When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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I'm sure this question has already been asked on another board, or maybe already on this one, but... oh well. What did you went to be when you were maybe six or seven years old?

I watched too much television at that age, and I wanted to be everything. Indiana Jones, Rocky movies, sci-fi, music videos and Bill Murray in Ghostbusters had quite the effect on me as far as career choices went, so I wanted to be some kind of space-traveling, breakdancing, ghost-chasing Jedi boxer who not only always got the girl but was an archeologist on the side. Suprisingly, very little has changed in 17 years.

But when I was little I never had much of an interest in being a policeman, or a fireman, or a cowboy, or a doctor, or a football player or any of those other realistic and healthy occupations... well, depending on what your definition of "healthy" is.

What about you guys? I'm guessing Elizabeth wanted to be a vet, Andrew wanted to be a detective, rebekah wanted to be a magician, Lola wanted to be a gourmet chef, Di wanted to be a punk rocker, Oops wanted to be a gynecologist, Jon wanted to be a race car driver, and Adrian wanted to be a professional basketball team's mascot.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Monday, 4 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Wanted to be a gynecoligist? Why the past tense?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

very close dan. i wanted to be a pop star, like cyndi lauper. but i decided that was unrealistic and tried for albert einstein instead. however i didn't even do physics in high school. (though i adored calculus)

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 4 August 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how I'm not included in the last paragraph! Maybe I should post on this website more.

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 4 August 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wow I totally wanted to be a vet! for quite a few years! Actually I would still consider vet nursing. In my younger years I wanted to be a pony - as in a my little pony.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to be an astronaut (age 6), then a paleontologist (age 8), then a cartoonist (age 9-11, approx). I still kinda want to be an astronaut, but there's not really much call for them these days.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 4 August 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to be a vet first as well. Then about 1 million other things. I never wanted to be an astronaut though and now 'Space Oddity' has put me off that forever.

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 4 August 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I still want to be a Jedi. I think I went through a detective phase when I was all into the BBC version of Sherlock Holmes. I was pretty cut up when he died at the end fighting Moriarty next to waterfall (they fell off)

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 4 August 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i wanted to be a fighter pilot, close i gues sort of though?:s but now i want to raaawwwwkk!!! i want to go into music if i can find others willing to and you can all adore me on stage some day maybe. although barrister i think seems more likely:s :]

― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i wtd to be a bum & now i am one

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i think undertaker could be interesting.

― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

...no Adrian...not a wrestler...

― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn! I was pretty close on a couple of those...

Nobody ever says they want to be a junkie when they grow up.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to create a band of six hih-hop/rock superhuman females from Compton Los Angeles from hell to unleash musical mayhem and "Tha Chaotic Order" to all of mankind and to end it in tis pathetic misery at all cost.The are called Femme Entity, and here is their most evil and darkest album to date .The recent tracklist of songs didicated to chaos:

Femme Entity Arrival of Tha Holocaust

1.Intro of tha arrival

2.spreading epidemic

3.My dark journeyz

4.Many dayz of torment

5.The Extermination has begun

6.Demon warlords

7.Hells uprising

8.It wont take me

9.on tha run

10.Dark Captivity

11.Prisonerz uf war

12.Murda in tha streetz

13.Trust no one

14.Creed of darkness

15.No soul is safe

16.Deformed justice

17.pledge or perish

18.Hope is gone

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Monday, 4 August 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

justyn did you have a dinosaur phase too? all of my favourite people had dinosaur phases.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ie me.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I had one! Well, a phase where I played that 'Dinosaurs' game on the computer a lot. I also had phases where I was obsessed w/ dogs and shells, although not at the same time.

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It wasn't DINOSAUR DISCOVERY was it? I used to play that on the crappy acer computers at my school in form 1 and could never get past those damn rapids!! It involves trying to find dinosaur eggs and keeping them at a certain heat and there's also some crystals you have to find - not sure why. Also you visit a hermit in his hut and he gives you something useful like a rope or torch (or maybe he just chases you away, I've forgotten). The rapids though, wow they're impossible.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

You morons! What do you think of message! Answer already??????????????

