Wouldn't Trade My Childhood For Nothing

[SEEGERMANY]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one!

[Cleveland Metal]

So, we'd harvest dried husks from the cotton boll and roll that shit and smoke it! About 20 years later, I read that cotton used to be sprayed with DDT. Any questions?

Well, that explains a lot actually...

[irnmadn88]

I was going to the corner shop to buy bottles of wine for my mom and bring it home in my Radio Flyer... at age 9. Mixed Jack Daniels in coffee at 10, and made my first Bloody Mary at 11. Was drinking in the bar twice a week after soccer practice at 16... Then I got a Class VI ration card at 18...

Ah, I miss the days of the Cold War, the Baader-Meinhof Gang and/or Red Army Faction, and when the dollar was actually worth something in Germany...

And open air Monsters of Rock Festivals with 50,000 people... (I was at the show pictured in the liner notes of Def Leppard's Hysteria album in Mannheim...)

[SEEGERMANY]

Well, that explains a lot actually...

Hey that DDT was some wicked shit. Let me put it like this, dogs weren't the only "two-headed" critters!

[Jayster]

You guys are starting to make me think you had the roach clips with a feather on them,
hanging from the rearview of your t-topped trans ams !!!

[SEEGERMANY]

OK, put on your thinking caps! Where were you when you first heard SMOKE ON THE WATER? Me, I was at a Pizza Hut birthday party. Remember those? Or how about birthday parties at the skating rink or the bowling alley?

[guitarsjb]

[quote=SEEGERMANY;1187606]You guys are lightweights! Prior to weed, we'd slip off to the liquor store and get some drunk fucker to buy us some Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. [quote]

Aww shit! That made me shoot beer out of my nose!! Only I didn't live near cotton fields, so we headed out in the woods. That was some good shit. (ok, it wasn't that great, but I was a kid) Thanks for that memory

[SEEGERMANY]

You have not experienced life unless you've puked Boone's Farm Apple Wine, Strawberry Hill or Wildberry wine and it came out your nose! We'd get so drunk on that shit, the only way to get sober was to smoke either an unfiltered Camel or Pall Mall. Doing so would guarantee that you'd puke your large intestine too!

[irnmadn88]

Thank you for your support!

[joelayres]

You guys are starting to make me think you had the roach clips with a feather on them,
hanging from the rearview of your t-topped trans ams !!!

I did - but it was a T-top 'vette.

[StukaJU87]

You have not experienced life unless you've puked Boone's Farm Apple Wine, Strawberry Hill or Wildberry wine and it came out your nose!

How about Andre Cold Duck or MD20/20 Grape? Oh...the headaches.

[joelayres]

MD 20/20 is the reason I still do not drink wine to this day.

Anyone remember getting sick on Sloe Gin? and Mickey Big-Mouth's?
For the budget conscious there was always Governers Club Bourbon and Mountain Dew!

[Cleveland Metal]

Man, as a child, we'd buy MD 20-20 or Boonesfarm, pour it in a glass and drop a shot glass of Old Brookside (40 proof whiskey) in it and slam it down like a boilermaker... What the hell were we thinking...

I'm still put off on wine as well.... Haha....

[Jayster]

Anyone remember getting sick on Mickey Big-Mouth's?
For the budget conscious there was always Governers Club Bourbon and Mountain Dew!

Hell yeah to the Mickey's, or how about King Kobra and ripple !!!:ROTF:

Our version of budget conscious was Golden Grain and fruit punch. If were really into it(you know trying to impress chicks or something) we'd cut up real fruit and let it 'stew' in the glory of hunch punch !!! Sometimes vomiting would cap off the night.

[jgcable]

Digital clocks with the leafs that flipped down to change the number.
Steel-wheeled skates that you strapped on to your Converse sneakers.
Tube socks, the long ones with the thick stripes.
Power Passers.
Battery of the month card from radio shack.
Whirly Birds.
Dolby B.
.
Cleaning the ball-bearings on your skate board wheels.
The first "kick tail" skateboards.
Taking a torch to our skate board to try and make it a "kick tail" (doesn't work, and stinks up the whole house)
Sitting through Lawrence Welk.
Watching Hee Haw and wondering why Dad was laughing his ass off.
Wondering what it was about Elvis that made Mom act so strange.
Shag carpets.
The smell of leaded gas.
Paper air planes.
Real BB gun fights with the neighbors (and having your brother pick BB's out of your ass cheek)
Freshin Up gum (with the green-goo inside)
Bubble Yum
Vespa scooters
Big puzzles
2001 a space odyssey
Walking on the moon
Camaro vs. Mustang
Bell bottoms
Puma sneakers
Thinking pepperoni was hot

Ahhhhh youth!

You are the man. Thanks for reminding me of many things I have forgotten. Especially Drawing the Kiss logo on your blue cloth covered three-ring binder and Battery of the month card from radio shack