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Old School Dating

The other day I was thinking about all the cool things about dating in our post-modern, post-feminist society. Then I wondered what it would be like to date back in the day. You know that good old-fashioned courting that our parents and grandparents did.

They had formals, debutante balls, parlor and/or porch visits, and general courting when they were single. My dad scooped my mom straight out of high school and out-romanced some fellow that was courting my mom. He didn’t use money, flashy cars, or pricey restaurants - just his charm.

How cool would it be if we had some of the old fashioned dating?

What old school dating would you like to see make a comeback?

Do you think that you could ever make it happen in your present day dating life?

Modern romance vs old fashioned romance - which one works best?

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By Beautiful

November 7, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

Good morning! this morning on XM radio i heard i’ll do anything for you by denroy morgan and r u lonely for me by rude boys, omg! now that’s music!

By lady j

November 7, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this

Morning…As young as I am I do prefer to be wooed!!!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

Morning….

I love everything old school! From the music to the culture…..if you stay true to who you are, and what you represent, and believe in, then it ain’t gotta comeback, cause it never left! Take the suckas out of the game, the cats who lead with their wallets, and let that old school charm, wit, and wisdom take over, then the true essence of dating will come back….methinks, anyway.

By Beautiful

November 7, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

the old school dating i would love to see come back is not having sex so soon and waiting until marriage to have sex, but again there are drawbacks to that. if a person waits and the sex is wack, then what?

By lady j

November 7, 2007 8:42 AM | Link to this

@Beautiful…I love XM Suite 62!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!! Listen to it now as I blog!!!:)

By DeMetriix

November 7, 2007 8:42 AM | Link to this

I’d really like to see men not be afriad to show their true feelings. seems to me back then if they liked you they were not afraid to show it.

By Beautiful

November 7, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

lady j i can’t live without XM. i have it in my car and bedroom. they play music that make you say “awww shyt!!!”. have you reminiscing like a mug.

By SlimOne

November 7, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

Morning What I liked about old school dating is that it seemed somebodies mama could always give you a reference about that particular gentleman. Family was still a large part of the courting process.

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

Good morning Room

Cozy warm cheese grits, turkey sausage, variety of oatmeal flavs, fresh fruit, biscuits, scrambled eggs and hot cocoa w/big ole fat over the top marshmallows and juices for all this crisp morning. Have at it folks.

On topic: What old school dating would you like to see make a comeback? Ole school 70’s house parties!!! The kind like when my mamma and dad hooked up. My dad (coolcat) requesting several Al Green cuts from the DJ for my mamma and falling in love that night. Courting in the living room. Dinner dates at the house so that the family meets your guy and get to know him too. Everybody having fun at backyard cookouts, family dinners, block parties….wow i can go on and on. I wish i could have been a 70’s chic.

By QC

November 7, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

Morning! I agree with 2cptg i am an old school Queen i truly love it! I don’t think old school dating has left cause everyone has their oly style of dating…as for modern/old fashion romance i prefer a little of both ;) i hope you all have a great day!

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

@DeMetriix, black men back then were uplifted and respect by the women…now-a-days…er uhhh..not

@2C…cosign!!!

@Beautifu…SEX!!!, yea knew that would not take long…trust back in the day they were sexing like crazy..how did you get here…lol

yea lets return to old school shall we..like a man getting a hot meal for a date, yes back then the ladies would inviter there men friend over and COOK…seen it with my own eyes…would have all his favorites at the house..yea lets make that come back…ya know like the old saying goes..the way to a mans heart is thru is stomach..feel me

ask one of these ladies now to cook for you..and see what you get, but they quick to claim old fashion….then get your azz in the kitchen and burn..no microwave….lol

this should get good today

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

Morning ya! Charm??oh yes deffinite panty dropper…yeah it is pretty enchanting the way my parents met and have carried on a great love for over 40 yrs.

If we could go back in time heyal Id have 7 sons running around, barefoot , pregnant again, making biscuts for my man and HAPPY bout it LOL….

Holla ya!.im chillin today kicked back working listening to XM streamed..Bethoveen….I’ll be kicking Biggie classics by 11:30 I see its just that kinda day up in the task camp called and office today…peace…

By Latina_in_30004

November 7, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

Good morning!!! I would like old school dating to come back because I am definitely old school. Oh wait, maybe I’m just old, LOL.

I love men who are charming, thoughtful and romantic. Please bring back chivalry, honesty and integrity - both men and women should be more interested in the essence of the other person instead of their worldly possessions or appearances. Bring back men who give flowers, slow dancing under the stars and romantic dinners at candlelight. Sigh

By Mo (now known as Moeisha)

November 7, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

Morning Ya’ll!!

XM Radio, Suite 62 is a must-have!! I love it as well ya’ll! You can never go wrong on a saturday just turning that on all day! LOL

On topic I would love for old school house parties to comeback! And Cemeeli I agree with you, cookouts, family dinners, family outings, block parties…all of that would be great. I like to think of it as reminiscent of high school in a way.

I hate that I missed yesterday, massah had a sistah working!!

By lady j

November 7, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

@Beautiful, i just realize through AOL I can listen to it and I am loveing it…Love the old school mix with new slow R&B!!! Love it!!! I have quirks with my dad but I appreciate him loving muxsic and having it in our houseold back then bc I really appreciate it now!!! Lyrics are powerful!!!

Truth American Ganster scared the hell out me and I dont like Denzel in that role!!!! LOL

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this

I love men who are charming, thoughtful and romantic. Please bring back chivalry, honesty and integrity - both men and women should be more interested in the essence of the other person instead of their worldly possessions or appearances. Bring back men who give flowers, slow dancing under the stars and romantic dinners at candlelight. Sigh

^^^…funny thing is that it never left….it is just if you lead with the romance then you will fall into the friend zone or be labelled the nice guy….all the while sterling is beating a hole in her azz and eating her leftovers while she washes up….lol

By Dan

November 7, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

It’s funny,

Some women say that they want the “old school dating” back. That involves getting to know a person, taking time to learn a person, and genuinely be interested.

It’s not about money, not about “quality time”, becuase back then even the rotary phone call was “quality time”.

It was when a man could hold a woman without her flinching, when she might be courted by other men, but knew who she wanted.

Old school dating required a lot more commitment in dating, that some of us don’t have in marriage.

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

@Rell Why dont’ you try uplifting a woman sometimes and maybe she will uplift you. You act like thats automatic give respect you get it period… heyal..i’m tired of hearing (from you)how black women are just so bad to black men, like we have two heads and ya had nothing to do with it….stfu with that already…

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

since you on songs - smooth mackin right here

Ready for the World - Tonight

It’s getting late, while are you still here, girl Have you made up your mind, you wanna make love tonight I want you to hold me, I want to be for real, girl Please tonight

Don’t want you to go ‘cause I don’t feel like bein’ lonely, no Not tonight, honey, not tonight You’re so scared ‘cause I can feel your heartbeat It’s so fast

Oh…oh…oh…oh… Girl, tonight Oh…oh…oh…oh… Girl, tonight

You’re probably thinking you’re gonna be a woman After all of this Let me tell you, you’re more woman than I ever seen Girl, tonight

I want your lips, I even want your tongue, love Come give it to me, come give it to me Take your time, but don’t you take too long, girl Please tonight

Oh…oh…oh…oh… Girl, tonight Oh…oh…oh…oh…ooh… Tonight

You’re so wet, you can barely wait, girl But see it’s alright, honey, it’s alright It’s so dark, but I don’t even care, girl I know where to go, I know what to do

You’re the heart and I am the arrow, girl Let me shoot you, uh

Don’t you worry ‘bout a damn thing, girl, no

By lady j

November 7, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this

Hey MO!!! Happy Hump Day!!!

Rell keep it coming!!! LOL

By E

November 7, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Old School dating huh? I’m cool with the dating scene today. I like keeping things casual and to me it seems if you were “courting” someone in those days you were one step from trying to marry that person. I think some things will always remain basic, good manners never go out of style. Opening doors, pulling out chairs and the man paying for the dates will always be current. All those other things that were mentioned such as debutante balls etc..still exist but are a result of regional traditions.

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Today you sounds as bitter as Me2 did yesta’deh I know we all go thru stuff but come on….with that hate for the opposite sex lets name you He hate me 2..heyal…Im sorry but you started that negative shyt ealry this morning about women..gee wiz…

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

I’d still give the nod to modern dating because you have more choice. Old school was good back then if everyone fit into the same dating pattern, which is why it didn’t work.

That being said, I miss the old school dating trait of taking your time, having to past muster with mom and dad etc. That could still happen today if you wanted to, but most men would think you’re a little looney.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

@Jazzy….lol, is that right…so we back to this again…and i thought we were done…well yes i will stfu..thank you again…lol, come harder next time please….lol..it will take more than that to get me off my square honey..k…and you of all people should know that…LMAO..stfu…i will do that… but black men are not disrespected or emasculated….lol, thanks again Jazzy…lol

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

@ Rell i feel you on the cooking. My, my, my when my mom cooked/cook it’s like it brought out the best in my dad…Thank you mamma for teaching me.

By lady j

November 7, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

rell you funny but a lil truth to the nice guy theory…lol

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this

now I’m think of that old school jam by Betty Wright….“when folks think you and your man going thru a lil sum’in they cook up a lil food and throw a get together…..No pain, No gain”*……..ahhhhh, the days!!!

By SexyCool

November 7, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

give me a nice mix of the best of the old and the new…i CAN dream for a perfect world, can’t i?

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

Hey MO. That’s what’s up. To bad i can only get to hear the stories from 70’s romance. huuummmm…

And lady j you really like old school and did not like Denzel in the American Gangster movie?

By The Truth

November 7, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

Morning blogsville.

Rell hey my friend, you’ve been sounding a little tense in your posts on the ladies lately. Something you wanna talk about? LOL

On topic: Old school was cool but today is as good as it will ever be. Today you have the freedom to do old or new school, your choice. Then you only had old school. Same principles still apply. Lead with your wallet and you buy puddy. Put in some real work and you get a womans heart. With the heart comes puddy, food, shoulder massages, the whole 9 yards.

Its cool also that you can grab a chick now and take her straight back old school. Get her off the treadmill and show her what quality feels like. That chick is gonna ride with you till the wheels come off. Now she can turn around and has ways to show you how much she appreciates. She can take you out, cook, set it out for you too.

This is as good as it gets. Monday a beautiful friend took me to my favorite spot for lunch and today another friend will hit the movie and lunch with me. Dam the 70’s (except for the music), today is it. LOL

Good morning to the beautiful ladies of blogsville. Shortly you will feel a warm hand on your rear. Don’t flinch and don’t fight it, its just The Truth saying hi.

By lady j

November 7, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

lol 2…

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

this goes out to Jazzy…lol….after i stfu…lol

Prince - Do Me

Here we are in this big old empty room, staring each other down U want me just as much as I want U, let’s stop fooling around Take me baby… kiss me all over… play with my love Bring out what’s been in me for far too long Baby, u know that’s all I’ve been dreaming of Do Me Baby, like u never done before Give it to me till I just can’t take no more Do Me Baby, like u never done before I want u now, I just can’t wait no more, can’t wait…

Here we are looking for a reason for u to lay me down For a love like ours is never out of season, so baby please stop teasing me what ya do, I can never love no other, u’re the best I ever had Whenever we’re not close to one another, I just want u so bad

So Do Me Baby, like u never done before Give it to me till I just can’t take no more C’mon, Do Me Baby, like u never done before I want u now, I just can’t wait no more

I said ooo…ooo…oooo…ooooooo Do Me Baby, Do Me Baby, give it to me Do Me Baby, I want u now Do Me Baby, give it to me Do Me Baby, Do Me baby, don’t wanna do it all alone I want your love. Do Me Baby, give it to me Do Me Baby, This feeling is too strong, make me wait 2 long, I want u now

You’re leaving me no choice OK, what are u gonna do…u just gonna sit there and watch? alright… are u sure u don’t wanna close your eyes? …well, isn’t it supposed to take a long time? I’m not gonna stop till the war is over… Help me! there…ok…ok I’m so cold….just hold me

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

I would love to see old school dating make a comeback. I don’t think it’s really gone, just a little buried. It is nice to be wooed, courted and partake in some of the more simpler forms of dating, e.g., simple walks, long conversation. Like Jill-Scott’s song says….let’s take a walk, around the park, after dark….

Rell this is definitely ME - yea lets return to old school shall we..like a man getting a hot meal for a date, yes back then the ladies would inviter there men friend over and COOK Going out isn’t always necessary. A nice meal, great conversation, perhaps a good movie at home is a wonderful date.

Also, there’s nothing like a good ole house party w/you and your Boo. Wait, boo isn’t old school…LOL…w/you and your main squeeze!

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

Bunny DeBarge - A Dream

Last night I dreamed That you were here with me And we were in each others arms It was oh so heavenly You held me close to you And whispered in my ear “Let’s build a life together Share love beyond compare”

As we danced to the melody We had so much to share (then the music stopped) In a flash I was all alone (it was just a dream) Haunting me once again

Chorus: A dream, of simple fantasy That I, wished was reality That you’d, come knocking at my door And we’d, relive this dream once more

The day you left You said you would return Just when you wouldn’t promise Said you needed time alone You said you loved me and Someday our love could be I couldn’t understand it I thought we were both happy

As we danced to the melody We had so much to share (then the music stopped) In a flash I was all alone (it was just a dream) Haunting me once again

(Chorus 2x)

Hold me Love me With all your heart

Ohh come back Please make my dream come true for me I need so much for you to see I need you to love me once again

By Foots

November 7, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

Rell it is just if you lead with the romance then you will fall into the friend zone or be labelled the nice guy

Nah, those were the guys I was the most crazy about. Some romantic men end up in the friend zone because they didn’t take the time to find out whether the woman was interested in them in the first place. Where there is attraction and opportunity between two people, the friend zone doesn’t exist.

What old school dating would you like to see make a comeback?

I’d say, taking your time getting to know someone. I’m tired of some men today having the “if I ain’t got in her draws in two weeks, I’m out” mentality. Dan is right, it does require more commitment to date old-fashioned, because you’re putting more of your time and yourself into seeing if something can develop. Your main focus is on that person.

