Things that turn you back into a 13-year-old...

[beckstra]

Not necessicarily nostalgic stuff, but stuff that gets you as schmoopy as a 13 year old again...

~John Mayer - I have no shame in this.
~Sword In The Stone, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood
~going back and looking at my art after a long period of time
~The Family Guy and Futurama on Adult Swim
~cherry vanilla granola from Wild Oats
~postcards

[masterofNone]

- soft serve ice cream
- root beer
- the smell of anupstairs room in the summer
- sucking the honey out of a honeysuckle
- any woman's attention

[nycwriters]

- the rattlesnake hiss of lawn sprinklers, and running through them fully clothed
- the random invisible hum-whine of insects
- ice cream
- rented cottages on some obscure lake
- horseback riding
- camping out in the backyard
- neighborhood yard sales
- peformances put on by friends and attended only by parents in the backyard
- feeling like your neighborhood was the center of the universe and nothing there could ever hurt you.

[melissa]

visiting my aunt's ranch and doing chores.

[Avalon]

..music of the Ice Cream man's truck
..street lights; I had to be home when the street lights came on
..Webber grills, the smell of BBQ's
..the smell of certain baby dolls sends me to Memory Heaven..brings back every Christmas I had as a kid

[imdrsmooth]

presents. send them!

[zenbabe]

I still can't seem to resist jumping up and down on the beds when I check into a hotel room....

[sparticle]

baseball on the radio

a mash note from my crush

sparkly eye shadow

james taylor

pizza

[zenbabe]

blowing the straw wrapper at whoever I am dining with.

[melissa]

Originally posted by zenbabe
I still can't seem to resist jumping up and down on the beds when I check into a hotel room....

I love doing this too.

[Aphrodite]

secret codes
my sister making me angry
the smell of wintergreen
homemade donuts
swamp water (a mix of every pop in the machine)
rhythm skating at the roller rink
amusement parks

[melissa]

What's rhythm skating?

[Aphrodite]

Dancing on roller skates as you went around and around on the oval rink. Loud music, funky lights, disco ball, and a snack bar. It was great.

Every Monday night I went to the rink with my friend and her church group. They had the wildest parties.

[lapietra]

Looking at high school yearbooks - and not in a good way...
Brings up all the insecurities. bleh. :(

[melissa]

oh, thanks. I've never learned how to roller skate.

[Aphrodite]

Roller skating was a riot. I bought roller blades a few years ago but find it wierd stopping with my heel instead of my toe.

[melissa]

I think I'd pick it up better as an adult. As a kid, I wasn't too big on taking risks.

[trisherina]

cigarette leg jeans over Candie's high heeled clogs
going around with someone
thin braided headbands
culottes
Steve Martin

[amanda]

Originally posted by melissa
oh, thanks. I've never learned how to roller skate.

melissa, you never went to skate world?

try it... there's one out in hillsboro. easily accessable by the max, I think...

in keeping with the thread..

riddles from popsicle sticks.
pink lemonade
scratch and sniff stickers
riding my bicycle
swinging
sucking honeysuckle stems
fireflies
spitting watermelon seeds
thunderstorms
MS-DOS
paper airplanes

[melissa]

The lack of roller skating in my childhood is due to the fact I was home schooled for most of it. There were a few times when I went to Skate Fun in Grants Pass, but I didn't go enough to get good enough to let go of the rail.

[JesusTitties]

farting.

whether im 13 or 73 i am always going to laugh at farting.
particularly in public places.

[Zaftig]

~Wayne's World
~Photo Booths
~when I hear someone stomping down a wood floor hallway
~Carnivals & Cotton Candy

[beckstra]

boys.

[fodder]

the beach
the breeders
smashing pumpkins
going for walks
croquet
frog farms
solitude
rollerblades
swimming goggles
the dark crystal
rosemary's baby
delia's
my glasses
microwave popcorn

[amanda]

mad magazine.

[zenbabe]

giving my brothers wet willies

[trisherina]

City Boy by Herman Wouk.

[JesusTitties]

farting

[priceyfatprude]

13? A little bit of Ohiio & a whole lotta Jersey.

[daverbee]

Going to the beach.
Summer school band practice.
Going to the mountains.
Sitting outside and reading while my dog Herman slept beside my chair.
Annoying my sister.
Setting our tent up in the backyard and "camping".
Going to the lake for a long weekend with my father.
Going barefoot all day and getting my feet so dirty my mother would make me wash them outside before I could come in.
The ice cream truck driving through every afternoon.
The Beatles!

