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You know your old when..............
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You know what a tinker toy is and had them when you were a kid. (damn you Christmas Story for reminding me of them)
You are listening to Big Shiny Tunes 15 and have number one in your collection.
Buy Rock em sockem Hockey 21......yes 21!!!!!!!
Went to every Ultra Spin starting from the first.
CONTINUE......
when you start looking like this guy...
You get excited about getting up early on the weekend to go shopping for housewares.
Im glad im still young......but yet gettin older :P
However, buying a 2nd home does make me feel old lol
...when you remember when cabbage patch kids first came out.
...when you had floppy disks for computers
...when you ran a BBS
...when walkmans were invented
Re: You know your old when..............
when you saw Stars Wars the Return of the Jedi, the Original Batman, T2, and Home Alone in the theater.
when michael jackson was black
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| Originally posted by ChemEnhanced ...when you remember when cabbage patch kids first came out. ...when you had floppy disks for computers ...when you ran a BBS ...when walkmans were invented |
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| Originally posted by darouge11 when michael jackson was black |
waiting for the 28.8kb dial up internet service to hit your area.
uuuh I saw E.T. in a theater lol
who said they saw Home Alone in a theater again?
you make threads called "you know you are getting old when"\
when you thought the green ranger was the best power ranger
when phones were all still rotary
when cherry coke was still in canada
when barqs really did have bite
when people thought limp biskit were cool
when gas was 35 cents a litre
when bart was more fun to watch then homer
when you collected teenage mutant ninja turtle cards
when there was only 5 mega man games ever made
when mario first flew
when a big mac was actually big
you owned an Atari, Commodore 64, Intellivision, Colecovision or in my case, all of them! LOL
You played pong and enjoyed it
You know what pong is
Disco was cool, then it sucked, then it was cool then it sucked and then it was cool again
You had to go to an arcade to play the cool video games
you remember a time when you could smoke in your hospital bed
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| Originally posted by urban_legend waiting for the 28.8kb dial up internet service to hit your area. |
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| Originally posted by Jayx1 you owned an Atari, Commodore 64, Intellivision, Colecovision or in my case, all of them! LOL |
...when CGA monitors were the biggest technological advancement
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| Originally posted by chinamon im definitely old. lol in a few years people will be saying "....when michael jackson was alive." |
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| Originally posted by chinamon thats not old! i remember bbs'ing with 1200 and 2400bps modems... and using hacked iStar accounts to get internet |
...you know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic song
...the Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories
...you remember the first time "Space: Above and Beyond" aired - it was called "Battlestar Galactica"
...three words: "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar?
...you remember the days that hooking your computer into your television wasn't an expensive option that required gadgets - it was the ONLY WAY to use your computer!
...you remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV
...you ever owned a pair of "Pop-Wheels" - that handy little combination of shoe and roller skate that lasted about a year on the open market
...a predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid"
...you're pissed that you couldn't really participate in the 60's, pissed that you were a part of the 70's, think you wasted too much time doing stupid, meaningless things in the 80's, and still have no clue what the 90's are all about
...you see teenagers today wearing clothes that show up in those childhood photos, and they still look bad
...while in high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again
...you remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was
...one of the top five questions you've always wanted answered was to Robert Smith of the Cure - "What WAS that head on the door thing anyway?"
...you were shocked and horrified at the Challenger explosion (which you were probably watching in school at the time), and yet, when someone mentions the name "JFK", the first thing you think of is "Oliver Stone"
...you, yes you, sat down and memorized the entire lyric sheet to "It's the end of the world as we know it"
...you can't remember when the word "networking" didn't have a computer connotation to it as well
...you took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
...you knew all the words to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", but it really didn't hold any meaning for you until about the third verse
...you've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases:
"When I was younger"
"When I was your age"
"You know, back when..."
"Because I SAID so, that's why"
"Just can't (fill in the blank) like I used to"
...you can't remember a time when "going out for coffee" DIDN'T involve 49,000 selections to choose from
...Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language
...Kids that work in restaurants and supermarkets are starting to piss you off by calling you "sir" or "ma'am"
...you're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing, and you're ready to marry the next person who cards you when you want to buy cigarettes.
