Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

DEBBIE HOGGING MY MAN

DEBBIE HOGGING ANOTHER ONE OF MY MEN LOL

OK GOOD NIGHT FOR REAL

Suzie wrote: Trust me....you have no idea what your all doing for me!

oh my God!!
i would venture to say - u all hav helped save my life too!
u hav no idea wat u all mean to me!
...and i am so grateful dat i hav contributed to helping u guys cope thru tough times too.

oh dear lord - terry!!!! i'm goin to bed cryin tonight again!!!!

Suzie wrote: back at ya ...Deb!

Fes ....did that feel like a long day ....with traveling & working?

crazy...crazy...long day - long friggin week! lol
i miss my dancin!!!
thanks for askin...lv ya xx

kisses to mom and dad!

Guzzo here wrote: [quote=Suzie]Trust me....you have no idea what your all doing for me!

oh my God!!
i would venture to say - u all hav helped save my life too!
u hav no idea wat u all mean to me!
...and i am so grateful dat i hav contributed to helping u guys cope thru tough times too.

oh dear lord - terry!!!! i'm goin to bed cryin tonight again!!!!

MY NICK NAME IN MY FAMILY SINCE I WAS A KID IS PISS EYES CAUSE U KNOW I CRY OVER EVERYTHING (VERY SENSITIVE)
I NOW NOMINATE U AS PISS EYES II

patsy you must be very pround of your daughter, very pretty girl,

terry maybe the guys got there own blog now, and didnt tell us,???
oh well dont worry over it.

T-Bone51 wrote: [quote=MaryAnnL][quote=Suzie]MaryAnn your so right ....when the girls surprised me at night ....we put my dining room chairs around my kitchen table.....how funny is that!

Back in the day ...we would sit on the stoop after having dinner.....I would love to see my Mom talking with Dottie DeAngelo ....We would give Dottie the eye to keep talking to my Mom ....so we could stay out later.....LOL

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That's funny Suzie, I remember those hot summer nights and
one of the things I miss about B'klyn, sitting out at night and not getting bit by mosquitos!!!!! I could hear Mr. Softee coming down the block, hey kids, get your change ready!!! LOL

Oh yeah, we would squeeze the whole family in the kitchen, some would sit, some would stand and the little kids sat on their parents laps and sipped their coffee, that's how I became a COFFEE DRINKER!!! LOL

THATS WHEN KIDS DID NOT STAY ON THE VIDEO GAMES AND COMPUTERS AND IPODS ALL THE TIME. WE USED OUR IMAGINATION WHEN WE PLAYED AND WE WERE ALWAYS INVOLVED IN FAMILY THINGS.

RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT ONE TWO THREE

MAY I TAKE 2 GIANT STEPS

TRUTH, DARE CONSEQUENCES , PROMISE OR REPEAT

HOP SCOTCH UNTIL IT GOT DARK
PUNCH BALL
STICK BALL
JUMP ROPE
CHINESE JUMP ROPE
COCO OLIVIO (SPELL)
HIDE AND SEEK SAME AS ABOVE
OMG I COULD GO ON BUT I WOULD BE HERE ALL NIGHT

oh my God!!!
i luved those games!!

u gotta see the guys play hand ball by the restaurant!
it's awesome...

Jeanette LaGreca wrote: patsy you must be very pround of your daughter, very pretty girl,

terry maybe the guys got there own blog now, and didnt tell us,???
oh well dont worry over it.

thanx, jeanette..i am very proud of her...

festina...a full work week..wow!!! fun isn't it???? lol
tell mom i said hi...

terry, your men are hot,,,lol mike looks great...jonathon is just gorgeous...:)
april is lucky to have him and your family in her life..hope she is doing better every day...xx

T-Bone51 wrote:

DEBBIE HOGGING ANOTHER ONE OF MY MEN LOL

OK GOOD NIGHT FOR REAL

i just had fantasies of calling u "ma" lol lol lol!

