Getting Old...

[Millenium Mallard]

30 Years Difference:

1973: Long hair
2003: Longing for hair

1973: KEG
2003: EKG

1973: Acid rock
2003: Acid reflux

1973: Moving to California because it's cool
2003: Moving to California because it's warm

1973: Trying to look like Liz Taylor
2003: Trying NOT to look like Liz Taylor

1973: Seeds and stems
2003: Roughage

1973: Hoping for a BMW
2003: Hoping for a BM

1973: The Grateful Dead
2003: Dr. Kevorkian

1973: Going to a new, hip joint
2003: Receiving a new hip joint

1973: Rolling Stones
2003: Kidney Stones

1973: Passing the drivers' test
2003: Passing the vision test

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1985. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

[judge jb]

you are bringing back too many memories... i was always the one who had to go out and turn the antenna....

judge jb

as Johnny Carson said " safe sex meant a padded head-board "

[Chuckle12]

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

I still to this day can't get in the ocean without that music going thru my head...

[marshman]

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.


I was always the one my dad made to get up off the couch and change the channels on our t.v. And we only had 3 channels!

[QUACKERS]

the good ole days and how much was gas back then

[regishay]

hell, i even remember my dad and grandad opening the top of a beer can with the pull off tabs. Makes me feel old and im not even 30 yet. Can say we had 4 channels though, NBC CBS ABC and PBS. Then eventually got WDBD. Must have flipped through those 5 channels a thousand times. Guess it was good practice for the 100 channels i got now, and amazingly still nothing good to watch. Only good channels are Food Network, Discovery Channel, Weather Channel, AMC, and probably TWC cause they show Jerimiah Johnson and The Duke from time to time.

[crow]

Each generation has its bookmarks in memory. That list makes me feel very old. But, this generation will remember September 11, 2001, just like my parents remember Pearl Harbor and just like I remember first watching footage from Vietnam in my living room and having no idea where that place was. Wish I had never found out!

I still remember when premium gas went to .40 a gallon and I thought I would never recover. I also remember thinking pop tops were the coolest invention ever! (Is it a myth that they were patented by an engineering prof at State?)

But some things stay the same. In high school and college, I thoroughly enjoyed mini-skirts and hotpants. I still do, and so does my son!

[iron grip]

does anyone remember the first time Jesse jackson ran fo prez? seems like he's tried fifty times?
I remember when we got cable TV. And sipping on my dad's beer while looking at the people with bags on their heads at the Saints Games.
The first cell phone I ever saw was almost as big as this computer I'm on.
What else?

[BeastMaster]

remember when aids came out and the big scare was that anyone could catch it, so they started putting the disposable seat covers in the bathrooms and no more social kisses.....remember the first CD i ever heard/saw Dire straits just south of George Town..... lol... McDonalds in styrofoam.... i forgot all about that one.... McD was the place to be.... only went there a few times a year and that was only after winning a big ball game if we were lucky.

[duck_nutt]

6 million dollar man
bionic woman
farrah fawcett...who didn't have that poster?
cokes .25 and in tall glass bottles
remember filling my Honda 90 three wheeler up for about .80 cents...
after school we watched 'the brady bunch' followed by 'gilligan's island' before we went outside....
cartoons only came on saturday mornings...then tarzan came on at noon..
remember trying to split a tree with a hatched like the intro to 'daniel boone'?
G I Joe with the kung fu grip and steve austin(6 million dollar man) with the bionic eye you could see thru...
PONG was the video game
mom bought a new contraption called a VCR and it cost $800.(she still has it and it worked when she put it in the closet)
mom never worried about us walking around the town...be home b4 the street lights came on..
kick the can..
mallards were 25 points suzies were 75
man, I'm gettin old...

[Spoonallard]

I think I'm going to go dye my hair. Damnnnnnnnnnnn yallllllllll! Heck I remember where I was when the first shuttle blew up, when elvis died, and when ragan was shot. I tell you what I miss the most is Capt. Kangaroo. Used to love those ping pong balls. Does anyone remember romper room. I see david and jill and paul and susie. The good old days.
Papa Spoon

[duck_nutt]

"I'M 38 AND IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE' Damn those soloflex commercials!!!!!!!!!I think he says 42 now, so I still got time!!!!!!!!!!!!sophmore year of college at MSU when the shuttle blew..I had an early class and was the only one awake...roommates were upstairs and thought hell had broke loose when I started yelling at them...remember romper room spoon..had a g/f in school that was on the show...I mostly remember those cups with strings they walked on....and the cardboard car they walked around with........

[teul2]

remember romper room spoon..had a g/f in school that was on the show...I mostly remember those cups with strings they walked on....and the cardboard car they walked around with........

I was on that show one time. A LONNNGG time ago.
I hardly remember it.

[crow]

What was the dance show that used to come on Saturday mornings on one of the Jackson stations? I remember that a black funeral home was the sponsor, and I can still remember the ad.

"Peoples Funeral Home, to ease your mind in your time of bereavement!"

[regishay]

What was the dance show that used to come on Saturday mornings on one of the Jackson stations?

I believe you are talking about


SSSOouuuuuulllll TRain


it still comes on, but Conelus Brown doesnt host it anymore. That show and the kungfu movies played about the same time.