08-07-2007, 12:19 PM
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Leo was right
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern Iowa
Posts: 17,778
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Originally Posted by Irish
Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
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I'm 39 but still remember the majority of those things...... and miss those days as well.
In my family Mercurochrome was called "Monkey Blood" though. Not sure why but that's what my grandpa always called it.
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