Kids These Days (You Know You're Old When...)

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

I was talking to the 20-something contractor at work the other day and mentioned the AT&T breakup. He said "Wait, what?" He'd never heard of the AT&T breakup. That got me thinking. You know you're getting old when you remember...

The AT&T Breakup
New episodes of MASH
Mork & Mindy
The IBM Consent Agreement With the DOJ
Watching the Original Star Wars in the Theater for the first time
Watching the original ET in the Theater for the first time
Watching the original Back to the Future in the Theater for the first time
Wondering why we don't have hoverboards yet (BTTF said we would by now.)
MTV actually playing music videos

Anyone got some more? I just missed the moon landing, the Kennedy Assassination and the Nixon resignation. I'm sure some of you remember jumping round parachutes or jumping out of these planes when they were new, too!

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[rushmc 23]

FlyingRhenquest

I was talking to the 20-something contractor at work the other day and mentioned the AT&T breakup. He said "Wait, what?" He'd never heard of the AT&T breakup. That got me thinking. You know you're getting old when you remember...

The AT&T Breakup
New episodes of MASH
Mork & Mindy
The IBM Consent Agreement With the DOJ
Watching the Original Star Wars in the Theater for the first time
Watching the original ET in the Theater for the first time
Watching the original Back to the Future in the Theater for the first time
Wondering why we don't have hoverboards yet (BTTF said we would by now.)
MTV actually playing music videos

Anyone got some more? I just missed the moon landing, the Kennedy Assassination and the Nixon resignation. I'm sure some of you remember jumping round parachutes or jumping out of these planes when they were new, too!

I Love Lucy

Lost in Space

I DID jump 32' lopo

I DID jump a para comander (66 jumps)

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

Ooh! And the Sony and Cher show! Remember the Sony and Cher show? They made such a nice couple. I was sad to hear Cher shitting on Sony's grave the other day.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[rushmc 23]

The two shuttle losses

BTW, I was very young when it happened but, I did watch Walter Croncite durning the moon landing

NO WAY anyone could get me away from the TV when that was going on
A black and white tv by the way

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[davjohns 1]

Downtown Julie Brown!

Cell phones the size of bricks.

Michael Jackson was black once (no kidding). He and his four brothers had a group and a cartoon show.

Alan Alda said 'son of a bitch' on television and everyone was ok with it.

Army Surplus stores carried Army surplus.

Daisy Duke was a person, not a fashion term.

Televisions were a piece of furniture that had to be polished.

I never did quite figure out how to find the song I wanted on an 8 track, but they were kind of fun.

Getting pictures developed took about a week.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[davjohns 1]

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I Love Lucy

Lost in Space

I DID jump 32' lopo

I DID jump a para comander (66 jumps)

Nobody understands anymore when I start yelling "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[davjohns 1]

FlyingRhenquest

Ooh! And the Sony and Cher show! Remember the Sony and Cher show? They made such a nice couple. I was sad to hear Cher shitting on Sony's grave the other day.

Chastity was a girl back then. lol

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[BIGUN 1,486]

When Kennedy was assassinated
When the 1969 Camaro rolled out
The Vietnam war was over and watching the embassy fall.
The Gong show.
When Elvis died
My 1978 Gold T-top Trans Am
When Disco was born
When there were gas lines at the pump miles long
17% interest on a home loan.
Top Gun on the big screen
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Desert Storm Soldier buddies having kids that are in the military today.

Pea Gravel, Debates about Sparrows vs. PC's.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[rushmc 23]

Nobody understands anymore when I start yelling "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"

A favorite of mine!!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

davjohns

Cell phones the size of bricks.

Oh yeah, the president of the first company I worked for got one of those. He loved to walk into the john and tell people he was taking a leak while he was talking to them. That guy was an asshole. I miss him. He died of lung cancer in the 90's. Not coincidentally, that was the last office I ever worked in where smoking was allowed.

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Getting pictures developed took about a week.

And having to have someone else do it! My uncle's a professional comedian. This one time when I was in my teens he visited us and we decided to photo some Barbie porn with my sister's Barbie dolls using Mom's camera. We neglected to mention that we had done so. She was rather pissed off with us when she got the pics back from Wolf Camera! She was wondering why the guys in the store had been looking at her funny! My uncle's comment was "Be thankful you never bought your daughter a Barbie Dream Horse!"

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[jimmytavino 16]

you KNOW you're Old when ...

You always rode in a car WITHOUT needing any damn seatbelt....

your waistline exceeds your savings...

You have to sit in a chair.. to put on your socks...
And you have to thread your belt around the waist of your trousers BEFORE you put them ON!!!

Your "favorite President" is Dwight Eisenhower

You KNOW what that little button switch on the floor of OLD cars is used for....

You USED to Pay 33.9 CENTS for a gallon of Gasoline.... 2 Bucks = SIX gallons...
You Understand the term...
"holding tension "

You jumped with " a sentinel" on your reserve.

