I'm so old...

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  • MsMuniz
    MsMuniz Posts: 399 Member
    Fridays were exciting because we got to play Oregon Trail in class!
  • Dad_of_3
    Dad_of_3 Posts: 517 Member
    I saw Moses come off the mountain.

    Isn't that on every Easter?

    Touche'!

    But I saw the real one. :p

    Only really old people are catching what we are talking about....

    Dude, you just made me fell old! haha
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories

    If our parents only knew...

    I have told that story to my kids, and my wife tells me I shouldn't have. oops:tongue:
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories

    BONZAI!!!!!!! was our normal "dangerous jump" cry. Usually into the river by our house or off the roof into a snow pile... Oddly, I've never fully broken a bone (that I know of...)
  • Donnaakamagmid
    Donnaakamagmid Posts: 198 Member
    Carol Burnett Show & Sonny & Cher Show

    KOVED those show. Tim Conway cracked me up.:laugh:
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    I remember learning DOS commands on this beauty:

    300px-IBM_PC_5150.jpg

    And I used to save my files on these!:

    cooper_8floppy.jpg


    LOL I totally forgot about the floppy disk!
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories

    BONZAI!!!!!!! was our normal "dangerous jump" cry. Usually into the river by our house or off the roof into a snow pile... Oddly, I've never fully broken a bone (that I know of...)

    You would have walked it off if you did...
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I actually played outdoors.

    Hide and go, road hockey from sun up to sun down.

    Any one else know the game 'Yards'?
  • XXXMinnieXXX
    XXXMinnieXXX Posts: 3,459 Member
    lol... i like ruffles x
  • thrld
    thrld Posts: 610 Member
    Playing Atari. Pacman, Space Invaders, Joust, Stampede, and Frogger.
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    Playing lawn darts... with metal darts that could actually hurt someone.
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    I remember when T.V use to go off the air at night playing "America the Beautiful"


    Oh my yes! I *do* remember this!
  • sharonfincher1
    sharonfincher1 Posts: 311 Member
    Records.

    ^^^^ playing 45's and 33's
  • Josette89
    Josette89 Posts: 244
    Form of an eagle, shape of "a bucket of water"

    WTF????
    Wonder twins activate!!! Hahahahahahhahahha.
  • kathyhull
    kathyhull Posts: 327 Member
    My first cellphone was the size of a block of cheese

    Her first cell phone. Haha! I thought shoe phones were the coolest thing anyone had ever thought of! Wouldn't it be cool if all of us could have one, not just Agent 86. No need to find a dime for the pay phone.
  • 7funnygirl7
    7funnygirl7 Posts: 1,176
    I remember wearing a poncho and taking a plastic lunch pail on my first day of school..
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories

    BONZAI!!!!!!! was our normal "dangerous jump" cry. Usually into the river by our house or off the roof into a snow pile... Oddly, I've never fully broken a bone (that I know of...)

    You would have walked it off if you did...

    Hell, I got ran over by a tractor and didn't cry until I saw the girl that was driving it crying. I was 8. Didn't break a bone. Got some pretty awesome tread mark bruises, and a gnarly scar on my side, though.
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories

    BONZAI!!!!!!! was our normal "dangerous jump" cry. Usually into the river by our house or off the roof into a snow pile... Oddly, I've never fully broken a bone (that I know of...)

    You would have walked it off if you did...

    Hell, I got ran over by a tractor and didn't cry until I saw the girl that was driving it crying. I was 8. Didn't break a bone. Got some pretty awesome tread mark bruises, and a gnarly scar on my side, though.

    And your parents probably didn't even think about calling a lawyer....
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    I remember learning DOS commands on this beauty:

    300px-IBM_PC_5150.jpg

    And I used to save my files on these!:

    cooper_8floppy.jpg


    LOL I totally forgot about the floppy disk!

    As of five years ago, we still used 3.5 inchers in the Navy.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I'm so old that when I was a kid and Dad came home, we all ate together at the dinner table and talked to each other about our day. There was no texting going on at the table. Oh yeah, whatever Mom prepared, you ate.

