You know you're getting old when...

[Cycleguy007]

This thread was inspired by this post:

which brings up an interesting question:

It's been a while since I have been in any sort of school, do you still lose marks for spelling errors even if it isn't an english lit type class? I remember at Ryerson when I was taking business management courses the prof would deduct 1/2 point per error. This was LONG before spellcheck too. This was when everything had to be done on a typewriter and NO whiteout was allowed. I remember getting to the last line and FUUUUCKKKK me....mistyping a word.....

:tongue:

So...

You know you're getting old when...

You can remember a time BEFORE word processors... (which were pretty much commonplace by the mid 80's.... Remember Word Vision? Or Word Perfect????)

 

[Art Mann]

So...

You know you're getting old when...

... you can remember dipping a straight pen in an inkwell in public school and using a blotter to clean up the mess on the page.

 

[Insertion]

You're getting old when you brush your hair and pick up the fallen hair out of the sink and try to mix back into your remaining hair.

 

[Cycleguy007]

You still have LP record albums, but haven't owned a usable turntable in about 20 years! :shock:

 

[Art Mann]

Yup ....

So much history in those liner notes ... and every Roger Dean cover a stunning work of art

 

[Cycleguy007]

You know you're getting old when...

You read a post like this:

Yup ....

So much history in those liner notes ... and every Roger Dean cover a stunning work of art

And know EXACTLY what the poster is talking about and spend the next 5 minutes reminiscing about Yes & Asia!

(But I don't remember the ink wells... Man You ARE old! :tongue

 

[Art Mann]

Bought several albums based strictly on the Roger Dean cover art. That's I discovered Alexis Korner, the double album Bootleg Him!

As for the straight pens and inkwells, the really stupid part of it was that ballpoints had been prolific for years, yet were still banned in public school.

Did you never sit in one of this little desks with the hole at the upper right corner for an ink bottle?

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Did you never sit in one of this little desks with the hole at the upper right corner for an ink bottle?

Jesus I'm getting out the Geritol right now. I remember that.

And I'm calling BS on CG not having a turn table.

 

[Cycleguy007]

Did you never sit in one of this little desks with the hole at the upper right corner for an ink bottle?

Yep... but I went to a REAL old school in grades 3, 4 & 5.

And I'm calling BS on CG not having a turn table.

Nope... no turntable... Finally got rid of it when I moved from Scarberia to London in 1993. (OK, so maybe it was 18 yrs ago instead of 20! LOL) But I kept the more sentimental value LP's.

 

[peace]

you are getting old when someone said, "Man do you remember the Six Million Dollar Man"....and their reaction would be,"Huh???"

ps...then there were WOnder Woman, The Bionic Woman...The A Team...

 

[roamingguy]

you are getting old when someone said, "Man do you remember the Six Million Dollar Man"....and their reaction would be,"Huh???"

ps...then there were WOnder Woman, The Bionic Woman...The A Team...

Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) The Bionic Woman (Lindsay Wagner), not to mention Charlie's Angels, the original Charlie's Angels (Farrah, Kate Jackson, Jacklyn Smith, then Cheryl Ladd and two others that never made an impact on me)
And yes, I had a turntable
And in public school, a spot for inkwell, but not used, ballpoint pens were invented by then
And in university, typewriter...make a mistake, backspace, use the eraser, what a pain in the ass
RG

 

[scenicdrive]

You are getting ready for old folk's home. Is that old enough??? LOL!!!

 

[LisaOfToronto]

you're getting old when you remember you once had a pager .... ahhh damn nevermind arty:

 

[CG411]

You know your getting older when your looking for Pez in the candy section of a store

 

[Danolo]

They still make PEZ.. I saw it in a store a couple of years ago...


You know you're getting old when you remember your first car (it was a 49 Ford)... and because I didn't have any money at age 14, I bought gasoline in a quart container... the gas station guy would let me fill up an oil can.. for a dime... with that amount of gas I could tear up and down the back alley a few times...

So, at 10 cents for as quart, that was 39.9 cents per gallon....

Popsicles were a nickel...

And, at age 14, i was just starting to discover what I could do with my penis... one handed!

 

[Art Mann]

And, at age 14, i was just starting to discover what I could do with my penis... one handed!

Did you lick it?

 

[Danolo]

ewwww... no, , as I said... with one hand!!!!

 

[tboy]

You know you're getting old when:

If you wanted to talk to your friends, you went to their house.....because your parents wouldn't let you use THE phone (and you only had 1 per house).

A cellphone was the size of a attache case and when they went "portable", they were the size of a toaster

PC was just the short form of piece

Push button phones were the "next big thing"

Pop came in returnable (with a deposit) glass bottles

Newscasters smoked while on air

Kids didn't have add htadd HDadd, they were just precocious....

Gas was skyrocketing to...wait for it....39 cents a gallon

 

[Bill The Pirate]

you are getting old when someone said, "Man do you remember the Six Million Dollar Man"....and their reaction would be,"Huh???"

ps...then there were WOnder Woman, The Bionic Woman...The A Team...

wow.... I thought the six million dollar man was a guy who hobbies alot

 

[tboy]

wow.... I thought the six million dollar man was a guy who hobbies alot

with inflation that cool 6 mill wouldn't even get him a good ocular implant these days...if they ever remake it it will have to be renamed the 60 million dollar man lol....