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Everyone here is the sweetest - except whoever started the rumour that I'm 32! It was actually the 20th anniversary of my 11th birthday . . . But please, don't bring this up at the picnic with Ian! Tee hee!

Ah, my 11th birthday. The year the banana bike went and I got a real 10 speed, and yes, a Technics stereo with two really big speakers that you could move away from the main unit!!

Thanks to all!

Oh boy!! another trip down memory lane!!!(always fun!)

Let's see-on my eleventh,as I recall-I got a 24in. Rollfast single speed, and a Daisy Red Rider B-B gun!(or was the Rollfast for Christmas?)

I did have a dandy RCA 45 player with a Silvertone tube powered amp and speaker in one unit, like a guitar amp.

Rich.

2 M50s
1 M3 center(inverted)
only 2 M3s back
only 1 homemade sub
1 bunch of intollerant neighbors who would gladly turn their subs up, if I dared break the tenuous "Sub Wars" truce!

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Everyone here is the sweetest - except whoever started the rumour that I'm 32!

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PETER! GO TO YOUR ROOM!

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....and a Daisy Red Rider B-B gun!

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Did you shoot your eye out?

Now that hurts-it really does, how did you know I've only got one eye?!

Actually, I do only have one eye, but it wasen't a B-B, it was a snowball with a piece of glass in it-I was five years old at the time, kinda traumatic indeed! Had to shoot the B-B gun with the wrong eye-no problem with a B-B gun, but a real problem with an actual rifle, as looking with the left eye while shooting right-handedly puts your right wrist right against your nose; guess where the force of the kick goes?

But I did live dangerously in those days though: I sometimes ran with sissors, I had a total of three B-B guns, and I watched the "Three Stooges" every chance I got!!

Rich.

So close! Sorry.

I meant no offense. I didn't know you had only one eye. The "Did you shoot your eye out"? line was a reference to a classic Christmas movie called "A Christmas Story."

"In 1940's Indiana, Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) dreams of the ideal Christmas gift, a genuine Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But gruff dad (Darren McGavin) and doting mom (Melinda Dillon) quote the usual saying, "You'll shoot your eye out!"

Hi, Jack;

No offence taken-how could you know?(Actually I mentioned it myself on another thread just a couple of minutes later cause it just happened to fit there too!) Been like this for well over half a century-used to it by now!

I wonder what kids were told by their Moms' during the bow and arrow age?

It's an advantage though-speaker testing is only "Blind and a half"

Rich.

She's fibbing.
She really is 24.
I have pictures.