I'm so old _____ _ _

[Ptah]

[Ptah]

1. I'm so old that the Thunderbirds flew F-4s.

[clarice]

31. My husband is so old.....

That he takes 1/2 of a viagra just so he won't pee on his shoes.

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. I'm so old

that I remember a time when abortions were illegal and women died.

[Ptah]

3. Stir it up

[Bucky]

29. That one's not as funny as some of the others

[HeiressofBickworth]

49. No humor was intended. Just reality.

[Bucky]

51. No, seriously. If your participating in a lighthearted Lounge thread...

you're gonna have to work on your material.

[HeiressofBickworth]

52. So sorry,

I must have missed the thread-head that said "humor only".
I thought the thread was about the perspective of age.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Ptah]

5. Look up!

[sakabatou]

6. I'm so old, I remember Clinton being elected for his first term.

[undeterred]

76. I'm so old I voted for Gerald Ford

because he had already been the president so he knew how to do the job.

[sarge43]

7. I'm so old I remember

When there were no Thunderbirds

It was next to impossible for a woman to get contraceptives

The Truman/Dewey election

MFM was considered a hot date

(These kids nowadays ... mutter, mutter)

[RILib]

59. or an abortion

coat hangers were always available, though.

[sarge43]

64. Or knitting needles n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. I was there when they planted the redwood trees

[a la izquierda]

81. Okay, now that's old

[Laura PourMeADrink]

85. It is funny. Bought a birthday card for someone. On the front were

redwoods. Think it said something like ..."Ah, the mighty and majestic redwoods." inside the card: "What was it like planting them? Happy Birthday

[union_maid]

9. Get off my lawn!

I'm so old I remember seeing cars with running boards still on the street and the vegetable man still came by with a horse pulling a wagon and wearing a jaunty hat. (The horse, I mean.)

[RILib]

60. ice boxes and the iceman going around the neighborhood.

[UTUSN]

10. i see somebody i think is OLD and find out they.re younger than i am. nt

[union_maid]

11. oh, yeah

That happens a lot.

[lunatica]

12. Get your punk asses off my damned lawn!

[Helen Reddy]

16. Who is this?

George Burns in drag?

Very funny! Love this woman!

[pink-o]

13. I'm so old...

I remember how to dial a telephone: one that was stuck to a wall, that my family "rented" from Ma Bell. (It was made of Bakelite)

I'm so old, I remember getting excited about cutting edge technology like:

1 hour photo developers
Car Stereos (8-track, of course)
Sony Walkmans
Word Processing Machines
Silk-Screen printing apparatuses.
Quadrophonic sound systems.

I could go on, but you know how us Old Ladies just natter along!

[Flashmann]

17. I'm so old I remember

Not only dial telephones,but 5 digit phone numbers.....

I'm so old I remember when it was prudent to consider a candidates positions,regardless of Party,to determine who was best for the job.....

I'm so old I remember there being just 3 TV channels...

I'm so old I remember AM radio playing not just music,but music I wanted to hear,and what few FM stations existed played "elevator music"....

I'm so old I remember Drugstores for their soda fountains,racks of 45 rpm records,and 10-12 cent comic books....

I'm so old I remember 25+/- cent per gallon gasoline that came with "Green stamps" and/or various prizes for 8 gallon minimum fillups and 20 cent quarts of oil.....

I'm so old I remember when a decent used car could be bought for $50.....Less if lucky..

I'm so old I remember living in a newly build 3 bedroom 1½ bathroom house that cost a whopping 12K........

25 cent movies and nickle candy bars,HUGE candy bars.....

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. "Love at the 5 & Dime"

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[RebelOne]

44. Remember it all. And gas wars where it would go down to 10 cents a gallon. n/t

[Flashmann]

46. where it would go down to 10 cents a gallon.

I remember 16-17 cent gas wars.....Maybe at 59,I'm a year or two younger......

