# ALL SKATE!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 3, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471 "2001-09-03T03:00:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sasquatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471/1 "2001-09-03T03:00:44Z")

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(Cue music for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”.)

_Ba-da-dum-dum-dum…another one bites the dust…_

Just had a childhood flashback there. Anyone else?

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471/2 "2001-09-03T03:17:36Z")

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Dude! The Frogger machine is busted and you can get two credits with only one quarter!!

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**Author:** ![okielady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@okielady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okielady)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471/3 "2001-09-03T03:22:06Z")

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“One more time for Kenna, Suzie, Edie, Paula, Missy, Kristi, and Barry, here’s Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd.”

We must’ve requested that song about 30 times a day…

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**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471/4 "2001-09-03T03:27:23Z")

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And now it’s time for… _ **speed skating!** _

:: Fran sits back sipping lemonade while the cool kids skate really fast backwards. Bastards. ::

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-skate/79471/5 "2001-09-03T03:43:20Z")

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I never participated in the “Couples Only” skate songs. We’d just take our skates off and dance in the middle of the rink in our socks.

When I was 12, the skating rink was _the_ place to be. I miss being 12.