01-26-2012, 06:29 PM | #106 |
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When 10:30pm is LATE.
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01-27-2012, 07:05 PM | #107 |
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Remember when---
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's! It took three minutes for the TV to warm up? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it! When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends... and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '? Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger... And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on... To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on... And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. How Many Of These Do You Remember? Candy cigarettes... Wax Coke-shaped wax bottles with colored sugar water inside... Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles... Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes... Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum... Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers... Newsreels before the movie... Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines... Peashooters... Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records... 78 RPM records... Green Stamps... Mimeograph paper... The Fort Apache Play Set... Do You Remember a Time When Decisions were made by going... 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'? 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'... Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!! Last edited by wodin; 01-27-2012 at 07:08 PM. |
01-28-2012, 12:22 AM | #108 |
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- you remember when animated shows from Japan weren't known as anime.
- you didn't worry about fonts because the one that came on your typewriter was it. - The movie "Wizard Of Oz" was an annual event on television. - "auto tune" meant you were having your car worked on. - vampires meant Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee. - a robot cop meant "8 Man," not "Robocop." |
01-28-2012, 06:26 AM | #109 |
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I felt old the other day at work. I am a grandma but I work in IT...that makes me feel old anyway. My team leader was born the year after I got married.
I was telling the guys at work how surprised I was to hear a local department store playing the Buzzcocks on their PA. (and they kept interrupting the song to make announcements, much to the annoyance of my husband). The kids I work with laughed - not because Big W were playing the Buzzers - but because I said "Buzzcocks" at work. *sigh Angela |
01-28-2012, 07:59 AM | #110 |
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Kids as young as 6 are familiar with mobile phones.
When I was six I didn't even know what a mobile phone was. Now, my kids shout "Angry Birds!" and ask to play games every time I take my phone out. |
01-28-2012, 08:31 AM | #111 |
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But our children ask, what is this? They want to see it playing a record. So you are too old when kids ask what is record player! |
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01-29-2012, 03:30 PM | #113 |
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I remember seeing an add in the J. C. Whitney catalog (yes it was around back then) for a record player that had a mechanism that would prevent the needle from skipping when you went over a bump. It would mount in your car under the dash board and would only play 45 RPM singles, one at a time. The trouble was it would apply extra pressure on the needle, and would ruin your records.
Then someone invented 8 tracks! <------------------Edit---------------> On reflection I realized that my memory was a bit off, that thing actually played 33 RPM LPs, which made it slightly more useful (and larger). Then you could ruin your albums instead of just your singles! Last edited by wodin; 01-30-2012 at 01:13 PM. Reason: Alzhiemer's |
01-29-2012, 11:38 PM | #114 | |
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01-30-2012, 02:54 PM | #115 |
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You're too old if you still listen to cassette tapes (as I do). No body dies of living, only of not living.
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02-01-2012, 11:27 AM | #116 |
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The only ones who had mobile phones were Dick Tracy and Maxwell Smart.
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03-18-2012, 03:54 PM | #117 |
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03-18-2012, 09:29 PM | #118 |
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I learned to type on my mom's electric typewriter. I remember being in awe of the IBM Selectric typewriter (which we had at my first job) which had correction tape when you pressed backspace so you didn't have to erase or use White Out.
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03-19-2012, 05:13 PM | #119 | |
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You know you're getting old when the song you like that was out 'a couple of years back' turns out to be more than a decade!
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03-20-2012, 04:38 AM | #120 |
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watching a cartoon you loved some years ago is just NEAH
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