When I was a kid... - Page 2

DeltAlum · #16 01-17-2003, 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by justamom
HA! Loved it! I do some of that with my kids. We talk about TV-we had the 3 stations growing up and they all shut down around 12.

We had four, but one was a UHF (above channel 13) PBS station and nobody watched it.

Back on the farm (yee-haw) our phone didn't even have a DIAL!

Mrs. DeltAlum was a farm girl. No wonder I like your posts so much.

Girls would hibernate in their dorms, waiting for THAT phone call which NEVER came. When it did ring, it was the jerk you tried avoding all week.

Damn. I'd forgotten about dorm phones. We had one phone per floor section in the hallway. It had different rings for each room. One time someone answered it and knocked on our door saying it was the FBI for me. I said "right." It really was. A high school friend was applying for a job and had used me as a character reference.

The guys-those poor, poor dears, had to settle for National Geographic or, like you said get some guy to buy it for them.

Unsolicited plug. This months National Geographic has a photo spread on Athens and Ohio U. done by the students in the Visual Communications Department there. That's the department oldest daughter graduated from. It's the article on zip code 45701. It think it's the first time students have done this kind of thing.

On movies-
I clearly remember when Romeo and Juliet came out, all the guys RUSHED to the theater to see Olivia Hussey's boobs.
...and all the parents thought the boys had been inspired by Shakespear!

Well, I really liked the music.

carnation · #17 01-17-2003, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by justamom
HA!

On movies-
I clearly remember when Romeo and Juliet came out, all the guys RUSHED to the theater to see Olivia Hussey's boobs.
...and all the parents thought the boys had been inspired by Shakespear!

Oh, that was priceless!!!! DeltAlum, I loved the post and justamom, your friends must have been nicer than the kids at my high school! All the girls wanted to go because they'd heard you got a view of Leonard Whiting's butt!!!!!

DeltAlum · #18 01-17-2003, 04:10 PM

Carnation and JAM,

When I was in high school (fake ID? ME?), there was a bar at Ohio State called "The Library."

Guess how many of us used "going to The Library" several nights a week?

Didn't even have to mention Shakespear.

Optimist Prime · #19 01-17-2003, 04:36 PM

hahaha, old people are funny.

Tom Earp · #20 01-18-2003, 01:14 AM

Oh Billy, if you are lucky, you too may make it there!

Rudey and champ, your sh*t do get underwhelming!

If dont have a retention span, dont read the funnys in the newspaper! Oh, the thing in black and white or are you still doing color in the lines. One of these days you make graduate to color by numbers!

Naw wont happen, have to have some sense and class!

Oh I know you both have class, THIRD, but a lot of it!

Adieu chillin mister sandman is calling

TTFN!

Peaches-n-Cream · #21 01-18-2003, 01:35 AM

justamom · #22 01-18-2003, 08:44 AM

Carnation-All the girls wanted to go because they'd heard you got a view of Leonard Whiting's butt!!!!!
Welllllllll-now that you mention it!

Delt Alum-Guess how many of us used "going to The Library" several nights a week?
...and I bet you kept a straight face all the while!

Yep Billy, old people ARE funny. One day you will be funny too!
(Now you know I'm just joking with you!)

japhir · #23 01-18-2003, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Carnation and JAM,

When I was in high school (fake ID? ME?), there was a bar at Ohio State called "The Library."

Guess how many of us used "going to The Library" several nights a week?

Didn't even have to mention Shakespear.

There's a bar in Austin on 6th St called "The Library". I still use that as an excuse even though I'm not in college anymore.

Atari Rocks! I still have mine and about 20 games. I love playing it. I suck at Playstation, but I can beat any Atari game every time. I blame this on poor hand-eye coordination. That's what I get for playing soccer where you can't use your hands.

carnation · #24 01-18-2003, 10:09 AM

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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
hahaha, old people are funny.

LOL Billy! When you get to be our age, will you want to be over the hill or under it?

AlphaSigOU · #25 01-18-2003, 10:12 AM

Back in my days of youth and innocence (Bullsh*t!):

The drinking age was 19, but it was ridiculously easy to get a drink without flashing a fake ID. Guys (and gals) in my class proudly boasting about getting drunk on Mai-Tais, spending our lunch drinking pitchers of cheap beers at a local dive. Or stocking up on potent potables at a drive-up liquor store not far from the high school.

Parties at 85th Street Beach and Haulover in Miami Beach. Cops run us off one place - we'd regroup and continue in another location!

Cable TV that only had about 20 channels and NO remote - just a channel selector slider box connected to the TV. And waiting until your neighborhood was wired up for cable!

No Nintendo, no PlayStation, just Atari 2600, ColecoVision or Mattel's Intellivision. Anyone remember Mattel's Electronic Football?

Getting used, cheap muscle cars as your first car. Sucking gas and haulin' a**!

Watching old, overloaded and decrepit propliners and jetliners barely struggle to get off the ground at Miami International on a hot and humid day. (At least you can still see that today!)

South Beach was a senior citizen ghetto and developers were looking for an excuse to raze the whole area (Art Deco be damned) and build new condos.

Watching our high school English teacher use his preferred method of transportation - a skateboard! (He still does it today!)

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since I graduated high school!