You know you're old when...

“that's pretty old.”

“Damn....even for me.”

“Yeah, you're pretty damn old, lol. I remember ink wells, but we didn't use them.”

“I used to have a desk when I was a kid that had a hole for an inkwell. But it was an antique that my mom had.”

“one of my kids once asked me how we warmed up our leftovers if we didn't have microwave ovens.

lol”

“When I was a kid, my school desk had a hole on top of it...I always wondered what that hole was for.”

“aw :( my desk didnt even have a hole :(”

“The ink well on the top and all that dried up gum underneath. Carving the initials of you and your hoped for 8th grade girlfriend with a big heart on the seat. Having someone stick out their foot and trip you as you stumbled back to your seat from one of your embarrasing oral (Classic comics) book reports. Priceless.”

“Blotting paper was used for blotting.
Wide nibs for fancy script.

ink, everywhere”

“You know your old when you remember when one computer filled a room!”

“.....when you went to the bank to cash a check for cash.”

“lol,,,so true”

“youre nowslimmer

HAHAHAHAH

sorry

hehe”

“you hear the songs from your high school days now being played on the "retro" or "oldies" stations....

(Since when did music from the 70s & 80s become "oldies?!"

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Thinkbubelz & I were at a bar with some friends who are about 8 yrs younger... A song by "Men At Work" came on and our friend asked us... "Isn't that by the group ToTo or something like that?"

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How about working with high school students who are getting ready to go to college and they were born AFTER you started college?!”

“Remember the blue memo-graph machines teachers used to make copies of quizes and test on. I can smell the ink still.”

“one of my kids once asked me how we warmed up our leftovers if we didn't have microwave ovens.

lol”
Roam Around
9:59:43 PM

Hey Roam, did you tell them that back then we could afford to eat out and get a hot meal that way?”

“There was no sales tax!!!

A pack of cigarettes cost 16¢.

A hamburger with everything(lettuce,tomato, onion, etc.), fries and a malted milk shake cost 35¢.”

“how 'bout remembering when milk was $0.05 (or less!) for a half pint at school?”

“Hey, I bought milk for a nickel at school!”

“I got free milk at primary school.

Saturday afternoon matinee movie was 9 pence.

Got the serial, mostly an oater where the hero fell off a cliff at the end, but then next week starts with him grabbing a tree 2 feet below the top or diving into a river (a la Butch Cassidy) and on for the next 'exciting episode'

Got the movietone news.
Got the movie, all for less than a shilling.”

“what the hell is a shilling?”

“yeah, and whats a pence?

where's Y2 when ya need him!?”

“A shilling was 12 pence.
20 shillings to a pound.

There was even a 1/2 penny coin.”

“You know you're old if you remember
Dixie Cup meant ice cream! They had movie star pictures on the lids and then war machines, baseball players, etc. The lids are now collectors items worth some money. Unfortunately, I threw all my lids away.

"Most people over 55 recall with nostalgia the Dixie Cup ice cream picture lids that appeared all over America from 1930 to 1954. ... Sadly, 1954 was the final year of the ice cream picture lids, and to this day, a blank underside remains on all ice cream cups."

”

“And we used to eat the ice cream with a small, wooden spoon, sort of like a small, rough-surface, flat stick!”

“All oldies who remember that, say aye!




Aye!”

“You guys used to have ice cream in those little cups? Did it come out of a soft-serv machine in the bathroom?”

“When I was in grade school, you had to order a hot lunch, milk or ice cream cup. I remember those little wooden sppons and the ice cream cups. A hot lunch meal was a quarter, milk was 3 cents, ordering milk and an ice cream cup was a dime. Wow...I must be old.”

“I wonder if they quit printing them because the ink was a hazmat problem.”

“The ice cream cups still come with the little wooden paddle to eat with. Milk costs $.35 at hot lunch now. It was $.10 when I was a kid.”

“Wow, I guess I'm an oldie Canuck (56). I think this is the first time we both (Americans and us) had the same snack food.”

“Yah, we don't get much whale blubber jerky down here, lol...”

“The best whale jerkys are the one's from a whale that's still flopping around. :o0

As Sass said, they still give little wooden spoons with some ice cream snacks.

Anyone remember skateboards and roller skates with metal wheels? I threw out a skateboard like that 2 years ago....I should've kept it.”

“stanlee, I definitely remember rollerskates with metal wheels and bottoms. I hit this kid in the head with mine for throwing a rock at my cat.”

“Is Dixie Cup still another name for a White Hat?

What's a White Hat?”

“

"Is Dixie Cup still another name for a White Hat?"
Snake Eyes

Perhaps, but that would be new to me. Dixie Cup meant ice cream for many years, but things can change.

white hat - a Whatis.com definition - According to this site, "White Hat" means a hacker who does it for good purposes. A hacker was always a good guy, but newspapers, etc. have associated the term with the bad guys. So I guess somehow the term "white hat" was started to describe the good guy hackers. (This is new to me.)

I first saw the term "White Hat" used in Chicago in the 50's. A large auto outfit dressed all their people in white hats and ran a large advertising campaign promoting the white hats to identify the "good guys!" Since then I've always seen the term associated with "good guys."
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“...when a late night on the town means missing the earlybird special down at the local cafateria.”

“Good research, but not the answer.

A white hat, or dixie cup, is that dorky looking hat the sailor is wearing on the Cracker Jack box. Well before my time as a squid, they were always known as "Dixie Cups". Just wondering, in this new modern Navy, if the tradition still holds (?).”

“I had metal skates. No key though. Also had metal lunch boxes. I hit a kid in the head with my little house on the prairie box.

Am I making you guys feel younger?”

“I remember the hats. I probably heard the term a few times, but can't recall for sure.

Ha, I wore a "White Cap" when I sold "Good Humor Bars(Ice Cream" in the forties.”

“N.S. - the phrase of yours that most completely establishes your eligibility to post here (as if anyone was doubting it, lol)is "but I can't recall for sure."

Sass - did you know that Nowslimmer was the guy that actually built that "Little House" on the prairie? He also built a littler house out back, j/k.”

“lol! =)”

“Sass, I bet you wish yo ustill had that metal lunch box. They are big items in the antique world esp if you have the original thermos that went with it.”

“I lost that first house when "the ice went out!" I moved to Minnesota in winter time and some one told me that the thick ice cover on the lake stayed all year. Dumb swede that I am!”

“I had Waltons dolls too, Sonny and Cher and Betsey Ross dolls. My brother's GI Joe with real beard and accessories sold for $800 last year. Crazy eh?”

“you can remember using a toaster that only toasted one side of the bread at a time.”

“I still have one of them. For some things they cannot be beaten.”

“You see the Boston Red Sox win the series twice. LOL

Did you hear that the oldest man in the world just died at 113. He was active till the end. Spent more than half his life retired. You go boy!

There's an old monk here that's 104 and still very active. Its nothing to see him walking around by himself with nothing more than a cane. I saw him the other day feasting on cheesburgers. If I live that long I can only hope to be that healthy.”

“I'm sure I posted on this thread before, but anyways, here's another comment:

Something about the spirit of a person can keep them young... :-) I think it's the psycho-somatic placebo effect.

If you believe you are healthy and young, you'll tend to stay that way... if you feel "old and decrepid" then, you will become that reality.... :-)

I'm constantly being mistaken for someone about 10 years younger... :-)

It's all in the Attitude, baby! ;-)”

“Thats called immateurity.”