[dinzdale]

Wondering what Rhoda looked like naked

[daverbee]

At your age wouldn't you have been wondering what Carol Cleveland looked like naked? Or did you know already?

[Aphrodite]

-Juicy fruit gum and hot chocolate at the ice rink
-going for walks in my pjs through the woods behind the house
-playing tag on horseback in the woods at dusk
-toast and tea with Grama after bingo
-calling in to the local am radio station contests
-listening for school cancellations

[dinzdale]

Originally posted by daverbee
At your age wouldn't you have been wondering what Carol Cleveland looked like naked?

...and your dream girl would have been....Joan of Arc ???

[daverbee]

My dream girl went by the name Eve. Louis Leakey named her that, I think...

[Coffee]

Driving by grass fires or places where one has been recently.
The smell totally brings me back to when there was a 10 acre fire behind our house when I was...(ok...probably more like 10 or 11...but what are the chances that anyone would start a similar 10 or 11 yo thread??? huh??? and this don't rate its own thread...so :p) , it was especially memorable ;) because I set it...while playing with matches, it was an accident but a very very stupid one. I thought I could rip out grass and scuff it all away and make dirt "fire roads" circles around very small tufts of grass and light them...well...a gust of wind jumped a spark right over my brilliantly engineered fire road and *whoosh*. Our house backed up against public land, dry grass, oak trees, eukaliptis (sp?) and manzanita, and it was a frigging miracle it didn't take out far far more. It prolly would have been worse except I ran right back after 5 seconds of futile attempted stomping and reported it. The fire department was on it in minutes...ugghh...but since I didn't say I set it, although totaly ready to cop to it if anyone asked, but no one thought to think that I did it...so I kind a got credit for "quick thinking" and "being responsible".uggghhh. :( I spent the fire on top of our roof spraying down our notoriously flamable wood shake roofs (which all the houses in the area had). I told my folks what actually happened 5 years later when I was fairly sure I was safe from being killed. And I always remember my little brother fondly for that time because "he knew", and never ratted me out. (cuz he knew I would have been killed, stuffed in a bag and buried out back).

oh, also honeysuckle, the smell of honysuckle.
And fried bologna.

[masterofNone]

watchin' TV on the floor.

[Aphrodite]

Carnation evaporated milk
melamine dishes
the smell of paper freshly run off on the ditto machines
mr. bubble in the pool
lapsang-souchong tea
smock tops, crop tops, and tube tops

[priceyfatprude]

"Only In My Dreams" on the radio, along w/a bunch of other great songs. 1987 was a good year for radio.

having blond hair again for the first time since childhood

being a B-cup & getting asked out by 17 year old guys

acid washed jeans that were then dyed red

having to use a composition book for every class, and coloring the white in w/different colored highlighter to differentiate

Fralingers saltwater taffy

discovering I give great phone ;)

going to King's Island on my birthday

being madly in love with Kirk Cameron

writing for me, not for a grade

moving cross country

[Clytie]

honeysuckle (is this on everyones list!?!?)

the smell of the outdoors

seeing someone with really high early 90s bangs

euchre

choir practice

leg warmers

perms

braces

[dinzdale]

13 - when I wasnt wondering about Rhoda, I was playing sport all the time. I was picked for the county under 16's at cricket and began to think I was perhaps half good. Scored my first 50 for the school XI and took 7 for 22 in 12 overs against CNS. Payed my first under 19's games too.
I was sent home from school by Harry Seadon (French teacher) with the quote "We dont grow beards in this school, boy".

So yeah, listening to Sweet, Staus Quo, Slade or Gary Glitter (yeah I know) will usually do it.

Where the fvck did it all go?

[Aphrodite]

Status Quo! Oh Wow! I haven't heard about them in a long time.

I was introduced to Status Quo and Aerosmith at the same time on a trip to Aberdeen. I loved them. I can still se the album cover. It was black. Thanks Dinz for reminding me.

[dinzdale]

Originally posted by Aphrodite
I can still se the album cover. It was black.

The Hello Album 1971-2...

[Aphrodite]

Oh they were great.

I think I have pictures of Karen and her albums somewhere.
That was a great trip. Shandy's to drink and thatched roofed pubs. Britain has wonderful memories. We were there for the silver jubilee.

