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Ahh, and remember taking the big risks and playing your parents' records at 78rpm when they were out and getting busted because you forgot to reset the turntable to 45rpm? Elvis was always good in high speed, Hound Dog, Suspicious Minds, Jailhouse Rock - sure, you can do the same thing with software today, but it isn't half as much fun as watching the platter spinning like a top.

The generation before mine typically aren't impressed with whomever invented dead-man switches on lawnmowers, they often keep a bit of wire wrapped around them so that they don't have to hold the handle down while trying to start the machine.

In Scouts it wasn't unusual for the older scouts to take one of the new kids out into the forest blindfolded and tie him (loosely) to a tree so that by the time he got untied he was alone and had to find his way back to camp if he wanted to eat that day. Wedgies were also a right of passage - as was giving the new kids 'chocolate' on the bus ride to camp - it's an important life lesson to learn the difference between regular chocolate and ex lax! I can't remember, but I don't think I went back for a second year. Nowadays, it's almost to the point that if a kid sneezes, the leaders have to fill out reports.