I do miss the days when you could tell what kind of person a man/woman was by knowing which family they came from. You almost knew what you were getting before you got it. Nowadays, nearly everyone you meet is from somewhere else and nobody knows them but you.

Do you think that you could ever make it happen in your present day dating life?

I tend to gravitate towards men with a good mix of old-school and new-school values. Old-school as in being chivalrous, hard-working, patient and kind….new-school as in being able to support me in my endeavors as I support him.

By lady j

November 7, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

Cemeeli dont like him playing bad men roles…it creeps me out!!! LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Hey Truth sweetie.

Gotta get at cha bout them 70’s..since you say dayum them. How about with today’s flamboyant he/she, she/he -s in this here ‘new school’. Oh and on the DL folks so prevelent now. I ain’t knocking the ‘new’ (cause i’m living it). But if i could prefer… Yea, i would prefer 70’s.

I love you too. Kekekeke…

By lady j

November 7, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

Training Day was rough for me to! Great Movies though!!! Old school and street is two different concepts to me…lol

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

@truth….nothing to report here homie..i am cool, but i see my radical stance may paint me as a hater or narrowmind…as told to me by someone i RESPECT dearly….so to not make myself or my views seem like BULL ISH..i will just chill and only serve the FLUFF from now on…note - i am not that foolish to believe that all black women disrespect black men, i know there are some or let me say a majority of the over 35 crowd that are ride or die.but i have been only adding my view to make some take note…like let me see if i do that….in no way shape or form was it meant to ruffle feathers…thats….but dont worry from now on..while i blog here…i am KISSING ARSE….ONE LOVE!!

By Mo (now known as Moeisha)

November 7, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Truth kisses to you babe! How are you?

Cemeeli as a 70’s baby, I agree with you! Too bad we can only hear stories about that kind of romance! But I will take my old school music and whatnot in the meantime!

Lady J What’s up Chica!!

RELL Keep it up!!

By Beautiful

November 7, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Bunny DeBarge - A Dream, now that’s a panty dropper!!! lol.

By aaa

November 7, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

Is Rell Gay? Cant tell if man or woman

By aaa

November 7, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

Women couldnt deal with dating back in the day, Men didnt have nice cars or money. LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

ladyj it’s cool…you prefer Denzel in more of a ‘role model’ role. I see, i see where you are.

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

Rell, you go soft playboy, I’mma call you out! I feel you on taking to heart some ism from true fam, but the rest……kinfolk, you know!

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

Prom song for someone….lol

Luther - Only for one Night…R.I.P

LET ME HOLD YOU TIGHT IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT LET ME KEEP YOU NEAR TO EASE AWAY YOUR FEAR IT WOULD BE SO NICE IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT

I WON’T TELL A SOUL NO ONE HAS TO KNOW IF YOU WANT TO BE TOTALLY DISCREET I’LL BE AT YOUR SIDE IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT

YOUR EYES SAY THINGS I NEVER HEAR FROM YOU AND MY KNEES ARE SHAKIN TOO BUT I’M WILLIN TO GO THRU I MUST BE CRAZY STANDIN IN THIS PLACE BUT I’M FEELING NO DISGRACE

FOR ASKING……

LET ME HOLD YOU TIGHT IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT LET ME KEEP YOU NEAR TO EASE AWAY YOUR FEAR IT WOULD BE SO NICE IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT

I TELL YOU WHAT I NEED IS ONE NIGHT, ONE NIGHT OH (AND OH, OH) WHAT I NEED IS ONE NIGHT, ONE NIGHT OF YOUR LOVE, OF YOU LOVE, OF YOUR LOVIN OOH I’M ASKING…

LET ME TAKE YOU HOME TO KEEP YOU SAFE AND WARM TILL THE EARLY DAWN WARMS UP TO THE SUN IT WOULD BE SO NICE IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT

IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT IF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT iF ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT, NIGHT, NIGHT, YEAH ONE NIGHT IF ONLY FOR ONE………NIGHT

By AmazonRed 2.0

November 7, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

I hope everyone ignores the trolls today.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

@white trash…if you qualified i would say come find out for yourself..but since in this caste systems undesirables do not qualify i would have to say better luck next time….now shut up talking to me bench!!!

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

@Rell* dayum you got me cracking with that song..up…I love you baybeh..im sorry…I see your points as well…One night yeah seems I need one of those obviously hunh..this celibacy (sp) s** is over rated…..LMAOFF…

By Dan

November 7, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

Old School Dating

Anything by Luther (RIP!) Can I take you out tonight? A house is not a home

Whatever he sang on a grainy tape (or record wow I’m old) and just sitting on the couch kissing.

Anyone remember kissing til your lips were swole? What happened to that? That’s what I miss.

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

A Red….I know right…..must be a miserable soul to start the morning off with negative, dumb shyt!

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

Lots to do the one weekend I’m in town 11/17.

Play Date? Soul Bowl Lounge? Omegas Founders Day Parties? Nupe party?

Too many choices!

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

@2c, not going soft homie…but for me i can take it..accept and analyze my behavior..maybe just maybe..i am coming off that way..so i will chill…i am not mad or tender about it…but i can do that..feel me…me and that women will ALWAYS be cool..no matter what..feel me…that is to the grave

By lady j

November 7, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

We only just begun the romance is not over!!!!!

My ex husband told me the book to American Ganster is much better…gots to find it…lol

By The Truth

November 7, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

Ladyj thats whats so cool about the dude. He makes you forget he’s Denzel and he becomes that charchter. Sorry you didn’t like it. I loved it.

Simi she/she’s he/she’s, dl, and all the other groups aren’t a part of my world. They’re free to do their thang but The Truth doesn’t do balls. Actually all these extremes make quality that much more apparent. Notwithstanding For Reals explaination of quality.

REFLECTION and slightly off topic: When I was about 11 or 12 I saw these 2 neighborhood dudes fight. Billy Markham and Poppa (Named because at 16 he already had 2 kids). Those 2 dudes walked up to each other, looked each other in the eyes and went at it. They were throwing knuckles something fierce ( this is from the viewpoint of a 11/12 year old). When it was over they looked each other in the eye and walked away. Those 2 cats had all the women even before the fight. Not because of their ability to fight but because of the heart these dudes had. Alot of dudes aren’t cut like that nowadays. They come from behind you and steal you. Even in the pen alot of dudes stole cats from behind. My point is heart is heart. The same dude that would steal a dude from behind will walk on his responsibilties. A stand up dude is gonna stand rain or shine. REFLECTION OVER. LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

LOL @ Dan - kissing til your lips were swole? Uumm, no i’ve never got the swole lips from kissing.

By AmazonRed 2.0

November 7, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

I’m with you Dan, Luther happens to be my all time favorite artist!!!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

Dan…..what you know ‘bout that tongue kissing…..in FL, we used to say, “Did you pull her tongue?”

By Atlanta Pearl Girl

November 7, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

I simply LOVE the idea of old school dating. To be truthful….it’s traditions like the above that are romantic and really give your kids great memories…….

It’s great for adults too!

Atlanta Pearl Girl

By lady j

November 7, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

Truth the movie was GREAT!!!!! I am going to look at the series tonight after listening to the TJMS and the writer who talked!!! I am interesting in learning more about Frsnk Lucas!!!! Dezel was great!!! As ALWAYS!!!

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

Hey Truth OF COURSE!! You think your Simi is left field with it. NO. I’m just bring up what wasn’t so LIVE back then. That crap is sickening to say the least.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

@dan..kissing until your lips were swole..that was called mono…lol, but yeah good times until you woke up in the morning with sore balls…lol

@Jazzy…luv you as well lady..its good, today is my day to be checked..i stand corrected today!

Boy i caugt alot of swole lips to this

Quincy Jones- Secret Garden

Intro) Tell me your secret I don’t just want to know about any secret of yours… Because tonight I want you to learn all about the secrets In your garden

(Verse 1) I wanna read your mind, know you deepest feelings I wanna make it right for you Baby, show me Let me share the mystery, oh… Listen to your heart tonight Make it alright, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Verse 2) I know a melody that we could sing together I?ve got the secret key to you, baby Let?s make music Harmonizin? ecstasy Come on, sing it to me

(Bridge) Here in the garden Where temptation feels so right Passion can make you fall for what you feel In the garden We can make it come alive Every night, oh, woman Your secret garden, hoo…, hoo…, hoo…, hoo…

(Verse 3) I need to be with you, let me lay beside you Do what you want me too all night Gonna hold you Ooh, baby, can I touch you there I can keep you satisfied, baby Ooh, ooh-wee, ooh-wee, baby Please, baby, oh, darlin?

(Verse 4) I?ll take good care of you That?s what a man is supposed to do And I?ll be there for you all the time Let your hair down Let me get you in the mood Come on, take me, take me with you

(Bridge) Into the garden Where temptation feels so right Passion can make you fall for what you feel In the garden We can make it come alive Every night, oh, woman Here in the garden

(Bridge) And I never wanted anyone I never wanted anyone as much as I, as much as I want you I want you to show me, I want you to tell me how you feel All the secrets

(Outro) If you think I am gonna take care of you If you think I have got what you need Sho? you right

If you think I am gonna be good to you If you think I like what you do Sho? you right

If you think I am gonna take care of you If you think I have got what you need Sho? you right

If you think I am gonna be good to you If you think I like what you do Sho? you right

If you think I am gonna take care of you If you think I have got what you need Sho? you right

If you think I am gonna be good to you If you think I like what you do Sho? you right

If you think I am gonna take care of you If you think I have got what you need Sho? you right If you think I am gonna be good to you…

By lady j

November 7, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

ok Cemeeli….

ARED why my cripple self going try to make two of those functions!!!!!! lol I get a walking cast today and I am going to hit the streets!!! LOL

By abc

November 7, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

It seems to me that most of what yall are referring to as ‘old school’ has simply to do with being real and sincere, rather than running some game to get laid and take advantage of the other person, male or female. If there is an ‘old school’ of dating (and I rather doubt there is) it has not to do with being genuine. If there is a ‘new school’ of dating, my impression is that it mostly has to do with superficiality.

By Weather Man

November 7, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

I LIKE TURTLES

By China Doll

November 7, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

Hello Gang, it’s been awhile. I just wanted to chime in about ole school dating.

I think that you still can have it in 2007. It’s all about who you are and who you attract. Now, you may have go through a few leisure suits, Fedora’s w/feathers, Stacy Adams and several visits to the Crow’s Nestto get it, but it’s still out there. LOL

By Weather Man

November 7, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

I LIKE TURTLES

By The Truth

November 7, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

Rell I don’t want you to hold your tongue. You speak the truth but you and I know a chick can only dispespect you if you let her. I don’t see you taking it that way so I assume your statements are genralizations. Cool enugh dude.

AAA you gotta come better than that. I’m still waiting on some background info on you. Contrary to news reports all black men aren’t gay and thinking so makes you a lame.

OK, ev1 with comcast try channel 907, Smooth R&B. Commercial free and the best music I’ve ever heard. Plus I have Sirius and don’t like the commercials. LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Truth/ladyj

That movie is going in my collection as SOON as the DVD is released. YEA the real one. Lol….

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

Good morning Everyone!

Do you think that you could ever make it happen in your present day dating life? This is an easy answer for me today, since I am in the over 40 crowd. I never expected less for myself simply because the men I encountered had changed. I still expect honesty, integrity, respect, fidelity…for a man to make love to my mind. Fortunately, my SO and I are not 100% tainted by our past relationships. Therefore, we do not feel we have to compromise who we are to get what we want in a relationship. I think we both agree that what we have now is what we have always wanted. Not to say that we have a perfect, blissful relationship 24/7 but rather, we are willing to give and take what is necessary to make it work.

Modern romance vs old fashioned romance - which one works best? Give me old-fashioned romance any day! People had a different set of values and morals during that time. Society and the family structure have changed. With all the rotations and dating rules today, isn’t “modern romance” an oxymoron of sorts? Is it common practice to truly romance? Men and women are capable of bedding several people at one time while they search for “the one.” Hmmmph. Men think that if a woman expects him to pay for their outing, she is a gold digger. Double Hmmmph The games, lies, insecurities and unrealistic expectations cloud the dating scene, in my humble opinion.

What old school dating would you like to see make a comeback? The honor of being a virgin when you get married.

By Dan

November 7, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

Old School Dating

Anything by Luther (RIP!) Can I take you out tonight? A house is not a home

Whatever he sang on a grainy tape (or record wow I’m old) and just sitting on the couch kissing.

Anyone remember kissing til your lips were swole? What happened to that? That’s what I miss.

By Brooklyn

November 7, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

Morning blog.

I may be young but I do prefer old school dating. I love being wooed by a man and from what I hear of it, I think old school dating was alot more….real. Like you said, Wise, to a certain degree, men had to use their perosnality to get a woman, not so much the materialistic things. And there was such a thing as courting, drive in movies: all those romantic things that I am a sucker for. (Sigh)

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

abc ole school?? you would never understand it…had to be there…

I miss the house parties..wang dang doodles we called them the most fun I ever had in life…..singing in the basement turned into a lounge by classmates…chanting the roof..the roof..we don’t need no water let the M&^ f**a burn…

By Willie Dynamite

November 7, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Old school definitely. Back then it was easier to separate the real from the simps. No fluff like it is today. You spent alot of time just straight up talking or walking. You had time to get to know someone. Nowadays the game has changed so it is very possible to put in that 2 week draws or nothing clause. Now I gotta get a few of those songs out my head. Over here thinking bout how I use to hemm em up at house parties.

2C Mayne I hadn’t heard that in 15 years (pulling tongue). Definitely got FLA on the brain now.

By AmazonRed 2.0

November 7, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

I’ve never gotten swollen lips from kissing. My lips are swollen naturally. LOL

Truth, I love Comcasts’s Smooth R&B. I’ll draw me a nice bubble bath, turn on 907 and let the day just melt away!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

Rell, thanks for that song. Other than “All I Do”, that’s one of my favorites. However, I prefer Melisa Morgan’s version better than Prince’s.

