What pisses you off or what's different about life in 2006?

[RKH]

Does anyone remember the poor man's color television that they actually sold:

A piece of multi-colored transparent plastic you would stick on your b&w TV?

It had green on the bottom (for grass), flesh tone in the middle (for people), and blue on top for the sky.

I swear this is true. I was telling this to a younger coworker and he thought I was making it up.

I also remember those.

I actually like the comercials. They don't bother me.
When the wife and I first got married in 1997 we got dish network, she never had cable before. She could not understand why there were comercials on the TV stations we were paying for. At the time I thought it was funny but now It makes me think.

There was a time when the selling points of cable tv were better reception and the extra stations WITHOUT commercials.

How about pocket knives as great treasures purchased by our fathers as rights of passage?

Phone numbers that were words? My childhood home was SUnset3-8367. "Old timers" talk about only having 4 numbers after the word.

Party lines? Long distance calls that were actually from far away? When Daddy called while stationed overseas, one of us kids ran to Grandma's house next door (after he and Mother had a few minutes) to alert her to pick up since she was on our party line.

Car phones were something you only saw in the movies?

They had a cartoon with the movie?

American Bandstand?

The tv weatherman pointing to a map with magnets on it?

Postcards from people, not businesses?

A calendar from the Service Station/hardware store/drugstore...that you hung on the wall...with a nail?

Wasn't it actually "Watsamatta U"?

[rbeemer]

The Hanna-Barbera cartoons - Wacky Racers, Secret Squirrel, Atom Ant

S&H Green Stamps

Gas wars between gas stations

Only Full-Serve at Gas Station - Real Full-Service not just pumping gas

Stealing watermelons and only getting shot at with Rock Salt -OUCH

Being able to rebuild a car engine or building a hot rod in your driveway or garage with the neighbors not caring but helping you do it

Not having to worry about being sued for everything you did.

[lanego]

Ok-

I miss the "Johnny Quest" cartoons!

I miss the Jetsons. And after school, they ran the Little Rascals, The Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. I miss comic books like Caspar the Friendly Ghost.

[Joseph]

How about pocket knives as great treasures purchased by our fathers as rights of passage?

Which you could take to school without fear of being arrested...

Phone numbers that were words? My childhood home was SUnset3-8367.

Mine was EDgewood 2-7769.

"Old timers" talk about only having 4 numbers after the word.

My German professor in college still remembered his gradfather's phone number in Warsaw. It was 3.

They had a cartoon with the movie?

The previews are what does for a cartoon for me. But how about double features with the cartoons in between?

The tv weatherman pointing to a map with magnets on it?

Of sun and clouds and rain and snow...

Wasn't it actually "Watsamatta U"?

Yep.

Joseph

[angib]

Funny how we become our parents, innit?

Yeah, what's posted here is more a statement about the people saying it, than the times we live in.

Every generation, once it reaches a certain age, believes that the world was more or less perfect when they were children and that nowadays it (and all subsequent generations) have gone to ratshit.

Or course we knew it wasn't true when previous generations said it about us, but apparently it is true when we say it about subsequent generations.

The reason why this would be true escapes me just at the moment......

Andrew

PS Sorry, Ira - this doesn't help you with your request!

[angib]

Phone numbers that were words? My childhood home was SUnset3-8367. "Old timers" talk about only having 4 numbers after the word.

A friend of mine worked on the Scottish island of Eigg for a while - his phone number (yes, a party line) was 'Eigg 3'.

Andrew

[asianflava]

But; what I remember the most are the Sunday 'Blue-Laws', when familys actually spent Sunday together; and when taking a trip was an adventure; on real roads, before the highways. Does anyone remember the '3C' in Ohio?

Rick

That is one thing that drives me crazy in 2006....They still have Blue laws here. Of course there is the buying beer and wine at certain times but they also have this stupid-a$$ rule that you cannot sell cars (or any motorized vehicle) on both days of the weekend.

So, if you are interested in buying a car, and you and your spouse work during the week, the only time you can shop is Sat. There is one dealership that is closed on Sat and open on Sun.

[Classic Finn]

I had more hair to comb back then than I do now and it sort of pzzzzezzz me off....Then it was Wash N Go.... Now its just a lil dust cloth wipe off n go...
even though the truth is Im not eligible to join the Telly Savalas Fan Club Yet..

I remember Red Skeleton, Jerry Lewis and the Lil Rascals...And I have to say "I missem"... But I seem to have a mixture of their character...

Classic Finn

[len19070]

Does anyone remember the poor man's color television that they actually sold:

A piece of multi-colored transparent plastic you would stick on your b&w TV?

It had green on the bottom (for grass), flesh tone in the middle (for people), and blue on top for the sky.

I swear this is true. I was telling this to a younger coworker and he thought I was making it up.

And to watch it you had to sit on top of each other, like a Totem pole directly in front of it.

Happy Trails

Len

[doug hodder]

GoldCoop...check out Boomerang (Cartoon network)...I get the original Johnny Quests every night....and honestly, I look forward to them...by the way, I think Hadji is working as a tech support person for Dell computers now. and for those of you that are cartoon people and didn't know it...Tim Matheson did the voice of Johnny....doug

[lanego]

The lack of privacy sucks now.

[Micro469]

I must be older than all of you.... Didn't get T.V. until I was 13....Grew up on The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Black Beauty, Elsie Dinsmore, Jack London,Rin Tin Tin.......

[Dewayne_Mellen]

When I was a kid we used to walk to school in the snow, barefooted, uphill, both ways. oh no wait that was my dad.

I just miss the snow. Growing up it wasn't a question of will we have a white Christmas it was a question of how many feet of snow would you have by Christmas.

[Ira]

Every generation, once it reaches a certain age, believes that the world was more or less perfect when they were children and that nowadays it (and all subsequent generations) have gone to ratshit.

Andrew...

You have no IDEA how much I live by your statement in my day to day to day life…in how I communicate with people whenever this subject comes up. And I'm always getting into arguments about it (surprise, surprise).

Yep--we're allowed to feel nostalgic about how we lived during our generation, but we sure as hell can't feel SUPERIOR about it.

[goldcoop]

I get the original Johnny Quests every night....and honestly, I look forward to them...

Doug, thanks for that!

So you like it too?

I have NO idea what Ira & Joesph are talking about:

You wanna see THAT again!?
Isn't that the one where the lips just moved--and not the BODIES?

There was LOTS of bodies in motion!

Race Bannin, Dr Quest, Hadji, Bandit and Johnny!

Serious BOYS cartoon...


Cheers,

Coop