You know you're old when...

“Cleaning out the office, found a whole bunch of old 5&1/4 inch disks, some 720 K disks & bunch of other "ancient" stuff. Showed it to the self-proclaimed "hotshot" computer-geekish teenage son, he'd never seen such archeological findings before!

Didn't try to explain the DOS install disks or the new, revolutionary Windows for Workgroups Ver 3.11 stuff....

Damn, I feel old!!!”

“Don't feel so bad wanderer..
The computer that is stored in my room is a Tandy 100.. it takes those ugly huge floppys that are as big as my hand..”

“last time I cleaned the office I tossed some old 8 inch floppies for Intel MDS systems and a few HP 2645 tapes”

“I'll just say this: Paper Tape.”

“Phew! I don't feel so bad. I used to use Basic on Commodore Pets.”

“I just upgraded my computer so I could play Pong.”

“anybody of the guys out there got a dikydo?”

“I also just found the documentation for my first laptop - a Tandy 1100, with DUAL 720KB disk drives!!! WHHOOOO. Hard Drive? We don't need no Steekin' Hard Drive...how could you possibly store more than what you'd need on the 720 KB floppy??”

“I feel old, Sass got me a nose hair trimmer for Kwanza this year.”

“Are you gonna use it in your ears?”

“I just burn mine back twice a year.”

“YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN "BABY BOOMER" AND "GENERATION X" IF...
A little long but worth the time..if you want to relive the 80's!!!
1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool.
2. Any photograph of you shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the collar turned up.
3. You know any "Weird Al" Yankovic songs by heart.
4. You've ever rung someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
5. You were once bowled over by the technological excellence of such products as Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco.
6. You remember the premier of MTV-or worse yet, you remember its predecessor, "Friday Night Videos."
7. You and your friends ever discussed having a reunion at the end of the century and playing Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.
8. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
9. You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was alternative, and when "alternative comedy" was really funny.
10. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
11. Related to No. 10: You rode in the back of the station wagon facing the cars behind you.
12. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases: "You know, back when..." "When I was your age..." or "When I was younger..."
13. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you learned things like grammar, math and history. (A big hint here is if the only way you can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is by singing it.)
14. You ever dressed to look like someone in a Madonna, Cyndi Lauper or Duran Duran video.
15. You remember your first kiss with someone having happened while either "Leather and Lace" or "Crazy for You" was playing.
16. You remember with pain the day the Green Machine hit the streets (or the sidewalks), instantly making your Big Wheel obsolete.
17. The age-old question "Where's the beef?" still makes you laugh.
18. You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly have more advanced special effects than "TRON."
19. You had a crush on Ted the photographer on "Love Boat," Gage from "Emergency," or Ponch from "CHIPS."
20. Your hair at some point in time in the '80s could only be described by saying "I was experimenting."
21. You've ever shopped at Benetton, Merry Go Around or Chess King.
22. You're starting to believe that having the kids in school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
23. You're currently employed doing something that has absolutely nothing to do with your college major.
24. U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
25. You remember trying to guess which episode of "The Brady Bunch" it was by the first scene.
26. You had a front-row seat (i.e., blew off one or more classes) for Luke and Laura's wedding on "GH."
27. Your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
28. You know who shot J.R.
29. You recall when Love's Baby Soft was in every girl's Christmas stocking.
30. This rings a bell: "My name is Charlie, and they work for me."!
31. You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on.
(Related item: you were sure that "New Coke" would NEVER catch on.)
32. You know all the words to the double-album set of the "Grease" soundtrack.
33. You've ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
34. You sat with your friends on any given Friday night circa 1982 and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny was actually there.
35. "All skate, change directions" means something to you.
36. You've ever owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork used to wear.
37. You bought a pair of Vans and wanted to order a pizza in history class just so you could be just like Jeff Spicolli. (Related item: if you've
ever smacked yourself in the head with a shoe and exclaimed," I'm so wasted!")
38. You owned a Preppy Handbook.
39. You were too young to see "Blue Lagoon," so you just had to settle for the second-hand reports.
40. You remember when movies were only PG and R.
41. You learned to swim at about the same time "Jaws" came out....and still carry the emotional scars to prove it.
42. You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch, and your "cable remote" was connected to the TV by a CORD!
43. Your jaw would ache by the time you finished one of those brick-sized packages of Bazooka!
44. You remember Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy, Boss Hogg, or-worst of all-at Sheriff Roscoe's full name was.
45. Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost the size of a coffee table.
46. You found nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
47. You remember having a rotary phone.
48. You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
49. "Members Only" jackets...say no more.
50. And lastly, I'll make a song stick in your head for the rest of the day:
....you actually remember the words to the theme song of "The Greatest American Hero."

("BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKIN' ON AIR...I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL SO FREE-EE-EE...")”

