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Brother Buzz

(39,539 posts)
Mon May 5, 2025, 11:55 AM May 2025

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 2025 OP
No worries. We've been laughing at that 8mm film your mother sent us for years!!! marble falls May 2025 #1
Pops took a 35mm slide of me at the beginning, and I guess that perpetuated the lie. Brother Buzz May 2025 #2
That picture waaaas pretty funny. marble falls May 2025 #12
you? markie May 2025 #3
Only in my dreams Brother Buzz May 2025 #4
hmmm markie May 2025 #6
Oh, the shame of it all! 2naSalit May 2025 #5
I never got it to stay up once. applegrove May 2025 #7
ROFL malaise May 2025 #8
My skill level JoseBalow May 2025 #9
That was me back in my cross-dressing days Brother Buzz May 2025 #10
I never could do hula hoops. Clouds Passing May 2025 #11
I was a whizz at hula hoop! Loved it!! Sogo May 2025 #13

markie

(23,818 posts)
6. hmmm
Mon May 5, 2025, 12:37 PM
May 2025

I can't go 1 turn a;ways knew I was a failure

I do marvel at the people who can do it

Brother Buzz

(39,539 posts)
10. That was me back in my cross-dressing days
Mon May 5, 2025, 01:22 PM
May 2025

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

Sogo

(6,971 posts)
13. I was a whizz at hula hoop! Loved it!!
Mon May 5, 2025, 10:03 PM
May 2025

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

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