You know you're getting old when...

[Camry178]

if you know what SPEEEEEEEWWWW and HELLLOOOOOOOOOO NURSE! was and where it came from

I remember the nurse quote from "Animaniacs".

How about Romper Room?

I still remember their full P.O. Box address in Jersey!!

For me, I realized I was getting old when I was watching "The Price is Right" and they showed "This Beautiful New Dining Room Set and Washer and Dryer" and went "oooooooooohhhhhh". The "oohs" used to be only for the "New Car!!".

Also, now when I see "kids", who's diapers I used to change, full grown with babies of their own!

Oh, and as for "School House Rock", my hubby remembered one song that went: "Beans and rice, Beans and rice...." Who wants to finish that one?

[EricKei]

Oh, and as for "School House Rock", my hubby remembered one song that went: "Beans and rice, Beans and rice...." Who wants to finish that one?

Was it "once or twice, or even thrice? Beans n' rice...is nice" ?

Dammit, now I'm hungry. I got a hanker for a hunk o' cheese...

Animaniacs isn't THAT old >_> (or so I keep telling myself)


time for more of these, then...

... you remember when "Saturday morning cartoons" were just that.

... you remember when you had more than one NETWORK channel to choose from for the Saturday toons, thus forcing you to choose between (or flip between) your favorite shows, at times

... you go to the video store to buy box sets of "classic toons" like Voltron and Thundercats, having remembered watching them in their original runs

... you remember watching ANYTHING with "2000" in the name and being genuinely convinced that that year was a long time off...

[Der Cute]

I used to watch Bozo the clown and parts of Price is Right when getting ready to walk to school. Wow.

I miss The Electric Company, Sesame Street and sometimes Mr. Rodgers. (he was a bit quiet for me).

Hell, does anyone remember when BEANBAGS were considered major furniture in a living room? I do. And now they're coming back? Oy. At least not in that rusty colored orange crap. Or the avocado green.....

CuteOld

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

... you remember when "Saturday morning cartoons" were just that.

Oh believe me, I do. Now all the Saturday morning programs are infomercials or educational shows.

Shit, I just spent my entire week cooped up in school learning. Can't a kid have some mindless fun watching Bugs Bunny any more?

[Camry178]

Was it "once or twice, or even thrice? Beans n' rice...is nice" ?

Very good!!

OH, and I remember when NBC actually had Saturday morning cartoons like "The Smurfs".

Prince: "we're gonna party like it's 1999."

[Pagan]

and you start telling them about how much you used to love the show "land of the lost"

Oh, jeez. They were running that on SciFi (pardon me, it's now SyFy) when the movie came out. I had forgotten how damn cheesy that show was!

you can remember what it was like having a cellphone that didn't have color screens, had pull out antennas and the fanciest feature was that you can text message somebody.

Remember how the first one's looked like and weighed as much as a brick?

... you remember when "Saturday morning cartoons" were just that.

Shmoo and Captain Caveman were two of my favorites.

... you remember watching ANYTHING with "2000" in the name and being genuinely convinced that that year was a long time off...

And then you realize that we've gone waaaaaay past when Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard version) Ranger 3 launched....which was 1987, the year I graduated from high school. Although, I'd love to have that theme as a ringtone.

[irateguy]

How about Romper Room?

in Seattle, we also had P.J. Patches

in Austin, was The Uncle Jay Show, and Who Knows the Answer?

nationally, was Bozo the Clown (my brother appeared on that one, but was bleeped for saying, "F*** off, clown!"

In Cincinnati we had "Uncle Al" who was on M-F mornings he worke a bowtie and a straw hat and played the accordion and Banjo There was also the Larry Smith Puppets in the afternoon Snarfie ( Dog) Rudy (Rooster) Teaser(Mouse) Corneilus Cornball and Hattie the Witch . Larry Smith would be on M-F afternoons wrapped around Looney Tunes Cartoons

[Merriweather]

Was it "once or twice, or even thrice? Beans n' rice...is nice" ?


... you remember when "Saturday morning cartoons" were just that.

... you remember when you had more than one NETWORK channel to choose from for the Saturday toons, thus forcing you to choose between (or flip between) your favorite shows, at times

Or even longer ago, when Saturday mornings were a mixture of cartoons and other kids shows like Sky King, My Friend Flicka, and others (lots of westerns, as I recall)

[bunnyboy]

How about Romper Room?

in Seattle, we also had P.J. Patches

in Austin, was The Uncle Jay Show, and Who Knows the Answer?

nationally, was Bozo the Clown (my brother appeared on that one, but was bleeped for saying, "F*** off, clown!"

