I have often thought that some days I feel young and then someone says something that makes me feel I am old. I remember when the tv went off at night time and they said do you know where your children are?
This is one for those 40+
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At my age, I'm just happy when I remember!
...or when they played the Start Spangled Banner and then went to the test pattern......
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la La la la la la la
Ah, nostalgia's not what it was.
Being British I can remember when we only had three channels and they didn't get going to 9am (after midday for BBC2) and they had all shut down by midnight. Actually BBC2 did occassionaly stretch to closer to 1am for a Hammer double bill on a Saturday night, but I could never persuade my parents to let me stay up for those.
Being British I can remember when we only had three channels and they didn't get going to 9am (after midday for BBC2) and they had all shut down by midnight. Actually BBC2 did occassionaly stretch to closer to 1am for a Hammer double bill on a Saturday night, but I could never persuade my parents to let me stay up for those.
You had to physically get up to change channels, volume. And when the dial fell off, one used a pliers to change stations. Cartoons were for Saturday morning only.
....and you'd just finished knitting it...Or, in GNT's case, he remembers when the Star Spangled Banner was a new release!!!
...don't' forget that metal hangers would work as replacement antennas in a pinch....and needless to say, the aluminum foil wraps to "improve" reception....
I remember the console TV we had in our trailer weighed about as much as a modern day vehicle...
...shoulda kept it, woulda given ya a place to sleep when you inevitably screw up.....
LOL, no doubt. Is it a TV or a hide-a-bed??? lol...shoulda kept it, woulda given ya a place to sleep when you inevitably screw up.....
I heard Keith Richards tell a crowd,
"It's good to be here"
"Hell, it's good to be anywhere"
"It's good to be here"
"Hell, it's good to be anywhere"
Or, in GNT's case, he remembers when the Star Spangled Banner was a new release!!!
GNT remembers when sliced bread was introduced.
I will ALWAYS love that skit. And I'm not even British!
At the bakery you could ask them to slice a loaf for you using the bread slicer machine!
When I was a teenager, we had one phone in the house and it hung in the kitchen. Everyone could hear your conversation. If a girl called and people were hanging out in the kitchen (my family loves to hang out in the kitchen 
), I would stretch the cord as far as I could to try and get a little privacy.
), I would stretch the cord as far as I could to try and get a little privacy.