Showing Your Age

[Murph66]

Temporary tattoos applied with warm water

 

[Murph66]

Your first colour TV that you had to get up to manually change channels

 

[4 inch pistons]

Waiting 1 to 2 minutes for the black and white tv to warm up. When it quits working you took off the back and took the tube you thought was blown to the seven eleven to test it and buy another one.

Trying to figure out channel U

Being talked into Betamax at Circuit City because it was a better quality picture

 

[AnzacJack]

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, tut tut tut, "what's that Skip ? Little Joey has fallen down the well and broke his leg ?" (Incidentally, did you know he wasn't a Kangaroo ? He was a Wallaby)

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Nope. She was and eastern grey kangaroo

 

[Prop Wash]

I'm in the US - "Candy" cigarettes, cap guns with the strips of "caps" you had to load, playing cards in the spokes to make your bikes sound cool, Saturday morning cartoons, sitcoms that were actually funny (Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island......)
My parent's had a voice activated remote control for the TV. "Darryl go turn it to Channel 10 and rotate the rabbit ears" ( you know the ones that had aluminum foil on them for "better" reception.)

 

[BaldyBoyBilly]

When the U.S. debt was around $5,000,000,000,000.00

 

[MARK (LI)]

Pushing the inside door handle in your car forward to lock the door.....that was before the door lock thing near the window

 

[Prop Wash]

PEZ dispensers, Pop rocks.
When Mom called you in for dinner, you went then or you didn't eat which also goes along with you ate what she cooked or you didn't eat.

 

[AnzacJack]

Buying a fancy color tv and the only thing in color was the advertisements

 

[MA2 317]

Watching reruns of the original Mickey Mouse Club with Annette Funicello on a black & white T.V. when I came home from grade school in the afternoon.

"Our Gang" comedy shorts, a.k.a "The Little Rascals" from the early 1940's - 50's.

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[marnat3]

Saturday morning cartoons which were followed by either really bad "Kung-Fu martial arts" movies or "Godzilla" movies.

 

[Prop Wash]

On occasion on Satudays, I'd watch "American Band Stand" hosted by D ick Clark.

 

[MAVE (Little bird)]

I'm in the US - "Candy" cigarettes, cap guns with the strips of "caps" you had to load, playing cards in the spokes to make your bikes sound cool, Saturday morning cartoons, sitcoms that were actually funny (Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island......)
My parent's had a voice activated remote control for the TV. "Darryl go turn it to Channel 10 and rotate the rabbit ears" ( you know the ones that had aluminum foil on them for "better" reception.)

I love the voice activated remote control, that's hilarious .

 

[Rchawks]

Sending a text involved using a Telegram.

 

[Prop Wash]

^^^ - Speaking of texting, it's nothing new. When I was in school I would "text" a girl I liked. It was in the form of a written note that asked, "Do you want to be my girlfriend? Circle Yes or No" It got passed across the classroom. They'd reply (No most of the time) and passed it back!

 

[AnzacJack]

Sending a text involved using a Telegram.

Haha. I remember my parents sending me telegrams for my birthday and other events when I was in the military

 

[Rchawks]

Ringer washers and Washboards, along with Clothes lines.

Reel to Reels not only at home but in the workplace as well, on machining centers and in computer rooms for programming and data storage.

Using Walkie talkies to communicate with other departments in the work place because there were no cellphones Gasp!!

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

When this was our currency, the old Punt
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and the larger denomination notes being HUGE

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

The first ever mobile phone

First calculator I saw, a Sinclair I think, it might have been able to do square roots lol.

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

Everyone walking to school often without a parent. T

Just thought of a childhood mistake I made when I was about 6 years old that I just had to share

I accidentally cleaned my teeth with some Haemorrhoid cream that me Mam had left out on the bathroom sink
I remember thinking that It didn't taste too good, but I liked the fact that it came out star shaped because the applicator nozzle was still attached !!!

I'm sure this one will get piles of laughs and likes

Yuck.