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" Well, when I was your age, I remember when gasoline was 29.9 cents AND the gas station gave you free drinking glasses "




" Well, when I was your age, I remember when postage stamps were 11 cents "

" Gosh, grampa Greg, you really are OLD. What else do you remember ?


" why, when I was your age, I remember that music came on silver little saucers called Ceee-Deeeee's"

" and when I was your age, I remember when there was NO INTERNET.
And We could not Talk on the phone AND Drive our car at the same time !!! "



" Golly, grampa, you really ARE old. How did you meet Grandma ?"

" well son, we didn't have the Internet. We had to meet young ladies the old fashioned way. We had to buy a hammock, and hope they would meet us for a chocolate malt at the local drug store "

What do you mean it's not worth picking up? I remember when that nickel would have gotten you a piece of gum and a comic to read. You do know who Bazooka Joe is, don't ya'?

I'm sure someone will come back with penny gum, but I'm still only 34.

I'd be 92. I could probably run for president on the John McCain ticket!

"Hey you kids! Get off my lawn!"

I would be in triple digits by then that made my head hurt.

"When I was your age, there was this great show on television called Thundercats. God I miss that show."

thats a great one

When I see a penny/coin on the street, I pick it up. I consider it a token of good luck

I already tell those stories!

I do, however, miss the 4 cent Lincoln stamp. that sucker was around for years. Only 8 channels on the TeeVee: changing the channel with a pair of vice grips if the tuner was screwed up. The horrible zombie colors of early Color TV. Channels went off the air to the tune of the "Star-Spangled" Banner no later than 2AM. Watching the original Star Trek episodes for the first time. The 1969 Mets winning the World Series. Tranquility Base live.

Did any of you have that huge cable tv remote that looked like a computer keyboard? It had all the channels with a button for each channel that you pressed to change to that channel. It was also not wireless, as I recall. And it was beige. Looked a bit like a C64 keyboard.

We had PONG. The PONG game at the bowling alley cost a dime, as did the pinball games. Pack of Marlboros out of the machine was 35 cents.

Hahahaha great post!

thx, Carmen ! I put some effort into it


It was inspired by an experience I had at Home Depot on Sunday

I was buying a propane gas tank for my gas bbq grill

The price was $17 when I last did this purchase in March. It was $22 yesterday, which prompted a funny exchange between the Homey Depot cashier and I . Along the line of " I remember when this was, that was, etc"

When I was your age my balls didn't hang down to my knees, don't wear boxers...and get off my lawn. Wait a minute, go get my paper, then get off my lawn.

Here's a semi-serious one.

When I was your age, my husband and I couldn't get married and have that marriage recognized federally. It was thanks to President Obama and the Democratic Congress of the 'teens who sent John Edwards (ok, pick a name) to the Supreme Court when that rat bastard Scalia retired. The Supreme Court decision Jones v. the Internal Revenue Service found DOMA unconstitutional in that it violated the "full faith and service" clause and denied Jones the right to file his federal taxes as "married filing jointly," even though he had a valid marriage in California. As soon as DOMA was overturned, same sex couples across the country fought for marriage equality in their states, and slowly but surely, state amendments banning marriage equality were repealed, and marriage equality spread like wildfire across the land.

Here's hoping.

I remember Mash when it first started on CBS, then switched to NBC. I remember when the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" were on the Mike Douglas Show for the first time on the air. I remember when "Star Trek" was a 90 minute show and seeing it in color was sooooo cool. I remember Batman on for the first time, the Green Hornet with Bruce Lee. A candy bar was 10 cents. The city came through and put in sidewalks in front of our house and storm drains, then it flooded every time it rained. I remember drop drills in schools. I remember 8 track tapes, then cassettes. Vinyl records were in 78, 45, and 33-1/3. I remember when Bush was looking for Osama.

Those are good


I remember watching ( and being hooked on) Twilight Zone and Outer Limits

I think these shows conditioned us to 8 years of the Worlds Greatest Horrow Show host

Remember Ronny Raygun and Death Valley Days? He sure pushed that Boraxo.

By then I shall be an ex-Kona. All the men in my family die by 70.

