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                <title>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:00:59 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Just found out too last week that in about a month from now I'm going to be a(DARE I SAY IT)grandfather...ugh...NOW I'M REALLY STARTING TO FEEL OLD ]]></description>
                <author>~everwonderful</author>
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                <title>You're an eighties child if ...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:55:57 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members. <br />
You wanted to be on StarSearch. <br />
You ever uttered the word "Radical!" <br />
You wore jelly shoes and jelly bracelets <br />
You thought "Ghostbusters" was by far the coolest movie <br />
You remember watching shows like "Punky Brewster" , "Webster", "You <br />
Can't Do That On Television" , "Wild&Crazy Kids" and "Double Dare" <br />
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose <br />
fell off. Or even when he had those freaky eyes in "Thriller" at the <br />
end of the video. <br />
You wore a banana clip in your hair or one of those slap on wrist <br />
bands at some point during your youth. <br />
You rolled up the bottoms of your splatter painted jeans. <br />
You wore loafers with everything, and you put the laces in those <br />
little rolls. <br />
You had slouch socks, and puff painted your own shirt at least once. <br />
You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on it's butt. <br />
You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout." <br />
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off." <br />
You can name half of the members of the elite "Brat Pack." <br />
You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for <br />
endless hours! <br />
You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock. <br />
You yearned to be a member of The Babysitters Club, and tried to <br />
start a club of your own. <br />
You sat on your back porch, playing with your "My Little <br />
Pony" , "Rainbow Brite" , and "Strawberry Shortcake" dolls <br />
You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer." <br />
You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future." <br />
You know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your <br />
name." <br />
You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool. <br />
You know what "sike" and "not!" mean <br />
You fell victim to 80's fashion : big hair, crimped, combed over to <br />
the side, big hoop earrings, and possibly the worst:you wore spandex <br />
pants. <br />
You wanted to be a Goonie, or Elliot from E.T. <br />
You owned an extensive collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and trolls. <br />
You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince." <br />
You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played "Sam" to be. <br />
You ever wore flourescent -neon if you will clothing.... <br />
You could breakdance, or wished you could. <br />
You know who He-Man and She-Ra are. <br />
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system. <br />
You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby". <br />
You remember MC hammer well. <br />
You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Belair". <br />
You own any cassettes. <br />
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on <br />
the moon. <br />
You remember and/or own any of the CareBear Glass collection from <br />
PizzaHut. <br />
Pizza Hut was the coolest place to hang. <br />
Poltergeist freaked you out. <br />
You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an E.T. lunchbox. <br />
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf. <br />
You wanted to communicate with some being named Cinergy, or you <br />
wanted green hair like that lead singer of the Misfits. <br />
You totally LOVED Barbie's cooler, punkier counterpart, "Jem" and <br />
her "Rockers" <br />
You wanted to have an alien like Alf living in your house. <br />
You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish. <br />
You wore tights under shorts and felt stylish. <br />
You layered your multi-colored slouch socks, and added suspenders to <br />
make your outfit complete. <br />
You ever had a Swatch Watch. <br />
You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the care-bear <br />
stare. <br />
You had a crush on one of the Coreys <br />
You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny. <br />
You had WonderWoman or Superman underwear. <br />
You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween. <br />
You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power" <br />
You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye. <br />
Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br />
You ever owned or wanted any of the NKOTB action figures or dolls. <br />
You remember when Deborah Gibson was "Debbie" Gibson. <br />
If you can identify with at least half of his list then you, my <br />
friend, are a "Child of the 80's." <br />
<br />
Send this to anyone that would appreciate going back to this <br />
wonderful decade(including having REagan back)... Was that a great time or what????? ]]></description>
                <author>~everwonderful</author>
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                <title>We were tough</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 18:37:37 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE    1930's-70's<br />
<br />
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. <br />
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. <br />
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. <br />
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .<br />
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. <br />
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. <br />
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.<br />
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. <br />
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because...... <br />
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!<br />
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.<br />
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.<br />
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .<br />
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! <br />
We fell out of trees, got cut, broken bones and teeth and there were no <br />
lawsuits from these accidents. <br />
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. <br />
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,<br />
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. <br />
<br />
  <br />
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! <br />
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! <br />
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! <br />
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! <br />
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.<br />
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned <br />
HOW TO <br />
DEAL WITH IT ALL!<br />
And YOU are one of them! <br />
CONGRATULATIONS!<br />
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. <br />
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. <br />
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! ]]></description>
                <author>~everwonderful</author>
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                <title>Ahh..the good ol' days...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:23:49 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Let's take it back, way back......... <br />
This will put a smile on your face. <br />
  Close your eyes...And go back... <br />
  Before the Internet or the MAC <br />
  Before semi automatics and crack <br />
  Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... <br />
  Way back... <br />
<br />
  I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk. <br />
  Red light, Green light. <br />
  Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on. <br />
  Mother May I? <br />
  Red Rover <br />
  Hula Hoops <br />
  Running through the sprinkler <br />
  Happy Meals <br />
  Wait... <br />
  Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons <br />
  Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man <br />
  Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos <br />
  Playing Dukes of Hazard <br />
  Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar <br />
