That Backwards Yen

Oct 22, 2004 14:35

For some reason, I started craving an AstroPop while I was sitting on the desk today. Made me start making a running mental list of those things that remind me of my childhood -- pre-drivers liscense -- things that shoot me back into that space when I run across them, those images that are the stock of my memories from that time ( Read more... )

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clickboo October 22 2004, 13:11:16 UTC
I'll turn those Toughskins into Roughskins. :) :)

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ink_ling October 22 2004, 13:57:35 UTC
Dang! I honestly couldn't remember which it was called! Just remembered the shabby colors. Let's wrangle!

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creepy1966 October 22 2004, 14:58:41 UTC
I wish I could remember cool stuff from when I was a kid,but msot of my life as a child was so shitty,and that coupled with a poor memory anyway doesn't leave me with much,besides memories of dumb shit like cartoons and comic books.

All thatabove sounds very rural and foreign to me.

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ink_ling October 22 2004, 20:02:51 UTC
Yeah, my parents made sure to raise us three decades behind the time we lived in. Got weirder to me as I got older ... .

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ink_ling October 22 2004, 20:04:23 UTC
Damnit! We were never allowed to play with cap guns -- and BOY did I want to! I stole the culprit BB gun from my next-door neighbor for an afternoon of misunderstanding on my brother's forehead. :)

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ink_ling October 23 2004, 15:55:03 UTC
I can see you as a tomboy! Completely in a good way. Most of the tomboys I know grew up to be folks with really quirky awesome looks -- like you!

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sunsmogseahorse October 22 2004, 18:41:08 UTC
Stripping tobacco and hearing your grandpappy preach! You are the secret love child of Jimmy Carter and Maya Angelou!

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ink_ling October 22 2004, 20:06:11 UTC
It ain't no secret, Mofo! I get a can o' peanuts every year with poems curled up inside, just like fortune peanuts!

Now: You better quick knocking the South, Budro! We gonna "do it again"!

:)

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sunsmogseahorse October 23 2004, 00:51:38 UTC
"Do" what? Perpetuate slavery?

Silly bear. You know all I wanna do is make sweet love to you, followed by sweet tea, or RC cola and peanuts.

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ink_ling October 23 2004, 15:52:12 UTC
Lawsy mercy! Want to start and end on the porch?

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