Games We Played When I Was A Kid When I was very young, we didn’t have a TV; we had a stand-up radio that sat in the corner of the living room in our one-bedroom house. I don’t remember exactly when we got our first TV, but I am guessing it was in 1951 or […]
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Gabby Hayes, Sans Beard Baby Boomers like me spent many hours before their black and white TVs watching Westerns during our youth, which prompted a previous blog title, “My Heroes Were Cowboys.” One of the best cowboy stars’ favorite sidekicks was Gabby Hayes, whose appearance and voice made us love him. What I had never
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The Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Done This is definitely the stupidest thing I have ever done because I could have been maimed or possibly died as a result. When I was a kid, we lived within bicycle-riding range of the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area. The dam was built to protect downstream homes and property
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Kids’ Funny Answers In Class TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America. MARIA: Here it is. TEACHER: Correct. Now, class, who discovered America? CLASS: Maria. TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables. TEACHER: Glenn, how do you
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Are You Older Than Dirt A young kid asked the other day, ‘What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?’ ‘We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him, ‘All the food was slow.’ ‘Come on, seriously. Where did you eat?’ ‘It was at a place called ‘home,
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