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lorax · 05-06-2009, 11:13 AM

Poor muffin! It made you resourceful, didn't it? At least you had a jungle to play in (as opposed to a frozen northern wasteland.)

Bob · 05-06-2009, 11:18 AM

All I had was a small neighborhood , a swamp and a nuclear missile base! Never got a caning though ! My parents had a thing called a "spankin board" which was a sadistic flat piece of wood with a funny (to parents) picture of a poor defenseless child, pants down with a red behind! Then there was catholic school (shudders)....... Yup......poor muffin!

Tog Tan · 05-06-2009, 11:31 AM

Harv, your get together thingy is wrecked... so let it be, K....

Considering M'sia having 60% of all the known rattan species in the world, being a kid in the early '60s wasn't a good idea if you were a naughty one. All the parents will keep a couple of canes, especially the thin ones to keep us in check. Yes, Bob, Christian Brothers' school... the might of the cane! Up to this very day, criminals are still punished by caning. Can you imagine it?

No matter how we try to hide all the canes in the house when we are about to be whacked, my mom will always have one hidden somewhere. Well, it's good training, having all the skin thickened, in a way, extreme body-building.

Bob · 05-06-2009, 11:49 AM

Ok , ok just find it's better to make light of unpleasant memories. Yeah I was aware they still did that and am glad I never experienced it. Also i just figured Beth got the ball rolling so I'd help with a push.
Sorry Harvey, all peace and love from the east coast.

Lagniappe · 05-06-2009, 11:56 AM

We were made to go out and cut our own 'switch' to be used against us

I once chose a whispy, limber branch that I thought would tickle like a feather.....WRONG!
BTW....we had to go 5 miles, uphill both ways to cut them.

Tog Tan · 05-06-2009, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lagniappe

We were made to go out and cut our own 'switch' to be used against us

I once chose a whispy, limber branch that I thought would tickle like a feather.....WRONG!
BTW....we had to go 5 miles, uphill both ways to cut them.

That's a good one Pete!
I had a sadistic teacher who let us choose the cane to be use on us. Dummies who chose the thin ones had the time of their life!

alpha010 · 05-06-2009, 12:23 PM

My mom used to make me go to the grociery store and pic out my own wooden spoon....talk about the walk of shame.......the checkout lady knew what was going on everytime I came into the store....

chong · 05-06-2009, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Tog Tan

Intro...sad violin solo.... You guys have all the fun in the west, cos at that time all we had here was the jungle right behind our houses. What bikes? ....sadder violin solo....
All we did all day was wander around the bushes trying to catch the little spiders in the leaves and put them into the metal cigarette tins with a leaf...then we will bring it around and fight them with our peers. We swatted flies to feed them had them drink from our spit! The other pastime was to get into the jungle and with a stick whack through the huge colocasias imagining we were slaughtering the Romans from the few movies we had the good fortune to see in the cinemas. When we were all dirty and yucky, we would yank some of the bigger tubers or dig up some old ginger rhizomes to go back to appease our mom. If they liked what we brought home, we won't get a heck of a caning cos of our muddy clothes! That was my childhood!

By Golly, Tog! Are you bragging or complaining???????

Tog Tan · 05-06-2009, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by chong

By Golly, Tog! Are you bragging or complaining???????

Neither Sifu Chong! At my time, we just didn't have all the stuff from the west. It all came in kinda slow from the late 70's/early 80's. You may call us backward as in the early 60's the crowd in the cinema would applaud when the show starts and will also applaud when the good guys beat up the bad guys, especially in the cowboys vs red indians movies.

Did you guys in Phil fight spiders like we did?

harveyc · 05-06-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Tog Tan

Harv, your get together thingy is wrecked... so let it be, K....

Considering M'sia having 60% of all the known rattan species in the world, being a kid in the early '60s wasn't a good idea if you were a naughty one. All the parents will keep a couple of canes, especially the thin ones to keep us in check. Yes, Bob, Christian Brothers' school... the might of the cane! Up to this very day, criminals are still punished by caning. Can you imagine it?