...flashback: it was your first chance to vote in a presidential election, and you were SO disappointed because, just for laughs, you really wanted to vote for Gary Hart
...the first time you heard the candidates names, you were pumped because you thought MICHAEL Jackson was running for President, not this Jesse character.
...you ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video
...at one point during your teenage years, you walked with a noticeable tilt to one side due to the number of plastic rings on that arm
..."Celebration" by Kool & the Gang was one of the hot new songs when you first heard it at a school dance
...the first time you ever kissed someone at a dance fell during "Crazy for You" by Madonna
...there were at least three people in your school that voluntarily went by the names of "Skip" "Buffy" "Muffy" or "Dexter"
...you ever owned one of those embarrassing crimping irons
...you used to hold in your head the thought that all those gold chains on Mr. T actually looked kinda cool and the thought that Mr. T made millions seemed rational to you at the time
...you remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old big wheel quite obsolete
...the phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter
...you read the "Hot Video Games Player's Secrets" guide for Mortal Kombat just so you could find the hidden screen, and play Pong again for old time's sake
...honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
...you ever had nightmares about the giant red evil robot Maximillian from the Disney movie "The Black Hole" and those blender attachments he had for hands
...you were convinced for years that Batman was a mildly overweight man with a moderate beer belly who wore his underwear outside of his clothes and talked strangely
...(girls) you thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy", and lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat, and Ponch and John from CHiPs
...you're still occasionally suffering flashbacks from your 21st birthday party
...you're starting to dread your 30th birthday, and have even begun going into denial about it's possibility
...you've ever said "I'm a vegetarian" and immediately had someone call you a hypocrite by saying "Nice leather jacket you have there...and gee, is that a suede bag...those shoes leather, too?"
...you're starting to believe that maybe 30 isn't so old after all, and it's those people over 40 you have to look out for
...you freaked out when you found that you now fall into the "26 - 50" age category on most questionnaires
...you have begun to lust after women (or men) that it would be socially inappropriate for you to date due to their age
...your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting"
...you've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not in the last five years, okay?
...you can't remember a time when "hitting the outlet stores" meant going to an electrical warehouse
...you're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all
...you're doing absolutely nothing with anything pertaining to your major degree
...you won't walk into the place where you once knew every bartender on a first name basis because "there's too many kids there"
...going to keg parties no longer involves hiding out in the woods when the cops show up
...you want to go out dancing, you really, REALLY do, but your back hurts, sorry
...you're starting to get that "why aren't you married yet" shpiel, not just from parents, but now from friends that are married
...you've recently horrified yourself by groaning as you get out of bed, not because of a hangover, but because it genuinely just hurt to do so
...you're finding that you just don't understand more than half the lingo used on MTV any more
...you ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon
...U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now
...you ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation
...When someone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the Happy Days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end
...you remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.
...you spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man
...you had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding (on General Hospital)
...you remember "Hey, let's be careful out there"
...your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes, anyway.
...you know who shot J.R.
...this rings a bell: "and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."
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| Originally posted by ChemEnhanced |
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| Originally posted by urban_legend Your no fun. |
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| Originally posted by urban_legend waiting for the 28.8kb dial up internet service to hit your area. |
BBSes were pre-internet though, real nerd shit. you'd connect to a computer via regular phone line without going through an isp at all... when you connected to them you had to enter commands in a prompt and ASCII art were the only images, and they each had their own shitty 'electronic mail' system. remember finding contacts to play warcraft 2 with that way when i was about 10 haha.
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| Originally posted by DaRoZa BBSes were pre-internet though, real nerd shit. you'd connect to a computer via regular phone line without going through an isp at all... when you connected to them you had to enter commands in a prompt and ASCII art were the only images, and they each had their own shitty 'electronic mail' system. remember finding contacts to play warcraft 2 with that way when i was about 10 haha. |
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| Originally posted by ChemEnhanced I use to run a BBS from my dorm room in university. It was actually a lot of fun. |
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