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You know you're ancient when...
Scott wrote: "You remember playgrounds made out of metal."Or have grown up in Eastern Europe in not such a distant past.
I even remember playing on the metal bars meant for beating the dust out of your rugs.
Scott wrote: "[You know you're ancient when...]You know what Burma Shave signs are."IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHOSE SIGNS THESE ARE
YOU CAN'T HAVE DRIVEN
VERY FAR
Burma-Shave
If you're familiar with Burma shave signs try answering this trivia question https://www.goodreads.com/trivia/deta...
or this one
https://www.goodreads.com/trivia/deta...
Michael wrote: "Scott wrote: "You remember playgrounds made out of metal."And, they were built on blacktop or concrete."
Bah, who needs rubber playground mats? I think we were made of stronger stuff in the old days. ;)
You know you're ancient when your teenage customers refer to you as Ms. Melissa".You know you're ancient when you complain about youngsters not being able to write, and how they write you know your ancient when.... or there/their going to XYZ, or I don't want to brake this pretty china.
You know your ancient when:1) You got up to change the TV.
2) mixed tapes were recorded off the radio, unpausing at the last second the DJ stopped talking.
3)....I wont even get into 8 tracks.
4)You didnt recycle metal, plastic or glass (not proud of that one)
5) You know who Jack Parr and Johnny Carson are.
6) When milk was delivered by the milkman.
Scott wrote: "You know your ancient when:1) You got up to change the TV...."
Guilty on all six counts! and BTW... I got up to adjust the rabbit ears too! And as to 3.... What about reel to reel tapes?
Rabbit ears!!! Who knew foil had so many uses.
Steven wrote: "Don't feel bad. I was talking to a young woman in a club who probably got in with a fake i.d. and when I mentioned the Village People for some reason, she said " Who? What village are they from?"....."Of course I've actually snogged two of the original Village People. (I had a friend in the music biz)
Who knew? The American Indian in the VP was Puerto Rican!
You remember "Old Spice" before it was cool.You had to feed paper into your printer using the strip of holes on either side.
You know the rest of the words to: In West Philadelphia born and raised on the Playground was where I spent....
Your TV remote had a cord!
You're grocery shopping and the music strikes you as hauntingly familiar and you realize, with horror, it's the Muzak version of something you owned in high school.
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...Someone tells you're a hot daddy when you are actually a daddy chaser the whole time.
Yes, I remember Burma Shave signs and I still have several oil lamps......dinosaurs ruled the earth when I went to elementary school. ...
No, Chris....it's typewriter ribbons, and the new "IBM Selectric"
You know you are ancient when receptionist starts to call you "sir"! Banish the thought!
S. wrote: "You know you are ancient when receptionist starts to call you "sir"! Banish the thought!"He was probably just being polite and refers to all men that way. ;)
You know you're ancient when a pierced and tattooed youth relinquishes his seat on the bus.
Ancient is not only knowing the importance of "pica" and "elite" but also that a capital M was five spaces on an IBM Executive but a lower case i, only two.
Averin wrote: "Ancient is not only knowing the importance of "pica" and "elite" but also that a capital M was five spaces on an IBM Executive but a lower case i, only two."Huh?
Ah, high school typing class. I typed 80 wpm and took 110 wpm in shorthand.
Neither has made me rich.
Scott wrote: "You know your ancient when:1) You got up to change the TV.
2) mixed tapes were recorded off the radio, unpausing at the last second the DJ stopped talking..."
Didn't you hate it when the DJ talked over the opening music and didn't shut up until the singing started? Ugh! And I hated when you got 90% of a song at the end of one side and the tape quit.
And for us old(er) folks to reminisce, if you've seen Guardians of the Galaxy, you know how great the soundtrack is. They are actually releasing it on cassette tape!
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/10/...
Scott wrote: "...You remember playgrounds made out of metal..."Honestly, slides are supposed to burn your legs on sunny days. What is childhood without that?
