Edited movies on TV with commercials. This is how I saw most movies as a kid back in the 80s. I’m sure these are still aired somewhere, but no self-respecting younger person I know of has ever sat and watched one.
I remember them. If there was a movie I wanted to see coming on TV, I was eager right up until the big dreaded big letdown was displayed right between the opening credits and the beginning of the film itself: “edited for television”.
Yeah the ad breaks were a pain, but the real disappointment was all the cool violence and language was edited out. I may as well have been reading ‘Reader’s Digest’.
That led to the rather infamous “Yippee-kay-aye, Mr. Falcon!” edit to Diehard 2
and the infamous “Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?” edit to THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
They still have scented toilet paper. It’s the cardboard that’s scented so no skin problems.
Also, “I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!”
That is generally what is being referred to but originally the term referred to slapping both ears at once. It was quite dangerous, besides the physical impact of the slaps eardrums can be ruptured. For maximum effect the hands are cupped and then flatten on impact forcing air into the ears. By boxing both ears at once the victim can’t pull away from either side. Unless done lightly this will easily daze a person or cause them to lose their balance and fall, a little harder and damage to the ear can be permanent.
Great thread, I’ve spent more time on it than I should have. How about those metal roller skates that would just clamp onto your shoes? They were meanest toy I ever met! They had these little toe-holds, and a barely-there curve of metal mounted on the back for your heels.
The footplate had moving slats which made the skate adjustable, and a small metal key to tighten them up once they were on. They also had red leather ankle straps to buckle, but ours were so stretched out they were worthless.
Those skates NEVER stayed on my foot, and mostly I was just falling out of them. We were four siblings, but had only two pair of skates. One skate went MIA, so there’d always be one of us just doing step, roll, step, roll…but that was better than having to sit there and watch, waiting for that one skate to free up.
Now they’re considered vintage and are being sold on Etsy and ebay. Too funny.
The trick was wearing hard soled leather shoes so they had something to grip. Sneakers with soft rubber soles were just to squishy and the skates can’t grip the shoe.
Some skates had an extended set of front clamps that wrapped partway over the top of the shoe.
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Definitely the pliers on top of the tv set.
Sure, now you tell me.
We discovered we could change channels by jiggling the dog chain. It was very hit or miss though.
And it probably annoyed the dog a bit, too,
Dog : “Stop it, I was watching that!”.
Hitchhiking. “You’d get in a stranger’s car?” “And people would pick you up?”
Slurpee machines used to be behind the counter and you hoped the cashier would layer your cherry-coke slurpee rather than half coke topped with half cherry.
Or its mirror image: “You let strangers in your car?” “And you’re still alive?”
Stone roller skate and skateboard wheels. Far enough back if you wanted a skateboard you made it from roller skates.
I remember as a little kid when polyurethane wheels started to appear on skates and boards. You could still find old pairs of key skates with metal wheels. Usually the leftovers of older siblings. I only went to a roller rink a few times, but I remember thinking how much better it was on the new poly wheels.
Yeah, my first skateboard was steel skate wheels nailed on to a piece of 2x4, circa 1963.