By lady j

November 7, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

Mine too Cemeeli!!!!!!!!!!!!! When Denzel/Frank walked up and killed Idris I was blown away!!!!! I knew it was a character but all i could say was DENZEL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! lol

By Brooklyn

November 7, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

Morning blog.

I may be young but I do prefer old school dating. I love being wooed by a man and from what I hear of it, I think old school dating was alot more….real. Like you said, Wise, to a certain degree, men had to use their personality and appeal to get a woman, not so much the materialistic things. And there was such a thing as courting, drive in movies: all those romantic things that I am a sucker for. (Sigh)

By lady j

November 7, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Lasdies I like the new joint by Chaka Khan!!!! Dont know the name of it but when I here it it is the bomb!!!!

By BLAT

November 7, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

**By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 9:04 AM |

^^^…funny thing is that it never left….it is just if you lead with the romance then you will fall into the friend zone or be labelled the nice guy….all the while sterling is beating a hole in her azz and eating her leftovers while she washes up….lol

**

STANDING UP IN CHURCH OF THE MLB CLAPPIN MY HANDS FOR RELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Foots

November 7, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

Dan Anyone remember kissing til your lips were swole? What happened to that? That’s what I miss.

Oh goodness!! You brought about a GREAT memory of my senior year in high school. Me and my boyfriend kissed for an entire HOUR one time. I mean, lips connected for the WHOLE time, no deviation to the neck, chest, nothing. Just lips. I had the most swollen lips for days. My lips are very full anyway, so with them swollen, I could pass for the Goodyear Blimp! LOL!! It would have been hard to explain that to my mom, so I just made myself scarce until they went down.

By abc

November 7, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

Jazzy… haha, I’m pretty sure I was there! Ha!

By The Truth

November 7, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

Weather Man I’m glad you found something you like.

LadyJ what happened to you woman? You on injured reserve or something?

Co-signing China Dolls post. Its still out there.

Simi they have been doing some shows on history channel and i think its BET on Frank Lucas. He was a real ballsy dude. He said in one that the only thing he regrets is the lives those drugs took. He really felt bad about some woman who lost her son to his product. At the time it didn’t affect him because he was only focused on the money. Real ballsy dude.

Demetrix not to go back on my previous statements but a guy cant come out and show you his feelings until he’s sure you haven’t played yourself in the past. To do so would be foolish.

By Foots

November 7, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Rell I performed a dance to Prince’s version of “Do Me, Baby” in class last week. You’ll have to see the vid.

I LOVE old school love songs. It’s really all I listen to. Luther, Jeffery, Stephanie, Marvin, Teddy, Patti, Peabo, The System, The Deele, The Dells, Freddie, Lionel, Glenn Jones, George Benson, Gregory Abbott, Howard Hewett, Anita…I keeps my staples on rotation in the iPod.

By lady j

November 7, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Ok folk off to the doc and chk my mail…I am sure this will be an all day event….Yall hear Halley’s movie is the bomb too!!! Things we lost in the Fire!

Peace

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

yes back then the ladies would inviter there men friend over and COOK…seen it with my own eyes…would have all his favorites at the house..yea lets make that come back

Rell Done. What else you got? LOL!

By LuvinLife

November 7, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

Whatever happend with a man asking his girl’s father for her hand in marriage? I’ve had several friends recently get engaged and the man didn’t ask the father for his blessing. I think it’s a great tradition regardless of the couple’s age. Any thoughts?

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

* abc* Oh okay you were the one that was never invited to the house party but stayed outside in the car giving head to all the boys..yeah I remember one in every bunch..

By Foots

November 7, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

Another Old-School Memory: When I was a teenager, my (and my friends’) parents would rather for us to date at home. So we would have Movie Parties with several of us couples, where we would order pizza, eat popcorn, and try to get in as much kissing as we could before my Mama walked back through the room to make sure we weren’t doing anything freaky. LOL!!

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Put in some real work and you get a womans heart. With the heart comes puddy, food, shoulder massages, the whole 9 yards. Now that is the truth. Add to that respect, support, believing in him and his dreams.

By Staceye

November 7, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Rell * black men back then were uplifted and respect by the women…now-a-days…er uhhh..not* thatis because back then deserved it. They were stronger and more responsible then. The respect is lost today because of men slippin’& trippin’!

Jazzyone girrrrl…I COSIGN your 9:09! Preach it sista!

Foots I co-sgn your 9:38.

Ok you guys are taking i back with those songs. Oh my gosh I love 70’s music..but I really love 80’s music. Secret Garden I think will go down as my ultimate favorite panty dropper.

By Joker

November 7, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

Why did the Weather Man cross the road?

He was still attached to the turtle.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

@jewel…never done lady…i have something for you…what would you do THE MORNING AFTER - Frankie B and Maze

Chorus: After the morning after After the night before When all of the fun is over Would you not want me no more

Oh I, I want you, in the worst kind of way I would be lying to you If I said I didn’t want you to stay I’ve got somebody, and you’ve got somebody too What would they think, think about it And what would I think about you I know you think this is right But what happens after tonight Will you be there Will you even care I wanna know all this right now

{Chorus} No more

I know what you’re feeling I’ve been there before How will we know what we are doing And what if we both should want more I know it looks like it’s real But afterwards, how do you feel Will you feel bad, will we both feel sad I wanna know this right now

Chorus 2: After the morning after After the night before When all of the fun is over Will you want me anymore

{Chorus 2} (3x)

By daily lurker

November 7, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Jazzyone, I think abc is a dude, and um ew?

By Dan

November 7, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

@LuvingLife

In many cases there are no fathers in the homes like that.

But I don’t see what’s wrong with asking the oldest male and/or the mother. A friend of mine just got married and did just that.

Anyone remember when your boy/girlfriend was over the door accidentally got closed (and locked).

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

ole school memory… waking up one morning in ealry teens and putting on a pair of brand spanking new Gloria Vanderbilt jeans with the red and green swan on the coin pocket looking it the mirror and realizing I grew hips and boobs overnight…. LMAOFF

By Willie Dynamite

November 7, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Jazz That hasn’t changed at all. They call em Blockheads now. too funny!!!

By Bella

November 7, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

I’m suuuuuuuper old-fashioned anyway, and it’s served me well in my dating life. It weeds out the men who are just looking for a quick hook-up and allows me to date men who are gentlemen and truly enjoy my company!

lol…this blog makes me think of Pride and Prejudice for some reason — and all the dances they attended to meet suitors!

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

A house is not a home Dan Talk about old school charm…I went to the O’Jay’s, Jeffrey Osborne, and The Whispers concert back in February. One of the hosts went into the audience asking men to sing to their lady/wife/mistress. LOL! Whoever was with them that night. This man sang “A House is Not a Home” to his wife. They recently had a baby and were out for the first time since the birth. You could hear the love, passion and appreciation towards her in his voice.

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

@ Jewel - I follow…Cooking DONE! I hav eno problem.

@ Foots - i’m going to add to your 10:51 memory and say while mamma/dad was still at work after school trying to get in a kiss. I’m sure i’m not the only one.

By AmazonRed 2.0

November 7, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Reading your old school memories have let me to one conclusion:

Y’all were some fast azzes! LOL

By Dan

November 7, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

@Staceye

I think that your statement Back then they deserved respect… is bogus. And here’s why.

Meeting a man and dating him you get to know that man. To generalize and say that men of this generation haven’t earned respect is kinda foul.

Personally, being a third generation b*******, I am dead for real about taking care of my kids (when I get them). So to assume that none of us have failed to recognize the past and are working to stop it, is kinda f*&87ed up.

By Wise Diva

November 7, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

Hey everyone! I am feeling SO nostalgic reading all the comments! Old school and traditional dating and mating, in a lot of ways, those were simpler times!

By Foots

November 7, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

LuvinLife Hmmmm…. The married folks I know, in most cases, that did happen. I know that my sister’s husband called our dad before he proposed, and my friend who just got engaged, he did call her father. It was a very sweet and respectful tradition, if the father is around to call…

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

and another one

The whispers - get you in the mood

Feel much like romancing How’d you like to wine and dine I’d like to take you dancin’ Candle lights and dinner {We’ll both relax}

We’ll dance to sweet music How about some Marvin Gaye Feel like some sexual healing Just relax and let me do, let me do things my way

This is what I do (I wanna do it) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood This is what I do to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood

This is what I do to get you in the mood (Ooh…ooh…)

Let me rub your shoulders {Just relax} Just let go Slip on somethin’ sexy It’s all right, baby, let me take control, hoo

Step into the shower I’ll wash your back and you’ll wash mine Please stay for one more hour I just want to make sweet love to you and feel you one more time

This is what I do (This is what I do) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood (I wanna get you in the mood, baby) This is what I do (I wanna do it) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood (Yeah, baby)

This is what I do (Woo) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood This is what I do (I wanna do it) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood (Ooh…ooh…)

Hoo…

This is what I do (I’ll do) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood This is what I do (I wanna do it) to get you in the mood (We could take a shower, give you lovin’ by the hour) Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood

This is what I do (I’ll do it just for you, baby) to get you in the mood Baby, I’ll do it all to get you in the mood

By abc

November 7, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this

Oh, puh-leeeeze. Resort to such mindless insults if you can’t offer a meaningful thought, if you must.

Were the 1970’s not the setting for the sexual revolution, the one where sex won? Do you suppose that something you call ‘House Parties’ are strictly a relic from that era? How provincial.

Were people more genuine in the 1970’s? Sure, but that’s across the board, not just as relates to dating and romance. For instance, politics wasn’t best described as beating the public over the head with an insulting catch-phrase or slogan back then, until they believed that’s all that mattered — say ‘flip-flopper’, ‘race-baiter’, come up with some more of your own. The nation wasn’t consumed by the paradigm that all one must do is repeat the same lie enough that people come to believe it’s true. I suppose that sort of thing can be said to carry over into dating and other personal relationships.

By Wise Diva

November 7, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

oh my man will definitely need to see Pops for permission to marry me. If he manages to even survive the meet the parents meeting, and he won’t run for the hills from my father the gangster minister, he will understand that asking for my hand (as old as it will probably be!) is a definite must do prior to his proposal.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

could be the blog theme song for hooking up - INSIDE MY LOVE - MINNIE

Two people, just meeting Barely touching each other Two spirits greeting Trying to carry it further You are one and I am another We should be one inside each other

You can see inside me Will you come inside me? Do you wanna ride inside my love? You can see inside me Will you come inside me? Do you wanna ride inside my love?

Two strangers, not strangers only lacking the knowing So willing, feeling, infinite growing

While we’re here the whole world is turning We should be one Fulfilling our yearning

You can see inside me Will you come inside me? Do you wanna ride inside my love? You can see inside me Will you come inside me? Do you wanna ride inside my love?

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

TONGUE-KISSING!? *It’s called FRENCH KISSING!!! LOL! Your friends would ask, “Did you french kiss him?” LOL!

Stop with all these posts! I’m trying to catch up!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

Anybody has jokes today…I need to laugh!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

old school memories?

‘member them Sergio Valenti jeans, you ironed them one time and had a crease for life?

By Wise Diva

November 7, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

hey Bella!, I love Pride and Prejudice, the books, the films, I even loved the Bollywood version Bride and Prejudice, LOL.

Lots of dating and romance lessons in it. I should blog about some of them in more detail, actually, hmm.

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

All this ole school talk with Anthony Hamilton in the plugin again today which adds to some old but new artists.

“Change Your Whole World” anutha one of my faves. …just adding to the song list.

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

abc Oh, puh-leeeeze. Resort to such mindless insults if you can’t offer a meaningful thought, if you must. Your words, use them sometimes aww don’t be mad you are an outsider..LOL..

many of us remember the house parties as fun and sex wasn’t on the minds of many at that age..but I can see where your mind was, outside in the parking lot giving head like I said…

By Foots

November 7, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

Amazon LOL!! You might be right.

Cemeeli Girl!! I got caught one day with my boyfriend in the house. We were outside talking and that was cool, but he asked for some Kool-Aid and we both went into the house. I’m looking around making sure that no neighbors were watching, I was so nervous. Just then, we heard the garage door go up and it was my mama. We were like “Oh hellz no!!!” I made him hide in the bathroom while I tried to calmly explain to my mother that he was in the house and why.

Even though we didn’t even get a chance to THINK about doing anything, I was still on 2 weeks “punishment” for that one.

Oh, the memories of being on “punishment”! I was on punishment for something or other from about age 14 through 17. My mom got me my own phone line for my 14th birthday, so that she could get a chance to use the phone sometimes. I didn’t even get a chance to use it for 6 months because she took my phone! LOL!! But what she didn’t know is that I had bought my own phone and I only plugged it in at night with the ringer off, and I cleverly ran the long cord under the dresser to under my bed, and covered the inches of exposed wire with a haphazardly placed towel. I was actually on the phone EVERY night and there was no extension for her to pick up and find me out!!! Too slick for my own good, I was…

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

Diva, I’ve already talked to Rev. Shotgun, we’re currently negotiating that dowry amount……

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Rell Minnie was the ultimate too bad she passes so young..my mom used to have her voice bellowing thru the hallways in the crib…the good ole days…

Sexy you okay??

2 heyal yeah sergies were the shyt and Jordache jeans..man the good ole days..or how about Bill Blass ladies…or am I the only one that wore those…LOL???!!!

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Amazon - i haven’t hear fast azz in a while. LOL

By Kym-Proud Steeler Nation Member since 1994

November 7, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

Good Morning All,

Old Skool Dating reminds me of…

Sweaty hands, school dances, the Prep, the Smurf and giant boomboxes. Hightop fades and Kid n Play. A party where no one went home stabbed or shot. Playing hide and go get until the sunset, and then catching lighting bugs in a jar. Passion Marks on your neck and chest. Try explain why you are wearing that turtle neck. Sneaking in late, meeting for dates at the mall.
Wearing his class ring, and sneaking kisses in the hall. Passing notes in class that say.. Do you love me..Check yes or no. Dating Old Skool was cute, innocent, slow and easy not fast. Cant remember ever once having someone say hey can I tap that a*?

