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things this generation will never experience
Jun 15, 2014, 1:21 AM
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1. Car Keys, you know, the ones you put in the key hole and turned to unlock your car. and if you locked them in you had to get a coat hanger to get them out.
2. Books, Those thick heavy things with paper
3. VHS, The hastle of rewinding a tape to watch a funny scene again.
4. *69, that thing you did to find out who was stalking you
6. taking a huge chuck out of bubble tape
7. The thrill of walking into class and seeing the TV set up, knowing you were watching a movie that day
8. Metal slides that burned the ever living #### out of you.
9. Those Boston pencil sharpeners, AKA "the knuckle buster"
10. The thrill of your parents finally buying you that Coleco football game.
I could go on forever, so feel free to add to the list.
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Mixed tapes***
Jun 15, 2014, 6:48 AM
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Lot o points [181005]
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Under $3/gallon gasoline.***
Jun 15, 2014, 7:06 AM
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All-In [38925]
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or being able to buy a candy bar and small coke for .25***
Jun 15, 2014, 7:52 AM
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CU Medallion [53797]
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A coke and a pack of square cheese for 15 cents!!!I***
Jun 15, 2014, 7:14 PM
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All-In [38925]
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You sound old, are you old?
Jun 15, 2014, 7:37 PM
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winky
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CU Medallion [66085]
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sounds like a finely aged cheedar
Jun 15, 2014, 8:03 PM
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AGED
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Lot o points [163012]
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Got some ones that you younger folk have never done
Jun 15, 2014, 7:45 AM
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Roll up your windows - actually turn a crank and roll them up.
Use a silver button on the floor board to hit your bright lines on and off.
Get in a car without seat belts.
Gas tanks that filled up behind the license tag - yea, it flipped down for access.
Get up and change a channel by turning a dial - and tuning in your antenna on your roof.
Room air conditioners. We had one room in my house as a kid that had an air-conditioner - we did have an attic fan - and you don't see those any more either.
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Heisman Winner [105622]
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One of my dad't old trucks had the dimmer on the floorboard
Jun 15, 2014, 7:47 AM
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and my 73 VW Superbeetle had the roll-up windows. I dont think I have filled up a tank from behind.....I mean gas in a car.
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Orange Blooded [2429]
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Re: One of my dad't old trucks had the dimmer on the floorboard
Jun 15, 2014, 7:39 PM
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I remember some old Chevy trucks had the starter on the floor board, in the middle of the hump right beside the gas peddle.
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Lot o points [163012]
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Party lines.***
Jun 15, 2014, 8:34 AM
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and only dialing 4 numbers to make a call***
Jun 15, 2014, 8:38 AM
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Re: Panty lines.******
Jun 15, 2014, 8:38 AM
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Oculus Spirit [75725]
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Blowing into a Nintendo game to try and get it to work.***
Jun 15, 2014, 7:55 AM
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Ya gotta lick it, too, newb***
Jun 15, 2014, 9:49 AM
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Heisman Winner [105622]
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TWSS***
Jun 15, 2014, 11:14 AM
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privacy....
Jun 15, 2014, 8:55 AM
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those old wooden shoe-shine boxes (Does anybody except me still shine their shoes?).
the simple joy of reading the Sunday newspaper.
getting film developed and the anticipation of seeing how the pictures "turned out".
taking the TV to the shop (or toaster, washing machine, record player, or any appliance). Now we just toss and buy a new one.
listening to a Clemson football game on the radio because it's not on TV.
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Having to de-frost a refrigerator
Jun 15, 2014, 9:06 AM
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and Microwaves with turn dial timers that were very big
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Heisman Winner [105622]
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Turn it past 30, then back to 10....my grandparents worked
Jun 15, 2014, 9:10 AM
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that way.
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110%er [6084]
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I shine my dress shoes***
Jun 15, 2014, 11:51 AM
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CU Medallion [53797]
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Do you want me to post a pic of mine....And you are right.
Jun 15, 2014, 7:18 PM
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Men today seem like they never heard of shoe polish. There is a guy in my Sunday School class that has a pair of Weejuns that haven't seen polish since the Baltimore Colts won the Super Bowl.
