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A wish
Aug 15, 2007 | 8:33PM
I had this one before...but somehow it got lost during the new launch. I liked it so I found it again. Hope you all dont mind.
A Wish
-- Paul Harvey
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother or sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him. When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.
These I wish for you -- tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
Written with a pen.
Sealed with a kiss.
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Lost between Baby boomer& Generation X
Feb 21, 2007 | 2:46PM
You're Lost Between Baby Boomer & Generation X If...
Submitted by CRE 43
- You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool.
- Any photograph of you shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the collar turned up.
- You know any "Weird Al" Yankovic songs by heart.
- You've ever rung someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
- You were once bowled over by the technological excellence of such products as Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco.
- You remember the premier of MTV -- or worse yet, you remember its predecessor, "Friday Night Videos."
- You and your friends ever discussed having a reunion at the end of the century and playing Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.
- A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
- You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was alternative, and when "alternative comedy" was really funny.
- You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
- You rode in the back of the station wagon facing the cars behind you.
- You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases: "You know, back when...," "When I was your age...," or "When I was younger..."
- Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you learned things like grammar, math and history. (A big hint here is if the only way you can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is by singing it.)
- You ever dressed to look like someone in a Madonna, Cyndi Lauper or Duran Duran video.
- You remember your first kiss with someone having happened while either "Leather and Lace" or "Crazy for You" was playing.
- You remember with pain the day the Green Machine hit the streets (or the sidewalks), instantly making your Big Wheel obsolete.
- The age-old question "Where's the beef?" still makes you laugh.
- You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly have more advanced special effects than "TRON."
- You had a crush on Ted the photographer on "Love Boat," Gage from "Emergency," or Ponch from "CHIPS."
- Your hair at some point in time in the '80s could only be described by saying "I was experimenting."
- You've ever shopped at Benetton.
- You're starting to believe that having the kids in school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
- You're currently employed doing something that has absolutely nothing to do with your college major.
- U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
- You remember trying to guess which episode of "The Brady Bunch" it was by the first scene.
- You had a front-row seat (i.e., blew off one or more classes) for Luke and Laura's wedding on "GH."
- Your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
- You know who shot J.R.
- You recall when Love's Baby Soft was in every girl's Christmas stocking.
- This rings a bell: "My name is Charlie, and they work for me."
- You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on. (Related item: you were sure that "New Coke" would NEVER catch on.)
- You know all the words to the double-album set of the "Grease" soundtrack.
- You've ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
- You sat with your friends on any given Friday night circa 1982 and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny was actually there.
- "All skate, change directions" means something to you.
- You've ever owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork used to wear.
- You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli. (Related item: if you've ever smacked yourself in the head with a shoe and exclaimed, "I'm so wasted!")
- You owned a Preppy Handbook.
- You were too young to see "Blue Lagoon," so you just had to settle for the second-hand reports.
- You remember when movies were only PG and R.
- You learned to swim at about the same time "Jaws" came out....and still carry the emotional scars to prove it.
- You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch... and your "cable remote" was connected to the TV by CORD!
- Your jaw would ache by the time you finished one of those brick-sized packages of Bazooka.
- You remember Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy, Boss Hogg, or-worst of all-what Sheriff Roscoe's full name was.
- Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost the size of a coffee table.
- You found nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
- You remember having a rotary phone.
- You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
- "Members Only" jackets...say no more.
- And lastly, I'll make a song stick in your head for the rest of the day: ...you actually remember the words to the theme song of "The Greatest American Hero." ("BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKIN' ON AIR...I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL SO FREE-EE-EE...")
Author: Michelle Waugh at ATISSI51
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Remember When...
Feb 13, 2007 | 3:38PM
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Close your eyes...And go back in time
Before semi automatics and crack...
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back...I'm talking about
Hide and seek at dusk.
Red light, green light.
The corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch,
jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
Mother May I...
Red Rover and Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops.
Running through the sprinkler.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night...
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or
maybe butter pecan.
Wait...
Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...
Short commercials.
Fat Albert, Road Runner, The Three Stooges, and Bugs.
Or back further...
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
Climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks
Running till you were out of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down...
Being tired from playing...Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike
into a motorcycle.
I'm not finished just yet...
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked,
and gas pumped without asking, for free, every time...
and, you didn't pay for air.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home
when the kids got there.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up,
if you even had one.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken
out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When girls neither dated nor kissed
until late high school, if then.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade
if they failed...and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited
a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't
because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that!"
Remember when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
The worst thing you could catch
from the opposite sex was cooties.
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
If you can remember most or all of these,
then you have LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from "grown up" life...
I DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!!!
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Top 10 reasons GOD created Eve
Feb 13, 2007 | 9:07AM
10. God was worried that Adam would frequently become lost in the garden because he would not ask for directions.
9. God knew that one day Adam would require someone to locate and hand him the remote.
8. God knew Adam would never go out and buy himself a new fig leaf when his wore out and would therefore need Eve to buy one for him.
7. God knew Adam would never be able to make a doctor's dentist's or haircut appointment by himself.
6. God knew Adam would never remember which night to put the garbage on the curb.
5. God knew if the world was to be populated, men would never be able to handle the pain and discomfort of childbearing.
4. As the Keeper of the Garden, Adam would never remember where he left his tools.
3. Apparently, Adam needed someone to blame his troubles on when God caught him hiding in the garden.
2. As the Bible says, "It is not good for man to be alone."
And finally, the #1 reason why God created Eve....
1. When God finished the creation of Adam, He stepped back, scratched his head, and said, "I can do better than that!"
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A Good Laugh
Feb 13, 2007 | 8:57AM
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