Remember when...

[dan_bgblue]

Do you remember when Saturday mornings on the TV were all about cartoons for about 3 or 4 hours?

[Jeeepcat]

Dimmer switch on the floor, as it should be :-)

[Doc]

Darrell had hair? Me neither.

To get on the internet you had to put your phone in a cradle and it made that go awful sound
Remember when AL Gore invented the internet?
There wasn't a magic money card
Beer cans had pull tabs
You respected politicians

[blueboss]

Remember when...

This thread was on the premium board??

I do!!!!

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[CitizenBBN]

Do you remember when Saturday mornings on the TV were all about cartoons for about 3 or 4 hours?

Greatest travesty of all. How do kids learn anything without a good 90 minutes of Looney Tunes?

[PedroDaGr8]

Greatest travesty of all. How do kids learn anything without a good 90 minutes of Looney Tunes?

What is amazing to me is how SCREWED traditional broadcasters are going to be in about 10 years as these kids come of age. When I think of my friends kids, ALL of them have been raised on childrens programming on Netflix or Amazon. Why? Because it is perfect for parents. No waiting until 10am Saturay morning, it is ready when you need it and the kids want to watch it. As a result though, the kids have almost no tolerance for ads. One friends kids were VERY confused the first time they saw an ad. They kinda freaked out and thought someone changed their show (to them, they were watching their show and all of a sudden new video is there which is not their show). Even the older kids don't tolerate them well, especially in comparison to how we grew up being trained to tolerate commercials.

[CitizenBBN]

lol, good point. For us commercials are like a circadian rhythm. they're a natural pausing spot for us for a bathroom break or get a drink, b/c we didn't have pause.

But what bothers me is that kids to today are socialized largely on an ideal plane that frankly I find almost sickening. Everything in the programming you're talking about is a message of cooperation and tree hugging. That's fine and wonderful, but I hate to tell everyone, the world doesn't yet work that way.

The old cartoons were great b/c they weren't written for kids, they were written for adults with a very wry sense of humor. I like stuff that isn't written down to kids but written with layers. I had no idea who Wendell Wilkie was.

[UKFlounder]

Staying up for a 10:00 basketball game was fairly easy, even routine?

[MickintheHam]

You watched Bob Schreve and the Schoenling All Night Movie

[Darrell KSR]

Do you remember....one of these?

TV Dinner.jpg

[dan_bgblue]

I have some in my freezer for those days when I want to remember those good ole days

[dan_bgblue]

Remember when tattoos were only for sailors and outlaw bikers?

[Darrell KSR]

I have some in my freezer for those days when I want to remember those good ole days

They're not good, but heck, they're edible. It makes me want to go buy a couple myself.

[CitizenBBN]

I'm enjoying this thread. I think about several of these things from time to time, esp. riding in the back of the pickup as a kid. safety was that the young kids had to sit all the way down in the bed, only the big kids could ride on the wheel well. Of course growing up riding on the fenders of tractors the pickup was easy.

Remember when you got in your car to go somewhere and if someone called it was just tough? You might call in when you got somewhere, otherwise that was about it.

[dan_bgblue]

Remember when you got in your car to go somewhere and if someone called it was just tough? You might call in when you got somewhere, otherwise that was about it.

And I long for that day to return. Blow up all the cell phone towers in one day is my wish. ;-)

I fondly remember that when I was on the road, I would call into the office 3 or 4 times a day to get my messages and spend a few minutes on the phone, land line of course, returning the calls if they were important enough to tend to right away. Then back in the truck to the next stop. It was very relaxing compared to having a dang cell phone ringing or a text buzzer going off, or an email notice pinging at me all dang day long.

[blueboss]

Remember when...

You had to have a bottle opener to open your sodie pop, and it was just about the coolest thing I ever saw when my dad opened one for me off the edge of the picnic table.


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[Darrell KSR]

Remember when...

You HAD to wind your watch. No batteries. And no digital.

[kingcat]

it's cliché I know, but I remember always going out to pee, and in to eat.

Weekend keg parties

[Doc]

When a DUI got a few hours in jail and a $100 fine?

[kingcat]

When a DUI got a few hours in jail and a $100 fine?

That's back when you could not accidently murder someone, nor intentionally murder someone and get away with it on a technicality.

[Darrell KSR]

Do you remember when....

A good defense to killing someone was "they needed killin'"?

Oops. I see that in certain Alabama counties today.

[blueboss]

Do you remember when....

A good defense to killing someone was "they needed killin'"?

Oops. I see that in certain Alabama counties today.

Does "they had it coming to'em" count?


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[blueboss]

Remember when...

Clothes were hung outside on the clothes line and how great the sheets felt and smelled when the bed was made with sheets fresh off of the line.


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[Padukacat]

Remember when kids all had a sand box in their yard to play in...and stray cats pooped in it

[dan_bgblue]

I remember the sand pile, we did not have a box for it, but cat poop in the pile? Nope, cats either stayed at the barn, or they went missing almost as soon as they showed up.

[UKFlounder]

What about being excited about going to the video store to get the latest movie on VHS?

I was cited when I finally got a CD player and no longer had to listen to cassettes.

[blueboss]

What about being excited about going to the video store to get the latest movie on VHS?

I was cited when I finally got a CD player and no longer had to listen to cassettes.

How'd you feel about 8 track tapes? I thought that was the craziest thing ever, just pop it in and would keep playing forever.


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[UKFlounder]

I barely remember them I know I listened to be once in my grandpa's car and that my dad talks about having a garbage bag full of them that he wishes he still had, but I came around in the age of boom boxes nd cassettes. I think the first story my parents got me was "50's Dance Party" while they got a Pointer Sisters one for my brother.

I actually remember listening to records more than 8-tracks. My brother and I especially liked "The Devil Went Doen to,Georgia" because it said "don of a bitch" though I think our mom tried to annoy us either "Don't it Make my Brown Eyes Blue." I don't know why I remember that

[Doc]

Remember when you could sit in your dads lap and drive the car.

Cigarette commercials on TV

[Darrell KSR]

I barely remember them I know I listened to be once in my grandpa's car and that my dad talks about having a garbage bag full of them that he wishes he still had, but I came around in the age of boom boxes nd cassettes. I think the first story my parents got me was "50's Dance Party" while they got a Pointer Sisters one for my brother.

I actually remember listening to records more than 8-tracks. My brother and I especially liked "The Devil Went Doen to,Georgia" because it said "don of a bitch" though I think our mom tried to annoy us either "Don't it Make my Brown Eyes Blue." I don't know why I remember that

I wasn't a Chrystal Gayle fan. Til she came to campus for a concert in the basketball Coliseum and I saw her up close. Ahh, that long hair...