Being "offended" is the catch-all word for the WOKE minority.

I fondly remember my father taking my brother and I to Steeplechase Park in Coney Island.

Fun Times
 

Swimming all summer, long bicycle rides everywhere, picking cherries till one of us broke too many branches, Chinese chestnut burr and Mayapple fights, digging in the garden, corn roasts and playing in the fire pit the day after a gathering.

Honey-suckle bush, ice cream truck, inflatable swimming pool, cherry coke at Woolworth, dad's whistle to come home, 6 RC caps got you into movies, ping-pong, fire flies in bottle, first bicycle

Fun Memories? Too bad you blocked out Kent State to round out your seemingly sad reminiscent life in our otherwise great country of our youth.

- Walking 1 1/2 mile to school, taking a shortcut through a little wood that was so magical to me.
- Crazy snowstorms that made the doors completely inaccessible so we had to get out through the kitchen window, no school but lots of shovelling!
- Watching The Flintstones, cartoons, Walt Disney.
- Playing records and writing out the words so I'd be able to memorize them.
- Camping trips to the Atlantic coast.
- Skiing in Quebec and Vermont
- Watching color TV for the first time
- Watching Nadia Comanici's perfect 10. WHAT A GYMNAST!
- The first steps on the moon.
- Getting to wear a tutu for my first ballet recital.
- Swimming ALL DAY until my fingers and toes turned into prunes.
- Picking fresh blueberries in the forest near our house and having a pie made from them by mom. YUM

Exactly! I've never been "offended" in my life. I've always "considered the source" and never got my panties in a bind.

I must have been brought up as a girl that came from a great family, enjoyed the heck out of life and saw the good along with the bad.
The topic is FUN from our childhood, not "period effects" of our youth. Lighten up.Smile more, laugh, like you did as a kid. Sorry to the people who love to hold grudges from the days of old....70 years ago.
That's a lots baggage baby!
Dean and Don were a riot!

Yes!!!
 

You made my day! My husband’s too. We had a good laugh remembering how invisible men worked in our backyard baseball games. And we both grew up in New England so your hypothesis about the origin of the phrase may be right. How did it come up on the golf course though??

It’s still out there (DM roast series). Like All in the Family and The Jeffersons, history has judged all kindly

The English "Carry On" movies weren't politically correct, but funny. It was a period in history.
History shouldn't be erased.

Ohiobuckeye
 

Just being young & being able to play outside after dark, not anymore!

Remember playing 500 till the bats started circling the balls. Then went snipe hunting or caught lightning bugs to put in jars. For those with the insensitive side, we made lighting bug rings…lol

How many lightning bugs perished to make one ring!

A couple
 

Maybe just a couple, it was usually just one or two put on the ring finger to simulate a stone. I don’t think we had the patience to make an entire ring.

Sounds like you may have watched Silence of the Lambs and Sir Anthony Hopkins a few times!

Just having fun with ya!
I used to use the magnifying glass and sun with ants. Don’t judge me...it’s better than being a plaintiff in a pesticide class action suit ! ;)