You know you're getting old when...

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Or you walk into a room and suddenly can't remember why you were in there?

I do this almost daily. . . . I'll go into the hbc room, for example, and forget what I went in there for.

It'll usually come to me in a few seconds, and in the meantime get a snicker or two if a coworker walks by and asks what I'm doing.

I simply tell them my mom is rubbing off on me and I'm practicing Alzheimer's

Another sign that you're getting older (in addition to the momentary loss of memory

You sit down in the floor to straighten out the bottom shelf and then have a hard time getting back up. You're grabbing to an upper shelf for support so you can pull yourself up and you can feel your hips and knees creaking.

[Pagan]

I remember the first portable phone I saw someone using.

Oh, man, I had completely forgotten about those things!

Hey, Perfect Strangers wasn't that bad. I have no argument about ALF, tho, which I refused to even consider watching more than once.

Remember "Bosom Buddies" or "WKRP in Cincinnati"? Or "Barney Miller" and "Welcome Back Kotter" (I'm really surprised that hasn't been made into a movie.*)? And I remember one that was hilarious but lasted one season, "Hot L Baltimore". Conchata Farrell was in that and now she's on "2 1/2 Men"!

It's not that the children of the '80s are parents now, so much as the children of the '80s are cropping up as producers and managers of the places producing the stuff.

Exactly.

*Whoops. Spoke too soon. Looks like there's one in the works for a 2012 release....with Ice Cube as Mr. Kotter?????

[EricKei]

...with Ice Cube as Mr. Kotter?????

"HEY MISTER KOT-ER-ER!"
*BLAM* "What."

>_<

Might not end well...

[dalesys]

Soupy Sales

Supposedly unaired for saying (after yet another cream pie)

"My wife doesn't make good pies, but she sure makes my banana cream."

[Racket_Man]

ahhh Soupy Sales. I believe he used to be on ......... naaa that was Pat Paulsonon the Smothers Brothers and he said "and I am running for President."

anyone remember the ORIGINAL Love American Style esp the one I remember where there is the "pilot" of Happy Days

Info here

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...from_love.html

Intro to the episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHuI0Pw0m8

[The Last to Know]

Oh lord, ALF - lmao - yes I do believe he was from Melmac, but where was Mork from? You also know you are getting up there when your favorite shows as a kid were Sonny & Cher, Wonder Woman & the Twilight Zone.

Pagan - I graduated in 1987 too & I did catch about 5 minutes of Land of the Lost a few weeks back & yes it is a shame how cheesy it really was.

[marlovino]

Mork was from Ork, wasn't he?

How about all the gameshows from the 70's and 80's.

my personal favorite was 20,000 pyramid and the 70's version of hollywood squares.

the first was whenever they had Nipsi Russell (sp?) as one of the celebrity contestants. That man was a poet.

-offtopic

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress? - Nipsi Russell

The second was when the late comedian Paul Lynde would be on. $Diety how he was ever able to get some of the things he said passed the censors I'll never know.


p.s. the 80's? I'll give you a hint ---- 'No Whammy, No Whammy......'

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

What makes me feel older, with regards to working in a games store, is when I mention some classic NES game to one of our younger employees and get a blank stare because the kid is only 19 and NEVER HAD an NES!

Someone who is 19 would have been born in 1989/1990 and their first system was more than likely an SNES or a Playstation.

Also many of my references to early 90s shows (Family Matters, Fresh Prince, Saved by the Bell) are lost on the youngins...

[TOLady]

For those that love those old shows from ages ago, I found a site many moons gone when I was looking up a favourite of mine - Ghosts of Motely Hall (1975-1978).

This website doesn't leave out too many - http://tv.cream.org/

[sms001]

Soupy Sales

There was a 'Wings' episode with Soupy. I don't remember the rest of the show, but he and Lowell (Thomas Haden Church) play a round of Simon Says that is one of the funniest and most creative sight gags I've ever seen on modern television. Easily rivals Lucille Ball and Harpo Marx's mirror skit. Wish I could find it on the interwebs somewhere.

[Andara Bledin]

Remember "Bosom Buddies" or "WKRP in Cincinnati"? Or "Barney Miller" and "Welcome Back Kotter"?

I watched all of those.

Actually, I'm of the opinion that Hanks really hasn't done much of note since "Bosom Buddies."

How about all the gameshows from the 70's and 80's.

my personal favorite was 20,000 pyramid and the 70's version of hollywood squares.

I was a huge fan of Password, myself. And What's My Line.

^-.-^

[protege]

p.s. the 80's? I'll give you a hint ---- 'No Whammy, No Whammy......'

Uh, "Press Your Luck"

I remember when Get Smart was on, along with Diff'rent Strokes, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Perfect Strangers, Small Wonder (anyone remember how bad that one was?), Mork & Mindy, All in the Family, Perry Mason, Dukes of Hazzard...and when cartoons were actually good. Now, most cartoons just suck. Whatever happened to hours of Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings?

I know some of those shows were a bit old, but my parents didn't spring for cable until the mid-1980s. There were only about a dozen or 20 channels locally then.

Oh, and the original "Tainted Love?" That tune shows up in GTA: San Andreas

[Pagan]

I miss that the contestants don't go shopping on "Wheel of Fortune" anymore.

Actually, I'm of the opinion that Hanks really hasn't done much of note since "Bosom Buddies."

He was good as Jim Lovell, but he doesn't look anything like Robert Langdon.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Mork was from Ork, wasn't he?

Yes, he was... but does anyone remember his appearance on "Happy Days"?

I've got a computer-based YKYGOW... does anyone else remember having to park a hard drive? Or the original Macintosh computers that came in a single case? I've even seen the old Macs with the signatures of the developers etched on the inside cover.

And then there's video games. Someone brought down an old Atari to our gaming club that got endless play by young 'uns that have never seen one like it before...

[EricKei]

I miss that the contestants don't go shopping on "Wheel of Fortune" anymore.

Me too - I always loved that for some inexplicable reason...I never could figure out how Sajak always knew precisely how much $$ they had "left to spend" -- After I grew up, I figured that it's either (a) his mind for number sis just THAT good, (b), they keep it posted on a telepropmter manned by a mathy person, or (c) edits.

Mork on Happy Days...yes o_O

Parking a drive...Yes, that too. I once had a real....ACTUAL...8-inch floppy disk in my room that I absconded with from the "storage lockerre of really olde shitte" at a former place of employment.

Andara - seconded. With the possible exceptions of Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump, All he seems to do in most films is play Tom Hanks. Kinda like Cruise. I can't stand that >_<