You know your old when...
 

You are older than the parents of the new hires...

You quote Dean Wormer: From this point, they are on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION. And the audience is just staring at you. Never heard of Animal House... Who is John Belushi?

Statement: This is a type of Catch-22. Response: Huh???

Statement: Number 9, Number 9, ..... Response: We don't have a number 9.


Yep, feeling rather silly now. Inputs welcome!

...you call the refrigerator an "ice box."

...you still say, "Dial the phone number."

...you know what a pull tab on a can is.

...you call the t.v. remote the "clicker."

...your cell phone is only a cell phone.

Who is Frank Zappa?

They buy weed by the gram and are shocked that you used to get 10-12 doobies out of a nickel bag.

You are old when you even know what a "nickel" or "dime" bag is.

You know are old when you know the proper spelling of "you're" :)

You remember when MTV actually played music......

You remember " FM converters" for car radios

Ahhh Frank! He even wrote some nice classical music!


Remote in my house was:

Go to the TV and change the station. OK Dad, which one, 2, 8, 11, or 13?

I grew up in Houston, those were the only stations I remember at that time. 39 (Paul Bosch Wrestling?), 26, 20, and then more came years later. We never got cable when it came out and I really didn't care by that age.

comic books were ten cents.
hostess cupcakes were ten cents.
coca cola was ten cents.
telephone call was ten cents.
nickle bag was five bucks.

where did the time go?

4 finger lid?

Commersh?

Paraquat?

Tai stick?

EDIT: I have no idea what those terms mean, I just remember hearing them when I was much younger ;)

when you and your teeth dont sleep together!

When a lifetime warranty is only 2 years!

When you remember when TV was free.

You wonder how you made it through high school without the Internet or a cell phone.

When you are out having a few beers with co-workers after work and a hottie walks by you comment "I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers" and they all look at you like you are from Mars.

welfare was not cool..
virgins were not ugly 12 yr olds..
80% of your class was not legally medicated..
DMV did stuff in english only..
there was no press 1 for english..
criminals didn't get to blame their dog or Mom..
Cragars..
Mickey Thompson..
0.>> 60 under 7 seconds was fast..

Rika

Jensen Triaxes...
Craig Powerplay

I was having lunch with a new young client yesterday and I mentioned that I was going to see Rush in a couple weeks-- she had just recently heard of them because her roommate is dating "another old guy that likes Rush too." I just turned 40.

My dad filling up the 65 Beetle Convertible for $2.00, with regular costing $.269 per gal.

Driving on the new interstate at night with the pedal to the metal, seeing no one except that set of lights behind you. If those lights caught you, well they caught you fair and square. You then followed the nice gentleman in his black and white to the nearest Justice of the Peace and promptly paid the Justice your $5.00 speeding ticket in cash,thanked the man and while the two kept chatting you got into your car went back to the interstate and proceeded to bring it back up, pedal to the metal.

Do remember gas at 17 cents/gal.

Being less than 100 miles away from Woodstock and being asked if I was going to the big concert. Hell no, was too into driving my MGB down the east coast to Miami, jumped on a plain to Jamaica and spent Woodstock time on the beach.

When boarding a plane was just boarding a plane, no security, just show up before it left.

When we got our first TV set in 1954 and I went to the back of the set to see if my family could see me on the TV.

When the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan show with those mop head haircuts.

When you had to know MS DOS to run a puter.

Wow I had one of those 8 tracks!

ibm dos!

When somebody posts about "going to see" Rush and you figure out it's a band, not Rush Limbaugh.

When M.D.'s say "at your age..."

When you can remember where you were the days both Kennedys were killed.

When you still call the TV a "boob tube" :)

Yea, I have an original copy of IBM DOS 1.1. State of the art 5.25 inch single sided floppy.

I also have a patent pending Microsoft mouse with a steel roller ball and two big green buttons.

You know you're old when you can date a woman half your age and she never gets asked for ID at the bar.

Dude! I had a pioneer super-tuner with a 100 watt graffic equalizer from the swap meet running 4 triaxes, but they weren't jensons. Couldn't afford them but it was still coooooool.

you know you're old when you are no longer able to write your name when peeing, but you can spell it out in Morse code.

OK, how about if you can remember when a full sized van with a mural painted on it and red velvet and carpet all over the interior was the coolest thing on the road ......

when you plop down on the toilet and feel something cold and wet...and realize its your nut sack. Or 'roids:eek:

When you refer to a 928 as an exotic.

I remember my buddy Joeys dad had a blue and silver metalflake Dodge with a blue velvet and fur interior with a bed in the back with a roman archway and columns in it. With a mirrored bar. It had a huge seaside murals painted on it with small porholes on the side. It was called the Silver Shark We used to go to all these custom van shows with it.:D

Zackly!
My oldest brother's best friend had a dodge van done up the same way, that thing was soooo coool!
When I got old enough to buy my own van it was still kinda cool, for about 6 months. Then it stopped being cool real quick like.
There wuz nothing wrong with it but it sat in the back yard for years without moving.

I had a dream a while ago that I still had that van but had forgotten it for a long time. I was all jazzed about finding I and drove it all over the place in the dream.

No I don't want to know what that means.

...you could get gas if you had even numbers on your lic. plate.

And yet we were still surprised to get pulled over in those rolling weed ovens.

If you've owned an 8 track player.

the girlfriends nephew has never heard the "scrree-ooochhh-eeee-skraaaaaawwk" dial up noise. he's had dsl his whole life. never had to deal with 14.4bps


i feel ancient.

A dime bag was virtually too big to hide in one's underwear. We're talking forty doobies here. After all the seeds were removed, which could be done with a shoe box or folding album cover.

Musicians used to issue "records."

It's not that bad. I'm only 23 and I remember dial-up.

GatoTom: I am rolling now!!! I still remember the spanking I got for climbing behind the TV to see if everyone could see me on the tube! I was also wondering if I was in B/W since that was what the set was!


Heck, when I learned computers we had punch cards and paper tape. I liked the paper tape until one would tear on you.

I still gots some 8-tracks, but no player. I do have two record players! (including a first run direct drive Garrard with Shure cartridge and diamond stylus)

I gots to remember the crackers comment and see how that goes, gotta remember to do it when only guys are around...

Thanks! I feel MUCH better now!

When you don't buy green bananas.
You have two shelves of supplements in your medicine cabinet.
You own a white belt and white shoes.
you have all your furniture and it's in the right place.
you sound like your Dad.
having a good bowel movement is more important than sex.
A big night out is being home at 10 p.m.
you decide no more pets.

When you know what the alternate use for a McDonalds or Burger King food tray is.

Worked much better than album covers.;)

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