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Yeah. The Good Old Days sucked.

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Remember when you wanted to rent a movie you had to drive to the store hoping all the copies weren't checked out?

"everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." -gertrude stein


i got this quote off the internetz.

yeefuckinghaw

eesh Wrote:
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> Remember when you wanted to rent a movie you had
> to drive to the store hoping all the copies
> weren't checked out?


Or when we all thought "Faces of Death" was real?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077533/

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Remember when cell phones were status symbols?

When everybody used an ADC map book or Thomas Brothers book to find directions...

How about the good old days when you could just shop at a grocery store without having to join a club that gave you better prices if you used a "bonus card". Even restaurant chains are using them any more.

Remember when getting coffee meant going to 7-11 and not going to Starbucks to get a $5 venti mocha mint almond latte with soy milk?

Remember the days when there was no such thing as cause marketing; nothing labeled with pink ribbons or cashiers asking if you wanted to donate $1 to starving Haitian children.

Remember when tattoos were for bikers, military, and punks, and not kids getting their girlfriend's name written on their neck or college freshmen getting tribal armbands?

I do miss the days of no caller ID. Kids today are missing out on the fun of prank phone calls.

Oh yeah, the good ole' days...

When schools were segregated
When there were poll taxes to limit voting rights
When there were separate bathrooms and water fountains (one for "Colored" and one for "White")
When "back of the bus" meant seating assigned based on race
When Princess Anne County closed its school system rather than integrate

976 numbers.

Having to lift a 200 pound 24" television.

My Commodore 64.

My father's Datsun 300zx.

Being able to sell a plane ticket because I couldn't use it.

Whiteout smelled really, really good.

The Redskins had an offensive line.

The Redskins had a running back.

The Soviets were Soviets.

Muammar Gaddafi was Enemy #1.

Subic Bay was still open.

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> I do miss the days of no caller ID. Kids today are
> missing out on the fun of prank phone calls.

Wanting to buy music meant going to the mall and browsing through the selections, and special orders took 4-6 weeks.

Blessed are the murderous.

getting your hands on porn meant finding an older person to buy you a Playboy or, if it was your lucky day, a Penthouse. I used to take vinyl records over to my friend's house, borrow a mag from my friend's bro or have him buy me one, then put the mag inside the record cover and sneak it into the house. Only later did I realize what the brown paper wrapped magazines that arrived every mont addressed to my father were

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> I do miss the days of no caller ID. Kids today are
> missing out on the fun of prank phone calls.

lol, +1

me and my brother used to have a blast prank calling the bar down the street from us.

I miss the days when MY BALLS weren't so SWEATY.

You knew who you were then. Girls were girls and men were men.

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you had to get a Chilton manual from Trak Auto instead of looking stuff up online.

Public TV went to static in the wee hours of the night until 6 or 7 in the morning, and cable TV was about 30 some channels.

Oh I forgot one more: you had to buy the X-ray sunglasses from the back of the comic magazines using a money-order from 7-11 because there was no way to know if it worked or not unless you actually bought it and you had to pay with a money order 'cause the mail-order scams required it.

The closest you got to porn on a regular basis was the Sears Catalog's women's section.

Junior! What are you doing with that Sear's Catalog!?

Nothin, ma!




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8 and 16 bit video games were a big deal.

making mixed tapes. passing notes back and forth in class. waiting for my favorite song to come on the radio. my magic 8 ball. rock/paper/scissors. unprotected sex.

yeefuckinghaw

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> The closest you got to porn on a regular basis was
> the Sears Catalog's women's section.





Back when I was in high school Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs were the soft porn of the day. They've really toned down their marketing in the past 10 years.

I had Victoria's Secret. Occasionally sometimes Frederick's would show up at my house for some reason. This was like the Playboy v Penthouse debate of middle school erotica.

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> The closest you got to porn on a regular basis was
> the Sears Catalog's women's section.
>
> Junior! What are you doing with that Sear's
> Catalog!?
>
National Geographic.....

eesh Wrote:
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> Public TV went to static in the wee hours of the
> night until 6 or 7 in the morning, and cable TV
> was about 30 some channels.

The Redskins didn't suck ass

There was no Pedobear.

eesh Wrote:
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> Public TV went to static in the wee hours of the
> night until 6 or 7 in the morning, and cable TV
> was about 30 some channels.
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Thanks for the looping static. I was working on something else and wondering what the fuck was wrong with my headphones.