Now back to your regularly scheduled blog already in progress.

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

AR* yeah kinda but my daddy answering the door with his shotgun shut all that fastness down…

How about ole school scating songs Rell remember those says skating so hard your hair would be white from teh powder off the floor meanwhile you still go round and round thinking you cute and have no idea youlook like a fool till hrs later…

By abc

November 7, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

Jazzy, I don’t know what you’re problem is, but I’ll bet it’s difficult to pronounce. Tell you what, I’ll try being nicer if you can try being smarter. Perhaps if you had an actual point to make, it would help you to think of a way to say it.

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

Foots, yeah you just brought up another memory….damn a cell phone, you were the joint if you had a phone in your room, with your own line!

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

Relly Rell If you want to serenade me with Frankie Beverly, try “Before I Let Go”

You made me happy This you can bet You split right beside me, yeah And I won’t forget

And I really love you You should know I wanna make sure I’m right, girl Before I let go

Now we’ve had our good time That’s what they say We’ve hurtin’ each other Girl, it’s a shame

I won’t be foolish, no, no I wanna know I wanna make sure I’m right, girl, oh Before I let go, yeah, uh

You know I thank God sun rises and shines on you You know there’s nothin’, nothin’, nothin’ I would not do

By The Truth

November 7, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

I asked mt exes father before I asked her. He was a real cool dude and still is. He knew how I rolled though and we never bumped heads over it. As I said we courted, dated, long walks, snow shopping, talking at restaurants for 3 hours. The thing is thats what I do with any woman I’m seeing. Its the only way I know how to get down. What else is there?

I am so feeling ARED and her 907 right about now. (Reaches out to touch ared, lol) I kick this all day long except to check out espn.

Hi Sexy how are you woman?

By Mo (now known as Moeisha)

November 7, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

Rell.com you are doing your thing boo! Kepp’em coming! I am lovin it!! I LOVE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC!!!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

The memories of being on punishiment. I was always on punishment it seemed for my sassiness. The Temptations “When Poppa Was a Rolling Stone” immediately comes to mind. My mother was dating a man I did not like. She was hosting some type of party. I was around the age of 14, thinking I’m cute and all that. Not many people had arrived when the song came on. My mother was standing behind the bar in the corner of the living room. When the phrase “poppa had two outside children and another wife” came on I belted it out a bit too loud for Mama. She slapped me into next month!

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Foot/Amazon See fast azz Foots at her grandma’s house cuase mama and dad is going to beat her for posting that she not only snuck her teenage guy in the house n got caught, but also the fact that she broke punishment and bought a phone and talked on it ANYWAY!!!

By Foots

November 7, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

Kym Cant remember ever once having someone say hey can I tap that a-?

LOL!!! That’s true! But I do remember hearing “If you love me, you’ll do it…” and “Let me give you a massage…wait a minute! Your shirt is in the way!” LMAO!!

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

Cemeeli, “fast azz” was all I could offer. Can’t really participate in this discussion today. I’m not part of the old school.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

@kym cosign…and i can still do the kick step….lol…wearing the class ring was like back off nic ga before i put you to sleep…lol..yep but what was more powerful than a class ring..the LETTER JACKET, ooo you knew then if you were in the same crowd once she had the letter jacket on….lol….but my favorite old school memory is squeeze arse in the hallway like ooooooooo girl it is soft or it looks good in those jeans..or telling my boys such and such let me grip that arse today…lol

By SexyCool

November 7, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

old school dating reminds me of…writing love notes in history class…holding hands in the hallway at school…hunching behind the cafeteria…leaning against the side of his daddy’s lincoln in front of my grandma’s house…my first time receiving candy and balloons at school for valentines day…hiding my hickies until i got on campus…all them marianna boys the chipley girls used to crush on…and losing my virginity one sunday afternoon while i was supposed to be at church…

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

SexyLeggs……and that ain’t right…..so mama, I’m depending on you…..

By Staceye

November 7, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

Foots you sneaky lil’ devil! From one to another…Great Criminal mind!LOL Ok…my mami would let me have sleep overs..but boys were allowed to come over but were supposed to leave at a decent hour. But my mami was so cool she hung out with us and then if it go too late she told the boys to call their parents and she would let them know that it was ok for them to sleep in the living room because she would feel awful if something happened to them on the train going home. The parents were ok with that..so they would not have to pay $20+ to get them home by cab.We never treid anything because we did not want to lose my mami’s trust and not be able to have parties again. Ah…the good old days! LOL

Dan Respect…lujst as trust is earned..not given. I always assume the worst of someone so if they mess up..I am NOT shocked. But if they prove me wrong..hey, even better!

Rell The Whispers is my other favorite. Ooh..that is another knicker-dropper! And Inside my Love..wow!

Wise Diva Gangster Minister? Wow! LOL

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By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

Truth, get your hand out my pocket. LOL

Did you know you could listen to 907 on your computer if you have Comcast internet too?

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

Jazzy/Truth, hey. Just feeling a little down today. You know we all talk the talk of not wanting to date and being fine with it. If you are truly honest w/yourself somedays you just feel crappy about it. Acknowledge it and pull yourself up. That’s what I’m doing. It’s all good! Now, if you really want to be honest, for those of us not dating, sometimes feeling crappy usually means = my honey pot needs tickling. Hey being real knowing this too shall pass. Let’s get back to being nostalgic….ok…I’ve made my own self laugh!

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Hey Sexyleggs (since Thks Gvng is vastly approaching) give mama thanks for those ever so timely slapbacks. Remember them? When your mouth became to grown for you own good. Mama would give you a SLAPBACK. I can feel the heat now from one or two of them myself.

By Foots

November 7, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Rell LETTER JACKET??!? Manye, what about those Starter Jackets?!? I saw a White Raiders Starter in this store in Jacksonville two sizes too big. It was all I wanted for Christmas that year, so my mom took me back to get it. I was the only one in school with a White Starter jacket and all the guys were sweating me, but I only wore it to school three times cause I didn’t want to get it dirty!! LOL!!

Amazon I’m old school, because I grew up in the 80s. You’re just a year behind me. You remember Cross Colors, right? LOL

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

Sexy Cool……..hahahahah, not them Marianna boys!!!! shoot, for us, it was them St. Joe, and Vernon girls; did you ever go to one of those block parties they had (and still have) in St. Joe?

By Staceye

November 7, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

Kym grat trip down Memory lane! Mine included Ice skating in Central Park and Rockerfeller Center with the Tree lighting, boat ride parties around Manhattan in the summer..oh and running through the parks sprinklers or the block’s hydrant while it’s on full blast, then getting shaved ice cups and italian icees that turn your lips red and blue!

Sexycool you are a bad mutha…shut yo’ mouth! LOL

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

Thanks 2C for putting that in there because I meant to type it. Man, my face hurt for days. Every time I hear that song I think of that dang slap. I’ve always got slapped for speaking the truth. She was dating a married man and I didn’t like it. However, belting it out at HER party was not the place…LOL

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

You got that right Cemeeli…LOL. However, my mother had the fastest hands in The Bronx. My last slap came at the age of 25. Yes indeedy!!! I was at the airport waiting to pick my mother up. When we got outside the terminal I realized my car was towed. I said “aww shyt and “F….”. Well, my mother slapped me right there on the curb for cussing. I was dumbfounded. I shouted right there and then “Mama, you have got to stop this. I’m 25…lordy, lordy, lordy. That was my last slap. Thank goodness!

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

Foots, growing up in the 80s does not make you old school!

You’re gonna get it from the real old school heads.

We’re from that New Jack Swing era. That’s not old school…yet. LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

Amazon Can you say…full cirlce. As my would momma say: Chile what you THINK you doing or trying to trick me, I invented it!

Then i walk away with the Dang Ma u mess up everything! (in my inner voice of course)

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

@Sexyleggs Real truth!! Sometimes it does get like that. I mentioned that honey pot thang earlier girl I’m so with you right now….Imma be alright tmarra’ tho..

My moms was good about slapping that face she was a pro at it..those weee the days of no child abuse just getting a whippin and snatched up int he colar set a kid straight for an hour or more.

Or my grandmothers hand..that woman had a mean left hand..coould slap you into another color…

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Those days of going through the fire hydrants were so much fun. I took my daughter home when she was 6. This was a first time running through the fire hydrants. I have a picture of her running thorugh here on my desk that I look at everyday. She was too happy (albeit the bottom of her feet were pitch black and had to be cleaned w/a toothbrush). I was amazed because I certainly didn’t remember all that black soot on our feet. Staceye, Staceye, not the shaved ice and real Italian icees….I’m gonna cry!…LOL

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

**Does anybody remember when the ‘tuxedo’ style came out? Izod? 10-button Henley shirts?

Kym Passion marks were a badge of honor!

Every guy wanted to be like Mike…Michael Jackson in Thriller (before he became white) red jacket, jheri curl and white glove

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Foots/Amazon Please I’m 80’s too. I can only add to the 70’s because my mom and pop gave me GREAT stories about there youngin years. I absolutly love how they were. I got even some of the bad weed stories from my dad. But mostly he was really a cool cat. AND I hear my mamma the finest, blackest thang. With her self.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

Old school for me is the first time i heard sugar hill gang, fixing a coat hanger on my boombox to pick up the a.m. rap station. fighting at the bus stop..bus games - punch buggy…iceburgs in the summer(frozen kool-aid in a cup)..cassette tapes….cement wieght sets….pitbull fights..EK/GEZZELLES..black micky mouse shirts…african medallions..crome fender trim on the side spelling words on the cars..

By Wise Diva

November 7, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

Did you guys hear/read about the guy who was looking for a woman he spotted on a train in NY? He didn’t approach her and she got off the train, so he decided to create a website to find her.

Now, that is old school meets new school, right? WOW!!

By China Doll

November 7, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Ole School Memory

I remember being a Jr. High dance and grinding with my boyfriend til he almost lost it in his jeans. And I remember my pelvic area being real sore.

I also remember ducking behind the bushes to grind and kiss on the walk home from school.

One of my fondest memories is when I was in 9th grade, we went to the school library as a class to watch the Learning Tree by Gordan Parks. The lights were off and my boyfriend stuck his hand down my blouse, cause he wanted to see what my breat felt like. LOL

I also remember around the holidays we would go to my aunts house and all of the kids would be in back room. And we were afraid because of those glow in the dark zodiack posters on the wall and my older cousin had a huge azz fish net hanging over his bed and beads for a closet door. The whole house smelled like weed and incense. LOL

By DuShawn

November 7, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

The old school stuff I miss is being able to walk on Haulover beach at night with out a pistol. Back then, when you returned to your car, it would be just as you left it. Try it now, your windows are broken, radio gone and whip sitting on bricks. I also miss robbing the neighbor’s mango, Chinese plum and star apples trees as a kid and the Ghetto Style DJ’s jammin on African Square Park every saturday.

By Staceye

November 7, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Sexyleggs girl I was only allowed to wear jellies when hydrant running! So I never had the soot foot! LOL Oh you remember Coco Rico…pure sugar, Mister Softee. Ah..I miss those!

Oh yeah..my granny was and still is the Queen of the Backsmack!

By Foots

November 7, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Amazon When you think of it, that was over 20 years ago. New Edition has been together for 25 years now, is that not unreal? The 90s were the New Jack Swing years. I do have an “old soul” though, I get it from my mama playing all the hits from the 60s and 70s while I was in the crib, the actual crib. But as long as you can say that you didn’t have to ride around in a car seat when you were a baby and you can remember an actual activity you did with your friends as youngster simply called “going walking” (as in, “Hey ma, can I go walking with Amazon?”), I think you’re old school! LOL!

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Cemeeli, both of my parents were disc jockeys in the 70s and 80s so you know they were fly. We had a great album collection too.

By Jewel

November 7, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

Foots We can make you an Honorary Member of the Real Ole School. You have a wise old head. LOL!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

JazzyOne, keeping it real. Sometimes Mary and her five fingers won’t cut so you simply ignore and move right along.

Ok, old school dating. My dumba$$ cousin snuck a boy in the house and hid him in her bedroom closet. He stayed in there so long he feel asleep and they got caught sneaking him OUT OF THE HOUSE. We still laugh at that to this day.

By Willie Dynamite

November 7, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Dayumm I miss hide and go get, hunching and all that. Grabbing Azzes in the hallways. We had a list of who had the softest azz in the school. I have to look back on that now and say yess I was Mannish as hellz.

Remember them first Jordans and Members Only jackets. The Blue and white Adidas jogging suit. That black Miami Heat Starter with the hat to match. I was just telling my son about the street lights coming on and the azz whuppings I use to get because of it. He actually called his Grandma because he couldn’t believe it. She is definitely not the same woman that raised me.

By China Doll

November 7, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

You’ll are making me long for the dayz of old. The innocence of it all.

I was in the band, so on the away trips we always sat in the back of the bus and on the way back, switch seats so we could sit with a cute guy. We always had a blanket near and we would feel on each other under the blanket on the dark school bus. The boys always tried to put a finger in the “honey pot.” The girls were always interested in the size and lenght.

That’s when I learned the difference between circumsized and uncircumsized. LOL. Awh…the memories.

By Page1908

November 7, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

LOL @ Cross Colors, African Medallions, and high top fades.

My old school memory was my mom writing a note to the man at the corner store saying, “Please give my daughter one pack of Kool’s. Thank you” and giving me $2.25 to buy them. That was back in the day when you didn’t have to show your ID to by cigarette’s…lol. I’m from the West Coast, so I used to ride my blue Beach Cruiser up to the store to get mom’s cigarette’s and a pack of Fun Dip for me that I used to pour into my hand, regardless of whether or not my hands were clean, and licked every bit of it…LOL.

I also used to eat Pop Rocks, Chico Sticks, and of course, Mexican candy.

By Foots

November 7, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

Rell iceburgs in the summer(frozen kool-aid in a cup)..

Now, you KNOW you can’t mention that without mentioning where you got them from… THE CANDY LADY!!! She lived right across the street from my Big Mama’s house!

