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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com | 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.Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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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) 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) 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) 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
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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) 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
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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) 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) 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 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) Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 04:43 PM (1CjJc) 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 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) 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) 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)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing 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) 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) 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 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
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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
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-- 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) Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 06, 2019 04:47 PM (7s3Gx) 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: Priapism at December 06, 2019 04:48 PM (2cfUo) 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) 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 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) Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 04:49 PM (BsCoj) 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) 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) 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) 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
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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 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) 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) 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
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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
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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) 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) Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 04:52 PM (1g7ch) 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
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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
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-- 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) 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) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 04:54 PM (zBaqJ) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:04 PM (zBaqJ) 496
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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) Posted by: Max Power at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (q177U) Posted by: DaveA at December 06, 2019 05:05 PM (FhXTo) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (sGtp+) 540
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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) 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 552
Reel to reel!
Posted by: amy schumer at December 06, 2019 05:07 PM (Dh1wo) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: Dusty at December 06, 2019 05:14 PM (ucedS) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 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) Posted by: Bryan Adams at December 06, 2019 05:20 PM (NWiLs) 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) 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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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 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) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 05:25 PM (zBaqJ) 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 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) 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) 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) 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.
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:29 PM (lnyJN) 954
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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) 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) Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 05:30 PM (lnyJN) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: Wenda (sic) at December 06, 2019 05:36 PM (SQ8xo) 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 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) 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) 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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 06, 2019 05:45 PM (BsCoj) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Posted by: TANSTAAFL at December 06, 2019 05:54 PM (T09ml) 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) Posted by: Toad-O at December 06, 2019 05:55 PM (cct0t) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 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) 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.
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