Fiddlesticks! I seem to have missed out

fureverywhere said:
We who grew up in the US think of the 50's and 60's as prosperous. I get a very different story from hubby who was growing up in Scotland. He claims I grew up in wealth (not by American standards - dad in navy, mom a housewife) because we had a car, central heating, a tv, a phone, indoor bathroom.

I remember reading about musician Alex Harvey. He grew up in Glasgow during the war years and it sounds like it was incredibly grim. Not only wasn't there indoor toilets, but families shared the few there were. Kind of childhood that will haunt you as an adult.

I agree though there is a big difference in being fifty and being seventy. Maybe instead of the blanket of "Boomers", just divide it by decade. More logical...your teen years are what shape you ultimately IMHO.
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There were indoor toilets but many homes shared with other families or had outdoor toilets. My husband's family shared toilets with other families for the first few years of his life. He says he didn't feel poor and didn't know any differently. He had lots of loving extended family so he was happy.

Fur, I get confused when you don't use 'reply with quotes' as it takes me a minute to figure out it's not you saying it, even when it's my own!
 
Phil sounds like you got into the LSD instead of the brownies, that would account for the bright colors. We're all to old to mess with synthetic chemicals,at least what's in the brownies is a natural herb. Shesh man pay attention. On LSD the bus might melt with everyone in it. :Giggle: :hide:
 
Ina said:
Phil sounds like you got into the LSD instead of the brownies, that would account for the bright colors. We're all to old to mess with synthetic chemicals,at least what's in the brownies is a natural herb. Shesh man pay attention. On LSD the bus might melt with everyone in it. :Giggle: :hide:
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Yea, but do you think the LSD could help our memories? :D
 
Okay, class. Settle down. Every darned last one of you. Settle down or there will be no road trip.

Phil, I don't know that I want to be on the same bus with you after you killed Jeremiah:mad: How could you???
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Okay, class. Settle down. Every darned last one of you. Settle down or there will be no road trip.

Phil, I don't know that I want to be on the same bus with you after you killed Jeremiah:mad: How could you???
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Oy to the World

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Wasn't no friend of mine
I never understood what you had seen in him
But he sure flattened out real fine
And now we have some frog legs to dine

Singin' oy, to the world
All the boys and girls now
Oy to the mermaids in the deep blue sea
Oy to you and me


If I were the king of the road
Tell you what I'd do
I'd blow away the cars and the trucks and the cops
And drink sweet tea with you


Sing it now, oy to the world
All the boys and girls
Oy to the mermaids in the deep blue sea
Oy to you and me


You know I love the ladies
Love to have my fun
I'm a High Times writer and a Rambo fighter
I wear my hair in a bun

I said I wear my hair in a bun


Oy to the world
All the boys and girls
Oy to the mermaids in the deep blue sea
Oy to you and me
 
Ohhh....looks who heard about our party and want to join us! They are good drivers when high so we can get them to do the driving is Philly is unable.

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Ameriscot said:
Ohhh....looks who heard about our party and want to join us! They are good drivers when high so we can get them to do the driving is Philly is unable.
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LOL - reminds me of their movie Still Smokin' where they drive down the street and the smoke is just pouring out of the windows!

Actually ... does anyone remember Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters? And their adventures in Further the bus? 1964, I think it was.
 
All history now --- as documented in Tom Wolff's Electric Cool Aid Acid Test and Grateful Dead's beginnings. All took place while I was still in school, but the book was a good read. Cheech & Chong movies are a scream!
 
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