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Thread: What Words and Expressions Did You Grow Up With That No Longer Make Sense?

One I remember -- which is being used less and less -- is "turn the channel."

TV's don't have dial channel selectors any more, so "turning" the channel doesn't make physical sense. Now people just say "change" the channel. I just heard someone using a strange expression for this, like "turn up" the channel or something.

A few sounds that don't mean anything any more: the busy signal phone noise, and the "off the hook" phone signal.

There's another signal, but I don't know what it's called -- I think if you left your phone off the hook for long enough, it stopped the staccato sound and started a whining/whirring noise that was often used as a sound cue in movies to mean "insane."

This video has some old style rings. (Beware: this is an easy channel to get lost in for a couple of hours.)

Below, a comedian talks about how no one says "we're having company" any longer.

I remember that -- that used to be a said all the time. Now, I don't think anyone says it.

Thanks to Lance McCormack for the suggestion for this thread.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:36 PM




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1 st

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:36 PM (aS1PU)

2 heh

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:36 PM (aS1PU)

3 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at December 06, 2019 04:37 PM (ulcXq)

4 Broken record

Posted by: SkylerKat at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (SXIn9)

5 Broken record

Posted by: SkylerKat at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (SXIn9)

6 Key punch operator.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (zBaqJ)

7 dial the phone

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (aS1PU)

8 Nailed it!

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (ulcXq)

9
Wind the clock.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (zBaqJ)

10 The first time I read Brave New World, I was thoroughly confused about what a "flivver" was.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (ECrgQ)

11 C'mon folks, let's dial this in.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (1qrtS)

12
Warm up the car.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (zBaqJ)

13 I still call the remote the clicker.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (xPJvm)

14 Hang up the phone.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (xPJvm)

15 floppy disc icon
phone handset icon

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (aS1PU)

16 Carbon copy even though we still use CC

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (G546f)

17 ice box=refrigerator

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (UUBmN)

18 Democrats are liberals.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (pw+jk)

19 Elevator operator

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (SvjUZ)

20 Repeat.

"Here's a quarter. Call someone who cares." I used that on my oldest. He predictably asked what the quarter was for.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (1CjJc)

21 It isn't always wine and roses.

Not having to freeze your fingers off trying to lock your hubs is a good thing...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (1qrtS)

22
I grew up with expressions for money like bean (one dollar bill) and fin (five dollar bill).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (zBaqJ)

23 Dialing a a phone number.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (3Z6pZ)

24 Colder than a witches tit.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (bCLt0)

25 "Summer blockbuster"

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (Xqo6t)

26 Fucked up as a football bat.

Posted by: blaster at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (ZfRYq)

27 Is the floppy disk still the 'save' symbol, or did they do away with that? Cause I don't see it on my work computer.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (ayFCE)

28 Phone cord
Icebox
Clicker

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (RD7QR)

29 Hell, Operator. Does anyone answer if you dial zero anymore?

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (SvjUZ)

30
Drop a dime on someone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (zBaqJ)

31 Push start a car.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (m45I2)

32 we still had a "party line" when I was real little ... but that went away I'd guess around 1960?

not sure, but I think even earlier ... "it's your ring" or some such meant ... phone would ring twice quickly ... your ring. Someone else might be just "one ring". But the party line continued after that ... I think. (party line ... a neighbor or whomever, would share your phone line ... if you picked up when they were on the phone, you could listen in)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (Cus5s)

33 Warm up the car.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (zBaqJ)

I still warm up the car...for me. Fuck global warming.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (ECrgQ)

34 What Words and Expressions Did You Grow Up With That No Longer Make Sense?

Nancy Pelosi is hawt.

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (T6t7i)

35
Frigidaire.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (zBaqJ)

36 I trust the media and the Government.

Posted by: Gref at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (AMIL/)

37 I'd like to place a collect call

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (pw+jk)

38 And I'll say these things until I die.

Get off'n my lawn.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (7s3Gx)

39 Colder than a witches tit.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (bCLt0)
----------------
They're not cold any more? Who knew?

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (3Z6pZ)

40 dial-a-thon, hang-up the phone.

You see toe the line wrong so often that it doesn't make sense. I think any jargon derived from assembly line work might seem quaint, but I can't think of any.

Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (xmKbk)

41 22
I grew up with expressions for money like bean (one dollar bill) and fin (five dollar bill).
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (zBaqJ)

Smackers
Moolah

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (RD7QR)

42 "It's your dime."

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (ECrgQ)

43
Collect call.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (zBaqJ)

44 Thumb a ride

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (X+a7J)

45 My folks had a green davenport.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (xPJvm)

46 supper

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (gYJGA)

47 floppy disc icon
phone handset icon
Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:39 PM (aS1PU)
++++++++++++
Yes! I laugh at the "floppy disk to save" every day. I haven't used a floppy in probably 5 or 7 years, and that means I probably used one more recently than most.

Anyone but me remember being to buy floppies (3.5" variety) out of a vending machine?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (1qrtS)

48 Wow, I post and boom! New thread.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (cfSRQ)

49 High fidelity.

Fidelity.

Oriental.

Colored.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (+fPHo)

50 I still warm up the car...for me. Fuck global warming.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (ECrgQ)


That is now illegal in several states. Land of the free indeed.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (aS1PU)

51 This didn't happen but I figured that once everyone had digital watches that saying "it's about 3:15", for example, would disappear because everyone would just say, "it's 3:17". Maybe that might happen with the kids who only ever use their smartphones for the time, not owning watches; although being 'retro' and wearing watches (some/many?) with old-fashioned hand-dial faces would probably still keep the old style alive and well.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (Dh1wo)

52 41 22
I grew up with expressions for money like bean (one dollar bill) and fin (five dollar bill).
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (zBaqJ)

Smackers
Moolah
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (RD7QR)


My dad always said "dough-re-mi."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (zBaqJ)

53 Formica
Make a Xerox

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (RD7QR)

54 For some reason I always says 'icebox,' even though I never had one.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (oVJmc)

55 They're called Call Progress Tones and there are a surprising number of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-progress_tone

Posted by: Abzod at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (tf9Ne)

56 Like a cricket on a hubcap.

Posted by: Weasel at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (MVjcR)

57 pervert

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (Xqo6t)

58 'Taping' a TV show.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (oVJmc)

59 48 Wow, I post and boom! New thread.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (cfSRQ)

Maybe it's a spiritual gift.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (bCLt0)

60 Got a match?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (Y4EXg)

61 Side A and Side B (both vinyl and tapes)
Tape recorder
Be Kind, Rewind

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (+/C3g)

62 Check the answering machine.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (dmYb7)

63 Trump can't win.

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (JXKKq)

64 We control the horizontal
We control the vertical

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (G546f)

65 dial the phone
Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (aS1PU)

Fucking Yankee

it's doll the phone

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (rpxSz)

66 I grew up with expressions for money like bean (one dollar bill) and fin (five dollar bill).
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (zBaqJ)

Smackers
Moolah
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (RD7QR)
------
Simoleons.

"Bones, or clams, or whatever you call them."

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (3Z6pZ)

67

Just the tip.


oops, sorry, that one is still used.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (sy5kK)

68 Lock, stock and barrel.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (Vy7tf)

69 Four-corner offense. (college basketball term)

Posted by: Gref at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (AMIL/)

70 "Not one thin dime"
"The nickel tour"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (1qrtS)

71 Democrat, the party of the Working Man.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (bCLt0)

72 My Kaboom is soggy.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (dmYb7)

73 Write a letter...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (3H9h1)

74 23 Skidoo!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (qC1Sy)

75 62 Check the answering machine.

==

we still have one
great for spammers

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (G546f)

76 Well "Fucking Cocksucker!" still means the same today as it did back in 1876.

Posted by: Al Swearengen at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (Ei0/7)

77 I have an old Jeep CJ I restored. My kids think it's cool as hell. Bonus no seatbelts! But the first time I said "roll down the window" They looked at me like Waaah?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (r7Fvf)

78 Oleo

Posted by: teh FBI at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (pMGkg)

79 When I was in high school, a teacher told us that merely getting a major party nomination meant that you were a great man. It was a simpler time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (+y/Ru)

80 Margarine/Oleo

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (X+a7J)

81 Bet you a buffalo nickel.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (bCLt0)

82 we still had a "party line" when I was real little ... but that went away I'd guess around 1960?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (Cus5s)
----
We still had them in Stockton, CA, in 1974. I believe it switched to private lines the next year.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (ECrgQ)

83 51 This didn't happen but I figured that once everyone had digital watches that saying "it's about 3:15", for example, would disappear because everyone would just say, "it's 3:17". Maybe that might happen with the kids who only ever use their smartphones for the time, not owning watches; although being 'retro' and wearing watches (some/many?) with old-fashioned hand-dial faces would probably still keep the old style alive and well.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (Dh1wo)

Analog watches are truly a fashion statement now. I see more and more of them that only have the hour gradations, some without any numbers at all.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (RD7QR)

84 I'd like to place a collect call
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (pw+jk)


I recently told my son about when we used to call home collect to signal when we got somewhere ok. He was amused.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (aS1PU)

85 Blockbuster/Video Store

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (+/C3g)

86 I miss those old phones. The heaviness of them.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (j3npP)

87 latchkey kids

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (Xqo6t)

88 57
pervert

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:42 PM (Xqo6t)

Also insane, crazy, gay.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (1CjJc)

89 Record scratch stop.

The Emergency Broadcast System tone.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (cfSRQ)

90 Let your fingers do the walking (Yellow Pages)

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (uGHnY)

91 You can still get a busy signal with land lines if one doesn't have an answering service with the phone company. That describes my sainted 89 year old mother, before she passed away a few months ago.

Posted by: Russtovich at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (KIZmn)

92 Sitting on the davenport on the lanai.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (r7Fvf)

93 "Queerer than a 3 dollar bill"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (qC1Sy)

94 half-past

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (JXKKq)

95 Plugged nickel

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (ECrgQ)

96 Elevator operator


********

Charity Hospital in New Orleans (all 19 floors of it) had manually operated elevators in the 80's. The operators were all either physically handicapped or mentally deranged. The doors would take your arm off or knock you unconscious if you tried to jump on late.

One of the guys used a little short cudgel-like stick to punch the buttons...whack, whack, whack.

Fun times.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (m45I2)

97 I'd just go copy the entire previous thread comments, but then I would be banned, probably.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (sy5kK)

98 Carbon Copy until we get transporters and using them will probably be called doing that!

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (Dh1wo)

99 Jive music. Mom's term for Rock 'n Roll

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (X+a7J)

100 Far Out!

Your Momma!

Now why don't you just drop them pants!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (Z+IKu)

101 Fifty cents for three minutes, please.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (bCLt0)

102 Let your fingers do the walking (Yellow Pages)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (uGHnY)

It's a snap!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (ECrgQ)

103 Fuck it. New shit sucks. I'm keeping all the old stuff.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (oVJmc)

104 More ____ than Carter's got pills.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (H8QX8)

105 reverse the charges

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (G546f)

106 Remember the sound when tv channels went off the air at night? It would also show that pattern on the screen.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (G1tCv)

107 Dial up BBS

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (Xqo6t)

108 Ditto machine

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (3H9h1)

109 You don't mind if I chalk with a little Vicks, do ya ??

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (rpxSz)

110 Call long-distance
Call Toll-free

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (+/C3g)

111
White Out. Press Type.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (zBaqJ)

112 The Dime Store - Monkey Ward's -- 5 and Dime--- Page me-- Dial the phone -- 40 lashes with a wet noodle ---


Posted by: exliberal at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (pd+Xc)

113 Phonograph

LP

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (qC1Sy)

114 CBS Friday Night Movie

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (5l6gb)

115 "Cash or credit"

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (Xqo6t)

116 Fill er up, check the oil.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (bCLt0)

117 Head on Head on Head on Head on

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (f4qXm)

118

I'm so poor, that I squeezed two Buffalo nickels together and make them shit money.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (sy5kK)

119 Sebastian Maniscalco is funny and I get the impression he is kind of on our side politically.

Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (KNsKs)

120 Lots of small change ones. Another is "not a dime's worth of difference"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (1qrtS)

121 "Scrambled porn"

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (Xqo6t)

122 My folks had a green davenport.

-
Davenport, divan, couch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (+y/Ru)

123 Pa Larkey

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (rpxSz)

124
Mimeograph or Rexograph machines. My folks had one at home (they were teachers) and I got so high on that fluid!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (zBaqJ)

125 "Cool, maaaaannnnn"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (qC1Sy)

126 ZOD.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (XzT/D)

127 It's a quarter to three.
Analogue time doesn't register with digital kids.

Posted by: Six at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (bETih)

128 anywhere still have restroom attendants?

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (G546f)

129 He's so cheap he could skin a fart and make a fur coat.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (H8QX8)

130 Get your ticket punched.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (Y4EXg)

131 Had a party line in MN in 1977. Only shared with one other user, lucky us. Until he left the phone off the hook in the barn and I missed a call from work. .

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (X+a7J)

132 Never look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (BqBId)

133 dialing "p-o-p-c-o-r-n" to get the time. i loved doing that.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (gYJGA)

134 I was somewhere with the kids a couple years back. There was a pay phone, they laughed when I told them what it was, then I said, don't touch it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (r7Fvf)

135 Typewriter ribbons

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (ECrgQ)

136 Do they even make cars with roll up windows any more???

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (UUBmN)

137 Apparently in Canada, they're fancier than Americans.

What I know as the "nickel tour" they call the "twenty-five cent tour"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (1qrtS)

138 One of my mothers favorite sayings for someone she didn't like - 'He's not worth the powder to blow him to hell'. There is much better options than plain gunpowder now if you need to blow someone to hell

Posted by: Greg61 at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (vY50U)

139 118

I'm so poor, that I squeezed two Buffalo nickels together and make them shit money.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (sy5kK)


Pinched a penny so hard Lincoln's head came out the other side.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (zBaqJ)

140 " You shore got a purty mouth", oh wait

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (bCLt0)

141 -
--

I miss those old phones. The heaviness of them.


Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM

----------------------

When they were teenagers, my sister broke one of those handsets over my brothers head.

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (pMGkg)

142 Kodak Moment.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (BsCoj)

143 This thread is a bunch of malarkey!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (qAR6u)

144 Somebody adjust the rabbit-ears.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (G0vdT)

145 E ticket ride.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (ECrgQ)

146 My folks had a green davenport.

Green shag carpeting.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (7s3Gx)

147 "Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina."

--That little round-headed boy in Kindergarten Cop

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (9t0Zz)

148 Write a check (with your mouth that your ass can't cash)
Cash a check

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (+/C3g)

149 At the tone, the time will be 3:52 PM

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (1qrtS)

150 867-5309

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (bCLt0)

151 116 Fill er up, check the oil.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (bCLt0)
----------

Way back when, I had a car that was "fill the oil, check the gas."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (qC1Sy)

152
Groovy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (zBaqJ)

153 I run the technology office at a middle school. I have a few old school technology items sitting on the counter for kids to look at while I am working on their computers. I have some floppy disks and every once in a while a student will pick one up and say that it looks familiar but they don't know what it is. I show them the SAVE icon on their desktop and tell them that's why save looks like that.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (Um1DT)

154 Supper. Hardly anyone uses supper.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (NWiLs)

155 BA3-1064 ... old phone numbers ... we'd use letters for the first two numbers ... BA3 were the newer numbers ... after they used up BA2 I guess. ...

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (Cus5s)

156 Pig in a poke

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (uGHnY)

157 Hida Salami

Posted by: TOXICALLY MASCULINE CORY BOOKER at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (lMn1U)

158 140
" You shore got a purty mouth", oh wait


LOL > Like a sheep

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (BsCoj)

159 Bias ply tires.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (3H9h1)

160 We gotta book!

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (JXKKq)

161 Hoop-de-do.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (ECrgQ)

162 be kind
rewind

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (G546f)

163 90 Let your fingers do the walking (Yellow Pages)

Well, that means something else to me and my partner. We (in the royal We) love to let our fingers walk all over each other.

Posted by: Prof. Pamela S. Karlan at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (Ei0/7)

164 >>>Davenport, divan, couch.

devino

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (gYJGA)

165 Fax it over

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (qAR6u)

166 Whatever happened to curb feelers? And steering wheel knobs?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (sWM8x)

167 136 Do they even make cars with roll up windows any more???
Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (UUBmN)


Don't know about cars, but rented a U-Haul truck last year that had them.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (kUmUV)

168 Vinyl records are actually really popular now.

Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (KNsKs)

169 Reefer, pot.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (bCLt0)

170 "Put up yer dukes, Fatty!"

/Joe B.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (m45I2)

171 Push start a car.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (m45I2)

Heh. Did that to start my car about 5 months ago.

Starter went out.

Posted by: tbodie at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (XpCzL)

172 Daughter was listening to Jim Croce in the car with me. Asked me what he meant in to song about an "operator"? LOL.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (r7Fvf)

173 For a trip down telephone memory lane, check out telecom-digest.org -- which is still publishing its blog, both as an e-mail list and a Usenet group.

Posted by: jdgalt at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (3SFo/)

174 I miss those old phones. The heaviness of them.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM
+++++++++++++
I'm thinking of buying a touch-tone, 1980s-vintage (pre-breakup) Western Electric pay phone. Damn things are indestructible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (1qrtS)

175 Milkman.

Posted by: aelfheld at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (IxDhF)

176 I named my cats Bogie and Bacall.

No one under 35 that I told knew where that came from including my vet techs.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (f4qXm)

177 Transylvania 6-5000

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (Cus5s)

178 Remember when you would call each other "fag" when you were kidding around? Now the Speech Police in places like New York have you suspended, arrested and sentenced to death, those fucking fags.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (G1tCv)

179 >>What Words and Expressions Did You Grow Up With That No Longer Make Sense?

"There is no such thing as a free lunch."

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (XzT/D)

180 Hillary Clinton could be our next President.

Margaret Cho

Posted by: whatever at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (KfsXj)

181 Drop the film off for development

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (+/C3g)

182 114 CBS Friday Night Movie
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 06, 2019 04:45 PM (5l6gb)

Hell, Friday Night Videos!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (RD7QR)

183 To let somebody know how cold it is

Shivering like a dog shitting peach seeds

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (2cfUo)

184 Get some change for the pay phone

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (qAR6u)

185 Let's go out to the lobby, let's go out to the lobby

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (bCLt0)

186 Jive music. Mom's term for Rock 'n Roll
Posted by: zeera


Excuse me. I speak jive.

Posted by: Barbara Billingsly at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (yDqYW)

187 128 anywhere still have restroom attendants?
Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (G546f)
-------------

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, I believe.

Bellagio, Las Vegas.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (qC1Sy)

188 #122 Those were chesterfields in Canada that is now obsolete favouring couch the most probably with sofa in second place. (And, no, not the American brand of cigarettes.)

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (Dh1wo)

189 "fill her up - no lead."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (cfSRQ)

190 He's so cheap, he dropped a quarter, and when he bent over to pick it up, it hit him in the back of the head!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (Ct55T)

191 studded snow tires

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (X+a7J)

192 double exposure

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (G546f)

193 Carburetor

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (f4qXm)

194 178 Remember when you would call each other "fag" when you were kidding around? Now the Speech Police in places like New York have you suspended, arrested and sentenced to death, those fucking fags.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (G1tCv)


Leftover Chinese food for breakfast was referred to as "cold chinks."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (zBaqJ)

195 Rewind the cassette with a pencil

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (3H9h1)

196 144
Somebody adjust the rabbit-ears.

Do you have some tin foil for the rabbit ears?

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (BsCoj)

197 >Davenport,

handsome desk but most are rosewood

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (rpxSz)

198 >>those fucking fags. Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (G1tCv)

Hesco badthink hatespeech. Unperson.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (XzT/D)

199 I'm in Oklahoma, so a lot of these are still in use.

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (2cfUo)

200 Crank down the window (in a car.)
Let me "tape" or "film" that (when taking a video or picture.)

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (fp7u7)

201 Whatever happened to curb feelers? And steering wheel knobs?
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (sWM8x)


Curb Feelers are now "Parking Assist".



And the steering knob is a "Sybian".

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (1g7ch)

202 It's a free country.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (aS1PU)

203 "jazz cigarettes"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (Ct55T)

204 We just want to be accepted and left alone.

Posted by: whatever at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (KfsXj)

205 Popping the clutch to start a car, anyone???

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (UUBmN)

206 172 Daughter was listening to Jim Croce in the car with me. Asked me what he meant in to song about an "operator"? LOL.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (r7Fvf)

Yeah. Still a fantastic song.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (bCLt0)

207 Marlin Perkins Wild Kingdom, "Let's watch Jim jump off this jeep at 40mph and tackle a Rhino"

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (uGHnY)

208 One of my favorites, and the guy who did the text video put together some fine work:
https://youtu.be/4JIts1xIalg

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (1qrtS)

209 128 anywhere still have restroom attendants?
Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:46 PM (G546f)

Gentlemen's Clubs.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (f4qXm)

210 Davenport, divan, couch.

Which was usually covered in thick vinyl. So it would last longer!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (r7Fvf)

211 Great Album.

Posted by: DOGGFISH at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (lMn1U)

212
Double-feature and Intermission.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (zBaqJ)

213 I will still respect you in the morning.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (Z+IKu)

214 male or female?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (s5LZ3)

215 Honey btitchebritches

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (iiQwg)

216 I Want My MTV

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (qAR6u)

217 White wall tires

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (+/C3g)

218 answering machine

Would there be a Seinfeld without answering machines?

Posted by: Ree at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (N3yvc)

219 There was a time when, if you wanted to express a certainty, you asked "Is the Pope Catholic?" Now, not so much...

Posted by: George W. Cully at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (tubCU)

220 191 studded snow tires
Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (X+a7J)

like the ones on my plow truck, ATM

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (rpxSz)

221 How much for a replacement gas pedal on a Tesla?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (Ct55T)

222 47
Anyone but me remember being to buy floppies (3.5" variety) out of a vending machine?

when i first went to college, there was a vending machine in the cs building that would sell you little stacks of blank punched cards.

may not have been true for folks that started the next year.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (sGtp+)

223 165 Fax it over
Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (qAR6u)
-------------

Eh, faxes still exist, because they are HIPAA compliant.

Unlike email, which is about the least secure means of communication ever devised.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (qC1Sy)

224 BA3-1064 ... old phone numbers ... we'd use letters for the first two numbers ... BA3 were the newer numbers ... after they used up BA2 I guess. ...
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (Cus5s)

We had COmmerce-4-1264. Dear God, why do I remember that?!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (ECrgQ)

225 "Operator, I'd like to make a collect call from I'mreadytobepickedupnow."


