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07/10/2011 08:38:14 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by PapaBob:
You go to a wedding and they have you dance until they call the number of years you have been married before you can sit down and you lose to the couples married over 50 years |
Good grief, they make the 50-year-olds stick it out until "last!"
That's one way to winnow out the old folks.
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07/10/2011 08:56:22 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by Revecca:
I'm not old, but I think a good one would be actually knowing someone's phone number! When I was younger, I used to know all my family member's phone numbers off the top of my head, as well as most of my friends (if not all), now, most people barely know their own phone number! (no joke here, I've had people go through their phone to find their number) |
I still know my numbers...my whole family calls me for phone numbers...lol |
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07/10/2011 09:27:20 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by supanova:
... Planet Of The Apes, etc...AND you then go on to say "it's not as good as the original" |
Exactly what I said, and then I bought  Isaac a copy of the original. |
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07/10/2011 09:36:53 PM · #54 |
| When I was in high school, we used the Slide Rule for our math and chemistry classes. Seriously. |
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07/10/2011 09:46:24 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Originally posted by PapaBob:
You go to a wedding and they have you dance until they call the number of years you have been married before you can sit down and you lose to the couples married over 50 years |
Good grief, they make the 50-year-olds stick it out until "last!"
That's one way to winnow out the old folks. |
Actually the winners were married over 50 years and in their 70's and 80's, we were 3rd only being married 35 years, got beat by my inlaws and another couple who had been married almost 60 years, they were still cutting a pretty good rug (for you youngsters that's a term for dancing.) |
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07/10/2011 09:47:47 PM · #56 |
| Cars did not have cup holders but did have cigarette lighters |
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07/10/2011 10:16:36 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by PapaBob:
Cars did not have cup holders but did have cigarette lighters |
Not only did they have cigarette lighters, but there were no seat belts, air bags, some only had AM radio..unless you were lucky to have the fancy radio that had AM and FM. If you were REALLY lucky you had an 8-track player as well. LOL.
Oh, let's not forget that if you had an automatic transmission it wasn't down on the center console, but on the steering wheel, AND remember turning on the high beams with the button on the floor board with your foot. None of that was where it is now. |
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07/10/2011 10:45:42 PM · #58 |
You know you're getting old when the 'getting old points' raised by  Ja-9 make it sound like she could be one of your kids.
Or when you relate to your granddaughters (as I did the other day) reminiscences of watching TV for the first time - a sneaked peek through the hinge-crack of the door of the local farmer's where my friend and I walked every Saturday to get our week's supply of eggs. (I was 7 and it was 10 years before we got one.)
Or when you can remember collecting wood chips for a bath (once a week, Saturday night, coz we had to be clean for church next morning).
Hiding in a closet all Sunday afternoon coz I giggled in church and I was going to cop a strapping.
Knowing that if ANY adult had a problem with my behavior their version of events would carry the weight, and I would cop a strapping.
But, it wasn't all bad and not all change is progress. I often feel that my grandkids are deprived. They can't make their own fun like we used to. They aren't free to roam ('just be home before dark') as we were, and they don't have the same incentive to be creative as we had. They also get so much stuff that they value nothing, and that's a little bit sad.
Message edited by author 2011-07-10 22:47:36.
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07/10/2011 10:53:27 PM · #59 |
You make a joke in a meeting about Frank Burns, and virtually everyone thinks he is the character from the Simpsons.
(true story).
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07/10/2011 10:54:37 PM · #60 |
| When you go to enroll a student in the Adult Education program you teach in, only to discover that you taught his/her mother/father when they were in school. :/ |
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07/10/2011 10:57:13 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by Nobody:
You make a joke in a meeting about Frank Burns, and virtually everyone thinks he is the character from the Simpsons.
(true story). |
i know im getting old because it took me a minute to think of who ELSE frank burns is beside...well frank burns |
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07/10/2011 11:13:44 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:
Originally posted by PapaBob:
Cars did not have cup holders but did have cigarette lighters |
... some only had AM radio..unless you were lucky to have the fancy radio that had AM and FM |
Unless you were waaay crazy and drove an MG or Porsche. With either a Telefunken or Blaupunkt installed with short wave.
