Remember When...

[Colorado Rick]

I saw something similar to this on (dare I say) another site, and being fairly new at this, I enjoyed reading the posts that some of the... more seasoned... members left. So... After an admittedly less-than-cursory search here, and not seeing one... I thought I might add this to:

a) pick the brains of those that will post back.

&

b) help our beard-hunters pass time while waiting for gobbler-season to open. Hope it helps.


Remember when ___________You fill in the blank________________ .

[Great White Hunter]

I believe it was George Carlin that once said:

"Remember when gay meant happy and coke was a soft drink?"

[Great White Hunter]

Remember when you used a toaster oven like a microwave? I don't know anyone that didn't have one next to the coffee maker!

Remember when you road in that back window of the car?

Remember ol' Jiffypop?

Remember the 7 channels and the rabbit ears?

Remember playing pong on the TV?

Remember when "ON TV" and "Select TV" had boxes with keys on top of the TV?

I got a lot of em!

[TxStarr]

Originally Posted by Great White Hunter

Remember when you used a toaster oven like a microwave? I don't know anyone that didn't have one next to the coffee maker!

Remember when you road in that back window of the car?

Remember ol' Jiffypop?

Remember the 7 channels and the rabbit ears?

Remember playing pong on the TV?

Remember when "ON TV" and "Select TV" had boxes with keys on top of the TV?

I got a lot of em!

I am not a 'more seasoned' member but I grew up with my dad and grandma and we were po' (we couldn't afford the R!) and we did a lot of things with my great-uncles -- so we did things the old fashioned way!


I remember 3 TV channels and rabbit ears and there were no boxes with keys on the TV -- it was a Power/Volume knob and a Channel knob (that you had to get up, walk over, and TURN by hand b/c there were no remote controls!!). And my dad still has a toaster oven!!!

Remember when a hoe was something you worked a garden with and plowing the garden meant hooking up the mules to the plow.

Remember picking blackberries (and mayhaws and wild plums) to make jelly (still do!).

Remember canning tomatoes/peas/beans/soup.

Remember taking a salt shaker to the garden and eating tomatoes right off the vine!

Remember when we did not have air conditioner -- just open windows and box fans.

Remember churning milk to make butter (we bought/traded with a neighbor who had a cow).

Remember hanging clothes on the clothesline to dry ... you can't beat the smell of fresh sunshine!!

Remember waiting until the first day of spring before you could go barefooted outside. Oh the feel of warm dirt in the garden when you were walking along beside the plow or digging potatoes.

Remember not having a private phone line ... and only dialing the last 4 digits of the number if the first three were the same as yours!

[Monie]

"po'" lmao!!!!!

Remember when your dad took you "out to the woodshed" if you misbehaved? lol...yeah funny, I remembered that one first!

Remember when you made your own ice cream by cranking that handle for what seemed like hours and hours, but it tasted sooooo good...better than any store bought?

[bullmoose38]

Remember about 15 years ago when gas was 85 cents a gallon.

[Arrowmike]

Remember when you could buy a new top of the line Hoyt for $250.The good old days.

[Colorado Rick]

Hey Bull.... I remember when gas was $0.739 a gallon and $20.00 from my folks for chores would pay for gas and food and a movie.

I also remember when the Atari 2600 was INCREDIBLE... Asteroids ruled and Space Invaders was UNBEATABLE.

Kevin I do fondly remember the TV/Game slider box. I also remember one prong was always missing and you had copper wire wrapped around a screw. I remember that one copper wire screwing up the antenna reception and my dad swearing up and down that the Atari was Japan's revenge because it destroyed American television reception. What he didn't remember was that the slider box was left over from HIS PONG GAME and the little missing prong was his fault from when he tripped over the long cord that connected the Pong game to the Box. I never had the heart to tell him that HIS Pong game was made by Sears.....

I have more but dinner is ready....

[Colorado Rick]

Starr - "just open windows and box fans."

I almost dribbled on that one. I clearly remember the box fan propped up high in the window. I also remember some stupid sparrow flying smack into the fan and scaring my sister and mom half to death.

Monie - Never had a woodshed, but we did have the constant shadow of grampa's foot planted firmly in our.... well... you get the picture. He never did it. He never did it because we knew dang good and well that he would, if we ever gave him half a reason. We never gave him so much as 1/322nd of a reason. He had big ol feet!

We never made ice-cream, but I do remember sitting in the car on the way home from the PX with him. He got a gallon tub of mint chocolate chip every time we went. He used to yell at us all the time to "sit still and quit fidgiting with that ice cream!" We had to fidgit because the gallon tub was in our laps and we had 25 minutes until we got home! That stuff was cold! Hello! Frostbite! Hypothermia!

We'd get home and have a big ol bowl with two cookies he made 17 years before. Those things were hard as Chinese Algebra. So there we were in the back yard with a Jethro Bodine bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream, cookies that weren't suitable to shoot trap with, and two drooling dogs (a black lab and beagle that was dumb as a box of rocks) just waiting for the chance to lick the bowl. He died Dec 22, 1997. Miss the heck out of him.

Mike I can't say I remember yours bt I can imagine. I dare say that $250 then was like the $800 to $1000 is to us now tho.