What’s in a name? A lot actually… In fact–ancient cultures believed that your name was a predecessor for who you’d become, what you’d stand for, and the legends you’d create. Nowadays, young parents seem to be trying to out-stupid the other parents in the kindergarten PTA by naming their kids something ‘original’ just for the …
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A Nostalgic Scrapbook of 70’s and 80’s Kodak Moments for a Trip Down Memory Lane (August 29, 2024)
Do you remember how cool it sounded when you put a baseball card in your bike spokes? We all wished we had a little 2-stroke motorcycle, but all Dad could afford was this lame single-speed Schwinn. Well, like everything back in the 70s and 80s, that ‘lame’ bike of yours is still kicking–and is probably …
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27 Gen X Memes for 80s Kids Raised on Hose Water (August 27, 2024)
Gen X was wild when they were young. We were launching off of homemade bike ramps in the streets until dark, climbing every tree in the park next to the school, and digging holes in the yard deep enough to sink Mom and Dad’s wood-paneled station wagon. This generation of rabble-ruffians was wild and free, …
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33 Gen X Memes for 80s Kids Still Living on Hose Water (August 1, 2024)
The simplest joys in life are analog
32 Gen X Memes for 80s Kids Living on Hose Water (July 25, 2024)
Ferris Bueller said it best: ‘Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it’ Gen X was raised by 80s movies. Since we were all latchkey kids and our parents worked all, we had to do our homework when it came to the laws of …
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A Nostalgic Scrapbook of 70’s and 80’s Kodak Moments for a Trip Down Memory Lane (July 24, 2024)
Remember those metal lunchboxes that came with a matching thermos? Not only could you bring a Wonder Bread and bologna sandwich to school every day for lunch, but you could accompany that deliciously singular meal with either a hot soup or a cool glass of Hawaiian punch! Life was good. Not only would you flex …
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28 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (July 18, 2024)
Remember when MTV played music? How many Gen X parents have had to try and convince their kids that MTV was solely for the purpose of playing music videos–there were no reality TV shows and no straight-to-TV dramas… just music. What a concept! Occasionally a music video would substitute as an advertisement, but there weren’t …
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32 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (July 11, 2024)
Who remembers learning Hot Cross Buns on the recorder in elementary school? Hmm, some good it’s done us all to know the world’s simplest song on society’s silliest instrument. For Gen Xers who’ve spent their whole lives chasing the high of being the best recorder player in music class, it’s an outrage that the recorder …
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25 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (July 4, 2024)
Everyone has a picture-day nightmare. Whether you lost a tooth the day before photo day or if you got a ketchup stain on your favorite shirt just moments before taking your yearly photo, there’s something about the permanence of film photography that laid out all of your transgressions in a millisecond. Not to mention, this …
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24 Gen X Memes for 80’s Kids Raised on Hose Water (June 27, 2024)
Every Gen X kid remembers the day they got their first bike. Not the dinky one with the training wheels, but their first real, big-kid bike. That was the vehicle that would take us all over town, it was our answering machine, it was our sacred companion. A kid’s bike was a measure of their …
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