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Cartoons were on Saturday mornings only.

You don't even remember when you made the compromise and went from

Rock and Roll all night

to

Part of every day.

..recently, a local sportscaster commented on the cost of outfitting kids for hockey season..

..he showed an example of a hockey stick.. $279.00..

..excuse me????????????????????

HOW MUCH MONEY?????????

..what planet am I on??? and what year is it??????

when did I get so old????

smy

.he showed an example of a hockey stick.. $279.00

Holy shit! I outfitted my brother in 1975 for $55.00

When your folks didn't want you to wear out the color television with Saturday morning cartoons, so the first few years of your life, you thought Scooby Doo was grey.

Sal, I can so identify with #1-5 and #7. But #4, well my 50th is next year so I'm more than halfway there. Holy crap, when did I get so close to half a century?

And I too have seen fashion trends come around again, like tie-dye and bell-bottoms. Remember those?

Also, you may be getting old if you remember "Valleyspeak".That was, like, totally radical, dude.

When your folks didn't want you to wear out the color television with Saturday morning cartoons, so the first few years of your life, you thought Scooby Doo was grey.

You've seen clothing fads come back around... twice.

I'm still young then, I've only seen togas come around once.

The 90s seem very recent.

I still refer to things that happen in the 90's as... Just the other day...

5th graders were born after 9/11

Wow. That's sobering.

The rest of this thread is funny as hell, though!!!

You may be getting old when .... you are singing to yourself in the shower and you bust out with a tune from Schoolhouse Rock.

An "all-nighter" means you don't have to get up to pee.

Was at the pub last night with a young friend from my history class (she is *22*, whip-smart and adorable).

Her eyes got bigger and bigger when I told her abut my two years in a log cabin with no toilet, water, phone, TV, wi-fi or power.

I did have a transistor radio that picked up a signal from Spokane at night if the wind was right... Heard Linda Ronstadt singing Blue Bayou on it for the first time and remember being blown away by that song.

We had to truck water down from the creek in giant jugs on a toboggan and cook on a huge old wood stove from 1890-something.

We had a sauna and a cellar full of apple cider from the orchard that we juiced with a hand-cranked cider press.

We had a lot of parties and played music all the time. With instruments.

Best two years of my life.

She said "You were a hippie, weren't you?"

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go catch up on some Frasier reruns....

[This message edited by FaithFool at 9:36 PM, September 5th (Thursday)]

When you think of the sock hop dances they had in the eighties, and then you realize we are as far from the eighties now as the eighties were from the sock hop era.

And also when you're talking to your kids about going to see the new smurfs movie and you mention you haven't seen the first one much to their shock and dismay. So you say the only smurfs you're familiar with is the ones from the cartoon you watched when you were a kid. DD asks, "In black and white?"

I was born in 79 people!

You still watch Golden Girls and can now really understand what they are saying.

You can't remember the last time you heard Air Supply on the radio.

Sigh, yes, I may have imbibed 1 or two, but I got up to go change the channel!

A new vacuum at 40 is equal to a pony at 10.

I'm with unfound on that one!

...not to mention how excited you get over a new roof at 40+ ...kind of equivalent to your first car?

What consistently makes me feel like I may be getting "old" (beyond the mirror & you know, pain) is I'm blown away by computer memory. I feel like Dr. Evil waking up to mind-boggling changes.

Two weeks ago I picked up a new external hard drive for $59.99. A 1 TB HD.!!!

I still remember upgrading the RAM in our first computer. I got 1 MB for $100.

I work with people (near adulthood people) who were born after 2Pac died.

"I'll even learn to play canasta or whatever it is your generation does."

Um ... hey Razzy we climb mountains, go on safaris, travel to distant lands, explore wilderness and rule the world.

While you guys are on Facebook.

Questions?

[This message edited by TrulyReconciled at 8:36 AM, September 6th (Friday)]

Every manager of fast food restaurants and retail stores appears to be 16 years old. My SO and I often shake our heads and say, "OMG - teenagers are running the world!"

And all those kids need to STAY OFF MY LAWN!

NL

- You remember Pong, Astroids, and Defender.

- Couldn't play video games all day cause they were $0.25 a pop!

- Muscle cars didn't have air conditioning and gas mileage was single digit.

- 7-11 stores were open from 7 to 11! Nothing was open 24 hours.

- If you were going to the bathroom you did not answer the phone.