's part of the reason i had a fence put up to keep them off my yard and away from my dog )
Our township started a huge flag football league over the summer which is a ton of fun and good for the kids. But I haven't seen a backyard game of tackle in years.
ah you're right...these kids don't play tackle. it's like rough touch. and my next door neighbors (the parents of some of them) always are outside on their back deck watching/supervising. i remember a few months ago making fun of them to my wife because they were arguing about a pass interference call. 11 year olds arguing about pass interference--haha
back in the day we had a game across the street from my house pretty much every saturday in the fall. it was pretty violent. and it was like 8 on 8 with each team having an o-line and everything. those games were so much fun. we continued playing even through college during thanksgiving weekend...but it died out after a few years. those were fun times.
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The Juggler
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A-BALL....this was a staple for years. the field across the street from my parents house had little league diamonds on it. and there were always beer league softball games at night in the summer. during the day we'd ride our bikes all day long....then go home and have dinner....then it was off to the softball games to play a-ball off the wall of the field house.
god forbid if you dropped the ball...you were risking your life running to the wall while a whole shit load of kids were gunning at you. we'd play with multiple tennis balls so you had pretty much no chance of making it to the wall unscathed.
---edit: now there is a new field house with trees planted behind it. kids can't play a-ball there if they wanted to
one from my youth in school. Practice evacuating in case of another Three Mile Island meltdown. I can still hear my grandmother calling the towers "The Monsters"
I've met Rob
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
7/15/2011 - Benoroya Hall - (Eddie Vedder Solo) - Seattle, WA
4/2/2008 - The Center in Vancouver for Performing Arts (Eddie Vedder Solo) - Vancouver, WA
9/21/2009 Key Arena - Seattle, WA
7/22/2006 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
9/1/2005 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
A-BALL....this was a staple for years. the field across the street from my parents house had little league diamonds on it. and there were always beer league softball games at night in the summer. during the day we'd ride our bikes all day long....then go home and have dinner....then it was off to the softball games to play a-ball off the wall of the field house.
god forbid if you dropped the ball...you were risking your life running to the wall while a whole shit load of kids were gunning at you. we'd play with multiple tennis balls so you had pretty much no chance of making it to the wall unscathed.
---edit: now there is a new field house with trees planted behind it. kids can't play a-ball there if they wanted to
I grew up playing this but we called it "Butt's up"
hide & seek was the greatest stuff in the world.
as was catch 'em kiss 'em :twisted:
and pom pom pull away
and dirt clod war
if you were a kid that did not have stitches, black eyes, cuts and bruises, and a busted up body
you did not last long
at the chadwick & brothers' house
we fought and fought well and a lot
playing hard was inside or outside
the entire yard and countryside was a boxing ring and ramps for bicycles jumps
and hills were for sledding and stunts
we kissed girls in the alfalfa fields with honeybees
and the frogs in the ponds
often were in our pockets
and in 1979 both my grandmothers died
six month apart :shock:
we used to have like 25 kids playing flashlight tag throughout our entire neighborhood for hours. It might take you a half hour to actually find someone. We'd be out there all night. We also had a game we created called "Wall Ball" that I am still amazed never ended up with someone in the hospital. Nowadays, kids wouldn't be interested in either because it doesn't involve a headset, a joystick, and killing zombies/monsters/terrorists and would require leaving the house and actually interacting with others. Speaking of that...as kids we also used to play instruments, not pretend that we could in front of a video game.
in the summer we would be in the pool all day and make up our own games like "the movie game"
one person at one end would think of a movie, give a few clues and everyone else at the other end would guess what it is. whoever got it right would race the one person to the other side and back. the winner got to pick the next movie... good times
I lived in a section of town called The Maze. In the 1890s or so it was a golf course, so the roads are all twisty turny, and there are various one ways in the middle. People inevitably got lost.
Back then, if an adult pulled over and asked a kid for direction, the kid could actually give the directions without screaming and running away in fear of a childnapper.
ah you're right...these kids don't play tackle. it's like rough touch. and my next door neighbors (the parents of some of them) always are outside on their back deck watching/supervising. i remember a few months ago making fun of them to my wife because they were arguing about a pass interference call. 11 year olds arguing about pass interference--haha
back in the day we had a game across the street from my house pretty much every saturday in the fall. it was pretty violent. and it was like 8 on 8 with each team having an o-line and everything. those games were so much fun. we continued playing even through college during thanksgiving weekend...but it died out after a few years. those were fun times.
We used to play tackle every weekend in the fall... I had an older brother, and once in a while my friend (who had an older brother) would play with them... one of us on each team. They were only like 2-3 years older, but it was terrifying when you got the ball and they all came after you lol.
My whole life
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
OMG!!!!!! YES!!!!!! I was just talking about these books recently...so good!!!
I remember playing baseball in the street intersections, using sewers for the bases. We were ALWAYS outside riding our bikes and going to parks and doing all kinds of crazy things. Selling lemonade and people actually bought it! I never see kids out in the summer anymore, that is so sad!
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7/15/2011 - Benoroya Hall - (Eddie Vedder Solo) - Seattle, WA
4/2/2008 - The Center in Vancouver for Performing Arts (Eddie Vedder Solo) - Vancouver, WA
9/21/2009 Key Arena - Seattle, WA
7/22/2006 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
9/1/2005 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
NO NO NO!! This is awful news!! The new art is stupid! A huge part of why these stories were so scary/creepy is because of the art they had. I'm gonna try to find the originals on Amazon or something, it'd be cool to have those books again.
