Do You Remember?

[dfiant]

Odds and evens petrol days, remember it vividly in the 70's and early 80's

[MisterTinkles]

Analog clocks. Apparently being able to read a dial face of a clock is becoming a useless, quaint skill.

Funny story about that.

I remember learning how to read clocks when I was in 2nd grade!!
Apparently nobody does this anymore.

I worked with this woman who had a teenage son. We were talking together at lunch one day and got to talking about stuff like this. She told me her son asked her what time it was, on a weekend before coming back to work. She told him "its a quarter to one".

She said he looked at her and asked, "What the hell does that mean"?!

She said she was dumbfounded. She couldnt believe he didnt know how to tell time on a REAL clock....or that they dont teach this in schools anymore.

He got a clock reading lesson from mother that weekend, I tell you what!!!!

[Pix]

OTOH...I accidentally made a handful of guys feel old when I posted on an internet board, "Dungeons & Dragons isn't just for guys from the 70s." And then I told them how the 3.5 edition (came out about 2001) of the rules were different (they hadn't played since the 80s).

Ok, looking at pix above...

Phone booths are still around, though they're rare (and many no longer work). I have heard of cities that removed all public phones (probably paid to by cell phone companies) but surely that didn't happen until like 2005 and later.

Ah, turn dial TV and rotary phones...my kids saw those the first time they visited my granny's house. I had to laugh when my little boy asked what the bunny ears antenna were for. Though when commenting on how Granny only had fans and no AC I joked, "Air conditioning is unnatural, and the work of the devil." Luckily they knew I was joking rather than having spent too much time in the Bible Belt.

The girl at least knew what video cassettes were, but neither recognized the show "I Love Lucy." When asked what that was I couldn't help but blink, and then wryly answered, "Think Hannah Montana for the 50s, only Miley & Lilly are older, married women named Lucy & Ethel who had to deal with husbands instead of parents back when the world was black & white, and Lucy only WANTS to be in the show rather than a pop star." Then it was her turn to blink.

And I recall explaining Billy Ray Cyrus to her as well (before going to Texas) as she was a major Hannah Montana fan who didn't get the jokes about Billy Ray and his 80s mullet that kept appearing on the show. She was amazed when I told her about hearing Miley Cyrus's dad on the radio when I was her age, though she blinked when I said, "The one time I fantasized about shooting a radio was when I was about 14 and having heard 'Achey Breaky Heart' for the umpteenth time. You're so lucky to be growing up with Miley instead."

What? Sorry if I don't use my pitchfork to yell at kids to get off my lawn for not knowing the trivial details of my life before they were born I just outgrew the "you're lame if you don't like what I like (as a teen)" back in my teens, and I save the sharpened pitchfork for when I have to chase off anyone who tries to convert me from my unnatural lifestyle. :tongue:

[MisterTinkles]

and I save the sharpened pitchfork for when I have to chase off anyone who tries to convert me from my unnatural lifestyle. :tongue:

[SIZE="6"]HOORAY for
UNNATURAL LIFESTYLES!!!![/SIZE]

[Chase]

Some say Colonel Patton could remember fighting the Punic Wars. Reincarnation, spooky.

[Tim18]

I remember when cartoon network wasn't mostly live action shows.

[Lalo]

Things I remember:
Bazooka Joe- Every square of Bazooka Bubblegum came with a mini-Bazooka Joe Comic!


Choo choo Charlie- "Not my Good N Plenty! Charlie says..."



Ultraman


Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom- Sunday nights on NBC, just before the Wonderful World of Disney- my parents, a room full of freshly scrubbed kids in their PJ's, a bowl of popcorn(made in a pan with oil- batch after batch after batch to fill up a large bowl!), and we were good to go!

[monk]

I'm saying nothing! :frown:

[dfiant]

I'm saying nothing! :frown:

Hmm...before the Telephone and electricity?

[Lilitu]

I was born in 1990 and here is some of the stuff that I was in to



PS this was my favorite cartoon lol




PS, best candy! Mmmmm lol.

Sailor Moon!

I used to watch all the classic Japanese anime dubbed into Cantonese and Mandarin when I lived in Hong Kong.

I've recently rediscovered Sailor Moon, and watched everything about it o_o.