What are your ten best childhood memories?

**Rain Man** · 06-06-2006, 04:25 PM

Let's define childhood as pre-age 16.

Here are mine.

1. Playing football at recess at Northside Elementary School in Rogers, Arkansas. Great group of friends, and the school let us play rough.

2. Getting an electric football game for Christmas in second grade, when we lived in Springfield. (But...Bears and Giants? What were you thinking, mom and dad?)

3. Being generally recognized and constantly stroked as a kid with high academic talent, highlighted by a barnstorming tour of classes to show off my reading ability in first grade.

4. Beating a 6-on-1 situation in bombardment in 9th grade to win the game.

5. Trip to the Smithsonian when I was 12. My parents asked where I wanted to go, and I said D.C., and I was surprised that they said yes. (It was the only out-of-state vacation the family took between my ages of 6 and 18.) The Smithsonian was my Mecca.

6. Going to the air-conditioned library in the summer, wandering around for a couple of hours looking at books, and then stocking up on books, including my favorite "Freddie the Pig" series.

7. Eating salted watermelon on hot summer nights with my cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents, especially at one particular house in Arkansas that we lived in.

8. Riding in the bread truck with my dad when I was 3 or 4. My mom made me a little Taystee bread shirt, complete with name patch, and I thought I was on top of the world. (Interesting note: The bread truck had no passenger seat, and my dad drove with the doors open. I would ride on top of the engine hump in the delivery truck, and it's amazing that I didn't fall out of the truck and die.)

9. Spending a week at my grandparents' house during the summer. It was quite exotic to spend the night 30 miles from home.

10. Moving. I always liked going into a new house and finding my new room. I never had any problems moving to a new town, and actually liked it.

**Donger** · 06-06-2006, 04:31 PM

1. Snorkeling in the Med.

2. Taking apart an old washing machine when I was four.

3. Monte Carlo: my favorite place in the world.

4. Playing soccer with my older brothers.

5. First orgasm produced by a female.

6. Being used as a ice thickness measurement device by my brothers.

7. Seeing America for the first time.

8. My first dive off a 10m platform when I was five.

9. Completing a 100 mile bike ride at 10.

10. Skateboarding down hills so fast that I knew I'd die if I fell off.

Hammock Parties · 06-06-2006, 04:46 PM

1. Winning my sixth-grade spelling bee and giving the adoring crowd the vulcan salute.

2. Visting Loch Ness and looking for the monster.

3. Walking down to the corner shop in Newtonhill on chilly Saturday mornings and buying candy, comics and The Daily Times.

4. Flying over to the US from Scotland every summer.

5. Landing at KCI and seeing my relatives waving at the plane through the terminal windows.

6. Going to my first Chiefs game as a graduation present from my Uncle. Thursday, December 16, 1999. Chiefs 35, Steelers 19.

7. Seeing Star Wars Episode I at LEAST 10 times in the mall theater where I worked the summer of 1999.

8. Traveling the canals of England.

9. Seeing Mrs. Jayroe's creamy white thighs in freshman history.

10. Spiking a dead baby on the theater floor during a production of The Marriage of Bette & Boo as the doctor.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 06-06-2006, 11:08 PM

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8. Traveling the canals of England.

What was his first name?

Mile High Mania · 06-06-2006, 07:34 PM

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5. First orgasm produced by a female.

Kudos for being specific... many would have wondered.

**Nzoner** · 06-06-2006, 04:51 PM

1.Pony league all-stars,game 5 of a 5 game series and down by one run in the bottom of the 7th with a runner on 2nd and I hit the series winning home run.

2.The above team's picnic and trophy presentation,I got awarded a gold glove with my home run ball sitting in it that had been signed by the entire team.

3.Waiting anxiously as mom popped up a big bag of popcorn and dad got drinks ready for family night at the drive-in theatre.

4.Saturday night Creature Feature with Ed Muscari on the then channel 41.My parents usually went out every Saturday and my uncle would watch my lil bro and I.We'd order a large pizza right before CF started and then settle in for an evening of the classic b/w horror films.

5.3rd grade,my next door neighbor Barbara coming into my homemade tent in the backyard and playing doctor.