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College: My grandmother bought me a typewriter. It was the balls. You popped in one cassette holding a black ribbon, typed until you made a mistake, popped the black ribbon cassette out, and popped in a cassette containing eraser ribbon.
I thought it was so much more cutting-edge-technology than using White-Out.
I had one of those typewriters! Smith Corona-matic! I thought I was cool because I'd pop in a blue or brown cartridge when I wrote letters to my friends. :roll:
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We played pinball.
Simon was the cool electronic toy.
We road the green machine.
We played tackle football without helmets (1 mississippi.....)
We road these and thought we were bad asses:
and they served this at school-for breakfast!
The rules, toss the ball up. A kid grabs it and runs until everyone else crushes him. Then he'd toss it up.
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
that's awesome chiqui, so true
i see kids playing football in my neighborhood all the time (it's part of the reason i had a fence put up to keep them off my yard and away from my dog
Our township started a huge flag football league over the summer which is a ton of fun and good for the kids. But I haven't seen a backyard game of tackle in years.
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
and somehow we survived
Anyway, it was a game that consisted of someone running around the playground with a ball with everyone else chasing him in hopes of catching and beating the crap out of him until he dropped the ball. Then whoever picked up the ball got chased, beaten, and so on. There wasn't a scoring system that I was aware of and the game went on until the recess bell rang.
There's no way this game still exists, right?
we didn't have our own water bottles, we all drank from the same jug or even the hose on the side of a house
we didn't get rides to and from school, practice, friends houses, etc.
we collected and traded baseball cards
we ate mcdonald's and didn't get fat
we had energy because we were kids, not because we drank soda and ate chocolate...ok maybe that was the real reason but no one ever scolded it for us...
the weird kids were weird, not ADHD, ADD, bipolar, etc.
as we got a bit older we got high by smoking pot
ah you're right...these kids don't play tackle. it's like rough touch. and my next door neighbors (the parents of some of them) always are outside on their back deck watching/supervising. i remember a few months ago making fun of them to my wife because they were arguing about a pass interference call.
back in the day we had a game across the street from my house pretty much every saturday in the fall. it was pretty violent. and it was like 8 on 8 with each team having an o-line and everything. those games were so much fun. we continued playing even through college during thanksgiving weekend...but it died out after a few years. those were fun times.
god forbid if you dropped the ball...you were risking your life running to the wall while a whole shit load of kids were gunning at you. we'd play with multiple tennis balls so you had pretty much no chance of making it to the wall unscathed.
---edit: now there is a new field house with trees planted behind it. kids can't play a-ball there if they wanted to
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
4/2/2008 - The Center in Vancouver for Performing Arts (Eddie Vedder Solo) - Vancouver, WA
9/21/2009 Key Arena - Seattle, WA
7/22/2006 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
9/1/2005 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
you are awesome
i just felt my chest cave in
i loved my speak & spell
mine was tweaked out with all the tago switches tho
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
as was catch 'em kiss 'em :twisted:
and pom pom pull away
and dirt clod war
if you were a kid that did not have stitches, black eyes, cuts and bruises, and a busted up body
you did not last long
at the chadwick & brothers' house
we fought and fought well and a lot
playing hard was inside or outside
the entire yard and countryside was a boxing ring and ramps for bicycles jumps
and hills were for sledding and stunts
we kissed girls in the alfalfa fields with honeybees
and the frogs in the ponds
often were in our pockets
and in 1979 both my grandmothers died
six month apart :shock:
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
You could smoke anywhere like in the supermarket.
one person at one end would think of a movie, give a few clues and everyone else at the other end would guess what it is. whoever got it right would race the one person to the other side and back. the winner got to pick the next movie... good times
Back then, if an adult pulled over and asked a kid for direction, the kid could actually give the directions without screaming and running away in fear of a childnapper.
And the kid would be fairly polite about it.
We used to play tackle every weekend in the fall... I had an older brother, and once in a while my friend (who had an older brother) would play with them... one of us on each team. They were only like 2-3 years older, but it was terrifying when you got the ball and they all came after you lol.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
OMG!!!!!! YES!!!!!! I was just talking about these books recently...so good!!!
I remember playing baseball in the street intersections, using sewers for the bases. We were ALWAYS outside riding our bikes and going to parks and doing all kinds of crazy things. Selling lemonade and people actually bought it! I never see kids out in the summer anymore, that is so sad!
and we cleaned the seeds from our weed using Led Zeppelin IV and a baseball card
Have you seen what they did to this lately? They CHANGED THE ART! And instead of scary, it's all..cutesy now.
They ruined a good thing!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickr16/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-they-changed-th-4mxg
4/2/2008 - The Center in Vancouver for Performing Arts (Eddie Vedder Solo) - Vancouver, WA
9/21/2009 Key Arena - Seattle, WA
7/22/2006 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
9/1/2005 - Gorge Ampitheater - George, WA
I didnt play on Fantasy Island....Also known as Facebook....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
NO NO NO!! This is awful news!! The new art is stupid! A huge part of why these stories were so scary/creepy is because of the art they had. I'm gonna try to find the originals on Amazon or something, it'd be cool to have those books again.