I shure do


What was in Borax ? I have my suspicions


" I thank all of you for your kind thoughts, recollections. You know, my legacy was to get the federal government out of your lives, so you can all prosper as Americans. I am also proud of being a union buster. Heck, all corporations pay a fair wage and don't worry about health care. Hurt
yourself ? awww shucks, just spit on, rub it on and go about your day like a man should.

I also believed a C average was good enough. I was a C student and that never stopped me. And another thing, reading skills are over rated.
As governor, I am very proud of defunding the California public school system, especially the California UC system. Some said it was a model education system, but I sure taught those radicals at Berkeley a lesson by calling in the California National Guard, heh- heh.

How do you Californians and San Franciscans ( especially) like all
the ' colorful characters ' living on the city streets ? When I defunded all the mental institutions , I saved every Californian $1.29 !

Well, there I go again, rambling all over the place "

Gosh, even back in Ninety-Nine, we thought that the Rolling Stones were too old, and should stop touring...

Man, ain't this the truth!

Thanks, GregC, for bringing back my true anger for a sec...never hurts to be reminded of just how fucked-up Americans, including Californians unfortunately, can be.

Hell, during Brown's administration of the 70's, I was all for shutting down the north and eastern California borders and stopping all further immigration of any kind here from the United States.

They should have listened to me, lol...

This topic reminds me of a story from a couple years back. At the computer store I was working at Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was on the radio. A kid only about 6 years younger than myself was working in my department, and when it got to the spoken word part at the end of the song he said "Man, that guy's good. With a voice like that he probably gets a lot of work." I said, "Unfortunately he's been dead a while now." To which he responded "Oh, you know who that is? Because none of my friends have any idea and I've been asking around."

I was in total shock. I never imagined this problem in my entire, still very short life! How do you describe who Vincent Price was to someone who has no idea? It's like describing magenta to a person born without eyes altogether! I began to feel very old.

Shock is when a 20 something looks at you with wide eyed innocence and asks, "Who is Eric Clapton?"

OMG, they don't know about Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bella, Christopher Lee,OMG..... that is soooo incredible.

When I was your age...

I was alive.

It's amazing! "Christopher Lee, isn't that the dude that got shot making that Crow movie" Those that do have any idea who he is think he probably got his first acting job as an old man when they cast him as Saruman in the Rings movies.

Most Kids know Christopher Lee from Star Wars & Lord Of The Rings!!

When I was your age, we watched Men Into Space with William Lundigan, Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger, Beany and Cecil and the Twilight Zone. I remember Nixon's five-o'clock-shadow in the 60 debates and almost going to nuclear war two years later over Cuba. I remember John and Robert and Martin and Malcolm, marches in Selma and George Corley Wallace; cities in flames across the nation and police rioting in the streets of Chicago. I remember the arc of Vietnam, the blood price we paid for not backing our ally, Ho Chi Minh in 1946. I remember the Summer of Love and the Days of Rage; Lenny Bruce at the Hungry I and Jefferson Airplane at Speedway Meadows. I watched the movie Woodstock, attended Altamont and was tear-gassed at People's Park. I hunted the great steel whales across the wide ocean leagues with Ahab's chart. I watched the Giants break my heart in 1962 against the hated Yankees in the World Series and the lowly San Francisco 49ers win 5 Super Bowls. I took my son and daughter to the Sonoma Coast one moonless night to see Halley's Comet low in the western sky and saw the ghost of a crewman from USS Johnston(DD-557) passing over her wreck off the island of Samar under Kahoutek's gibbous light thirteen years earlier. I walked the streets of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Karachi, Pakistan and Alexandria, Egypt and talked to the people who lived there when you could do it without being killed by them. I remember thinking,"Madness! Has he read or Acted in any Kipling?", when Reagan announced support for the mujaheddin. I remember Nixon in China and the price we're all paying for that now. I remember the MOVIE MASH and these immortal lines:



I remember the Biq Quake of '89 and Hurricane Katrina; the Millenium and the eight-year nightmare aftermath. I'm getting Too Damn Old.

And Nixon's signature is on a plaque on the Moon. That really pisses me off.