Do you remember when....

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    Regular gasoline meant it had lead in it

    People actually used phone booths

    The most violent thing of TV was Tom and Jerry

    Zubaz pants were cool

    Almost every town had a bowling alley and roller rink
     
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    Cords had phones... kids played out side due to no other option (video games...computers...tvs...).... walkman's were the "item to have"...Movies only came in 2D....
     
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    There were only three TV stations to choose from, and one of them was only on from 6pm to 10pm; Pong was new *and* exciting; they were still called Datsuns; phone boxes only took coins; you could rely on 1st Class post to be there by 9am tomorrow morning; flares and kipper ties were new instead of retro; cinemas had a warm up show, an intermission and then went on to the main movie.
     
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    Cars had torque, not horsepower.
     
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    *phones had cords...
     
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    I remember stopping for gas in St. Louis and it was 78cents a gallon. And thinking to myself, "Oh, good, I should have some change left for a pack of GPCs" because generic cigarettes were 89 cents a pack. I remember watching Knight Rider, the A-Team and Magnum P.I. while playing with GI Joe. I remember when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was on at 6:30am and I watched it before I had to leave for school.
     
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    I remember the students and agitators were rioting daily at the UW Madison campus against the war and Nixon's second election campaign. I also remember when Batman and the Green Hornet were prime time shows. <POW> <BAM> <ZONK>
     
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    Rewinding VHS
     
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    Do You Remember The Time
    When We Fell In Love
     
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    The Top Loader v Front Loader war and VHS v Betamax v Video 2000.
     
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    Ugh, I had an old Sony Top loader. That thing ate tapes more than it played them. But it made great recordings of MST3K.
     
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    I'm afraid to ask if all of these were at the same point in time. ;<)
     
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    Uh, no. The first part about gas and smokes was around 1997 or so. The part about KR, Ateam and TMNT goes back to the early 80's.
     
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    I'm so old I have all of you beat...cars without seatbelts, black and white TV (as our primary TV, but back then most people had only one), rotary dial phone. Stuff I lived, not read about in books.

    And even though I haven't met him, I have a vision of a little Readymix sucking on a butt while playing GI Joe.
     
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    Psh, I remember when I road my first dinosaur
     
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    Road testing dinosaurs eh? I thought that was you with the hammer and abacus.
     
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    I could barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
     
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    It was definatly another dude's butt.
     
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    LOL! you know it

    Also

    TV's with no remotes, and you had to manually adjust and set the channel per button/switch
     
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    Lincoln logs. Redneck version of legos. Also Muscle Men, Garbage Pail Kids, and Micro Machines.
     
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    How do you know this for a fact?
     
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    he was the other dude
     
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    That's what I am guessing, but he, he needs to say it.
     
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    I was the heiny chow buffet. Though AWDL's was the dessert. It was a party. Huzzah.
     
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    I lol'd. Good grief I laffed.
     
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