When I Was Your Age....

[Jester]

And how much for the typewriter?

If you're serious, give me a call. You have my number. We'll talk.

For those of you too young to remember, marijuana used to have seeds.

I am pretty sure it still does have seeds!

bottles of coke from coke machine (glass bottles) 25 cents

Ah yes. I vaguely remember glass bottles of soda. And not just from vending machines, but ALL soda was sold in glass bottles. Yes, kids, even the two liter size! I remember when I was about 6 or 7 (late Seventies) the novel idea of plastic soda bottles. I still remember the commercials of the woman coming home from the grocery store, braking suddenly, and the two liter soda bottles bouncing around (in slow motion, of course) the back of her station wagon (remember station wagons?) and not breaking. This was heady stuff!

By the way, anyone else remember the ill-fated attempt by the soda companies to sell THREE liter bottles of soda? I seem to recall that that was early to mid-Eighties....

So many memories and not enough time...ahhh the good old days!!!!

"The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems!" --Billy Joel.

My parents had Bill Cosby (among many others). My first exposure to the Chocolate Cake for Breakfast bit was on vinyl.

My first exposure to comedy was on vinyl. Bill Cosby's second album ("I Started Out as a Child"), Allan Sherman (anyone else remember him? The Weird Al Yankovic of the Sixties, though of course I heard him in the Seventies), and Bob Newhart (rather funny standup, believe it or not).

[smileyeagle1021]

I was born in 1970.

completely off topic... but damn, you don't look anywhere near 39... I wouldn't have guessed more than early 30s.

anyway...

[Jester]

I KNOW I don't look my age. I've said this before on these boards. (And thanks, by the way!)

And I'm NOT 39, damn it. At least not for another day!

Amusingly, Nurse Betty is just a few months younger than me, but she looks MUCH younger. I still get carded occasionally. She still gets carded often.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Ah yes. I vaguely remember glass bottles of soda. And not just from vending machines, but ALL soda was sold in glass bottles. Yes, kids, even the two liter size! I remember when I was about 6 or 7 (late Seventies) the novel idea of plastic soda bottles. I still remember the commercials of the woman coming home from the grocery store, braking suddenly, and the two liter soda bottles bouncing around (in slow motion, of course) the back of her station wagon (remember station wagons?) and not breaking. This was heady stuff!

By the way, anyone else remember the ill-fated attempt by the soda companies to sell THREE liter bottles of soda? I seem to recall that that was early to mid-Eighties....

I remember 3 liters.

There's a story from when my brother was very young; I don't think I was born yet so somewhere between March 1973 and October 1975. My parents were awakened in the middle of the night by a loud crashing sound, and went to the kitchen to investigate. A bottle of soda that had been left on the table had exploded all over the place.

[Jester]

Back on topic.....I remember when yogurt and sushi were both considered foreign, exotic, and fringe foods.

[Becks]

By the way, anyone else remember the ill-fated attempt by the soda companies to sell THREE liter bottles of soda?

Ah...three liters. Used to buy them all the time when I was in middle school, up to midway through sophomore year.

[Greenday]

I really like this thread. I feel young again. I wasn't alive for the majority of the stuff mentioned here. Mwahahahaha.

[Jester]

I really like this thread. I feel young again. I wasn't alive for the majority of the stuff mentioned here. Mwahahahaha.

Keep up with that young smug arrogance, and you might not be alive to experience the time when you can use the "when I was your age" line to younger podlings....

[Boggles]

In my shop we do still sell glass bottles of fizzy pop. Complete with the 10p deposit when you return the bottle!

I was born in '81. i remember when we went to the supermarket, dad had to go to the service desk to get his cheque authorised before he could use it to pay for stuff. And I remember when ASDA (now Walmart) first started accepting credit cards.

We had proper vinyl 45's. I remember Grandad taking me to town to buy "Do The Bartman" by Bart Simpson. the first 45 i ever bought.

