ole heads will feel this ....

[firecracker08]

Who remembers when the tv channel would go off? I mean OFF, like regular broadcast hours are over and the screen made that weird noise. There were no shows after regular broadcast hours

Saturday Morning cartoons were the bomb! And how could I forget WWF(at that time) Superstars, came on at noon here, but it was the only wrestling I knew. Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage and Elizabeth(who I wanted to be so bad!) I used to beg to order Wrestlemania! And that was the one and only pay per view wrestling event for the YEAR!

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

LOLOLOL! And then when your Mom got home, she was ticked off talking about how she had been calling all day and somebody was on the phone so she kept getting a busy signal!!! Ha! That was hilarious in my household - of course we never laughed when she was complaining.

ETA: Of course, your Mom could call the operator and have her "cut in" on a call and then she would amazingly appear on the line with you and whoever you were talking to. Yes, it happened to me before. LOL. Those were some crazy times.

oh heck yeah, (SC, are our moms twins?) She'd come home and wonder "what fast-tail girl I was on the phone with" that she couldn't get through. My mom cut in on me more than once. ...which, by the way, is hayle on your telephone mack.


...by the way, I appreciate that I ROCK, and the kudos and all, but I got this via an e-mail, and just wanted to share it with my GP peeps. It's not an original creation.

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

If you are 30 ....
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the musty-a** library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog and the friggin' duey-decimal system! And if you couldn’t find it you had to deal with the crusty attitude of that old a** librarian lady, who was like 68 years old and had that chain holdin' her glasses down like dem joints was going to fly off, yeah, that lady who felt like she was doing you a favor by being there.

WHY was I just talking about this with someone the other day!

There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! and a stamp! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

I still write letters from time to time.

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

Me and my brother used to live in Vogel's record store, the one that was in Bizmarkie's video, LOL

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on![

Sometimes I still get the urge to buy the TV Guide.

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off you’re a** and walk over to the TV to change the channel. And don’t let your a** have insomnia, cause at 1 a.m. guess what --> TV went OFF! You got the Star Spangled Banner then America took its a** to bed!

YES! And I remember 'Love, American Style' used to come on like 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and wake my azz up.

And there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastids!

Cartoons were so important back then, because you only had a certain time that they were on. Man, the good old days, LOL

[OOhsoflyDELTA#9]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

LOLOLOL! And then when your Mom got home, she was ticked off talking about how she had been calling all day and somebody was on the phone so she kept getting a busy signal!!! Ha! That was hilarious in my household - of course we never laughed when she was complaining.

ETA: Of course, your Mom could call the operator and have her "cut in" on a call and then she would amazingly appear on the line with you and whoever you were talking to. Yes, it happened to me before. LOL. Those were some crazy times.

OMG!!!! I had blocked this out cuz you KNEW your tail was in trouble if they had to do that!!!
How about being told that you had to stay in or out during the summer cause you was letting all the cool "air" out the house...
Lil OOhSo comes in a million times for a juice box or snack...man we had to keep the same cup ALL day and we had set times to come in and eat...not at our leisure...when I tell her about what I didn't have or how I grew up she asks why me and her Nana were so poor!!!! (lil spoiled so and so.. )

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by OOhsoflyDELTA#9

How about being told that you had to stay in or out during the summer cause you was letting all the cool "air" out the house...)

YES!

[SummerChild]

Wasn't it though? Crazy! LOL.

Originally Posted by crimsondanger10

OH Snap! I forgot about the emergency cut-in, that was some bull

[OrigamiTulip]

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

[laylo]

Originally Posted by OOhsoflyDELTA#9

How about being told that you had to stay in or out during the summer cause you was letting all the cool "air" out the house...

Oh yeah. Once it was so serious that the adults locked us outside. Then it started raining and they still wouldn't let us in. So we snuck in through the window, and do you know grampa's belt came off? Just for trying to stay dry? I mean dang.

[ladygreek]

Black and white TV only.
Rotary phones and party lines.
Broadcast day ending with the national anthem.
No cable at all.
One TV and one phone and everyone fought over both.

[luvmypearls]

I could remember when television would go off. Man, you knew you were in trouble when you heard the Star Spangled Banner and you were not ready to go to sleep.

As for the telephone, I know what it is like to have to answer telephone and take your chances with whomever it was that was calling at the time. Let's just say that I only answered the phone one time saying "my mommy said that she is not here" and I never made that mistake again.

I thought having a pen pal was the greatest thing. I mean loved to meet people with the hopes of having someone to write. As a kid, I loved getting mail.

I remember when there was no cable, but my aunt had HBO and Prism. I remember sneaking and watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious and being scared out of my mind watching Tales from the Crypt.

I remember being told that I was running up the electric bill because I was looking in the refrigerator. I also remember recording music from the record player and the song would make those cracking sounds when you would play it back.

On Saturdays, after the cartoons went off, I loved watching roller derby. Heck, I wanted to being in the roller derby. Then soul train was my everything when I was in junior high and high school. Heck, I went to junior high, now there are only middle schools where I live.

Man, those were the days...

[KAPital PHINUst]

Originally Posted by mulattogyrl

YES! And I remember 'Love, American Style' used to come on like 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and wake my azz up.

Was your memory of this circa 1990-1991 perchance? Because I remember that show coming on Comedy Central at 6 a.m. while I was getting ready for school (my HS senior year, btw)

[pinkies up]

Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

Happy Birthday!!

Anybody used to illegally turn on the t.v. when you got home from school, and your mama would touch the top to see if you had it on?

[Obsession8]

Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip

I turned 30 today, and reading this made me a little sad... I feel old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I "joined the club" last year (will be 31 in Sept.). Like everyone else, this post brought back memories, some fond (i.e. Saturday morning cartoons) and some not (i.e. moms listening in on calls, Sat. as clean up day, etc.).

These chilluns today just don't know...

[BlueReign]

I can't imagine how I EVER lived without caller i.d. From bill collectors, to people I don't want to be bothered with, ex-boyfriends, etc. We had to answer that phone back then and not have a clue who was on the other end!

The "tv-going-off-song" had to be the saddest sound in the world for a night owl like me.

There was NEVER any sleeping late on Saturday mornings cause you didn't want to miss your cartoons.

I think the worst thing I can remember back then was missing out on a well-paying assignment with a temporary agency. They told me they called all day and couldn't get through cause my line stayed busy!

[StarFish106]

Even though it comes on boomerang why can't they put on the Buggs Bunny Road Runner show back on from 9-11 on Saturdays?? sigh...thems some good cartoons..these kids don't know what they are missing.