[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

I can recall a deep voice saying "Better cover your ears. There's going to be a Big Bang any moment now....."

 

independently operated brick and mortar retailing. actually going into a store what wasn't a franchise to buy something.
and not having to own a car to live in a town of less then a thousand people, and actually being able to leave town and get back the same day without one and more then once a day too.

 

Oh, that was you there? I didn't recognize you with those gills.

 

I'm so old I remember when everything was black and white.

 

matchbox cars that actually came in a little box exactly the size of a little matchbox. little matchboxes for that matter.
electric typewriters didn't exist yet, though baudau teletype machines did. (hell if i have the slightest idea how to spell that.
i remember how the worked though; four binary bits and a shift bit) some people adopted them as i/o for single board computers,
when you still had to build those from kits. though western union was still using them, and every railroad station was also a western union teletype office and had at least one of them.
and the same five bit low data rate parallel system also supported five level paper tape readers and punches.

 

Whoa! You remember all that "complicated" stuff.! I remember jerking the side door open in our little home town theater when I was 10 years old and flinging balloons at the seated--well not for long--patrons and running like hell to evade the indignation of those who figured they were not supposed to get wet at the movies! (Picky fuckers, anyway.)

And "no sir officer--it wasn't me that rode that motorcycle on the greens at the golf course, rendering them useless for a time. Would not do such a horrible thing. No sir."

 

I'm so old remember watching this when it first came out on HBO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHQXz5oDlc

 

I learned to type on one of those typewriters with the ball head

 

TUT! You mere yoofs make me angry,wiv yer chatter about recent stuff. I'M so old I can remember wandering around on a hillside one day and suddenly hearing the sound of a chisel on stone. I walked over to see what was going on=I was wearing my best sandals, and there was an ancient bearded bloke chipping away like crazy on some flat bits of rock. I asked him what he was doing and he said "The boss wants me to walk back down this f#cking hill carrying all these tablets of stone,to give out the 25 commandments! Well he can get knotted-I'm too old for this shit-my arm's knackered and the chisel's gone blunt,so these'll have to do"; Then he picked up the stone tablets he'd already done,farted,and walked off down the hill. I sat there,wondering what on Errf was going on...and I heard an echoing voice from below loudly saying "The Lord hath given these ten commandments-deal with'em,suckers".......strange day,that was.....I never smoked that stuff again......

 

I'm so old I remember giving birth to that lazy tablet chiseler.

 

i remember when everything was green and brown and blue, and black and white hadn't been invented yet.

 

I remember when I literally told my kids when they were little, that I remembered when everything was black and white. "really, daddy?" "yeah--we had to close our eyes when they changed over 'cuz it was so bright!" Then when I was working on my car one day and one of the boys started to pick up some tools---I said -"look out--that might blow up!! He jumped back. I got tired of looking for my tools and finding in the grass here and there. Not so easy to fool these days. I also remember when the little suckers would fling a
gallen or so of ice water over the top of of the shower to hear me holler!! Good times.


FUCKIN' EDIT BUTTON DOES NOT WORK SOMETIMES!!!!!! I KNOW HOW TO SPELL GALLON

 

I made the hill he was on....

 

I'm so old that I remember playing outdoors as a child.

 

me too. making roads in the back yard with tonka trucks and going for long walks in the woods by myself.

climbing around on old abondond wooden railroad trestles.

 

Yeah,yeah....blah blah...sigh. I'M so old I remember Ugg,my neighbour,inventing the stone wheel - but there were no roads,so it was bloody useless! UNLIKE my own invention-the axle!

Yay me-coz without my invention,Ugg had invented the stone Frisbee!

 

i remember when bear spirits were feared because they were dangerous, but also respected because they could heal injuries and diseases.

 

i can remember when digital clocks and watches were something out of science fiction, now you can almost only find non-digital ones in historical fantasy.