Generally tried at the roller rink on Friday or Saturday night.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (yDqYW)

226 Paper grocery bags.

NO WAIT!!

Plastic grocery bags.

Grrrrrrrr!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (Y4EXg)

227 I'm old enough that I remember operating a teletype and a plug switchboard. I wonder if bike messengers are still around. Onion skin paper saved my life in college where I made extra money by writing and/or typing papers for the jocks trying to pass remedial English.

That weird whining noise the phone began to make after being off the hook for too long had pauses in it. You could yell out information in those pauses and other people who had left their phone off the hook could hear you. Rather like a party line. We called it HOT LINE, and it was the precursor to Tinder.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (vkS2Z)

228 Democrats are for the working man.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (jsWA8)

229 Blue plate special.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (XzT/D)

230 206 172 Daughter was listening to Jim Croce in the car with me. Asked me what he meant in to song about an "operator"? LOL.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (r7Fvf)

Yeah. Still a fantastic song.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (bCLt0)



Gotta say, I still get kind of emotional when I think about his untimely end. And his son on that album cover holding his hat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (zBaqJ)

231 " I miss those old phones. The heaviness of them. "

You never had one thrown at you in anger, did you.

I'll stick with cell phones.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (G1tCv)

232 Video - Hillary
Radio - Epstein

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (G546f)

233 Rock ribbed Republican?

Posted by: Regular joe at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (6/uwW)

234 The Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack baby!

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (X+a7J)

235 Winding a watch.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (xPJvm)

236 She's so tight you could not pull a pencil out of her butt with a farm tractor.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (1g7ch)

237 egg head software

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (s5LZ3)

238 Always Look For The Union Label

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (qAR6u)

239 Colder than a witches tit.

we still use this one, but we add "in a brass bra" to it

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (2cfUo)

240 Honey britches

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (iiQwg)

241 My Dad would say inappropriate things when I was small. Seeing people mention "half past" here brought back a memory.
Someone asked him what time it was.
Dad: "Half past a monkey's ass and a quarter till his balls."He must have had a strange watch.

Posted by: kahall at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (fq7/e)

242 219
There was a time when, if you wanted to express a certainty, you asked "Is the Pope Catholic?" Now, not so much...

i remember when "is the pope polish?" was funny.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (sGtp+)

243 "Transform and roll out!"

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (Xqo6t)

244
Somebody adjust the rabbit-ears.


Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM

-----------------------

Then put some tin foil flags on there, that'll help.

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (pMGkg)

245 Blue light special!

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (G546f)

246 43
Collect call.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (zBaqJ)

Early '70's, had a HS friend whose dad had an exotic bird farm out back on much of his 10 acres.

He would buy exotic chicks and eggs, and they would be flown into SeaTac, carefully handled and controlled. When the bird arrived, he would get a collect call from the airport to notify him, and when asked if he was indeed that name, he would say "hell no, you've got the wrong number".

Then he would get in his old truck and drive the 40 minutes to the airport to pick them up.

He did this for years.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (sy5kK)

247 Which was usually covered in thick vinyl. So it would last longer!
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (r7Fvf)

Not vinyl: Naugahyde. From genuine naugas.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (ECrgQ)

248 BR 549

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (xPJvm)

249 ...anywhere still have restroom attendants?

**********


Charity Hospital in New Orleans (all 19 floors of it) had manually operated restrooms in the 80's. The attendants were all either physically handicapped or mentally deranged. The stall doors would take your arm off or knock you unconscious if you tried to jump on late.

One of the guys used a little short cudgel-like stick to punch the hot air hand dryer...whack, whack, whack.

Fun times.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (m45I2)

250 Punch card decks for your computer program

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (X+a7J)

251 Carburetor
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (f4qXm)
++++++++++++
Fun fact: the two-barrel that came on the 1986 Chevy S-10 had a nice feature. When it was cold and you needed to jam it open and use starting fluid to get the damn thing to turn over, a Bic lighter fit perfectly in the valve to hold it open.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (1qrtS)

252 Daughter was listening to Jim Croce in the car with me. Asked me what he meant in to song about an "operator"? LOL.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (r7Fvf)

Yeah. Still a fantastic song.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM

BTW, Heard his son play. He was like 3 when he died but he sounds just like him!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (r7Fvf)

253 Palmtop

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (JXKKq)

254 Double-feature and Intermission.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (zBa

Drive In

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (f4qXm)

255 174 I miss those old phones. The heaviness of them.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM
+++++++++++++
I'm thinking of buying a touch-tone, 1980s-vintage (pre-breakup) Western Electric pay phone. Damn things are indestructible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (1qrtS)


A goof in Ford v Ferrari: A telephone handset had a clear-plastic clip-in connector on the coiled wire.

Posted by: Gref at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (AMIL/)

256 telephone credit card number

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (s5LZ3)

257 The Loyal Opposition.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (I2/tG)

258 191 studded snow tires
Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (X+a7J)


I've still got those. Wouldn't think of trying winter around here without them. Had to bring a set back over Thanksgiving from one of my kids that just moved to Wisconsin. Apparently illegal to have there, guess they are special or something and don't get ice on the roads.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (kUmUV)

259 Armored heifer - Canned milk lol

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (BsCoj)

260
Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (zBaqJ)

261 Here's one:

"Conservatives and liberals can work together in a bi-partisan manner to advance the interests of all Americans."

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (HcHqw)

262 That's so Boss!

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (9m9TT)

263 "It's raining pitchforks and n*gger-babies." -- Grandpa Zod.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (XzT/D)

264 Colder than a witch's tit in a brass brasserie.


/due to global warming

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (1g7ch)

265 Hairy vijayjay's.

Ok. Maybe I don't miss those that much.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (G1tCv)

266 muff diving...uh or so I am told

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (s5LZ3)

267 Dad: "Half past a monkey's ass and a quarter till his balls."He must have had a strange watch.
Posted by: kahall at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (fq7/e)


Was your dad in my 5th grade class?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (sy5kK)

268 It's on like Donkey Kong !

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (f4qXm)

269 One old-timey expression I never say or hear any more is "I do not share my wife with strangers from Craigslist."

Posted by: David French at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (PbpT7)

270 "Now we're cooking with gas!"

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (2GPSc)

271 Not vinyl: Naugahyde. From genuine naugas.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM

LOL. I think naugas went extinct from that!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (r7Fvf)

272 here's another signal, but I don't know what it's called -- I think if you left your phone off the hook for long enough, it stopped the staccato sound and started a whining/whirring noise that was often used as a sound cue in movies to mean "insane."

=======

oh yeah, the line goes from beep beep beep to eeehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

which yeah, means you've lost it

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (FEQY4)

273 56.6 kbps modems. Brrrrrr-BEEEEEEEEcrrrrrrrrrrr

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (RD7QR)

274 230

Gotta say, I still get kind of emotional when I think about his untimely end. And his son on that album cover holding his hat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (zBaqJ)

Bit of greatness with that guy. His backup singer, guitar accompanist was no slouch either. Died with him in the crash.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (bCLt0)

275 -
--

She's so tight you could not pull a pencil out of her butt with a farm tractor.



Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM

--------------------

Couldn't shove a pin up her ass with a jackhammer.

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (pMGkg)

276 One thing I don't hear very much anymore is being asked to send a "self-addressed stamped envelope"

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (xPl2J)

277 I'll stick with cell phones.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (G1tCv)
--------------

Really?

Posted by: Motorola Brick Cell Phone at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (qC1Sy)

278 BA3-1064 ... old phone numbers ... we'd use letters
for the first two numbers ... BA3 were the newer numbers ... after they
used up BA2 I guess. ...

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (Cus5s)



We had COmmerce-4-1264. Dear God, why do I remember that?!


Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM

---

My Grandmothers phone number was BLackstone 3-3553.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (JUOKG)

279 Half past a freckle.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (+ldAm)

280 There was a time when, if you wanted to express a certainty, you asked "Is the Pope Catholic?" Now, not so much...
Posted by: George W. Cully


I remember when it was "is the Pope Polish?"

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (yDqYW)

281 Diners Club

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (f4qXm)

282 my dad on the way to the restroom
" gotta see the Chinaman about some music lessons"

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (G546f)

283 I used to love the smell of mimeographs.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (sWM8x)

284 Flashcube

Posted by: RedDish at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (AjwWO)

285 Geezer = Biden

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (BsCoj)

286 4 out of 5 dentists...

99 and 44ths 100 percent pure

Posted by: Bruce at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (vd8XM)

287 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

288 Freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (bCLt0)

289 You're a pretty fart smeller! I mean smart feller.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (9m9TT)

290 I'm going to throw a record on the Turntable

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (G0vdT)

291 EF Hutton

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

292

"Ma! Throw me down a quarter! The Good Humor man is here!!!"


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (zBaqJ)

293 How much for a replacement gas pedal on a Tesla?

Which revision?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (7s3Gx)

294 Eh, faxes still exist, because they are HIPAA compliant.

Unlike email, which is about the least secure means of communication ever devised.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (qC1Sy)
+++++++++++++
At my old company, we had to send funding information to the Federal Reserve. It all came out of our mainframes, but had to be faxed.

It was converted, sent via fax modem to the Fed, where their fax modems received the "fax" and then converted it back into data for processing.

It was basically hypothetical faxing, but it was compliant with the regulations...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (1qrtS)

295 Hopefully obsolete sayings before I die;

Google it
Text me
Selfie

Especially Google it

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (qAR6u)

296 shit fire and save the matches

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (2cfUo)

297 " You break that lamp, I'm gonna tan your hide"

Posted by: Roman Maroni at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (vCA4F)

298 Phone booth

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (YslsA)

299 Catch you on the flip side.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (XzT/D)

300 4 Broken record
Posted by: SkylerKat at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (SXIn9)

5 Broken record
Posted by: SkylerKat at December 06, 2019 04:38 PM (SXIn9)


You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself...

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

301 Members Only jackets.

(only mentioning them as they were so cheesy)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (Y4EXg)

302 Psych a bird.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (f4qXm)

303
Victrola.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (zBaqJ)

304 56.6 kbps modems. Brrrrrr-BEEEEEEEEcrrrrrrrrrrr

300 baud acoustic...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (7s3Gx)

305
Not vinyl: Naugahyde. From genuine naugas.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (ECrgQ)


naugas, where Naugahyde comes from, are directly related to pollies, where polyester comes from.

It's a fact.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (sy5kK)

306 "May I please use the restroom?"

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (Xqo6t)

307 178 Remember when you would call each other "fag" when you were kidding around? Now the Speech Police in places like New York have you suspended, arrested and sentenced to death, those fucking fags.
-------------------------------------------------------
In "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," they both get lost and think the other is dead. When they regroup, they embrace - one moment later, they push each other away yelling "Fag!"

"Fag" has been overdubbed to "Fool" when it is shown on TV.

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (JXKKq)

308 Air Mail.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (Y4EXg)

309 When I first visited Mrs. REDACTED's mom in Baltimore
she had clear plastic covers on her sofas

what was weird is she had four Basil Beslers , that Mrs. REDACTED bought from me 10 years earlier, hanging in her kitchen and were a gift from her daughter

she had no idea what they were or what they were worth

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (rpxSz)

310 "What comes on tonight?"

Posted by: skywch at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (IWvy/)

311 Unlike email, which is about the least secure means of communication ever devised.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:50 PM (qC1Sy)

Like hell it is!

*hic*

Posted by: the "h" in "h-mail" stands for Hillary! at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (Ct55T)

312 Film. I believe even movie theaters are digital now.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (YslsA)

313 93 "Queerer than a 3 dollar bill"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 04:44 PM (qC1Sy)

Canadian hubby calls one of our BILs Phony as a 3 dollar bill.

He richly deserves that scorn, btw

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (CmURZ)

314 70's cars. Who in the holy hell thought. Hey, I know. Let's take a fake leather seat, then put an effing buckle in the middle of the seat! Comfy! I literally branded the back of my leg one time in the summer wearing shorts. I mean who Da Fuq thought that was good idea?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (r7Fvf)

315 "regular unleaded"

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (wCmLp)

316 Do TV channels try to get you amped about movies by hyping up the "World Television Premiere" of The Emoji Movie or whatever trash TV they're shoveling at you?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (9t0Zz)

317 Drop a dime.

Posted by: Chunk Hunger at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (sN9mD)

318 299 Catch you on the flip side.
Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (XzT/D


10-4 good buddy.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (kUmUV)

319 252 Daughter was listening to Jim Croce in the car with me. Asked me what he meant in to song about an "operator"? LOL.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (r7Fvf)

Yeah. Still a fantastic song.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM

BTW, Heard his son play. He was like 3 when he died but he sounds just like him!
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (r7Fvf)

Wow. Will check that out.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (bCLt0)

320 Don't Bogart the joint, man!

My main man.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (Z+IKu)

321 Colder than a witch's tit in a brass brasserie.


/due to global warming
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (1g7ch)
+++++++++++
"Colder than a pimp's heart"
and
"Hotter than a whore's hole on nickel night"

You're welcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (1qrtS)

322 I call dibs.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (9m9TT)

323 when one has had a bad meal:

After i ate that burrito, I could've shit over a 5 wire fence

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (2cfUo)

324 56.6 kbps modems. Brrrrrr-BEEEEEEEEcrrrrrrrrrrr
Posted by: joncelli


1200 baud modems running a Lane 9000 MCI Telex machine.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (yDqYW)

325 Sunday Paper

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (qAR6u)

326 I miss those old phones. The heaviness of them.

LOL. I know a guy who worked for Bell Labs - back in the 70's or so, they came up with a new, spiffy, light-weight phone, that still met the stringent reliability standards imposed on Bell System equipment.

People wouldn't buy the new phone - they thought that it would be too fragile.

So Bell put a metal plate in the phone to make it heavier - the phone then sold well.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (I2/tG)

327 Well, aren't we shitting in tall cotton?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (fRgt5)

328 "It's raining pitchforks and n*gger-babies." -- Grandpa Zod.
Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (XzT/D)

Calling Brazil Nuts n*gger toes. I had no idea that wasn't their proper name until I was in my teens.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (ECrgQ)

329 273 56.6 kbps modems. Brrrrrr-BEEEEEEEEcrrrrrrrrrrr
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (RD7QR)
---------

Wow, you've got 2400 baud. I only got 1200.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (G0vdT)

330 308 Air Mail.
Posted by: Tonypete

oh you mean "Par Avion"

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (G546f)

331 304 56.6 kbps modems. Brrrrrr-BEEEEEEEEcrrrrrrrrrrr


56K?

so you were one of those rich mf'ers?

could only afford a 1200 baud modem.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (sy5kK)

332 Posted by: Motorola Brick Cell Phone at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (qC1Sy)

In the mid 80's I used to travel to Silicon Valley every week to talk with VC's. We would rent a brick cell phone and a car at the Hertz counter.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (aS1PU)

333 300 baud acoustic...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (7s3Gx)

made with the highest quality string and paper cups.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (Ct55T)

334 111

White Out.

that's the stuff they use on forged in fire for their canister damascuses (damasci?).

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (sGtp+)

335 "you sound like a broken record"

which really never made sense because a broken record couldn't be played at all

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (XTiHL)

336 Do they even make cars with roll up windows any more???

*********


Charity Hospital in New Orleans (all 19 floors of it) had manually operated roll-up windows in the 80's. The attendants were all either physically handicapped or mentally deranged. The sliding panes would take your arm off or knock you unconscious if you tried to jump on late.

One of the guys used a little short cudgel-like stick to open the side wings...whack, whack, whack.

Fun times.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (m45I2)

337 hotter than a 3 dicked dog

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (2cfUo)

338 Video tape.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

339 Reel to Reel

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (f4qXm)

340 279 Half past a freckle.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at December 06, 2019 04:53 PM (+ldAm)

Eastern elbow time.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (H8QX8)

341 Below, a comedian talks about how no one says "we're having company" any longer.

Ha! at: 1:58

http://tinyurl.com/qoadvgu

http://preview.tinyurl.com/qoadvgu

Posted by: Mark Steyn's ghost at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (bETih)

342 "You have been found guilty. Your sentence is an asswhipping. You will retrieve a switch. It will be of the appropriate size. If it is not, a switch will be retrieved for you."

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (XzT/D)

343 "May I please use the restroom?"
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (Xqo6t)
++++++++++++=
Wha? This one isn't used anymore? Am I some kind of stone-age throwback?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (1qrtS)

344 She's so uptight she eats coal and shits diamonds.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (bCLt0)

345
Elephant bells.

Bell-bottom pants with huge bells.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (zBaqJ)

346 Sunday Paper





Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (qAR6u)

Afternoon or evening paper as well.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (xPl2J)

347 Hey good looking , well be back later

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (f4qXm)

348 Is the floppy disk still the 'save' symbol, or did they do away with that? Cause I don't see it on my work computer.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (ayFCE)

It is in the newest version of Microsoft Word

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (eoQWY)

349 Ducky shincracker - a good dancer

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (BsCoj)

350 My spawn saw a box full of LPs, couldn't believe that CD players used to be so big.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (YslsA)

351 Clicker for remote

Dialing a phone.. There was a really funny video a couple years ago of a guy who was trying to get his sons and some friends to dial a phone number, but no instructions. They could not figure it out.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (so+oy)

352 5 1/4 floppy disks

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (CmURZ)

353 Hell's bells. (My mother's favorite).

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (H8QX8)

354 Tape record a song.
"Be home before dinner!"

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (lnyJN)

355 When I grew up, before I was 29, the channels were 4(ABC), 5(NBC), 7(CBS), 9(PBS) and 13(no shit VHF independent until they affiliated with FOX).

There were a couple of UHF channels, but I can't remember them.

Those channel numbers will tell you where and when I grew up.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (ijEPD)

356 POUND SIGN

Posted by: Max Power at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (q177U)

357 Dad referring to a fat person...

2 ax handles and a plug of tobacco wide

Posted by: Bruce at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (vd8XM)

358 Smoking or non-smoking section?

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (G0vdT)

359 If you rolled down a hill to start a car, we referred to that as a "bump start."

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (JXKKq)

360 Cars with the high beam/low beam switch on the floor.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (n1yOz)

361 One ringy-dingy; two ringy-dingies...

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (Dh1wo)

362 i remember when "is the pope polish?" was funny.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (sGtp+)

My dad said that one a lot.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (Ez6QX)

363 Calling Brazil Nuts n*gger toes. I had no idea that wasn't their proper name until I was in my teens.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (ECrgQ)


My grandfather also had those in the tray of nuts.

So, they're Brazil Nuts?

I didn't like them, so I didn't really ever care what they were actually called.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

364 NY Jets in the Super Bowl?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (s5LZ3)

365 "Hang up the phone"

Posted by: Max Power at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (q177U)

366
Stenographer. Take a letter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (zBaqJ)

367 328 "It's raining pitchforks and n*gger-babies." -- Grandpa Zod.
Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (XzT/D)

Calling Brazil Nuts n*gger toes. I had no idea that wasn't their proper name until I was in my teens.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (ECrgQ)


Chocolate haystack candy, same thing.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (bCLt0)

368 He sounds like a 45 being played at 33 1/3.

Or, He sounds like an LP being played at 45.

Posted by: Gref at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (AMIL/)

369 naugas, where Naugahyde comes from, are directly related to pollies, where polyester comes from.

It's a fact.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg


Dad, dad! Mom bought a new dress today from the two sisters, Polly & Esther.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (yDqYW)

370 Lear 8 track

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (rpxSz)

371 Elephant bells.

Bell-bottom pants with huge bells.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (zBaqJ

I was always a flairs guy.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (f4qXm)

372 IDE Drive.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (Zz0t1)

373 We live on a farm that's been in the fam for over a century. And there was a party line phone up into the mid 1980s .
Now my house is the same one my dad and grandad grew up in and the phone number is still the same.
I have a rotary dial phone that works. My nephew asked me to show him how it works. I did.
So yeh I still dial a phone.
And for the curious, I was born in 1967. Growing up in the 70s and early 80s was fun.
We played with jarts and bb guns. We rode in the back of the pickup truck. We had 3 channels on tv and had to turn the outside antenna to get one of them to come in clear. And my brothers and i were the remote control. Breakfast is morning meal, midday meal is lunch or dinner, supper is the evening meal.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (myjNJ)

374 FM stereo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (3H9h1)

375 "Technical Difficulties, the program will resume momentarily"

Posted by: Mark Steyn's ghost at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (bETih)

376 Sweating like a whore in church.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (Y4EXg)

377 He talks like a 33 1/3 played at 78.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (Zz0t1)

378 Celebrities in the Military?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (s5LZ3)

379 we still had a "party line" when I was real little ... but that went away I'd guess around 1960?

not sure, but I think even earlier ... "it's your ring" or some such meant ... phone would ring twice quickly ... your ring. Someone else might be just "one ring". But the party line continued after that ... I think. (party line ... a neighbor or whomever, would share your phone line ... if you picked up when they were on the phone, you could listen in)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (Cus5s)

At least in Ohio suburbs it was later than that - late 60s at the earliest, because I remember we had one.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (eoQWY)

380 Drinking beer while driving on forestry roads called drainage tours.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (n1yOz)

381 He sounds like a 45 being played at 33 1/3.

Or, He sounds like an LP being played at 45.
Posted by: Gref


78 rpm FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (yDqYW)

382 Bell-bottom pants with huge bells.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (zBaqJ)


And halter tops. It is a wonder I got out of high school with all the distractions.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (kUmUV)

383 So, why would powerline moderate this post (I don't get it)... Too long, maybe?:
Here's the thing. Everyone paying attention already understands that the
FBI, the finest investigative agency on the planet, investigated Trump
for 2 years only to turn around and report... nothing. People like you
expect the rest of us to believe Trump is a Russian asset when we've
been witness to the antics of the New York City playboy billionaire
real-estate mogul and reality TV star for quite a few decades. He's kind
of a known quantity. Simultaneously, not one single negative prediction
the democrats, economists, former diplomats and news personalities have
leveled at Trump have come true. And all you can tell me is to stop
believing my lying eyes. You are insane. Trump has broken you. Get help.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (t41dG)

384 Reel to Reel.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)

385 I still use the phrase "drop a dime" or "dime someone out," but I don't know if my kids know what that means.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (cfSRQ)

386
The national anthem when the TV station signed off the air.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (zBaqJ)

387 Motorized Freckles - Insects

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (BsCoj)

388 16-oz beer: A "goon."

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (XzT/D)

389 >>>(only mentioning them as they were so cheesy)


i really wanted one of those, from like Banana Republic or Chess King or something, but they were too expensive.

A year or two later I found out they were considered cheesy and thought, "Wow, saved some money, dodged a bullet."