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This is my phone. We had alot of fun back in the day. Now we hang out on FFXU.
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They sell Bluetooth receivers that look like those phones now.

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> I do miss the days of no caller ID. Kids today are
> missing out on the fun of prank phone calls.

This used to be one of my favorite past times.

I was very good at this.

I think up until sometime in the 80's all the local channels signed off and went to static for a while. I remember seeing one a few times. They used to play the National Anthem and "Lonely People" by America and then POOF, the TV was gone.

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How did people sleep at night without infomercials? And how did the personal injury attorneys find clients? Was there really life before reality dating shows aired from 1-4?



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ooo i'm listening to ministry and the static @ the same time.
check it out:

Remember when people looked forward to seeing "Snakes on a Plane?"

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My T.V. looked something like this. Everything was Black & White & we liked it.
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when people smoked like chimneys everywhere including on the airplanes.

Talk about airplanes way back when...the stewardesses were pretty, and helpful. Flying was an event that people often got dressed up for, and the food was decent (still not great but edible).

There were no little red brake lights on the top part of cars' backsides.

PG-13 didn't exist - Poltergeist and Gremlins was PG.



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If you want the good old days, watch either 1) Deadwood or 2) Mad Men.

I remember when slaves would happily press the suits of visiting guests in mere minutes! Now, you can hardly find a Chinaman to do it without paying a fortune!

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ITRADE Wrote:
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> If you want the good old days, watch either 1)
> Deadwood or 2) Mad Men.


man i love tim olyphant. deadwood was a great show. the entire cast was phenomenal. i was sad to see it go.

david milch is a genius.
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Life before ATM's; racing to your local bank branch like Northern Virginia Bank to withdraw cash before the bank closed on Friday - or later, Saturday morning.

Paying with a "charge card" required that the cashier would first look up your credit card number in a mini phonebook-like book to check your number against the book's stolen/invalid list. Then, the cashier would drop your charge card into a hand-operated machine with carbon atop and would slide the machine handle over your card.

Fax paper on rolls.

Sending your essay exams and/or resume to a typist.

Computer cards for data entry.

Mimeograph/purple school worksheets and the smell of "just run off" warm ink.

Legally drinking age of 18.

Smoking in the school-authorized smoking lounge in Fairfax County High Schools.

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I REMEMBER when a phone booth could make you a hero. Where is that booth now?
Spell Check?
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I can remember being a kid and going to the grocery store with my parents. Many of the stores had a soda bottle return area where you dropped your 6 packs of bottles off for the deposit. I remember one of them was a hole in a wall with this roller conveyer belt and you would shove the bottles down the chute. My brother and I used to take single bottles and pitch them inside so they would bust on the floor. After that, we would head to the front of the store and play elevator action for a half hour or so while my parents finished shopping.

Someone above mentioned the commodore 64, but I remember having the VIC-20 which came out before that I think. Many of the games were text based and there was one called the Count, which was about dracula. My brothers and I would play it incessantly and would always try and give it bogus commands like "fuck bed post" or "shove tree in ass".

themuse Wrote:
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> unprotected sex.

;)

Solid Gold

Erols

A & P

Grinding coffee beans at the supermarket for my dad as we checked out

Preparing for the Appalachian Trail hike and going from store to store trying to find 16oz sodas in plastic bottles (Giant was the only one at the time)

Comp USA

Hechingers

Circling all the I wants in the Sears Wish Book before Christmas

Trying to install The Terminator game on my IBM ps/2 with a whopping 50kb of hard drive space

No worthy sequel to Deus Ex

My 92 CBRf2 and 96 Interceptor (Thanks Kelly, you fucking cunt)

Wilmer's Park on a Saturday night

Selling bagged copies of The Death of Superman for $75.00+ a piece one week later

Wahhh Wrote:
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> I can remember being a kid and going to the
> grocery store with my parents. Many of the stores
> had a soda bottle return area where you dropped
> your 6 packs of bottles off for the deposit. I
> remember one of them was a hole in a wall with
> this roller conveyer belt and you would shove the
> bottles down the chute. My brother and I used to
> take single bottles and pitch them inside so they
> would bust on the floor. After that, we would head
> to the front of the store and play elevator action
> for a half hour or so while my parents finished
> shopping.
>
> Someone above mentioned the commodore 64, but I
> remember having the VIC-20 which came out before
> that I think. Many of the games were text based
> and there was one called the Count, which was
> about dracula. My brothers and I would play it
> incessantly and would always try and give it bogus
> commands like "fuck bed post" or "shove tree in
> ass".

