Weren't they AAA?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

When fast food restaurants made everything 5 hours in advance and your burger would be about the size of a quarter by the time you got it.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Having songs interrupted right in the middle as the 8 track tape player shifted tracks

enduring ads for home copies of encyclopedias (encyclopediae?)

having to go to the bank during banking hours to get cash from your own account

actually having to meet your instructor and go to class to earn college credits

controlling weeds in crops with mechanical cultivation

placing word-limited for sale ads in a small, local trader paper viewed by only a few potential buyers

Not these. I'd know it if I heard it. This is gonna drive me nuts.








yar

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You know me like that.

The Elburn Herald still comes once a week on Thursday if it makes you feel any better.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Or one pack of Necco wafers.

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Game controllers with cords... Those were the worst...

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

I still have the manually car windows...

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so back when all there was to connect you on-line was a physical modem...it would take hours to download a megabyte of data with a 2400 bps modem.

Also, you had to use your actual phone lines...if you picked up a phone while using a modem, it sounded like a fax machine. and your ass would be BUMPED. so if you were kicking some major ass in BRE or CirlceMUD, and your lame ass sister had to call Chad, your shit was dropped and that was very, very soul shattering.

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1926-1931-1934-1942-1944-1946-1964-1967-1982-2006-2011

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Before voice mail, returning to work after lunch or from a business trip finding a pile of pink "while you were out" notes written by your Secretary.

Hand writing letters & memos then putting them in your Secretary's in box (ahhhright!), them proof reading & marking up her first draft.

Smoking on airplanes, in the Hospital, anywhere really.

Opening Beer cans with a can opener.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I'll go with Fodor? They were no good if you were driving a coupe.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I know this thread was meant to draw me out!

All the things brought up didn't seem like much of a pain in the rear
because we didn't know better at that time,

Doc mentioned The Sporting News. I loved it and miss getting it in the mail.
Let's face it, we are living in the golden age of technology. The sound systems
and TV's,the internet and all it's possibilities. Life has improved and being able
to come here on a daily basis to free our thoughts is a big part of that. At least I enjoy
reading and participating.
OK,I'll hang up and wait for my early morning bowel movement.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

My dad won't get an I-Pass. He will be the last person to get one. He figures that he's always used the tollbooths, and when you stop at one, you can get out and pay with the coins that people threw at the basket and missed with. Of course, the money you save by picking up nickels off the road is offset by DOUBLING THE FUCKING TOLLS FOR PAYING IN COIN.

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Yeah, I this is an important skill that is being lost. GPS satellite is not always available, so wouldn't rely on it as much as people do.

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Having to mess with the antenna on the TV to get reception.

Having to take film to get developed for my camera.

Those heavy ass video cameras that would nearly break your arm 20 minutes into recording an hour-long event.

Running out of ice cubes in the ice cube tray in the middle of summer.

Beepers / pager. Damned thing would start vibrating uncontrollably on your leg then you would have to read the number while entering it into the cell phone while driving.

Having to use a pay phone to call home when I went places as a kid.

When I used to ride a bike as a kid, we had those huge chains that you had to essentially wear around your neck anywhere you went.

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How does one not know how to read a map? What does an inability to read a map consist of?

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Good thread idea


Carrying around a goddam cd player while you jog or travel and/or trying to keep it stationary in your car so it didnt skip

Settling triva arguments by asking or calling a guy who "fucking knows like everything about ____"

Delivering Pizzas without a cellphone or gps seems fucking ludicrous now

Returning movies

It wasn't exactly brain surgery but...
If you were looking for a city you were unfamiliar with you would look it up in an alphabetical list which would give you a letter and number. You'd then search for the town in the general area of the map indicated by the coordinates (think x/y graph). There was also a box chart which would have the major cities listed at the top and side. You could get the distance between 2 cities by finding the point where they met. Sometimes a bit of math was required if you were going from one state to another.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

1. obviously not a hipster

2. get with the times

3. polyester is not a natural fiber, should be wearing cotton

4. 10-10-321 to save 20%

i guess this could still be applicable to ipods, but wiggling the headphone jack back and forth when the sound starts to go out in 1 ear

Prostate exams with both of your doctor's hands on your shoulders.

I used to love to take the toll roads- Dad would pull up and let me get the ticket from the attendant through the rear door window- which actually rolled all the way down, we were just smart enough not to fall out-and often hand the ticket and money to the attendant when we exited.

Ive never laughed this hard at one of your posts. Well done

Yeah, that was great.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Right. And there are people over the age of 18 who walk this earth and can't do this? Unbelievable.

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The biggest problem I have seen is being able to translate 1 inch = 5 miles, or whatever calculation is there. I was able to get a pretty accurate estimate of how many miles it would take. The next problem is being able to foresee when the next road is coming up. It sounds really simple, but its a problem.

To open up a sub-topic here, I feel many people are frustrated by things such as maps, but they were really a part of a genre of survival tools. People were frustrated with hunting and gathering and eventually got to where we are now with grocery stores. I can assume a fairly high percentage of us would not survive a food shortage as we wouldn't know how to grow and store our own food. Hell, most kids coming out of school now are so dependent on technology that I'm not sure how they will function during a cyber-war.

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