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**Rain Man** · 09:28 PM

Prison Bitch's fishing thread got me wondering. How classic was your childhood? Take the enclosed poll to find out, and then let us know how many you checked off the list.

Rules: Count only things that you did BEFORE the age of 13.

Disclaimer: I'm a guy so I don't know what girls did before the age of 13. However, I suspect there's significant overlap so hopefully this list is reasonable for people of all chromosomes.

You can summarize your childhood score here:

45 or higher - Your childhood was so American that it was actually Australian.
40 to 44 - Your childhood was classic American and not a pansy soft American. You're an American who eats steak.
35 to 39 - Your childhood was classic American, but probably from one of the coastal states
30 to 34 - Your childhood might be classic American, but more likely it was Canadian.
25 to 29 - Your childhood was more European than American, but one of the tougher central Europe states like Germany or Slovakia. Or maybe Iceland.
20 to 24 - Your childhood was probably English.
15 to 19 - Your childhood was probably French.
10 to 14 - Your childhood was probably Japanese or some other place that's fundamentally different.
9 or lower - Your childhood was probably in one of those bubbles due to an immune system failure.

KCUnited · 02-15-2017, 09:29 AM

No ate pussy by 10 option?

**Dartgod** · 02-15-2017, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by tooge

BUilding go carts was always a blast.

I didn't build it, but I had a go-cart. I used to ride it on the playground of the school close by.

I was riding in it once and one of the neighbor kids was running behind me. I stopped real quick and he fell over the back of it with his crotch landing right where the spark plug was. Got the shit shocked out of his wiener.

**Bwana** · 02-15-2017, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Buehler445

I've busted my ass hard trying to jump into a back of a moving pickup, but I never hitched a ride on a bumper. Except of a tractor, and that is death on a stick. Combines are OK because the ladder is outside the tire, but I've cut out the tractor business.

One of my friends older brother had a delivery gig for Pizza Hut and Pizza Hut had a company delivery vehicle he was driving. This guy was as crazy as an outhouse rat so we really debated letting him take us for a ride.

We jumped on and he got us up to around 55-60 MPH and he decided to throw it in reverse. The tranny imploded into pieces and luckily neither my buddy or I got taken out by the tranny shrapnel.

He had some explaining to do to his employer.

Last I heard the guy was serving time in the joint for armed robbery, so karma finally caught up to the dickweed.

BucEyedPea · 02-15-2017, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Fishpicker

what I want to know is how many posters have ever found porn in the woods. if you grew up in the 80's and liked to hang out in the woods, you would occasionally stumble across a grocery bag filled with skin rags.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...m=woods%20porn

I never found porn in the woods, but my sister, a friend and I came across a flasher in the woods. We were up in a tree picking mini-pine cones, while he stood at the bottom exposing himself and doing his thing in front of us. We were too afraid to climb down to escape so had to wait and watch. It was frightening. But it was live instead of just pics.

**ChiTown** · 02-15-2017, 09:33 AM

tooge mentioned building a go-cart. That event might have been one of the most memorable things I did in my childhood. Four 11-yr old boys buying parts and starting from scratch, primarily from the local junk yard. Figuring out how and what to do by trial and (lots of) error. Fighting and bickering over the design and what to do next. But ultimately, pulling the cord and watching that jalopy take off.....man, what a feeling of accomplishment that was.

Rasputin · 02-15-2017, 09:33 AM

I am G.I. Joe American

BucEyedPea · 02-15-2017, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Ring and run - Ring a doorbell and run and hide to watch the reaction.

Oh yeah, we did that too. Also, took empty tin cans and attached string to them. Then tied on backs of cars from underneath. Cars parked out front visiting some house. Then hid until they left. Watched then pull away, stop, then pull away again until they came out to check. Laughed our arses off.

Frazod · 02-15-2017, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Dartgod

A few more that I may have done...

Play baseball (with ghost runners) or 500 in the vacant lot
Build a dam on the local creek
Climb a tree (bonus points for falling out of said tree)
Throw snowballs at passing cars (and then hide from the ones that stopped)
Go frog gigging
Confiscate your sister's Barbies and hang them from the deck until dead
Ride a unicycle

Dammed the local creek, gigged frogs, and definitely fell out of trees. Fell about '40 feet out of one once - luckily I hit a lot of branches on the way down, so it only knocked the wind out of me. Amazing how resilient kids are. If that happened now, I'd just explode.

