I'm so old I Remember when:

[kikiruru]

We used paper grocery bags to make bookcovers for our school books.

&& I remember those seventies teen magazines and cutting out pictures and putting them on the paper grocery sack book covers

 

[MROO]

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... and there were multiple layers of them on the same wall. Remember the challenge of pulling them all down at once and trying to get them to all roll up together? HOLY COW did we get in trouble!


... but it didn't stop us from trying again!

 

[jxp]

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And I only see 48 with no little insets of AK and HI.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

How old is he now, Ganny?

LOL he is now 62 and 6 days old.

 

[MROO]

And I only see 48 with no little insets of AK and HI.

Nope - and don't forget the vague outline of the Louisiana Purchase!

 

[RoseHawke]

I remember when dinosaurs didn't have feathers and dragged their tails on the ground.

 

[tripletfeb]

I remember when dinosaurs didn't have feathers and dragged their tails on the ground.

I remember when brontosaurus was an actual species of dinosaur. Now it's considered an apatosaurus. Science has a funny way of proving itself wrong, a lot

 

[tripletfeb]

I remember when Pluto was a planet and to remember the planets we learned: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

 

[MROO]

I remember when Pluto was a planet and to remember the planets we learned: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

My Mom taught us "Mary's Violet eyes made John stay up nights proposing." We were all young enough to think that "John" should give up that yucky stuff and just go home!

 

[MROO]

I remember when brontosaurus was an actual species of dinosaur. Now it's considered an apatosaurus. Science has a funny way of proving itself wrong, a lot

And I remember when brontosaurus was the best thing on the Saturday morning menu!