[Thread Game] You know you're old...
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And it was 100% uncut cocaine, none of this sugar water crap.
Damn straight! It's what made me the mermaid I am today.
I could walk to the store downtown and find enough change on the sidewalk for a comic book.
There were pay phones everywhere.
I used go go to a building to purchase music.
Cartoons were a Saturday morning treat.
You had to wait for the 9 to spin back around.
Nobody knew Darth Vader was Lukes father.
Daisy was a brunette.
There were pay phones everywhere.
I used go go to a building to purchase music.
Cartoons were a Saturday morning treat.
You had to wait for the 9 to spin back around.
Nobody knew Darth Vader was Lukes father.
Daisy was a brunette.
You would wake up when the Star-Spangled Banner finally played.
You added foil to a television to make it work better.
You needed to get a converter box for your television...to add channels 14-83.
You had to search for place that still sold leaded gas.
Gas station signs only had 2 digits.
You ever climbed into your house through the milk chute because you forgot your keys.
--Patrick
You added foil to a television to make it work better.
You needed to get a converter box for your television...to add channels 14-83.
You had to search for place that still sold leaded gas.
Gas station signs only had 2 digits.
You ever climbed into your house through the milk chute because you forgot your keys.
--Patrick
...... Just stop.
Purple Rain on a record...
it was perfect. And totally inappropriate for my parents to have given me at ten years old
it was perfect. And totally inappropriate for my parents to have given me at ten years old
Et tu, CBS FM?
I remember listening to it when we were setting up my sweet sixteen party, and it was fun because it was all songs from the 50's and 60's. Now, it's just...ouch.
Is it in a stubby bottle?
Dave
Staff member
It's not that stubby.
It's kinda stubby.
He said "beer", not "rear"! Ethel, check your hearing aid!
I've taken to listening to Rewind 107.9 here, and my newest rookie said "I don't usually listen to this old stuff..."Now, it's just...ouch.
..... Little girl, I will eat your soul.
figmentPez
Staff member
The other day I realized that there are adults who have had Cool Ranch Doritos exist for their entire lifetime.
There used to be just Taco, Nacho Cheese, and Toasted Corn. AFAICR, Taco was the most prevalent back then, before it disappeared for a long time. Toasted Corn was hardly ever seen on store shelves.
...east of the Mississippi. I hear it's more common out west.
But we're also talking about people who not only have enjoyed Cool Ranch Doritos their entire life, but also Code Red/Live Wire/Pitch Black Mountain Dew.
--Patrick
figmentPez
Staff member
Which is ironic since it was the original flavor and pre-dates Nacho Cheese by nearly a decade.[DOUBLEPOST=1503626059,1503625803][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, and all the youngsters who have no idea why the saying says "you can't put toothpaste back in the tube". Most of them have probably never seen a metal toothpaste tube to realize the impossibility of getting anything back inside of it. Plastic tubes? It'd be pain, but you could do it; and it doesn't matter if you squeeze them from the middle, either.
My first tv had knobs. Clunk-clunk-clunk knobs for the channels. There were 2 of them, one for UHF and one for VHF channels. It was in black and white. But that didn't matter, because half of the shows on tv were black and white reruns anyway (bewitched, my three sons, etc). I think it was a 6" or 8" screen.
My first video game console was Pong. The original.
My first "remote" had a 5 pin cable running from it to the VCR.
My first online experiences were with a modem. My first modem was 300 baud, but it could do 50 baud if you wanted to connect it to TTY.
The first time I used a computer, it was a teletype machine--an electric typewriter attached to a mainframe with a serial cable. We played math games. We would patiently wait for the typewriter to type out a math problem, and then we would type the answer. I was one of two kids who ever saw that thing in my elementary school.
When I was a kid, all of the cereals still had "sugar" in the name: Sugar Corn Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes, Sugar Crisp.
The first rap song I ever heard, in junior high school, was White Lines by Grandmaster Flash. When I was in junior high, people actually had breakdance battles at teen clubs. I carried around a beatbox and cardboard around my neighborhood and would hook up with neighborhood kids to breakdance.
I remember when Cracker Jack actually had an actual toy surprise in them, and not some temporary tattoo or other paper product.
My first video game console was Pong. The original.
My first "remote" had a 5 pin cable running from it to the VCR.
My first online experiences were with a modem. My first modem was 300 baud, but it could do 50 baud if you wanted to connect it to TTY.
The first time I used a computer, it was a teletype machine--an electric typewriter attached to a mainframe with a serial cable. We played math games. We would patiently wait for the typewriter to type out a math problem, and then we would type the answer. I was one of two kids who ever saw that thing in my elementary school.
When I was a kid, all of the cereals still had "sugar" in the name: Sugar Corn Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes, Sugar Crisp.
The first rap song I ever heard, in junior high school, was White Lines by Grandmaster Flash. When I was in junior high, people actually had breakdance battles at teen clubs. I carried around a beatbox and cardboard around my neighborhood and would hook up with neighborhood kids to breakdance.
I remember when Cracker Jack actually had an actual toy surprise in them, and not some temporary tattoo or other paper product.
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lol, I wish I could put two ratings on posts...
There's your hug.lol, I wish I could put two ratings on posts...