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (PbpT7)

390 I remember taping songs off the radio. I also had an 8 track "Converter" that I could put cassettes in.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (r7Fvf)

391 Pioneer Super Tuner.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (9m9TT)

392 so you were one of those rich mf'ers?

could only afford a 1200 baud modem.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (sy5kK)

Luxury. At least you had a modem.

We had to jump two wires together in a code and when our father got home he beat us with the wires. If we were lucky!

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (qAR6u)

393 I knew a rich girl in Omaha that had a Motorola phone in her car that was a regular pink 'princess' style Bell telephone.

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (XTiHL)

394 Does anybody say B.M. any more? Or is 'poop' the preferred vernacular?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (m45I2)

395 "Lay" a fire

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (3H9h1)

396 Sunday nights Wonderful World of Disney

and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (CmURZ)

397 382 Bell-bottom pants with huge bells.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (zBaqJ)

And halter tops. It is a wonder I got out of high school with all the distractions.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (kUmUV)


You toke my language...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (zBaqJ)

398 naugas, where Naugahyde comes from, are directly related to pollies, where polyester comes from.

It's a fact.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg
++++++++++++++
My chair is upholstered with real Naugahyde. // When they killed that Nauga, I sat down and cried. // He moved to Chicaga when that Nauga died!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (1qrtS)

399 When you download HP printer drivers the save to: location still defaults to the A:\ drive.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (WvoAE)

400 Common courtesy

Human decency

Rights of the accused

Presumed innocent until proven guilty

Equality before the law

Right to face ones accuser

Property Rights

Rule of Law

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (NqaQ9)

401 "Hey, it's a free country!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (cfSRQ)

402 Watched grandma light the older cousin up with that switch. Like a fucking Jedi with that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (3BlqQ)

403 Dad referring to a fat person...

2 ax handles and a plug of tobacco wide


Are you my Brother

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (2cfUo)

404 My mom yellin out the 3rd floor window it was time for lunch and all the kids in the neighborhood knew it was time for all of us to head in

Posted by: morigu at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (Eu98u)

405 She thinks her shit don't stink,
But her farts give her away

Posted by: Bruce at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (vd8XM)

406 BR 549 - A truly great band! Saw them at a private party for the movie "Happy, Texas" at Sundance.

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (JXKKq)

407 "Carbing" a bong.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (XzT/D)

408 The playing of the National Anthem when the TV channel signed off for the night.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (2GPSc)

409 Below, a comedian talks about how no one says "we're having company" any longer.
-----------

Yeah, Cannibal Bob sort of spoiled that saying.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (qC1Sy)

410 >>>367 328 "It's raining pitchforks and n*gger-babies." -- Grandpa Zod.
Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (XzT/D)

Calling Brazil Nuts n*gger toes. I had no idea that wasn't their proper name until I was in my teens.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (ECrgQ)


Chocolate haystack candy, same thing.
Posted by: john knox

any excuse will do, huh?

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (PbpT7)

411 393 I knew a rich girl in Omaha that had a Motorola phone in her car that was a regular pink 'princess' style Bell telephone.
Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (XTiHL)
--------

Which remind me..bag phone.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (G0vdT)

412 388 16-oz beer: A "goon."
Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (XzT/D)


Cigarette was known as a "root."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (zBaqJ)

413 Sweating like a whore in church.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (Y4EXg)
+++++++++++
Sweatin' like a snitch at a gangster barbecue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (1qrtS)

414 My grandfather had a TV with a remote control that you could actually HEAR when buttons were pressed.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

415 "Technical Difficulties, the program will resume momentarily"


Posted by: Mark Steyn's ghost at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM

---

All of the TV stations signing off each night with the National Anthem........

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (JUOKG)

416 When I was a pup in east TX

we called going to Acuna

a "cheese run"

why, I dunno

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (rpxSz)

417 Toe the line. Now they usually say Tow the line. It comes from prisons where you used to have to line up and would get penalized if your toes weren't exactly on the line.

Same for the military esp. in boot camp where for muster or any other gathering there would sometimes be lines where you had to be right on the line. Not over, not behind.

There's a bunch of them but I'm too old to remember.

Oh and get off my astro turf.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (cEeb1)

418 Walkman.

Posted by: Kathy at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (q7uEm)

419 Husky pants.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (Z+IKu)

420 343 "May I please use the restroom?"
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (Xqo6t)
++++++++++++=
Wha? This one isn't used anymore? Am I some kind of stone-age throwback?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (1qrtS)

The proper modern phrasing for polite society is, "Where's the shitter?".

Posted by: Emily Post at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (Ct55T)

421
10-4 good buddy.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 04:55 PM (kUmUV)

"We've got us selves a Convoy!"

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (sy5kK)

422 cassingle

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (PbpT7)

423 Anyone remember the Fly-mo?

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (9m9TT)

424 374 FM stereo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (3H9h1)

*AM* stereo.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (ijEPD)

425 I didn't read the whole post. It's a bit of a stem-winder.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (wGeit)

426
Fallout Shelter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (zBaqJ)

427 Remember the Indian's head when you turned on the television after midnight, and the station was off the air.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (YslsA)

428 "We had COmmerce-4-1264. Dear God, why do I remember that?!" by: Linn Ridge---My Grandmothers phone number was BLackstone 3-3553 Posted by: Mr. Scott

I guess our numbers were BA because of Baldwin Field or something maybe, but we just used the letters. Of course with the rotary phone it was nice to have a prefix that was easier (shorter) to dial.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (Cus5s)

429 Sunday nights Wonderful World of Disney

and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (CmURZ)

Bonanza and Wild Wild West

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (f4qXm)

430 >>Cigarette was known as a "root."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (zBaqJ)

Or "a weed." Not to be confused with "weed."

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (XzT/D)

431 >>>417 Toe the line. Now they usually say Tow the line. It comes from prisons where you used to have to line up and would get penalized if your toes weren't exactly on the line.

i think it just comes from going right up to the line but not over it... at the start of a race.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (PbpT7)

432 Elephant bells.

Bell-bottom pants with huge bells.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (zBaqJ)

Saddle stitched Comanche jeans. In purple.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (ECrgQ)

433 "Fag" has been overdubbed to "Fool" when it is shown on TV.
Your mother sews socks that smell!

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (Dh1wo)

434 Mickey's Big Mouth.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

435 422 cassingle
Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:00 PM (PbpT7)


Is that related to Massengill?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (zBaqJ)

436 PC as in Personal Computer

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (qAR6u)

437 Artisan water.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

438 We played with jarts and bb guns. We rode in the back of the pickup truck. We had 3 channels on tv and had to turn the outside antenna to get one of them to come in clear. And my brothers and i were the remote control. Breakfast is morning meal, midday meal is lunch or dinner, supper is the evening meal.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 04:58 PM (myjNJ)

At least according to this song Old Dan Tucker, supper is earlier than dinner:

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man,
Washed his face in a fryin' pan,
Combed his head with a wagon wheel,
Died with a toothache in his heel

So get out the way, old Dan Tucker,
It's too late to get your supper
Supper's over and dinner is cookin',
Old Dan Tucker just standin' there lookin'

However we always used lunch and supper/dinner were interchangable.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (eoQWY)

439 Operator!

Operator!


Patch me through to Bennsenhurst 8452.


Operator???

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (pAAkT)

440 Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (bCLt0)

441 415
All of the TV stations signing off each night with the National Anthem........

i'm an army brat, so i got the national anthem in the movie theaters before the movie started.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (sGtp+)

442 "Be kind, rewind" for videos.

Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (lSFe/)

443 427 Remember the Indian's head when you turned on the television after midnight, and the station was off the air.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (YslsA)


We didn't have that. We just had test patterns. You know, so you could calibrate your television.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (wGeit)

444 427 Remember the Indian's head when you turned on the television after midnight, and the station was off the air.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (YslsA)


AKA the test pattern.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (zBaqJ)

445 My aunt and uncle had a Nauga.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (ijEPD)

446 "Hold the line, please."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (1qrtS)

447 Sears Catalog

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (lnyJN)

448 Cragar rims. Kraco stereos.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (r7Fvf)

449 >>>Motorola Brick Cell Phone

my pop bought me one and said if i ever got stuck somewhere with no reception, i should climb a hill to try for service. he'd laugh and call it my suitcase phone.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (gYJGA)

450 When I grew up, before I was 29, the channels were 4(ABC), 5(NBC), 7(CBS), 9(PBS) and 13(no shit VHF independent until they affiliated with FOX).

There were a couple of UHF channels, but I can't remember them.

Those channel numbers will tell you where and when I grew up.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

VHF
4 CBS, 5 NBC, 8 ABC, 11 Independent, 13 PBS
UHF
21 & 39

ST LOUIS 62 - 79

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (yDqYW)

451 Open the very large stereo cabinet to either play the records or turn the tv or for that matter the whiskey stored in there

Posted by: morigu at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (Eu98u)

452 'runnin' like a scalded dog'

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (XTiHL)

453 423
Anyone remember the Fly-mo?
I owned three over the years and loved em'.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (BsCoj)

454 Portable CD Player.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

455 I remember being able to run the streets in summer with my friends until half past dark, and no perverts looking for children to molest.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (YslsA)

456 440 Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (bCLt0)


That's not really a debate. There's a right answer.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (wGeit)

457 HiFi

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

458 407> We called it "shotgunning."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (3H9h1)

459 "phoney as a three-dollar bill:

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (Dh1wo)

460 dispute about toe the line

might come from sailors presenting themselves for inspection but a lot of other possibilities are suspected

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (PbpT7)

461 TV stations starting their broadcast day with the Star Spangled Banner.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (WvoAE)

462 If you rolled down a hill to start a car, we referred to that as a "bump start."
Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming
----
We called it "popping the clutch"

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (UUBmN)

463 Surprised Ace hasn't covered this in more detail, but NY Post and RS McCain had a story about a "quintouple" - one chick and her four studs. She's pregnant, and the daddy is anyone's guess!

Imagine four different kinds of hopeless Omega losers who would put up with the humiliation of sharing a homely woman.

I'm sure David French considers it a "blessing of liberty."


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (cfSRQ)

464 The original channel changers worked by sound and when you hit a button (there were only 2 or so) it hit a tuning fork and made a clunk sound which where the name "Clicker" came from.

Maybe they stopped using Clicker too.

And you could hear the channel being changed as they used a motor and gears to move the tuning capacitor.

Oh yeah them were the days.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (cEeb1)

465 Mercurochrome daubed onto your little cuts. And your big ones too.

...and some sort of black smelly "drawing salve" for splinters.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (2GPSc)

466 Toe the line. Now they usually say Tow the line. It comes from prisons where you used to have to line up and would get penalized if your toes weren't exactly on the line.

i think it just comes from going right up to the line but not over it... at the start of a race.
Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (PbpT7)

I've heard it goes back to crew lineups on the decks of sailing ships. Toe even with the line, no over.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (eoQWY)

467 Romper Room

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (CmURZ)

468 I once told my kid not to use "the company towels."

Confused the hell out of him.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (qSCcj)

469 431 >>>417 Toe the line. Now they usually say Tow the line. It comes from prisons where you used to have to line up and would get penalized if your toes weren't exactly on the line.

i think it just comes from going right up to the line but not over it... at the start of a race.
Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:01 PM (PbpT7)

That makes the most sense, but I've seen it both ways.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (bCLt0)

470
Vinyl slip covers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (zBaqJ)

471 Push start a car.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (m45I2)


I still do that to my truck, occasionally.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

472 just thought of another inappropriate thing my dad said when I was young.
Bra: Over the shoulder boulder holder.I gotta call him. He would never talk like that now.

Posted by: kahall at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (fq7/e)

473 Who wants to play smear the queer!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (r7Fvf)

474 The new Phone Book's Here!

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (lnyJN)

475 Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (bCLt0)
++++++++++++++
Toe. It's "toe the line." As in "on but not over the line." As in the start of a race or lining up for inspection.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (1qrtS)

476 Cragar rims. Kraco stereos.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Cherry bomb glass pack mufflers.

Still made.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (yDqYW)

477 Jeezus H. Christ on a crutch.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (H8QX8)

478 Don't Bogart

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (BsCoj)

479 When those commercials selling LPs, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, etc would offer Cash on Delivery, or just simply "COD" as a payment option.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (6ezlu)

480 Push start the car by "popping the clutch".

Posted by: Howard Johnson, now with a laurel and hardy handshake at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (bFDrf)

481 I still call it The International House Of Pancakes, not IHOP.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (xPl2J)

482
Bacteen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (zBaqJ)

483 Walkman

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (3H9h1)

484 Mom:"Go outside and play and don't come inside until supper time!"

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (G0vdT)

485 Luxury. At least you had a modem.

We had to jump two wires together in a code and when our father got home he beat us with the wires. If we were lucky!

-----------------------------------------------------------
You had wires? We beat rocks together!

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (JXKKq)

486 So Bell put a metal plate in the phone to make it heavier - the phone then sold well.

They do that with Beats headphones! People like to feel the weight of audio equipment they're overpaying for, and the people who made the Beats headphones understood this. 36 of their 86 grams is added metal weights.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (9t0Zz)

487 Arcade.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

488 My father loved his record so we always had the TV stereo combo. It was a significant piece of furniture .

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (f4qXm)

489 Turn on the HiFi.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (r7Fvf)

490 2 bits. Same as Downtown.

Posted by: Jolo at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (WrMOC)

491 Green Army Men

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (3H9h1)

492 355 When I grew up, before I was 29, the channels were 4(ABC), 5(NBC), 7(CBS), 9(PBS) and 13(no shit VHF independent until they affiliated with FOX).

There were a couple of UHF channels, but I can't remember them.

Those channel numbers will tell you where and when I grew up.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (ijEPD)

Busted.

You grew up in the Puget Sound area.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (sy5kK)

493
Toe the line. Now they usually say Tow the line.

=======

George Orwell cited that mistake in the 1940s. "Now" is "since at least the 1940s."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (i3suB)

494 just thought of another inappropriate thing my dad said when I was young.
Bra: Over the shoulder boulder holder.I gotta call him. He would never talk like that now.



Posted by: kahall at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (fq7/e)

My mom said that. Also, double-barrel slingshot.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (6ezlu)

495
Corner candy store.

Egg creams.

TWO CENTS PLAIN!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (zBaqJ)

496 399
When you download HP printer drivers the save to: location still defaults to the A:\ drive.

when there was no backslash because there were no subdirectories (prompt was just "A>").

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (sGtp+)

497 Ahh, cherry bomb glass packs. Now that brings back memories.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (9m9TT)

498 Sink board.

Posted by: Infidel at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (/oG9s)

499 We called it "popping the clutch"
Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (UUBmN)
+++++++++++++
I learned it as "popping the clutch." Did it for entire spring and summer when I was broke. Didn't need the starter until the snow flew.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (1qrtS)

500 Pluto water.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (H8QX8)

501 A Lums Chili Cheese Dog

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (s5LZ3)

502 >>>My Kaboom is soggy.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (dmYb7)

Luxury!

Posted by: Max Power at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (q177U)

503 anywhere still have restroom attendants?

race tracks.

Posted by: DaveA at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (FhXTo)

504 Zebco 33's.

(They still sell them, but they're not the same.)

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (sWM8x)

505 Bacteen.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:03 PM (zBaqJ)

I HATED that stuff! Burned like a mother.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (ECrgQ)

506 My mom yellin out the 3rd floor window it was time for lunch and all the kids in the neighborhood knew it was time for all of us to head in
Posted by: morigu at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (Eu98u)

We had a special bell.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (eoQWY)

507 491 Green Army Men
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (3H9h1)

Had a buddy when I was a kid who molded lead soldiers. Was pretty cool.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (bCLt0)

508 489 Turn on the HiFi.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (r7Fvf)


Actually, you had to warm up the hi-fi.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (zBaqJ)

509 Four on the floor.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (TdMsT)

510 Also, I always thought it was "defuse a volatile situation."

I've seen it lately as "diffuse a volatile situation." I don't get it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (qSCcj)

511 G.I.M.P.

It was basically mercurochrome for minor cuts, came in a small plastic bottle (aka monkey blood). On the side it said "Used By The New York Giants Football Team."

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (XzT/D)

512 When I was a kid I sometimes wore Levi's bell-bottoms. During snowy weather they would freeze and resemble actual bells.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (xPJvm)

513 "Toe the line" is literally putting your toe on the line.

This is not rocket science.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (ijEPD)

514 The kids bought our parents a cell phone when my dad retired. I remember calling them when they were on a trip and somewhere in Tennessee my mom answered the phone and I could hear the surprise in their voices. My dad wanted to know how I found them way out there.

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (XTiHL)

515 You can't get the satisfaction of really slamming the phone down to hang up on someone any more. Remember that?

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (UUBmN)

516 lope the mule

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (v0R5T)

517 In England , got a "fag"

wtf did you call me, fucker ?

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (rpxSz)

518 358 Smoking or non-smoking section?
Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (G0vdT)

Oooh, I'm old enough to remember people smoking in the office.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (RD7QR)

519 503 anywhere still have restroom attendants?

race tracks.
Posted by: DaveA at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (FhXTo)

Gay bars? Truck stops?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (bCLt0)

520 Let's go, Nancy.


@markknoller

In letter to

@RepJerryNadler

, WH Counsel Pat Cipollone says House Dems should "not waste even more time" with more impeachment hearings. Says

@POTUS

says they should impeach him "so we can have a fair trial in the Senate."

Posted by: Ha at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (6A9Kg)

521 Tube amplifiers.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

522 Adult Movie Theater

Adult Book Store

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (qAR6u)

523
Oy Vey.

I read French's Twitter thread from the sidebar. He's on about the "vast information gap" between Trump voters and experts like him, once again.

What a fucking idiot.

And the next item down the sidebar is his friend and coworker Jonah Goldberg the Expert getting a bunch of facts disastrously wrong.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (fUqBx)

524
There still exists a slot car racetrack called Buzz-a-Rama in Brooklyn. Remember going there for birthdays and such.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (zBaqJ)

525 >>>463 Surprised Ace hasn't covered this in more detail, but NY Post and RS McCain had a story about a "quintouple" - one chick and her four studs. She's pregnant, and the daddy is anyone's guess!


oh right, I keep meaning to post that. Thanks.

In many ways, this is the story of David French.

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (PbpT7)

526 You don't know Sh*t from Shinola

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (CmURZ)

527 Buy film for your camera

Posted by: bound4er at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (mAJkd)

528 I've still got a four on the floor. Now, three on the tree, that's old.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (YslsA)

529 when there was no backslash because there were no subdirectories (prompt was just "A>").
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (sGtp+)
++++++++++++
Blech. Default through at least MS-DOS 4, maybe later.

Just add "PROMPT $P$G" to your autoexec.bat file to get a proper prompt back.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (1qrtS)

530 If you pull up to someone in a car next to you and you make the motion "roll down the window" With your hand because you want to talk to them. My kids are confused when I do this.

Posted by: Howard Johnson, now with a laurel and hardy handshake at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (bFDrf)

531 Glove box.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (TdMsT)

532 Casey Kasem American Top 40.

I loved listening to it every Saturday.

Pure Americana.

Posted by: Czech Chick at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (haWye)

533 355 When I grew up, before I was 29, the channels were 4(ABC), 5(NBC), 7(CBS), 9(PBS) and 13(no shit VHF independent until they affiliated with FOX).

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (ijEPD)

We had 4 (WNBC), 7 (ABC), 2 (CBS), 5 (WNEW) 11 (WPIX) and 9 (WOR).

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (H8QX8)

534 Squeaky platform shoes.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (n1yOz)

535 We're farting through silk now!

Posted by: Boneless Pork Rectum (R-UT) at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (yQpMk)

536 In England , got a "fag"

wtf did you call me, fucker ?
Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (rpxSz)


First time I went to the UK, guy said he was going to go outside and burn a fag. I said "Isn't that a crime?"

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)

537 You grew up in the Puget Sound area.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (sy5kK)

in the 70/80s I did. You too?

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (ijEPD)

538 Corner candy store.

Egg creams.

TWO CENTS PLAIN!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (zBaqJ)

10 cent ice cream cones at the dime store. Just before going to see the Saturday comics matinee at the Royal. Sat in the balcony and threw popcorn over the edge.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (ECrgQ)

539 448
Cragar rims. Kraco stereos.

sparkomatic

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (sGtp+)

540 386
The national anthem when the TV station signed off the air.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:59 PM (zBaqJ)


the test pattern after the anthem was over.

then fade to snow.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (sy5kK)

541 #383 Good one that's why it was censored.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (Dh1wo)

542
So, why would powerline moderate this post (I don't get it)... Too long, maybe?:

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk

I think I've identified your problem:

>>You are insane. Trump has broken you. Get help.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (i3suB)

543 Jeff, did you grow up in Austin during the early '60's?

Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (bo8pf)

544 Friend of mine grew up in Los Angeles. All her childhood school friends had either surfer accents (think early Keanu Reeves or Sean Penn) or Valley Girl accents.

AND YET my friend had a very distinctive New York accent. Queens, in particular. Why? Because both her parents were from Queens, as were all the relatives who came over, and she learned how to talk from them -- and then as she grew from ages 4, 5 6 and onward, they became ever-more protective and agoraphobic and fearful of her getting hurt out in the big bad world, and they severely restricted her time ever interacting with anyone outside the home. She did go to public schools in LA, but that was her only outside contact. As a result of all this semi-isolation in a Queens-accent environment, she grew up talking like she was from Queens in the 1930s, and to this day she still has some remnant of that accent -- even though she herself has never been to Queens!

Posted by: zombie at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (fK2gX)

545 "Flip a bitch"

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (xPl2J)

546 We had a dinner bell that you could hear for a mile.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (3BlqQ)

547 516 lope the mule

???

Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (PbpT7)

548 500 comments in under 30 minutes.
Does this break any AOS records?

Posted by: Kathy at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (q7uEm)

549 Anyone remember the y'all v ya'll debate here from years back?

Well, not so much a debate as one guy refusing to admit he made a typo.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (qSCcj)

550 497
Ahh, cherry bomb glass packs. Now that brings back memories.

M-80's with a 1/2 sinker and fish with them. Lovely to see stunned fish rise to the top of the pond.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (BsCoj)

551 Oooh, I'm old enough to remember people smoking in the office.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (RD7QR)

-----------------

I have to admit, I don't miss cigarette smoke in public places.

I much prefer staggering home reeking of just booze.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (qC1Sy)

552 Reel to reel!

Posted by: amy schumer at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (Dh1wo)

553 anywhere still have restroom attendants?


*******

Bus stations.