6.Swinging from the tree rope and splashing into the farm pond that was on my step-grandfather's farm.

7.Pony league regular season,being on a 21-3 team and then going into city tournament losing our first game(of double elimination)and coming all the back through the bracket to win the city championship.

8.One paticular day I spent with my late uncle Butch,he took me hunting for pop bottles(yeah you used to be able to cash them in for money)so I could buy my first ever 8-track tape.I was only nine but liked the name of a band called Led Zeppelin and I picked the tape IV or Zoso.

9.A family vacation with my lil bro,mom and my step-dad and his 4 kids to Hannibal,Mo to check out all the Mark Twain stuff.

10.Christmas of my 5th grade year when i got first real stereo for my own room.

**Baby Lee** · 06-06-2006, 04:55 PM

Royals game I went to with my grandparents. We were down two in the bottom of the ninth. My grandpa took that opportunity to relate the tale of the rally cap. Two pitches after I turned my Royal's cap inside out and put it on my head, George Brett hit a 3 run HR.

jidar · 06-06-2006, 04:58 PM

nailing your mom

BucEyedPea · 06-06-2006, 06:59 PM

Don't know if I can think of ten as my childhood was miserable.

I'll try though...lemme see?

1) First trip to Cape Cod with a great surf after a storm and body surfing the waves. Oh man! I remember that one... that was exhilarating. Was about 7 years old.

2) When I finally figured out how to draw perspective drawing a house. Boy that was exciting...the lines slant back on an angle...and it looked real!

3) First time I conquered swinging off a rope from a tree over a mild rock cliff on a lake where we visited my two aunts summer camp in NH each summer!! I was afraid of it for a long time.

4) Sleeping outside at same camp with cousins and friends after playing games, climbing trees and roofs. Boys and girls.

**Rain Man** · 06-06-2006, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

2) When I finally figured out how to draw perspective drawing a house. Boy that was exciting...the lines slant back on an angle...and it looked real!

It was post-15 for me, so it's not a childhood memory, but perhaps my favorite course in all of my education was an architectural drafting course I took in my senior year of high school. We had to do a whole set of drawings for a house, including the perspective drawing, over the course of a year. I loved that course.

Hammock Parties · 06-06-2006, 07:32 PM

I had a class like that. I sucked hardcore. I could never do better than average. The teacher was always taking off for things like tiny smudges and thick lines. He was a cool teacher, though.

BucEyedPea · 06-06-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

It was post-15 for me, so it's not a childhood memory, but perhaps my favorite course in all of my education was an architectural drafting course I took in my senior year of high school. We had to do a whole set of drawings for a house, including the perspective drawing, over the course of a year. I loved that course.

Cool Rainman. I believe I was age 10...but I was a child prodigy at drawing.

Starbux37 · 06-06-2006, 09:17 PM

These are mine:

10. Going to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park every summer with all my buddies from opening to closing time.

9. Being voted Capt. of the Varsity Swim team my Senior Year in H.S.

8. Getting up at 4:00 am with my Dad and stopping at Winchell's Donuts just before we would go fishing, just him and me for the day no sisters or Mom to bug us.

7. When the neighbor girl down the street decided she needed to show me she was getting hair and letting me see it and then touch it.

6. When I broke the collar bone of the kid who tormented me all throughout Junior H.S. during a Football game. I stood over him and laughed as he cried.

5. Knocking out the front teeth of the 5th grade class bully. Whole class cheered me on as I just kept pummeling his face in fear that he might get up and do the same to me. He never bothered me again.

4. Getting my Schwinn Stingray. I was the first kid on the block to get one. That was the coolest bike ever!

3. Going over to Grandmas house and eating as much ice cream as one 4 yr old could possible put down. Still to this day can't eat ice cream without thinking about her.

2. Getting my first BJ in the back seat of an Cutlass Oldsmobile at the drive-in. Went to see The Toy with Richard Pryor, still to this day couldn't tell you anything about the movie.

1. This is my fondest memory of all though. Standing with my Mom and three sisters at the Naval Air Station in San Diego watching my Dad get off the plane after his second tour over in Viet Nam in 71. Seeing his face light up when he got to see his family and my twin sisters for the first time. This memory is truly PRICELESS.

