You know you're a child of the 60's when ...

[Blarg]

Some good ones there.

I've got some:

You remember seeing Bugs Bunny cartoons on t.v. every week, and that nobody thought they were too violent for kids.

You remember when kids used to walk to school. Maybe long distances, and nothing at all was thought of it.

You remember when the Beatles were thought of as threatening.

You remember when people thought hippies were being guided by their Soviet masters.

You remember when adults drank a lot at lunchtime.

You remember when people didn't think eating fastfood was a very good idea, and that decent people wouldn't let their kids near it except on rare occasions.

You remember when t.v. was for the living room, not the bedroom, and kids were encouraged to get the hell out of the house.

You remember when the idea of a melting pot wasn't ridiculed and people actually had hope that things were getting better.

You remember when it was taken for granted that church and state should be separate.

You remember when people thought Sidney Poitier was pretty cool.

You remember reading The Cross and the Switchblade, and everyone talking about the Mau Mau's.

You remember seeing the Banana Splits on t.v.

You remember Lancelot, Secret Chimp.

You remember seeing Boris and Natash and Rocky and Bullwinkle on t.v.

You remember Westerns being all over the t.v., and in the movies too.

You remember everybody thinking women's lib was new and exciting, even if they didn't like it.

You remember men who didn't allow their wives to drive.

You remember cars that could go in the water.

You remember that you couldn't get a lot of things if they didn't come over a telephone poll.

You remember knowing people who had reel to reel tape recorders.

You remember that all cars had special little triangular windows up front for letting the breeze in when you were really hot, that you could move around. And that some cars had those in the back, too.

You remember bench seats in cars, and that nothing has been as comfortable since.

You remember that even most really big cars had very little leg room.

You remember there were Honda cars so small that a 12-year-old could squat down, pick up the back end, and pivot them around.

You remember that spending money on your kids wasn't thought of as love.

You remember that spanking kids wasn't thought of as violence.

You remember that no matter how many members of the family worked, sit-down dinners with all the family were the norm.

You remember that people didn't go to the doctor very often.

You remember that kids were taught to be respectful around adults, and that if they weren't, nobody thought a slap was out of line.

You remember an awful lot of talk about Russia.

You remember when the homeless were just bums, and you remember when they knew it, too. You also knew that very few people aspired to stay homeless for long. You remember that begging was rare even among the truly destitute.

You remember when music had melody and harmony.

You remember when marijuana use was thought of as fairly close to shooting yourself in the head with a pistol, except that the morality issues involved leaned more toward the depraved.

You remember transistor radios being a big deal, from Japan, usually Sanyo, and incredibly poorly made.

You remember "made in Japan" on a label meaning you were holding a piece of absolute crap.

You remember when "made in America" meant you were getting top quality.

You remember when comic books were thought of as somewhat unhealthy for children.

You remember when it was thought unsophisticated or immature for an adult to laugh at cartoons.

You remember when Waterpics were common.

You remember when someone getting a color t.v. to replace their black and white was a pretty big deal.

You remember when people in their back yards did weight lifting exercises all the time that are almost never done or seen now, like the clean and jerk.

You remember that everything about Vietnam was making everybody angry, all the time.

You remember when boxing was on t.v.

You remember constantly fiddling with t.v. antennas.

You remember people saying that eating the fat on beef and pork was healthy.

You remember people wearing bathing caps when they went swimming.

You remember many pools let you swim even if there was no lifeguard.

You remember kids on Halloween walked all over the place after dark without adults.

You remember adults went to a lot of cocktail parties.

You remember people commonly admiring and actually liking poetry. And it usually rhymed and looked like it took an incredible amount of work and a great imagination to write.

You remember that people read a lot of books. Most houses had plenty of them.

You remember that almost every adult and child had a public library card.

[hhughes]

You thought Kukla, Fran and Ollie were the Shiite!!!!

and smoking was not only tolerated, but glamorized(sp?)and a pack costs 35 cents...

I HATE HIPPIES

GODDAMN HIPPIES