Or so I've been told.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (m45I2)

554 First time I went to the UK, guy said he was going to go outside and burn a fag. I said "Isn't that a crime?"
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)

I think it actually is, now. In the cigarette sense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (Ct55T)

555 @496
I shall vacate your lawn immediately.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (WvoAE)

556 526 You don't know Sh*t from Shinola
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (CmURZ)


Awww, makes me wanna watch " The Jerk" again!

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (bCLt0)

557 509 Four on the floor.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (TdMsT)

Three on the tree.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (H8QX8)

558 Nehru jacket

Posted by: Miklos, abused as a child at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (QzkSJ)

559 Stop by the Fotomat to get film developed.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (lnyJN)

560 B-side

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (bDqIh)

561 I once told my kid not to use "the company towels."

Confused the hell out of him.
Posted by: WitchDoktor


These are for showin, those are for blowing. (Hankerchiefs)

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (yDqYW)

562 I had a new FM radio I got for my birthday that mounted to the handle bars of my blue Schwinn banana seat bike. Had a siren on it too, which I am sure the neighbors loved! SOB used about 36 c cell batteries.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (r7Fvf)

563 You can't get the satisfaction of really slamming the phone down to hang up on someone any more. Remember that?
Posted by: lin-duh

----


Yeah, and the true sign of being an adult is that you waited until after the slam to holler "Asshole!"

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (Y4EXg)

564 Are you sure you're in the right gear?

(For standard shift cars, which are around-FenSpouse has one-but you don't see people with them too often.)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (WI7YS)

565 Members Only

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

566 Smoking or non-smoking section?
Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (G0vdT)
++++++++++++
I got asked this question two weeks ago at a small restaurant in Missouri.

It was downright refreshing, actually.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (1qrtS)

567 Ayds appetite suppressant candy. Talk about an unfortunate name for a product.

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (pMGkg)

568 Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (d7Ww2)

569 532
Casey Kasem American Top 40.



I loved listening to it every Saturday.



Pure Americana.


local-ish station likes to amuse itself by occasionally playing old american top 40s on the weekend. found out recently that the #1 song the week i turned 18 was dolly parton "9 to 5".

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (sGtp+)

570 dirt weed

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (v0R5T)

571 Stop by the Fotomat to get film developed.
Posted by: mikeyG


Fox Foto FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (yDqYW)

572 this is my first time too

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (rpxSz)

573 The funny thing is movies still use the busy signal and dial tone phone sounds even when a character is using a cell.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (3ufaJ)

574 510 Also, I always thought it was "defuse a volatile situation."

I've seen it lately as "diffuse a volatile situation." I don't get it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (qSCcj)

I've been fighting this for years because if you diffuse a volatile situation you're spreading it around. People look at me like I just grew a second head when I explain this. It's going the way of "data" as a plural. Yes, my days as an editor are numbered.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (RD7QR)

575 card catalogue

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (bDqIh)

576 Four on the floor.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (TdMsT)

Three on the tree

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (xPl2J)

577 547 516 lope the mule

???
Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (PbpT7)

Lupe the Mule? You mean that bucktoothed hot mess in Congress from NYC?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (Ct55T)

578 "Shave and a haircut, two bits"

"Two bits" doesn't really make sense anymore. Won't be long before people don't know what "shave and a haircut" is, either.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (wGeit)

579
Ever hear the Casey Kasem "Death Dedication" out take where he explodes on his producer?

Classic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (zBaqJ)

580 Hell, I remember smoking on a plane.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (qSCcj)

581 Going to the corner store and getting a tonic, a soda as others places called it and the cooler had blocks of ice in it

Posted by: morigu at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (Eu98u)

582 543 Jeff, did you grow up in Austin during the early '60's?
Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (bo8pf)

No, Left Coast Dawg got me.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (ijEPD)

583 Saturday morning cartoons and After School Specials.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (l6b3d)

584 Phone books. Telephone stands (I still have a rattan one.) Larger pieces of furniture for the hallway/foyer designed to hold a telephone and some phone books, with a built-in seat and maybe a place to put a pad of paper and a few pens to write down messages.

Posted by: JuJuBee at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (COzlW)

585
I have to admit, I don't miss cigarette smoke in public places.

I much prefer staggering home reeking of just booze.
Posted by: blake

----

Dumping an opened beer all over you cause you sure as hell couldn't go home smelling like weed.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (Y4EXg)

586 531 Glove box.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (TdMsT)

Dang, hubby and I still call it that.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (CmURZ)

587 Thai sticks.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (9m9TT)

588 A 45 RPM record on the side of a cereal box that you had to cut out.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (yDqYW)

589
Glove box.
Posted by: Ladyl

======

Or, accordingly, glove compartment.

I got pulled over by a cop a while ago while I was wearing driving gloves. He said it was the first time in his 13 years on the job he'd seen someone wearing them.

Then the fucker gave me a ticket for making a right on a red where there was an invisible sign saying No Right On Red.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (i3suB)

590 Blue Dog Democrat

Posted by: Guy who beats everyone at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (3e+AB)

591 In England , got a "fag"

wtf did you call me, fucker ?


In WWII, English women would tell Americans they liked to "Knock me up." To the English ladies, that meant "Come knock on my door." not "Come impregnate me."

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (9t0Zz)

592 "Fight like cats and dogs."

Seems to me that I'm recent years they've gotten along much better.

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (Xqo6t)

593 Hypercolor shirts

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

594 516 lope the mule

???
Posted by: ace at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (PbpT7)
.......

Slam the ham, spank the monkey. Really, we used to say this.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (v0R5T)

595 586 531 Glove box.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (TdMsT)

Dang, hubby and I still call it that.
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (CmURZ)


I do too!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (TdMsT)

596 Acapulco Gold. It's actually extinct as a strain.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (WvoAE)

597 You tote a bale
You tow a barge
You toe the line

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (m45I2)

598 Bagism = someone's scene 1960's

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (BsCoj)

599 AF/X. (slot cars)

Also HO scale model trains.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (3H9h1)

600 Buy film for your camera



Posted by: bound4er at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM

---

Knew a lady once who bought a new digital camera and couldn't figure out why she could only take one or two pictures before it said memory full. I took the camera from her and opened the SD card slot to check the capacity of the card and she started screaming at me that I was going to "expose" the film.


I closed it up and handed the camera back to her.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (JUOKG)

601 475 Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?
----------------------------------------------------
"Toe the line." When the crew of a wooden ship (many who did not wear shoes at sea) were told to assemble on deck, the line between two planks was selected and they were instructed to toe that line.

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (JXKKq)

602 "While you've a lucifer to light your fag"

Posted by: Texicanette at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (gou4q)

603 Check out a book with your library card.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (lnyJN)

604 588 A 45 RPM record on the side of a cereal box that you had to cut out.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (yDqYW)
--------

LOL, I remember that.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (G0vdT)

605 574 510 Also, I always thought it was "defuse a volatile situation."

I've seen it lately as "diffuse a volatile situation." I don't get it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (qSCcj)

I've been fighting this for years because if you diffuse a volatile situation you're spreading it around. People look at me like I just grew a second head when I explain this. It's going the way of "data" as a plural. Yes, my days as an editor are numbered.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:08 PM (RD7QR)


I thought I was bad in my holy war against the use of apostrophes to make plural words.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (wGeit)

606 In WWII, English women would tell Americans they liked to "Knock me up." To the English ladies, that meant "Come knock on my door." not "Come impregnate me."
Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (9t0Zz)


Oops....

Posted by: WW II Vet at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

607 she still has some remnant of that accent -- even though she herself has never been to Queens!
Posted by: zombie

She would be at home in the Irish Channel of New Orleans. There the accent is called Yat, as in "where y'at" (how are you).

Posted by: Miklos, Nawlins dawlins at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (QzkSJ)

608 Slow oven.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (TdMsT)

609 Outdated ones:

*When you're on the phone* ... "wait while I unwind the phone"
"The paperboy is here collecting"
"It's in the milkbox."

Posted by: Dusty at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (ucedS)

610 eenie, eenie, miney moe, catch a n .... nevermind.

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (B+t5k)

611 Youngest daughter looked at me perplexed when I told her to plug her phone into the cigarette lighter. Of course there's no actual lighter. The old Jeep has an ashtray. Had to explain that. She looked at me like we were all Neanderthals.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (r7Fvf)

612 'Husky' is a word not used often anymore...as in Husky Hillary. Dosen`t have the same effect as Lardass Hillary.

Posted by: Tentotwo at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (yhf6w)

613 A neighbor once hosted a UK exchange student.

Asked her what school supplies she needed.

She wanted pencils, paper, a few folders, and some rubbers.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (qSCcj)

614 440
Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?

It's whatever it is these days...language changes. However, it was originally "toe the line" as in "fall in line," "conform," or "obey."

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (YqED9)

615 Actually being a patient in a hospital and you could smoke

Posted by: morigu at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (Eu98u)

616 Swithblades

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (3H9h1)

617 529
when there was no backslash because there were no subdirectories (prompt was just "A>").

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (sGtp+)

++++++++++++

Blech. Default through at least MS-DOS 4, maybe later.



Just add "PROMPT $P$G" to your autoexec.bat file to get a proper prompt back.


autoexec.bat? what about $$$.sub?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (sGtp+)

618 Casey Kasem American Top 40.



I loved listening to it every Saturday.



Pure Americana.





Posted by: Czech Chick at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (haWye)

"Here is the Long-Distance Dedication for this week."
I wonder how many people to whom the song was dedicated actually heard it and knew it was referring to him/her. Probably not many.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (6ezlu)

619 Sittin' in high cotton.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (2GPSc)

620 "A Very Special episode of..."

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (NWiLs)

621 602
"While you've a lucifer to light your fag"
Nice

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (BsCoj)

622 Burma Shave signs on fenceposts.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (yDqYW)

623 FYI, I do tech support for voice over internet phone service. Some phones don't end the call properly and leave the Line open. It shows up in the interface as off hook.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (Lqy/e)

624 Switch blade damnit

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (3H9h1)

625 Gas, Grass or Ass--No one rides free

Posted by: Jim Croce at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (CqE5x)

626 595 586 531 Glove box.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (TdMsT)

Dang, hubby and I still call it that.
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (CmURZ)


I do too!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (TdMsT)


Eh... what else would you call it?

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (wGeit)

627 if you diffuse a volatile situation you're spreading it around.


Tell me about it.

Posted by: IJN Taiho at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (QzkSJ)

628 Choke the cicken.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (bCLt0)

629 Mexican ditch weed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (3BlqQ)

630 One reason I got away with smoking cigs as a kid is because everyone smoked (except Mom) and the entire country was nose-blind.

We would split the cost of a pack of smokes bought in the machine in the lobby of the bowling alley.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (xPJvm)

631 I now have a 1950s Tappan Deluxe cook stove in my kitchen! It belonged to my dad's uncle. I have to light the burners and oven with a match.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (myjNJ)

632 wanna bite of my walnetto?

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (HIasT)

633 I didn't hang out with the hoods or the socias.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (9m9TT)

634 599 AF/X. (slot cars)

Also HO scale model trains.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (3H9h1)


Model trains are still big, but more and more it's becoming an older person's hobby. Like myself. Love model railroading.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (zBaqJ)

635 I remember a story from a few years ago where some dindoos tried to steal a car but it was a stick shift and they didn't know how to drive it

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (qAR6u)

636 card catalogue
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (bDqIh)


True story. Daughter's marching band had props for their program, some of which were large books that they moved around the field.

The artist painted bands on the binder side and put decimal numbers in the band. The kids were asking "what do the numbers mean?"

"It's the Dewey Decimal System."

"THE WHAT!!???"

Posted by: WW II Vet at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

637 I'd like to place a collect call
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 06, 2019 04:41 PM (pw+jk)

I recently told my son about when we used to call home collect to signal when we got somewhere ok. He was amused.
Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (aS1PU)

Way back in the early days of mail postage was collected at the destination. If they wouldn't pay the letter was returned to the sender as refused. One day a fairly well off guy sees a poor lady wrangling with a postman saying she has no money for postage. So he steps in an pays it expecting to be a hero.

Turns out the lady and her son used her refusing as a cheap way to signal that she was all right. Paying the postage was a signal that she needed him or was otherwise in trouble.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (eoQWY)

638 video arcade

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (bDqIh)

639 618 Casey Kasem American Top 40.



I loved listening to it every Saturday.



Pure Americana.

\
with sirrius/XM you can listen every sunday morning.
they replay a show from the same week from the 70's

Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (2cfUo)

640 Casey Kasem American Top 40.





I loved listening to it every Saturday.





Pure Americana.









Posted by: Czech Chick at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (haWye)

"Here is the Long-Distance Dedication for this week."
I
wonder how many people to whom the song was dedicated actually heard it
and knew it was referring to him/her. Probably not many.





Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM

---

We listened to that in Germany a week later on AFRTS.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (JUOKG)

641 "Available at Record Stores EVERYWHERE!"

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (CqE5x)

642 My dad's old poker buddies only ever used one term to indicate "homosexual" or "gay" or whatever:

flamer.

I thought that was the only extant word to indicate someone's homosexuality until I later heard other (more familiar) slang terms in high school.

These guys were all former beatniks and bohemians. If they wanted to indicate that some man was homosexual, they'd say "That cat's a flamer!"

Posted by: zombie at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (fK2gX)

643 Stuckey's Pecan Logs.

Nickerson Farms restaurant with the beehive encased in plexiglass in the lobby.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (yDqYW)

644 Damn sock.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

645 Legwarmers. Scrunchies.

Regular or Unleaded?

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (lnyJN)

646 You meet a girl: "How large are your breasts?" Nobody says that anymore.

Posted by: Rdbrewer at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (cTMts)

647 Casey Kasem kept it up until his death a few years back. I was amazed when I picked it up on some random radio station in the car.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (YqED9)

648 Youngest daughter looked at me perplexed when I told
her to plug her phone into the cigarette lighter. Of course there's no
actual lighter. The old Jeep has an ashtray. Had to explain that. She
looked at me like we were all Neanderthals.


Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (r7Fvf)

Airplanes still had ashtrays in the armrests even into the 2000s.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (6ezlu)

649 Free, white, and 21

Posted by: Texicanette at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (gou4q)

650 The Columbia Record Club.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (Zz0t1)

651 Your mother wears combat boots.

Posted by: Six at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (bETih)

652 613 A neighbor once hosted a UK exchange student.

Asked her what school supplies she needed.

She wanted pencils, paper, a few folders, and some rubbers.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (qSCcj)


Might be a good idea, these days.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (wGeit)

653 Thongs (now called flip flops)

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (TdMsT)

654 What was the name of the "record club" you could join for like a penny and get 11 albums, in the mail! Columbia house?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (r7Fvf)

655 In WWII, English women would tell Americans they liked to "Knock me up." To the English ladies, that meant "Come knock on my door." not "Come impregnate me."
Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:09 PM (9t0Zz)

whorehouses in England are still called knocking shops

Posted by: REDACTED at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (rpxSz)

656 "Men can't get pregnant"

Posted by: ArtGriego at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (AB9kU)

657 In the wee-wee hours

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (CqE5x)

658 autoexec.bat? what about $$$.sub?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (sGtp+)
++++++++++++
??? Not familiar with $$$.sub.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (1qrtS)

659 Dang. Sorry I am just now tuning in to this thread.

Has Party Line been mentioned?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (axyOa)

660 Eh... what else would you call it?
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (wGeit)

Glove *compartment*. Guess we were a bit more tony in suburban Ohio.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (eoQWY)

661 "Open the vent" Car door window vent windows. On the front seat doors and sometimes the back.

Also used by car thieves to use a coat hanger to open the door locks.

There's lots of time when a side vent is handier than opening the main window slightly. I miss them.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (cEeb1)

662 Zenith TV. Clicker. 3 buttons. Off/on. Channel up/down. Don't think it had volume control.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (Dhht7)

663 Land grant colleges.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (ECrgQ)

664 Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:02 PM (bCLt0)

Reminds me of the controversy here when someone says or reports ' wins congressional Medal of Honor'. Person is reprimanded and told that it's just Medal of Honor and it's awarded , not won.

I seen it a hundred times but never noticed in Its a Wonderful Life until just recently that the newspaper George hands out reporting on his brother says ' Harry Bailey Wins Congressional Medal of Honor' . It made me laugh



Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (f4qXm)

665 You tote a bale
You tow a barge
You toe the line
Posted by: Muldoon

Take a toke

Posted by: Miklos, or so he hears at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (QzkSJ)

666 An-n-nd you can still get Stuckey's pecan logs, too. Just not nearly as many Stuckey's out there as there used to be.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (YqED9)

667 Another outdated one:

*To a clerk, when you are out shopping* ... "Can you ring me up?"

Posted by: Dusty at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (ucedS)

668
Dr. Demento.

Also, Sandy Becker, Soupy Sales, Chuck McCann, Wonderama.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (zBaqJ)

669 What was the name of the "record club" you could join for like a penny and get 11 albums, in the mail! Columbia house?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (r7Fvf)

RCA had one too. But Columbia House was the "gold' standard.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (CqE5x)

670 Mad magazine and the Spy v Spy paperbacks.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (9m9TT)

671 Lawn Jockey

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (BsCoj)

672 Airplanes still had ashtrays in the armrests even into the 2000s.
Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (6ezlu)


They sell planes to everyone. I'm sure there are flights even today, somewhere in the world, on which you can smoke.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (wGeit)

673 Zenith is now Vizio, I believe.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

674 OT, but bestest toy ever was Lawn Jarts.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (bCLt0)

675 My parents and their generation always called a refrigerator an Ice Box

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (qAR6u)

676 Station wagon.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (TdMsT)

677 "Two bits" doesn't really make sense anymore. Won't be long before people don't know what "shave and a haircut" is, either.

I got a haircut and shave from a reputable barber a couple years ago. I saw it on the price board and thought it would be pretty cool to get a straight razor shave from a grizzled old barber.

Worst shave of my life. I had razor burn for at least a week. I was pissed!

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (9t0Zz)

678 >>584 Phone books. Telephone stands (I still have a rattan one.) Larger pieces of furniture for the hallway/foyer designed to hold a telephone and some phone books, with a built-in seat and maybe a place to put a pad of paper and a few pens to write down messages.

The home I grew up in had a cut out in the wall between the living room and the kitchen for a phone. I think the house was re-manufactured in the 60s from older torn down homes and the phone cut-out looked planned.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (l6b3d)

679 Window vent.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (TdMsT)

680 667 Another outdated one:

*To a clerk, when you are out shopping* ... "Can you ring me up?"
Posted by: Dusty at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (ucedS)


Grocery-grabber.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (zBaqJ)

681 518 358 Smoking or non-smoking section?
Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 04:57 PM (G0vdT)

Oooh, I'm old enough to remember people smoking in the office.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (RD7QR)


I always wondered why the smoking section on a plane was up front, so the smoke could travel the entire length of the cabin, where the non-smokers sat.

This of course, from the airlines that now give legroom space big enough for a small child.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (sy5kK)

682 78 rpm records.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (n1yOz)

683 Mad magazine and the Spy v Spy paperbacks.
Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (9m9TT)


I've still got some Mad's from the 70's.

There's NO WAY they'd be allowed today.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (Zz0t1)

684 Took my girl to a PICTURE SHOW

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (CqE5x)

685 Curb feelers....

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (qSCcj)

686 "Life ain't a bed of roses". Confused me as kid. All I knew is the rose bushes in the neighborhood were full of thorns. When my parents would tell me "life ain't a...." All I could think is I sure as hell hope it isn't a bed of roses and if it was, how could that be a good thing having to lay on thorns.

Posted by: JROD at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (Rs36S)

687 Lining the trash cans with newspaper, before plastic trash bags.

My dad used to take me on house calls. You could get a special license plate holder that ID'ed you as an MD on a call.

Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (bo8pf)

688 464 The original channel changers worked by sound and when you hit a button (there were only 2 or so) it hit a tuning fork and made a clunk sound which where the name "Clicker" came from
----------------------------------------------------
You could actually get the channel to change (sometimes) by sound of playing with a Slinkly.

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (JXKKq)

689 We still have station wagons, despite the EPA. They are now called SUVs.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (YslsA)

690 The little plastic holders for the car registration that used a pair of springs to hold it to the steering column.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (ECrgQ)

691 >>Love model railroading.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (zBaqJ)

Tonight the Lionel will be retrieved from the attic in preparation for tomorrow's tree-trimming. The hopper car will be candy-filled. The whistle will blow. Canis Zod will be spooked.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (XzT/D)

692 What was the name of the "record club" you could join for like a penny and get 11 albums, in the mail! Columbia house?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (r7Fvf)

Funny News Radio episode on that.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (f4qXm)

693 Switch blade damnit
Posted by: Martini Farmer



Have a true switchblade with a curvy Kris blade my dad got in Germany in 1969. I never thought I would see the day when I can legally carry it but thanks to Texas changing the knife laws, now I can.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (yDqYW)

694 The Columbia Record Club.
Posted by: Sponge

K-Tel for the good stuff.

Posted by: Miklos, admitted snob at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (QzkSJ)

695 K-Tel Records!

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (qAR6u)

696 Anybody still have a milkman delivering milk to your house?

Posted by: Howard Johnson, now with a laurel and hardy handshake at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (bFDrf)

697 Thongs (now called flip flops)

--

Yes!!! I haven't thought of them being called that for a looong time.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (JoUsr)

698 Model trains are still big, but more and more it's becoming an older person's hobby. Like myself. Love model railroading.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (zBaqJ)
++++++++++
The moment a buy a house and have some space, I am going to build a model railroad. I had a pretty great model train set as a kid and I think I would find it enjoyable as an adult.

It might be fun to go check out the MIT model railroad when they open it to the public (annually, I think), but it involves going to Boston, so...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (1qrtS)

699 Weekly World News.

Posted by: Weasel at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (MVjcR)

700 I'm riding the malarky bus. I'm riding the malarky bus.

Posted by: Little joey b at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (vqIkG)

701
I've still got some Mad's from the 70's.

There's NO WAY they'd be allowed today.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (Zz0t1)

And they were LEFTIST at the time

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (CqE5x)

702 dine n dash

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (d7Ww2)

703 Scuse me while I drains me lizard.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (OZZ16)

704 oh yeah, the tail end of the plane was the smoking section
that's also where the cheaper seats were
oy

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (G546f)

705 What two adults do in the privacy of their own homes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (0GvUH)

706 "'Open the vent' Car door window vent windows"

We called these "cozy wings". Where the hell did that come from?

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (eAZVt)

707 592 "Fight like cats and dogs."

Seems to me that I'm recent years they've gotten along much better.
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (Xqo6t)


Not during Apple Cup day.

They don't get along at all.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (sy5kK)

708 pfft ear,
roll another one,
etc.

