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bixente Donating Member (464 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 07:49 PM
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Things you still like from your childhood!
Books for me - on my bedside table can be found "Night of the living dummy III," you know, from the Goosebumps series? Also one of my favourite authors is Roald Dahl - earlier in the year I had no shame in showing a nurse that I was involving myself in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! He's a fine writer. My favourites by the man are "Danny the Champion of the World," "The Witches," "The BFG" and "Matilda". The illustrations by Quentin Blake are charming as well.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 07:51 PM
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1. Animal crackers. The fair. The "Narnia" series of books.
Playing outside in the rain. Camping out.
Lots of things! :-)
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bixente Donating Member (464 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:17 PM
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7. Well
I do love the rain and when it's pelting down sometimes I have run outside to feel a diverse mixture of emotions - exhilaration and terror! I've never camped out, although I am keen on travelling to Iceland and it's purposeful as far as soaking up the atmosphere which comes from the isolation. Also it's a cost cutting measure - it is one of the most expensive countries in Europe.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:27 PM
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9. Oh I bet there are some beautiful camping spots in Iceland!
I've never been there, but I've camped in Norway and Sweden way up by the arctic circle; that was fun, daylight at 2 am *lol*

Camping is the best :-) I love tents. And campfires. And s'mores, yum.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 07:52 PM
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2. I love the book "Dirty Beasts" by Roald Dahl
I am also still a Judy Blume fan.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 07:59 PM
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3. Cartoons, the original Mario games on the NES, muppets...
I'm still kind of a kid at heart. I like lots of stuff from when I was younger.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:03 PM
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4. I don't know what happened to all my Dahl books.
I had both the Charlie books, Danny, The BFG, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More and The Twits. Now all I can find is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda and Fantastic Mr. Fox. I think some may have belonged to my parents so they got left there when I went off to college, but a few just disappeared.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:18 PM
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12. I know a place you could buy them
:D

RL
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:21 PM
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13. Really? You know a good bookstore?
:P
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 10:19 PM
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19. Can you believe it?
But I do!

:D

RL
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:05 PM
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5. hmmm
got to look far back

easy bake ovens
freedom, being outside with no worries
me, mom and all our friends would wash our hair in a summer storm


to much i miss




and the MUSIC!!!!!!!!



lost
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:16 PM
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6. A baseball game followed by White Castle Sliders.
Classic Looney Toons cartoons
Jarts
Old encyclopedias
A Duncan Imperial yo-yo (I did a 5x "around the world" two nights ago)
Corndogs with a 60/40 mix of ketchup and mustard.
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styersc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:22 PM
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8. Condoms and clean syringes.
Never too old for a good idea.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:28 PM
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10. Reading the morning funnies
Even the cheesy ones, like Family Circus.

I've got to do it.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 02:03 AM
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24. for you










http://www.familycircus.com/
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:14 PM
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11. Disney movies.
I have all of the great animated films on VHS. (I'm not going to collect them on DVD though.)

I also have a lot of my little Golden Books from when I was a child.
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:24 PM
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14. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches n/t
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:30 PM
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15. "My Side of the Mountain"
"Where the Red Fern Grows", "The Giver", umm... TMNT, girls, snot bubbles... I think that pretty much sums it up.
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:35 PM
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16. I miss those candy necklaces that you could eat one at a time around your neck.
And, another treat that I think were called Chik-O-Sticks. I loved them!
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volstork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:51 PM
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17. Chick-o-sticks are great!
Sort of like a Butterfinger without the chocolate. Any idea why they are called "Chick-o-sticks"? They don't SEEM to have anything to do with chickens, but I could be wrong.....
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:55 PM
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18. Yes! I was going to say they were like a Butterfinger.
I see them once in a while in little piddly portions. Nothing like the big ones I could get as a child. For a nickel!
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 10:41 PM
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20. My library of Childcraft books.
And the animated "How The Grinch Stole Christmas." B-)
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 10:49 PM
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21. Superman, comic book stuff,
toys...hmm, frosted animal crackers....
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 10:58 PM
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22. Dr. Seuss
Kites.
"Clue".
Girl Scout Cookies.
Scary radio dramas.
Really, really fresh vegetables - as in picked 30 seconds ago.
Knock-knock jokes - the cornier the better.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 11:09 PM
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23. My mom...
:)
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 02:32 AM
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25. The Little House books and malted milk balls. n/t
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 03:39 AM
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26. This was my favorite book when I was a child.
Every time we went to the store, my aunt got me another book, and I named my first dog after this one, "Scuppers, The Sailor Dog." The illustrations are incredible.:-)
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 04:14 AM
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27. wearing diapers
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