Saturday, August 12, 2006

...Fer folks over 50.... a little nostalgia... and fer youngins...how it used to be...



Well Sir....my good buddy Dave over at The Doubting Thomas Journey sent me this little strole down memory lane sometime back...

...and it's sorta just been sittin in my Documents folder fer some time now so's I thought I would traipse it out and post it on the old blog......

If'n yur over 45 or 50...y'all will be able t'relate to this little strole down memory lane....

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 40's, 50's and 60's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

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 .

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

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 .

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 199 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!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!

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.

and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

And more Goodies for Old Timers

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.

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 icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE. and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Keds (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.

Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention

We must have had horribly damaged psyches.
What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah.. and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

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. 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.

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 butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

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!!

Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best!

I'd say Amen, but that wouldn't be politically correct.

Friday, August 11, 2006

HELP !!! I'm beggin fer some a yur recipe's to publish.....and...a Salute to the Flag...


Well Sir....now this here Cookie has got several hundred...maybe even a thousand various recipe's of my own...and I've been publishin a whole bunch of em over the past year....so...I gotta slow down on depletin my recipe's stash....


I really...REALLY need to have some a yur good recipe's (that's important...quality) that I can publish....and of course...give the submittin person the credit fer the recipe' (or recipe's)......

So...PLEASE...use my E-mail address in the profile ( thecookshack@aol.com ) or this link... and send any a yur recipe's along to the Cookster....it will be GREATLY APPRECIATED....

Now I know it can be a little bit of a pain in the derierre to write it up in an E-mail...but if'n y'all got good heart...y'all will come to Cookie's rescue.....

OK...guys...I want y'all to now stand up...come to attention..... and salute our great flag. I can just hear the Star Spangled Banner playin now........



...And Ladies...I got somethin fer you too. Now our great flag is somewhere on the man's bathin suit so y'all gotta look REAL close to find the American flag and salute it.....



Thursday, August 10, 2006

Sorry guys...no breasts today... just a "Tag" quiz... and a partial lie....

Well Sir....as y'all probly read...I had a bunch a problems with my ISP yesterday...but after arguin with them over just where the problem(s) were (they insisted it was my puter)...we finally got everything back to normal operatin status...and it WAS the ISP. Once the modem was reset...the gremlins disappeared.

OK...a few days back I got "tagged" by Liz over at White Trash Republican to do a questionaire thats been makin its rounds around the blogosphere...so here tis....


1. The book nearest me – Websters Dictionary.


2. Stretch out your left arm, what do you touch? – a roll-top desk…


3. Last thing watched on television? – The O’Reilly Factor…


4. Without looking what time is it? 9:20 PM or so….


5. What is the actual time? 9:31 PM


6. With the exception of the computer what can you hear? The waves splashing on my beach….


7. When did you last step outside? About 15 minutes ago to walk Czarina…


8. Before this survey what did you look at? The comment section of my blog…


9. What are you wearing? – Only a pair of blue jockey shorts…it’s hot here…

10. Did you dream last night? – Yes…had a nightmare…dreamt I met everyone in my blogroll….

11. When did you last laugh? When I read some of the comments in my post(s)….


12. What is on the walls in the room? Paintings, a mounted Deer’s head…and his hide right next to it, a mounted bass, and smoke film….


13. Seen anything weird lately? – Yupper…WTR’s blog…

14. What do you think of this quiz? What quiz? I thought this was a Dating Service….

15. What is the last film you saw? – Whoa…cain’t remember…I think it was “Cheaper by the Dozen”…


16. Tell me something we don't know.
I was married by a Judge…shoulda asked fer a jury….


17. If you could change one thing about the world, what would you do. Nuke Iran back to the Stone Age..….


18. Do you like to dance? Yupper…and pretty good at it to…


19. George Bush? Who?


20. Imagine your first child is a girl – My 1st was a girl, and 2nd..and 3rd. One thing I’ve learned…Girls loose their brains about the onset of Puberty and don’t find them agin till about 20 or so.

