Are you old?
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How to tell if you are old.......
You have no idea what toonami is or have heard your kids mention it, but are clueless.
You remember watching Speed Racer, when it wasn't re-runs.
You got up in the morning before school early enough to watch an hour of cartoons, before going to school.
Saturday cartoons ran all morning long on every broadcast channel.
Sunday nights were Wonderful World of Disney
If something was on and you weren't home, you missed it.
"Darn" was a risque word on TV. Harsher words weren't even allowed.
You remember when there was no HBO, Skinemax, MTV or other premium channels.
You know what UHF is and how you got those channels.
You remember cars with AM or AM/FM radios only.
You can remember folding up matchbook covers to keep the 8 tracks playing.
You remember shopping carts with ashtrays on them.
Movie theaters were thick with cigarette and cigar smoke, so you could see the light beam to the screen.
You would run to the store for cigarettes/tobacco for your parents, with only a note and some change.
There are tons more. What do you remember?
You have no idea what toonami is or have heard your kids mention it, but are clueless.
You remember watching Speed Racer, when it wasn't re-runs.
You got up in the morning before school early enough to watch an hour of cartoons, before going to school.
Saturday cartoons ran all morning long on every broadcast channel.
Sunday nights were Wonderful World of Disney
If something was on and you weren't home, you missed it.
"Darn" was a risque word on TV. Harsher words weren't even allowed.
You remember when there was no HBO, Skinemax, MTV or other premium channels.
You know what UHF is and how you got those channels.
You remember cars with AM or AM/FM radios only.
You can remember folding up matchbook covers to keep the 8 tracks playing.
You remember shopping carts with ashtrays on them.
Movie theaters were thick with cigarette and cigar smoke, so you could see the light beam to the screen.
You would run to the store for cigarettes/tobacco for your parents, with only a note and some change.
There are tons more. What do you remember?
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A burger, fries, and a shake for around 50 cents.
Coffee was 10 cents per cup with free refills.
EDIT: Man, don't get me started .......
The traffic lights all flashed yellow after 10
Festus coming to our town was a big deal.
We didnt have to wory about our neighbor cooking crack
Tough skin jeans from sears
Marlin Perkins
Transistor radios??? When I went through electronics school to become a sonarman in the navy, everything was vacuum tube operated. Transistors didn't yet exist. And later, after I was out of the navy and one of my kid brothers was in and had gone to electronics tech school, he tried to explain to me the theory of a transistor. It was all Greek to me then and today I'd put into the same category as 'new math'. Pure gibberish.
All of the channels played the National Anthem when they signed off.
Captain Kangaroo before leaving for school.
8-tracks and vinyl where the sh*t!!
Cartoons all day, on every channel on Saturday.
H. R. Puffenstuff!
Internet... Nope!
Marlin Perkins and his trusty sidekick Jim.
Your parents had to make you come in after dark instead of forcing you to go outside.
Should I continue?
And television sets could weigh as much as a Mini Cooper
Howard Cosell on Wide World of Sports.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
This is a test. Only a test. Of the Emergency Broadcast system. If this were an actual emergency there would be information on where to tune for more information. Boooooooooooooooooop!
And those tests only happened in the middle of a good boxing match, a great sport event or when Columbo or Perry Mason was announcing who the killer was.
Sneaking a drink of beer from your parents and it was perfectly acceptable.
Getting your butt beat for doing something wrong and it wasn't child abuse. It was discipline.
And gas stations checked your oil and tires and washed your windshield.
I remember being OUTRAGED when the price of a pack of Marlboro's went up to $1.30 per pack and SWEARING I would quit if they ever went higher.
I remember saying the same thing when I paid $4.25 a pack for them in 1999.
And here's one for you MMA fanatics out there - I remember watching actual real boxing heavyweight championship matches on TV regularly. FOR FREE.
You know you're dirt old when you can remember a time before pay per view anything. :-)
Do you remember watching that phony-assed fight between Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay (I won't dignify the draft-dodging SOB by calling him by his assumed MUSLIM name) when Clay was so dumb he kept missing his cues to deck Liston until Liston finally threw up his hands wide-open so Clay could hit him? What a farce!!
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread....
That was what, 1965?
Right. The rematch was in 1965. There are still questions as to whether Clay connected with that punch or whether Liston just took a dive. To me, it was pretty clear. Dive city, baby.......