And what about sneaking late at night to listen to old Richard Pryor comedy albums cause you KNOW your parents would kill you if they knew you heard it. I remember my parents and their friends listening to those albums behind closed doors, and all we could hear was the occasional MF. LOL!

DuShawn Man, you brought back memories of picking plums and of having to pick up those dayum pecans at my Big Mama house. She would drive us (in her 12 ft. long Ford LTD with an 8-track) to take the pecans for processing and they would pay by the pound and she let us keep the money.

Speaking of 8-tracks and long cars, I remember long trips with my family, especially that one to Kentucky, in my dad’s baby blue Cadillac DeVille with the pointy lights on the back, listening to big Luther’s Never Too Much 8-track.

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

you’re old school, if……..

your parents sent YOU to the store to buy them cigarettes! And the clerks knew who you were, and what kind of cigarettes your parents smoked!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

China Doll, I absolutely love the Learning Tree, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Imitation of Life.

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

Foots, I guess I’m not old school then. I know I had a car seat and I never “went walking” with my friends. I had my own computer and phone line WITH internet access (any of y’all remember Prodigy?)

I’m from L.A. so maybe we were just advanced. LOL

By Willie Dynamite

November 7, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

DU The first time I got shot at was by an ole white man and his dayum Chinese Plum tree. We use to stang his azz.
Remember stealing/eating Sugar Cane.

By Mo (now known as Moeisha)

November 7, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

China Doll I am co-signing your last post! I was in the band too and that brought back some MEMORIES!!! LOL

Foots Going walking was the ish back in the day. You could do that all day long and have stories to tell!!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

you’re old school if…..

your parents called you from the other room to change the tv channel or simply stand there holding the antenna until you got a better signal.

your parents called you from the other room to get them a glass of water…WTH was that….

By Page1908

November 7, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

LOL OMG 2! Get outta my head, Frat! lol @ mom’s sending you to the store to buy them cigarette’s! ctfu

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

you’re old school if…..

you had “church clothes”

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

Staceye you remember the kicks called “Fred Barnes?** I think that’s the nameof them. I couldn’t afford any.

By Staceye

November 7, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

2C you’re old school, if…….. your parents sent YOU to the store to buy them cigarettes! And the clerks knew who you were, and what kind of cigarettes your parents smoked LMAO…Heck yeah..the Arabs at the bodega knew who I was and what I came to get all the time. Thank God my mom quit smoking over 10 years ago.

By Foots

November 7, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

China Oh Lawd!! Not the band trips!!! Girl, you nailed it!! I got a story for this topic, LOL!!

My boyfriend and I were both in the band and our band director knew we’d probably try to get together on the band trip to Stone Mountain/Six Flags. Since we couldn’t have the opposite sex in the room with the door closed, we staged a party with everybody in one room, then had folks leave out one by one. That way, we could make the director believe that one of us had already come out. We were in there alone for about 35 seconds before he came knocking on the door asking if my boyfriend was in there. He was hiding in the shower.

We finally gave up and admitting that he was in there after the band director refused to leave until I told the truth. We had to go into the director’s room where he called my mama and told her the whole thing. I was in tears. They decided to send us home that night and actually made us pack up and called us a cab. My boyfriend convinced them to let us stay as we were outside waiting on the cab to take us to the Greyhound station. He talked til 3AM to plead our cases. As a condition of letting us stay, we had to ride all the roller coasters at Six Flags, which we did.

When we got home, I was so scared of my mother. She didn’t say anything about it when she came to pick me up so I was thinking that she was going to wait until we got home to commit homicide. So went we got home, I went on the offensive, I tried to explain to her what happened and that I was SO sorry and that it would NEVER happen again. She was like “What? What are you talking about?!?” THAT DAYUM BAND DIRECTOR FAKED THE CALL!!!! HE NEVER REALLY CALLED MY MOM AT ALL!! He was having a one way conversation with a dial tone back at the hotel. I ended up telling on myself and then my mom went to go meet with the band director. She cussed him out too for NOT calling her. That was how I ended up on punishment from about age 15 to 15 and a half! Mr. White, if you’re reading this, I owe you big time for that ish you pulled! LOL!!!!!

By Page1908

November 7, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

LOL Amazon. I’m from L.A., too, so, of course I remember Prodigy. BTW, can you email me with more info on this weekend’s happenings?

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

you’re old school if…….

the “good furniture” still had plastic on it!

By DuShawn

November 7, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Sexy Leggs I do that to my kids now!! “Baby girl, come here and find the remote for your Daddy.”

By Foots

November 7, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

2C your parents sent YOU to the store to buy them cigarettes! And the clerks knew who you were, and what kind of cigarettes your parents smoked!

OKAY!!! I used to have to “go walking” to go to Sing’s Food Store to get my mom cigarettes back in the day.

Amazon Girl, the internet wasn’t even available to common folks when I grew up. But I did have a Tandy computer.

Now if you ever played Oregon Trail on a black and green screen Apple computer and died of dysentery (sp) during the trip, you might qualify as old school. LOL!!

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

hahaha I got one..then dayum now and laters..or that paddle with the ball attatched to it with the string…wow got grounded for many days with that thing..poppin gum before I was slapped to not do that….LOL

Grounded I remember being grounded for summers at a time and to p** us off real torture my parents would take us up to Sandy Pines our motor home place we would be having a ball driving underage only allowed on the motorcycle on the pines and water skiing hanging at the Pavillion with the lil boys and My Sherona pumpin over the pines speakers…came back home and the kids would be like dayum we thought ya moved away ya been gone so long….

fortunatley I appreciate those summer traveling in the motor home across the country…I miss my parents lemme call my Mom and Dad right now…

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

you’re old school if……

you’ve heard of Petey Wheatstraw, The Devil’s son-in-law!….or, “Blacula”….or, anything with Pam Grier in it….

By AmazonRed 2.0

November 7, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Page 1908, if you can shoot me an email addy, I’d be happy to let you in on the haps. The stuff I posted was for 11/17 tho. I do have stuff for this weekend, I’m GOING BACK TO CALI tho!

For the rest of y’all. My mama loved her some Kools! But my daddy would have wrung that azz if she ever asked us to buy them for her!

By Foots

November 7, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

2C You’re old school if….

You couldn’t even walk through the Living Room in your house without your mama getting mad.

If somebody in your family had a Ford Maverick.

You had to pick your own switch to get a spanking with. AND the thickness of your switch depended on how old you were. (My sister had to braid three switches together, I only had to twist two). LOL!!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

you’re old school if…..

you had a “green machine”

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

your old school…if you could not slam the screen door

your old schoo…if you had to go outside and play regardless of weather when the stories came on

your old school if you ate “church candy”..everyone grandmother keep a purse full

your old school if…you ate fried chicken with one side burned from old grease…lol

your old schoo if….you can remeber sleeping on a twin bed head to toe..and then saying..you better not stick your funky feet in my face

your old school if…..you keep batteries in the freezer to extend the life of them

and finally your old school if…you wore biker shorts….i am talking the guys…lol

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

Amazon….Prodigy? whatchu tom’bout…….you’re old school if……

you remember Windows 3.1! or, how to write programs in Basic! or, the 5 1/4 floppies…or 286, 386, and 486DX computers!

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

Foots ohmahgah yes in grandaothers back room listening to old Richard Prior and Red foxx…moms mabely..ow lawd I will never forget Richard Prior saying his Dyck froze up and started looking like a monkeys foot…LOL….

Mom and Dad said hey ya!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this

Rell, you’re old school if…..

you had to hold down the handle on the toilet to flush it.

By Dan

November 7, 2007 1:13 PM | Link to this

You’re old school if..

You had a runner on the carpet. Under the runner was clean, everything else…

You would even think of putting the working TV on top of the floor model.

If can you remember trying to scratch your mama’s Chi-Lite LP, like Jam Master Jay. (I said if you can remember, I don’t remember much past that incoming fist).

If you EVER wore Adiddas without laces.

If you still refer to them as A-D-Das.

If you ever had a track suit, kangol, and/or fat gold chain in any combination.

If you have the school pictures to prove it!

OLD SCHOOL WHAT

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

your old school if…you remember blowing the dust out of nintendo games to make them work

your old school if…you had to get of the phone or be quiet when god was doing his work

your old shool if….you remember the polka dot era

your old school if….you sleep with panty hose on your head…lol

your old school if….you remember snuff….lol

your old school if….you remember(guys)..getting some stink on your stick or finger…wanna smell her…lol

your old school if….you ever pee’d in the pool

your old school if….you every passed gas in the tub with your siblings or relatives..lol

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

You old school if you pumped thats the way it is from Run DMC loud driving thru downtown and purple rain doves cry…

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

Speaking of Now and Laters, you’re old school if you remember Mint Julip Now and Laters. I loved those so much I painted my daughter’s nursery that color…LOL

On-topic old school dating/wooing is depicted in the movie where Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Billy Joe wooed his girlfriend back in that day with such ferocity. His way of speaking was hysterical to me. He came a courting everyday despite being shooed off each and every time. Staceye you see even back then men were determined to break you down one way or another….LOL.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

your old school if………you ever used water to eat your cereal

your old school if…..you ate hot links on wonder bread

your old school if…you ever carried a lunch box to school

your old school if….you remember pencil fights, penny basketball, paper football

your old school if…you remember school house rock

your old school if….you had to answer the question “Ginger” or “Mary Ann”

your old school if…you ever had a wet dream about wilonia or thelma…lol

your old school if….you can add to this phrase….when i bite into a york peppermint patty……lol

By Dan

November 7, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

You’re old school if you remember even being from the south

Bump, Bump Lodi dodi we like to party,

We don’t cause trouble, we don’t bother nobody,

We’re just kids that’s on the mike, and when we walk up on the mike we rock the mic right!

So for all of y’all if your in the house, just to see us smile and enjoy yourself….

Somebody finish this, I have to work

Oh yeah, and chico sticks!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Dan……you’re old school if….

learning to do the windmill made you the shyt…..or, if you had a B-Boy nickname, you had Ski in there somewhere….

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

2C, your old school if you remember WANG computers…LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:24 PM | Link to this

Can i get in this. Old school - The candy lady sold those real GOOD penny candy. And what could you do with yo $1 FOR REAL?!?! Oh yea, I was the “delivery service” for mom dukes too. I was cool with it though cause once i got my .50 for going i went right to Mrs. Gail’s (nieghborhood candy lady) for the hook up.

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this

Dan, thank you so much for that laugh…Whew, I needed exactly that!

By Sidelines

November 7, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

Hey er’body….Wow, longtime no post!!!! Ok, I have one for yah….

Harold Melvin and the BlueNotes:

You know how to make me, make me feel so good…sowwy, can’t find the lyrics, but the ole’heads know what I’m talking about…back to lurksville! It’s good to read you all again, it’s been a long time for me. I see not much has changed…lol!!!!

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

your old school if….you can remember stamp books…lol

your old school if…your ordered from finger hunt or your folks ordered

your old school if…..you remember kung fu theather

your old school if….you had to take off your school cloths to play outside

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

You’re old school if you know ANYTHING about Moms Mabley….lordy, lordy, lordy..that lady was funny.

Rell completely forgot about the pantyhouse…

BTW MLB, thanks for not making any jokes about me ya’ll!

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

@ Dan that is ole school. I was all about the no socks and the fat boy shoe strings, starched jordache jeans (they cam back) I just got a pair Yay!, kangol and gold rope chains, herringbone necklaces for us ladies. And BTW. Adidas = All Day I Dream About Sex.

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

Cemeeli, you’re old school if…..

you ever bought some pig’s feet from the candy lady house, and she put it in one of those sandwich bags…..

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Your old school if you ma made you wear panties (clean) over your turquois big rollers….

By Tazzee

November 7, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

afternoon folks! I am loving all the nostalgia - really brightening up my day. Keep them coming!

Rell I still watch School House Rock, bought the DVD a few years ago, LOL

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

Sexyleggs Mint Julip? DANG i missed a N&L flavor? What that tast like? Mayne, I can’t believe this!

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this

I guess at this point you old school if you had a pager and sent people pages with the word hello spelled out of numbers…or had the bryk phone…

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

You’re old school if you remember going to the corner store and getting greasy fries in a paper bag and penny candy.

You’re old school if you played hand ball and knew how to “ace” the ball.

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

I guess at this point you old school if you had a pager and sent people pages with the word hello spelled out of numbers…or had the bryk phone…

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this

You are old school if your ma gave you cod liver oil int he morning before school or had those flinstone vitamins

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

Sorry Foots I’ll help you beat the hell out of Mr. White. I’m down.

Everyone. Remember them REAL good afterschool fights? Like the one’s everybody been talking about since lunch-time. Where the teacher broke up the roasting fight which ended up becoming a full blown physical fight. But then we all knew it was not over (only one lick exchanged) So then someone yells out in the cafeteria (THEY GONE FIGHT IN THE BUS PARKING LOT AFTERSCHOOOL!!!). Me; i’d always get a 2:58 restroom pass and never return to class that day. LOL…front and center at 3.

By Tazzee

November 7, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this

OK, I asked this the last time we were traveling down memory lane. But do any of the ladies remember making hair rollers out of paper bags?

Jazzyone I hated those cod liver oil doses. Then they’d come with, ‘if you lick the salt after, it’s not that bad’ the hell it wasn’t. I would be belching cod liver oil for the rest of the morning!

By DuShawn

November 7, 2007 1:47 PM | Link to this

Jazzy or had the bryk phone… I’m more old school than that…Remember the phones that came in a bag/box/purse with the strap.

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

2Can Yes and them dayum HOT Pickles!!

Jazzy my mom was seasonal with the Cod Liver Oil. Erry fall and spring. Mama said i aint catching NOTHING from the nasty @ kids. Dang Ma! And then she gave me Aloe Vera Juice everyday!

By Foots

November 7, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

SexyLeggs I didn’t know about Mint Julep either. But the Pineapple Now N Laters were the bomb for me!! I wish somebody *would ask for one of them!!!* HELLZ NO!!!!

You’re old school if….

You used to eat those giant pickles that came in a bag…

You drew hopscotch boards on the sidewalk and used a rock to throw in the squares….

