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Post by lola on Jan 3, 2010 14:32:03 GMT
My father gave me an Easter purse that struck me as way too childish (I was probably eight) and I didn't have the presence of mind to act pleased. I thought they'd always be around and giving me things.
I'd like to issue a blanket apology for all my dumb actions that I think of decades later and groan about.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2010 15:44:48 GMT
There must be a place in the world for girls who didn't want canopy beds or Barbie dolls. Fortunately, we can pass on our genes -- my daughter never played with dolls either. She does like books though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2010 16:48:13 GMT
My greatest childhood disappointment was not growing up to have Rapunzel hair. I'm beginning to come to terms with it.... God, I had long wavy hair and hated it so bad!!! Wanted straight hair very badly,like Peggy Lipton on the Mod Squad!!(1960's TV show)
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Post by bjd on Jan 4, 2010 8:58:16 GMT
Where did you find the Barbie--in-glasses doll, Kerouac?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 9:06:10 GMT
Google is always amazing. All I did was type "Barbie librarian" !
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Post by bjd on Jan 4, 2010 9:12:28 GMT
Oh, I thought you had found it lying in a drawer in your apartment.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 11, 2010 18:11:17 GMT
(no, he keeps it under his pillow ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2010 21:09:02 GMT
If you Google "Barbie bitch" you get some amazing results which I refuse to post here since you are both being mean.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2010 23:54:35 GMT
If you have several toolbars open, as I do, and open this page, this is all you see:
Oh, I thought you had found it lying in a drawer in your apartment. __________________________________________________________________
(no, he keeps it under his pillow ;-)
heh heh heh heh heh heh
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Post by cristina on Jan 12, 2010 4:02:01 GMT
Thank you all for the happy chuckle. ;D ;D ;D
I'll be dreaming about K2 sleeping with a Barbie under his pillow.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2010 4:12:40 GMT
Y'all are sick and twisted and mean to poor K.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 12, 2010 17:41:42 GMT
Well, the man's not a monk, is he?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2010 18:24:31 GMT
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Post by rikita on Jan 26, 2010 18:50:58 GMT
dunno if i posted that yet - when i was about ten i read a book about india that i found really fascinating... well i knew that when i am 14 and have my confirmation i will get money, and my parents said i could do some journey with that, for example - so i told them i will want to go to india. they told me though, that it won't be enough for that (how could they? i was told some kids get over 1000 DM - in my opinion that was almost like being a millionaire!) and that instead, i could go to vienna for example. i resented vienna quite a while just for that suggestion. ended up doing a week on a horse-riding-farm instead though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2010 21:13:28 GMT
Some of those coupons in the back of magazines where you could get free stuff -- I thought that if you filled them out and stuck them in the mailbox with the flag up, they would be delivered to the proper place. I didn't know you had to use envelopes and stamps at the beginning, so I never received any of the stuff.
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Post by imec on Jan 26, 2010 22:44:24 GMT
When I was about 8, two kids in my class told me they were enrolled in a special school for secret agents and that I could come if I wanted - the driver would pick me up at 6PM in a Rolls Royce. I waited at the front gate until it was my bedtime.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2010 17:37:21 GMT
I thought I had posted this particular piece of recurring disappointment. My family was in the car a lot when I was a child, due to my dad's job. We kids would always know when we were nearing a place like Stuckey's on the highway, because my dad would get the car up to warp speed in an attempt to pass it before we noticed. The reason we were so interested in those places is because they always sported huge signs saying "GIFTS". We couldn't understand why Daddy wouldn't stop so we could be given our gifts.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2010 18:17:23 GMT
Too cute, bixa. I remember Stuckey's from road trips, too, though I had completely forgotten about them till your post. We usually stopped for the sour fruit balls. But I never got any gifts, either...
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Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2010 18:20:22 GMT
My biggest childhood disappointment was when I got the original 1959 Barbie with the ponytail for my 6th birthday.
I LOVED long hair and couldn't wait to comb hers, so I took out the rubber band and found to my horror that, except for a ring of hair "follicles" around her face and neck, she was completely bald! And I couldn't undo the damage.
(50 years later, I sure wish I hadn't done that to her resale value!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2010 18:35:39 GMT
Oh, we always saw the Stuckey's billboards for miles before ever arriving at the location, but we knew that our parents would never stop there.
I'm really amazed that it is still around, because I saw lots of them on my recent trip.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2010 18:48:22 GMT
I haven't seen one in ages, but I realize that that's because we fly over the stretches of road we once drove.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2010 19:57:30 GMT
There aren't nearly as many as there used to be,and the "warning" signs are not as prominent, (probably big $$ for billboards of that size)but they're still there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2010 20:24:05 GMT
Didn't Stuckey's have some kind of vile divinity fudge or other white aberration as its feature treat? Any kind of white candy is sure to be a disappointment, but being a child and it being candy, I persisted in sticking the stuff in my mouth. I'm trying to remember the name of a particular candy bar -- it was in the shape of a mars bar and had a similar nougaty substance inside. The wrapper was white and blue, as I remember, and the "chocolate" on the candy was white. It had a name that indicated snow or ice or something. Anyway, I kept thinking I'd like it and was always wrong.
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Post by rikita on Jan 28, 2010 1:34:58 GMT
what is stuckeys?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 6:02:03 GMT
It is a chain mostly in the southern United States that sells food items and souvenirs (?) along the main roads.
I remember that they mostly advertised "pralines" when I was little.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2010 8:16:02 GMT
No -- here's the straight poop: it was pecan rolls, and sweet & nasty they were, too! Click on the picture for all the details.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 28, 2010 21:15:35 GMT
I'm trying to remember the name of a particular candy bar -- it was in the shape of a mars bar and had a similar nougaty substance inside. The wrapper was white and blue, as I remember, and the "chocolate" on the candy was white. It had a name that indicated snow or ice or something. Anyway, I kept thinking I'd like it and was always wrong. Was this it, bixa? www.inthe90s.com/food/alpinewhitecandybars0.shtml
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Post by Kimby on Jan 28, 2010 21:18:30 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jan 28, 2010 21:21:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 22:39:08 GMT
I only saw all of the ads for the pralines, like on the side of the building in that photo. I think my parents were very careful to make sure that we never saw the inside of one of those stores.
I have eaten those pralines, however. I think my paternal grandmother used to get them somewhere. Even for a six year old child, they were the most sickening pure-sugar-with-a- few-pieces-of-pecan-trapped-inside abominations that remain in my gustatory house-of-horrors memory.
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