My dad worked in IT and so we always had some form of home computer around. An old BBC Micro with programs on a cassette which used to make this horrible "EEEE OOOOOOOOOOO" noise as it loaded. Or when we got an Atari ST and we had to go buy a memory upgrade from 512k to 1meg. And then solder the chip on ourselves. I remember teaching myself BASIC on a (then state of the art) 286 using the "Bytes Brothers" books. I remember when computer magazines had floppy discs on the front and we connected to compuserve with our 28.8k modem.

I remember non uniform days at school when everyone wore a Global hypercolour t-shirt.

I remember when you could ring up to enter competitions on saturday morning tv but only if you had a touch tone phone. We didn;t have one until years later but I still remember that you rang "01 811 8055" to get through to Going Live on the BBC.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I really like this thread. I feel young again. I wasn't alive for the majority of the stuff mentioned here. Mwahahahaha.

Better watch it, boy...I know where you live...

[crazylegs]

The computer screens were all green (or orange) text on a black background and you had to type in commands to get it to do anything.

Bet you wouldn't belive me if I tell you that at work I use a system that operates on that very basis.

That program is the main system we use at work, it has everybodies rosters on it, who is attached to what job, who is free, information at various locations and people etc etc etc.

It's a pig to use!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Bet you wouldn't belive me if I tell you that at work I use a system that operates on that very basis.

Actually, so do I. You can change the colors, though.
When I first started at B&N the computer system was orange on black.

[crazylegs]

Actually, so do I. You can change the colors, though.

Show off!

Ours is finally getting replaced.

Next year.

I don't envy the training dept. having to make sure that everyone can use the new system in time.

[AdminAssistant]

I don't remember 3-liters but I do remember when Pepsi switched to the funny cone-shaped bottles with the extra-wide opening....bizarre.

I remember...

....rushing home after school to catch Most Wanted Jams on MTV (hosted by Bill Bellamy) or Pop-Up Video on VH1.

....when the duet with Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men came out, and it was HUGE.

...buying "yourself or something like you" by matchbox 20 when it FIRST came out (still listen to that CD all the time)

....when my sister got a boombox with a CD player in it in...1991, I believe. And the CD's came in looooong boxes.

....when Jennifer Lopez was the girl that played Selena.

....getting a SNES for my 9th birthday, along with a tiny 8" color tv, and I could play Nintendo IN MY ROOM!! This was huge. That the reason Super Mario World was so cool was because you could fly and you could ride Yoshi. Spending hours playing Donkey Kong.

....all of the buildup to the N64 release. Being completely disoriented when I first started playing because of the 3D perspective. Being completely disappointed at how easy it was to beat Bowser (seriously, he is the easiest villain to beat, EVER. Hop on his head, grab him by the tail, or just get around him and take out the bridge).

...the biggest day in my adolescent life was when I got a letter published in Nintendo Power.

...that Jem was truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous. Being so jealous that Big Sis got a Jem doll with light up earrings for Christmas while I got the red-haired keytar player.

...when toys had a palpable amount of danger to them...Slip'n'Slide, Sit'n'Spin, riding bicycles on gravel without helmets.

....waking up at 5 am on Saturday to watch cartoons (nevermind that they didn't start until 6 or 6:30). Cartoons that were good enough to actually get up that early for (heck, I'd still get up early for Muppet Babies or Looney Tunes). The rest of the time, we had to watch what Mom and Dad wanted to, or the TV was actually turned off.

....playing Ninja Turtles in the playground (as the girl, I always got to play April)

.... when Snuffaluffagus was Big Bird's imaginary friend and Mr. Hooter still ran his store.

...teasing the girl at school who dressed like Kimmy Gibbler.

Oh, so much more.

[AdamAnt316]

Bet you wouldn't belive me if I tell you that at work I use a system that operates on that very basis.

Ah, good ol' Monochrome. Grew up futzing around with a hand-me-down Apple //e, complete with original Apple green-screen monitor. Whenever a program called for color, it'd appear as some sort of goofy pattern on the screen, making using the color demonstration portion of the Apple Presents Apple demo disk rather surreal...
-Adam
(spinning side three of the original vinyl LP of Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" on one of these as I type this)