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what did everyone collect when they were kids? i was so boring, i collected STAMPS. (and smurf figurines). my sister collected shells, you reminded me of that livvie.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Aha I collected stamps too and phonecards for a little while but then my dad stole my phonecard collection and he still collects them to this very day. I had smurf figurines too, my favourite is the one holding a big frothy beer!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

di: YES! I had like a zillion little toy dinoaurs and every other weekend my mom would buy me a new one. I also knew the name of every single dinosaur there ever was. ahhh those were the days.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew: Sherlock Holmes got resurrected in the next story, the BBC must not have filmed that one.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! I want to be a detective again! Man, I loved dinosaurs, I used to check the papers and stuff for new discoveries. At one point megalosaurus turned up, it was the BIGGEST DINOSAUR YET. Haven't heard about it much recently. Maybe the name got changed, maybe it was just a bigass apatosaurus, I dunno

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

oh E, yeah i had that smurf tooits pretty ace. i used to make a smurf village with my blocks, in cluding a pub especially for that one. i also had (presumably) clumsy smurf, who was ass-up on his ice-skates, that was my favourite figurine.

i never had toy dinosaurs, but i would get books about dinosaurs out of the library all the time and memorise their names. i used to like all the flying ones, like archeopteryx and pteranodon. now i prefer tyrannosaurus rex, for obvious reasons. watched Denver The Last Dinosaur every saturday morning. my little brother was totally addicted to Land Before Time for ages, it was so cute.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a review I found of Dinosaur Discovery!!

This term, Year 3 & 4 have been playing an adventure game called Dinosaur Discovery.

In Dinosaur Discovery you have to hatch an egg by getting an egg and crystals. You need to have the right crystals and the right egg. You need to get information to cross the Stegosaurs Straights. The best place to get information is at the museum. The places you don’t want to go to is the Forest, quicksand or the snakes and the places you need to go to is Hermit, museum desert, the wreck, the shed and the incubator. When you can sail across the Stegosaurs Straights you will need to know the date and the time then you can cross safely.

When you are at the incubator you have to make sure you get the temperature and if the temperature is to high you get a hard boiled egg and if too cold the dinosaur will die. If you’ve got the wrong crystals it goes BANG!! Also if you don’t put the crystals in the bag it will also go BANG!! and you will die. If you mix up the crystals you will die too.

By Connor & Edward

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.4mation.co.uk/cat/dino.html

it's still being made and you can get it for ACORN - that might've been the computer I was on actually.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No it wasn't that, that actually sounds fun. It was way more scientific and had scary animations of a dinosaur being killed and eaten.

― Livvie Tapper (Livvie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

More scientific than dino discovery? My god..

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I am dying to play this game again

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah it was pretty hardcore. I think the death of the dinosaur put me off it a bit, it was a brontosaurus and I always liked those. I used to play Treasure Maths Storm a lot, that was one of those quest games where little elves captured snowballs and then you had to solve sums and stuff.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a very graphic viewmaster reel about dinosaurs - the best one is "his favourite meal was the plant eating stegosaurus" and it shows this dinosaur biting into the SCALE spike thing of the steg and all this blood coming out. All glorious 3D models of course.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Eww I was horribly traumatised by stuff like that. I liked shells better - I wrote to the shell foundation and didn't get an answer for ages until somebody died and this nice guy sent me a book on shells. I'd lost interest in them a bit by then though.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The shell foundation?? My mum has a cookbook for dried apricot and peach recipes and it's published by the Australian Dried Fruit Association. FOR REAL.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i am so gonna look for my old viewmasters when i next go to my parents place cos i have the feeling i had the same dinosaur one. also COUNTLESS smurf viewmasters. last time i was home i searched everywhere for my jem sticker-fun book and couldn't find it :-(

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

my sister had this creepy shell with garibaldi's face carved into it.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the lumbering brontosaurus!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

What is it with Jem books and disappearing? Your mum's book sounds good Elisabeth, I love dried apricots. I don't know whether it was called the shell foundation or what, it was definitely a club of some sort.

― Livvie Tapper (Livvie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My mum's friend has a huge amount of old viewmaster reels and it's my 5 year goal to try and convince her to give them to me.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck you all...........My message already..........

