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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 12:03:05 PM   
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Ike & Truck Turner?

I know them too, must be old.

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I thought it was Ike and Tina Turner.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 12:06:02 PM   
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Recently, I was trying to describe a telephone book to a 25-yr-old co-worker. She couldn't fathom why people would want to just give their numbers out to be published in a book that anyone could just look in.

Same co-worker, when I mentioned the days where I didn't have an answering machine. (Horrified) "How did you know when someone had called????" Uh, they called back?

"No call waiting!?!? What if you called someone and got a busy signal???" You tried again later?

I was going to tell her about rotary dial, but I was afraid she'd have to be hospitalized.


Remember charades? Where you started by pantomiming "movie" by pretending you were holding a camera in one hand and making a cranking motion with the other hand? We tried that once, and the young ones didn't know what that meant. They pantomime "movie" by pretending they're holding a dvd, dropping it in a drawer, and pushing a button.

I'm going with the "You know you're getting old" thread title theme......if this is really supposed to be about Isaac Hayes, I beg forgiveness for the horrible threadjack


Try explaining a typewriter.

Shut your mouth !!




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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 12:07:36 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 12:09:02 PM   
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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 12:09:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		yanno, i don't understand people my age who don't know about phone books and don't know about typewriters. those things were in use when we were growing up, and are still in use in places today. every library i've been to, even in BIG cities, still had at least ONE typewriter. you still get free phone books stacked up on campuses and the phone company still drops one off on your door step (at least in my neighborhood).
i have to wonder where these people have been living!! is there really that much space under rocks?

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 12:16:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ok, you totally know you're getting old when you hear the hair bands you went to high school with on the oldies station.
And when you see an article on this one musician that you had this big fat crush on as a young girl and you realize he's going to be 63 on his next birthday (Rick Springfield. No, rly.).
*DERP*
And looking in the bathroom mirror and finding that first thatch of silver at your temples doesn't help..
That being said, the rumours are true; as some of us have found, life really does begin at 40..

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 1:42:19 PM   
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Gawd.. I must be ancient then...


Me too.  I know Isaac Hayes from his music.



Yeahhhhhhhhh


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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 2:22:02 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt
Try explaining a typewriter.


Try a mimeograph machine or carbon copies.


Ike was the man


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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 3:04:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		"I was going to tell her about rotary dial, but I was afraid she'd have to be hospitalized."

I nominate that one. For what I don't know :-)

T^T

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 3:49:58 PM   
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Try a mimeograph machine or carbon copies.
Screw that, you don't have to go back that far even. Try explaning a dot matrix printer, or writing your own printer drivers in WordPerfect with Esc codes.


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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 4:37:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		When my son was younger, he was at my place for the weekend.  We'd rented some videos, yeah, another dinosaur, and I asked if he wanted popcorn.  I had microwave popcorn, but no microwave...don't really like 'em.  Anyway, he saw the package of popcorn and asked me how I was going to do it w/o the microwave.  I pulled out a pan and lid and said "Lemme show you how we did it in the STONE AGE!"  I swear, the kid was never as fascinated by anything in his life as much as watching me make popcorn in a pan.  And I didn't burn a single kernel!

Even just talking about things at work makes me feel old....the other day, we were discussing black and white TV....one of the girls mentioned she'd seen Beaver on TV, and I told her that was in syndication....I saw it as the original series!  And if it weren't for Nick, and Cartoon Network, these kids wouldn't even know who Bugs and Crew were!  I told them we used to wake up early on Saturday morning and sped at least the next 4 hours captivated by the cartoons.....not that drivel they spout today!  They were all like "Really?"

Yeah, I'm old....really felling it now after watching my baby get married.  But I've never lost my inner child......and I won't!

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 4:44:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		typwriters checks, your music on the oldies station check, dye your hair every two weeks for the grays check, you see a commercial on poise the new ooops i leaked a lil and wrote the name down after finding your reading glasses but two hours later you forgot where you wrote the name or even what the name was. big fat check! outhouse at mammy's house check....

holy f*ck i should just lay down and let them throw the soil right on top of me singing patsy cline all the way..................




(depressed now thanks alot! ;)

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 4:52:40 PM   
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Screw that, you don't have to go back that far even. Try explaning a dot matrix printer, or writing your own printer drivers in WordPerfect with Esc codes.


lol  Don't make me drag out that old 20mb hard drive


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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 5:57:38 PM   
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I was going to tell her about rotary dial, but I was afraid she'd have to be hospitalized.




I have a rotary phone. It's always a big hit with company - they love to make phone calls on it. It's one of those heavy, black phones....last night I actually had to let the handle swing down and spin to uncoil the cord. It was great.


....sorry to say, I actually bought it at an antique store.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 5:59:15 PM   
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typwriters checks, your music on the oldies station check, dye your hair every two weeks for the grays check, you see a commercial on poise the new ooops i leaked a lil and wrote the name down after finding your reading glasses but two hours later you forgot where you wrote the name or even what the name was. big fat check! outhouse at mammy's house check....

holy f*ck i should just lay down and let them throw the soil right on top of me singing patsy cline all the way..................




(depressed now thanks alot! ;)



LOL - I have a typewriter, too.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 6:30:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wonder if anyone remembers the "indiscreet" picture in the big Sears catalogue in the early to mid - 70's.  Men's underwear page, they actually published a photo where it revealed a bit too much of his package.  Of course when we all heard about it everyone couldn't wait to look in the Sears catalogue to see it.   I think mom tore the page out and threw it away when she found out.  . 

What can I say, we didn't have internet then. 

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 6:34:10 PM   
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Yeahhhhhhhhh

I can dig it.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 7:39:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		hmmmmm...I missed that pic.  However, pre-internet.....the women's lingerie section in ANY catalogue was the most perused section by young boys discovering their hormones. 



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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 7:40:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		What about 8 track tapes? i found a bunch in a box when were cleaning out my mothers attack after she passed, all the kids--each in their 20s now--were 'what are these?' couldn't find the 8 track player though.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 7:42:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		And while I was in the Wally World in Illinois this weekend, I actually saw a woman WRITE OUT a check!  She was an older woman, but even my parents have debit cards, and they are in their late 60's/early 70's.  I didn't think that people even used checks anymore!  I think the last time I wrote one was in 1996!  I use my debit card for EVERYTHING!

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