21. Imagine your first child is a boy- Probably woulda been a lot easier than the 3 girls TOGETHER!!!!

22. Would you consider living abroad? – No way…I like bein a guy with a meat puppet…kiddin aside…yes….St. Thomas, VI…


23. What would God say to you when you reach the pearly gates? – “What in MY name are YOU doing here?”

23. 6 people who will do this quiz- They’ll find out when I tag em……

OK...so now I gotta "tag" a few folks....so...if'n ya see yur name...just copy the questions and pass it along to some other sucke...er...blog pal......

1) Signal 94

2) The Doubting Thomas

3) Musings of an Old Man

4) Sassy-Sistah

5) Charming, Just Charming

OK...ya been nailed...get to it.....Cookie....and BTW...look below...I partially lied...this is really more of a derriere shot.....

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

IP Problems....No Post Today.....


Sorry...havin some real weird problems on this end...I think its my IP.......

...or it coulda been all that mammary weight I had in the previous post...probly broke somethin.....

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

AH HA!!...The secret to a successful blog... BOOBIE's ..


Well Sir...I just couldn't help but notice that in my last post...there was a picture of a young woman who had a somewhat large pair a Boobie's...and because of that picture...many men responded and left various comments regardin either the "fish" in the picture.....or the exceptionally large mammary glands belongin to the young lady, Sam.....

....and...cause a the comments left by the keen sighted men who really appreciated the fine pair a "fish" in the photygraph...the women folk also began leavin comments regardin the mens comments...well...y'all get the idea....so without further fanfare...I now present this photygraph fer the men-folk to leave somemore comments or captions about.... so here tis.....


Now Sir.....since I really want this here blog to be really...REALLY successfull....I figured that if'n two is good...four will surely be better....


So...I did some further research (ya like that wourd fer it) and after reviewin many, many, MANY photygraphs....I found another photygraph for y'all just to gawk at or make some further comments about....you know... just in case that these two weren't enuff fer ya.....


Ok guys...there y'all go...4 fer the price of 2....man...this is gonna be one successful blog it is...yupper...right real successfull.....

Man...both these young ladys are holdin a pair that will beat a full house any day......

Comment Awayyyy......

ADDENDUM: Blogger had an exceptionally difficult time publishing this post...I think there might have been too much weight here....

Sunday, August 06, 2006

"The Last Photo I Ever Took" Contest... and my contest entry....

Wells Sir...most a y'all don't know it...but I recently ran a contest fer people to send me the Last Photo They Ever Took .....

So...without further adieu...here are the entries....


























































Well Sir....in this here Cookie's opinion....all a these here photygraphs are real real good....

....in fact they so good I'm havin a purdy hard time figurin out which one is the best....and that's where y'all come in...I be a needin yur help...

...Now Sir...anuther problem is that I got an entry myself inta this here contest...and that means I cain't rightly be the judge a these really good pictures....so...if'n y'all got a minute...I'd like ya to leave a comment regardin which photygraph y'all think is the best....

Now...afore y'all go any further to look at my entry....YA GOTTA READ THIS FIRST! As y'all know...this here Cookie just loves t'fish...I'm a fishin fool I am....

Well Sir...a few years back I asked my wife if she'd like to go fishin with me and my good fishin buddy, Sam, every weekend. My wife say'd no, she didn't enjoy fishin... and that since she didn't know Sam...she'd feel uncomfortable....and I said OK....

...so...fer years now me and Sam been goin fishin every weekend and since I enjoy it so much...I always come home nice and relaxed and contented like...and sometimes I even got a few good sized fish....

Well Sir...last weekend me & Sam caught a couple a real beautiful pair a Bass...so's I took a picture of Sam a holdin the fish we caught...and after I showed it to the wife....it was the last picture I ever done took cause then she killed me...here's the photygraph I entered in the contest.....

Now Sir...ain't that one beautiful pair a Bass....???

OK...who's photygraph should win the "Last Photo I Ever Took" contest......