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Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:18
AM
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.
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> 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!
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> 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.
>
> 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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