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Old 03-24-2003, 10:49 AM
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Smile On The Lighter Side-Do You Remember

Do you remember? (Under age 40? You won't understand.)
> You could hardly see for all the snow,
> Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
> Pull a chair up to the TV set,
> "Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet."
> Dependin'g on the channel you tuned,
> You got Rob and Laura or Ward and June.
> It felt so good. It felt so right.
> Life looked better in black and white.
> I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys,
> Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys,
> Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train,
> Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane.
> Father Knows Best, Patty Duke,
> Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too.
> Donna Reed on Thursday night!
> Life looked better in black and white.
> I wanna go back to black and white.
> Everything always turned out right.
> Simple people, simple lives.
> Good guys always won the fights.
> Now nothing is the way it seems, In living color on the TV
>screen. Too many murders, too many fights, I wanna go back to
>black and white.
> In God they trusted. Alone in bed, they slept,
> A promise made, was a promise kept.
> They never cussed or broke their vows.
> They'd never make the network now.
> But if I could, I'd rather be
> In a TV town in '53.
> It felt so good. It felt so right.
> Life looked better in black and white.
> I'd trade all the channels on the satellite,
> If I could just turn back the clock tonight
> To when everybody knew wrong from right.
> Life was better in black and white!
> Pass this on to someone (over age 40, of course) and
> brighten their day by helping them to remember life's most
> simple pleasures are very often the best!
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Old 03-24-2003, 01:49 PM
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Who hands them out here? You deserve it!
PLUS
-imagination generated by radio
-Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and his dog King
-crooners
-uncle Milty. Buffalo Bob
-where are you going? Out.
-What are you going to do? Nothing.
-620 people at a Cub-Pirate game.
-only grass playing fields
-Indians, not Harley's
-quiet Sundays. Nobody was open. No Mall stress
-cruisin' the avenue
-sandlot pick-up games
-I see by the old clock on he wall
-------and so much more-----------
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Old 03-24-2003, 07:28 PM
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Yes for sure put me on the train destanation 1953 man would i like to do it over with a few changes. mainly money i would buy IBM and Microsoft when the IPOed whew just think. all the very best tv shows and money too. also NO CELL PHONES
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