Eat your hearts out, kids, hehheh...
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07/10/2011 11:29:19 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by Nobody:
You make a joke in a meeting about Frank Burns, and virtually everyone thinks he is the character from the Simpsons.
(true story). |
Yeah, the ONLY Frank Burns I know of is the numbskull...Major Frank Burns from M*A*S*H. That makes me old enough so I'm hoping I'm not forgetting another one. LOL.
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07/10/2011 11:29:19 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by Nobody:
You make a joke in a meeting about Frank Burns, and virtually everyone thinks he is the character from the Simpsons.
(true story). |
Yeah, the ONLY Frank Burns I know of is the numbskull...Major Frank Burns from M*A*S*H. That makes me old enough so I'm hoping I'm not forgetting another one. LOL.
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07/10/2011 11:41:28 PM · #65 |
You get invited to school reunions!
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07/10/2011 11:47:25 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by supanova:
You get invited to school reunions! |
Yeah..tell me about it. My 30 year reunion is next month. Damn, where did all those years go! |
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07/10/2011 11:49:49 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by PapaBob:
Cars did not have cup holders but did have cigarette lighters |
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:
... some only had AM radio..unless you were lucky to have the fancy radio that had AM and FM |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Unless you were waaay crazy and drove an MG or Porsche. With either a Telefunken or Blaupunkt installed with short wave.
Eat your hearts out, kids, hehheh... |
The operative word being "Installed"......they were optional.....and on t5he MG, so was a heater.
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07/10/2011 11:53:44 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:
Oh, let's not forget that if you had an automatic transmission it wasn't down on the center console, but on the steering wheel, AND remember turning on the high beams with the button on the floor board with your foot. None of that was where it is now. |
The first car I owned had a starter button separate from the ignition on/off switch, and when the starter motor stopped working I could still start it with the crank ... |
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07/11/2011 01:48:39 AM · #69 |
| First "car" I drove (and learned on) had no syncro.... I'm now old enough to think everyone should learn like that.... as people would be better drivers (or they would have had their gear change arms ripped off and not be driving any more :-) ). |
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07/11/2011 06:12:28 AM · #70 |
Originally posted by robs:
First "car" I drove (and learned on) had no syncro.... I'm now old enough to think everyone should learn like that.... as people would be better drivers (or they would have had their gear change arms ripped off and not be driving any more :-) ). |
When I learned to drive, before synchronizers, an understanding of "double clutch" was essential to avoid "grinding the gears". |
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07/11/2011 07:12:35 AM · #71 |
| Well, while we're on this subject, how old does the fact that Sebastien Vettel was born in the same year that (insert 1987 film of your choice here, eg: Lethal Weapon, Predator, Raising Arizona, Robocop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Withnail & I...) was released make you feel? |
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07/11/2011 07:27:29 AM · #72 |
If my grandfather was still here, he would tell you that to get his first driver's license... he had to swear on a bible he could drive.
The car? A White Steamer. A steam powered bus he drove people to the train station and back to town with. I think he traded a team of two horses for it... Thems was the days! |
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07/11/2011 07:28:39 AM · #73 |
Originally posted by jimness:
Well, while we're on this subject, how old does the fact that Sebastien Vettel was born in the same year that (insert 1987 film of your choice here, eg: Lethal Weapon, Predator, Raising Arizona, Robocop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Withnail & I...) was released make you feel? |
Not as bad as having to google Sebastien Vettel.... |
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07/11/2011 10:55:38 AM · #74 |
Originally posted by jimness:
Well, while we're on this subject, how old does the fact that Sebastien Vettel was born in the same year that (insert 1987 film of your choice here, eg: Lethal Weapon, Predator, Raising Arizona, Robocop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Withnail & I...) was released make you feel? |
Yeah he is on a roll hey (although needed some help Sun).... I feel about as old as Schumacher.... wait... I'm just a tad older then he is... no wonder I feel OLD :-) |
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