btw - i take the name "piss eyes the 2nd" with pride!! lol...
booooooo - hooooooooo

good nite all.
i luv u. xx

PATSY (MIELE) KIRK wrote: [quote=Jeanette LaGreca]patsy you must be very pround of your daughter, very pretty girl,

terry maybe the guys got there own blog now, and didnt tell us,???
oh well dont worry over it.

thanx, jeanette..i am very proud of her...

festina...a full work week..wow!!! fun isn't it???? lol
tell mom i said hi...

terry, your men are hot,,,lol mike looks great...jonathon is just gorgeous...:)
april is lucky to have him and your family in her life..hope she is doing better every day...xx

a "bleepin" blast patsy!

mom said to tell u hi too, xx
nite.

PATSY (MIELE) KIRK wrote:

This is Toniann's brick in the Citifield Fan Walk that i was telling you guys about. She will be part of the stadium forever .





This is Toniann's cast picture in black and white from her performance in "Little Shop Of Horrors" back in April.

toniann said 'thank you' for the compliments

Patsy ....every time I see a pic of Toniann....I see Angela.
Thats an Actress shot right there!

I cant believe how alive Court street is at night .....I think every store front is
a bar/cafe ...unbelievable!

Terry ...great pics of Mike & Jonathan.....Debbie looked like she had a ball..
thats good to see!

Janet ....get home safe!

Geri ....hope your having a beautiful time on your Cruise

Goodnight Everyone ....


P.S. Goodmorning to those just waking up....TGIF

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GOOD MORNING FRIENDS!!!

hav a great day everyone!

PATSY (MIELE) KIRK wrote: [quote=PATSY (MIELE) KIRK]

This is Toniann's brick in the Citifield Fan Walk that i was telling you guys about. She will be part of the stadium forever .





This is Toniann's cast picture in black and white from her performance in "Little Shop Of Horrors" back in April.

toniann said 'thank you' for the compliments

she's adorable patsy - just like her mother!
congratulate her for me!
she really looks like a star!

Suzie wrote: That story and those pics were the best ....Kudo's to Festina and Carol
and to all of you for a good morning laugh......that was good!

Fes ....I have an idea....Im gonna see if they have a Hot Grandma Body of the Year Contest and enter you in it...
we can even put your Mom in a bikini and Im sure she'd win also!!! Hi Gina! LOL
You wont have to work again!

i'll tell u wat!
u do the work - if i win - dinner for all of us here is on me!

go for it! lol

Janet M Horan wrote: Afternoon people. Festina !!! Those pictures !!!

Been busy farming and not enough time to get on the blog. Leaving tomorrow at 9am on the plane and shoud be home before 11am to tend to my dog and cats AND KITTENS !!! Need to give them away this week.
Had a great time with Debbie (she's so cute), Patsy, Festina, Carol, Millie, Margie, Suzie, Terry & whomever I forgot, lol. Very exhausted these days.

Eye doctor said it was the retina membrane detaching and will watch it for awhile. No biggie.

See you on here after I get home.
Thanks for a great time.

hope ur visit was all u hoped it would be...
full of fun, friendship, (old and new) good laughs, good food, crispy brooklyn italian bread, and much luv to take back with u...

here's a lil somethin for ur farm....



mooooooo! lol!

...and for ur eye.



lv ya xx

Jeanette LaGreca wrote: debbie , i made lasanga meatballs,chicken parm, sausage peppers onions.
and my house smell very italian.!!!!!!!,i pooped just washing all the big pots
my daughter in law is doing the salads stuffed mushroms,desserts. as you can see i did all the hard stuff lol lol

maureen my prayers are with you for a speedy recover, are you janet sister!!!!

wow jeanette!
sounds so good !
could u send me some sausage and peppers please! yum!

hav fun on the porch today.

MaryAnnL wrote: Terry, I wanna know what COCO OLIVIO is, I've heard of it but can't recall the game right now.

