[ARCHIVED THREAD] - I remember when........ (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 12/14/2008 7:14:48 PM EDT
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I remember when there was no such thing as "Disposable Razors"
How old are you? |
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I remember when there was no such thing as "Disposable Razors" How old are you? Unless you are talking about all the way back to straight razors, you're sorta wrong. I was a kid and my dad used to buy those packs of the metal "safety" blades, which technically is just an earlier version of what they sell now. |
Do they work....because mine still work! |
Rotary phones.
The first VCRs... huge top-loaders. Atari, Magnavox Odyssey, Coleco Intellivision Having everyone speak English at school Reliant K-Car (my mom had one) Video games in every mini-mart, liquor store, etc. Cigarette machines ( for the unGodly price of $1.25 per pack!!!) $1 movie tickets $.99 gas Wacky Packs |
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I remember when we were kids, we would stab our pop gun into the mud and shoot one of our buds in the back with a blotch of mud. For bicycle riding, we didn't were a helmet or knee pads. Scabs were a badge of honor. Mentally "handicapped" people were referred to as "retards." Penthouse was the magazine of choice because it showed "hairs." Nobody wore seatbelts. I remember sleeping on the deck of the rear window of my dads 1966 Buick wildcat driving down to Garland Texas to visit my Grandparents. Myself and my fellow neiborhood kids learned gynecology first hand, on Tommy Vanhorn's sister "Annie" who was older than us, with "hairs" and was a "retard." Good Times 
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Rotary phones. The first VCRs... huge top-loaders. Atari, Magnavox Odyssey, Coleco Intellivision Having everyone speak English at school Reliant K-Car (my mom had one) Video games in every mini-mart, liquor store, etc. Cigarette machines ( for the unGodly price of $1.25 per pack!!!) $1 movie tickets $.99 gas Wacky Packs I remember when pinball cost a dime. |
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15¢ candy bars, 30¢ cokes and having UHF adapters on the TV sets, many of which were black & white, although all the programming was color by then.  $.15 ice cream scoops at Thrifty's! TV with not only turn-knobs, but a huge clunky remote that worked by RF, and when you changed a channel, the knob went ker-chunk and you saw it move. I think I remember my parents having a TV with a remote on a long wire |
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Rotary phones. The first VCRs... huge top-loaders. Atari, Magnavox Odyssey, Coleco Intellivision Having everyone speak English at school Reliant K-Car (my mom had one) Video games in every mini-mart, liquor store, etc. Cigarette machines ( for the unGodly price of $1.25 per pack!!!) $1 movie tickets $.99 gas Wacky Packs Sounds like we are the same age, my cousin had an odessy system (sp) and i can remeber gas being .79 cents here in the summer of 98 |
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Edit: I'm 21 years of age!
I remember playing outside as a kid, as a primary form of entertainment, original nintendo(played it when i was a wee little one), super nintendo, (obviously), using dictionaries to look stuff up (before the internet was like it is now, sure it existed then, but was not a prevalent in society as it is today). Going to school and not being told about not being allowed to use cell phones, oh and the... 
For the Mother-fucking-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Win!    
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I remember when the pull-tab on a can of beer or soda came off on purpose. When I was even younger, you had to use the pointy end of a can opener to open them, the cans were made of steel, and had a zipper like seam up the side.
ETA: Carburetors, points and condensor on cars, leaded gas. |
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Old enough to forget where all the bodies are buried but still young enough to bury a few more if necessary. Yes. Fear the middle aged. Fuck with me wippersnapper and you'll find youself at the business end of a shovel. Yep. I remember the "Old Bastard" who lived in a shack down the road. If you got into his yard, he'd blast your ass with rock salt, and by God you deserved it too for fucking with him. |
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T.V. choices were ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and they went off the air for a few hours each night.
Watching the P.O.W.s return from Vietnam. Getting our first microwave that was the size of a 27 inch t.v. When you could go to the store and buy your parents a pack of smokes even though you were like 10. Dialing 0 and an actual live operator picked up. (how you got the police and fire department) Babies didn't ride in car seats and no one wore seat belts. No one cared what kind of mileage their car got. Gas station attendants pumped your gas, washed your windows, checked your oil. |
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I remember when the pull-tab on a can of beer or soda came off on purpose. When I was even younger, you had to use the pointy end of a can opener to open them, the cans were made of steel, and had a zipper like seam up the side. ETA: Carburetors, points and condensor on cars, leaded gas. And you made them into chains ... I remember buying Coca Cola, COLD glass bottle that you opened a door to access a rack with rollers to hold the bottle. When you were finished you put the bottle into a wooden crate next to the machine. |
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I remember when a '57 Chevy was only two years old.
I remember when gas was $0.10 a gallon, a Coke was a nickel, a candy bar was a nickel and there was penny candy. I remember when a McDonald's hamburger was $0.05 and they had only sold a couple million of them. Black and white TV only was available on CBS, NBC and ABC, sometime you had a local channel that came in on UHF. I remember watching the Beatles live on the Ed Sullivan show. I remember when John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot. I remember when nobody had a home computer. I remember when if you wanted to play your own music in a car you had to have an underdash record player. I remember shaking George Wallace's hand when he walked off the plane at my home town airport the year he ran for president on a third party ticket. I remember when you could take your guns to school so you could hunt before going home. I remember working for $1.00 an hour. I remember when there were no video games. I remember when kids were growing up they went outside to play, stayed away all day and there were only 1 or 2 fat kids in the whole school. I remember when cable TV came to town, you then had almost 10 channels. HBO wasn't one of them and wouldn't be for a few more years. When you wanted to call someone on the phone you only dialed 4 numbers. |