Man, I used to wait all year for the Sears Holiday catalog. I'd spend hours looking at all the toys.

Us, too!  (It was also my first chance to see adults in underwear -- very heavily air-brushed underwear, but there were bulges there...)

We'd get the catalogue a few months before Christmas and -- instead of writing letters to Santa -- we'd circle the things in the catalogue that we wanted for Xmas. 

Never got that giant-sized stuffed LASSIE, tho...

I posted this in that other gay marriage thread... lol... but thought it should go here, too.

Still best kids show is Pee Wee's Playhouse, I know it isn't a cartoon but dang it was so good!

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I have the whole series on dvd. When this was on I would usually spend Friday nights a friend of mines house. After drinking half the night away we would get up and watch this and when it was over, turn it over and watch Morton Downey.

What a combination!

And yet not one vote for "Mr. T"? 

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Do you remember Mr. T cereal?  Awesome.

Question for the group along the favorite cartoon thought, When you were a kid, what was your favorite thing to do in the summer?

I love the joke about T being allergic to doorknobs.

(That's why he's always kicking doors down).

When you were a kid, what was your favorite thing to do in the summer?

Swimming!

In the creek (pronounced "crick") that ran by our house, or our own backyard pool -- the two months a year it was warm enough -- or at the local school.

Always swimming -- loved that feeling of riding my bike to the swimming hole.

My favorite thing to do was play baseball in the field near our house, also I lived on my sting ray bike in the summer and we went everywhere. That is what I think kids today are most cheated on, they can't just go off and do whatever. My parents never knew where or what we were doing. We never did anything bad, just sometimes stupid, but god I had so much fun growing up.

LOL Crick, we call it crick too, and Library is Liberry

pronounced "crick"

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Friggin' New Yorker.

Swimming for me too. We used to swim in the Canisteo River by an old train bridge. About 15 foot off the water. Great for jumping and diving.

Or building forts. Anything outdoors really. Kids today aren't fat from what the eat. They're fat because the sit inside playing video games all day. You couldn't have payed me to sit in the house. That was punishment.