**Mr. Kotter** · 06-06-2006, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Starbux37

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1. This is my fondest memory of all though. Standing with my Mom and three sisters at the Naval Air Station in San Diego watching my Dad get off the plane after his second tour over in Viet Nam in 71. Seeing his face light up when he got to see his family and my twin sisters for the first time. This memory is truly PRICELESS.

Super COOL!

**Iowanian** · 06-07-2006, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Starbux37

5. Knocking out the front teeth of the 5th grade class bully. Whole class cheered me on as I just kept pummeling his face in fear that he might get up and do the same to me. He never bothered me again.

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Whats wrong Randy?

Daddy's gonna Kill Raaaalphy

06-06-2006, 04:25 PM	Topic Starter
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3038491 VARSITY	What are your ten best childhood memories? Let's define childhood as pre-age 16. Here are mine. 1. Playing football at recess at Northside Elementary School in Rogers, Arkansas. Great group of friends, and the school let us play rough. 2. Getting an electric football game for Christmas in second grade, when we lived in Springfield. (But...Bears and Giants? What were you thinking, mom and dad?) 3. Being generally recognized and constantly stroked as a kid with high academic talent, highlighted by a barnstorming tour of classes to show off my reading ability in first grade. 4. Beating a 6-on-1 situation in bombardment in 9th grade to win the game. 5. Trip to the Smithsonian when I was 12. My parents asked where I wanted to go, and I said D.C., and I was surprised that they said yes. (It was the only out-of-state vacation the family took between my ages of 6 and 18.) The Smithsonian was my Mecca. 6. Going to the air-conditioned library in the summer, wandering around for a couple of hours looking at books, and then stocking up on books, including my favorite "Freddie the Pig" series. 7. Eating salted watermelon on hot summer nights with my cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents, especially at one particular house in Arkansas that we lived in. 8. Riding in the bread truck with my dad when I was 3 or 4. My mom made me a little Taystee bread shirt, complete with name patch, and I thought I was on top of the world. (Interesting note: The bread truck had no passenger seat, and my dad drove with the doors open. I would ride on top of the engine hump in the delivery truck, and it's amazing that I didn't fall out of the truck and die.) 9. Spending a week at my grandparents' house during the summer. It was quite exotic to spend the night 30 miles from home. 10. Moving. I always liked going into a new house and finding my new room. I never had any problems moving to a new town, and actually liked it.
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Donger "Think BOOM!" Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: 33.675° N 106.475° W Casino cash: $10089900 VARSITY	1. Snorkeling in the Med. 2. Taking apart an old washing machine when I was four. 3. Monte Carlo: my favorite place in the world. 4. Playing soccer with my older brothers. 5. First orgasm produced by a female. 6. Being used as a ice thickness measurement device by my brothers. 7. Seeing America for the first time. 8. My first dive off a 10m platform when I was five. 9. Completing a 100 mile bike ride at 10. 10. Skateboarding down hills so fast that I knew I'd die if I fell off. __________________ I think the young people enjoy it when I "get down," verbally, don't you?
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Hammock Parties I'll be back. Join Date: Nov 2002 Casino cash: $4430478	1. Winning my sixth-grade spelling bee and giving the adoring crowd the vulcan salute. 2. Visting Loch Ness and looking for the monster. 3. Walking down to the corner shop in Newtonhill on chilly Saturday mornings and buying candy, comics and The Daily Times. 4. Flying over to the US from Scotland every summer. 5. Landing at KCI and seeing my relatives waving at the plane through the terminal windows. 6. Going to my first Chiefs game as a graduation present from my Uncle. Thursday, December 16, 1999. Chiefs 35, Steelers 19. 7. Seeing Star Wars Episode I at LEAST 10 times in the mall theater where I worked the summer of 1999. 8. Traveling the canals of England. 9. Seeing Mrs. Jayroe's creamy white thighs in freshman history. 10. Spiking a dead baby on the theater floor during a production of The Marriage of Bette & Boo as the doctor. __________________ Chiefs game films
