Um, yeah. MOH recipients are pretty much as close as one gets to royalty in the military.
Glorious. My huffy somehow managed to be both brown and have some kind of orange striping. You literally couldnāt create an uglier bike if you let Home Simpson do it.
I remember them. The puffy Huffy with the big blocky seat! With sort of yellow/orange/red hash mark stickers on the frame and fenders.
The dude a couple houses down had one until he rode it down a sliding board and into the fulcrum of the see-saw set on the playground we used to ride bikes at.
Absolutely totaled himself and the bike. It was amazing.
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You know, itās possible it was a Schwinn? I mean, it fucking sucked is what I am trying to say. A banana seat that was brown, possibly with an orange pinstripe. Like that that could ever be a good idea.
There were a good many different types and styles of bikes back then. They seemed to last a while too. Nothing like 40 lbs. of steel tubing for durability.
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I mean, if my bike ever had a head-on with one of those dainty little mongooses (mongeese?), there is no doubt which bike would have survived.
Everyone thinks the kid jumping the bike is the brave one, but itās really that kid laying down at the end of the ārulerā when the biker is going for the new distance recordā¦
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We just used to use a smashed pop can as the place marker. No way anybody was laying down in front of anything. Not after some of the lunatic crap we had done.
But yeah, I wouldnāt want to be that last kid.
Found a thread from a few months ago that was ridiculous, looked at the OPās profile, found equally ridiculous threads, and some awesome quotes.
I donāt know why, but the quotations around āA Negroā crack me up and Iām sure his description of sex is very attractive to women.
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That photo has got to be fake, though, right? Otherwise that adult motherfucker sitting calmly on his doorstep in the background has some explaining to do.
I would think so, but only because I donāt know that people had high quality cameras just laying around in 1976 just waiting for the kids to ride bikes or do something cool. Those were more of a really special occasion thing.
Otherwise, nothing unusual. But what do I know? I needed to stand on a milk crate to ride a dirt bike.
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It looks like an advertisement to me. And how often did the bricks supporting the ramp give out resulting in catastrophe?
I had a friend who was standing and pedaling as hard as he could on his approach when the chain came off and the pedals lost tension. He dropped straight onto the cross bar (frame) with all his weight.
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Itās obviously a fake. If it were real the guy sitting on the stoop would have had an unfiltered Camel between his fingers.
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Ate dinner with my kids at my moms house tonight. We got on the subject of height, my mom thought I was 6ā2-3ā! Score! (Iām 6ft). My 8 year old daughter pipes up that she likes how men are always taller than women. My mom attempted to correct her and tell her there are plenty of men shorter than women, and without missing a beat my daughter says āyea like guys with disabilitiesā 
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I donāt get it?
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Walked right into that one.
I know I shouldnāt laugh since someone died, but humanity may indeed be better off.