Stephen wrote: "You KNOW you're ancient when you remember these toys....the Spirograph..."
Oh my gosh! Those were awesome! I need to find one and get it for my kids. I forgot all about those! I remember using different colored pens and making all different kinds of designs.
*sigh*
I think this is going to have to be part of Christmas:
http://www.amazon.com/Kahootz-01002-S...
Debbie wrote: "you still have such small tupperware containers:http://dorothy-snarker.tumblr.com/day..."
Ha! That's fantastic. Those actually make great containers for all kinds of things! :)
Chris wrote: "Averin wrote: "Ancient is not only knowing the importance of "pica" and "elite" but also that a capital M was five spaces on an IBM Executive but a lower case i, only two."Huh?"
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collect...
So you hit the space bar a certain number to achieve a capital M? Gosh, my mother was a secretary and I handed all of my notes to her so she'd type beautiful papers for me. I miss typed papers. The font was so crisp.
No it was proportional for filling out legal forms like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appraisals which weren't typeset. Corrections were painful because letters without the same value really stood out and lenders didn't like whiteout. I have no nostalgia for them at all.
Oh, so you're a governmental clerk? I could have been 3rd generation government employee but I opted out and went for the freelance life. Love it!
Chris wrote: "Oh, so you're a governmental clerk? I could have been 3rd generation government employee but I opted out and went for the freelance life. Love it!"No, back then, I worked in a real estate appraisal office. Now I'm a recent college grad and unemployed, not for much longer hopefully.
I am also a college student and I am underemployed right now! Haha It is interesting how my income is so different now than what it was when I left college 20 years ago.
I applaud everyone who has the courage to go back to school. I've had enough school for this lifetime, lolYou know you're too old when...
-you watched Elvis' last performance on Live TV
-you could still take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to lunch
-chicken nuggets didn't exist
I didn't see Elvis's first appearance on Ed Sullivan but I did see the Beatles!
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I saw both and Elvis (I think) on the Dorsey Brothers Show
A.J. wrote: "I applaud everyone who has the courage to go back to school. I've had enough school for this lifetime, lolYou know you're too old when...
-you watched Elvis' last performance on Live TV
-you coul..."
I wish chicken nuggets had never been invented. Nothing beats homemade chicken fingers.
Kernos wrote: "Chris wrote: "WordPerfect"Visicalc"
Que?
Chris wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Chris wrote: "WordPerfect"Visicalc"
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Analogy time?
Visicalc:Excel::WordPerfect:Word
Betamax:VHS::ReplayTV:Tivo
Remember when the price of Gasoline crossing the $3 threshold was cause for outrage?
All this old-timey stuff makes me want to interpolate a logarithm!
Oh wow, that flew right over my balding head. I don't think I've ever used Visicalc. How about this analogy?
AIDS:Ebola
A.J. wrote: "I applaud everyone who has the courage to go back to school. I've had enough school for this lifetime, lolYou know you're too old when...
-you watched Elvis' last performance on Live TV
-you coul..."
Is it me or has the quality of store-bought jelly deteriorated? Perhaps it is because I no longer can pick up homemade jellies and jams from my grannies.
A.J. wrote: "I applaud everyone who has the courage to go back to school. I've had enough school for this lifetime, lolYou know you're too old when...
-you watched Elvis' last performance on Live TV
-you coul..."
School is much more interesting this time around.
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The 1st word processor I remember was Wordstar and then Apple Writer. They were both 40 columns, though Wordstar could be tricked into displaying 79 columns by using sprites IIRC. Apple Writer required an 80 column card on an Apple II+ for a business letter and lowercase letters. The Apple IIe came with native column support. All this from memory, so wiki it if your really interested in the early days of the PC (after the VIC-20 and Commodore 64). Fun days!
FWIW, Betamax should have won.
Oh wow, Betamax never had a fighting chance even though it was the superior technology at that time.It kinda surprised me how relatively easy it was to make the transition from DVD to Blu-Ray.
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And, they were built on blacktop or concrete.