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

We didn't have no dino games when I was in school!

All we had was "Word Muncher" and "Number Muncher" on the Commodore 64, featuring some little green guy that looked like ET with a hangover who ate words and numbers!

We also had the Oregon Trail, which was kind of annoying because usually all your cows died before you could pioneer the western part of the US. I fucking hate when that happens!

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

As for what I collected as a kid... well I collected a lot of things... but since I spent most of my time tear-assing around on my bike or wandering through the woods and marshes and hills, I mainly collected scars and bruises.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

wanted to be tina turner collected snails

― ducklingmonster, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Elisabeth: I had that viewmaster too! might still have it somewhere, I'm sure it's a collector's item by now. do they even make viewmasters anymore?

Di: I too was a faithful watcher of "Denver the Last Dinosaur" (as well as about three other dinosaur cartoons that weren't as good) and I went to see Land Before Time like 10 times when it came out! I also watched Jem (which I'm sure you could have guessed) but remember almost nothing abt it besides the theme song. I bet I'd like it more now.

Andrew: biggest dinosaur as I recall was ULTRASAURUS, so big they only ever found the leg or the skull or something. next biggest was Supersaurus (such imaginative names haha) and then, um, Brachiosaurus? they were all pretty much just oversized apatosaurs, anyway.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

and viewmasters (lone ranger, dark crystal, last star fighter, batman 60s tv, popeye, he man, brady bunch, strange animals, muppets, star trek 60s tv) i have my uncles and my own so they are a weird combo of 60s and 80s kid kulture

― ducklingmonster, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow you are so lucky! I wish I had a huge amount of reels, my only real good one is that dinosaur thing.
HA Denver the last Dinosaur was AWFUL!! He skateboarded and played guitar and was all cool and hip! So funny.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Was he your friend and a whole lot more?

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

adrian, i thought you wanted not to be a shit when you were older? or do you?:o

― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I bet I meant the ULTRASAURUS, yeah. I was about 6 or something at the time I suppose.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember the Brachiosaurus, too. SO did the Brontosaurus get its name changed to Apatosaurus, as I'm now recalling? I think they deserve capitals.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked those land before time puppets you could get at pizza hut

― black plastic (black plastic), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I still have my view master somewhere. I remember having Garfield slides, Epcot Center Slides, and that weird red dune buggy with a face on the front of his grill, and he talked to people. I swear I'm not making him up.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

at first they thought the brontosaurus and the apatosaurus were two different dinosaurs, then it turned out they weren't. since the a. was discovered first, it got to keep its name.

guitar-playing dinosaurs who hang out with dopey surfer kids and foil plots by evil entrepreneurs to take over the world (or something like that) => god it's a wonder my generation isn't more fucked up than it is, growing up absorbing stuff like that every week! and what's with that "he's your friend and a WHOLE LOT MORE" business? eh?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

You all are fucking dumb.Dinosaurs are stupid....................Just like all of you..................

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what are phone cards?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck you all, I am now going to stat a thread proclaming you all to be stupid.Goodbye assholes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I have one of those land before time puppets - that bird one, everyone seems to have it. Oh Garfield viewmaster, jealous.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Elisabeth, do you mind if I make a thread about how dumb you are???????????????????????

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

But I did really well in high school..

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to go read a book now -really!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

phone cards are either with what you purchase to top up the money on your mobile phone, like by typing in the code on your card into your phone:) or to use in pay phones instead of moneys:)

― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i bet it's hard, as a dumb person, to be working at a library all the time! the constant reminders of yr inability to read, etc.

― black plastic (black plastic), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah the Garfield viewmaster was cool, but I think my favorite ones were the random sampler ones I always seemed to end up with, because it was completely different and random from one slide to the next. There would be a cartoon on one slide, and a picture of the beach on the next, then a work of art, then a slide of the Dukes Of Hazzard... I love randomness.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'M VERRY SAD!!!!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no! Why?

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

because I'm so stoopid :(

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Thursday, 7 August 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Umm... wait, why are you stooooooopid again? I don't know why you are, and now I'm feeling stoopid.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Friday, 8 August 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh you know, Troll Trolly Troll said I was! I'm still upset :(

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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