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We got a new stock of office supplies today (I have an unnatural and unabiding love of office supplies) and included were dry erase markers with the eraser attached.
I declared them ‘cool’ and then said to the receptionist “remember those eraseable bic pens that were all the rage in highschool? They were blue with a black eraser and they worked like crap but we all tried to erase stuff just because we could?”
She looked at me blankly and said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
And yesterday, as I saw three kids in the open back of a pick up truck, laughing and standing up, I yelled in my car “We’ll see how funny it is when you break your necks!”
Truly, I am no longer a child.
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A very good idea for a thread, Mr ham, I’ll have to rack my brains for some other examples.
Hitting on folks, then realizing they were born since you started having sex? Check.
But what makes me feel really old? When two admins quit in quick succession, and leave me the Old Man of the Datacenter, and in the top five oldest people in the company. The idea of a computer with ram measured in kilobytes is alien to my co-workers, a great deal of them do not actually remember running a computer without a windowing system before this job. Thankfully, one of the aforementioned admins came back, and now I am second oldest in the datacenter, and sixth oldest in the company. Not a bad spot to be, I guess.
Yeah, I do sound like the guys who used punch cards…sigh.
Oh, and explaining to an adult that Ozzy Osbourne was in a band before he had his solo carrer was very, very, odd.
Recently in a thread here about stupid advertising, someone mentioned Ricardo Montalban’s Cordova commercial and “fine Corinthian leather,” prompting another poster to thank them for providing the context for jokes their parents had made years ago which they had never understood.
…it’s not just that I remember when the ads were on the air — it’s that it seems to me that “fine Corinthian leather” achieved such a saturation point and was parodied for years in various high-profile places for years after the ad’s run had finished.
Ha. Try having sex with folks, and then realizing they were born after you started having sex.
<Geek> When I realized that I learned about transistors 21 years after they invented, and more than 21 years had passed since I had learned about them. And that was a long time ago.
My (younger) daughter’s high school history book had lots of chapters about stuff that had happened after I went to high school.
And I say humph to the Area Code discussion - I remember before there were area codes (and zip codes) and I remember the Alan Sherman song about them- the Let’s all Call Up AT&T and Protest to the President March.
Voyager
My first electronics instructor (1972) considered transistors to be a passing fad.
The thing that really irked me was buying a Paul Simon CD in the late '80s that I had originally bought in the mid '70s on vinyl. The CD was marked “Historic Re-issue.”
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High school?? I was in my second year of grad school! I remember consoling myself by thinking “by the time they get around to reinstituting the draft, I’ll be too old for it.”
I’m glad my parents’ generation are still around. My mother saw Singin’ in the Rain on its first run when she was 12, and my uncle still has his first-edition copy of Kind of Blue. So I’ve got miles to go.
(On preview…I have 2 years on Cervaise, share his general outlook, and hope I can achieve his level of optimism.)
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“Miles to go?” Heh.
And my phone number when I was a kid was BEacon 4-0708
I am 59. I felt really, really old last week when my doctor (who’s in his 30s) gave me some sample pills and recommended the dosage level for geriatric patients. Why, that whippersnapper. I woulda smacked him with my cane if only I remembered where I left it.
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Seeing the ever-so-sensitive medical term “Elderly Prima Gravidas” on my chart when my daughter was born. And that was almost 10 years ago.
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That’s nuthin’. My mom had that on her chart when she had me at age 30.
I had hearrd a couple songs by Panic! at the Disco so I decided to download the album last week, anyway I decided I liked it so I looked up Wikipedia to see what it said about them (hey I was bored). The lead singer is 20.
The first phone I remember using was a party line.
The first Doctor Who I remember was Patrick Troughton.
I was a member of the computer club at school (we used punched cards; they got shipped off to an obliging local company and run overnight; we got printout back the next day. If we were lucky) and everybody got excited when the school bought a new computer that had something called “graphics”. It was a TRS-80.
That TRS-80 came with a magnificent four whole K of memory. Later on, they upgraded it to 16K, and the teacher who ran the club told us, “Right. First person who uses all that up gets banned.” Because now we had so much memory!
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That TRS-80 came with a magnificent four whole K of memory. Later on, they upgraded it to 16K, and the teacher who ran the club told us, “Right. First person who uses all that up gets banned.” Because now we had so much memory!
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My family had one of those when I was a kid – TRS-80! Except we had the Model III. It had a whopping 48 K of ram. And it had the two 5 1/4" floppy drives. We were steppin’ up from the older model, which had to use the screechy cassette tape drive. Ridin’ in the fast lane of the computing world!
I found a Dollar Bill on the ground today at school, and then had to explain to our office trainee (a very intelligent young lady, I have to add) what it was. Paper Dollar bills were pulled out of ciculation in 1984. She was born in 1989 and has never seen one.