We loved playing "skelies" with the bottle tops filled with melted crayons.

Another game --------- one girl gets picked to go in the middle of the circle and we're singing "with flowers in her hair" I can't remember the whole song and then she does a dance "shake it the right, shake it to the left" ???? LOL

Hi Patsy, how's it going?

oh my God! dats right maryann!!
i forgot dat one.
i used to play it all the time with my friends!
how's it go again?
we used to put our hands on our hips, then shake it, right?

does anyone remember the words to dis?

didn't we used to use our own names when we sang it?

T-Bone51 wrote: [quote=MaryAnnL][quote=Suzie]MaryAnn your so right ....when the girls surprised me at night ....we put my dining room chairs around my kitchen table.....how funny is that!

Back in the day ...we would sit on the stoop after having dinner.....I would love to see my Mom talking with Dottie DeAngelo ....We would give Dottie the eye to keep talking to my Mom ....so we could stay out later.....LOL

---------------------------
That's funny Suzie, I remember those hot summer nights and
one of the things I miss about B'klyn, sitting out at night and not getting bit by mosquitos!!!!! I could hear Mr. Softee coming down the block, hey kids, get your change ready!!! LOL

Oh yeah, we would squeeze the whole family in the kitchen, some would sit, some would stand and the little kids sat on their parents laps and sipped their coffee, that's how I became a COFFEE DRINKER!!! LOL

THATS WHEN KIDS DID NOT STAY ON THE VIDEO GAMES AND COMPUTERS AND IPODS ALL THE TIME. WE USED OUR IMAGINATION WHEN WE PLAYED AND WE WERE ALWAYS INVOLVED IN FAMILY THINGS.

RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT ONE TWO THREE

MAY I TAKE 2 GIANT STEPS

TRUTH, DARE CONSEQUENCES , PROMISE OR REPEAT

HOP SCOTCH UNTIL IT GOT DARK
PUNCH BALL
STICK BALL
JUMP ROPE
CHINESE JUMP ROPE
COCO OLIVIO (SPELL)
HIDE AND SEEK SAME AS ABOVE
OMG I COULD GO ON BUT I WOULD BE HERE ALL NIGHT

i still play hop scotch with my grandkids!
those r games we should pass on!
they love it!

stick ball - the best!
the guys used to "call for me" (remember dat saying?)
to be on their team all the time because i was so good at it!
a tomboy... lol

we would "chalk" the bases on the tar street, buy a few spaldines, (because we would always bust them open, lol!) - and "borrow" lol, someone's broom, take the sweeper off, then use it as our bat!

hey, let's play it on the street at the re-union!
i'm in!

how bout playin a game dat we called just "catch?"
friends would say..."wanna play catch?"

where we would just catch a hardball into a baseball mit!
...and still play with my grands.

remember the card game, "knuckles?"

ok guys - gotta go.
thanks for the good memories!

wait...two more!
how bout playin "barbie" with the barbie dolls, (with ken) and playing "pretend?"

Good Morning

Deb, sorry about Edith; I never realized she was your sister when we 'prayed' for her last year and in the past. My heart to you!

Patsy, Toniann is precious and I love her spirit and spunk. Wonder who she got that from?

Festina, I totally forgot about knuckles' card game. Remember you
would get 'spanked' with the deck of cards' flat side and it was no big deal.
I think if the person giving dropped the cards, they got their knuckles done
too. Then there were the times when we'd get knuckled with the edges of
the cards and we'd do it till our knuckles bled. Masochists. Thanks for
the sick memory LOL.

.

GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS..

THANX, SUZIE..YES SHE DOES LOOK LIKE ANGELA, (BUT THAN AGAIN, WE ALL LOOK SOMEWHAT ALIKE) ..LOL

THANX, FESTINA...YUP,,SHE IS ADORABLE JUST LIKE HER MOM..LOL XX
HAVE A GREAT DAY AT WORK..T.G.I.F.