  Christmas morning... <br />
  Your first day of school <br />
  Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses <br />
  Climbing trees <br />
  Getting an Ice Cream off the Ice Cream Truck <br />
  A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers <br />
  Jumpin' down the steps <br />
  Jumpin' on the bed <br />
  Pillow fights <br />
  Runnin' till you were out of breath <br />
  Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt <br />
  Being tired from playin' <br />
  Your first crush... <br />
Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" in the classroom <br />
  Remember that? <br />
<br />
  I'm not finished yet... <br />
  Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer <br />
  Toting your friends on your handlebars <br />
  Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school <br />
  Class Field Trips <br />
  When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. <br />
  When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance, and another quarter a<br />
  Miracle. <br />
  When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. <br />
  When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were so cool. <br />
  When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to <br />
the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. <br />
<br />
  Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of <br />
drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. <br />
  Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us are still afraid of em! <br />
  Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember <br />
that!" <br />
  There's nothing like the good old days! They were good then, and  <br />
they're good now when we think about them. <br />
  Share some of these thoughts with a friend who can relate, then <br />
share it with someone that missed out on them. <br />
<br />
   I want to go back to the time when... <br />
<br />
  Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" <br />
  Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!" <br />
  "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. <br />
  Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly" <br />
  Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening <br />
  It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. <br />
  Being old, referred to anyone over 20. <br />
  The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. <br />
  Nobody was prettier than Mom <br />
  Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better <br />
  It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big <br />
people" rides at the amusement park. <br />
  Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. <br />
  Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare" <br />
  Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for <br />
giggles. <br />
  The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. <br />
  Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon. <br />
  Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest <br />
  protectors. <br />
<br />
  If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!! ]]></description>
                <author>~everwonderful</author>
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                <title>Don't be a sucker guys...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:01:08 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Why men should NOT be Nice/Good Guys. <br />
<br />
In the dating game WOMEN have the power to chose what mate they want. They knew what kind of man they are getting with but they chose him anyway because he was "cute, fun, exciting and/or dangerous". Men do not have that option.<br />
<br />
THEY CHOSE THE PLAYERS/JERKS/THUG MEN.<br />
<br />
You always hear females bitching about wanting a "real" man but they turn their backs on them. It's only after the females throw his "respect and caring" for them in his face that drives men to distraction, that men become uncaring, NOT because they are, but because after trying their best and failing to live up to the UNREALISTIC expectations of the woman they truly care about, men realize that their feelings never matter, only HER agenda. What SHE WANTS. It's only about HER. <br />
<br />
Now if the guy is overly good-looking with a bank account to match, has a 10' penis and can sex like a Greek God, has an IQ of 150 with a "bad boy" edge women will always treat them like kings. But for average "real" guys it's much different. <br />
<br />
A man who dares to complain about this system is written off as a bitter misogynist, having a bad attitude and is rejected. That's another repetition of the cycle because he opens up his true feelings, as he is SUPPOSED to do, and is punished for it if isn't the type of TRUTH women want to hear. <br />
<br />
Every time a Nice/good guy talks about why women don't want him AFTER HE DOES EVERYTHING THEY ASK AND CLAIM TO WANT. Females will ALWAYS blame the man and NOT themselves. Instead they will tell him he is rejected not because he's a Nice/good man but because of some trivial flaw. <br />
<br />
Every nice/good guy hears women talk about how wonderful they are, and how they would make some woman very happy, The nice/good guy is inclined to believe these words,yet those same females don't go out of their way to date them or even fix them up. Instead women are eager to fix a shallow jerk/player up with other women. Meanwhile, the man who is what women CLAIM to want is ignored. The conclusion that women are lying to him is almost impossible to refute. <br />
<br />
 On the other hand, if he stops caring, stops letting his desires control his emotions, stops going out of his way for women, and stops giving them the benefit of the doubt, they will forever try to change him back into the man they ignored in the first place. If females wanted nice/good men, they would select nice/good men in the first place. It is obvious that females are less interested in seeking out a nice/good guy to begin with, and are more interested in the DRAMA created by the challenge of turning a jerk/player back into the nice/good guy she NEVER wanted. Good/Nice guys are told not to change a thing despite their miserable results, to keep up hope that things will turn around, and one day they will meet that mythical right woman [HA!], who makes all the pain worthwhile. So they sit back and watch as all their jerk/players friends seem to pull women and sex off a conveyor belt.<br />
<br />
"You'll find her"...."Hang in there"....."Just be yourelf" Nice/good guys are told over and over and over again.The years roll by and yet they are still alone or if best stuck as "Just friends" and Cuddle Bitches of females. <br />
<br />
The typical canned response given to good guys by women? <br />
<br />
"He will get the women in the end [when she's in her late 30's] but what guy wants a women after a bunch of bad boys/players and thugs went through her and now she's old, her beauty is fading and she prob has kids? So she NOW runs to the Nice/good guy? Sorry, but noone wants to be an after-thought of damaged goods. If it takes her THAT LONG to figure out she wanted a nice/good guy, she prob never did and is only NOW going after him because her Bio-clock is ticking and she knows the player/thugs don't want to have anything to do with her. She runs to him NOT by choice but by necessity.<br />
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
Eventually, the Nice Guy/Good guy learns not to open up, and to be jaded, cynical, and distant. He's finally says "FUCK THIS!" <br />
<br />
And thanks to the power of the internet, he goes and finds some REAL ANSWERS. He soon finds info like "The Ladder Theory" and "The Player's Guide at fastseduction.com". Becoming a player/jerk wasn't his the first idea, it was his LAST RESORT. Sadly, being a decent normal guy ISN'T enough anymore. Now, It seems females RESPOND MORE to his new persona. He slowy becomes the jerk, on his way to being a player. <br />
<br />
The players/jerks are just regular guys who have been walked on a bit too much. One thing that is clear is that many of them are not thrilled with what they have to do in order to get a girlfriend and laid, and who can blame them? When the same man who is rejected as a nice/good guy is treated like royalty when he becomes a thug/jerk or play... ]]></description>
                <author>~everwonderful</author>
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