Posted by: DaveA at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (FhXTo)

709 Gobstopper

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

710 Davenport = couch

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (JoUsr)

711 669 What was the name of the "record club" you could join for like a penny and get 11 albums, in the mail! Columbia house?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (r7Fvf)

RCA had one too. But Columbia House was the "gold' standard.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (CqE5x)


10 records for a penny to join. But then you never fulfilled your commitment to buy any more and they sent you threatening letters for a year.

No wonder that went the way of the Edsel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (zBaqJ)

712 Pocketbook = purse

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (JoUsr)

713 Okay, the perennial debate, is it toe the line, or tow the line ? Hmmm?
It's whatever it is these days...language changes. However, it was originally "toe the line" as in "fall in line," "conform," or "obey."
Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (YqED9)

You can tow a line behind your boat, or have a tow line on your boat, but you toe the line on the boat.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

714 K-Tel for the good stuff.
Posted by: Miklos, admitted snob at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (QzkSJ)

Freedom Rock, man!

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (CqE5x)

715 Anyone every have Jams? The big floppy MC Hammer pants, just before MC Hammer?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

716 When we first got cable, it was a small box with a 20 foot cord with a slide switch

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (WhTSP)

717 Hassock = Ottoman

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (3BlqQ)

718 You tote a bale
You tow a barge
You toe the line
Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 05:10 PM (m45I2)


^^This guy gets it^^

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (aS1PU)

719 Station wagon.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (TdMsT)

Have one. 89 Volvo brick.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (ECrgQ)

720 Mr. Microphone

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

721 To "film" something
Nobody uses film

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (F7lRL)

722 Roll down the window.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (OZZ16)

723
How about obsolete phrases of the future?

Like: "Horowitz is coming," which will mean brace for nothing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (i3suB)

724 People down South - washateria
Everyone else - laundromat

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (f4qXm)

725 Take out boy.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (TdMsT)

726 "Let it go to answering machine."

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Xqo6t)

727 643 Stuckey's Pecan Logs.

Nickerson Farms restaurant with the beehive encased in plexiglass in the lobby.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM

My uncle told me Stuckey's had the cleanest restrooms on the interstate. Their divinity was good, too.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Dhht7)

728 Sittin' in high cotton.
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (2GPSc)

I heard it as "shittin' in tall cotton" meaning the farm workers could take a dump without being seen from the road and get in trouble.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (cEeb1)

729 i can remember when comedians were funny... and jewish!

Posted by: mjc at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Pg+x7)

730 Curb feelers....
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (qSCcj)
++++++++++++
"What happens when you fall down in the street, Dean?"
"I hurt myself! You think these are cuff links? These are curb feelers. That's how I get around!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (1qrtS)

731 Telephone jack.
House calls.
Encyclopedias covering an entire shelf.

A - Ay was for my favorite "Animals" with the sweet plastic overlay.


R for "Reproduction" got worn out when I turned 13.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (lnyJN)

732 699 Weekly World News.
Posted by: Weasel at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (MVjcR)
---
Bat Boy! Mole people! Ed Anger!

I loved how each candidate was shown shaking hands with their secret alien overlord.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Dc2NZ)

733 Hold down the fort.


(it's actually a bouncy castle filled with helium.... )

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Ct55T)

734 10 records for a penny to join. But then you never fulfilled your commitment to buy any more and they sent you threatening letters for a year.

No wonder that went the way of the Edsel.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (zBaqJ)

Yeah, but the Edsel lasted only a couple years. Coulmbia House was still around til at least 2000.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (CqE5x)

735 "going steady"

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (2GPSc)

736 Have one. 89 Volvo brick.
Posted by: Linn Ridge

---

No you don't !!

240 or 740?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Y4EXg)

737 Dr. Demento.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (ECrgQ)

738 Stingray bike with the banana seat and sissybar.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (9m9TT)

739 Gas station attendant, who washed your windshield while you filled up.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (YslsA)

740 "long distance phone call"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (F7lRL)

741 Stand up Comedy.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

742 Reminds me of the controversy here when someone says
or reports ' wins congressional Medal of Honor'. Person is
reprimanded and told that it's just Medal of Honor and it's awarded ,
not won.



I seen it a hundred times but never noticed in Its a Wonderful Life
until just recently that the newspaper George hands out reporting on his
brother says ' Harry Bailey Wins Congressional Medal of Honor' . It
made me laugh





Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:13 PM (f4qXm)

Not to mention Congress has nothing to do with the Medal of Honor.
Congress' award is the Congressional Gold Medal, and that can go to anyone, military or civilian.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (6ezlu)

743 698 Model trains are still big, but more and more it's becoming an older person's hobby. Like myself. Love model railroading.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (zBaqJ)
++++++++++
The moment a buy a house and have some space, I am going to build a model railroad. I had a pretty great model train set as a kid and I think I would find it enjoyable as an adult.

It might be fun to go check out the MIT model railroad when they open it to the public (annually, I think), but it involves going to Boston, so...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (1qrtS)


Try to find a local model railroad club in your area and find out when their next open house is. Also, just look at YouTube. Really great layouts out there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (zBaqJ)

744 Drive ins?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (axyOa)

745 Coffee percolator

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (qAR6u)

746
"I fell asleep watching television only to wake up with nothing on but the test pattern."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (pNxlR)

747 Model trains are still big, but more and more it's becoming an older person's hobby. Like myself. Love model railroading.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM (zBaqJ)
++++++++++
The moment a buy a house and have some space, I am going to build a model railroad. I had a pretty great model train set as a kid and I think I would find it enjoyable as an adult.

It might be fun to go check out the MIT model railroad when they open it to the public (annually, I think), but it involves going to Boston, so...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (1qrtS)

Theres a game called Cities:Skylines where you can lay out and build a city with metros, trains, little men moving about. It is a modern computer model train set.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (eoQWY)

748 K-Tel for the good stuff.
Posted by: Miklos, admitted snob at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM

Oldest brother had a disco album. Not sure what set me off, but one day I lost it, ripped it off the turn table opened our upstairs window and frisbee'd the fucker about 50 yards. My satisfaction was very, very short lived.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (r7Fvf)

749 Party lines

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (JoUsr)

750 No you don't !!

240 or 740?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (Y4EXg)

Yes, I do. 245.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (ECrgQ)

751 677 "Two bits" doesn't really make sense anymore. Won't be long before people don't know what "shave and a haircut" is, either.

I got a haircut and shave from a reputable barber a couple years ago. I saw it on the price board and thought it would be pretty cool to get a straight razor shave from a grizzled old barber.

Worst shave of my life. I had razor burn for at least a week. I was pissed!
Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (9t0Zz)


The barber was thinking it would be pretty cool, once in his life, to shave someone with the straight razor.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (wGeit)

752 Have one. 89 Volvo brick.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (ECrgQ)
+++++++++++
700 or 900 series?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (1qrtS)

753 Put another DIME in the JUKEBOX baby

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (CqE5x)

754 Waitress, stewardess, mailman.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (bCLt0)

755 Car hops

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (NWiLs)

756 Dr. Demento.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (ECrgQ)


Snuck my headphones to bed every Sunday and listened to him whenever I could.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

757 OK, I guess we were lucky and got off the party line early. wiki says most were gone by the 80s.


"In 1989, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company replaced party lines with individual lines in Talcott, West Virginia, a rural area which once had as many as sixteen subscribers on one line" wikipedia

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (Cus5s)

758 Dropping the kids off at the pool, hatching a toilet muskey, takin the Browns to the Superbowl

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (WhTSP)

759 Rice Krispy Candy.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (dmYb7)

760 Calling "COLLECT"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (F7lRL)

761 Spitoon

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (HG3Kb)

762
Oh, I've got one - a representative form of government bounded by a constitutional framework.

I miss that. It was really cool.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (fUqBx)

763 I've still got a four on the floor.
-------------------------------------
And a fifth under the seat!

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (JXKKq)

764 -
--
Oooh, I'm old enough to remember people smoking in the office.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:06 PM (RD7QR)

----------------------------

My grade school principal smoked a pipe in his office. I don't know what tobacco he used, but I loved the smell of it.

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (pMGkg)

765 Tube testers at the drug store.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (axyOa)

766 In like Flynn

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (iuFgi)

767 Tax Stamp

Green stamps

Passbook. (a bank ledger for your deposits and withdrawals.) Typically like a passport but the bank teller would type in your transactions with a running balance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (3H9h1)

768 735 "going steady"
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (2GPSc)
---------

Do they still have promise rings?

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (G0vdT)

769 Was it the "ditto machine" where the teacher typed on a piece of paper that was backed with a separate purple-inked page, and they would then take that purple page, place it on the roller of the machine and the crank it so as it went around it pressed onto a blank page that then had the typed words printed on it in the purple ink?

Have to imagine people watching "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" wonder why everyone immediately sniffs the assignment page as the stack is passed down the row.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (bDqIh)

770 Max Headroom.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (bCLt0)

771 >> 682 78 rpm records.

Take any Bruce Springsteen 45 and play it at 78. Sounded exactly like Dolly Parton. A party trick when I was young.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (l6b3d)

772
Ron Popeil's pocket fisherman and kitchen magician.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (zBaqJ)

773 "You voted for the other candidate? Lets go have a few drinks!"

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (CqE5x)

774 In Japan the hand can cut like a KNIFE...
but don't try that with a tomato.


Dumbass.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (lnyJN)

775 Pay toilets.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (Dc2NZ)

776 The Pocket Fisherman by Ronco

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (WvoAE)

777 744 Drive ins?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (axyOa)

Breeding grounds for cooties.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (1CjJc)

778 "Drive-In Theater"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (F7lRL)

779 Davenport = couch

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM

-----------------

I grew up with a Divan.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (Dhht7)

780 So Bell put a metal plate in the phone to make it heavier - the phone then sold well.

They do that with Beats headphones! People like to feel the weight of audio equipment they're overpaying for, and the people who made the Beats headphones understood this. 36 of their 86 grams is added metal weights.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (9t0Zz)

Early Microsoft Mice did the same thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (eoQWY)

781 "Fight like cats and dogs."
.......

Raining cats and dogs.
Never really understood that one.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (v0R5T)

782 Comically, the federal government created the SUV craze by legislation that killed true station wagons.

I wonder how many billions of additional gallons of gasoline the feds burned because they knew - and still know - what was (ahem) best?

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (0GvUH)

783 Theres a game called Cities:Skylines where you can lay out and build a city with metros, trains, little men moving about. It is a modern computer model train set.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (eoQWY)
++++++++++++
Sounds like Sim City?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (1qrtS)

784 Cannibal Bob speaks frequently about having company.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (LHBAu)

785 I remember in the early days of cable TV, there was a channel that was just a camera slowly panning back and forth across a bunch of analog weather instruments. They had some printed advertisements in there too.

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (eAZVt)

786 My parents had a party line until 1985

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (YslsA)

787 Yes, I do. 245.
Posted by: Linn Ridge

---

"Fans self - gets lightheaded"

I kept mine going until about 400K. Snif.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (Y4EXg)

788 High on the hog

(minds out the gutter, people)

Posted by: Miklos, in high cotton at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (QzkSJ)

789 Oh, I've got one - a representative form of government bounded by a constitutional framework.

I miss that. It was really cool.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (fUqBx)

Me, too. Without the hashtag.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (ECrgQ)

790 Ronco

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

791 "22
I grew up with expressions for money like bean (one dollar bill) and fin (five dollar bill).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:40 PM (zBaqJ) "



Same here.
Don't forget "sawbuck" (after the Roman numeral "X" on really old bills) and "double sawbuck".

I still use bean and fin (or finsky) at home, because Mrs Eez knows what I mean.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (JwHjN)

792
Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Spex.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (zBaqJ)

793
Tang - the orange-flavored powdered drink invented for the space program

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (pNxlR)

794 724 People down South - washateria
Everyone else - laundromat
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (f4qXm)
-------------

Upper Midwest: Pop

Everywhere else: Soda

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (qC1Sy)

795 side1 side2

sideA sideB

Fast Side Slow Side (Rod Stewert)

This Side The Other Side (Grateful Dead)

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (HIasT)

796 What's the record here for most number of comments?

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (BsCoj)

797 In Japan the hand can cut like a KNIFE

But it feels so right!

Posted by: Bryan Adams at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (NWiLs)

798 To "film" something
Nobody uses film
Posted by: SMOD


I have a Nikon camera that uses film.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (myjNJ)

799 Heck, are pay phones a thing anymore? Haven't seen one for a long time.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (qSCcj)

800 Keith Richards, oh wait

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (bCLt0)

801 I kept mine going until about 400K. Snif.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (Y4EXg)

Mine just turned 150k. It should last me until I croak.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (ECrgQ)

802 There's another signal, but I don't know what it's called -- I think if you left your phone off the hook for long enough, it stopped the staccato sound and started a whining/whirring noise that was often used as a sound cue in movies to mean "insane."

*
*

Somebody probably answered this: I think it was called "the howler."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (Ejm1K)

803 chamber pot

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

804 Lyrics to the classic old jazz standard "Dancing on the Ceiling":

I try to hide in vain
Underneath my counterpane

For a long time I was mystified by this lyric. What the hell is a "counterpane"? Some kind of window? A big piece of furniture?

Nope. It's an obsolete term for what we would now call a "bedspread." I think it was already obsolete by the time the song was written way back in the '30s.

Posted by: zombie at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (fK2gX)

805
Raining cats and dogs.
Never really understood that one.
Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (v0R5T)


A Turd Floater.

Cow Pissin' on a flat rock.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

806
Heck, are pay phones a thing anymore? Haven't seen one for a long time.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (qSCcj)

There's still a few around. But rare as hen's teeth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (fUqBx)

807 Some of our comms gear had built-in ashtrays.

There were beer machines in the hallways.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (Dc2NZ)

808 My fear is that some hipsters who are being paid to monitor this site will research these things and bring them back as a Hipster Thing Done Ironically. Look at what they did to Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (qAR6u)

809 Mr. Microphone!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (r7Fvf)

810 "Comically, the federal government created the SUV craze by legislation that killed true station wagons."

Yes, because SUVs are not "passenger vehicles". What a joke!

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (eAZVt)

811 Was it the "ditto machine" where the teacher typed on a piece of paper that was backed with a separate purple-inked page, and they would then take that purple page, place it on the roller of the machine and the crank it so as it went around it pressed onto a blank page that then had the typed words printed on it in the purple ink?

Have to imagine people watching "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" wonder why everyone immediately sniffs the assignment page as the stack is passed down the row.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (bDqIh)
++++++++++++
Ditto machine. The kids who got to operate it always had purple fingers and it wasn't because they were voting in Iraqi elections.

Come to think of it, that's probably why teachers let kids work the Ditto machine...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (1qrtS)

812 RONCO adds. . . "Hey good lookin' I'll be back to pick you up later!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (bDqIh)

813 "you sound like a broken record"

which really never made sense because a broken record couldn't be played at all
Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 04:56 PM (XTiHL)

not that broken, like in half. The track got a hole in it and skips back a bit and replays the same thing, over and over.

You could sometimes fix that by putting quarters on the needle to plow the heck through the obstruction and make it 'better'.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (eoQWY)

814 796 What's the record here for most number of comments?
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (BsCoj)


Gotta be election night 2016.

I remember Ace had another particularly hilarious Friday thread a few years back that topped 1,000 IIRC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (zBaqJ)

815
I have a Nikon camera that uses film.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (myjNJ)


I've got a Poloroid Land Camera.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

816 My grade school principal smoked a pipe in his office. I don't know what tobacco he used, but I loved the smell of it.

I'm a non-smoker who hates the smell of weed and cigarettes, but enjoys the smell of pipe smoke.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (9t0Zz)

817 Erector sets

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (9m9TT)

818 Slim Whitman ads on UHF.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (H8QX8)

819
Screechy modem connect tones.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (pNxlR)

820 Tang - the orange-flavored powdered drink invented for the space program
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (pNxlR)

The grape was even better. I used to eat it by the spoonful. Pixy stick in a jar.

Probably why I am allergic to coal tar dyes now.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (ECrgQ)

821 Ron Popeil's pocket fisherman and kitchen magician.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Bottle, jar and jug cutter

Rhinestone and stud setter

Posted by: Miklos, also automated pea sheller at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (QzkSJ)

822 going steady"
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (2GPSc)
---------

Do they still have promise rings?
Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (G0vd

ID bracelet is what you gave your girlfriend when I was in school.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (f4qXm)

823 "Gay Atlantic City"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (F7lRL)

824
Amtrak.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (zBaqJ)

825 Travelers' checks.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (6ezlu)

826 Mr. Microphone!
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (r7Fvf)


It's like you guys can't see my posts.......

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

827 Do stoners still use roach clips?

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (qAR6u)

828 86 that order or that person

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (BsCoj)

829 Macrame

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (9m9TT)

830 ASA....(pre-NSA)

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (axyOa)

831 796 What's the record here for most number of comments?
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (BsCoj)

Banhammer ca. 5000.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (1CjJc)

832 734 10 records for a penny to join. But then you never fulfilled your commitment to buy any more and they sent you threatening letters for a year.

No wonder that went the way of the Edsel.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM (zBaqJ)

Yeah, but the Edsel lasted only a couple years. Coulmbia House was still around til at least 2000.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (CqE5x)


Heh. "Quit any time you like" my ass. My roommate in college sent them half a dozen letters expressing his desire to quit, and they just kept sending bills. They'd be hounding him today if they weren't out of business.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (wGeit)

833 Gas station attendant, who washed your windshield while you filled up.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (YslsA)

And it was a friendly, cheerful, middle-aged WHITE guy ---wearing a crisp uniform and cap

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (CqE5x)

834 Heck, are pay phones a thing anymore? Haven't seen one for a long time.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM

A couple years ago we were in FL with the kids and they saw one. I had to explain what it was and to tell them to not touch it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (r7Fvf)

835 Slim Whitman ads on UHF.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice


Big sissy

Posted by: Boxcar Willie at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (QzkSJ)

836 Gotta say, I still get kind of emotional when I think about his untimely end. And his son on that album cover holding his hat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:51 PM (zBaqJ)
---
AJ Croce. Fine musician in his own style. Has covered Jim's tunes too.

https://youtu.be/gCNG-IBjM58

Posted by: BluesFish at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (WQZ1O)

837 785 I remember in the early days of cable TV, there was a channel that was just a camera slowly panning back and forth across a bunch of analog weather instruments. They had some printed advertisements in there too.
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (eAZVt)
---------------

We had cable TV in the sixties. Place where we lived was so hilly, it wasn't possible to get a decent signal over the air, unless you wanted to build a 200' tall antenna.

And yeah, I remember the exact same thing. Camera on tracks panning across weather instruments and clocks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (qC1Sy)

838 811 Was it the "ditto machine" where the teacher typed on a piece of paper that was backed with a separate purple-inked page, and they would then take that purple page, place it on the roller of the machine and the crank it so as it went around it pressed onto a blank page that then had the typed words printed on it in the purple ink?

Have to imagine people watching "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" wonder why everyone immediately sniffs the assignment page as the stack is passed down the row.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (bDqIh)
++++++++++++
Ditto machine. The kids who got to operate it always had purple fingers and it wasn't because they were voting in Iraqi elections.

Come to think of it, that's probably why teachers let kids work the Ditto machine...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (1qrtS)

Mimeograph!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (NWiLs)

839
Huge wooden slide rules mounted above the chalkboards in math classrooms.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (pNxlR)

840 779 Davenport = couch

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:16 PM

-----------------

I grew up with a Divan.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (Dhht7)

Some in Canada call them chesterfields.

Years ago, you'd get a funny look up there if you used the words sofa or couch there.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (CmURZ)

841 It slices, it dices, it makes Julian fries

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (F7lRL)

842 Bazooka Joe

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

843 811 Was it the "ditto machine" where the teacher typed on a piece of paper that was backed with a separate purple-inked page, and they would then take that purple page, place it on the roller of the machine and the crank it so as it went around it pressed onto a blank page that then had the typed words printed on it in the purple ink?

Have to imagine people watching "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" wonder why everyone immediately sniffs the assignment page as the stack is passed down the row.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (bDqIh)
++++++++++++
Ditto machine. The kids who got to operate it always had purple fingers and it wasn't because they were voting in Iraqi elections.

Come to think of it, that's probably why teachers let kids work the Ditto machine...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


I never heard them called "ditto machines." we called them mimeographs.

Posted by: zombie at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (fK2gX)

844 Tang - the orange-flavored powdered drink invented for the space program
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (pNxlR)

That's all I drink now. It comes in liquid you can just squeeze into your bottle of water.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (f4qXm)

845 Oh...quench gum. Great for getting rid of cotton mouth.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (9m9TT)

846 Carburetors.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (3H9h1)

847 Hi Beam switch on the floorboard.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (axyOa)

848
Filmstrip presentations in classrooms.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (pNxlR)

849 In like Flynn
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (iuFgi)

That has a different meaning, now.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (ECrgQ)

850 Jr Hi bus driver could smoke 3 cigs on a 15 min. Ride to school.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (3BlqQ)

851 830 ASA....(pre-NSA)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (axyOa)



NACA pre-Muslim outreach.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (zBaqJ)

852 My brother and I were talking about Daisy Cutters (the bombs) once. My mom piped up, "Is that one of those Ron Popeil things?"

We burst out laughing and still laugh about it to this day. The idea of Ron Popeil on TV pitching Ronco Heavy Weapons is so funny I just can't even.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (1qrtS)

853 785 I remember in the early days of cable TV, there was a channel that was just a camera slowly panning back and forth across a bunch of analog weather instruments. They had some printed advertisements in there too.
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (eAZVt)
---
And the local ne'er-do-wells broke in and plastered porno magazines on the equipment.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (Dc2NZ)

854 Go adjust the rabbit ears! Wait, perfect! Don't move!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (r7Fvf)

855 cops beating someone with the phone book

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (G546f)

856 Encyclopedias.

And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (l6b3d)

857 "But wait, there's more."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (H8QX8)

858 piss up a rope

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

859 Roach clips with feather tassels.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (WvoAE)

860 Didn't see Airmail.
Isn't it all now? Still have saved letters from friends overseas with the fancy envelope and cancellation.

E ticket ride.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (ECrgQ)


At least being a CA kid, we always said E Ticket for something that was the best. When did they kill those? 1970?

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (Z1ykJ)

861 Overhead projectors

Slide rules

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (CmURZ)

862 Heh. "Quit any time you like" my ass. My roommate in college sent them half a dozen letters expressing his desire to quit, and they just kept sending bills. They'd be hounding him today if they weren't out of business.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (wGeit)

Yeah, but I was a compulsive record buyer. I would just fulfill the obligation----and join again.

