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  • needles85365
    needles85365 Posts: 491 Member
    Y2K was going to end the world.. we spent 2 years getting ready for it
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    You remember when there was no TV after 2 a.m. (Or was it 1?)

    And it signed off with a video reading the poem "High Flight"

    Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
    Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
    of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
    You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
    High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
    I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
    My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

    Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
    I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
    Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
    And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
    The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
    Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
  • iquiltoo
    iquiltoo Posts: 246 Member
    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Try .49/gallon! Three bucks could have you cruisin' all night!
  • GTAFrank
    GTAFrank Posts: 730 Member
    When your youngest son who just turned 17 sends you a text saying he feels old (happened today in fact)
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Try .49/gallon! Three bucks could have you cruisin' all night!

    How about 60 cents for a pack of cigarettes and the machines were in my high school dorm, not that I smoked.

    15 cents for a bus ride. (I think that's right.)
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    You remember when there was no TV after 2 a.m. (Or was it 1?)

    And it signed off with a video reading the poem "High Flight"

    Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
    Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
    of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
    You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
    High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
    I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
    My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

    Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
    I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
    Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
    And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
    The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
    Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

    I remember watching Reagan reading that poem on TV. I think I heard only the "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" part and thought it came from Shakespeare. Years later, I jumped on Google and searched it.

    Reagan wasn't my favorite president, but that was an excellent moment of communication.

    I remember exactly where I was when I heard about the Challenger explosion.
  • phizzylizzy
    phizzylizzy Posts: 94 Member
    Ha! This.

    ETA - this was supposed to be quoting the David Byrne-y one.
  • foxro
    foxro Posts: 793 Member
    When you'll finally get up and dance to the Bee Gee's disco "Saturday Night Fever" and enjoy it !!!
  • Kushy8
    Kushy8 Posts: 103 Member
    when you get a grey pube

    omfg! hell NO!? tell me this is a joke, this doesn't really happen does it? OMFreakingG , sofreaking out now, just wtf eww! LOL I will be an old bald eagle then if this is the case, not going grey there or anywhere!!!!!!:sad:

    Oh honey! It most definitely happens and MUCH sooner than you think?
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Try .49/gallon! Three bucks could have you cruisin' all night!

    I remember $.29/gallon.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    I am only 27 but I realised that I am old when the radio station I've been listening to for years played a song that made me say out loud 'wtf is that *kitten*?' and I had to turn it off. It was some really, really, exceptionally stupid 'song' that just kept repeating 'bubble butt' over and over again. O_O The feck?

    So yeah, I am old now.

    HAHAHA..i started doing that at 24. We're the same age. Bring back Sugarcult , and Three days grace please.

    No, the stupid song prize goes to "Spill the Wine." It used to play on the radio for hours. It made no sense, although it sounded vaguely apocalyptic. I think you had to be on drugs to understand it. I was a kid, and I've never done drugs, so it will remain a mystery to me.

    There's a category of songs that I classify as "Head Shop" songs. I liked the incense and the cheap doo-dads from Asia and South Asia and even the grass paraphernalia, but i was too young to smoke m.j. and never did because it was illegal.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Try .49/gallon! Three bucks could have you cruisin' all night!

    I remember $.29/gallon.

    I can't remember because ours was delivered by the milkman in bottles. No one drank skim milk and the whole milk always had a layer of cream on top.
  • michellechawner
    michellechawner Posts: 892
    When you have to make regular visits to an 'ologist' that doesn't start with 'gynoc'.
    Urologist
    Cardiologist
    Nephrologist

    You get the point...

    Rhumatology
    Gastroenterology
    Internal Med

    I'm 27 and I still have 2 of these doctor appointments REGULARLY. Ugh
  • joe_madre
    joe_madre Posts: 693
    Saturday morning tv consisted of Fat Albert, Shazam!, and some goofy apocalyptic show about a six wheeled armored vehicle roaming the land.

    Tom Haden showing Popeye, Tom Slick, Super Chicken and George of the Jungle cartoons in between turning squiggles into drawrings.
  • andiechick
    andiechick Posts: 916 Member
    When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.

    4? ...I'm a little closer to a decade...haha

    Never mind a decade when you realise that you're old enough to have kids who are leaving high school!!
  • JessicaZen
    JessicaZen Posts: 149 Member
    kinda funny seeing been outta high school for four years and a decade me it's been outta high school for 24 years and going to my classmates kids graduation.
  • GadgetGuy2
    GadgetGuy2 Posts: 291 Member
    you go to reply to an OP post on MFP, and can't remember why you clicked reply.
  • foxro
    foxro Posts: 793 Member
    When you believe the Who's "My Generation" is still about you !!:laugh:
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    You remember when many people had a booklet with the "Exercise Plans" of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Only 12 minutes!

    Jack Lalanne was on TV, the only man you saw on TV with ballet slippers.

    There was an early morning Hatha Yoga program -- Hatha was the only flavor of yoga -- and because you were a kid you could do a full lotus position.

    You could also do cartwheels and headstands without fear.
  • andiechick
    andiechick Posts: 916 Member
    When you used to arrange a 'meet up' with a friend or a date and you had to make sure you agreed an exact time and place cos once you'd left the house you had no way of contacting each other as no one had mobile phones, haha!!
  • SwimTheButterfly
    SwimTheButterfly Posts: 265 Member
    When your favorite Clash song is in the kids movie: "The Pirates! Band of Misfits.":laugh:
  • joe_madre
    joe_madre Posts: 693
    When if you wanted to talk to your friend you went to their house, knocked on the door and hoped they were home.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Try .49/gallon! Three bucks could have you cruisin' all night!

    I remember $.29/gallon.

    I can't remember because ours was delivered by the milkman in bottles. No one drank skim milk and the whole milk always had a layer of cream on top.

    I posted earlier about being able to talk your parents into buying a quart of chocolate milk from the milkman. My uncle George (we called him Bus) was a milkman for Embassy Dairy in DC.
  • nottaquitter
    nottaquitter Posts: 130
    When you pay more for your own diapers than your kids diapers
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    Your morning TV consisted of Miss Connie on Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    When you were in grade school and everyone had his or her favorite Beetle. Yours was Paul because Paul was handsome, sweet, and you were "square."
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    Your morning TV consisted of Miss Connie on Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo.

    Oh, Mr. Green Jeans -- people think you're a brand for a sustainable clothes line.

    Don't forget Wonderama. It used the theme from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but you didn't know that.
  • nottaquitter
    nottaquitter Posts: 130
    When you can quote lines from Bradey Bunch reruns
  • RllyGudTweetr
    RllyGudTweetr Posts: 2,019 Member
    Wen your evening's bartender wasn't born when you were old enough to legally buy beer in the USA.

    When you can remember selling cigarettes at the corner store for $1.25 a pack.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    When you can quote lines from Bradey Bunch reruns

    When you can still sing the theme from "Talk to Mr. Ed." Nothing like those unsingable themes from "Mad Men," "Dexter," and "Breaking Bad."*

    *J/K

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