I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

I think it did alot of good. I know it helped me. Being the recipient of corporal punishment kept me straight and respectful

Don't mean to be the grammar police or sidetrack the vibe of this fun thread, but, reading this post reminded me of a little ditty I learned years ago.

Alot
is not
a word.

Kinda like the more familiar one: "ain't" ain't a word." (Although I hear tell a number of dictionaries have begun to include it, even if just to say it's wrong speak.)

 

[jxp]

I still have all my old phones too. I've never lost or broken any ...they just got phased out by software changes. I must be a pack rat... I'm not sure why I hang onto stuff that's obsolete but not broken

Sure wish I could retrieve some of the photos from them.

 

[Brooks_]

Kinda like the more familiar one: "ain't" ain't a word." (Although I hear tell a number of dictionaries have begun to include it, even if just to say it's wrong speak.)

It's in my 1949 dictionary.

 

[jxp]

We had 3. ABC, PBS, and CBS. But you had to go outside and turn the antenna different directions depending on which channel you were trying to watch. Thinking about that, I can still hear my dad hollering for me to go turn the antenna

Bet you were glad when they came out with an electronic device to do that for you. Just turn the dial and the antenna on the roof turned by itself.

 

[jxp]

I remember pagers, the first flip phones, gas under $2 per gallon, Texaco gas stations, payphones, when the first DVDs came out, the 3D mov

I'm so old I remember when we still farmed with horses.

You old - or just Amish?

 

[jxp]

I remember the cola commercial, "I'd like to buy the world a coke" and the singers were standing in a field holding candles. When the camera panned out they were in the shape of a Christmas tree.

 

[R2elk]

Kinda like the more familiar one: "ain't" ain't a word." (Although I hear tell a number of dictionaries have begun to include it, even if just to say it's wrong speak.)

Ain't and hain't fell in a bucket of paint.

 

[jxp]

Remember those big 10’ satellite dishes for TV ? Still have mine collecting moss an wasp nests I see someone on here made an awesome coop out of two of them - looked like a space craft.

Now I have a small 2’ elliptical dish for satellite tv.

I hauled one of those home and made me a gazebo. The satellite dish was the roof. Beautiful thing until some straight line winds took it down. Of all the tornado damage over the years - roofs, trees, patio doors, fences - that's the damage that broke me.

 

[jxp]

I'm old enough I couldn't vote until I was 21.

But you could drink at 18!

 

[Brooks_]

But you could drink at 18!

I remember it going from 18 to19 to 21.