People over 35 should be dead

[GrierHPharmD]

I never thought that starting this thread would bring out so many people telling such wonderful stories from the formative years. I am very pleased and have enjoyed reading each and every post.

Let's just say that it looks like lots of us have had rich and full lives...

 

[GrierHPharmD]

That reminds me of a quote:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

Walden
Where I lived, and what I lived For
Henry David Thoreau

 

[ARNGUSMCMP]

You know, I'm only 23 and I've still done quite a bit of what y'all are talking about. I've had the orange fanta, I've made all sorts of explosives, I've played kick of the hill on the big dirt hill at a constructions site, I've been told that if I wasn't home by the time the street lights came on my *** would be grass... Never played in the cloud of the mosquito fogger truck, never made my own skate board with roller skates. Jumped off my roof with a bed sheet tied together for a parachute... into my mom's rose bushes. Rode in the back of the pickup... I still did this when I was a kid, and that was the early 80s... then again, i was growin up in alaska at the time, and folks up there don't really like to stick their noses in other people's business... generally. But nonetheless, I don't think hte younger generations are as doomed as many here seem to think. After all, if they like to dive, they can't be totally hopeless, can they?

Nate

 

[GrierHPharmD]

Awww, I don't think you guys are doomed. I just think you'll have to find your own ways to push the envelope, as it appears that you have...

 

[outlawaggie]

some call me el salchichon que zambulle...

The salami that what????

 

[GrierHPharmD]

The sausage that dives, plunges, dips...

(There's a whole thread about that name in the Florida Conch Divers' forum. It's a web translation of "diving sausage".)

 

[outlawaggie]

The sausage that dives, plunges, dips...

(There's a whole thread about that name in the Florida Conch Divers' forum. It's a web translation of "diving sausage".)

Yeah, i plugged it into an online translator and got

"The Salami that Plunges"

Could be interpretted a couple of ways...but we'll all assume you mean plunging into the ocean. LOL

 

[Dan Gibson]

So is using a ramp that flexes if you don't lean back enough. Ever see someone goe over the handles bars? I saw it twice in a row by the same guy. Even funnier to me is he had a bike with a steering wheel. Does anyone remember bikes with a steering wheel instead of handle bars? Very big in the 70s.

During the summer, we played Evil Knevil with our bikes. Lesson learned. A landing ramp is a bad idea.

 

[Dan Gibson]

And we could get our heads caught between the rails back then.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.


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[Afraid_of_Fish]

Wow! I Need A Beer.

me too. :beer:

Actually going reading books for a book report rather than todays "internet reports".

How did you write reports? By hand? What if you had bad handwritting? Or what if you made a mistake. *shakes head* i could never survive without technology.