You Know what a WDI is AND you Know how to spot...
NO ONE in elementary school EVER had "a peanut allergy"...

You could buy an entire School Lunch for 25 cents !!

At school the half pint of Milk cost TWO Pennies !!!

there was NO Global warming, no threats to Our constitution and NO Internet !!!!

And you LAUGH Whenever names like Red Skelton, Jack Benny, or Groucho Marx come up...

When your mom suggested that "you go play a Game " it had Nothing to DO with a TV screen...
..and when your Dad "suggested" that you "listen to MOM " ... You DID !!!!!!!

jimmy ( that little kid from the 50s ) tavino

[Bertt 0]

have you ever navigated without GPS ?
or gone to the bathroom in an outhouse ?
or changed the lining on a drum brake ?
or typed a letter on a typewriter ?
or done a calculation on a slide rule ?

You don't have to outrun the bear.

[CanuckInUSA 0]

$0.10 candy bars
$0.10 bus rides

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[oldwomanc6 60]

When you call someone up, and let it ring ten times, but no one answers, so you swing by their house and leave a note on the door about what you called to tell them.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[turtlespeed 226]

Lawrence Welk.

The Gong Show.

Love American Style.

The Love Boat.

Starsky and Hutch

Marcus Welby MD

Ironside

The Hardy Boys

The Howdy Doody Show

Lone Ranger

The Rifleman

Those just off the top of my head.

Oh and 68 Camaro SS for 2800 off the lot.
I only remember that cause I saw the invoice.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[davjohns 1]

It's been a long time since I heard a show start out with, "Tonight's special guest star..." I think Marcus Welby had that. Quincy might have.

I forget. Who shot JR?

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[oldwomanc6 60]

CanuckInUSA

$0.10 candy bars
$0.10 bus rides

When Hershey bars were only a nickel.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

davjohns

I forget. Who shot JR?

Sue Ellen.

Mom was a Dallas fiend.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

davjohns

It's been a long time since I heard a show start out with, "Tonight's special guest star..." I think Marcus Welby had that. Quincy might have.

I forget. Who shot JR?

Kristen (Sue Ellen's sister).
Played by Mary Crosby.

I had to look up who the actress was, but not who the character was.

TV:
Emergency
S.W.A.T.
Mannix, Cannon and Barnaby Jones

Cars:
Late 60's Mustang "Fastback" (nobody knows what that means anymore)
Family roadtrip in the station wagon. Back seat folded down and us kids roaming loose back there.

Rotary Dial Phones.

And why is this in SC?

"There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy

"~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

[lawrocket 3]

Just last night we were watching "Christmas Vacation." A scene had Clark in the attic and he found old 8mm home movies. My 9 year-old said, "Those are weird looking DVDs." I explained to him that that's what home movies used to be. He seemed puzzled but understood.

Kinda like the movie Airplane! There's a scene where Rex Kramer is in a car driving to the airport. It opens with him on the telephone saying the risk of flameout is too high and to keep him at 24,000. No, feet. Nothing odd about a guy in a car on the phone today. But having fish or steak served on the plane? There's something weird.

It's so funny talking about things from the past. And utterly amazing to me the stuff that are indispensible now that I didn't have as a kid.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[kelpdiver 2]

FlyingRhenquest

I was talking to the 20-something contractor at work the other day and mentioned the AT&T breakup. He said "Wait, what?" He'd never heard of the AT&T breakup.

Given how it's effectively been undone, not too surprising.

Starting at the beginning of the century, PacBell became SBCBell which finally got back to being AT&T Bell. It was a bit awkward for the SF Giants, whose stadium rights were sold to PacBell but kept getting its name changed as well.

[Calvin19 0]

Holy crap. I'll be 30 next year but this thread made me feel like a kid.

Thanks guys.

-SPACE-

[davjohns 1]

Am I the only one who still wants to be able to park in his living room like Dan Tanna did in Vega$?

I find it funny when someone calls it a 'Rockford Slide' but doesn't know what the name means. Same with 'Daisy Dukes'.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[kallend 2,150]

Bertt

have you ever navigated without GPS ?
or gone to the bathroom in an outhouse ?
or changed the lining on a drum brake ?
or typed a letter on a typewriter ?
or done a calculation on a slide rule ?

Yes.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[kallend 2,150]

Food rationing after the end of WWII
Watching new episodes of the Phil Silvers and Burns and Allen shows, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Wagon Train...
Buddy Holly plane crash.
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
The McCarthy hearings on TV
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
"I like Ike"
The Kennedy/Nixon debate
End of the Korean war
Traveling on a real scheduled train pulled by a steam locomotive.
Buying a 1946 car that wasn't considered "antique".
Meeting Mick Jagger and Keith Richards before they were famous.
Hillary and Tenzing climb Everest.
Listening to Sputnik on a short wave radio.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.