Don't they still sometimes do PJ Patches things... remember something from a couple years ago.

and does anyone know any more Melmackian recipies? or does nobody here know what a Melmackian is?

[Dark-Star]

I once spent 20 minutes looking for my glasses...

Heh, heh...been there, done that. During a yearly replacement I got frames that were way lighter and sleeker than my old clunky ones. They did their job a little bit too well.

The worst episode ended with me asking my mother if she'd seen my glasses recently. There is nothing more embarrassing than your own mom laughing herself to tears, while you stand there like a total idiot, and when the answer dawns on you...gaaaah. >X-P

[Andara Bledin]

you can remember what it was like having a cellphone that didn't have color screens, had pull out antennas and the fanciest feature was that you can text message somebody.

Remember how the first one's looked like and weighed as much as a brick?

Oh, no, no, no....

I remember the first portable phone I saw someone using.

It had a regular handset just like a normal rotary or touchtone phone with a curly cord, and the base lived in a small suitcase!

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[Racket_Man]

I know there was no keypunch machine available to use, the engineering firm had tossed old equipment and just wanted it rewritten to run on hard drive or floppy, not cards, and a screen. To add to all that, I could never get any information on what the program actually did - I've got lines of code that are basically just formulas, and no one who can tell me what the variables used stand for, etc. - and I'm supposed to turn it into a usable new type program with prompts for the correct information If all I have is lines of formulas saying a=b/c etc. etc., how do I have a nice little insert line telling them to enter what b stands for, when I haven't a clue, and no one else seemed to either (I've always wondered, who actually had used these programs in the first place, then???). Oh, and there was the odd missing card as, well......

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OMG you have my FULLEST sympathies. and yes I have encountered vast multi 1000s line programs like that in the past. one letter varaible names, numerous GOTO's, wierd formulas that made no sense, whole sections of code that were there but never used and this was in old school RPG

[simplyanother]

and does anyone know any more Melmackian recipies? or does nobody here know what a Melmackian is?

Wasn't Alf from Melmac? I watched that show, and liked it---but oh my it was bad. Bad bad bad. I was also like 8, and really liked Perfect Strangers, so my taste was obviously questionable.

Boomerang used to show the Smurfs, don't know if they still do, but my kids liked it, and the Snorks (which I never watched as a kid). Now you can find Smurf toys again, at walmart. Which is nifty.

You can definitely tell that people who were children during the 1980's are parents now. Or feel like you're in some weird time warp, when you go to the toy aisle, and are confronted with Transformers, TMNT, G.I. Joe (though, they are the bigger dolls, like ya'll had until the mid 70's, not the little action figures we had in then)....you also see Cabbage Patch Dolls, and Strawberry Shortcake (I tend to notice boy toys more than girl toys, because my boys are allergic to pink, apparently).

[Arm]

OMG you have my FULLEST sympathies. and yes I have encountered vast multi 1000s line programs like that in the past. one letter varaible names, numerous GOTO's, wierd formulas that made no sense, whole sections of code that were there but never used and this was in old school RPG

Reading about this reminded me of helping my grandfather with his equation-solving program.

He has, as a hobby these days, a fascination with math. Various triangles of different ratios are his thing.

He has this one old program that he wrote in some bizarro-version of BASIC- I think for the ATARI- that he then had kluged to get running under microsoft's BASIC. Not that there was too much difference, I don't think.

He would change what it did, and how it solved its equations, by commenting or un-commenting different lines.

These days though, he couldn't get printed output from his program any more, and it didn't display conveniently on his screen... So, I rewrote it for him- in javascript of all things, because now it'll work on any computer that has any browser with javascript enabled. And it doesn't need to know how to print, because the browser, OS, whatever, will handle that.

When I translated it, I wanted to give him some simple toggles to enable/disable the various functions he was commenting/uncommenting. Trying to figure out what it DID was just weird. And to be honest, I'm still not sure. I can point to any function and say, 'this is the bit that takes this variable and multiplies it by two.' but I can't explain WHY that's needful or desirable. Every piece makes sense on its own. When arranged in a whole, I got no idea. I wound up simply verifying the output of the new versus the old, and calling it finished.

[Andara Bledin]

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

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.

Plus, the cartoons these days aren't nearly the same as they were in the '80s. I can't watch most of the stuff I see today, but I can re-watch the stuff I watched as a kid and not wince nearly as much.

He has this one old program that he wrote in some bizarro-version of BASIC- I think for the ATARI- that he then had kluged to get running under microsoft's BASIC. Not that there was too much difference, I don't think.

It could have been MBasic, which I learned while taking a summer school programming class in high school, and worked on the Mac IICs we had there.

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