Somebody in your neighborhood had two mean pit bulls and your mama told you that you had to run if you ever had to go past their house…. or is that just me LOL!

You ever wore a candy necklace and was still willing to eat it after playing all day…

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

You old school if for school photos youh ad on a big a* bow tie or you had on a minnie or Mickey mouse necklass as big as your head with pig tails on…

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

@ Jazzy - You graduate when you get a color pager (mine was purple).

Sending hello was our way of text messaging back then. Lol, i would get and occasional 69 too. At first i didn’t know what that meant.

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

your old school if…you waited to wear your new cloths on the first day of school

your old school if…your cable box had the push buttons for all channels and a switch to change from the low to high channel

your old school if..you remember D.A.R.E

your old school if….you ever folded your jeans leg at the bottom

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

u old school if you put your hand over your heart and had to say the pledge of allegiance every morning for school…

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

Tazzee You suppose to drink orange juice and take a peppermint after ole Cod liver oil? I feel you on the belching fish oil taste in yo mouth all day. Again, DANG MA!!!!

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

Tazzee, I thought about posting about those paperbag rollers that kept your curls locked up like a gnat in a horses tail. Man o man!

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

Foots The only way I would share my N&L at school/church would be to protect my investment. Folks told if you didn’t share at my school. So i would hush they darn mouths. Cause I be darn if the teacher gonna take my stash. Never happened either.

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

Damn Rell, I still fold my jeans that way and I still put a crease in my jeans.

You’re old school when you had your crease sewn into your jeans. Nothing like a permanent crease back in the day.

By DuShawn

November 7, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

You have to be real old school and real hood to know about the frozen cup house. It was one in every project. They sold frozen cups, candy, conch salad, conch fritters, hot sausages, Pickles, Pigs Feet……..and weed.

By Page1908

November 7, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Amazon. My email addy is pageantgirl_1908 at yahoo.com

By BennyB

November 7, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

Wise D, I bet $1K that if the girl on train was you, you will be telling us how in hell the guy is a needy nerd, but now you call it old school meeting new school……(woaaa)

I was reading yesterday comments……..people cannot take anything less than a compliment. Is anyone aware that people who can’t handle negative critics are called “children”?

By China Doll

November 7, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

You are Ole School…if you spent your allowance at the arcade after school playing Donkey Kong and PacMan/Ms.PacMan.

You owed an Atari game and played PONG.

By Jazzyone

November 7, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

fun times fun times ya…makes me appreciate those times of childhood and teen years although I used to think they were oh so painful memories..but all in all the joy of those days outweight the painful times..shyt im rolling big elephant tears right now this was a great day down memory lane..got me all sensitive…

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

jazzy..good one

but your old school if…you remember the great space coaster, the electric company, the muppet show…we use to watch the electric company in class

your old school if…you know what a slestack is

By Wise Diva

November 7, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this

BennyB, well, I was referring to old school in the sense of telling a girl you like her, and new school in the sense of the technology (and online media) that was used..just wanted to clarify.

I am not sure how you could place that wager, on me, I love geeks and nerds, but umm, ok?

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

Dushawn Is that why all the dudes would meet Mrs. Gail’s son in the back of the house? Cuase all i want is my cherry freeze cup. But i’m looking in the back and there were the young dudes smiling and eating up the store.

China Doll You ole school if you mastered all the screen of Mrs. Pacman. And if you know the arcade bootleg hook up to start the machine without a quarter! Don’t bother me!!!

By Mo (now known as Moeisha)

November 7, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

I am so lovin this stroll down memory lane! You guys are pullin out all the classics. I bought School House Rock on DVD for my baby so he can learn the constitution the way his mommy did!! LOL

As for the band trips…I wont even open that can again but all I can say is WHEW!!!!

By Page1908

November 7, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

OMG! LOL @ “phone in a purse/bag/box” and “bryk phone”….ctfu

By AmazonRed

November 7, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

Damn, is there an old school list for folks who grew up in bougie households? LOL

By Tazzee

November 7, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this

Cemeeli we were po’ we didn’t have orange juice and peppermint at my house.

SexyLeggs Thanks, last time I thought I was the only one - and you’re right those were some tight curls, LOL.

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

Double Dutch, Fat Albert (the real ones), bell bottoms, straightening combs, fish fries, big bucket seat cars, wood panel walls, hallway beads, that poster/picture of the lady with the big afro on that blk velvet frame, incense sticks buring everywhere in the house…

By DuShawn

November 7, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

You’re old school if you ever saw a Black Exploitation Flick as a new release at the theater. Shiid, I remember when Cleopatra Jones came out. Now, your an old school Playa Jit (just in training) If you ever sat by a girl in the movies and got the stank finger. Then go back and brag to your boys…“I did do it!!! Smell my finger”

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

you’re old school if…..

you ever owned a pair of Underoos!

By 2CPTG©

November 7, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

you’re old school, if….

you couldn’t wait to find out, Who shot J.R.

By Cemeeli

November 7, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

2Can Underoos my lil guy have some now Batman. Bought ‘em when i bought my Jordache. Hey when i find that stuff i get it!

By Rell.com

November 7, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

your old school ladies…if you ever smooved down your baby hair..lol

your old school if…..your remember peanut butter and banana sandwichs

your old school if…you ever ate a sammich and not a sandwich

your old school if….your mom wanted you to stop hanging with tyrone an dem…lol..keyword dem

By Wen

November 7, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Had to come inside today… RELL.con, speak!! When my “Ain’t” Sis got excited over something (usually juicy gossip), all she would say is Hush… Hush yo mouth! You have got me going LOL, Hush.. what you say.

By SexyLeggs

November 7, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Double Dutch, heck what about Orange Dutch when you reversed the ropes. Is this the correct name? You’re old school when you can’t remember ole school…

You’re old school when you would walk across Highbridge Bridge or ride on the outside of the city bus just to get some chicken wings from Woolworth’s….man o man what a flashback. Talking about young and dumb.

BTW, thank all of you for memories of those band trips. I had no idea. My child will not join the band…LOL!

By Staceye

November 7, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

Sexyleggs I think the greasy fries in the bag was an NY thang…just as pig feet was a Southern thang. I remember visiting my relatives in SC and freaking out when I saw the jar of pink pig’s feet..and then asked where I could get the Chinese $2 wings and fries? Needless to say…I got laughed at!

You are old school if you:

  • Remember ThunderCats, Gem, Transformers (cartoon), Go-bots, G.I Joe, He-Man & She-ra, Smurfs, Snorks, Monchi-chi’s, Tom & Jerry (the originals), Alvin & the Chipmunks (with the Chipettes), Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Dungeons & Dragons, Kid Video, Conjunction Junction, Electric Company, Degrassi Jr. High, Flintstones & Jetsons!

  • Remember where you were when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

  • Remember Garbage Pail Kids (Spacey Stacey was my favorite…gee I wonder why)!

  • Jazzyone My mami thought she was doing something good by giving me mint flavored cod liver oil and a glass of juice to mask the taste! Yeah right…you eat minty fish and tell me how you like it!

    **

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

    What up Blog…

    …now dusting off the full-length Levi’s Jeans Duster Coat.

    By Staceye

    November 7, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

    Sexyleggs Woolworth? Wow…you took it back for real. How about when Times Square was nothing but hookers & trannies?

    You are right…I used to jump both double orange and double dutch. Granted I was like 5…but I did that at summer camp upstate in the Catskills…being one of the 2 Black girls in the camp!

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this

    Naah… How about when Oscar the Grouch was a REAL grouch?!

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this

    @staceye..word!!!…garbage pail kids…lol, hate em…lol

    the space shuttle i was sleep..i woke up and my mom said guess what…i said the shuttle blew up..i was sleep…true story!!!

    the cartoons you listed..watch them all…i can draw so i was all in with the animation/art style thing…i was heavy into all that stuff..until i got some stink on my finger..lol

    your old school if….you can remember when HBCU were cool and you knew the one you would attend in the 8th grade

    your old school if..you remember when being smart was cool and being dumb got you no play

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

    2C What about the Kangaroos sneakers? The ones with the pockets on them…

    And we had those skates that were just sneakers with four BIG wheels on them….

    And making a tent in the backyard with the patio chairs and a big sheet!!!! LOL!!!

    Cemeeli wood panel walls

    YES!! And what about that big wooden Fork and Spoon hanging on the wall!! And we even had one of those huge wooden shields in our den.

    Girl, I can still remember how much fun it was to ride on the back of my sister’s bicycle before our street got paved. She knew that if she hit all of the bumps, it would make my day! :-) Sibling love!

    Me and my sister used to also play this game called “GO TO SLEEP!” (we could make a game out of anything back in the day). We would lie on the floor staring at each other and we would close our eyes. If somebody caught the other one peeking we yell “GO TO SLEEP”! Which was met with hysterical fits of laughter. The game ended when somebody actually went to sleep. LOL! And then at bath time, whoever got out of the tub first would go grab the door and swing it back and forth really fast to freeze the other one to death!! I’ve got to try that the next time I’m at her house and I catch her in the tub. Her kids won’t know what the heck is going on!! LOL!!

    I’m going to call her right now and trip out with her about that!

    BTW, you’re old school if you still use terms like “trip out”….

    By Jazzyone

    November 7, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

    2ee’s I know right funky fish is going to smell like funcky fish no matter how much you try to change it..LOL

    How bout the cabbage patch dolls…troll dolls…LOL

    2 Dallas and Dynasty were my shows BOI~

    Sexy now that I think about it heyal no im nto having any kids the would be locked up in the house all the time!!

    Pigs feet fromt he candy lady ohmahgah…wish we did have a candy lady…

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

    Staceye none of that shyt in your 2:42 is old school. The Flintstones and the Jetsons maybe…..but Transformers!!!

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

    You’re old school when you had “Father John’s” cough medicine. It was chalky white….

    You’re old school when vaseline was your choice of shoe polish….

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this

    Well Sexyleggs looks like WE were the HotWing Klan cause I’d join you now for MARTA for a trip to Woolsworth.

    How about those band trips to the opposing schools so that your friends would meet your man from the other school? Of course i HAD to walk around in my glittery sequin dancing suit and walk all the way around the field to the other side to meet and greet with the other dancers/band members. Just cause i knew them.

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

    Or how about when everybody was outside “racing” some kids would push that imaginary “speed” button on the back of the kicks… or simply kick off the kicks because, “I’m gettin’ ready tah burn yo azz.”

    By BennyB

    November 7, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

    Wise D, the wager wasn’t on you but the idea that a guy may win a woman’s heart by creating a webpage announcing that he is running to win her love. When I was in middle school, my sister told me that God programmed women to run when anything is running after them. When I see a guy running after one woman like she’s the last female on the earth, I wonder if he has a sister or not……….. My sis never mentions it but from what I been reading here, geeks and nerds are good, but just on papers……….

    By Jazzyone

    November 7, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

    You old school if you ever made cinnamin toast..oh lawd Im going home to make one of those tonight..LOL

    AR so why don’t you just name some things so we know…

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

    Blue You had a Levi Jacket? YOu uppidy. How about them color Levis?

    What about ashy wash?…lol

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

    Staceye Remember where you were when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

    I was in the 3rd grade (Mrs. Walker’s class) and we had to run to the library for her. We saw it happen on the TV in there and ran to tell her, but she didn’t believe us. January 28th, right?

    I still know the Mon chi chi song: “Happy Mon chi chi, oh so soft and cuddly, with her thumb in her mouth she’s really neat! Mon Chi Chi, Mon Chi Chi”!!!! LMAO!!

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this

    Ultimate ol skool #1: Every family had ONE car.

    Ultimate ol skool #2: Somebody’s one car (usually a bucket) picked up 4 dudes on the way to work at the construction site.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

    Blue Kolla, those Duster coats were no jokes a/k/a Maxi coats. People were busting their butts left and right. I had some good laughs over those coats.

    Staceye, 42nd Street was a community of pure d debauchery. Believe it or not, I still jump Double Dutch. I never, ever understood the pig feet in a jar of whatever gelatin concoction it was in, along with those jars of pickeled eggs..WTH was that? Did people really eat that? I never saw a half empty jar in all my life!!!!

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this

    @ DuShawn i was just going to go ahead and leave all that out there with the. WTH??? But you bruh!

    By Sidelines

    November 7, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

    Your oldschool if you remember that the TRANSFORMERS isn’t!!!! LMAO….

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this

    NOPE I GOT A GOOD ONE….YOUR OLD SCHOOL IF YOUR FIRST DEODORANT WAS……..TUSSIE….LOL

    Your old school if….your mom had to warm up her comb on the stove..lol

    your old school if…you can remember the smell from the hot comb

    your old school if…you lost all your orange hot wheel race tracks on purpose….lol

    your old school if….you got a beating after getting out of the tub

    your old school if…you remember the black air conditioning unit…the fan in the window..lol

    By Bre

    November 7, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

    Fraggle Rock…I recall the theme song…..

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

    Apparently this is what a lot of us needed today. I’m cracking up over here. Thanks *WiseDiva!

    By Jewel

    November 7, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

    WOW! We are going waaay back! I remember so many of these! Cod liver oil! If I talked to my father when I had a cold, he would tell me to take 3 Sixes! UGH!

    Anybody remember Romper Room or Zoom?

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this

    Leggs I never, ever understood the pig feet in a jar of whatever gelatin concoction it was in, along with those jars of pickeled eggs..WTH was that? Did people really eat that?

    I’ve heard of peeps eating the feet, but I always thought that the eggs were reserved for halloween delivery to that mean azz old dude Mr. Jackson down the street.

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this

    Blue In one bucket seat car it’d be 6 folks!!! Come on. You ole school if the 6 ppl that got picked up was at yo house shooting the jiv after work.

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

    Staceye Speaking of cartoons, I can remember those Saturday mornings, when the smell of breakfast and the sound of the lawn mower would wake us up and my sister and I would go into the den to watch all those good Saturday morning cartoons. Which was followed by Soul Train. We never really knew what came on after that because we went outside and played until the street lights came on. memories

    By Raqi

    November 7, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

    You are old school if you remember when Michael Jackson was black…with an afro.