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Nzoner a haw haw haw Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: MIZZOU Casino cash: $26365802	1.Pony league all-stars,game 5 of a 5 game series and down by one run in the bottom of the 7th with a runner on 2nd and I hit the series winning home run. 2.The above team's picnic and trophy presentation,I got awarded a gold glove with my home run ball sitting in it that had been signed by the entire team. 3.Waiting anxiously as mom popped up a big bag of popcorn and dad got drinks ready for family night at the drive-in theatre. 4.Saturday night Creature Feature with Ed Muscari on the then channel 41.My parents usually went out every Saturday and my uncle would watch my lil bro and I.We'd order a large pizza right before CF started and then settle in for an evening of the classic b/w horror films. 5.3rd grade,my next door neighbor Barbara coming into my homemade tent in the backyard and playing doctor. 6.Swinging from the tree rope and splashing into the farm pond that was on my step-grandfather's farm. 7.Pony league regular season,being on a 21-3 team and then going into city tournament losing our first game(of double elimination)and coming all the back through the bracket to win the city championship. 8.One paticular day I spent with my late uncle Butch,he took me hunting for pop bottles(yeah you used to be able to cash them in for money)so I could buy my first ever 8-track tape.I was only nine but liked the name of a band called Led Zeppelin and I picked the tape IV or Zoso. 9.A family vacation with my lil bro,mom and my step-dad and his 4 kids to Hannibal,Mo to check out all the Mark Twain stuff. 10.Christmas of my 5th grade year when i got first real stereo for my own room. __________________ *Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.*
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BucEyedPea Gimme My Berries Back! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: None of your business Casino cash: $3189963	Don't know if I can think of ten as my childhood was miserable. I'll try though...lemme see? 1) First trip to Cape Cod with a great surf after a storm and body surfing the waves. Oh man! I remember that one... that was exhilarating. Was about 7 years old. 2) When I finally figured out how to draw perspective drawing a house. Boy that was exciting...the lines slant back on an angle...and it looked real! 3) First time I conquered swinging off a rope from a tree over a mild rock cliff on a lake where we visited my two aunts summer camp in NH each summer!! I was afraid of it for a long time. 4) Sleeping outside at same camp with cousins and friends after playing games, climbing trees and roofs. Boys and girls.
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06-06-2006, 07:32 PM	#11
Hammock Parties I'll be back. Join Date: Nov 2002 Casino cash: $4430478	I had a class like that. I sucked hardcore. I could never do better than average. The teacher was always taking off for things like tiny smudges and thick lines. He was a cool teacher, though. __________________ Chiefs game films
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06-06-2006, 09:17 PM	#13
Starbux37 damned n00b Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dayton, NV Casino cash: $10005802	These are mine: 10. Going to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park every summer with all my buddies from opening to closing time. 9. Being voted Capt. of the Varsity Swim team my Senior Year in H.S. 8. Getting up at 4:00 am with my Dad and stopping at Winchell's Donuts just before we would go fishing, just him and me for the day no sisters or Mom to bug us. 7. When the neighbor girl down the street decided she needed to show me she was getting hair and letting me see it and then touch it. 6. When I broke the collar bone of the kid who tormented me all throughout Junior H.S. during a Football game. I stood over him and laughed as he cried. 5. Knocking out the front teeth of the 5th grade class bully. Whole class cheered me on as I just kept pummeling his face in fear that he might get up and do the same to me. He never bothered me again. 4. Getting my Schwinn Stingray. I was the first kid on the block to get one. That was the coolest bike ever! 3. Going over to Grandmas house and eating as much ice cream as one 4 yr old could possible put down. Still to this day can't eat ice cream without thinking about her. 2. Getting my first BJ in the back seat of an Cutlass Oldsmobile at the drive-in. Went to see The Toy with Richard Pryor, still to this day couldn't tell you anything about the movie. 1. This is my fondest memory of all though. Standing with my Mom and three sisters at the Naval Air Station in San Diego watching my Dad get off the plane after his second tour over in Viet Nam in 71. Seeing his face light up when he got to see his family and my twin sisters for the first time. This memory is truly PRICELESS.
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