B_Ambuehl · 02-15-2017, 09:36 AM

Quote:

what I want to know is how many posters have ever found porn in the woods. if you grew up in the 80's and liked to hang out in the woods, you would occasionally stumble across a grocery bag filled with skin rags.

We definitely found some. We would also take our playboys and hide them in the woods in an an area we called "Playboy valley."

**hometeam** · 02-15-2017, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by tooge

That WAS my childhood. LOL. I did all of those things except maybe three or four. I wasn't an alterboy, I didn't take dance lessons, and I didn't go to disneyland until I was 15 and that was just because we went to Cal as a family. I think I did everything else on the list.
should have added:
Killed a tweety bird with a bb gun
worked on/painted a bike
jumped bikes off a ramp
rode high speed in the back of a pickup truck
swung from a rope swing into water
caught a bullfrog
flew a kite
jumped off a roof
stole building materials from a building site to build a fort
caught a snake and asked parents if you could keep it as a pet
melted a plastic army man
strapped bottle rockets onto hotwheels

I got in trouble when I was about 8 for building fortresses up in my sandbox in the back yard, and putting my cowboy guys on them and playing alamo by lighting off m60s for the cannon explosions

Around the same time i would crash my hot wheels together and then smash them with a hammer to show the damage.

seemed perfectly reasonable to me.

BucEyedPea · 02-15-2017, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tooge

BUilding go carts was always a blast.

Boys in my neighborhood made those. I thought they were so cool and wished I had one. Got to ride in one—once.

**hometeam** · 02-15-2017, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dartgod

A few more that I may have done...

Play baseball (with ghost runners) or 500 in the vacant lot
Build a dam on the local creek
Climb a tree (bonus points for falling out of said tree)
Throw snowballs at passing cars (and then hide from the ones that stopped)
Go frog gigging
Confiscate your sister's Barbies and hang them from the deck until dead
Ride a unicycle

Got to have ghost men. Everybody knows this.

**ChiTown** · 02-15-2017, 09:38 AM

**Dartgod** · 02-15-2017, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frazod

Dammed the local creek, gigged frogs, and definitely fell out of trees. Fell about '40 feet out of one once - luckily I hit a lot of branches on the way down, so it only knocked the wind out of me. Amazing how resilient kids are. If that happened now, I'd just explode.

I never fell out of a tree that I can remember. If I did, it wasn't very far. My brother fell out of our willow tree once. It was a big sonofabitch. Probably around the same height you mentioned. Like you, he hit a lot of branches on the way down so wasn't hurt too bad. Knocked the wind out of him too.

I forgot to list "catch crawdads at the local creek". What kid has never done that?

**Baby Lee** · 02-15-2017, 09:42 AM

Think I counted 38, but some of the things I 'did' I barely did.

Like my sports card collection was pretty much limited to what we garnered from pestering policemen for Chiefs and Royals playing cards.

And some of the things I didn't do, I nearly did.

Like we didn't have alter boys or anything like it at our church, but my sis and I were as active in out church as kids could be growing up [assisting in collecting the offering, music/choir, etc].