LMAO
My brother and I did the same thing.

eesh Wrote:
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> Remember when you wanted to rent a movie you had
> to drive to the store hoping all the copies
> weren't checked out?


I still do that eesh.

Remember when you went in a business and didnt have to worry if the clerk spoke English
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Josey Wales Wrote:
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> Remember when you went in a business and didnt
> have to worry if the clerk spoke English


Cary... can you turn that stit down?

Remember when you could play grabass in high school and no one called it sexual harassment?

Remember when if you wanted to see some hookers, you actually had to drive downtown?

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Sometimes the good 'ol days weren't that cool




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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

^^
I was at that show! But Priest was better when I saw them in '81 with Iron Maiden.

I remember the "my musics tougher than your music!" phase well.

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WingNut Wrote:
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> I remember people smoking in the hallways of
> Arlington Hospital and putting their butts out on
> the floor.
>
> Remember those stupid sand filled ashtrays?
> Haven't seen one in years.
>
>


I remember those ashtrays and butts all over the floor. I also remember being six or seven and going to the corner gas station to buy a carton of cigarettes for my dad and it was no big deal.

You are probably about my age. Do you remember these?




I remember these fuckers being everywhere...parking lots, sidewalks, gutters. No wonder they banned them.

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I also remember these bastards. The original killer toy...



Two pieces of glass on the end of a long string that you were supposed to smack together as hard as you could.

Choking hazard? Check

Potential blunt force trauma? Check

Potential shards of glass that will cut this shit out of your eyes? Check

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Big League Chew
and those cigarette candy bubble gum that actually puffed powdered sugar

HowBoutThisOne Wrote:
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> Big League Chew
> and those cigarette candy bubble gum that actually
> puffed powdered sugar


Or candy cigarettes. Mmmm. Welcome to flavor country.

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WingNut Wrote:
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> ^
> Yeah!
>
> I went to camp as a kid and the counselors were
> giving some kind of reward like 25 cents for every
> 10 of those pop tops that kids would pick up. Must
> have been an epidemic of cut feet like that lousy
> Jimmy Buffet song.

sorry wingnut. i couldn't resist . . .

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Anyone remember when RC Cola and Tab were major soft drinks? Anyone remember astronaut ice cream? Good stuff.

WingNut Wrote:
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> Haha, didn't (and wouldn't) push play!
>
> themuse Wrote:
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> > WingNut Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > ^
> > > Yeah!
> > >
> > > I went to camp as a kid and the counselors
> were
> > > giving some kind of reward like 25 cents for
> > every
> > > 10 of those pop tops that kids would pick up.
> > Must
> > > have been an epidemic of cut feet like that
> > lousy
> > > Jimmy Buffet song.
> >
> > sorry wingnut. i couldn't resist . . .
> >
> >


lol. me either.

yeefuckinghaw

eesh Wrote:
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> Anyone remember when RC Cola and Tab were major
> soft drinks? Anyone remember astronaut ice cream?
> Good stuff.

oo oo my mother told me that when she was younger she bought a bottle of rc
cola out of one of those machines. when she got to the end of it there was a
mouse stuck to the bottom.

needless to say, i've never tried the stuff.

that's my rc cola story.
i'm hitting the streets tonight, yawl.
goodnight.

yeefuckinghaw

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> I also remember these bastards. The original
> killer toy...
>
>
>
> Two pieces of glass on the end of a long string
> that you were supposed to smack together as hard
> as you could.
>
> Choking hazard? Check
>
> Potential blunt force trauma? Check
>
> Potential shards of glass that will cut this shit
> out of your eyes? Check


Cracked wrists, broken teeth, contusions and head trauma

eesh Wrote:
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> Anyone remember when RC Cola and Tab were major
> soft drinks? Anyone remember astronaut ice cream?
> Good stuff.


I remember as a kid thinking this was the greatest commercial ever...



