You know you're old when...

““I didn't know which movies were in color because my folks refused to buy color TVs for a long time.”
Leofric1
1:39:21 PM

Man, that was my parents! I didn't see color TV until I left home.”

“One of my first purchases on starting my first job after college was a color TV. I was still to cheap to buy one with a remote control thou.”

“Me too. It was the TV that refused to die. I got rid of it by donating it to a local charity a few years ago.


A Goldstar, BTW.”

““I didn't know which movies were in color because my folks refused to buy color TVs for a long time.”
Leofric1
1:39:21 PM
10/28/05
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Sounds like my grandmother. She didn't own a color TV until the mid 1990's.”

“"_you talk about your record albums and your kids have no idea what you are talking about.”

“... you remember when you could buy penny candy for a penny.”

“My back hurts from falling asleep on the couch. Has NEVER been a problem before. Yikes, Im getting old.”

“It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong, something's wrong, something's wrong”

“When you can remember making two purchases to get your candy to save a penny on the tax, so you could buy more candy.

Used to annoy the cashier at the U-Totem to death.”

“My mom grew up with her grandparents; my G. grandfather refused to buy a tv because he believed it was bad for the eyes, gave off too much radiation, and the crap on the tv would rot your brain anyways. He was a pharmacologist.”

“I'm so old, I remember getting one channel with rabbit ears... wait, that's what I have now.

Ok, I remember tv before cable and I remember tv before they had remote controls. I remember that when a commercial came on we kids were like cockroaches when the light goes on. If we were too slow, we were stuck standing at the tv, flipping channels for our Dad. Yup, it was a man without children who invented the remote. :O)”

“Yeah, I can still hear the "clunk" of changing the channels, even though there were only 3 of 'em. That included VHS.”

“When your friend sees your hiking photos on line and calls to see if you are feeling ok because you didn't look too well in the photos.”

“When you remember watching Elvis, live, on the Ed Sullivan show...for that matter, all TV programs were live...

The remote channel changer in your family was you...

When you listened to albums on 45's..before 33 rpm albums existed...”

“I think I still have one album that needed to be played at 78rpm!!! Some classical stuff.”

“What the hell is penny candy?”

“I still ain't so old that I can relate to Stevehikers post on the first page though..............

Thanks God!”

“Wow.... Spirit lyrics!”

“Back atcha, there, G-beet!”

“You remember watching donkey softball games.”

“Wow, guess I'm old.”

“We had donkey basketball when I was a kid.
Never saw donkey softball.”

“You ask a college student to type up a form and they stare at you blankly and ask "Where do I put in the paper?" (when referring to the typewriter.) *** This didn't happen to me, but my friend told me about it happening to her.


Your child comes running out of your computer room in a panic with a black and white copy of an image in her hand. She thinks she's broken the printer/copier, because it is only printing in black and white. (Another true story told to me by a friend.)

The college students you are talking to not only do not have phones in their residence halls, they have never had to own an answering machine because their rooms come with voicemail already hooked up to their phone service--if they even use the land lines at all....Most students carry cell phones these days! (When I started college, my residence hall still had rotary phones, and answering machines were still big and bulky and required a cassette tape--That was only 20 years ago!)
last edited: 12/13/05 5:01:31 PM”

“my son once asked me "dad, what's an album?"
my reply "it's like a cd, only bigger".”

“We had donkey basketball games at my high school and I'm not old!”

“I was IN a donkey bball game once. ouchy.”

“Forget about 8-tracks...”

“One of my second graders told me she thought I was 60 years old. She laughed and laughed when she realized I was actually younger than her own mom. She really couldn't believe it. Yikes!”

“what the hell is doneky softball? im picturing barnyard critters playing ball and its making me laugh.”

“Baseball Ain't about Horsing Around "The batter, let's say it's the local high school assistant principal, stands next to a donkey. Once he hits the ball, he mounts up and rides to first base. Out in the field, everyone's on a jackass. You've got to field the ball as best you can, staying connected to the donkey by at least the reins. The joke is that donkeys are stubborn and won't run the bases and won't let you field and everyone makes a fool of himself and has a good laugh."”

