“Wow, what grade where you in the year I was born?”
Podkayne strangles cute little undergrad.
Jeepers, when I was a kid, we had to learn how to interpolate from a trig table . . . using a calculator. Guess that makes me some kind of living missing link.
Gosh, you people really are old!!!
Now, let me go sit out on the porch and talk to the neighbors…
“You had Transformers when you were a kid?”
I was in an arcade playing Pac-Man when some prepubescent pug looked from the screen, to me, to the screen again, and asked: “What’s the point to this game?”
What’s a slide rule?
“You mean a Kennedy was once President?”
While talking with a young child in my neighborhood, at one point he asked “Why don’t you just have them leave a message on your answering machine?” I explained I didn’t have one because I had a rotary dial phone. **What’s a rotary dial phone?" ** the tyke asked. I told him “one with the dial on the front with holes in it, that you pull around in a circle.” He looked puzzled so I told him “your mother can explain it to you!”
Err, umm, I used a slide rule my first year in college…
In response to a comment that the Jane Fonda workout tapes were still some of the best overall aerobic workouts
“Who’s Jane Fonda?”
“What’s Pong?”
A kid actually asked me this. I could’ve shot him.
I know the answers to all these questions, and I’m only twenty-two. I dunno if I should feel spiffy, or just hopelessly out of date …
“DOS? What’s dee-oh-ess?”
From a 19-year-old with whom I was on a date (I’m 30):
“Dennis Miller was on Saturday Night Live?”
“You actually remember not having an answering machine? But how did you get your messages back then?”
“Which way is counterclockwise?”
“This CD is great, and I think they do a cover at the end.”
“Yeah, that’s the Cure”
“Who?”
-or-
“Yeah, this CD is great, they do a cover at the end”
“That’s the Pixies”
“Who?”
>What was Pong?<
Let’s see, I covered the patent infringement trial for Electronic News in Chicago (late 70s) over that. Hazeltine claimed that a seminal patent covering CRT displays (from oscilloscopes) gave it claims against Magnavox. Funny: I don’t even remember what the outcome was.
And Pacman – when it first came out there was a young lady at the office (I was a young man then too) saying that our favorite saloon had a cool new game. “I don’t know the name of it but everyone calls it ‘Eat Me,’” she explained.
Claiming it to be too noisy, kept asking the name of the game until my excitable colleague is yelling (in the open-carel offices), “It’s called Eat Me! Eat ME!!! EAT ME!!!”
But to contribute to the spirit of this thread more directly, there’s the question our 7-year-old asked my wife: “Mom, were you born before the Civil War?”
And – what’s a party line?
“What’s a Smurf?”
What makes me feel old isn’t a question, as such, but I was in the library at my school a while ago, and there was a little 3 buttoned mouse lying there. It created some interesting thoughts, because when I was a little kid they were everywhere, and this one, the first I’d seen in ages, was in the garbage…
I’m 15 :eek:
What’s UHF?
You got to see TWO movies for one price? AND cartoons? (Usually followed by a suspicious look when told the price was 50 cents.)
You had to put your skates on your shoes…with a KEY??!?
My barber asked: “Would you like me to shave your ear hair?”