View Poll Results: Which of the following classic childhood things did you do before the age of 13?
Bought an item from a comic book ad	76	45.51%
Built a sand castle or other sand structure on a beach	128	76.65%
Built a snowman	162	97.01%
Camped in your backyard	133	79.64%
Carried a lunch box to school	148	88.62%
Eaten food cooked over a campfire	156	93.41%
Explored an abandoned house or hobo camp with your friends	113	67.66%
Fired a bb gun	150	89.82%
Got into a bottle rocket fight	108	64.67%
Got into a physical fight on a school playground	128	76.65%
Had a bike wreck	153	91.62%
Had a crush on a babysitter	70	41.92%
Had a line in a school play	106	63.47%
Had an entry in a Science Fair	77	46.11%
Had sex with a hot teacher	3	1.80%
Had your own treehouse	68	40.72%
Joined the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts or equivalent	114	68.26%
Jumped off a diving board, high dive, cliff or rope swing into water	146	87.43%
Went to Disneyland/Disneyworld/Epcot	75	44.91%
Collected some type of sports cards or collector cards	129	77.25%
Kissed a person (on the lips) of whatever sex you now like	117	70.06%
Lit sparklers and carried them around	153	91.62%
Looked at pornography	133	79.64%
Mowed a non-relative’s lawn for money (or shoveled a non-relative’s walk for money)	107	64.07%
Operated a lemonade stand	64	38.32%
Owned a science kit of some sort (chemistry, electricity, etc.)	99	59.28%
Owned an optical science tool - telescope or microscope	95	56.89%
Owned Legos, Lincoln Logs, or an erector set	155	92.81%
Participated in a spelling bee	103	61.68%
Played doctor with a person of whatever sex you now like	83	49.70%
Played in a youth sports league	153	91.62%
Ran away from home and stayed away at least four hours	52	31.14%
Rode a dirt bike (as the driver, not passenger)	78	46.71%
Rode a school bus	136	81.44%
Rode your bike to a store to buy stuff	138	82.63%
Served as an altar boy/girl or equivalent in a religious group	50	29.94%
Sold something (candy, cookies, light bulbs, etc.) as a youth fundraiser	138	82.63%
Spent 1+ weeks at a relative’s house without your parents for no particular reason	92	55.09%
Swam in a river or creek	141	84.43%
Took dance lessons	20	11.98%
Took piano lessons	33	19.76%
Took swimming lessons	120	71.86%
Visited a water park	103	61.68%
Walked to/from school on your own	121	72.46%
Went fishing with a grandparent	102	61.08%
Went on a road trip in a station wagon or minivan	113	67.66%
Went to a sleepover (or hosted one)	158	94.61%
Went to an overnight summer camp	107	64.07%
Went to boarding school	5	2.99%
I did none of these things	2	1.20%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 167. You may not vote on this poll

02-14-2017, 09:02 PM
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $2828491 VARSITY	How classic was your childhood? Prison Bitch's fishing thread got me wondering. How classic was your childhood? Take the enclosed poll to find out, and then let us know how many you checked off the list. Rules: Count only things that you did BEFORE the age of 13. Disclaimer: I'm a guy so I don't know what girls did before the age of 13. However, I suspect there's significant overlap so hopefully this list is reasonable for people of all chromosomes. You can summarize your childhood score here: 45 or higher - Your childhood was so American that it was actually Australian. 40 to 44 - Your childhood was classic American and not a pansy soft American. You're an American who eats steak. 35 to 39 - Your childhood was classic American, but probably from one of the coastal states 30 to 34 - Your childhood might be classic American, but more likely it was Canadian. 25 to 29 - Your childhood was more European than American, but one of the tougher central Europe states like Germany or Slovakia. Or maybe Iceland. 20 to 24 - Your childhood was probably English. 15 to 19 - Your childhood was probably French. 10 to 14 - Your childhood was probably Japanese or some other place that's fundamentally different. 9 or lower - Your childhood was probably in one of those bubbles due to an immune system failure. Last edited by Rain Man; 02-14-2017 at 09:28 PM..
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ChiTown Stroking to the SB Champs! Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Flatlands of Kansas Casino cash: $2823962	tooge mentioned building a go-cart. That event might have been one of the most memorable things I did in my childhood. Four 11-yr old boys buying parts and starting from scratch, primarily from the local junk yard. Figuring out how and what to do by trial and (lots of) error. Fighting and bickering over the design and what to do next. But ultimately, pulling the cord and watching that jalopy take off.....man, what a feeling of accomplishment that was. __________________
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02-15-2017, 09:42 AM	#120
Baby Lee Supporter Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $6838598	Think I counted 38, but some of the things I 'did' I barely did. Like my sports card collection was pretty much limited to what we garnered from pestering policemen for Chiefs and Royals playing cards. And some of the things I didn't do, I nearly did. Like we didn't have alter boys or anything like it at our church, but my sis and I were as active in out church as kids could be growing up [assisting in collecting the offering, music/choir, etc].
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