    Then we got our homework done, so we could all sit down together and watch one of the three TV stations. We watched shows like "My Three Sons", "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." On Sundays, of course there was "The Ed Sullivan Show."
  • nanamary47
    nanamary47 Posts: 16 Member
    I remember Tom Teriffic, Sky King, and The Lone Ranger to name a few oldies!!
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    We had fairly decent sized cliff near where we lived. Part way down it there was a section of it filled with soft sand. We'd station one guy near the spot you needed to jump from to the top to hit the sand. (missing was not an option) Geronimo was the cry needed to make a successful jump!


    sounds dangerous and fun...what great memories

    BONZAI!!!!!!! was our normal "dangerous jump" cry. Usually into the river by our house or off the roof into a snow pile... Oddly, I've never fully broken a bone (that I know of...)

    You would have walked it off if you did...

    Hell, I got ran over by a tractor and didn't cry until I saw the girl that was driving it crying. I was 8. Didn't break a bone. Got some pretty awesome tread mark bruises, and a gnarly scar on my side, though.

    And your parents probably didn't even think about calling a lawyer....

    Nope. They were friends, it was a total accident, and I didn't suffer too much damage anyway. We even had a 45 minute drive to even get to the town nurse who was also a nun.
  • happyfeetrebel1
    happyfeetrebel1 Posts: 1,005 Member
    PBS was our 4th channel and god forbid if the President was on that night....

    cause he was on ALL THE CHANNELS!
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I remember Tom Teriffic, Sky King, and The Lone Ranger to name a few oldies!!

    Sky King! and The Lone Ranger! Yep.
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    I'm so old that when I was a kid and Dad came home, we all ate together at the dinner table and talked to each other about our day. There was no texting going on at the table. Oh yeah, whatever Mom prepared, you ate.

    Then we got our homework done, so we could all sit down together and watch one of the three TV stations. We watched shows like "My Three Sons", "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." On Sundays, of course there was "The Ed Sullivan Show."

    It was sort of the opposite for us. My dad worked graveyards, so he'd get home and make breakfast for and walk us to school, then go home and sleep, get up, make dinner and head to work. Breakfast and dinner were always as a family, and if my mom cooked it, you didn't WANT to eat it! Hahaha!
  • stacygayle
    stacygayle Posts: 349 Member
    I remember when MTV played actual music
  • jcjsjones
    jcjsjones Posts: 571 Member
    Using microfiche to look up newspaper articles!
  • jcjsjones
    jcjsjones Posts: 571 Member
    Playing Atari. Pacman, Space Invaders, Joust, Stampede, and Frogger.

    Love Frogger...and Pit Fall!
  • moxiecowgirl
    moxiecowgirl Posts: 291 Member
    M & M's had a tan and no blue!

    ...and when they came out with the red ones, my grandma wouldn't let me eat them because "they cause cancer".

    The "M" in "MTV" stood for "music" and not "mindless".

    Watching Bo and Luke Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard", and getting mad at the neighbor boys for making me play Daisy when we reenacted the shows, because Daisy never got to do any of the fun stuff.

    Kenny Rogers was super cool because he had both country and rock hits on the charts, AND he still had his real face.

    My friends and I wore LA Gear high tops in bright colors with complicated lacing patterns, Rave hairspray, IOU jeans, and Shine Free eyeshadow in about a zillion colors. And Love's Baby Soft perfume was the only kind we were allowed to wear until we were in high school.

    Speaking of colors, if you had braces on your teeth, they were silver, the rubber bands were white, and your retainer was either clear or a horrid shade of pink that was supposed to match your gums but really didn't, and you couldn't wait for the day when you didn't have to wear them any more. My kids now have all kinds of colored rubber bands on theirs, and one of their friends has a glow-in-the-dark retainer that really creeps me out when she removes it and leaves it sitting where I can see it.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I'm so old that when I was a kid and Dad came home, we all ate together at the dinner table and talked to each other about our day. There was no texting going on at the table. Oh yeah, whatever Mom prepared, you ate.

    Then we got our homework done, so we could all sit down together and watch one of the three TV stations. We watched shows like "My Three Sons", "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show." On Sundays, of course there was "The Ed Sullivan Show."

    Throw in Bonanza and Sing Along With Mitch. The Perry Como Show, Jackie Gleason and Dean Martin. How about Flip Wilson and Rowan & Martin's Laugh In? How many careers did that launch?

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