No matter how we try to hide all the canes in the house when we are about to be whacked, my mom will always have one hidden somewhere. Well, it's good training, having all the skin thickened, in a way, extreme body-building.

Hey Tog, are you declaring war against me or just my thread???

Tog Tan · 05-06-2009, 02:45 PM

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Hey Tog, are you declaring war against me or just my thread???

Sir! No Sir! I was bored Sir! And then things got out of hand when I was so jealous from reading what you people did and I didn't, Sir!

chong · 05-06-2009, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tog Tan

Neither Sifu Chong! At my time, we just didn't have all the stuff from the west. It all came in kinda slow from the late 70's/early 80's. You may call us backward as in the early 60's the crowd in the cinema would applaud when the show starts and will also applaud when the good guys beat up the bad guys, especially in the cowboys vs red indians movies.

Did you guys in Phil fight spiders like we did?

Absolutely, we did! We kept them in matchboxes until the fight to starve them a little. I remember that many of the more colorful spiders weren't as tough as the plain colored ones. During the fight we'd set them on opposite ends of a "ting-ting" (the midrib of a coconut leaf.)

As for the cinema, people in the Philippines still do applaud the heroes, and cuss the villains, cry with the drama. And the lovers in the back rows - they still don't give a damn!

One thing about cinema in the Philippines, because of the American population there, when they show something new in the US, they would show them there during the same period.

Bob · 05-06-2009, 03:40 PM

Beth will hate me but when I was in college we did this with male bettas.

Tog Tan · 05-06-2009, 03:49 PM

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Beth will hate me but when I was in college we did this with male bettas.

Since you are interested with things SEA, thought you will like to know that up till a couple of years ago, the best fighting bettas used for big money games came not from Thailand but a place named Klang which is about 40 minutes from where I live. I was real surprised when I found out about it from a guy who's very serious into it. People in the game came from everywhere to buy the fish. I have no idea about the rating now since I am no longer in the animal trading.

lorax · 05-06-2009, 05:19 PM

Why would I hate you for that? I used to breed males for fighting.

Lagniappe · 05-06-2009, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob

Beth will hate me but when I was in college we did this with male bettas.

We had dwarf wrestling in cream corn.

saltydad · 05-06-2009, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Lagniappe

We were made to go out and cut our own 'switch' to be used against us

I once chose a whispy, limber branch that I thought would tickle like a feather.....WRONG!
BTW....we had to go 5 miles, uphill both ways to cut them.

Pete- You forgot to add ".....5 miles each way, in the snow, with below freezing temperatures, so cold the horses wouldn't go outside...you kids don't know how easy you have it today!" LOL

My Mom used the wooden paddle from that toy with the rubber ball on an elastic string. She always forgot that there was a staple on one side. For some reason that always was the side applied with energetic force to my tush.

Lagniappe · 05-06-2009, 06:59 PM

I was in Louisiana, so there was no snow. Hows about...In the sweltering heat and 98% humidity, covered with mosquitoes, fighting off poisonous snakes, and getting stung by hornets all the while....?

john_ny · 05-06-2009, 07:27 PM

Wow, a lot of fish people here. For many years, I had a fish import business, and sold them to pet shops. 1400 male bettas a week from Bangkok, 100,000 common gold fish a week. We had over 200 varieties spawn, mostly accidentaly. I would get big Angels in, from Hong Kong, and I could see that there were several females that were full of eggs, so I'd put a piece of slate in the tank, and the next morning I'd usually have eggs. One time, I even Had a double header; one pair on each side of the slate.
Tried breeding the bettas (my favorite) myself, and we put 100 pair together, in plastic shoe boxes, twice a week. They had 3 days to either do it, or they were separated, and a new pair was put in . We had about a 60% success rate, ranging from several dozen to several hundred. However, when we reviewed all expenses, it was cheaper to bring them in from Bangkok.

Patty in Wisc · 05-06-2009, 09:44 PM

I used to breed angels. I bought 5 or 6 small angels & got 2 mating pairs. I sold to pet shops but it wasn't worth it after awhile.

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