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CU Medallion [60234]
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I enjoy shining shoes
Jun 15, 2014, 7:33 PM
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I work on a pair once or twice a week at night watching TV, just to pass the time. Nothing like a clean, spotless pair of boots. (MY boots, I am not for rent or sale).
I have one of those old Kiwi wood boxes I inherited from my dad. It HAS to be 50 years old or older. Looks like this:
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Re: things this generation will never experience
Jun 15, 2014, 9:10 AM
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The TV repair guy coming in with a satchel full of vacuum tubes each in their own little box.
TV repair guys coming to your house at all.
Only three TV channels. CBS, NBC, ABC
Only one baseball game televised all week... usually the Yankees.
Using discarded blocks of wood from a construction site as toys.
Wool baseball uniforms. SO HOT!!
Sanitaries and stirrups... baseball socks for you who don't know.
Riding your bike to the Friday night football game, leaving it outside the gate leaning against the fence, and nobody touching it.
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Investigative reporters with 'real' news....***
Jun 15, 2014, 9:11 AM
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CU Medallion [53797]
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Yep.Where is the Bob Woodward of today...........***
Jun 15, 2014, 7:19 PM
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TV "remote" with the wire
Jun 15, 2014, 9:28 AM
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Transistor radios in mono with the ear plug (to listen to the Braves game after you were supposed to be asleep)
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Writing and snail-mailing a letter, then waiting 2-3 weeks
Jun 15, 2014, 9:33 AM
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for the response.
Going to a movie theater and watching a movie where everyone is quiet and respectful.
Going to the bank to cash a paycheck, and having to keep out enough actual cash to last until the next one.
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Getting your peen stuck in a hot tub***
Jun 15, 2014, 9:34 AM
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hahaha, so tru......uh, I mean what do you mean ?
Jun 15, 2014, 7:06 PM
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never heard of that...
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slavery***
Jun 15, 2014, 9:40 AM
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Rock & Roll***
Jun 15, 2014, 9:40 AM
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tape drives and floppy disks, people smoking in the grocery
Jun 15, 2014, 9:42 AM
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store(this is a good one), that enormous paddle that Coach Henderson kept on his desk, phone books and rolodexes, irritating modem sounds, silver bullets to steal cable, chalk boards.......
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CU Medallion [60234]
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my principal had a boat paddle with 1" holes drilled in it
Jun 15, 2014, 11:51 AM
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it whistled when he swung it.
And left a polka-dot pattern on your @ss.
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Hand writing Thank You notes***
Jun 15, 2014, 10:02 AM
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I make my youngster do that***
Jun 15, 2014, 10:08 AM
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Im fairly young
Jun 15, 2014, 11:53 AM
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and I still do it. That is just common courtesy
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Re: things this generation will never experience
Jun 15, 2014, 10:50 AM
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Pogo balls
jams
cruising the strip at MYB
real country music
black and white tv
cursive
calculus
phone books
paper maps
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calculus?
Jun 15, 2014, 12:14 PM
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I hope the need for engineers and scientist doesn't go away
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110%er [5330]
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Pretty sure I saw an app on Google Play Store the other day
Jun 15, 2014, 12:36 PM
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that does this
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Sorry...meant high school calculus***
Jun 15, 2014, 5:12 PM
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Anyone remember the Entertech waterguns from the 80s?
Jun 15, 2014, 1:06 PM
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Looked so real had to take em off the market or put an orange cap on front? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AptSFvyqG6s These things were the shiznit! I had an UZI and a .45.
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The UZI I had!
Jun 15, 2014, 1:08 PM
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 Man I'd like to have this bad boy back!
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Oculus Spirit [75725]
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I had one of those. Seems crazy now.***
Jun 15, 2014, 2:35 PM
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No TV when I was in school
Jun 15, 2014, 7:37 PM
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It was the presence of a 16 mm projector and screen.
Also I doubt that anyone will be buying the "replacement" erasers that you used after you wore the one on the pencil down flat. Usually with the pencil still six inches long.
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