Guzzo here wrote: how bout playin a game dat we called just "catch?"
friends would say..."wanna play catch?"

where we would just catch a hardball into a baseball mit!
...and still play with my grands.

remember the card game, "knuckles?"

OH!!! KNUCKLES I HATED THAT GAME BECAUSE I WOULD ALWAYS GET MY KNUCKLE SMASHED WITH THE CARDS AND CRY YES CRY LOVE PISS EYES 1

BARBIE DOLLS. I WOULD PLAY BARBIE DOLLS ALL DAY WITH ANNA MARIE ROMANELLI. REMEMBER THE CASES THAT OPENED UP AND ALL HER CLOTHES AND THOSE ADORABLE HIGH HEEL SHOES. OH AND KEN LOL

OH!!! MY FAVORITE PASTIME WHEN I WAS A KID. WE WOULD SIT IN HER GATE OR OUTSIDE FOR HOURS AND PLAY.
AT NIGHT WE WOULD WAIT FOR THE RIDES TO COME. THE WHIP AND KING KONG. LEFT MY SISTER MICHELE ON THE KING KONG RIDE AND WAS PUNISHED FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG. (IWROTE THS ALONG TIME AGO ON THE BLOG) SHE WENT TO 21ST STREET SITTING ON THE KING KONG RIDE AND Y MOTHER WAS LOOKING FOR HER THOUGHT SHE WAS KIDNAPPED..I WAS PROBABLY HOPING SHE WAS. LOL

FRANNY!!! HOW ARE YOU??? HOPE YOU ARE FEELING OK...
I THINK LAST TUESDAY WAS THE LAST EPISODE OF 'RESCUE ME' FOR THE SEASON?? I FELL ASLEEP HALFWAY THRU IT, SO I WILL WATCH IT ON PRIMETIME DEMAND OVER THE WEEKEND..:)

SEND MY LOVE TO FRANK & PLEASE SEND A BIG HUG TO PHYLLIS FOR ME... LOVE YA,

HELEN..T.G.I.F..:) HOPE THE DAY GOES FAST FOR ALL US WORKER BEES ..:)

GOOD MORNING, CUZ...I WAS JUST GOING TO WRITE & ASK IF U WERE STILL SLEEPING??? LOL

HAVE A GREAT DAY..I WILL CALL JAMSEY LATER & LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON... XX

Hi again
was writing another post here and said "Liz Joy and her husband Alan
came to visit yesterday" - then my phone rang and it was Liz. Then my
computer died. So, now I'm back.

It had been 30 years since I saw Liz; we laughed so hard. Given neither
Liz or I 'drink,' per se, - we started with white wine when they arrived
and continued with special blue margarettas. Went down to this beach
restaurant on the Pier - they only allow you to have two of these drinks
cause they're so potent. Well we had great laughs and no one peed
their pants. So a great time was had by all. Didn't take too many pictures
but I'll send what I have.

Love & Blessings to you all - for a wonderful TGIF!
xxx

THIS IS LONG BUT IT WAS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT LAST NIGHT AND TODAY AND SO TRUE.



Very well stated, Mr. Leno.







TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's, 40's, 50's,

and 60's


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.







They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.




Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.







We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,

we had baseball caps

not helmets on our heads.







As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.







Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.




We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.







We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.







We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?




Because we were always outside playing...that's why!




We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..




No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.






We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps

and then ride them down the hill,

only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem







We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's,

no surround-sound or CD's,

no cell phones,

no personal computers,

no internet and no chat rooms.







WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!










We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse..










We ate worms and mud pies

made from dirt, and

the worms did not live in us forever.






We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.








We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.







Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn't had to learn

to deal with disappointment.




Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.. They actually sided with the law!




These generations have produced some of the best

risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.



The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.




We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.







If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!




You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.







While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.










Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?