“whew! I feel like Orbitmanifesto..........”

“Phew! Dodged that one. I never had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
























AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! DID SOMEONE I KNOW OR WENT TO SCHOOL WITH WRITE THAT??? AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!”

“BTW Pete, thanks for the flashback.


(WHO COULD IT BE......BELIEVE IT OR NOT IT'S JUST MEEEEEEE)”

“LOL.

had nothing to do and I was cleaning out my e-mail. need I say more”

“Well, it's about to head out in another email, LOL.”

“you need viagra.

you find an old deck of punched cards in Bell-L1 Language prepared for an early IBM 650 Computer.

You know you're even older if you remember the office Monroe Calculator used before the 650.

Thank goodness, you're only as old as you feel. And I feel so young it's just like I'm starting out.”

“half the guys you know can repeat

"THOSE DARN DUKE BOYS..gehgehgehgeh" with Sheriff Roscoe's accent”

“Hey, we've still got a piece of equipment at work that uses paper tape to load programs! Circa 1979!”

“you remember when 3-D movies started.

you remember when the first color movies were produced.

you remember hand cranking to move the record turn-table on the RCA phonograph player.”

“Something tells me nowslimmer has us all beat.”

“this was all pre 1950 ? right? before "Jimmy the teeth" was your fuhrer... i vaugely remember some monstrosity called an eight track tape , also i believe records were still being pressed, prehistory I think was the term the instructors used...”

“Hey, you, haiku rhymer, what are you 10?”

“you remember when the American and National Baseball Leagues each had eight teams.

you remember when Chicago had two professional football teams.

You remember the ice-man lugging blocks of ice to the third floor for the ice-box from his horse drawn wagon (in Chicago).”

“See what I mean?”

“sure beats me out.......heck this is becoming the "you know your younger when........."
thread”

“Exactly.”

“you can have the Cardinals back

Isn't that redundant? Phoenix (bird) Cardinals (bird)”

“I remember the man selling veggies in his horse pulled carriage going up and down the streets yelling vegetables and fruits. How about the Corvair or black and white TV shows. The washing machine that had a hand crank wringer, had to fill the machine by buckets of water and drain it by a hose. Geesh why did i read this thread.”

“You see a piece of ass and have fatherly feelings.”

“I don't feel old yet.....:)”

“when your son listens to the same song you grew up with and he flips out that you know the words”

“you remember when public TV really got started.”

“you remember the original radio shows before they were TV shows, luckily I don't remember that but I do remember our first TV that had a solid steel cabinet and weighed a ton and had a very small screen”

“I remember the first cable tv box right when it came out.”

“"iluvbacking", you make me feel really old when say that you remember the cable TV box”

“And the Oscar for "Most Honest Answer" goes to.......





















Steve Hiker”

“you're going on 70.

But you know you're still young, when you can:

still backpack strenuous trails.
raise 240 lbs. 18 inches 20 times in less than 30 sec. on the back extension.
swim 2.25 miles and still be fresh.
compete in aikido judo.
split 3 inches of wood with your hand.
ride your two wheeled bicycle no-handed.
.”

“The kid, that you're training at work, was born six years after you started working there.”

“you remember when there was more snow on the TV screen than there was in the yard.”

“I remember when "big hair" was in.

I remember when cool meant sic and gnarly meant sketchy.

I remember when Wilma Flintstone and Daisy Duke were sex symbols.

I remember when Donny Osmond wore purple sox.”

“i remember when we used to go to McDonalds after school and get a burger, fries and coke for 53 cents or was it 58 cents...and they had only sold 1000 burgers...heh (.you know you are old when you cant remember ....(hey, didnt there used to be a "cent" symbol on a keyboard?)”

“Really, Treebait?? Papertape is still out there? That is truly scary. The last time I saw it was 1974.

After that last post, I think we can be sure that Gear Slut is Female. Anyone who remembers ANYthing about Donny Osmond would have to be, LOL

P.S. You know you're getting older when you begin to prefer the uphills to the downhills.”

“...a good crap sounds better than a good screw.”

“Tilt.

"P.S. You know you're getting older when you begin to prefer the uphills to the downhills."
Tilt
07:40:29 AM
12/28/01"”

“you bend over to tie youre shoes and you wonder what else you can do while youre down there.”

“When I got my first motorcycle, I could buy a gallon of gas and a pack of smokes, from the machine, and get change back, from my two dollar bill.

Today, we don't have gallons, no cigarette machines and no more two dollar bills, either.....”

“....when you are chewing out your sons and you find your father's words coming out of your mouth.

...you remember Coke machines with real bottles, for .15 .

...you remember soft drinks in cans without pull tops.”

“you remember going to the neighbor's house (along with most of the neighborhood) on sunday nights to watch the only two color television programs on the air on the only color tv in the hood....walt disney's wonderful world of color and bonanza....”