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<DIV> <B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">This one is for
all us who actually watched a black and white
TV. </SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">This was the
life!!</SPAN></B><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "> </SPAN></B><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "> <U>BLACK AND WHITE
TV</U></SPAN></B></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">"Good night and God
bless."</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><BR><BR><IMG
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width=264 height=326><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR>Go all the way to
the bottom past the pictures..... I think you'll enjoy
it. Whoever wrote this must have been my next door
neighbor because it totally described my childhood to
a 'T.' Hope you enjoy it.</SPAN><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><BR>Black
and White</SPAN></U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"> <SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><IMG
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR>Black and
White (Under age 40? You won't understand.)</SPAN><SPAN
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width=94 height=80><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">You could hardly
see for all the snow,<BR><BR>Spread the rabbit ears as
far as they go.<BR>Pull a chair up to the TV
set,</SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR>'Good Night,
David.<BR>Good Night, Chet.'</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><IMG
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width=164 height=200></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">My Mom used to cut
chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board
with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get
food poisoning.<BR><BR>My Mom used to defrost hamburger
on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes,
too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper
in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't
remember getting e.coli. <SPAN> </SPAN><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><IMG
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width=128 height=65></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">Almost all of us would
have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine
pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
<SPAN> </SPAN><BR><BR>The term cell phone would have
conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the
school PA system.<SPAN> </SPAN><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><IMG
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width=90 height=65></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">We all took gym, not
PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top
Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training
athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light
reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must
have happened because they tell us how much safer we are
now.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><IMG
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width=120 height=120></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">Flunking gym was not
an option.... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be
much harder than gym.<SPAN> </SPAN><BR><BR>Speaking of
school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem,
and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of
negative attention.<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">We must have had
horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health
system we had then.. Remember school nurses?</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: blue"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred">Ours wore a hat and
everything.<BR><BR>I thought that I was supposed to
accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of
myself.<BR><BR>I just can't recall how bored we were without
computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV
cable stations.<B><BR></B><BR>Oh yeah... and where was the
Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee
sting? I could have been killed!<BR><BR>We played
'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant
construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the
48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better
because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we
got our butt spanked.</SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR>Now it's a trip to
the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49
bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to
sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of
gravel where it was such a threat.<BR><BR>We didn't act up
at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our
butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again
when we got home.</SPAN><B><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR>I recall Donny
Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on
the front stoop, just before he fell off.<BR><BR>Little did
his Mom know that she could have owned our
house.<BR><BR>Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for
being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run
amuck.</SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><BR>To top it off,
not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were
from a dysfunctional family.<BR><BR>How could we possibly
have known that</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR>we needed to get
into group therapy and anger management classes?<BR><BR>We
were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we
didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking
Prozac!<BR><BR>How did we ever survive?</SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: red"><BR><BR>LOVE TO ALL OF US
WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR
WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR
ANYTHING!<BR>BUT NOW I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO<BR>WHAT 2013 IS
GOING TO BRING.<BR><BR><IMG
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: darkred"><BR><BR>Pass this to
someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are
very often the
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