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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Queen Victoria on August 20, 2010, 04:28:47 PM
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Triggered by a post from Odeon:
What do you remember from your childhood that disappointed you as an adult when you tried to re-visit it?
Off the top of my head:
bubblegum
Malt balls
barefeet
long hair
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Burning litter at my grandmother's
Plums from the garden of my grandmother, they never tasted better than those.
Cows at my aunt
Playing with all kinds of colours of sand
Peering between my fingers, and find that things got red and blue colours on the side
Salmiak-powder candy
The broadleaved soft grass under our apple tree
The dread of the Bullebak
Easter-fires
The breakthrough of Rutger Hauer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo61DF8Edes&feature=related
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Nothing really comes right to mind. Still like coloring books though. They're still just as fun.
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The breakthrough of Rutger Hauer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo61DF8Edes&feature=related
:zombiefuck: I hope finding out that Rutger had a youthful gay fling with Maynard G. Krebs doesn't fuck up watching Blade Runner or The Hitcher for me. Thanks Hyke. :thumbdn:
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The breakthrough of Rutger Hauer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo61DF8Edes&feature=related
:zombiefuck: I hope finding out that Rutger had a youthful gay fling with Maynard G. Krebs doesn't fuck up watching Blade Runner or The Hitcher for me. Thanks Hyke. :thumbdn:
Hey, was extremely exciting, Hauer was a knight, wanting to claim his castle back, and the other figure was a magician from abroad who was his bossom-friend in the fight. There was a damsel waiting for him somewhere.
This was the introduction of the persons. Hauer coming back from something like a crusade, with his friend in arms, and then on a mission to reclaim what is his.
Later parts of the series were that exciting that I hid behind the sofa to watch it. I was 4. :lol: That was my introduction to TV, Floris.
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Casinos. Definitely disappointing. I don't find it thrilling to go to some smoke-filled "boat" on a river, crammed in next to semi-drunk people and donate my money. I prefer better odds.
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Vermont Maid syrup. I loved it as a child, but since then I have had REAL, 100% pure maple syrup,
so the weak, maple-flavored stuff doesn't work for me anymore! :laugh:
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Vermont Maid syrup. I loved it as a child, but since then I have had REAL, 100% pure maple syrup,
so the weak, maple-flavored stuff doesn't work for me anymore! :laugh:
I have never liked pancake syrup. Maple syrup is infinitely superior when I can afford it. When I can't I use honey or strawberry jam on pancakes.
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Well, um...
Space:1999
;)
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Vermont Maid syrup. I loved it as a child, but since then I have had REAL, 100% pure maple syrup,
so the weak, maple-flavored stuff doesn't work for me anymore! :laugh:
I have never liked pancake syrup. Maple syrup is infinitely superior when I can afford it. When I can't I use honey or strawberry jam on pancakes.
I much prefer real maple syrup too. I keep it in the refrigerator because we don't make pancakes that often.
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I thought The Man From Uncle was great as a kid. I watched part of an episode on TV Land one night and it sucked.
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I wonder if I'd like The Invisible Man, still.
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Kolchak...The Night Stalker.
That series used to give me nightmares :zombiefuck:, I still like it, but now it's just more amusing than anything.
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Catweazle
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Catweazle
Okay, who or what is/was Catweazle?
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Catweazle
Okay, who or what is/was Catweazle?
Wikipedia on Catweazle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catweazle)
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Other memories or things I liked in childhood,
The taste of meat.
Loved it as a child. When our butcher stopped working, because of his age, the taste of the meat changed, with a new butcher. And from then on, I disliked meat. :asthing:
Remember all the funny shaped apples in the orchard of my grandmother. There were huge green saucer-shaped ones too. They looked delicious, but were not good at all when not cooked.
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Evoked by Rage. Childhood memory of Nana Mouskouri. There were only a few records in our house when I grew up. And half of them were of her.
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The breakthrough of Rutger Hauer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo61DF8Edes&feature=related
:zombiefuck: I hope finding out that Rutger had a youthful gay fling with Maynard G. Krebs doesn't fuck up watching Blade Runner or The Hitcher for me. Thanks Hyke. :thumbdn:
Here, to undo the damage.
It's been dubbed in German alas, but, still is funny. YouTube prudish though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXo1RxO6cs
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I like the way the squares over her nipples change size as she moves :2thumbsup:
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Going to see my brother graduate boot camp in Paris Island and the ride home into the snow storm that had Ct basically closed and a giant pine tree down in our front yard. We stayed at a hotel for two days after we got back it was the winter of 73
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Falling asleep in the plow truck when my Dad went out at night to plow the park.
Hiding the riding mowers on the high school boys they hired in the summer when they left them parked & went to lunch. ::)
Letting about 30 or 40 toads loose in the garage (my mom was PISSED). :zoinks:
Riding my dirt bike a mile through the field in the spring to an abandoned orchard & watching the petals fall like snow all around me.
Snowpiles almost as high as the house, & snowdrifts that ate the back porch.
Riding my bike in the morning through the heavy fog that used to hang over the river.
The roar in the lower tunnels of the dam (the water rushing through the gates).
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Falling asleep in the plow truck when my Dad went out at night to plow the park.
Hiding the riding mowers on the high school boys they hired in the summer when they left them parked & went to lunch. ::)
Letting about 30 or 40 toads loose in the garage (my mom was PISSED). :zoinks:
Riding my dirt bike a mile through the field in the spring to an abandoned orchard & watching the petals fall like snow all around me.
Snowpiles almost as high as the house, & snowdrifts that ate the back porch.
Riding my bike in the morning through the heavy fog that used to hang over the river.
The roar in the lower tunnels of the dam (the water rushing through the gates).