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WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > Anyone remember when RC Cola and Tab were major
> > soft drinks? Anyone remember astronaut ice
> cream?
> > Good stuff.
>
>
> I remember as a kid thinking this was the greatest
> commercial ever...
>
>
I drank Tab in college like there was no tomorrow.
It was actually cool to carry it around...bring it into class.

Fuck Linda Ellerbee and her fucking Lucky Duck shit. This is what kid's news is supposed to look like...



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I couldn't have been 3 years old but remember my dad having cutting edge audio equipment in our car. He loved classical music. Mom would pack some food and on a Sunday drive we would go. We would park somewhere and listen to Gershwin or something.



http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9687999-1.html

I also remember in the late 60's my dad and uncle hooked up a T.V. in one of there work trucks. They actually cut a hole in the dash and put it behind glass. Kind of like primative "Pimp My Ride" or monster garage.

I remember 8 Tracks. Man, those things sucked.

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> I remember 8 Tracks. Man, those things sucked.

Yep. They would always start double tracking. There was actually 4 lines of recording I think all on one side of the magnetic tape? Cassette weren't much better.

Remember seeing either one of these being strung out down the side of a road somewhere by a frustrated teenager after their player ate it? That was funny. By the time you noticed a serious problem going on the machine had already ate about 1/4 mile of tape.



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Remember when these bad boys were popular? I still kind of like them...



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Jeremy, Wilmer's Park brings back some memories, that place was great back in the day.

I remember taking my $1.50 in quarters and heading to the local grocery store to buy a pack of smokes out of the machine. Wonder what they did with all of those old machines.

mcsmack Wrote:
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> I couldn't have been 3 years old but remember my
> dad having cutting edge audio equipment in our
> car. He loved classical music. Mom would pack some
> food and on a Sunday drive we would go. We would
> park somewhere and listen to Gershwin or
> something.
>






Is that a record player in a car?

mcsmack Wrote:
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > I remember 8 Tracks. Man, those things sucked.
>
> Yep. They would always start double tracking.
> There was actually 4 lines of recording I think
> all on one side of the magnetic tape? Cassette
> weren't much better.
>
> Remember seeing either one of these being strung
> out down the side of a road somewhere by a
> frustrated teenager after their player ate it?
> That was funny. By the time you noticed a serious
> problem going on the machine had already ate about
> 1/4 mile of tape.


I still have our original 8-Track/Record player from the 70's, and we still have a mother load of records and 8-Tracks (We used to have original Elvis records too, but my Uncle jacked them a while back).

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

eesh Wrote:
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> mcsmack Wrote:
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> > I couldn't have been 3 years old but remember
> my
> > dad having cutting edge audio equipment in our
> > car. He loved classical music. Mom would pack
> some
> > food and on a Sunday drive we would go. We
> would
> > park somewhere and listen to Gershwin or
> > something.
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Is that a record player in a car?

Yes. It played 45's



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mcsmack Wrote:
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> > mcsmack Wrote:
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> > -----
> > > I couldn't have been 3 years old but remember
> > my
> > > dad having cutting edge audio equipment in
> our
> > > car. He loved classical music. Mom would pack
> > some
> > > food and on a Sunday drive we would go. We
> > would
> > > park somewhere and listen to Gershwin or
> > > something.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is that a record player in a car?
>
> Yes. It played 45's



Looks like a frizbee, I always had one.
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So, if you went over a bump in the road, your record would be scratched all to hell.

I remember that we couldn't play "The Twist" when my dad was in the house because he said that "rock and roll" was horrible devil music. It was the first "rock and roll" record we got as kids.

I remember drinking an awful lot of Tang because the astronauts drank it. It was basically orange sugary Kool-Aid. Oh, yeah, we drank a lot of Kool-Aid too.

I remember my mother lighting the pilot light in the stove every time she wanted to bake something. First the gas had to be turned on, then the match lit and then poooooof! If you couldn't get the match lit (bad matches back then), you had to quick try another match and hope you didn't blow up the kitchen.

I remember "pantsuits". I guess Hillary Clinton revived those.

I remember "hot pants". I guess Daisy Dukes came after that.

I remember the "calculator room" at my high school. I think we had two four function calculators in there (woooeee, it was a big deal). I remember using a slide rule in Chemistry class.

