Old? Who is old?

[BJ_M]

1975: Long hair
2005: Longing for hair

1975: KEG
2005: EKG

1975: Acid rock
2005: Acid reflux

1975: Moving to California because it's cool
2005: Moving to Arizona because it's warm

1975: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2005: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1975: Seeds and stems
2005: Roughage

1975: Hoping for a BMW
2005: Hoping for a BM

1975: Going to a new, hip joint
2005: Receiving a new hip joint

1975: Rolling Stones
2005: Kidney Stones

1975: Being called into the principal's office
2005: Calling the principal's office

1975: Screw the system
2005: Upgrade the system

1975: Disco
2005: Costco

1975: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2005: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1975: Passing the drivers' test
2005: Passing the vision test

1975: Whatever
2005: Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly
Change things...

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were
Born in 1987.

They are too young to remember the first space shuttle blowing up on
liftoff.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel",
Or "de plane, Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Do you feel old yet? Notice the larger type, that's for those of you
Who have trouble reading.

[Noahtuck]

well...

I still have the long hair past my shoulders from 1975 with no balding 8)

I never liked beer, always a straight whiskey drinker even as a teen (everyone say's it must be the german in me that i can hold hard liquor so well, i don't know it's just what they have always said )

Acid rock & reflux, i have them both

I never wanted to go to california but i do want to go to arizona only because then i can ride all year round 8)

more a knee and shoulder than a hip

Never liked the rolling stones and hope i never get a kidney stone

More like getting a call from the principal

Still say screw the system, they are never going to fix it

Always hated disco and costco

I have to give in to the parents haircut and the son with the shaved head

And i was watching when the first shuttle blew up at work on a big screen tv with 6 other people at work

Enough for me 8)

[Faustus]

In 1975 all i was doing was crying and shitting. I still feel old though... stupid hair...

[Conquest10]

I was born in the early 80s and most of those still apply to me. Don't know when the compact disc came out and McDonald's actually still used styrofoam around here until a couple of years ago (it said on the bottom it was made from recycled goods so I'm not 100% sure it was really styrofoam).

[BJ_M]

was made from old diapers

[Conquest10]

was made from old diapers

So that's what made them so tasty.

[Faustus]

McBLT hot side cold side

[ZAPPER]

Space Shuttle, Hell, I watched the 1st Moon shot!

"Where were you in 69? Smokin' dope and drinking wine"

Nah, actually I was only five at the time.

OK, remember when TVs had a dial knob to change the channel, and when they got old you had to wedge a matchbook or something behind them to get the station to come in? (Samething with an 8-track player)

Double albums were for cleaning your dope. An Oh Zee cost $30 bucks and it took three freinds to get together to buy a quarter.

Schwinn Stingray, M-80s, Tastee Freeze, Captian Kangaroo...

[hudsonf]

I remember cooking with Kerosene, Outhouses, Pumping your drinking water by hand and if you did have a TV; you were lucky if you got 3 channels. When your having fun!

[MackemX]

http://funcop.net/videostar.swf

[NormaJ]

My first TV, when I was a child, black and white, only two channels, just a few hours of broadcasting per day.

[BJ_M]

http://funcop.net/videostar.swf

good one -- and very true

[Treebeard]

http://funcop.net/videostar.swf

Its been a while since I saw that, lol.

[reboot]

Space Shuttle, Hell, I watched the 1st Moon shot!

I heard the beep beep from the first (russian) satellite!
I watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
I remember when the NHL only had 6 teams.
I remember when we got our first phone, no TV stations, even if you could afford a TV, and 1 radio station.
Bicycles only had 1 speed.
The average car weighed more than your house.
A dime would buy a gallon of gas, and give you change.
I was going to quit smoking when cigarettes hit 25¢ a pack.

[hudsonf]

I remember when we got our first phone,
I was going to quit smoking when cigarettes hit 25¢ a pack.

I almost forgot about the old party lines.
I finally had enough and quit at 36¢ a pack.

[ZippyP.]

To decide if a girl is old enough for him to date a friend of mine likes to ask, "Do you know who Mork from Ork is?"

[MackemX]

I'm not old, I'm just crazy!

[Doramius]

I remember:
Rotary Phones (and party lines)
playing albums at 45RPMs and laughing
playing singles at 33 1/3RPMs and laughing
first Beta machine rocked because you never missed Starsky & Hutch
Jukeboxes existed and they cost $.10 (and were still called nikelodeons becuase the price recently went up)
First class postage was less than todays postcard postage.
You still found dirt or unpaved roads in city areas.
Brown, orange, pea green, & pastel blue striped shirts were Da' Bomb.
Paid $80 for a calculator that had basic add, subtract, multiplication, & division functions, Had red LED numbers, ran on a 9volt battery, and was the coolest thing.

[AlecWest]

I remember cooking with Kerosene, Outhouses, Pumping your drinking water by hand and if you did have a TV; you were lucky if you got 3 channels. When your having fun!

The first house I lived in with my stepdad had an outhouse and a hand-pump for drinking water. But, food was cooked on top of a big metal stove we threw wood into.

My first TV, when I was a child, black and white, only two channels, just a few hours of broadcasting per day.

Me, too. My stepdad finally moved us all from the ranch to John Day, Oregon. We got 2 channels by microwave translator - both from Boise, Idaho. I grew up thinking Cecil Andrus was the governor of Oregon (grin). The first program of the day, usually around 10AM, was the Liberace Show. And unlike on the ranch, we finally got a new gizmo called (ahem) a telephone. We didn't have to turn a crank, though. We picked up the handset and waited until we heard, "Operator - number please." My home's phone number was "71." My best friend's number was "244." By the time I was in my teens, we "upgraded" to dials ... and my number changed to 575-0071 ... my friend's to 575-0244.

BTW, here's why it's not wise to mess with old people (grin):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=163331162673210702

[Doramius]

I still remember when stations went off the air for the evening, and the StarSpangled Banner would play both when they went off, and when they came back on.

[Treebeard]

I still remember when stations went off the air for the evening, and the StarSpangled Banner would play both when they went off, and when they came back on.

I remember the old National Anthem Playing too, miss that

[Conquest10]

I still remember when stations went off the air for the evening, and the StarSpangled Banner would play both when they went off, and when they came back on.

I hated that. As a teenage boy, that's just when channel 11 was starting to get get good. Then all of a sudden, off the air.

[Doramius]

Today nearly all stations run 24/7, but many public broadcating stations still run the national anthem. It's usually at midnight, or immediately after a show that happens to run through midnight. There's an advantage to that as for FCC reporting those statins can clearly mark a reset of programming for each day.

Though not important to other people, Stations need to report the beginning and end of their boradcasting days. Or at least they used to. FCC rules may have changed slightly in the last 8 years in regards to broadcasting schedules.

[AlecWest]

I still remember when stations went off the air for the evening, and the StarSpangled Banner would play both when they went off, and when they came back on.

The station I remember most (KBOI, I think) signed on about 9:30 AM with a politically incorrect "Indian-Head test pattern":



... then, at 10AM, played the Star Spangled Banner. But when they signed off at night, they played this beautiful flowery music real low ... showed video taken from an airplane ... and read John Gillespie Magee's 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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.