For us who are getting older...

[Archae]

[Ilsa]

1. I like these.

I normally don't care for this schtick, but this was funny.

[pinboy3niner]

17. You're right, these are a cut above the usual

I hope we'll both remember them for at least a little while...

[passiveporcupine]

29. remember what?

[malaise]

32. DUzy

[chillfactor]

2. at 74 years old....

.....have experienced every thing on the list.....thank you for the laugh ....it made a perfect ending to my day...

[Thirties Child]

3. Didn't walk nine feet through shag carpet to change channel on the tv

I'm so old tv wasn't around when I was a child.

[littlebit]

4. I did

and it was horrible.

[progressoid]

26. Ours was orange shag.

[passiveporcupine]

30. I don't know which was worse

orange or avocado green.

Now I love all greens, and hate orange, but in those days, I remember avocado carpeting, and appliances (thank dog they didn't make orange washer and dryer sets) and now they just look disgusting. Especially the ones that fade to brown near the edges of surfaces.

Some people like to go retro with their design in new homes, and I have to keep asking WHY?

[littlebit]

31. Ours was blue and brown

[kag]

38. Sure was...

There were only like 3 channels.

[littlebit]

39. True

Until cable came out. Then there were 13 channels. But I still had to get up to go press the buttons on the cable box.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Must be nice to have had it so easy that you didn't have to make that slog

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. Fascinating! You really have seen the world evolve from a simpler, more...

...localized and less-technological world into a technological, if not still primitive, paradigm.

[Binkie The Clown]

14. My dad knew a guy who was a ham radio operator who had a T.V.

We went to his house to watch it. The screen was about 4 inches in diameter (yes, it was round) and we watched about 15 or 20 minutes of test pattern before the programming started.

Later, when I was seven, we got a T.V. of our own and I grew up watching Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed by The Kate Smith Show (I still remember "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain....&quot

[Arkansas Granny]

15. I knew about TV when I was a kid, but we didn't have one until I was about 10 years old.

I remember listening to "cartoons" on the radio on Saturday mornings.

[Ilsa]

44. We didn't walk through it. One of us seven kids was

Perpetually stationed on the floor, right next to the controls. Commercial comes on, turn the sound down or change channels, etc.

[SCVDem]

7. @61

I laughed my AO!

Thanks for the laughs!

[jtuck004]

8. I'm gonna go make a crouton... n/t

[SheilaT]

9. That's the ONLY old people thing I've found amusing.

I might add that for a 50th high school reunion I supplied pins that say: HI! I don't remember your name either.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Great pins, LOL!

[calimary]

12. GREAT one!

I'm only five years behind you - this is our 45th high school reunion year. Nobody's getting together til next year. But that's just how our class was/still is.

[840high]

10. lol - all the above

[Turborama]

13. Number 8 made me chuckle out loud.

They all made me smile (especially the pizza one), but 8 was the one that made me chuckle.

[hobbit709]

16. Looks pretty accurate to me.

[baldguy]

18. From an old cartoon

[NJCher]

19. I don't know if that competes with the hardship of shag carpet

but those commands were damn tough!

Can you remember any of them?

del

exit



Cher

[malthaussen]

21. run. dir.

cd.

-- Mal

[mwooldri]

22. Still used today. "rm -rf /"

That'll get rid of everything.

[shireen]

42. my fav

kill -9

[malthaussen]

20. We're all getting older...

... if we live so long.

-- Mal

[lunatica]

23. Hysterical!

Every one of them made my laugh! I'm 'older'.

[raven mad]

24. Getting older?

It's better than the alternative. Great post.

[Pluvious]

25. My dad would always say...

... to me when I'd encourage him to get some exercise:

I work out weekly, very weakly !

Sigh

[progressoid]

27. This is going to be emailed to some people!

[Different Drummer]

28. Unfortunately, I can relate to most of those.

[Vinca]

33. LOL - love the tip for cooking tofu.

[Gabi Hayes]

34. but it was WORSE back then:

[OKNancy]

35. I can tell you are old... using correct grammar. "who" instead of "that"

one of my pet peeves

[Helen Borg]

36. But but... Doesn't this contribute to ageism?

Don't mean to be a party spoiler, honest question.
I know it's a joke, but a similar joke regarding female stereotypes would not go down well.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. I don't actually think it contributes to ageism...

It just makes us feel better about getting old!

[Helen Borg]

41. But they are stereotypes.

Not all people over 50 fit those stereotypes. Look at Sanders, for example.

[forest444]

37. "I'm try-sexual"

I try and I try, but...

[Shandris]

43. Wait...there are people who AREN'T getting older?!?!

Great list!

I miss shag carpeting. Ohhhhh so much do I miss shag carpeting.

...to be fair, I was so young I never had to sweep it once. I probably wouldn't miss it long after that!

[MarianJack]

45. Funny!

Thank you for posting...K&R!

PEACE!