“dang...I learn something everyday...”

“stubborn and... everyone makes a fool of himself and has a good laugh."

sounds like TT”

“Donkey Basketball
by Nolan, grade 3

Yesterday I wached donkey basketball in Onekama. It was really funny. My dad was in it. He got all the bad donkeys. Mr. Finan fell off his donkey and hit the floor hard. He's probly sour today. Mrs Brown made a shot and today shes really happy.

http://www.onekama.k12.mi.us/m2002/donkey/basketball.htm”

“actually, them donkeys are pretty tame and don't move much so you can even stand on their back and make a shot....but there is usually one or two jackasses in the bunch.”

“You know you're old if you can remember that:
"Once upon a time Italian Tenors grew on trees."”

“you can remember "lil nowslimmer"”

“You go on an easy bike ride and still have to stretch out on the floor when you get home.”

“LOL....a few weeks ago my daughter and I were spending Dad and Daughter day together...I got a fire call and took her along. She is standing out front with the Reporter. She was wearing some tan shorts and a tank top.

I am working the fire, and I hear the Engineer on the Ladder truck say,"Dam^, the little blonde next to the reporter is going to be DAMN dangerous in a couple of years."

LOL...I look over the rafters at him and said,"Trev, you know that is my 11 year old daughter?"

HE ABOUT DIED (LOL)...he remembers when she was a little baby that her mother brought by the station....”

“I bet he was embarrassed AND feeling old after that!”

“LOL..took him a week to even talk to me. Thats not bad, We had another firefighter who came in with this INCREDIBLY HOT Red Head. We are all trying to figure out what is going on. She starts talking to me. And finally asks..." Bet you don't remember me?"

I apologized that I didn't remember her, and she says, "Gosh a guy never remembers when he sees a girl naked?'

LOL YEARS and YEARS ago when she was a baby she had a MAJOR incident in her diaper and her dad was NOT able to handle the explosion. SO I changed her for him.”

“If it don't hurt it don't work.”

“I was feeling pretty old last week when I was in Qubec watching all the young studmuffin street performers...especially this double jointed guy...”

“I am thinking about going back to school. Several weeks ago I was at an info session for the program I am looking at. Basically, it is a 6-year program for high-school graduates entering college or a 4-year program for those who have had some college, or, like me, are long done with college. Well, I looked around the room and saw a bunch of people my age and a bunch who were obviously high school students. After a little while it occurred to me that the adults were the parents of the high school kids. Turns out, the high school kids were all juniors. They don't have licenses yet! OY, did I feel old!!
- Scott”

“Too much school makes #$@^( a bad boy.”

“When I went back I was older than most of the professors. A lot more fun that way. I just sent the bastards to time out:)”

“LOL...nimble I was in a Public Admin class in Graduate school and the debate over Carter Reagan broke out.....the professor was 27 or 28 (this was in 2000 meaning prof was born in 1971 or 1972)during the debate the professor made a stock comment about how great the Carter years were. I responded with "Gas Lines? 21% interest rates, the misery index? I am sorry what do you see that was great about ANY of that?"

The professor got a holier than thou look and said,"What do you know about this?" I laughed and said," I was in High School and going to college when that period was going on." The professor looked at me and said, "You were born when?" "1962"

LOL...the professor changed subjects.

The cool part about going back to school is I became "surrogate dad" to many of the kids having problems.”

“Your officemate was born after the first time you had sex.”

“XL, YOUR PROFESSOR WAS TRYING TO TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT THE CARTER YEARS WERE?

Daaaaaang, I know John Leo makes some pretty good points about pointy headed “liberal” college professors, but that’s just sad.




You know you're old when your nose hairs have long been gray and your ear hairs start falling out.”

“you can remember the Campfire Marshmallows that came in a box about twice the size of a box of wooden matches.

”

“I have no idea what those are....................YES!”