[Coffee]

Originally posted by dinzdale
I was picked for the county under 16's at cricket and began to think I was perhaps half good. Scored my first 50 for the school XI and took 7 for 22 in 12 overs against CNS. Payed my first under 19's games too.


Geek speak? What does that all mean?:confused: :confused:

[dinzdale]

It's a British thing.....you wouldnt understand.

[lapietra]

Andy Gibb and the Bee Gees and Herp Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Helen Reddy and Olivia Newton-John...

You know what? I can remember better what reminds me of when I was 19 - the smell of orange-scented conditioner. Weird.

[Coffee]

I had a british co-worker a few years back. I was amazed sometimes that we supposedly shared the same language!
:D

[dinzdale]

...only he spoke English.

[lapietra]

ba-dum-bum. ;)

[dinzdale]

Originally posted by lapietra
I can remember better what reminds me of when I was 19 -

So start a 19 yr old thread :rolleyes:

[Coffee]

Originally posted by dinzdale
...only he spoke English.

Did she really? I tried to look up "wanker" and "buggerall" in the dictionary...they are not there. :confused:

"Bugger" I found :eek:

[lapietra]

Originally posted by dinzdale
So start a 19 yr old thread :rolleyes:

brat. :p

[dinzdale]

Originally posted by Coffee
"Bugger" I found

And if you hadnt you would have found "Bugger all = Nothing"


And in English, bugger is what your mother calls you when you're a child being naughty. As in "You cheeky little bugger!"
also "Come back here you little sod (q.v)!"
Also see "Sod all" = "Bugger all" = Nothing etc...etc...

[Coffee]

Originally posted by dinzdale
And if you hadnt you would have found "Bugger all = Nothing"


And in English, bugger is what your mother calls you when you're a child being naughty. As in "You cheeky little bugger!"
also "Come back here you little sod (q.v)!"
Also see "Sod all" = "Bugger all" = Nothing etc...etc...


OK...seee....seee...this is why I can't believe it is the same language.

In Amercican english if you attach "all" to "Sodomite/Bugger" you get "fvck everyone in the butt", not "nothing".

And if you attach "all" to "dirt/sod" in Amerenglish you get "make everything dirty"

How does one seriously add the word "all" to anything and come up with "nothing".

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
:D

[dinzdale]

It's easy, now please pay attention....

Any reference to anal sex becomes "nothing" when adding the word "all"
It's for emphasis that there is "absolutely nothing" as opposed to merely "nothing at all"

This is for use in front of the children mainly.

As you get into adulthoood this becomes "Fvck all" or when in front of the vicar "sweet Fanny Adams" (i.e sweet F.A)

Now, if Americans want to tell their kids anything stronger than "Now look here young man..." where do you go?
An anal sex act emphasises that you are pissed off......as opposed to pissed (= drunk), because then the parental control would be somewhat looser.


Tomorrow's lesson will include the words "twat" (rhymes with cat) to indicate a firm strike to the head,
and the low value of something "not worth a wank"

[lapietra]

All of a sudden... I feel the need to drink warm beer and eat meat pie...

[dinzdale]

...well try not to get pissed up....:)

[Coffee]

*takes notes*
*anxiously awaits tomorrows lesson*

I can think of fisting all better than another Britenglish lesson.

[priceyfatprude]

Originally posted by lapietra
Andy GibbOk, now this is 4 year old memories. Me in my pj's, rockin' out to Andy Gibb *ALBUMS* with my aunts who babysat me, while my mom was out boogeying at the clubs.smell of orange-scented conditionerJhirmack! It came in a cardboard box. Same aunt.

Jesus. Lala, are you really my Auntie Sue?

[RuneT]

ehh, a few beers?

[melissa]

:D

[agentsmith]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/superjelloman/ga_baby.gif

[zenbabe]

saying "duh mom, chill out" to my mom when talking to her on the instant messenger....:p

[fodder]

jean claude van damme

hum

jim carrey

dim lights on small lamps

big backyards that go down hill

[Magpie]

Foghat

Toe socks

Honeysuckle...sucking

Park Ranger slide shows at a campground

Big chubby-ass headphones (yes I have some now too)

Discovering "back n' forth notes" written in the smallest type humanly possible in my daughters pockets.

Old school mates finding me now.

The scent of Aqua Velva.

[Audreyvgs]

NOXXXXXXX

[Vermouth]

Time reversal usually turns me back into a thirteen year-old. But you know me (no you don't) I'm a sucker for the perceived linear progression of time...