In the '90's I got hundreds of CDs that way.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (CqE5x)

863
Women's undergarments referred to as "foundations."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (zBaqJ)

864 Early Microsoft Mice did the same thing.

I had a Razor gaming mouse that came with a bunch of little lead weights. You could put them in a little compartment in the mouse to tune its weight.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (9t0Zz)

865 Damn, might hit 1,000 comments in under an hour on a Friday evening.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (ayFCE)

866 670 Mad magazine and the Spy v Spy paperbacks.
Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (9m9TT)


Yesterday, I was in a grocery store checkout line, and there is a NEW Mad Magazine Holiday mag.

It has Alfred E. Neuman in a Santa hat.

I did a double-take.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (sy5kK)

867 So you don't forget .. mail by midnight tonight

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (F7lRL)

868 We had cable TV in the sixties. Place where we lived was so hilly, it wasn't possible to get a decent signal over the air, unless you wanted to build a 200' tall antenna.

And yeah, I remember the exact same thing. Camera on tracks panning across weather instruments and clocks.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (qC1Sy)
+++++++++++
Upstate NY?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (1qrtS)

869 @858
There is a Ween song called Piss Up a Rope

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (WvoAE)

870 "Heck, are pay phones a thing anymore? Haven't seen one for a long time."

I last asked where I could find a pay phone in 1999, and even back then they said "are those a thing anymore?".

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (eAZVt)

871 Upper Midwest: Pop

Everywhere else: Soda
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (qC1Sy)

SW Ohio: "Coke".

Just like all tissues are kleenex, all soda pops are coke.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (eoQWY)

872 sefton: check out rod stewart's model railroad set-up. he's been working on it for years - decades - and it's extraordinary.

(i'm sure it's on youtube.)

Posted by: mjc at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (Pg+x7)

873 Telescopic antenna

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (Zz0t1)

874 going steady"
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (2GPSc)
---------

Do they still have promise rings?
Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (G0vd

ID bracelet is what you gave your girlfriend when I was in school.
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (f4qXm)


St. Christopher Medals

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (aS1PU)

875 S S Kresge 5 & 10 with their Soda Jerk and Lunch Counter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (yDqYW)

876 Shit a brick.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (bCLt0)

877 Telegrams. Last one was several years ago.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (YslsA)

878 I remember when the Amana Touchmatic Radar Range (the first microwave oven commercially available) cost $1000

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (iuFgi)

879 Those vibrating football games where the players just randomly went everywhere. I never really understood how those were supposed to work.

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (pMGkg)

880
Al Goldstein's Interludes After Midnight on Manhattan Cable TV.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (zBaqJ)

881 Hi Beam switch on the floorboard.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM

Have one in my old Jeep CJ. I wish they still had them there.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (r7Fvf)

882 never heard them called "ditto machines." we called them mimeographs.
Posted by: zombie at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM


Ditto.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (LHBAu)

883 744
Drive ins?


And the two blondes who starved to death at the drive-in when they went to see "Closed Until March."

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (YqED9)

884 Don't touch that dial!

After station identification...

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (Z1ykJ)

885 There's still a few around. But rare as hen's teeth.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:21 PM (fUqBx)
----------

IWYDT

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (qC1Sy)

886 754 Waitress, stewardess, mailman.

I still have a non-Woke copy of "Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever" ca/1970, with those vile terms illustrated.
Worse the 'Stewardess" was "Pretty".
Horrors!

Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (bo8pf)

887
Non-surprising anal...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (zBaqJ)

888 811 843

West coast vs. East coast?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (3H9h1)

889 Cardboard tube kaleidoscopes.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (H8QX8)

890 Macrame

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM


Damn stuff. Mrs D still has half a dozen pots in the garage. Won't let me thrown them out.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (axyOa)

891 Howard Cosell's toupee

Posted by: Look at that little monkey Miklos go at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (QzkSJ)

892 NO CODs

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (F7lRL)

893 827
Do stoners still use roach clips?

Wolf Man Jack use to sell them at the station he was working at in Del Rio Texas. "Yeah baby! You attach the roach clip to the roaches leg and he drags it around until he dies" " The moon is high and so am I"

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (BsCoj)

894 Encyclopedias.

And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (l6b3d)
++++++++++++
We had two. One they bought from a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. I don't know where the other came from.

Used it all the time. My dad's universal answer for many years was, "go look it up."

The internet really took the piss out of that one...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (1qrtS)

895 831 796 What's the record here for most number of comments?
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (BsCoj)

Banhammer ca. 5000.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (1CjJc)


I would have thought it was the Great Longbow vs Crossbow Debate thread.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (wGeit)

896 Lincoln Logs.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (bCLt0)

897 Al Goldstein's Interludes After Midnight on Manhattan Cable TV.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (zBaqJ)

and 970-PEEE. The extra E is for extra pee.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (iuFgi)

898 Those vibrating football games where the players just randomly went everywhere. I never really understood how those were supposed to work.
Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (pMGkg)


I had the handheld red LED football game.

Touchdown Football, I think.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (Zz0t1)

899 Y'all are some oldsters, daddy-o.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (LHBAu)

900 881 Hi Beam switch on the floorboard.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM
------------

Problematic in places like MN, because, at some point, the floor boards would rot out to the point when you stomped on the switch, you'd very likely put the switch through the floor.

Good times.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (qC1Sy)

901
It's an obsolete term for what we would now call a "bedspread." I think it was already obsolete by the time the song was written way back in the '30s.
Posted by: zombie

======

I loved a poem called "The Land of Counterpane" when I was a kid, about being sick in bed with all your toys. It had old-timey words and fanciful images. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (i3suB)

902 She's "PG"


(Pregnant)


Or were my parents just messing with me?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (zVXtJ)

903 Encyclopedias.

And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (l6b3d)

i used them. In fact I practically memorized the volume marked "Aa-Am"---because that was the first and only volume my mother bought.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (CqE5x)

904 Don't touch that dial!

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (Z1ykJ)

There's KOME on it!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (ECrgQ)

905
Threading the projector

Carousels of slides for presentations

Transparencies for presentations

Mechanical drawing classes that used drafting boards, T-squares, triangles and the like, not CAD.

Blueprints, exposed / developed in ammonia fume chambers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (pNxlR)

906 Wolfman Jack.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (bCLt0)

907 Encyclopedias.

And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM (l6b3d)

We got ours from a salesman. When we were like 1. So it was pretty useless when we were in school.

I read all of them anyway, just like I read my mothers college textbooks that ended history in 1950.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

908 cal worthington ads with the jingle...

go see cal! go see cal! go see cal!

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (gYJGA)

909 >>Mimeograph!

Yes, that's it! That was the official name, but we all referred to it as ditto machine. It was also a verb (pre-Xerox) - this needs to be "dittoed" - and a noun - "pass out the dittos."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (bDqIh)

910 The "grape smell" of copies from a spirit duplicator

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (F7lRL)

911 You kids go outside and play and don't come back until dinner time.

Posted by: freaked at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (Tnijr)

912 Shredding Electric Guitar solo.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

913 I've always been partial to "Useless as tits on a bishop."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (AzW6q)

914 Bunny ears (antenna)

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (NWiLs)

915 I still have a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (f4qXm)

916 895
831 796 What's the record here for most number of comments?

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (BsCoj)



Banhammer ca. 5000.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 05:22 PM (1CjJc)



I would have thought it was the Great Longbow vs Crossbow Debate thread.

WOW!!

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (BsCoj)

917 Encyclopedias.

And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?
Posted by: banana Dream


Got them all at once and used the shit out of them.
That was the Internet of 1974.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (yDqYW)

918 Maybe Ace could designate an official Horde Historian.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (YqED9)

919 Hooky bobbing. Meaning. grabbing the bumper of a car or school bus in the winter (unbeknownst to the driver) and seeing how far you could go. It was usually good until you hit a patch pf pavement with now snow or ice on it. Yep, have the scars. Of course bumpers then were actual bumpers.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (r7Fvf)

920 Forget all the old school shit. Just think how far tech has come since just the late 80's eARLY 90's.


I remember seeing my first 1GB hard drive thinking thats it we will never never never need more storage space.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (0OmEj)

921 I last asked where I could find a pay phone in 1999, and even back then they said "are those a thing anymore?".
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (eAZVt)
+++++++++++++
I keep a mental map of them in my area. There are a few.

Several years back I was in Mariposa, CA and my cell phone had no service. I needed to make a call. I found - after asking many, many people - the lone payphone in town.

Cost to call Omaha for three minutes? Five and a half bucks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (1qrtS)

922 898 Those vibrating football games where the players just randomly went everywhere. I never really understood how those were supposed to work.
Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (pMGkg)


Tudor Electrtic Football!

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (H8QX8)

923 International Reply Coupon

Posted by: Miklos on the 49 meter band at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (QzkSJ)

924 Those vibrating football games where the players just randomly went everywhere. I never really understood how those were supposed to work.
Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (pMGkg)


I loved those things. I'd play with my cousins and we'd have fights trying to knock the board so the players would go the right way.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (aS1PU)

925
I heard it as "shittin' in tall cotton" meaning the farm workers could take a dump without being seen from the road and get in trouble.
Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (cEeb1)

just like the romaine fields of central California today.

but the food recalls for e.coli are relatively new.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (sy5kK)

926 Damn stuff. Mrs D still has half a dozen pots in the garage. Won't let me thrown them out.

Lol, I wish I had the ones my mom and dad made.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (9m9TT)

927 SEARS catalogue - the big one built like a phone book.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (bDqIh)

928 "road sodas"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (Ct55T)

929 This is the all time boomer thread.

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:27 PM (Fxgkp)

930 cal worthington ads with the jingle...

go see cal! go see cal! go see cal!
Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (gYJGA)

And that ain't no bull!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (ECrgQ)

931 Shine Box

Posted by: Billy Batts at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (qAR6u)

932 And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?

Hey! I read all the Golden Book Encyclopedia volumes cover to cover the day they came home. But I was an incredibly nerdy 8 yr. old.

Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (bo8pf)

933 E ticket ride.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (ECrgQ)

At least being a CA kid, we always said E Ticket for something that was the best. When did they kill those? 1970?


Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM



I still use that with people my age, just to see if they get it.
Disney's best rides.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (axyOa)

934 You meet a girl: "How large are your breasts?" Nobody says that anymore.

Posted by: Rdbrewer at December 06, 2019 05:12 PM

---------------

Well, how are you doing?

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (Dhht7)

935 Shacking up together.

8-track tapes.

Cassette tapes.

Tape recorders.

Typewriter ribbons.

VHS recorder.

Oh, so many . . . .

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (k4dH2)

936 Friday Night Videos

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)

937 Sony Walkman

Posted by: Rsa at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (IDdVj)

938 735
"going steady"

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at December 06, 2019 05:17 PM (2GPSc)

Is he a letterman?
755
Car hops

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (NWiLs)

Soda Jerk.

Posted by: Dusty at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (ucedS)

939 >>> Heck, are pay phones a thing anymore? Haven't seen one for a long time.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as


I saw one in a high school just last week. Could not believe it.

Posted by: Howard Johnson, now with a laurel and hardy handshake at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (bFDrf)

940 One expression, I think it's exclusively a Texas phrase, is telling someone to "go piss up a rope".I've often been told to go piss up a rope but I've never actually tried because what if someone walks by during the attempt?
Another saying that I have trouble with is "Fuck You" or "Fuck Off" and the other variants on the theme. Why exactly do we say that? What is the actual goal versus implied goal?
I think I'm going to stop saying both phrases, they just don't make any sense and really, very stupid things to say.

Posted by: Skunky Choom at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (UTvLT)

941 Gas station attendant, who washed your windshield while you filled up.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (YslsA)

And it was a friendly, cheerful, middle-aged WHITE guy ---wearing a crisp uniform and cap)

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (CqE5x)

942 hah once I was driving hubby 'car and I accidentally switched on the high beam and couldn't figure out hiw to turn it off.

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (G546f)

943 Boombox..aka ghetto blaster and breakdancing

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (WhTSP)

944 "That boy is thin. He's thinner than piss on a rock"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (F7lRL)

945 Kodak moment

Posted by: the Butcher at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (DIosY)

946 Montgomery Wards

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)

947 Paper maps.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (f4qXm)

948 Hand me downs

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (Fxgkp)

949 Let's rent something from Blockbuster.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (ayFCE)

950 Bunny ears (antenna)
Posted by: Insomniac

The big ones were rabbit ears.

Posted by: Miklos , with rotating antenna on the roof at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (QzkSJ)

951 Party lines were great fun. I'd get on the phone to listen before Mom came home from work.

Hillll arious. Sometimes they could tell someone is on and they'd get all pissy.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (cEeb1)

952 "da plane, da plane"

In the old days, everyone would know what show that was on, and who said it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (iuFgi)

953 If you deduplicate the comments there would be about 20.

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Posted by: mira james at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (Mz21c)

955 never heard them called "ditto machines." we called them mimeographs.

Posted by: zombie at December 06, 2019 05:23 PM



Ditto.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (LHBAu)


All the smells kids are missing out on. Loved when we got those horrible damp purple-printed things still warm - and huffing the fumes.
Polaroid film and magic markers are another. I still have some Letraset markers from my design days that are over 40 years old - in glass tubes/bottles. Man I'd be high as a kite finishing off projects at 2am...

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (Z1ykJ)

956 NO CODs
Posted by: SMOD



DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE

Printed on almost every piece of paper.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (yDqYW)

957
One expression, I think it's exclusively a Texas phrase, is telling someone to "go piss up a rope

-------

My dad says it all the time, never lived in TX. But he is from the South.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (AzW6q)

958 Good TV.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (Zz0t1)

959 And did any of your parents by an encyclopedia set for you at the grocery store one book at a time? Then you never, ever, used it?


My parents bought some off brand encyclopedia. I think it was at least the whole set, but it wasn't Britannica.

I have no idea if the Encyclopedia Britannica was better, but it felt like getting the Kaboom Encyclopedia.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (gd9RK)

960 ABC AfterSchool Special

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (lnyJN)

961 There's a theory that theBoomers used up all the fun, and that's why Millenials walk around all constipated. Don't know where Genexer's fit in.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (bCLt0)

962 "That's mighty white of you"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (F7lRL)

963 Montgomery Wards
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Monkey Wards. That's what we kids called it.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (ECrgQ)

964 Trying to talk reason with a lefty is like showing a chicken a card trick.

Posted by: freaked at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (Tnijr)

965 Actually, come to think of it, a huge Hollywood Video dwarfed my towns Blockbuster.

Funny to think they both competed and existed together for many years.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (ayFCE)

966
"da plane, da plane"



In the old days, everyone would know what show that was on, and who said it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (iuFgi)


It wasn't that long ago!


Bill always got so excited when Epstein's pedo plane landed...

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (Z1ykJ)

967 "this needs to be 'dittoed' - and a noun - 'pass out the dittos.'"

This is exactly what I remember too. "Dittos" were copies.

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (eAZVt)

968 Also, our encyclopedias were how my dad taught me how to read. It was a rough approach for four year old. He taught me my letters and then had me read the copyright page of the "A" volume.

After laboriously sounding it out, he had me read the copyright page of the "B" volume.

Partway through the copyright page of the "D" volume, I stopped and said, "Dad, these are all the same."

He then closed the book and said, "Good. You're getting it. This tells me that you can understand that these are words and not just sounds and symbols. Here's 'The Cat in the Hat.'"

I guess it was pretty effective.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (1qrtS)

969 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (H8QX8)

970 My dad's universal answer for many years was, "go look it up."

The internet really took the piss out of that one...


Now if you look everything up on your phone you're an asshole.

"Stop fact checking everything, dude!"

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (9t0Zz)

971 Milk bottle.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (TdMsT)

972 Montgomery Wards

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM



AKA Monkey Wards.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (axyOa)

973
Words I WANT to become obsolete:

vacuum cleaner
"speed checked by radar"
plunger
flow restricter
gas pump/gas station (I just want my car full of fuel at all times)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (i3suB)

974 I just watched a YouTube vid on the vibrating football, it's still a thing

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (WhTSP)

975 Monkey Wards. That's what we kids called it.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (ECrgQ)


Yep.

I still have a Monkey Wards welder.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

976 KOME was a great rock station.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (gYJGA)

977 "United States of America"

Posted by: Sandor Clegane at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (6MoD2)

978 Film strips? Encyclopedia Britannica educational films?
At our school, only the coolest boys got to run the projector...

Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (bo8pf)

979 Classified ad.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (G0vdT)

980 Dr. Ojoka , a powerful spell-caster

His name is a killing word.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (lnyJN)

981 Scuse me while I drains me lizard.

---------------------------------------
Hit the pot....

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (JXKKq)

982 Ferrell's Ice Cream Parlor.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (9m9TT)

983
"College material."

That was before even my time, though.

Now any retard willing to go into debt that they can never repay is college material.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (i+RbT)

984
All over him like a cheap suit

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (AzW6q)

985 Overhead Projector

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (lnyJN)

986 Theres a game called Cities:Skylines where you can lay out and build a city with metros, trains, little men moving about. It is a modern computer model train set.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:18 PM (eoQWY)
++++++++++++
Sounds like Sim City?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:19 PM (1qrtS)

yes, it is similar, even to the expansion that added natural disasters so you can destroy stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (eoQWY)

987 Set the choke (to start the car). Oh no, I had to explain it...

Posted by: FloridaMan at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (r28kI)

988
French curve(s) templates used in mechanical drawings.

Kenner girder and panel sets.

Tinker Toys with the green card stock quadrangles used to make windmills' vanes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (pNxlR)

989 Chalk boards and the big leather erasers.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (axyOa)

990 Gimbels.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (3BlqQ)

991 A saying that is not allowed any more is

8 to 80 , blind , crippled or crazy.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (f4qXm)

992 Dang.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (lnyJN)

993 981 Scuse me while I drains me lizard.

---------------------------------------
Hit the pot....

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming


talk to a man about a horse

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (d7Ww2)

994 VHS recorder.



Oh, so many . . . .





Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 06, 2019 05:28 PM (k4dH2)


Betamax!

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (Z1ykJ)

995 Has anyone said "Ok, Boomer." yet?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (Y4EXg)

996 Wait for it

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (3BlqQ)

997 "Science Fiction Theater"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (F7lRL)

998
Submarine races.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (zBaqJ)

999 The 4:30 Movie.
The Million Dollar Movie.
Kung-Fu Saturday Afternoons.
Monster Week on the 4:30 Movie.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (iuFgi)

1000 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (3BlqQ)

1001 Nice play Shakespeare, when's your next act.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (H8QX8)

1002
Hotter than a whore's whole on nickel night

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (AzW6q)

1003 Busby.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (TdMsT)

1004 1K?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (Y4EXg)

1005 Murray the K and submarine races.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (LHBAu)

1006 Christmas savings club.


G&H Green Stamps (can't remember the exact name)

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (zVXtJ)

1007 All over him like a cheap suit
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (AzW6q)

Leisure Suits

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (f4qXm)

1008 ...He then closed the book and said, "Good. You're getting it. This tells me that you can understand that these are words and not just sounds and symbols. Here's 'The Cat in the Hat.'"

I guess it was pretty effective.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (1qrtS)


This is why kids need moms *and* dads.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (aS1PU)

1009 "Game Tapes"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (F7lRL)

1010
Sending packages through the nail addressed to General Delivery

SASE - self-addressed stamped envelope

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (pNxlR)

1011 Thank god they still make plastic bread bags to put in our boots :/

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (Fxgkp)

1012 5cents for bringing back a bottle.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (HG3Kb)

1013
Wait 'til your father gets home!

Tan your hide.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (zBaqJ)

1014 "Fuck Off" and the other variants on the theme. Why exactly do we say that? What is the actual goal versus implied goal?
I think I'm going to stop saying both phrases, they just don't make any sense and really, very stupid things to say.
Posted by: Skunky Choom


Mash up of go fuck yourself and get lost.

Fuck off.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (yDqYW)

1015 "That's mighty white of you"
Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (F7lRL)


I said that once while working as a waiter in a small town restaurant, run by 2 dykes. The owner bag looked at me and said it was RAYCISSSSSS!!!! I told her it was an old western movie reference referring to white hat wearing good guys vs. black hat wearing bad guys.

Sounded good to me and she bought it, so....

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (Zz0t1)

1016 "Those vibrating football games where the players just randomly went everywhere."

I had one, never used it much. But I had a hockey game with the handles you'd twist to turn the player and push the marble around ... we played that quite a bit. Then the cool ones came out where the players could slide along the "ice". But real basketball and baseball took over pretty early on ... hoops on the driveway ..

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (Cus5s)

1017 All over him like a cheap suit
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (AzW6q)

Leisure Suits
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (f4qXm)

Leisure Suit Larry

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (ECrgQ)

1018 Sears Toughskins.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (lnyJN)

1019 Houston Wrestling with Paul Bosh.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (f4qXm)

1020 Ditto machine:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yd36fz3h

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (bDqIh)

1021 658
autoexec.bat? what about $$$.sub?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:11 PM (sGtp+)

++++++++++++

??? Not familiar with $$$.sub.


when you SUBMITted a command file on cp/m, it would create $$$.sub on the boot drive with the submit file stored backward and each line padded to fill a 128-byte record. when cp/m started, it checked for $$$.sub. if the file was there, it would read the last record into the command line buffer, make the file one record shorter, then execute the command.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (sGtp+)

1022 I would read the encyclopedia, just grab A and read it like a book, I was weird

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (WhTSP)

1023 S and H Green Stamps.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (Zz0t1)

1024 If you deduplicate the comments there would be about 20.
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (lnyJN)


James Comey would tell us there are no new comments.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (1g7ch)

1025
Tie tacks

Tie bars

Four-in-hand knot

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (pNxlR)

1026
Dumber than a bag of hammers

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (AzW6q)

1027 Ween did "Piss Up a Rope" on their album "12 Golden Country Greats."

I'd guess that the expression comes from the fact that you can use rope to direct the flow of a fluid (into a bucket, for example), but only in a downward direction.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (YqED9)

1028 Remember the little plastic sub that you put the pill in to make it dive and rise?

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (9m9TT)

1029 Wait 'til your father gets home!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (zBaqJ)

I loved that show!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (ECrgQ)

1030 Blaupunkt

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (myjNJ)

1031 Civil Defense Shelter

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (F7lRL)

1032 904 Don't touch that dial!

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (Z1ykJ)

There's KOME on it!
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:26 PM (ECrgQ)



Somebody else from San Jose here!

