Dang, Charlie........Sounds like you got your hands full. Hopefully that'll take the starch out of them for a little while. My 2 boys were the same way.......They grow out of it. Trust me.
OT - NO POLITICS Memorial Day & Here Comes Summah edition
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When my twin sister & I were kids we spent a lot of time in the doctor's office being stitched up for one thing or another. We were tomboys to the despair of our mother and for awhile we were constantly injuring ourselves and/or each other. Must be a twin thing
That was my brother and I. I had gotten 40 stiches by the time I hit my teens, and my little brother had broken every major limb (two arms, a leg and a foot) by the time he was 10.
The worst was the time my parents were at a teacher conference (they rarely left us alone, you will see why). He desperately wanted to try the rope swing we had, but my parents wouldn't let him because he was only 8 and undersized. We didn't care about that, so we decided to push him hard to scare him. Little did we know, he was psychotically fearless, and kept screaming "Higher, higher!!" He finally had enough, let go at the apex of the swing, and crashed 20+ feet to the driveway below.
Two trips to the hospital later (after they fixed his leg and we got him home, he started complaining about his arm) and my mother telling DCS "Oh no, if I was beating him, he'd look much worse. This was the work of his idiot brothers!" we got the family story known to this day as "The time we broke Justin".
When we were adults we'd tease Mom saying "Good thing all this happened years ago or DCS would be all over you & Dad like a bad rash"
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The funny thing is, the Doctor who called DCS knew my mother very well, and this was before mandatory reporting. My brother was just that messed up, lol.
One of my favorite commercials on TV right now is the Allstate Mayhem commercial where the 2 adult brothers are playing nerf basketball in the basement. They get in the inevitable wrestling match and one brother puts the other brother through the wall.
That EXACT THING happened when me and my brother were younger. Then when the mom comes down and says "Just wait til your father gets home...." was the icing on the cake. We even had that same shitty wood paneling in our basement as well....
Was having a laugh with my brother about that just last night. Its literally an exact copy of him and I when we were 10 & 12......
That EXACT THING happened when me and my brother were younger. Then when the mom comes down and says "Just wait til your father gets home...." was the icing on the cake. We even had that same shitty wood paneling in our basement as well....
Was having a laugh with my brother about that just last night. Its literally an exact copy of him and I when we were 10 & 12......
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AOL was ridiculously fun back in the 90s. I miss chatrooms and the wild west days when everything wasn't modded to hell (no offense, mods). The original Bruins boards were hilarious in the early 2000s too
McGarnagle
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The internet was awesome back in the wild West days.
Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
Everything will be fine
bruinsfan1968
I'm rich I can do whatever I want! Lol MARW
Wishing you the very best, Fenway!Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
Healthy Blessings and Oceans of Love....Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
I was on AOL when it was known as PC Link, Delphi, GEine, and the infamous Boston BBS Argus. The Bruins chatroom on Delphi was spectacular in the late 80s along with Argus BBS.
Everything changed when Netscape came along and websites became a thing.
You got this! Everything WILL be fine.Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
I remember being somewhat young when Netscape came along and it being talked about. (Barely)
Being part of the 1990 crew I feel like we were some of the last that can remember the times before internet and before cell phones growing up.
I grew up with some close twin friends in high school. And man they beat the crap out of eachother like it was nothing.
McGarnagle
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Every so often I like to read the old Usenet archives of hockey talk from the early 1980s where people have hot takes about how Gretzky will never win a cup because he's a showboat and stat compiler. They're still saved in a google group somewhere IIRC.
SOMEHOW those of us who were of age in the 70s figured out how to communicate with others with no answering machines just as our parents and grandparents had before us......
Pagers popped up around 1980 but evolved quickly - cellphones came along in the late 80s but it took 10 years for them to become affordable.
All we had was the landlines and remember Caller ID didn't show up until 1990. The phone rang and you answered it.
In 1988 New England Telephone ran a six-month ad campaign over a father and daughter refusing to talk to each other.....
BOSTON -- A six-month-long series of New England Telephone Co. commercials
that touched viewers' hearts with a story about a father and daughter's attempts to reconcile reached a happy ending on Christmas Day.
Not that the outcome was really in doubt.
"We're the telephone company," said Advertising Director Geraldine
O'Brien. "We don't do unhappy endings."
I was in Tampa that Christmas morning and the final commercial was on the local news.
Greatest ad campaign in New England history. What had Jill done to enrage her father? @Gee Wally and @Ladyfan have to remember this. It was nonstop for 6 months on radio and TV. On WBCN the debate was what did the father do to enrage Jill. I vividly remember heated arguments at the Plough and Stars in Cambridge.
Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
All the best Kevin. Hoping for positive results.
Johnny Upton
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My friend across the street from me growing up was a big time Argus user. I remember how happy he was when they upgraded from a 1200 baud to a 2400 baud modem because it was so much faster.
Best of luck and positive vibes! Keep us posted!Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
Thinking of you and sending positive thoughts.Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
Wishing you the best possible results!Wednesday morning at 10 AM I report to MGH for an 'extensive' biopsy which will require me to spend the night at Hotel MGH.
Everything will be fine
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