I remember a gas war at the gas stations in my town and gas got down to 25 cents a gallon. I also remember that you got a "gift" when you filled up your tank. My dad always picked the roll of toilet paper (arrgh) and I wanted the piggy bank or one of the cheesy "toys". Also, the gas station was full service---nobody had heard of self service yet.

I remember shag carpeting. My mom got some bright orange shag carpeting for the living room and it had to be raked with a special rake to fluff it up. I also remember "kitchen carpeting" which she had installed---a big mistake. There was also "indoor/outdoor" carpeting. Carpeting was sort of a big deal.

Another big thing was home permanents for your hair. I think the brand was called "Tony" or something like that. We also had a home hair dryer with a plastic cap and a hose and it made a lot of noise. Oh, yes, you set your hair with rollers and then sat under that thing. Once my sister gave my brother a "permanent" so that she could make his hair into an "afro". He had the best white "afro" ever. He went to church like that and she sat next to him with a floppy hippie hat so that he wouldn't feel so dumb.

Enough. Thanks for the memories.

What planet are you from?

http://norvapics.com/

Some old local photos at this site.

Mortal Kombat was all the rage. We had an SNES, though, so we got stuck with the 'no blood' version of the game. I've always been a Nintendo man. Nothing beats a good Zelda.
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How about when caller id was a separate device you plug into your phone line?

mcsmack Wrote:
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> > I also remember these bastards. The original
> > killer toy...
> >
> >
> >
> > Two pieces of glass on the end of a long string
> > that you were supposed to smack together as
> hard
> > as you could.
> >
> > Choking hazard? Check
> >
> > Potential blunt force trauma? Check
> >
> > Potential shards of glass that will cut this
> shit
> > out of your eyes? Check
>
>
> Cracked wrists, broken teeth, contusions and head
> trauma
>
>


I still have my clackers, lava lamp, and a black light poster of Mickey Mouse giving a finger.
I think everybody should post their age. I'm 52 yrs old

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graymoose1 Wrote:
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> mcsmack Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > I also remember these bastards. The original
> > > killer toy...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Two pieces of glass on the end of a long
> string
> > > that you were supposed to smack together as
> > hard
> > > as you could.
> > >
> > > Choking hazard? Check
> > >
> > > Potential blunt force trauma? Check
> > >
> > > Potential shards of glass that will cut this
> > shit
> > > out of your eyes? Check
> >
> >
> > Cracked wrists, broken teeth, contusions and
> head
> > trauma
> >
> >
>
>
> I still have my clackers, lava lamp, and a black
> light poster of Mickey Mouse giving a finger.
> I think everybody should post their age. I'm 52
> yrs old

49

A fun way to turn a family picnic into a triage area...



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Gatorgum.


holding my tape recorder up to the radio to record songs.


44

todaysux Wrote:
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> Gatorgum.
>
>
> holding my tape recorder up to the radio to record
> songs.
>
>
> 44

Hah! I used to do that. You had to push the play and record button at the same time on those pieces of shit. Sometimes I would screw up and record over a song I liked. Then they came out with the boom boxes where you could record songs directly from the radio without the ambient noise and I thought life couldn't get any better.

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Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> Mortal Kombat was all the rage. We had an SNES,
> though, so we got stuck with the 'no blood'
> version of the game.

Growing up, I could only afford one video game system per generation, and in the 16-bit-era that was Sega Genesis. I was always jealous of SNES owners since their versions of cross-platform games were always so much better than the Genesis versions. But the one notable exception was Mortal Kombat 1. I still remember the blood code: A-B-A-C-A-B-B.

I'M A FIVE-STAR MAN!!

I spent hours waiting for a song to play so I could record it. Bouncing back and forth between two rock stations in the early 70's usually catching my song well into the intro. But Man I remember how satisfying it was to get a good copy then try to crank it up as loud as possible on a speaker that couldn't have been 3 inches in diameter with an amp that might have thrown out 12 decibels maybe.

I remember hanging out at the Sears and playing video games while my mom shopped.

Then my head got cut off.

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> I also remember these bastards. The original
> killer toy...
>
>
>
> Two pieces of glass on the end of a long string
> that you were supposed to smack together as hard
> as you could.
>
> Choking hazard? Check
>
> Potential blunt force trauma? Check
>
> Potential shards of glass that will cut this shit
> out of your eyes? Check

What are you supposed to do with them?

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