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (ujg0T)

1033 Leisure Suit Larry
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (ECrgQ)


In the land of the lounge lizards.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (Zz0t1)

1034 Load *.* ,8,1

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (WhTSP)

1035 This is why kids need moms *and* dads.
Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (aS1PU)
++++++++++++
Yup. My mom would've babied me through it. Not sure if it would have been more or less effective, but it would definitely have been different.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (1qrtS)

1036 Cal Worthington was running his ads with the jingle when I left L.A. 9 years ago

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (qAR6u)

1037 Tan your hide.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


True story. Animals literally have enough brains to tan their skin when you clean them. That's where the expression you don't have enough brains to tan your hide comes from

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (yDqYW)

1038 Overhead projectors should have been called On-the-wall projectors... Well, that is unless the thing fell off that shitty little cart with the dropcord attached to it....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (Ct55T)

1039 air hockey

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (d7Ww2)

1040
Bolo ties and snap on cross ties.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (zBaqJ)

1041 870 "Heck, are pay phones a thing anymore? Haven't seen one for a long time."

I last asked where I could find a pay phone in 1999, and even back then they said "are those a thing anymore?".
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:24 PM (eAZVt)

Most hotels still have pay phones in the lobby or around the corner in a hallway.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (sy5kK)

1042 Submarine races.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM



The ones on the Columbia River just across from Portland Airport were particularly good.
Ask Mrs D.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (axyOa)

1043 Milk bottle caps. No not the screw on things. A piece of heavy paper wrapped around the lip of the bottle (glass) and with a piece of cardboard with a tab to lift it out to seal out smells in the fridge.

And milk that came with the cream separated at the top.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (cEeb1)

1044 Barnswagle the dweendijle!

Posted by: fleenslipple at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (Tnijr)

1045 Infantryman and artilleryman, thanks to those sellout fucking retards in the Pentagon.

Posted by: Pickle Rick at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (cn4Qw)

1046 Don't hot box my cig! And gimme back my Zippo!

Posted by: Junior G.I. at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (JQlio)

1047 and HEEEEERRRRRE'S JOHNNY!!!

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (qAR6u)

1048 Sounding like a broken record?

Posted by: Wethal at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (3RspO)

1049 969 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

The movie would be on and at the commercials, my mom and sister and I would run and clean up the kitchen until somebody yelled "It's on!". Then we'd go back and watch some more.

If you missed your show, then you missed your show.

Posted by: sal at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (bo8pf)

1050 Bet nobody has done that one.

Posted by: fleenslipple at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (Tnijr)

1051 Calling Time and Temperature

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (JoUsr)

1052 Leisure Suits
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM


This.

Posted by: Larry at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (LHBAu)

1053 when you SUBMITted a command file on cp/m, it would create $$$.sub on the boot drive with the submit file stored backward and each line padded to fill a 128-byte record. when cp/m started, it checked for $$$.sub. if the file was there, it would read the last record into the command line buffer, make the file one record shorter, then execute the command.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (sGtp+)
+++++++++++
Ah, okay. I never knew the process on CP/M (never used it much).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (1qrtS)

1054 Has anyone said "Ok, Boomer." yet?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (Y4

Someone said this was the ultimate boomer thread.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (f4qXm)

1055 988

French curve(s) templates used in mechanical drawings.


coding forms. used to be able to buy a big stack of them at any office supply store.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (sGtp+)

1056 American Motors Corporation (AMC)

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (F7lRL)

1057 Load *.* ,8,1
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (WhTSP)
++++++++++++
Oooh, look at Mr. Fancy with his disk drive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (1qrtS)

1058 Somebody else from San Jose here!
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (ujg0T)

Nah, Stockton. Armpit of California.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (ECrgQ)

1059 We had Kung Fu theater on Sunday afternoon

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (WhTSP)

1060 Dr. Demento

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (32YRo)

1061 Blaupunkt

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM



Damn! Had one in my 59 VW. Best radio EVAH!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (axyOa)

1062 It is!

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (Fxgkp)

1063 waves!

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (gYJGA)

1064 >>993 talk to a man about a horse

Shake the dew off the lily.

Preferably said with a Scottish accent.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (l6b3d)

1065 Pedal pushers.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (TdMsT)

1066
Stamps that you bought at school and pasted in booklets, which, when filled, you turned in to acquire a U.S. Savings Bond.

Stock certificates

Bond certificates

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (pNxlR)

1067 1053
when you SUBMITted a command file on cp/m, it would create $$$.sub on
the boot drive with the submit file stored backward and each line padded
to fill a 128-byte record. when cp/m started, it checked for $$$.sub.
if the file was there, it would read the last record into the command
line buffer, make the file one record shorter, then execute the command.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (sGtp+)

+++++++++++

Ah, okay. I never knew the process on CP/M (never used it much).


8" floppies. single sided, single density. the one true interchangeable disk format.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (sGtp+)

1068
Dad used to say he was "royally teed off."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (zBaqJ)

1069 using microfiche at the library in college.

Posted by: Howard Johnson, now with a laurel and hardy handshake at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (bFDrf)

1070 Passbooks from a bank.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (iuFgi)

1071 Al Goldstein's Interludes After Midnight on Manhattan Cable TV.[/]

And Robyn Bird's Bird Box. And Ugly George. I never subscribed, but they would unscramble just enough to be worthwhile.

God, life sucked before the internet.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (gd9RK)

1072 8" floppies. single sided, single density. the one true interchangeable disk format.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (sGtp+)
+++++++++++++=
Finding a drive anymore is probably a bitch and half, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (1qrtS)

1073 Company language:

MIK (More In Kitchen) vs. FHB (Family Hold Back)

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (SQ8xo)

1074 Crazy Eddie.

I think that fucking huckster died in jail.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (3BlqQ)

1075 Greenback Stamps

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (32YRo)

1076 Those ViewMaster stereopticon things for kids. I had one of those in the 80s.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (AzW6q)

1077 An expression I heard more than one old person use when I was little, in the early 1970s, was "We just don't kill enough people anymore." I didn't understand it back then.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (ldmQR)

1078
Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (pNxlR)

1079
'Hudson Terraplane...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (zBaqJ)

1080 @1021
I haven't thought about cp/m in years. Some of the first software I ever used was WordStar, SuperCalc & DBII.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (WvoAE)

1081 Information Operator.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (HG3Kb)

1082 5cents for bringing back a bottle.
Posted by: Ben H


10 cents for a 32 oz bottle. You were sitting in tall cotton when you found those. Because you could get two pieces of penny candy for an actual penny.
So a dime got you 20 pieces.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (yDqYW)

1083 Go-Karts and Mini-Bikes

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (qAR6u)

1084 Windows 95. Too new?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (bCLt0)

1085 The free clinic.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)

1086
Vanished like the dew in the morn

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (AzW6q)

1087 906
Wolfman Jack.

I know...my bad
Black Jack. My grandfather was a cop in Norfolk Va. in the 60's and worked the downtown sailor bars. He would come home from work and empty his pockets and gear on his dresser and would lay out three lead weighted black jacks, ankle snub nose SW .38cal and sidearm SW .38cal police revolver.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (BsCoj)

1088 1078
Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (pNxlR)


Bend, Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate opened for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Fillmore in '70.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (zBaqJ)

1089 Monkey Wards. That's what we kids called it.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (ECrgQ)
------------

K Mart

Came Apart

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (qC1Sy)

1090 OT but I cant seem to get a decent bottle of sweet vermouth in this entire state. I'm going to be forced to make a run to Vegas to Punt e mes and maybe an oz or two of charlie sheen bud. How can a man be expected to survive with decent fixings for a manhattan. Its barbaric I tell you.

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (Fxgkp)

1091 Zoot suits

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (Zz0t1)

1092 Windows 95. Too new?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (bCLt0)
+++++++++++
Too buggy. Upgrade that shit to WIndows 95 OSR2 and we'll talk.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (1qrtS)

1093 Wood crate of soda

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (WhTSP)

1094 Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM


A buddy had a tee shirt with this on it in college. I borrowed it for the first day of Judo class.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (axyOa)

1095 978
Film strips? Encyclopedia Britannica educational films?

At our school, only the coolest boys got to run the projector...


film strip machine in the library. you'd load the film and a cassette. when the cassette went *beep* the machine would advance to the next frame.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (sGtp+)

1096 "Oooh, look at Mr. Fancy with his disk drive."

That was for the Commodore 64, wasn't it? Disk drive with a serial connection = very very slow.

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (eAZVt)

1097 Gemco

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (ECrgQ)

1098
Beverages by Hammer and Hoffman Soda.

Joe Franklin!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (zBaqJ)

1099 those tall think bottles of pepsi in an 8 pack

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (Fxgkp)

1100 The original channel changers worked by sound and when you hit a button (there were only 2 or so) it hit a tuning fork and made a clunk sound which where the name "Clicker" came from
----------------------------------------------------
You could actually get the channel to change (sometimes) by sound of playing with a Slinkly.
Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:15 PM (JXKKq)

The first year I was in college, the guys in our shared suite chipped in for a television from a garage sale. We called it the "colors" tv because one of the guns was mostly gone and green was pink.

It had a sonic remote so a fun thing to do was jingle your keys as you left and it would hike the volume, change the channel and turn the thing off.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (eoQWY)

1101 Lot top Converse tennis shoes.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (axyOa)

1102 Unbiased Journalism

Posted by: evil_bun_bun at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (exs9M)

1103 The free clinic.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Charity Hospitals ( used to be a system of Charity hospitals in Louisiana) . That would be better than Obamacare.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (f4qXm)

1104
OK Cola

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (AzW6q)

1105 Yoo Hoo.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (Zz0t1)

1106 Pong

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (9m9TT)

1107 Tang.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (iuFgi)

1108 Do they even make Blaupunkt anymore?

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (DhSOy)

1109 Delay line memory

Posted by: fleenslipple at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (Tnijr)

1110 Tops Big Boy.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (bCLt0)

1111 1102 Unbiased Journalism
Posted by: evil_bun_bun at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (exs9M)


"That's a fairy story."

- - Yeti

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (zBaqJ)

1112 Product 19.

I still miss that cereal.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (iuFgi)

1113 Milk men

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (Zz0t1)

1114 That was for the Commodore 64, wasn't it? Disk drive with a serial connection = very very slow.
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (eAZVt)
++++++++++++
Brutally slow. Better than cassette tape, but even for the time it was slow. Commodore's implementation of disk drives was pretty brain-damaged and slow as hell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (1qrtS)

1115 I thought coonass was the most racist thing I'd ever heard when I first moved here

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (PcFxZ)

1116 Patriotic Democrat

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (PkFwF)

1117 SDS.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (bCLt0)

1118 Wood crate of soda
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (WhTSP)

with the soda in GLASS bottles.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (CqE5x)

1119 Lot top Converse tennis shoes.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (axyOa)

Chuck Taylor's

Adidas had

Stan Smith's

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (f4qXm)

1120 I miss my Evel Knievel wind up motorcycle jump set

Posted by: jsg at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (3e+AB)

1121
Card punches

Lunch cards used by your newspaper delivery boy (rarely, girl) to track your payments.

How to fold a newspaper so as to be able to throw it to your door from the sidewalk.

Newspaper carriers' delivery bags.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (pNxlR)

1122 1039 air hockey
___________

And Pong. Remember when that seemed like a really cool game? lol

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (k4dH2)

1123 A Lite Brite that would burn your fucking house down.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (3BlqQ)

1124 1112 Product 19.

I still miss that cereal.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (iuFgi)


Brown 25, from Uranus Corporation...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (zBaqJ)

1125 card catalog at the library

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (G546f)

1126 Do they even make Blaupunkt anymore?
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (DhSOy)
+++++++++++
Yes. How much money you got?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (1qrtS)

1127 The Commodore 64 disk drive was the size of a canoe.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (DhSOy)

1128 Had an Atari. But it wasn't the real Atari. It was the cheap Sears knock-off that had wood veneer.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (dmYb7)

1129 814: "i remember ace had a thread a few years back that topped 1,000..."

i can rememvber when an aoshq thread topping 100 was noteworthy.

Posted by: mjc at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (Pg+x7)

1130
Child-killing "slap bracelets"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (AzW6q)

1131 1072
8" floppies. single sided, single density. the one true interchangeable disk format.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (sGtp+)

+++++++++++++=

Finding a drive anymore is probably a bitch and half, though.


i have four in my storage shed. two attached to a machine that worked last time i power it on, about a decade ago. still have a couple boxes of floppies.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (sGtp+)

1132 Intellivision

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (Zz0t1)

1133 Milk men
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:39 PM (Zz0t1)
++++++++++
Daddy? Is that you?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (1qrtS)

1134 1058 Somebody else from San Jose here!
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (ujg0T)

Nah, Stockton. Armpit of California.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:35 PM (ECrgQ)



Now known as "New Oakland".

But lots of us now live "in exile" in the San Joaquin or Sacramento areas.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (ujg0T)

1135 At our school, only the coolest boys got to run the projector

In my experience that depended what year we're talking about.

Before middle school? Yep, you were cool.

Middle school and High School? You were an A/V geek.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (9t0Zz)

1136 "You have died of dysentery."

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (6ezlu)

1137 1126: Once my plumbing issues have been fixed, I won't have much. So they are still making Blaupunkt. Good to hear.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (DhSOy)

1138 1119 Lot top Converse tennis shoes.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (axyOa)

Chuck Taylor's

Adidas had

Stan Smith's
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (f4qXm)


Red suede Puma Clyde's. Mom wanted to kill me because the dye always came off and ruined my tube socks and most of her laundry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (zBaqJ)

1139 the worst breakfast/burger joint is in stockton. i took one look at the cook and split. eek.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (gYJGA)

1140 Lot top Converse tennis shoes.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (axyOa)

Chuck Taylor's

Adidas had

Stan Smith's

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM



Could only wear those in the gym to play basketball...the backboards were wood.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (axyOa)

1141 Moon cricket.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (ldmQR)

1142 nood peach'ment

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (l6b3d)

1143 That's mighty white of you"
Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (F7lRL)

I said that once while working as a waiter in a small town restaurant, run by 2 dykes. The owner bag looked at me and said it was RAYCISSSSSS!!!! I told her it was an old western movie reference referring to white hat wearing good guys vs. black hat wearing bad guys.

Sounded good to me and she bought it, so....

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM

-------------

Kudo's. *Tips white hat to you.*

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (Dhht7)

1144 Bold nood

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (ECrgQ)

1145 1128
Had an Atari. But it wasn't the real Atari. It was the cheap Sears knock-off that had wood veneer.

radio shack branded ti-57 calculator. crapped out on me in the middle of an accounting test. went to hp and never looked back.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (sGtp+)

1146 card catalog at the library
Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (G546f)

Dewey Decimal System for the win.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (f4qXm)

1147 1011
Thank god they still make plastic bread bags to put in our boots :/

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:32 PM (Fxgkp)
You could just buy galoshes. :-)

Posted by: Dusty at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (ucedS)

1148 But lots of us now live "in exile" in the San Joaquin or Sacramento areas.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (ujg0T)
---------------

*raises hand*

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (qC1Sy)

1149 OT but I cant seem to get a decent bottle of sweet vermouth in this entire state.

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (Fxgkp)

It's the End Times!

www.wine-searcher.com/

You can find someone who will ship it to you...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (wYseH)

1150 Tennis press.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (TdMsT)

1151 the sunday funny pages.

Posted by: mjc at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (Pg+x7)

1152 "BE HOME FOR SUPPER!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (Zz0t1)

1153 ine of my first jobs I had to use a time card and punch in and out

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (G546f)

1154 i have four in my storage shed. two attached to a machine that worked last time i power it on, about a decade ago. still have a couple boxes of floppies.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (sGtp+)
+++++++++++++
Nice. Wait for your local government to have a crisis when they can't access old records that some doofus deleted from the modern system. Then cash out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (1qrtS)

1155 Space Dust
Pop Rocks
Cap guns

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (lnyJN)

1156 1130
Child-killing "slap bracelets"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (AzW6q)


Click-Clacks! Those were deadly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (zBaqJ)

1157 Univac 1 mercury delay line memory. This thing is so cool. Looks like it came off a Dr Who set.
https://tinyurl.com/npnf3ap

Posted by: freaked at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (Tnijr)

1158 Neverwinter nights.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (9m9TT)

1159 >>Milk men
There's a dairy in Denver, Royal Crest, that still does deliveries! I had my milk, cream, cheese delivered up until I moved out of state.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (bDqIh)

1160

talk to a man about a horse
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 05:31 PM (d7Ww2)


nurse, are you sure you weren't at student at the UW in 1977?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (sy5kK)

1161 Wiping off the card for the Atari 2600 cartridge

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (WhTSP)

1162 Board Stretcher

To the new guy: "Hurry up boy and bring me a board stretcher"

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (BsCoj)

1163 Vietnam war POW/MIA bracelets.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (k4dH2)

1164 Tune in tomorrow

Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (uEbPt)

1165 Bionic.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (ldmQR)

1166 1102 Unbiased Journalism

Posted by: evil_bun_bun at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (exs9M)

What you seek has not been done since ages past, and then only in legend. Your request is not logical

Posted by: T'Lar at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (qAR6u)

1167 Windows 3.1 the first one that actually worked. Sorta.

Tape drives for data. Commodore, Radio Shack TRS-80

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (cEeb1)

1168 I remember Atomic Pills guaranteed to revitalize you and make you feel better.
That shit was dangerous!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (axyOa)

1169 HOORAY

This is even better than seeing my name in the phone book!

Man, phone books. I think I may still have in the trunk of my car. Really need to clean that out.

(Back before I got a smartphone, but after I first got a cellphone, it seemed like a good thing to have in an emergency. Never needed it.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (waFTo)

1170 "come play with my hairy legs"

Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (uEbPt)

1171 That was for the Commodore 64, wasn't it? Disk drive with a serial connection = very very slow.



Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (eAZVt)

When we'd go over to the house of family friends, we'd play Ghostbusters on their Commodore 64.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (6ezlu)

1172 Red suede Puma Clyde's. Mom wanted to kill me because the dye always came off and ruined my tube socks and most of her laundry.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:4

Never could afford. That's why I have two pair now.
Blue and Gray

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (f4qXm)

1173 1118
Wood crate of soda

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:38 PM (WhTSP)



with the soda in GLASS bottles.


and a big bin of bottles in the grocery store where you'd return them for reuse.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (sGtp+)

1174 huh teevee nooz talking about intermittent fasting
it's mainstream now, ace

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (G546f)

1175
Milkmen who delivered to your home from the local dairy. The insulated milk box outside your door.

Burning your trash out back in your yard.

Burning leaves in the fall.

Taking your trash to the city dump. An open dump.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (pNxlR)

1176 Streaking.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (iuFgi)

1177 1043
Milk bottle caps. No not the screw on things. A piece of heavy paper
wrapped around the lip of the bottle (glass) and with a piece of
cardboard with a tab to lift it out to seal out smells in the fridge.

And milk that came with the cream separated at the top.

------------------------
and the real small glass ones with cream for your coffee in restaurants

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (HIasT)

1178 1132 Intellivision
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (Zz0t1)


B-17 BombeRRRR

I just repaired mine last week

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (PcFxZ)

1179 Holley 4-barrel carb.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (9m9TT)

1180 Untanned anuses.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (ldmQR)

1181
Chuck Taylor's

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (pNxlR)

1182 Click-Clacks! Those were deadly.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (zBaqJ)

South American bolo weapon

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (f4qXm)

1183 Duck and cover.

Posted by: Infidel at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (/oG9s)

1184 Roll down the window

Posted by: DooDad at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (XT6Vl)

1185 paraquat

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (B+t5k)

1186 Home Movie Projector

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (qAR6u)

1187 Holley 4-barrel carb.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM


Sweet!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (axyOa)

1188 OK Boomers

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (oZ6kz)

1189
Buckle boots (boots with buckle fasteners)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (pNxlR)

1190
Big fat lady on the highway lady

Posted by: Me as a boy at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (LilNs)

1191 1200 comments?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (sy5kK)

1192 Big, fancy ashtrays in homes paired with lighters the size of soup cans. At least, that's how I remember my grandmother's home.

Posted by: FloridaMan at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (r28kI)

1193 nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers

Posted by: exliberal at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (pd+Xc)

1194 Microfilm and Microfiche

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (qAR6u)

1195 when you SUBMITted a command file on cp/m, it would create $$$.sub on the boot drive with the submit file stored backward and each line padded to fill a 128-byte record. when cp/m started, it checked for $$$.sub. if the file was there, it would read the last record into the command line buffer, make the file one record shorter, then execute the command.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:33 PM (sGtp+)
+++++++++++
Ah, okay. I never knew the process on CP/M (never used it much).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (1qrtS)


I worked with a guy that wrote an enhanced .sub file processor. He tested it by writing a submit file that played the entire Adventure game and won.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (aS1PU)

1196 and a big bin of bottles in the grocery store where you'd return them for reuse.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM (sGtp+)

Or you went to the local bottle depot.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (6ezlu)

1197 Merthiolate.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (ldmQR)

1198 Chuck Taylor's

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (pNxlR)

They're part of the Hipster-douchebag uniform in many parts of NYC

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (wYseH)

1199 I'm Tuckered

Posted by: DooDad at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (XT6Vl)

1200 Howard Johnson's restaurants

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (F7lRL)

1201 1188
OK Boomers
LOL

Bongo Board

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (BsCoj)

1202 Sweet!

With hooker headers and cherry bombs. Had them on my 72 CJ-5

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (9m9TT)

1203 1188 OK Boomers
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 05:44 PM (oZ6kz)

Suck it up -- we're still not done!

Posted by: FloridaMan at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (r28kI)

1204 Cross Your Heart Bra

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (qAR6u)

1205 Scrambled channels and hoping to glimpse some boobage

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (WhTSP)

1206 Being able to buy "airplane glue" without showing proof of age

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (F7lRL)

1207 Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (iuFgi)

1208 Moderate Democrat.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (ldmQR)

1209 COBOL

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (B+t5k)

1210 "Bleg: Does anyone have a link to Tucker Carlson's show from last night, specifically the segment about AEI being paid to flack for Purdue Pharma?"

I have no idea where to put this response, so I'll put it here.

YouTube has taken to sabotaging Tucker Carlson Tonight on its platform. You can find several people posting the show within an hour of broadcast, but after 24 hours you'll only find 1-second fakes, with the originals deleted.

This obviously must be done with the consent of YouTube. The only question is whether FoxNews asked them to do it, or did YouTube decide to do it themselves.