[Gorp]

14. I'm so old that my farts were the first thing to contribute to global warming.

[ohiosmith]

15. I'm so old that after sex,.....there's only,....

dust on the sheets!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. I had roller skates you clamped to your shoes with a key.

A guy left glass bottles of milk in a metal box next to the back door.
A loaf of bread cost 25 cents and a simple calculator cost $100.
You could burn leaves in the street in the fall.
We got a morning and an evening newspaper.
We dressed up to go shopping downtown.

[Flashmann]

24. A guy left glass bottles of milk in a metal box next to the back door.

Ours was on the front porch...And on saturday mornings the milkman came in a horse drawn wagons and would give us kids rides around the block....

The trash collectors would come into your backyard,at the crack of dawn,empty your cans into a big one of theirs,and rarely disturb anyones sleep....

[bluedigger]

20. I can remember when The Dead Sea was merely under the weather.

[CBGLuthier]

21. I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show...... Straight

No audience participation. It had not been invented yet.

[Loryn]

22. I'm so old...

I remember 6 cent stamps.

[Flashmann]

25. I remember 6 cent stamps.

Ha!...You're just a pup!!....

I remember penny postcards and 2 cent stamps....

Oh man.....I'm ancient......

[freshwest]

87. Ha! I remember one cent stamps and seventeen cents a gallon gas!

And the test signal in the morning on teevee, air coolers made of wood, home delivery of milk in glass gallon bottles that wasn't homogenized, push mowers, hula hoops, penny loafers, thongs, fountain ink pens, rotary phones and...

I forget. Give me a few hours.

[lastlib]

34. I remember Green Stamps!

hand me my cane, you whippersnapper!

[RebelOne]

41. Me too. I got a lot of good stuff with Green Stamps. n/t

[Helen Reddy]

23. I'm so old...

Joan Rivers hadn't even had her FIRST face lift!

[Flashmann]

27. I'm so old...

I'm so old I remember Jack Parr hosting the Tonight Show,and the Three Stooges and some of the Marx Bros.,not only still living,but making occassional TV/Movie appearances..

[Recursion]

26. I think of MTV as a channel that shows music videos (nt)

[Honeycombe8]

69. It doesn't show music videos, anymore? nt

[PD Turk]

28. I'm so old

I dropped my high school diploma and it broke

[siligut]

30. Cigarettes were sold in vending machines

Coke made with sugar wasn't something special that you could only get from Mexico.

If you needed to look something up you got down the encyclopedia or the dictionary or went to the library.

You got dressed UP to get on an airplane.

[progressoid]

35. Heh.

I was recently recalling how we had cigarette vending machines in our Dorm.

[mnhtnbb]

32. that it cost $.50 to go to the movies when I was a kid.

[RebelOne]

42. I am so old that I remember that it cost a lot less than that.

Don't remember how much but I think it was around 35 cents when I was a kid.

[mnhtnbb]

48. Hubby--who is 8 1/2 years older than I am--remembers it being $.25.

He turned 70 last December.

[lastlib]

33. I remember when the Dead Sea was just sick!

I remember when the robots on Mars weren't man-made.

I remember when dirt was brand new and only rich people had it.

[Broken_Hero]

36. I'm so old....

I remember listening to pirate, and cowboy adventure stories on the radio on the weekends....

[Broken_Hero]

37. I'm so old....

I can't remember......wait, whut?

[agracie]

38. I'm so old, I have actually used one of these...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. Me, too! Bet a lot of people can't even identify it.

[agracie]

40. I betcha you are right ! nt

[RebelOne]

43. I can. It was used to sprinkle clothes for ironing. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

45. Bingo. It's just a metal sprinkler head in a cork stopper

that you'd stick in a pop bottle filled with water. You'd sprinkle the clothes with it and roll them up to dampen for awhile, then iron them. This was before the days of steam irons.

