To: Jay777
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I can remember when phones had bells inside. (For the kids: That's why they say a phone "rings," even when it plays a tune.) And rotary dials. (For the kids: That's why pressing your phone's buttons is called "dialing.") And there was no such thing as a cordless phone. The best you could do was to get a really long receiver (not "handset") cord, but then it got all tangled up because of the coils. On the plus side, you could still use the phone when the power went out.
11 posted on
02/14/2005 8:27:06 PM PST by
ScottFromSpokane
(http://drunkengop.blogspot.com/)
To: ScottFromSpokane
I remember all that too. I remember the beggining of personal computers!
15 posted on
02/14/2005 8:32:41 PM PST by
Jay777
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To: ScottFromSpokane
19 posted on
02/14/2005 8:35:25 PM PST by
Jay777
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To: ScottFromSpokane
Shoot, I felt kinda young until I read this thread. I just turned 35, and we didn't even have VCR's when I was a kid! No Nintendo, no movies at home, no cable. Four channels and one of those was PBS so it didn't really count. It's no wonder kids were skinnier back then. There wasn't anything to do inside!
35 posted on
02/14/2005 8:48:07 PM PST by
teenyelliott
(Soilent green is made of liberals...)
To: ScottFromSpokane
I remember those phones, too.
And when I was going to school at night in the early 80s, I wouldn't sign up for any class that met on Thursday, because I wouldn't miss Hill Street Blues. VCRs were available, but were so expensive I couldn't afford one.
To: ScottFromSpokane
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We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like that time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickle, and in those days, nickles had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war; the only thing you can get was those big yellow ones.
185 posted on
02/15/2005 3:18:42 PM PST by
Lazamataz
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