How Old Are You?

[bodester413]

I'm kind of curious about how many country kids remember smoking cigarettes made out of corn silk wrapped in newspaper. To put it kindly, they would gag a maggot.

I remember when I was 11-12 years old I read someplace that people did that and I thought hmmm.......interesting....possibly mind altering?.....must investigate..... At first I though ok I'll ask mom if she ever tried it, but nixed that idea after thinking about it because mom was nosy and would ask too many questions. One day when I was alone with my dad and grandpa I asked them and they said they had both done it when young. I convinced my dad to roll me one with one of my grandpas rolling papers and let me try it. It was so nasty....lol...and definitely not mind altering.

 

[1 bruce 1]

I remember when I was 11-12 years old I read someplace that people did that and I thought hmmm.......interesting....possibly mind altering?.....must investigate..... At first I though ok I'll ask mom if she ever tried it, but nixed that idea after thinking about it because mom was nosy and would ask too many questions. One day when I was alone with my dad and grandpa I asked them and they said they had both done it when young. I convinced my dad to roll me one with one of my grandpas rolling papers and let me try it. It was so nasty....lol...and definitely not mind altering.

I remember finding my old man's pipe (tobacco, unlit) and trying to inhale and getting nothing. So I stupidly tasted the tobacco at the end. Talk about nasty

 

[margecat]

I'm my much-much-older brother was in Vietnam, solid-state TVs, typewriters, Watergate, Iran Hostage incident, "If this van's a-rockin", don't come a-knockin' (one of my brothers, older than I, had one with a bed in the back), Saturday Night Fever, "Lucky Charms are magically delicious", Jimmy Hoffa went missing, big hair, natural fibers, shoulder pads, the discovery of HIV/AIDS, leisure suits (yuck!), Radio Shack computers, punk rock, I could go to an adult Halloween party dressed as a Japanese geisha (I did my best to be authentic and respectful), and nobody complained about it old (little did I know, I actually have some Japanese DNA!).

 

[Caspers Human]

Anyone else remember Captain Kangaroo and the Electric Company (Hey, you guyyyyyyys!)?

Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Pinky Lee, and Howdy Doody, yes. The Electric Company came after I was already out on my own.

I'll see your "Captain Kangaroo" and raise you an "H.R. Puffinstuff."

 

[1 bruce 1]

Silly Symphonies

 

[muffy]

Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Pinky Lee, and Howdy Doody, yes. The Electric Company came after I was already out on my own.

I don't remember the Electric Company. I think they came out way later than the others.

 

[DreamerRose]

I have to say I just found a picture of me on a Shetland pony in cowboy gear, which wasn't mine. I guess I'm older than dirt and saw the last of the dinosaurs die.

 

[Caspers Human]

I don't remember the Electric Company. I think they came out way later than the others.

The Electric Company...


With Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno!

 

[1 bruce 1]

The very first episode of SNL.

 

[DreamerRose]

Guess I can go you one better than that, 1 bruce 1 . I saw the very first episode of Sesame Street, when I was an adult at the time.

 

[Caspers Human]

I was about four years old when Sesame Street first aired.

 

[Willowy]

I remember The Electric Company but it must have been reruns because I wasn't alive when it first ran. I also remember Pinwheel. But that ran until 1990 so I guess that's not too special, lol.

 

[Caspers Human]

How about "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo?"

 

[Mamanyt1953]

I'm Queen Elizabeth old. Her coronation, NOT her birth!

 

[muffy]

I'm kind of curious about how many country kids remember smoking cigarettes made out of corn silk wrapped in newspaper. To put it kindly, they would gag a maggot.

We never smoked corn silk but I used to sneak my fathers Kent's to smoke when I was in my teens.

 

[Rob81]

37.

 

[NY cat man]

My sister-in-law (she's 6 years younger than me) says that I'm so old that when I break wind, nothing but dust comes out.

 

[Mother Dragon]

I was about four years old when Sesame Street first aired.

My daughter was about three when Sesame Street began.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

Remember when Moses delivered the Ten Commandments to the Israelites?
I do

Heck, I remember when Moses almost sank the reed basket because his nappy was full!

 

[1 bruce 1]

Heck, I remember when Moses almost sank the reed basket because his nappy was full!

I barely remember that. I was becoming hard of hearing by then and didn't hear the whimpers