Things my kids will never know about

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  • bbass2
    bbass2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭
    Manual Transmissions. I would prefer to have one now if it didn't impact resale.
  • perkinke
    perkinke Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭
    Bigshizza:
    An honest to God Service Station
    Gas at .50/gallon
    Concert T-Shirts for $5.00 and tickets for $8.00
    The Arcade
    not wearing seatbelts
    Not knowing the ingredients in food etc
    I don't remember any of that except the arcade! :)

    How about renting a VCR, or just having one and walkie-talkies as toys. Stupid cursive classes in school may be going away as well.
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    perkinke:
    Bigshizza:
    An honest to God Service Station
    Gas at .50/gallon
    Concert T-Shirts for $5.00 and tickets for $8.00
    The Arcade
    not wearing seatbelts
    Not knowing the ingredients in food etc
    I don't remember any of that except the arcade! :)

    How about renting a VCR, or just having one and walkie-talkies as toys. Stupid cursive classes in school may be going away as well.
    I voted against the Oregon seat belt law in Nov 1990 and it went into effect in Dec of 1990 and Washington passed their's in 1985.

    Anyone remember getting back handed by Mom for standing up in the back seat and hanging on the back of the front seat?
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • WaltBasil
    WaltBasil Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭
    dandin1:
    Why it is referred to as "roll down the window"
    ... or dialing a number.
  • allsmokedup
    allsmokedup Posts: 751 ✭✭
    bbass2:
    Manual Transmissions. I would prefer to have one now if it didn't impact resale.


    Except that they still have those and you can still teach your kids how to drive a manual transmission. Car enthusiasts will keep them alive for a while longer.
  • PAtoNH
    PAtoNH Posts: 429 ✭
    WaltBasil:
    dandin1:
    Why it is referred to as "roll down the window"
    ... or dialing a number.
    or "glove compartment".
  • clearlysuspect
    clearlysuspect Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭✭
    blutattoo:
    Puff_Dougie:
    Riding a bike without a helmet
    Riding in a car without a seat belt
    Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
    Candy Cigarettes
    Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
    You can ride in the back of the truck in Florida.
  • clearlysuspect
    clearlysuspect Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭✭
    0patience:
    Rain:
    "Give me the 4-1-1"
    Hello, directory assistance.
    Or calling a number (used to be 555-1212 in our area) and getting, "at the tone, the correct time will be........"
    Haaaaa! I remember those numbers! Ours also told us the temperature after the tone.
  • JMartinez10
    JMartinez10 Posts: 296
    Box TV's
    Corded Phones
    Sandals for football practice
    A.L.F.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 3,917 ✭
    Pay phones, calling for directions from your house, busy signals, actually dialing a phone number to see what time it is, Dewey decimal system.
  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭
    cartridge video games.

    double edge razors

    not having a mirror on the passenger side

    having to get off the couch to change the TV station.

    "hammer pants"

    moon boots

    Crystal Pepsi

    Mr. Green-Jeans

    Winnie Cooper
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  • variant2
    variant2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    - Scriptive
    - Stickball
    - Walking and actually looking where you're going. 


    Cнeerѕ! Moтнerғυcĸer
  • blutattoo
    blutattoo Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    clearlysuspect:
    blutattoo:
    Puff_Dougie:
    Riding a bike without a helmet
    Riding in a car without a seat belt
    Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
    Candy Cigarettes
    Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too
    You can ride in the back of the truck in Florida.
    What? You mean on a public road? That's awesome!

  • allsmokedup
    allsmokedup Posts: 751 ✭✭
    Riding in a truck bed at high speeds, also known as natural selection: http://i.imgur.com/r0AYH.gif
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's one I'll bet a lot of you BOTLs don't even remember:

    Walt Kelly and Pogo Possum.....
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta:
    Here's one I'll bet a lot of you BOTLs don't even remember:

    Walt Kelly and Pogo Possum.....
    Actually, Walt Kelly comics ran clear up until the mid 70s here.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When dogs roamed the neighborhood unleashed and boys roamed the neighborhood likewise.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • danielzreyes
    danielzreyes Posts: 8,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Home plate collisions.
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • dandin1
    dandin1 Posts: 175 ✭
    I don't think anyone will understand why MTV stands for Music Television
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    0patience:
    jlmarta:
    Here's one I'll bet a lot of you BOTLs don't even remember:

    Walt Kelly and Pogo Possum.....
    Actually, Walt Kelly comics ran clear up until the mid 70s here.


    You're one of an extremely few folks who know that, Tony. I think Kelly died around 1975 but I was a total Pogo fan. That was the absolute best strip going - bar none... :-)
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta:
    0patience:
    jlmarta:
    Here's one I'll bet a lot of you BOTLs don't even remember:

    Walt Kelly and Pogo Possum.....
    Actually, Walt Kelly comics ran clear up until the mid 70s here.


    You're one of an extremely few folks who know that, Tony. I think Kelly died around 1975 but I was a total Pogo fan. That was the absolute best strip going - bar none... :-)
    My brother is a huge Disney collector.
    Years back, I bought a Walt Kelly cell from "The Reluctant Dragon"
    You can see the similarity between the little boy and Pogo.
    The cell is supposed to be a work from Walt Kelly and Ward Kimble.
    I'd like to think my brother still has it. LOL!
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • twistedstem
    twistedstem Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    clearlysuspect:
    TV Dials and antennas, TV Guide, House Fuses, Parachute Pants
    Pm to you
    no matter where you go, there you are.

  • dr_frankenstein56
    dr_frankenstein56 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭
    Laser Disc
    points
    Rub on Lettering


    Aj

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