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Brother Buzz

(38,484 posts)
Mon May 5, 2025, 12:55 PM May 5

I've been living a lie for sixty-seven years

For decades I convinced myself I was proficient with a Hula Hoop. Truth be told, I couldn't keep that damn hoop going around my snake-hips more then four or five turns before it landed on the ground.

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I've been living a lie for sixty-seven years (Original Post) Brother Buzz May 5 OP
No worries. We've been laughing at that 8mm film your mother sent us for years!!! marble falls May 5 #1
Pops took a 35mm slide of me at the beginning, and I guess that perpetuated the lie. Brother Buzz May 5 #2
That picture waaaas pretty funny. marble falls May 5 #12
you? markie May 5 #3
Only in my dreams Brother Buzz May 5 #4
hmmm markie May 5 #6
Oh, the shame of it all! 2naSalit May 5 #5
I never got it to stay up once. applegrove May 5 #7
ROFL malaise May 5 #8
My skill level JoseBalow May 5 #9
That was me back in my cross-dressing days Brother Buzz May 5 #10
I never could do hula hoops. Clouds Passing May 5 #11
I was a whizz at hula hoop! Loved it!! Sogo May 5 #13

Brother Buzz

(38,484 posts)
10. That was me back in my cross-dressing days
Mon May 5, 2025, 02:22 PM
May 5

But I have fleeting memories of getting it to go around a couple of time.

Sogo

(6,272 posts)
13. I was a whizz at hula hoop! Loved it!!
Mon May 5, 2025, 11:03 PM
May 5

But now....not so much. Can't twirl it even once before it falls!

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