Lets see how the different ages stack up on our forum.
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Lets see how the different ages stack up on our forum.
Get off my lawn and fix your poll, ya punk
I'm not yet 60, and I can remember getting under our desks to hide from Ruskie attacks and lining up in the hall in the duck-and-cover for 'Nader Drills
I've seen that stuff on TV. Must have been crazy growing up way back then. I'm in the 40's but I've never owned even a single 8-track tape.Quote:
Originally Posted by onething
I never watched MTV, nor have I ever had an interest in it.
But I'm 24.
Is this a mental or physical age? ::Banana::
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Looks like I have moved from one category to another since I created the last poll. :-(
Man... I always wanted a Beat It jacket to go with my sweet-ass parachute pants. But, alas, I had to settle for the Members Only jacket with the sleeves pushed up.
Poll=Fail--->MTV sucks
Chris
I wanted the parachute pants. Had to settle for sewing together the very thick lawn and garden trash bags. Only problem at the time was I could not get trash bags in red. LOL..
I never owned an 8 track or had a car that had an 8 track player in it...
My DAD had 8 tracks - but don't ever remember him having anything to play them on...
I couldn't afford the Members Only Jacket ether. I thought they were cool! Well, back than I was riding the bus in sub zero temp, instead of taking government hand out!Quote:
Originally Posted by trickyrix
I'm torn. I still have a few 8 track survivors (as well as a mint condition Craig 8 track player/recorder for those of you who may want to tape some of your favorite albums), but I was a single digit kid growing up (age 2-11) in the 60's, which would explain why I can't remember it much.
Then again, I remember the drills where we would go out into the hallway and kneel with our heads down with hands over our heads being called storm drills.
Put me down as fortisixiftyish.
Here I am, 62 years, 6 months and 3 days old.
I think some of you guys are spelling it wrong, I think it is Empty V.
I remember listening to "The Lone Ranger" on radio, long before my family bought our first TV, a round screen, black and white, Philco. Not only did we not have iPhones, our phones did not have a dial. We just told the operator who we wanted to talk to.
That's now called voice dialing. I can download an app to my iPhone to get that nifty feature. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by cone-cerned
Don't you just love progress?Quote:
Originally Posted by black roadster
It doesn't come standard? I had that on a phone years ago... :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by black roadster
I'm 52 and remember the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of JFK very vividly. Of course I lived in Dallas at the time and was in the 3rd grade I think. We did the get under the wooden desk and surround yourself with kindling in case of a Nuclear fireball routine about once a month.
The main thing that has impressed me looking back at that time is the fact that when the President was shot the Principal of the school came on the PA and sent everybody home. That was entirely practical then because everybody's mother was at home. Think how impossible that would be today. Are you sure this is progress?
I can still claim the 40's category!!!::Banana::
(Until June)::Rant::
That would make you a 7 year old 3rd grade prodigy::Banana::Quote:
Originally Posted by creek
But you're right, even at that tender young age we walked to school and came home to mothers care, not day care.
kids.......................
yep, still have access to an 8 track recorder and remembered swapping out the in dash into two different pick ups and have a stack of tapes that would probably break if they hit a player.
I turned 8 two days before the assasination. Started first grade at 5 because I would turn 6 in November. Different school rules in those days, there was no kindergarten.Quote:
Originally Posted by cam76034