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• If you are 45 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! (pic)
  • We didn't even have Atari!
    • Luxury... I grew up living in a cardboard box next to the freeway, and felt lucky! ;-) (nm)
      • cardboard box? we used to dream of living in a cardboard box next to the freeway.
        • Luxury. Cardboard box!!!! CARDBOARD BOX!!!! We drembt of living in a cardboard box. :-)
          • thanks blye! i haven't seen or heard that one in many years.... (nm)
    • We still only get three channels in Bass Harbor...No cable here :) (nm)
      • two channels in Boothbay Harbor
  • I think kids today are living the life of a milk cow...Our Freedom is taken away one law at a time... (link)
    • Rob, you're nuts. I can't keep up with all kids do these days.
      • I agree, my 13yo has already seen and done as much as I did by 25
        • I knew exactly who I was in the mid 1960s
          • post of the day! (nm)
        • Then you must have been a real idiot...
      • Not ideology , just nit-picking
        • You ain't Rob, your post makes no sense to read. (nm)
          • made sense to me, I'm just waiting for the mandaory Sailing Helmet law to save us from ourselves. :) (nm) (link)
            • It don't surprise me. ;) (nm)
            • The helmet will have to have 14# of buoyancy too... (nm)
              • Flotation will be in the mandatory Sumo Wrestler Suit (nm)
        • I stopped counting
    • AMEN Brother...
      • heck yeah Pete, if we were to run through the streets today, the cops would be called. (nm) (link)
  • Funny!
    • Rotary phone? I'm feeling my age.
      • It was pretty much the same out west
        • Communications the old way
      • Didn't you hate calling people with 9's and 0's in their numbers? (pic)
        • We had one just like it, Metal dial as well.
          • Should have said metal dial on the phone as well. (nm)
      • And out of the western sky comes 'Sky King' (link)
        • Sky King was a Saturday AM regular
        • Man, that girl Penny was sure a LOT trouble, as I recall.
      • Phone trivia
        • I Know :) (nm)
          • I'm guessing if Paul knows it's because it's in the north East somewhere....
            • LOL!!! How "close" that is depends on who you talk to
              • What are you talking about! It's only six and a half inches away! see... (pic)
                • LMAO!!! Cool map!
        • Answer is at this link (link)
          • Hey! I wasn't too far off! Any biscuit for being a good boy? :-) (nm)
        • Might be some still in service.
      • I remeber party line phones. All the cottages I visited had them even into the late 70's near here. (nm)
      • Same here in the fifties on all counts. I tried to describe a rotary phone....
    • Ooohh... Cathy, cordless phones have their drawbacks
  • Modern aged wankers all of yous! When I was in schoool there was only too subjects. Wheel and Fire... and i did good. (nm)
    • LOL! (nm)
  • That's funny. But I'd have to say the worlds a tougher place now than when I grew up. (nm)
  • since you're an 'educator' blye, you may have heard this 'joke'...
    • Geese Louise Mink. When I was a kid there qweren't as many continents. Blye is an idiot isn't she? heCant't speel Blighh (nm)
    • "have my permission to change 'president of the united states' to 'prime minister of Canada'" No need to! ;-)