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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated  |
Their is enough crap and bad news to be had. How about a I remember when thread to drum up some good old memories. Or when more folks seemed to be of better character. I remember when gas was 21 cents a gallon. or I remember when it was rare to see someone run a red light. Or A bottle of ice cold RC Cola was 10 cents. Carry on my friends............ "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | ||
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| Idiot by birth, Asshole by choice |
Pay-phones were on every corner, and you could take a crap in a public restroom without hearing a strangers conversation. | |||
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Serenity now! |
I remember when 4k seemed like a lot of memory, and 40x40 'graphics' was pretty cool. I remember always carrying a dime in my pocket if I ever had to make an emergency call. I remember only getting 4 TV channels (ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS), plus some weird UHF station that was mostly static. I remember whenever I got a quarter, I was off to the store to buy the 'big' pack of baseball cards with a stick of hard gum. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
I remember when folks drove their trucks with their rifles hanging on the rack behind them. And, that was cool. Q | |||
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Chip away the stone |
I remember when we believed it was safe for kids to play outside, without their parents hovering over them constantly. ...oh, and I remember when kids WANTED to play outside. | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
I remember when whatever the MSM spewed out, we took it as gospel. Q | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
I remember having dirt clog wars with friends. I remember looking for four leaf clovers in the lawn. I remember fondly the reactions when Suzy B. was the first to sprout breasts in fifth grade. I remember looking for early US and Russian satellites through a telescope in our backyard. I remember shooting our 22s in the quarries as pre-teens. I remember when Playboy first hit the news stands. I remember having phosphates and malts at the local soda fountain. I remember being in awe at a pool hall where Babe Cranfield was practicing running rack after rack. All the tables around him were kept empty so as not to bother him. I remember as a young elementary school age kid listening to radio dramas on my crystal radio when I should have been sleeping. (Only the Shadow Knows... LOL) I remember playing "baseball" flipping our twin bladed pocket knives. I remember when transistor radios were the new thing and all the rage. I remember when phone numbers started with two alpha characters and had no area codes. I remember Carmen Basillo prize fights and later listening to him in person discussing his philosophy of life when he worked teaching physical education at a local college. I remember building a pair of Heathkit walkie talkies and getting my CB callsign (KID-1629). I remember when TI introduced the pocket calculator. And the odd feeling it gave me as I had just bought a K&E Deci-Lon slide rule for some college courses. Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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I remember when a classmate brought a Daisy BB-gun that he got for Christmas in for show and tell and nobody had a problem with it. I can remember walking with friends alongside the road with our BB and pellet guns on the way to shoot at targets. Nobody called the police because it was just kids walking with their BB and pellet guns... I remember drinking soft drinks/pop/soda with REAL, gasp... SUGAR. I can remember playing "Army" with my friends and tossing pine cones that we pretended were grenades and then the person that threw it would yell boom! and we all would fall down and flop on the ground. I can remember when there was really only a couple of brands of sneakers. (Converse, Adidas, Keds and the off brands that were stapled together that my mom always bought). | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
I remember when I was a Democrat.  Q | |||
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I remember starting with small game season through the end of deer season, every pickup & car in the high school parking lot had a gun in it, because we were going hunting after school....and we didn't even need to lock our car doors. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I remember when I got my first hard drive and didn't think it was possible to fill up 40 mb. I remember when I had to get a vice president's approval to buy a digital camera for work because they cost so much money. I'm not talking DSLR, I'm talking a point and shoot Canon that recorded to a 3.5" floppy. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| Chip away the stone |
I can remember when you could pick up squiggly porn on UHF. | |||
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I CAN REMEMBER... Never growing up getting a new bicycle, or new clothes, because all I got was hand-me-downs from my older brothers... Only getting one new pair of tennis shoes a year, at the start of the school year from the company store my uncle worked at for $2.00... My first car, '41 ford, Cost 50 bucks. Drug it home with a chain. It wouldn't run till I overhauled the engine in the driveway... Working 16 hour days, two jobs, for over 10 years... The one time in my whole life that I saw my mother cry... Cutting firewood because it was the only heat we had... Scalding and plucking a chicken for supper in the kitchen, because it was too cold outside to do it... Having no Air Conditioning, Car or House.... Drawing $99.98 take home pay and wishing for 2 cent more on my check so I would be making 100 bucks a week!... Barely making it through High School because i hated it... My first wife, taking the best years of my life... Turning up the garden spot with a grubbing hoe because I couldn't afford a rototiller... Never playing sports as a kid because I was always working... When the father of my childhood buddy across the street knocked on the door that Sunday morning to let us know that Donnie had been blown up in a tank in Vietnam... Being wronged or cheated a time or two, how it felt, and vowing to never knowingly do that to anyone myself... When my father succumbed to Alzheimer's and no longer recognized me... I could go on... Yea, I remember, and hope I never forget! I thank the good Lord for all the blessings I now have and enjoy. Without the hard times, is there any real understanding of the good? But that's not exactly what you meant is it? Collecting dust. | |||
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I remember: Jeeps were cheap and nobody wanted them. So were VW Bugs. My first handgun: Colt Commander. 115 bucks. Bag phones were amazing tech! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
My buddy made 10K in 1969 turning wrenches in a Dodge dealership. That seemed like all the money in the world to me back then. Of course I was working for $1.65 an hour so anything was a step up. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated |
Most excellent. Thanks for making me a grateful deplorable as well. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
I remember when Michael Jackson was black When Bruce Jenner was a man When OJ was a football player When butter was good for your Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
I remember my father's first TV remote control... me. I remember how that remote control also turned the antenna I remember Ernie Harwell broadcasting Tiger Baseball from the corner of Michigan & Trumble I remember having to press the accelerator to the floor on cold days to set the choke before starting the car I remember a button on the floor of the car that turned the high beams on and off I remember when you had to go to an arcade to play most video games I remember renting laser disks and a player to watch movies at home I remember carrying a pocket knife every day in school, and no one cared I remember trimming around the trees in the yard with lawn shears, because that was the only way to do it. I remember having to rake leaves, as again, it as the only way I remember feeling younger before I responded to this damn thread.....  Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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I remember the milk man delivering milk to the door in glass bottles. I also remember when we had to milk the cow to get our milk. I remember collecting eggs from the chicken coop. I remember Old Red jumping me and making me drop the eggs. I remember my Dad getting out his Colt Woodsman and executing Old Red. I remember asking my Dad for a raise from 25 to 50 cents an hour when I helped him with clean-up when he built houses. I remember walking to school about a mile and a half by myself. In first grade. Someday I won't remember all this, then I won't be myself any more. _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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| Member |
Man Y'all bring back some memories.
In the 7th grade I whipped out my pocket knife and cut a much bigger boy across his arm, not too bad, but enough to bleed, to get him to let a kid go that he was bullying. The teacher sent him to the nurse and took my knife, but gave it back at the end of the day. Didn't get in trouble, they didn't even call my parents. Collecting dust. | |||
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