Posted by: Matt_SE at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (+WSKI)

1211 Growing up in a seaport, weather and ship terminology were common.

The wind is freshening: increasing
The glass is falling or rising: barometer
Listing to port or starboard: leaning or unsteady

I don't know if they have survived since I learned them 60 years ago.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (7EjX1)

1212 the worst breakfast/burger joint is in stockton. i took one look at the cook and split. eek.
Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 05:41 PM (gYJGA)

Can't blame you. I cried the last time I visited. I will never go back. Believe it or not, until the gangs moved in in the 80's, it was a nice place.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (ECrgQ)

1213 No Shirl, Shitlock!

Posted by: CtHillary, Dead but Dreaming... at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (JXKKq)

1214 The heavily waxed small square milk cartons with the corner tab in grammar school

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (HIasT)

1215
Ink blotters on writing desks

Making lanyards and key chains with plastic lacing.

Knock hockey.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (pNxlR)

1216 P.S. You might try on BitChute.

Posted by: Matt_SE at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (+WSKI)

1217 Quisp and Quake Cereal

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 05:47 PM (32YRo)

1218 "Can you hold the line?".... Merry Christmas!.... Carbon copies.... the run off machine (ditto machine)... skate keys... Calling long distance... I want my Maypo!...


Posted by: exliberal at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (pd+Xc)

1219 "Magic Fingers" bed

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (F7lRL)

1220
With hooker headers and cherry bombs. Had them on my 72 CJ-5

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM



I'm just a little bit excited right now

Koni shocks.
Positraction.

And don't forget the dice on the rear view mirror.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (axyOa)

1221 Yeah, I'd recommend using a YouTube video downloader to capture the Tucker show right when it's uploaded, because it'll get killed within a few hours.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (oZ6kz)

1222 Heath-Kit.

I think I mentioned before my buddy who dated a "Kit." He called her Heath-Kit, he said, because she was a hard to make and then not really worth the trouble.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (YqED9)

1223 Smear the queer.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (ldmQR)

1224 Drive-In Theaters

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (PcFxZ)

1225 Pet Rocks.
Pop Rocks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (iuFgi)

1226 dingle balls

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (B+t5k)

1227 1181
Chuck Taylor's
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:43 PM (pNxlR)

Did a lot of running in those thin-soled hlgh-top gym shoes. Forty miles a week. Plus basketball.

Posted by: FloridaMan at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (r28kI)

1228
Mercurochrome

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (pNxlR)

1229 My Mom used to say "You eat a peck of dirt in your life."

Anyone know what a "peck" is today?

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (T09ml)

1230 Pay TV (using quarters)

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (F7lRL)

1231
Hey ba ba reba

Dadeo

Whats shakin bacon

Posted by: Hipster at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (LilNs)

1232 candy cigarettes

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado) at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (l7Kbv)

1233 "Can you hold the line?".... Merry Christmas!....
Carbon copies.... the run off machine (ditto machine)... skate keys...
Calling long distance... I want my Maypo!...




Posted by: exliberal at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (pd+Xc)

Carbon copies reminds me of the "click-click" when your credit card was being manually swiped.

Posted by: Vendette at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (6ezlu)

1234 lighting drawing salve to make it drip like a candle

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (HIasT)

1235 promise rings

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 05:49 PM (B+t5k)

1236 "I love you, a bushel and a peck. A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck."

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (YqED9)

1237 "peck of dirt before you die"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (F7lRL)

1238 Who's old enough to remember when the moon landing and the earth being round weren't both hoaxes?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (PcFxZ)

1239 Two eggs, toast, butter, and jam -- 57 cents at Gossage Grill. Especially good at 2 in the morning.

Posted by: FloridaMan at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (r28kI)

1240 Clackers - never could get the hang of those damn things

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (32YRo)

1241 Barnswagle the dweendijle!
Posted by: fleenslipple at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (Tnijr)
........

quit stealing my shtick.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (v0R5T)

1242
Suicide knob on a vehicle's steering wheel

Super Balls

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (pNxlR)

1243 Ohh...Mood rings! I think they're still a thing.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (9m9TT)

1244 Those mechanical "crickets"

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (F7lRL)

1245 promise rings

Posted by: Jasper Moore

Mood rings!

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (32YRo)

1246
Mood rings

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (pNxlR)

1247 and mom would say

you got enuf dirt in your ears to grow potatos

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (HIasT)

1248 Big Tobacco

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (PcFxZ)

1249 Carob powder, "it tastes just like chocolate, really!"

Biggest lie of the 70s.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (ldmQR)

1250 "Mercury that dime before you put it in the coke machine"

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (BsCoj)

1251 Rat Fink

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (aS1PU)

1252 technicolor
panavision

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (G546f)

1253 A Whopper, small fries, small drink for $1.38

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (F7lRL)

1254 Shotgun Wedding

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:52 PM (qAR6u)

1255 and a pinch to grow an inch

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:52 PM (HIasT)

1256 Some variation on "The ______ Variety Hour."

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (ldmQR)

1257
I show my scouts a ring on my hand: "This is my mood ring. If I rap you on the head with it, then I'm in a bad mood."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (pNxlR)

1258 Heck, a bag of a dozen Krystal burgers for a buck. Normally 12 cents each!

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (YqED9)

1259 1036 Cal Worthington was running his ads with the jingle when I left L.A. 9 years ago
Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:34 PM (qAR6u)

If you need a brand new car go see Cal

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (RD7QR)

1260 Five & Dime Store.

Unless someone got that already.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (T09ml)

1261 Or maybe it was 10 for a buck...it's been a while.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (YqED9)

1262 1223 Smear the queer.
Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:48 PM (ldmQR)



I loved playing that.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:53 PM (TdMsT)

1263 A Whopper, small fries, small drink for $1.38
Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:51 PM (F7lRL)

The heavy glass mini mug of root beer at A and W, that you got to take home.

Eating off a car tray attached to your window.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (ECrgQ)

1264 "Rabbit ears" for the TV.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (ldmQR)

1265 Cheech and Chongs wedding album.

Posted by: Bosk at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (9m9TT)

1266 Do The Right Thing

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (F7lRL)

1267 "peck of dirt before you die"
Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (F7lRL)

++++





Posted by: TANSTAAFL at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (T09ml)

1268 "Drop a dime"

I still find myself reaching for that one.

Posted by: The Knave at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (zPHMM)

1269 Get Off My Lawn!

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (PcFxZ)

1270 "peck of dirt before you die"
Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2019 05:50 PM (F7lRL)

++++

HAH! I win!

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (T09ml)

1271 PeeChee folders.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (ldmQR)

1272 One term not obsolete in Florida;

Coupon clipping

And I always get stuck behind the old bags with expired coupons

Posted by: kbdabear at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (qAR6u)

1273
The little foil balls containing gunpowder that detonated when you threw them against a hard surface.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (pNxlR)

1274 Maypole - Then smear the queer

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (BsCoj)

1275 a pinch to grow an inch
Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:52 PM (HIasT)

And a sock to grow a block (And then you would punch them as hard as you could on the arm.)

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (ECrgQ)

1276 1208 Moderate Democrat.
Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 05:46 PM (ldmQR)


Thread winner, imho.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (TdMsT)

1277 At the movie theater:

"This is where I came in"

Posted by: Toad-O at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (cct0t)

1278 "come play with my hairy legs"
Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 05:42 PM


That's my line.

Posted by: Lena at December 06, 2019 05:56 PM (tdib5)

1279 Living high on the hog!

Posted by: Texicanette at December 06, 2019 05:56 PM (gou4q)

1280 Trapper Keeper.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:57 PM (TdMsT)

1281
Geraldine: The devil made me do it!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:58 PM (pNxlR)

1282 Sixfinger, Sixfinger, man alive!
How'd I ever get along with five?

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 05:58 PM (v0R5T)

1283 Just the tip?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 05:58 PM (PcFxZ)

1284 cap guns with the red rolls

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 05:58 PM (HIasT)

1285
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 05:59 PM (pNxlR)

1286 When I was in High School, Brother Gabe, sitting on a chair above me, said Fish, give me a weed. Momentarily panicked thinking I had weed, which I did. He wanted a cigarette from my shirt pocket

Posted by: fish...thelowercaseone at December 06, 2019 05:59 PM (WidQN)

1287 Sneakers.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 05:59 PM (TdMsT)

1288 1209
COBOL

DATABUS, DataPoint's business language.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 06:00 PM (sGtp+)

1289
Playing mumbletypeg with your pocketknife, during recess at school

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 06:00 PM (pNxlR)

1290 The Fish Channel!

Posted by: Texicanette at December 06, 2019 06:00 PM (gou4q)

1291 1273


The little foil balls containing gunpowder that detonated when you threw them against a hard surface.

Empty peanut shells. Greenie stickem caps - several piled together in the shell with a BB taped against the charge and tape the shell back together. We use to throw them against brick walls. SMACK!!

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 06:01 PM (BsCoj)

1292 No Malarky.

Surely that's been mentioned already, not reading 1000 comments

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 06:01 PM (PcFxZ)

1293
When "The Captain" referred to Captain Kangaroo, not the ambisexual leech, Billy Kristol.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 06:02 PM (pNxlR)

1294 Basic.

FORTRAN.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 06, 2019 06:02 PM (TdMsT)

1295 Lawn Darts.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 06:03 PM (BsCoj)

1296
Hollerith field

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2019 06:04 PM (pNxlR)

1297 Dumber than a bag of hammers
---
This, alas, never goes out of style. I love it. Also "About as sharp as a bag o' wet mice".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at December 06, 2019 06:05 PM (Dc2NZ)

1298 Air Raid sirens. Tested weekly: Wednesdays at 12 noon.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:06 PM (gP/Z3)

1299
Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah

Necking

Spooning

Bucko

Inspiration point

Taken from Happy Days site

Posted by: Hipsters old and older at December 06, 2019 06:06 PM (LilNs)

1300 Full Episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight from 12/5, including Purdue Pharma at 31:13

https://one-news.net/tucker-carlson-tonight-%e2%80%93-12519-fox-news/

Posted by: Matt_SE at December 06, 2019 06:07 PM (+WSKI)

1301 Central Charge it!

Posted by: mikey at December 06, 2019 06:09 PM (yLBLc)

1302 "176 I named my cats Bogie and Bacall.

No one under 35 that I told knew where that came from including my vet techs."

We have friends who named their kids Nick and Nora.

Posted by: Ben at December 06, 2019 06:10 PM (V5Nqj)

1303 Three on the tree with vacum assist.

Posted by: Panhandler at December 06, 2019 06:10 PM (S/rwf)

1304 Air Raid sirens. Tested weekly: Wednesdays at 12 noon.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:06 PM (gP/Z3)

Hiding under your desk at school during nuclear drills.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 06:11 PM (ECrgQ)

1305 punch kings !

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 06:11 PM (B+t5k)

1306 I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but there were also Gold Bond Stamps that we used to collect and put in books - then go dow to the store to pick something out. We used to get a wet washcloth and fold it up to wet them.

Also - getting cancelled checks in the mail with your bank statement and balancing your checkbook.

Christmas gift catalogs from Montgomery Wards' - JC Penney's and Sears.

Thanks for a great thread!

Posted by: misslurk'ette at December 06, 2019 06:12 PM (GDpRb)

1307 Hiding under your desk at school during nuclear drills.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 06:11 PM (ECrgQ)

Learning about "radioactive fallout" in science class!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:12 PM (gP/Z3)

1308 That and 10 cents will get you on the subway.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2019 06:13 PM (sGotD)

1309 Childcraft. Encyclopedia for the younger set.

Got the same 1963 model for my kid, so she could read the same poems with the same illustrations.

Posted by: Texicanette at December 06, 2019 06:13 PM (gou4q)

1310 One nation under God.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 06:14 PM (ldmQR)

1311 S & H Greenstamps!

Mom and Grandma would pool their resources, lol.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:14 PM (gP/Z3)

1312 Watching the submarine races.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2019 06:15 PM (7EjX1)

1313 Now I'm on a Sebastian Maniscalco tear. He's hilarious. Like he's one minor incident away from going full Terminator, such as flip-slops worn at the airport.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at December 06, 2019 06:15 PM (Dc2NZ)

1314 Wringer-style washing machines...

"She got her tit in a wringer."

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:16 PM (gP/Z3)

1315 Sears catalog, S&H Green Stamps
If you're in the DC area, Turn Signal

Posted by: billj at December 06, 2019 06:16 PM (yLBLc)

1316 Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2019 06:18 PM (sGotD)

1317 I inherited a set of golf clubs from my father that he got with S and H Greenstamps around 1960. I have probably the last persimmon head driver on the east coast.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2019 06:18 PM (7EjX1)

1318 Pass the clicker (television remotes used to click to change volume and channels). Yes I'm old. Get off my lawn!

Posted by: RedinaCommieState at December 06, 2019 06:19 PM (oHh3F)

1319 Faked your gourds. No results on internet searches I have done. My daughter asked if I made it up. I figured it was just local vernacular.
Maybe it was just in my school district.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at December 06, 2019 06:19 PM (99Cu9)

1320 Fine tuning
Vertical hold

Posted by: mikey at December 06, 2019 06:19 PM (yLBLc)

1321 Is the phrase "sound out the letters" still used or has it been replaced completely by reading methods that don't work.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2019 06:20 PM (7EjX1)

1322 Words that no long make sense: Little Green Footballs.

Posted by: Psmith at December 06, 2019 06:21 PM (1pWxV)

1323 Back in a jiffy

Posted by: Erik L at December 06, 2019 06:23 PM (fMlmZ)

1324 Phonics -------sounded out long and short vowels backwards and forwards - learned to spell that way......

Posted by: misslurk'ette at December 06, 2019 06:24 PM (GDpRb)

1325 That's a doozie (Duesenberg)

Posted by: Erik L at December 06, 2019 06:26 PM (fMlmZ)

1326 Sea monkeys.

Transistor radios.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 06:28 PM (ECrgQ)

1327 grass widow (divorcee)

Posted by: Texicanette at December 06, 2019 06:28 PM (gou4q)

1328 Quid Pro Quo

Posted by: portlandon at December 06, 2019 06:37 PM (+oR7L)

1329 Stingray bikes with the banana seat

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 06:37 PM (bEcYn)

1330 Make a collect call

Posted by: portlandon at December 06, 2019 06:38 PM (+oR7L)

1331 They live in *the projects*

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 06:39 PM (bEcYn)

1332
A Chicago overcoat

Posted by: portlandon at December 06, 2019 06:41 PM (+oR7L)

1333 This is cheating, but my Dad grew up on the 1920's and had gas lighting. He would say "turn down the lights".

Posted by: RedinaCommieState at December 06, 2019 06:41 PM (oHh3F)

1334 Cement overshoes

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:43 PM (gP/Z3)

1335 "If hindsight was foresight, we'd all have a herd of horses."

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 06:46 PM (gP/Z3)

1336 THIRD BASE !

Posted by: kactus at December 06, 2019 06:47 PM (bEcYn)

1337 Heard a guy say "gotta drain the weasel " just two days ago

Posted by: Lord Percy etc at December 06, 2019 06:48 PM (Uysai)

1338 Holiday Inn Hurley Wisconsin tv weather channel panning instruments, barely readable 1980

Posted by: Lord Percy etc at December 06, 2019 06:50 PM (Uysai)

1339 Crackerjack, and I don't mean the caramel popcorn.

Posted by: West at December 06, 2019 06:52 PM (QX5Sf)

1340 I'ma gonna hide on this thread until the polyamorous thread is gone. Ewww.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 06:52 PM (ECrgQ)

1341 Heard a guy say "gotta drain the weasel " just two days ago
Posted by: Lord Percy etc at December 06, 2019 06:48 PM (Uysai)

I always heard guys say, "Gotta drain the main vein."

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 06:53 PM (ECrgQ)

1342 Instead of the electric bill, it used to be pay the light bill.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2019 06:58 PM (7EjX1)

1343 "You win a kewpie doll"

Posted by: Erik L at December 06, 2019 06:59 PM (fMlmZ)

1344 Is the term 'candle power' still used? I can't recall the last time I heard it.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2019 06:59 PM (7EjX1)

1345 Candle power seems obsolete.

It's all about the *lumens* now, afaik.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 07:02 PM (gP/Z3)

1346 "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!"

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 07:03 PM (gP/Z3)

1347 "Got to talk to a man about a horse."

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 07:04 PM (gP/Z3)

1348 "Yo mama so fat, she wears a VCR for a beeper!"

When playing the Dozens, all the kids just look at you like a confused dog.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at December 06, 2019 07:17 PM (upfer)

1349 You remember "Stuck With You" by Huey Lewis & The News? Check out this lyric:

"We are bound by all the rest
Like the same phone number
All the same friends
And the same address"

At the time, it was romantic. Now it just seems creepy. What the hell, man, you aren't even letting her have her own cellphone? Oh, *bound*. Got it.

Posted by: SciVo at December 06, 2019 07:24 PM (7K1tb)

1350 You kids are just too young. Try: "A mile a minute," "ice box," "city slicker," "davenport," "no malarkey....oh, wait...

Posted by: John Casteel at December 06, 2019 07:26 PM (zgnwU)

1351 You must of got your license out of a cracker jack box.

Posted by: portlandon at December 06, 2019 07:37 PM (+oR7L)

1352 3 on the tree

Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 06, 2019 07:38 PM (377Zs)

1353 "I could only afford re-treads"

Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 06, 2019 07:39 PM (377Zs)

1354 "Yep, they were goin' to beat sixty around that corner and lucky to still be alive..."

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 07:42 PM (gP/Z3)

1355 Personal responsibility.

Posted by: larryw at December 06, 2019 07:47 PM (GOA/V)

1356 "Don't bogart that joint"

Posted by: JC. Just JC. at December 06, 2019 07:56 PM (377Zs)

1357 'I opened the wing window', when telling a story about cruising around town, when I was a teenager.

I stopped telling that one.

Posted by: The Knave at December 06, 2019 08:10 PM (zPHMM)

1358 Oh...

'Go out side and adjust the TV antenna."

Posted by: The Knave at December 06, 2019 08:10 PM (zPHMM)

1359 10PM Curfew

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 08:12 PM (gP/Z3)

1360 rabbit ears on the black and white
dungarees from the Sears catalog

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 06, 2019 08:23 PM (Ndje9)

1361 Sears' "Christmas Wish Book" I think they used to call it... was about 1/2 inch thick; mostly toys and games.

Heck, the regular Sears and JCP catalogs (published each Spring and Fall) were at least an inch thick. Barely fit into the mailbox.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 08:29 PM (gP/Z3)

1362 Record "album". In the old days of 78-RPM records, longish musical performances (such as a symphony) came in a set of records that were packaged in a set of sleeves in a binder, that closely resembled a photo album.I have several here, which I inherited from my grandmother. The term "album" continued to be used after the invention of long-play 33-1/3 RPM records around 1950, to distinguish LPs from 45-RPM single records. The term is rarely used nowadays, but I see it now and again.

Posted by: Brown Line at December 06, 2019 08:34 PM (S6ArX)

1363 Ace is "wicked pissa"

Posted by: Rich at December 06, 2019 08:38 PM (/Zade)

1364 Posted by: Brown Line at December 06, 2019 08:34 PM

I have several of those! Doris Day. Tommy Dorsey. Frank Sinatra...

Granddad loved 'em.

78 rpm, but I don't have a turntable what spins 78.... waaah!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 08:41 PM (gP/Z3)

1365 Dollars to doughnuts.

Have you priced doughnuts lately?




Man -- More than 1,000 comments?! I'd love to read this thread, and even more to have participated in it. Maybe if I skip sleeping. ...

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 06, 2019 08:45 PM (u/nim)

1366 Listening in to my older sister's phone conversations by carefully picking up the phone in another room and holding down the disconnector switch while unscrewing the mouth piece so as not to be heard breathing whilst eavesdropping. Also remember the 8 ft telephone cord which allowed one the freedom to walk around the house, or even step outside, while talking on the phone

Posted by: Patty at December 06, 2019 08:50 PM (YZchG)

1367 Can't resist ...

Roll down the window.

Rack the phone.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 06, 2019 08:55 PM (u/nim)

1368 Be kind, rewind? Hell I don't know. And yeah, that comedy routine about the doorbell it's because of those census jerks who think they are deputized to harass you. That's why! And then they say have a blessed day after you threaten them, worse than JW's! Omg.

Posted by: Stephanie at December 06, 2019 09:03 PM (eLvFT)

1369 treated like a dog (these days most dogs are treated very well)

Posted by: aDK46er at December 06, 2019 09:03 PM (Dk6GG)

1370 Penny for your thoughts.

Shit or Shinola.

Posted by: Stan at December 06, 2019 09:32 PM (o0atJ)

1371 Be kind, rewind.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 09:34 PM (TLxpZ)

1372 Congrats everybody, we just gave Amy Schumer material for a new 90 minute special.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 09:36 PM (TLxpZ)

1373 Polaroid instant-photo cameras... black 'n' white.

Later, the SEX SX70 Land Camera... COLOR, FTW!

And you didn't have to peel them apart, just snap & lay the blank pic on the table for a minute while it self-develops.

Magic!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2019 09:38 PM (gP/Z3)

1374 Living in sin.

Kenner Give-a-Show Projecter. (cardboard frame with seven slide photos; operator moved the slide by hand)

In addition to reading the encyclopedia, I would stack the volumes to build tunnels for Matchbox cars and solid plastic action figures (astronauts and soldiers).

Try doing that with a computer.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 06, 2019 10:22 PM (u/nim)

1375 Change your record! In other words check your attitude.

Posted by: Kiminvancouver at December 07, 2019 12:02 AM (W5QmC)

1376 We had a party line when I was growing up lol. Also, I am 50 and I have a 14 y/o, told her the other day "let them stew in their own juices" and she looked at me like I was crazy lol. And she is no stranger to old jargon, plays chess and listens to swing. I remember the 3 channels and 1 channel that played cartoons on saturdays, 34? Chicagoland area. Bozo's big top! My mom's dad (grandpa louie) was in a Victory at Sea episode and my dad taped it on a super 8, that he sat in front of the TV to capture it, must have been 1973? He was an engineer and into technology even back then and into today lol. Love the thread, neat to see all of the nostalgia! Thanks Ace! Nice break from the politics!

Posted by: isolden at December 07, 2019 01:02 AM (z0De4)

1377 Party Line

1) A shared phone line
2) A political party's common theme
3) P!nk's connection

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at December 07, 2019 01:14 AM (EMi53)

1378 I remember as kids when a friend did something that you didnt like or appreciate they would say "It' a free country" and we would all just nod our heads and think "yeah i guess you got us on that" and then just live with it haha...

Posted by: Crookedrecords at December 07, 2019 01:48 PM (scUEr)

1379 That field would mire a pissant with muckshoes on.

Posted by: John at December 07, 2019 08:26 PM (9BOwi)

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