This is a game I've seen played on a message board site for one of my fave computer games, so I thought we could play it here too :D. I'll start:
I'm so old....
I can remember back when Sci-Fi Channel was called "Sci-Fi" and had ACTUAL science fiction tv shows and movies on it!
I’m so old . . .
I remember when dirt was invented.
I remember when the Rocky Mountains were drumlins.
I remember when there were only two flavors of ice cream.
I remember when people knew how to drive.
I remember when Eddie Murphy was funny.
I remember when Daved, MissMargoChanning, thewaitress, LeahOfLothlorian and MichiganJFrog were still here.
I remember when it was good to be a white man.
I once knew a guy who joked about being older than dirt. According to him, he joked that when he was a kid, they had to grind up rocks to make dirt to play with, lol.
shareYeah, but he’s not me.
shareOf course not. He was part of my Fleet on Star Trek Online and I'd spoken to him on Teamspeak. I have never spoken to you in audio, so it is DEFINITELY not you that is that old.
shareWhat is Teamspeak? I’m so old that I don’t know.
I remember when the news contained actual news.
I remember double features.
I remember unsafe sex.
I remember Muscle Cars.
I remember natural boobs.
I remember when being a slut was a disgrace.
I'm so old my hair turns white.
shareI'm so old I remember when Turkey was just a chick
I'm so old I remember when Greece wasn't even oily
I'm so old I remember when China was just a paper plate
I'm so old I remember you could buy cigarettes at age 16.
I'm so old I remember there being smoking and non smoking sections inside of a restaurant.
I'm so old I remember when the most controversial thing about Michael Jackson was his plastic surgery.
I'm so old I remember recording songs off of the radio instead of buying them as 'cd singles'.
I remember when the smoking section and the non-smoking section were the same section. ;)
shareMy High School had a smoking section for students out by shop class where they stored all the dummies like me...And the teachers would light up in the faculty lounge!
shareWow. A bonafide smoking section? At my high school the smokers hung out on a nearby street corner because smoking on school grounds was banned. I have no idea what the teachers did. Maybe they just toughed it out for the day. I don't recall ever seeing a teacher hanging out with the smoking students.
shareMy Social Studies teacher smoked like a chimney and the old Science class lady kept Vodka in her desk...somehow the world seemed saner then😬
shareI imagine there were a few of those in my school, too. I wonder if she drank during the day or it was there so she could have a drink at the end of the day. I wouldn't have a problem with the latter as long as it's only one, since I'm assuming she has to drive home afterwards. Any more than that - that's asking for trouble.
shareThe Science lady kept a thermos of Vodka and OJ in her drawer...she also told bawdy jokes about sex and masturbation...she was kind of a legend to us kids LOL!
shareI'm so old I remember that the only people who got tattoos were carnies, truck drivers, sailors and felons.
shareAnd people in concentration camps.
shareIn the late 1970s I was living in Brooklyn and the owner of the neighborhood deli had a concentration camp tattoo on his forearm. It was quite startling and chilling to see it in person.
shareGrowing up I had a neighborhood old man friend named Ralph who was a camp survivor ( this was back in the late 70s )
He'd let us kids borrow his tools and while he could sometimes be grumpy he always liked us boys blustering into his garage to ask for a loaner...he had the number tattoo on his arm and I asked him about it once...my dad had to take me aside and explain some very lousy things to me and he gave me a lecture on manners and minding my own business!
Very randomly and oddly enough Ralph's next door neighbor bought a German Shepherd dog and named it Hitler...we were very tight with both families so we never made mention of this...it was a bit of a neighborhood scandal
Jesus, who would name their family pet Hitler?? Worse if your neighbour is a concentration camp survivor who'd constantly be hearing you call its name 😬
It would be a natural thing for a kid to ask about that tattoo. I've never seen one. Could have known people who had them and they covered them up with clothing.
Ralph was a bit grumpy but he always liked us kids running up his driveway to bum a tool or whatever...The neighbor family was a bit of a crazy bunch though they were quite nice too...I think it was just a lack of mutual understanding...
And yep, Hitler is probably not the greatest name for your big scary dog when you live next door to a guy that was imprisoned by Nazis
It's nice you and the other neighbour kids had that relationship with him. I'm sure he enjoyed y'all, even if he was a bit grumpy.
shareOh, he would bark a lot but there was never any bite...he'd lend you any tool to fix your bicycle but he never said much about the war
Nice old fellow...he kept a tidy home and his wife was a sweetie
He had an older Victorian house in the Hudson River Valley...a decent man!
That was sweet of him. Can't blame him for not wanting to talk about the war. To anyone, let alone to kids.
A Victorian in the beautiful Hudson River Valley sounds good to me. I'd love to visit.
Do you know which country he was from?
He was a Polish Jew...The Nazis made short work of many of them but Ralph was a bit of a tough man!
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