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Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:18
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Subject: over 25
>Subject: over 25
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>All
people over 25 should be dead.
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>To the
survivors:
>
> According to today's regulators and
bureaucrats, those of us who were
>kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's
probably shouldn't have survived.
>
> Our baby cribs
were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. 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 pickup truck on a warm day was always a
>special
treat.
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> We drank water from the garden hose and not
from a bottle. Horrors! We
>shared one soft drink with four friends,
from one bottle, and no one
>actually died from
this.
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> We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank
soda pop with sugar in
>it, but we were never overweight because we were
always outside
>playing.
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> We would leave home
in the morning and play all day, as long as we
>were back when the
street lights came on. No one was able to reach us
>all day. No cell
phones. Unthinkable.
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> We would spend hours building
our go-carts out of scraps and then rode
>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.
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> We did not have
Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at
>all, no 99
channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound,
>personal cell
phones, personal computers, or Internet chat
rooms.
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> We had friends! We went outside and found
them.
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut and broke
bones and teeth,and there were
>no lawsuits from these
accidents.
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> We made up games with sticks and tennis
balls and ate worms, and
>although we were told it would happen, we did
not put out very many
>eyes, nor did the worms live inside us
forever.
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> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's
home and knocked on the door, or
>rang the bell or just walked in and
talked to them.
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> Little League had tryouts and not
everyone made the team. Those who
>didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment.
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> The idea of a parent bailing us
out if we broke a law was unheard of.
>They actually sided with the law.
Imagine that!
>
> This generation has produced some of
the best risk-takers and 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.
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> And you're one of
them!
>
> Congratulations. Please pass this on to
others who have had the luck
>to grow up as kids, before lawyers and
government regulated our lives,
>for our own
good.
>
> Kind of makes you want to run through the
house with scissors?
>
> A must read for people over
25 yrs of age.
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