>> Double Dog Dare You
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>> If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway.
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>> This is a time we can feel good about remembering so much!
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>> I am sharing this with you today because it ends with a "double
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>> dog dare" to pass it on.
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>> Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
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>> old enough to know better and young enough not to care.
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>> How many do you remember?
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>> 1. Candy cigarettes.
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>> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
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>> 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
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>> 4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
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>> 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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>> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
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>> 7. Party lines.
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>> 8. Newsreels before the movie.
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>> 9. P. F. Flyers.
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>> 10. Butch wax.
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>> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505).
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>> 12. Peashooters.
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>> 13. Howdy.
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>> 14. 45-RPM Records.
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>> 15. Green Stamps.
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>> 16. Hi-! fi's.
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>> 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
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>> 18. Mimeograph paper.
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>> 19. Blue flash Bulbs.
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>> 20. Beanie and Cecil.
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>> 21. Roller skate keys.
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>> 22. Cork pop guns.
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>> 23. Drive ins.
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>> 24. Studebakers.
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>> 25. Wash tub wringers.
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>> 26. The Fuller Brush man.
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>> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
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>> 28. Tinkertoys.
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>> 29. The Erector Set.
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>> 30. The Fort Apache Playset.
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>> 31. Lincoln Logs.
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>> 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
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>> 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of
>> bubblegum.
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>> 34. Penny candy.
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>> 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.
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>> AND A TIME WHEN ....................
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>> Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
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>> Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
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>> "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
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>> Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
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>> It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
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>> The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
> cooties.
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>> Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a
>> slingshot.
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>> A foot of snow was a dream come true.
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>> Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action
> figures.
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>> &n! bsp; "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
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>> Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for
>> giggles.
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>> The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
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>> War was a card game.
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>> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
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>> Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
> motorcycle.
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>> Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
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>> If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
>> lived!!!!
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>> Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up
>> life...."
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>> I double dog dare ya!
Double Dog Dare You
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