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vash 02-01-2018 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 9909725)
Another option would be to reply .... "that's not what your mother said".

pffftt..damn dude..i'm glad we're friends!

we are good right.? :)

Noah930 02-01-2018 02:01 PM

I have a college friend who went back to get her PhD. When she went to IT to (re)activate her school email account they just used her original email address, from when she was an undergrad. The school uses the 3 initials of your name, followed by a number (in numerical order). She was "hek1@...." The IT guy was shocked, as he had never seen such a low number before.

KFC911 02-01-2018 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Noah930 (Post 9909908)
I have a college friend who went back to get her PhD. When she went to IT to (re)activate her school email account they just used her original email address, from when she was an undergrad. The school uses the 3 initials of your name, followed by a number (in numerical order). She was "hek1@...." The IT guy was shocked, as he had never seen such a low number before.

How many remember their college ID #...I do.

Then again, I can tell ya the serial number off my Schwinn bicycle from 50 years ago....I was gonna be able to identify it ...but theft wasn't even a problem back then ;)

sammyg2 02-01-2018 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by vash (Post 9909862)
pffftt..damn dude..i'm glad we're friends!

we are good right.? :)

We are if you don't mind being associated with someone like me ....... SmileWavy

Otter74 02-01-2018 04:05 PM

It wasn't backhanded - it was just his way of saying, "not bad for an old guy"

plexiform 02-01-2018 05:11 PM

still using aol, but i also have gmail....who care's if it was backhanded. Doesn't sound like it was. But if it was, my thoughts on backhanded comments are that they are usually coming from a negative place in the lives of the people making the comment. I wouldn't sweat it.

masraum 02-01-2018 05:45 PM

Everytime I see a reference to AOL and something being current, I always think, "WTF?"

It's amazing that it's still around. I'd love to know how/why and where are they getting money.

I think I gave them a shot with the free week or free month of Internet about 19 years ago. They didn't cut the mustard, but I'm pretty sure that the company that I did go with (Netcom) is probably gone. (I just did a search, apparently Netcom got bought out by Earthlink, and there are still folks out there with someone@ix.netcom.com email accounts.) I remember Earthlink too, and had one of their free month accounts before Netcom.

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Originally Posted by KC911 (Post 9909946)
How many remember their college ID #...I do.

Then again, I can tell ya the serial number off my Schwinn bicycle from 50 years ago....I was gonna be able to identify it ...but theft wasn't even a problem back then ;)

No idea, but I can tell you that the number for Gumby's Pizza in Tampa that delivered to USF was 977-2000. You could get a large 2 topping pizza delivered for $4.99. And that was DAMN GOOD pizza!! I suspect a lot of it had to do with being broke and starving. Still, every Mon, the laundry room had a 2' tall stack of empty pizza boxes.

Before Gumby's came in, the main place that we ordered from was 2-4-U pizza. 2 small 1 topping pizzas delivered for... you guessed it, $4.99.

RSBob 02-01-2018 08:27 PM

I still use dail-up, use a rotary cell phone and drive a 43 year old car. But then I am 63 which anyone younger than 20 makes me old as dirt. Now time to update my IOS.

look 171 02-01-2018 09:50 PM

So, tell me bout' this rotary cell phone

svandamme 02-01-2018 10:10 PM

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petrolhead611 02-02-2018 02:23 AM

I still use the original AOL email address I acquired when I first went online, and I am only 68

KFC911 02-02-2018 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 9910221)
....No idea, but I can tell you that the number for Gumby's Pizza in Tampa that delivered to USF was 977-2000. .

One of my old buddy's house address in Jax is burned into my memory from 30 years ago. I'd have to look up the delivery #, but remember where they need to deliver it ;) Cracked him up a couple of years back when I recited it....he hasn't lived there in a couple of decades.

Can't recall names and faces worth a damn though...


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