    By Wise Diva

    November 7, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

    I think I see your point, I mean to call her the woman of his dreams, after one look, can be a bit much. I think that grand romantic gestures can be sweet though, doesn’t mean it will last, or anything. I can appreciate a guy being smitten by someone and wanting to show that.

    By AmazonRed 2.0

    November 7, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this

    Jazzy1, some stuff has already been named I guess. I was in 2nd grade in assembly watching when Challenger blew up. I remember Cabbage Patch and troll dolls. I remember old school cartoons and candy and Woolworths!

    Y’all remember using that deodorant called “Tussy?”

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

    @Rell - YOUR OLD SCHOOL IF YOUR FIRST DEODORANT WAS……..TUSSIE. Not unless it was the kind you stick yo finger in and rub on like that. That real ole school .

    By Jazzyone

    November 7, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

    You are old school if you had rockem sockem boxing game with the red and blue boxing men on the yellow platform…

    By Staceye

    November 7, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

    Dushawn It is old school for me..the Transformers cartoon was the bomb.

    JazzyOne* I was the youngest Dallas & Dynasty fan. Could not tell me when Dianne carol roll through Denver..she did not put the “B” in b*tch! LOL

    Cemeeli I had every color Levi Jackets & acid wash!

    By Jazzyone

    November 7, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

    You are old school if you had rockem sockem boxing game with the red and blue boxing men on the yellow platform…

    You old school if you watched Lost in Space…Mr Smith and Will robinson..yeah now im really aging myself…

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

    LMAO @ Rell No this dude didn’t just say Tussie?!

    Now why can I see this white dude walkin’ up the dock with captain hat, turtle neck, jacket slung over shoulder… and whistlin’ that Old Spice joint?

    By Staceye

    November 7, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this

    Bre I got my nickname, Red” from Fraggle Rock. I love that show!

    Well guys…take care and enjoy your weekend. I am off to a 4 day quick trip to Jamaica! Irie Mon! Me run tings! All that good stuff. Catch ya on Monday.

    By Wise Diva

    November 7, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this

    I think so too SexyLeggs! I had to lighten things up, LOL, you know how we can get on here some days. I was worried for a minute this morning, though!

    I am playing Vivian Green’s Wish we could go back, thinking, I wish we could go back some days.

    BennyB, geeks are not just good on paper, they are good in bed too.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:20 PM | Link to this

    Rell, I remember all of those. Thank goodness never had to experience this *you got a beating after getting out of the tub

    Jewell, Romper Room and Zoom. Now if you want to know about some nasty a$$ cold medicine take some *3 Sixes.

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

    Bre Fraggle Rock??? LOLOLOLOL!!!! LMAO!!!

    That was back when you couldn’t watch HBO late at night because it was basically like Skin-e-max is today!

    Rell Regarding hot combs… That was an all day Saturday job for my mama, washing, braiding up to let it air dry, then pulling out the straightening comb. All the tears!!! Then my mama would get frustrated and send us to bed with half straight, half-nappy hair and threaten to send us to church like that. Then she’d wake us up about 2AM to finish when we didn’t have any struggle left in us. LOL!!

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this

    I have earthly no idea what yall talking about BUT

    You’re Old Skool if you drink everything out of a MASON jar. LOL

    By WEN

    November 7, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

    your old school if…you lost all your orange hot wheel race tracks on purpose….lol

    Kick it up one… your old school if you got your azz whipped with one!

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

    I know of 2 women I work w/that still use Tussy!

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

    ooooooooo shizzle..not to break up the love fest..but a storm is coming and it is not going to be pretty in the streets of atlanta..

    http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/11/06/preachers1106.html?cxntlid=homepagetab_newstab

    By mqew

    November 7, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

    OMG! Yall are def taking me back! Much Luv.

    Does any one remember ONTV. It was the “nasty” tv. I think it was like a switch or somethin’. Okay, I think I’m sayin to much.

    By Wise Diva

    November 7, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

    LOL @ Raqi, good one! Someone was clowning on Michael and his Ebony Magazine cover, they were like, the first white woman to grace Ebony’s cover! I was cracking up at that! That’s messed up. LOL

    By 2CPTG©

    November 7, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

    SexyLeggs…whatchu tombout, I turned 18 outside, waiting to get in, the Kit Kat Club on Forty Deuce and Broadway!!!

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

    Ole School - Turning on the fire hydrant and going to tell all the block/neighborhood kids you turn it on and getting ready to change into your swimsuit (shorts and t-shirt) and get wet.

    By Jewel

    November 7, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this

    Does anyone remember when Ronald Reagan got shot? The principal announced it over the intercom and my history class began cheering! The teacher became infuriated and lectured us on how wrong it was to be happy someone got shot, that he cried when King and Kennedy was assassinated…

    By Jazzyone

    November 7, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

    Old school ‘Jean nate’ now they making a body wash…..saw it today in CVS after we started this convo..took me way back…

    By Wise Diva

    November 7, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this

    have a wonderful and safe trip Staceye! drink a fruity cocktail for me too, LOL.

    By Jazzyone

    November 7, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this

    Yep Wise I was worried as well but I cleaned it up and behaved ma’self…LOL

    great convo im out ya be easy…fun times today!

    2ees enjoy yaself and don’t be fass out ther ya here me gal….

    By Tazzee

    November 7, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this

    LOL - I see some folks’ old school is different than others. I was a sophomore in high school when the challenger exploded. We were taking a tour of the vocational wing and it was on TV.

    I had the tussie in the jar when I was little - that was some kind of nasty - I always wanted to use the roll-on or spray, LOL.

    Have an awesome trip Staceye

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

    foots “Dairy of a Mad about straightening these nappy head @ kids hair Black Woman” …LOL…

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

    Now this is Old school Miami for real. There was a DJ at WEDR (now 99JamZ) by the name of Dallas Manual. He had a Saturday evening segment called The Freebies. He would play Soul Finger by the Barkays as the back drop, while he publicly announced the names and addresses of folks that were having free house parties throughout the city. People would take pride in calling the radio station and giving their info and then hear their party announced on the air. Everybody was invited. You may be chillin with the fellas and nothing to do, so you wait for the Freebies to come on and that’s the haps for the night. That’s before “Crack was affecting Blacks Like That.” If you try that now, every home invasion crew in the city will be there to lay the whole party down.

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

    SexyLeggs I know of at least one person who uses an entire container of baby powder in their drawers here at work. I wouldn’t be surprised if that same person wears Tussy.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

    I had to go way back to see who first started “You’re old school if….*

    The award for making most of remember very fond days of yesteryear goes to drum roll, 2C (see 12:33 post)! MLB and WLB are all up clapping. Please take a bow!

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

    Jewel Yes, I remember the Reagan shooting. And I remember how proud we were when Jesse Jackson ran for President.

    Guys Did any of you tear out all of the Jet Beauty pages and tape them up on your wall? My older cousin did that! Slim Feel free to tease cuz with this info…

    By Jewel

    November 7, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this

    TUSSY! Oh my goodness! Relly Rell, just how old are you! LOL

    Pressing combs…why did my Mother say, “It’s just the grease!” when I flinched after feeling the heat and heard that sssizzzlle…LOL!

    By Tazzee

    November 7, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this

    Jewel I remember being the only one in my class that got happy when Reagan was shot. I got in trouble too - but my teacher at the time was real cool so it never went further than a quick lecture outside the classroom.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

    Staceye, girl do your thang! As they would say in old school vernacular….like a chicken wing. Ouch! That was corny.

    By AmazonRed 2.0

    November 7, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

    Jazzy1, I loved me some Jean Nate and Love’s Baby Soft. I’m okay with admitting I still wear Love’s Baby Soft!

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

    peace and love staceye….have a safe trip…and take plenty of myspace pics…like grandpa on the boondocks…lol

    By Mo (now known as Moeisha)

    November 7, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

    All those comments about Tussy and Three 6’s just brought back some horrible memories…..but I still have to laugh.

    Loved all those Cartoons Staceye, thank goodness for Boomerang on cartoon network!

    I have enjoyed my flashback on the Blog today!!!

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

    Jazzy You are old school if you had rockem sockem boxing game with the red and blue boxing men on the yellow platform…

    How about you always had one where the head wouldn’t pop up, and er`body wanted to use that one!

    By E

    November 7, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

    After reading some these funny posts I fet tht need to share. You know you’re old school if:

    You wanted a Triple F.A.T Goose coat

    Had the Ewing sneakers with the plastic basketball.

    Wore Air Max’s with the plastic medallion still attached

    Rocked a pinstriped Starter short set

    Had either your football or baasketball number cut in your hair or arrows or brick or had the top of your box dyed light brown or red

    Wore overalls with one side hang off

    Had anything airbrushed with your name on it

    Used headphones as earmuffs

    Wore a Africa medallion or had a Malcolm X hat.

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

    Foots OMG! Now you know i love ammo and you shouldn’t have told me that. LOL!

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

    Slim Babypowder Bandit using Tussy. That’s classic….

    By Willie Dynamite

    November 7, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

    You old school if you used to get whuppings not spankings.

    You old school if you ever got a whupping by somebody not in your family, And it was alright with yo folks.

    Sike!!!

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

    Blue simply kick off the kicks because, “I’m gettin’ ready tah burn yo azz.”

    LOL!! We used to call it “getting smoked”, as in “OOOO, you just got smoked!!”

    Did y’all use to call no name sneakers Cat Heads???

    Cemeeli Yeah. She was sneaky. If we knew we were due a spanking, and made it to bed without a scratch we thought we had it made. My mama was the type to wait until you fell asleep and then woke you up to get your whooping. When did this woman SLEEP?? She was always waking us up for something terrible!!! LOL!!!

    You’re old school if….

    you’ve ever tried to hide The Whooping Belt….

    your mama made you take that orange Triaminic cough syrup if you had a runny nose (I hid that too)…

    if you knew by what day it was what you’d be having for dinner (Friday night was Fish Night)…

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

    You’re ol skool if you can remember your pops doin’ 75 on the highway… all while eating a sandwich, drinking a beer, fuggin’ with the 8-track, AND smoking a cigarette. Those were real drivers back then.

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

    mqew Dayuuuum!!! They don’t know nuttin bout the ON TV. That’s before cable. I used to watch the scrambled nasty channel for hours in hopes of the 3 seconds when it would show clear and I might catch a glimpse of a breast or azz cheek. Speaking of that, you’re old school if you still got porn on beta max.

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

    @jewel…35….i am an older gentleman..and i hated tussy..creamy underarms..i would skip it…and get clowned in school for smelling like onions..i could take that…but not cold creamy underarms…yuck

    @WEN..that is why you lost them…lol

    @sexyleggs..yep they sell it in the store and er time i see one i accidently open it and drop it in the aisle…lol, payback tussie

    your old school if…you had to be checked for ticks after playing outside all day…i hated that…lol

    By Jewel

    November 7, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

    CONVERSE TENNIS SHOES!!! The real ones with the high tops…off white with the red star! LOL!

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

    ARed2.0 and whoever else posted first about Jean Nate. It was da bomb back in the day, but Rive Gauche (sp?) was the shyt!

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

    @FOOTS

    no name sneakers = butter cookies or may pops….LMAO

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

    The Post today have made me realize one thing. Old school is relative. Twenty years from now my son may have a similar conversation and say: You’re old school if you remember iphones and laptops.

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

    DID somebody mention British Knights yet? I heard something about all the inside soles said saggin spelled backwards in them. Never had any so i don’t know.

    Ladies what about LA Gears with the double shoe strings?

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

    Amazon NOT LOVE’S BABY SOFT!!! Where can I buy that?!? I still have some Sand & Sable but we called it Sand de Sable, because we didn’t know that it was an “&” sign, we thought it said “de”. LOL!!!!

    DuShawn I used to watch the scrambled nasty channel for hours in hopes of the 3 seconds when it would show clear

    I have to admit, I used to do the same dayum thing!! LOL!!

    E Had either your football or baasketball number cut in your hair or arrows or brick or had the top of your box dyed light brown or red

    OMG!!! LOL!!!!

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this

    You’re old school if you can identify with the opening scene of Spike Lee’s movie Crooklyn, especially playing skellziees (sp?) in the street. Mamas all over woke their kids up any time before it was time to get up for school to do the dishes the “right way”, fold the sheets “the right way,” or clean the bathroom “the right way.” No wonder we fell asleep in class a lot back then.

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

    @ E you on another level with it! LOL

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

    your old school if…you remember when every light skin girl was part something or had indian in her family

    your old school if…..you ever wore brut cologne

    your old school if….you had to HAVE a jansport bookback along with the five pocket trapper keeper….holla!!!!

    your old school if…you ever got a whupping in public school with a ruler by the princpal…yea i got several all the way up to the 5th grade

    your old school if…..your folks ever scaled fish on the back porch..imagine yourself scaling fish now..lol

    By Wen

    November 7, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this

    My Mom woke me in the middle of the night to run my hand across a greasy dish, then whop that behind…

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

    Rell Ticks? LOL!! I remember that. I also remember one time, I was picking blackberries with my mama and sister. I must have been about 4 or 5. I stepped in a HUGE ant bed and before my mama could turn around good, I was covered in them. Without even stopping to think, she stripped me down completely right outside and got every last ant off of me before I was bitten even twice, screaming the whole time because she was so scared for me. THAT’S an old school mama!!

    By 2CPTG©

    November 7, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

    porn???????

    you’re old school if…..

    you’ve seen Debbie Does Dallas, or remember the original black porn queens like Sasha, Purple Passion, or, Jeannie Pepper……

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

    Foots…we called no name shoes Bow Bow’s. Ole school is going to get the belt or switch to get a whoopin.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

    You’re old school if your first experience of watching porn was on an 8mm w/your boyfriend.

    By E

    November 7, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

    I just remembered some more. I get up in upstate NY so these may not be applicable to many of y’all.