[Honeycombe8]

70. Ha! I remember that, but I didn't recognize it, until you told me. Now I use a spray bottle. nt

[liberaltrucker]

47. When I was a kid, the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

[Wounded Bear]

50. I'm so old ___I remember when the President was older than me....

and Christ was a Lance Corporal.

(I pumped gas at less than $.30/gallon.)

[agracie]

53. I'm so old, I played with this as a child...

[Neoma]

54. I'm so old, I know who Bob Dole is.

[mokawanis]

55. I'm so old

[Kali]

80. bwahhhahaha

stealing!

[Mr.Bill]

56. I was born in Black & White.

[Jamaal510]

57. I'm so old

that I wasn't born yet when the Raiders last won the Super Bowl or when the A's won the World Series.

[pscot]

58. We had a party line

The phone rang once for the other guys and twice for us.

[truegrit44]

61. I'm so old that this is depressing because

I remember all these things

[In_The_Wind]

62. _____ that I wore Micky Mouse ears and joined the Club.

[sheshe2]

63. Ya and...

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I had a Shirley Temple Doll!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

65. I am so old, I remember how to correctly wear a garter belt.

I remember shaving my legs with a straight razor. ouch.

I remember periods before the invention of the tampon.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

77. The garter belt... and the dreaded girdle.

Those were the bad old days.

[greatauntoftriplets]

66. I'm so old, I remember when Adlai Stevenson ran for president in 1956!

I was a precocious child.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

67. I saw Styx when they were an opening act.

I remember purple 4 cent stamps with Lincoln on them.
I remember Big Bonus stamps (like S&H only pink).

I remember real department stores with quality USA made clothing, like Sakowitz Brothers, Battelstein's, Frost Brothers, and Foley's. The only really good quality dept. store left is Neiman-Marcus.Beautiful stores with lots of space.

We got a Zenith color TV in '64 and that was hot stuff. Watched The Flintstones and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and Bonanza and The Jack Paar Show in color.

It was a console with record player on the
left side, TV in the middle, AM/FM radio on the right side.

My folks and sister drove GM products. We wouldn't be caught dead in a Ford or Chrysler--those were lousy cars. Dad drove Cadillacs and my sister the hot rodder had a GTO and later a 66 Sting Ray convertible. 427 cubes. Beautiful car. she and dad and her boyfriends took the block out and shaved the heads to increase the HP from 390 to 410.

And she'd pick me up from high school and the other kids wondered what that little nerd with glasses that actually studied was doing getting in that fine hot rod that her big sister drove.

[Blue_In_AK]

68. I'm so old I remember Dwight Eisenhower's first term

although not all the details.

[Paulie]

71. I'm so old I remember zone codes like Chicago 25 and cold water apartments

Well, maybe not that old.

But I do remember oil cans at the gas station where ya had to use a spout to stab it open to use, the wonderful smell of leaded gas fumes and a carton of Pall Mall Gold was $11. And an actor became President?!?!? WTF

[DFW]

72. I'm so old I have fossils of animals that used to be my house pets

But not old Wyxlqwrpl (we used to call him "Wyxie" for short), our old Pterodactyl. When his wingspan got to over 25 feet, we had to release him back into the wild....

[Kablooie]

73. I'm so old that the big bang didn't happen until I was 19 years old.

[Tabasco_Dave]

74. I could buy cigarettes when i was 14.

[DryHump]

75. ...that I was pissed off

John Kennedy's televised Saturday funeral preempted Fireball X-L5 and SuperCar

[lastlib]

78. Mike Mercury!!

"It crashes on land,
And sinks in the sea,
Next thing you know,
it's stuck in a tree....Super-car!!"

[TrogL]

79. My first paying computing job involved punch cards.

And the mainframe had tubes in it.

[IcyPeas]

82. I remember when candy bars were a nickel

[indypaul]

83. I can remember that

basketball was a non-contact sport.

[Scuba]

84. I pulled KP duty at the Last Supper.

[LiberalElite]

86. I remember when pizza was 15 cents a slice