You were a cool, adventurous kid. :viking:
I remember those snowpiles. They don't get that high anymore. :-\
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Well, um...
Space:1999
;)
I loved that show.
I hate watching shows now that mesmerised me as a kid. I feel sad I don't see them with as much wonderment as I did then.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory still gets me though. And I always tear up at the Pure Imagination song. He he....I'm tearing up now just writing about it!
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination
We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be
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Popsicles on sticks that would melt faster than you could eat them.
Standing over a floor furnace feeling the heat envelope your body.
Catching lizards, dragonflies and fat bumblebees.
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Way back when I was too young and stupid to know fear, I used to play on a rope swing that swung across a canal. One day the tree branch that it hung from snapped and I ended up landing head first in the middle of the canal with loads of people watching.
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Darkness.
Standing night after night in front of the window, watching stars. Wondering if other people could see what I saw, and knowing I would never be able to find out if they could see the same or not.
I miss the darkness.
It was there driving home from a visit to my grandparents too. My brother and I laying in the back of the car, watching stars. That was when no-one had safety belts in the car yet.
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Well, um...
Space:1999
;)
I loved that show.
I hate watching shows now that mesmerised me as a kid. I feel sad I don't see them with as much wonderment as I did then.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory still gets me though. And I always tear up at the Pure Imagination song. He he....I'm tearing up now just writing about it!
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination
We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be
:zoinks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdnvbeqWbQ&feature=related
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Seeing Willy Wonka in the movies when it first came out
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Mom and Dad always took the family to Drive-ins to see movies, because kids got in free. I remember seeing Splendor in the Grass, The Great Imposter, Pork Chop Hill, the Magnificent Seven, Some Like ti Hot, Parrish, just any movie an adult would go to, we saw. No rating system, peering at the screen through the space between Mom and Dad, long walks alone to the bathroom, mosquitos.
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I liked drive ins. There was one by my grandmothers house that you could watch the movie from the Carvel next door
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My Mother's uncle (the one I think had Aspergers/HFA) helped to construct the first drive-in in our town back in the late 1940's.
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They were fun to bad they are mostly gone
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They were fun to bad they are mostly gone
There was one minutes from my house. Our parents used to take us to Disney double features when we were children.
By the time I was in high school, the drive-in had gone out of business, and the big screen stood abandoned and peeling for years
until another business moved in and tore it down. :-\
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The same has happened here in Australia. I remember watching Crocodile Dundee at the drive-ins.
It would be a real experience to go to the drive-ins as the driver. I wish I got to experience that.
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They even and a x rated one when I lived in Fl but I was to you to ever go
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Guess our climate made it that drive ins never made it here.
They were starting a sail-in this year. For the glamorous people I guess.
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Guess our climate made it that drive ins never made it here.
They were starting a sail-in this year. For the glamorous people I guess.
Drive-ins have disappeared here. In Brisbane we have a lot of outdoor cinemas in parks.
http://www.ourbrisbane.com/whats-on/movies/star-studded-cinema
I went to one once, to see Sean of the Dead (not my choice). Basically we drank a lot on a picnic blanket...don't even know what the movie was about!
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When I was growing up but still very small 4-7 they had outdoor movie night in the band shell at the museum with Marx Brother movies,Chaplin and Laural and Hardy
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Malt Balls, 3 Musketeers, chocolate covered cherries
Homemade vegetable soup (found out by accident that it was the Worcestershire Sauce that made it taste that way)
Not to gross anyone out: Liver and onions and grits, Stewed Tripe
Permanent waves (horrible experience)
skinned knees
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Malt Balls, 3 Musketeers, chocolate covered cherries
Homemade vegetable soup (found out by accident that it was the Worcestershire Sauce that made it taste that way)
Not to gross anyone out: Liver and onions and grits, Stewed Tripe
Permanent waves (horrible experience)
skinned knees
Oh yes, with the tiny bits of gravel still in it. :asthing:
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And hot feet from running around shoeless.
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And hot feet from running around shoeless.
I still like to do that.
Do remember the glass I trod in as a kid though. Got me a bit more careful.
Remember the GP wanting to see my foot every other week, because he was sure there was embedded glass in it.
Horrible, all the time I spent in that always crowded waitingroom of his.
That is a thing that did improve. Getting appointments on time with doctors.
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I remember the first moments of my birth. I was all cold and stuff, and when I refused to cry, one of the doctors slapped my ass. I pissed on him, so he dropped me. It was right then that I spoke my first words. "Fuck you."
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs19/300W/f/2007/246/3/3/King_Leonidas_by_EuroFoxx.jpg)
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I remember playing on the freight trains left on the siding near were I lived in Florida and once hiding in a box car till the cops left of course they stopped and talked about 15 minutes just next to it
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I remember looking up, when a plane came over.
And the sound of planes breaking the sound barrier.
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I remember looking up, when a plane came over.
And the sound of planes breaking the sound barrier.
Flashback: MACH ONE, the newspapers headlining that jets would be breaking the sound barrier in our city (before 1962) and not to panic. The whole neighborhood standing outside waiting for the sound. Now I don't even remember if I heard it or not, Houston was a big city even back then and I don't know where the jets were flying.
I was taking an Algebra test when the school PA system came on and informed us that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
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Triggered by a post from Odeon:
What do you remember from your childhood that disappointed you as an adult when you tried to re-visit it?
Land of the Lost
Space Battleship Yamato.
Robotech
The State of Nebraska.
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The SO is talking about taking a trip up to NY to where I grew up after school is out.
After 30+ years I am sure I am in for a world of disappointment.
I would like my son to see where I grew up...but...
I'm really torn between wanting to see it again, and not wanting to see it. Not to mention all those "feels" that I'm not sure I want to feel. :hide:
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Going clamming then having fresh clam chowder, yum