    You’re old school if:

    You wore or shopped at: Jeans West, Merry Go Round, Paco, UMEN, JR Riggins

    Had a polka dot shirt

    Wore Travel Fox or Ellesse or Buffalinos(sp?) shoes

    Had a Black Bart Simpson or Homey D Clown t-shirt

    Know the lyrics to “Doin the Butt” or “Knockin Boots”

    Can debate who was better between Kris Kross or Another Bad Creation

    Remembers Roxanne vs “the real” Roxanne

    Id you can complete this line: “Meanwhile back at __

    Think that “Rump Shaker” is one of the greatest videos EVER..lol

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 4:12 PM | Link to this

    @foots..blackberries and dumpling is still my dish….love love blackberries

    @2c, cosign on the porn stars..purple passion…was the one

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 4:12 PM | Link to this

    SexyLeggs Mamas all over woke their kids up any time before it was time to get up for school to do the dishes the “right way”, fold the sheets “the right way,” or clean the bathroom “the right way.” No wonder we fell asleep in class a lot back then.

    Now you KNOW you telling the truth!!! We got woke up for ANYTHING!!!! I don’t think my mama slept until I was about 12. She was busy walking around the house thinking of reasons to wake us up. LOL!!

    Slim NOT BRITISH KNIGHTS!!! BKs! Wait!! Didn’t they have Big Daddy Kane rapping on their commercials talking about “the shoes that are hot, the shoes that are raw, they call em BKs, How ya like me now?” I had some LA Gear shoes too, and 2 pair of high-top Reeboks, one lemon-yellow and the other electric blue. LOL!!

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

    Fellas, you’re a old school playa if you ever wore Grey Flannel of Lagerfeld Cologne.

    By WEN

    November 7, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

    Paddled in the pricipal’s office with a thick, wooden racket with holes in it…

    By Raqi

    November 7, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

    And you what is so hilarious Wise that guy has “expert” physicians raping his pockets just to say that he has a medical condition that has altered his pigment and straightened his hair. Just crazy.

    You are old school

    …if your sweetie walked you home after school and you stopped by the corner store and the $2.00 that he had saved from a month of allowances could get two sodas, two bags of chips and $.50 worth of penny candy each.

    …if you ever used an eraser to etch your sweetie’s name into your colored spiral notebook.

    …if you owned one of those blue cloth mead notebooks that would turn you hands blue if you got caught in the rain going home from school.

    …if you know what store Davidson’s is now.

    …if you remember pulling into a service station and your parents having a choice of full or self service.

    …if you rushed home looking forward to seeing the lugo men melt and you remember Rodac’s afro.

    …if you actually thought a hicky was cool but you knew you better not let your parents find out you had one.

    …if you remember when you could buy a 10oz coke for $.15 and then take the bottle back to the store and get a nickle back.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

    Hey WiseDiva/Bella, you’re already over 300+ posts. Is this one of the highest numbers for this time 4:12p.m.?

    Old school rocks!

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

    More ole school shoes - Ellesse (spl), Saucony, BK’s , Felony, Puma, Spikes, Chucks…up to Jordan’s, Air max, Flights….

    Wow i just realized i’ have always had a shoe fetish!

    By Willie Dynamite

    November 7, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

    Foots Friday still is Fish night round here.

    Cheap sneakers = hot boxes (ion know why).

    You old school if you had the electric football game that would just vibrate.

    Slim I had a pair of BK’s and remember when I found out about the KKK thing. I threw them in the trash and my Moms was 38 at me.

    Rell The Boondocks off da chain.

    By Bre

    November 7, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

    If we could hand down an ounce of the life we had “back in the day/old school. I feel as if our youth would be in a much better place.

    I’ve been busy with a horrible market day but with lurking its truly brought back some really good memories. And then some nightmares of pressingcombs. Being that my hair is now natural its like a combination of kuntakinta(sp) and buckwheat says very little I have enough hair thick and long for two or three people. But every time I would get burned my sister would be like that’s a kiss for sitting good. Until I started being natural again I had no idea of what she went thru, I kiss her hands every chance I get. Because I know it was a job that no human should ever have to endure. Now I pay a lady over in Brooklyn to hook it up.

    Be safe and have a wonderful night. I’m out in search of a perfect glass of white wine.

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

    Foots you’ve ever tried to hide The Whooping Belt….

    How ‘bout the whooping belt was fat as hayo with like 2 and 3 sets of notches… AND you could hear that muhfugga jinglin’ from down the street! LMAO

    By mqew

    November 7, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

    2C or Du…
    I’m def sayin 2 much, but what about the Emanuelle series… There was Black Emanuelle and Emanuelle NO! or somethin like that…

    Okay, thas not right.

    By AmazonRed 2.0

    November 7, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

    Foots, supposedly Love’s Baby Soft is an exclusive at Wal-mart. I loved Love’s because it was the one perfume that didn’t trigger my allergies. But I just love the smell. If I could find an adult perfume that came close to Love’s I’d by that!

    Slim, I had one pair of British Knights. I won them on a show called “Fun House.” Remember that. I also won an Espirit outfit, remember that?

    Rell, scaling fish on the porch is not old school. It’s country!

    By The Truth

    November 7, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

    Did someone say members only jackets? You wasn’t a playa if you didn’t have one.

    My whole wall had those Jet beauties in the army. LOL

    Just got back from Tyler Perry’s movie. That was one good movie. By far the best of its kind. I give 2 thumbs up and a snap. ( In a non-gay kinda way)

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

    @ REll OMG did i get enough hickies!?! Heck yea, LOL my grandma called em snake bites.

    By Wise Diva

    November 7, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

    Sexyleggs, I think it is one of our higher numbers, I can remember 400+ comments on an entry once last year, I think, and definitely when Mia was writing we hit 300+ a couple of times.

    What a fun day on the blog. Now how do we keep this nostalgic feeling when we go home? I can go watch porn on beta, go to the candy store for now and laters, or go get someone to suck on my neck, or all the above, LOL!!!

    By Jewel

    November 7, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

    Whuppings by the school principal…My elementary school principal, Mr. Turner, would make the boys bend over the bench in the hallway and swing on them like he was playing golf. If they jumped and moved their fingers, he added another…my fifth grade teached had a stack of about ten rulers held together by a rubberband on each end. You had to hold out your hand while she wacked your palm. OUCH! Both would be in jail today…shaking my head

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

    DuShawn Fellas, you’re a old school playa if you ever wore Grey Flannel of Lagerfeld Cologne.

    Dude, that Lagerfeld is a lady-killa right now.

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this

    WEN Yeah, the paddle with the holes, so that there would be less air resistance!! LOL!!!

    Speaking of behaving badly in school, I told my 2nd grade teacher (who, of course, went to school with my mom back when they were kids) that my parents were getting divorced and then play-acted all sad just to get out of doing my work for that week. We were working on timetables that week and I hated them!! I can’t believe that at 7, I was slick enough to use that kind of info to my advantage.

    That’s old school too…having a picture of your mom’s class when she was a child and being able to pick out your next door neighbors and your friend’s parents.

    By E

    November 7, 2007 4:30 PM | Link to this

    @AmazonRed You were on Fun House? That was the best game show…I always wanted to go on there and my strategy was to grab all the money tags instead of the prizes if I got chance to go in the Funhouse. Did you win?

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 4:30 PM | Link to this

    Foots My La Gear’s had pink and white laces….I’d match em up with alternating pink and white socks.

    Willie Moms didn’t understand why you threw them away?

    That reminds me of those king crown air refresheners that they said were made by the KKK

    By Rell.com

    November 7, 2007 4:32 PM | Link to this

    @willie D

    get your old school game on

    http://www.cocacolazero.com/ffgames.jsp#

    @ar….country, yea that too…lol

    By AmazonRed 2.0

    November 7, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

    Truth, a man snapping is always gay. LOL

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

    Blue Why that 3 notch black belt was soooo thick and stopped you in your tracks and made you feel like you all of a sudden gotta go pee?

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this

    Truth I’m glad you finally got to see it. I think you have been going to see it for the last three days..lol . Imma have to check it out.

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this

    Amazon I used to LOVE that show, Fun House! I always wanted to be on that show, Double Dare, and You can’t do that on Television on MTV, so i could get slimed.

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this

    DuShawn Lagerfield I remember that was my first gift to my guy at the time. He loved me for that one. And then the next year he got HIS first starter jacket. Hello Somebody! But not before i got my triple fat gold herringbone necklace and purple n black Pumas.

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

    Tall Red Truth, a man snapping is always gay. LOL

    Nope, not if it follows the Soul Shake. LOL

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

    Blue I was sitting here thinking the same thing. Imma have to cop some lagerfeld and break that back out. One squirt last your azz for two days.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

    That was funny WiseDiva. I’m going to keep old school going by pressing my daughter’s hair saying “it hurts to be pretty!” Then, I’m going to wake her up at 3:45 a.m. and make her clean her bathroom. JK!!!

    By AmazonRed

    November 7, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this

    E - Not only was I on the show, I was on celebrity week with Punky Brewster and Ben from Growing Pains. I lost. And lost bad. LOL I got the nice parting gifts of British Knight sneakers and an Espirit short set. LOL

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this

    Remember the Virginia Slim cigarette commercial “We’ve Come A Long Way Baby!”

    By Raqi

    November 7, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

    Wise hmmm…a trip to the candy store…a willing and wonderful neck sucker…and a camcorder…on a cool Wednesday night like tonight will be…

    Yall be good and have a splendid evening.

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

    Hey, hey, hey… no replies to me REll, and Du? What’s up with that? I’m cool though…

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

    Blue LOL!! My dad’s belt did have two sets of notches. I was so mad that she got to keep The Whooping Belt in the divorce! That’s why I had to hide it! LMAO

    My granddaddy had a store around the corner on State Street (Y’all know it as U.S. 1) and my Big Mama would make me and my sister take him a bacon and egg sandwich over to him on summer mornings when we were at her house. But we couldn’t stay… She didn’t trust his friends around us! That’s old school.

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

    Cemeeli Why did i see a dude who looked like he just got out the penn with a thick azz herringbone on at a restaurant a few weeks ago! His herringbone was so think it looked like a neck brace. LOL! I always ended up getting kinks in mine.

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

    Cemeeli Why did i see a dude who looked like he just got out the penn with a thick azz herringbone on at a restaurant a few weeks ago! His herringbone was so think it looked like a neck brace. LOL! I always ended up getting kinks in mine. My grandma gave me dat chain.

    By The Truth

    November 7, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

    If you konw what a Pinto is, or rode in one. If you’ve owned Hi Karate. If you remember a T-top Iroc or Trans Am. If you had to take the cart back to the grocery store to get the deposit. If you’ve done these your old school.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

    I liked Punky Brewster! I still wear different colored socks to this day (when I wear socks around the house).

    By Foots

    November 7, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

    Amazon You’re not only old school, you’re FAMOUS too!!! Celebrity week, what?!?!

    Ladies Did y’all get the Lite Bright for Christmas?? It was fun, until I ran out of templates and Mama wouldn’t buy us any more. Then we just drew our own templates on construction paper and stuck the pegs through that. LOL!

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

    @ Amazon Fun House w/Punky Brewster & Ben. You was a star back then gurl. Did you keep your suit and shoes forever?

    By Willie Dynamite

    November 7, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

    Slim Ma Dukes wasn’t trying to hear that. All she know is that she paid good money for em. BTW what the hellz is ‘Good Money’. Either way I never wore them again.

    Rell You alright wit me mayne. Thats classic shyt right there.

    2C I’m getting real ol skool on you. I’m bout to break out the Zig Zags. Kori wut you know bout that?

    By Jewel

    November 7, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this

    GREAT day down memory lane, Guys! Now, you are ole, ole school if you can finish this one…

    See ya later, alligator Afterwhile, crocodile After supper, ____

    The winner receives a year’s supply of Tussy, their favorite Now n Later’s flavor, and an original, never worn Member’s Only jacket! LOL

    Have a great evening!

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this

    Was I the only fool or did anyone else use an eraser to make a tattoo on your arm. Anybody no what I’m talking about?

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

    Shoot, I’ll beat the Pinto w/the Gremlin.

    Thanks for the memories everyone. Have a great evening!

    By OldSchool

    November 7, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this

    Mia hit 500 a couple of times, 300 then was a slow day.

    By Blue_Kolla

    November 7, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

    LMAO @ His herringbone was so think it looked like a neck brace. LOL!

    Slim you stoopid! hahahahahahaha

    By SlimOne

    November 7, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

    Truth My older cousin use to take me and my younger cousins to the skating rink in that dayum pinto. We’d always try to get us to drop us off down the street but his dummy behind would drive right up to the front door. It was white with red trim. lol

    By DuShawn

    November 7, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

    Cemelli You sound like you were a fly little girlfriend, rockin the Pumas. I wish you grew up in my neighborhood.

    By Cemeeli

    November 7, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this

    Wise,Sexyleggs,Foots, Slim, Jewel, Amazon, Rell, Dushawn, 2C, WillieD, Blue, Truth… everybody that join in today on da ole school memory lane. Yall speak eazy.

    Love, Peace and…..Sooooouuuuulllll.

    By SexyLeggs

    November 7, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this

    DuShawn, I did the tattoo w/the eraser…OMG!

    By Wise Diva

    November 7, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this

    You must explain that eraser tattoo to me DuShawn! Hmm, what?

    Have a great evening everyone, stay warm!

    By The Truth

    November 7, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this

    Du you was the only fool. LOL I know I’m 3 days late but I made it. Check it out.

    Ared am I gay? LMAO

    By AmazonRed 2.0

    November 7, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

    *adjusting my shades * LOL. Thanks for the Fun House love all. I kept that stuff til it fell apart. But the only reason why I was on celebrity week is because my friend I auditioned with didn’t make the cut. He was too stupid in the audition. LOL. He said there were 5 days in a week.

    I wish I still had the tape, I’ve been looking on YouTube forever. If I ever find it you guys can see 11 year old AmazonRed getting “slimed” on national tv. LOL

    Good night all!

    By 2CPTG©

    November 7, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

    Du, sure do…..shyt burns like hell…..and Willie D, zig zags, boi, I still use ‘em…..1.25!!!!!

    By Willie Dynamite

    November 7, 2007 5:04 PM | Link to this

    Du you wasn’t the only fool.

    Jewel No such thang as a never worn MO jacket. If you had one you rocked it. Mafugga!!! LOL

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