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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2005 17:46:52 GMT -4
...gas stations were called service stations, cuz that's what you got.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2005 18:07:22 GMT -4
... Jerry O'Connell was fat and didn't know who Rob Reiner was.
Helen Slater was an up-and-coming actress.
Speaking of Slaters, Christian Slater still thought he was Jack Nicholson, and pre-pubescent girls swooned over his eyebrows.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2005 22:43:15 GMT -4
When I was your age... We didn't have MTV. We listened to Blue Oyster Cult and took drugs instead. TV dinners came in aluminum pans that you had to bake in the oven for 45 minutes. Yogurt was something hippies ate. Disney live action films were actually fun to watch. (I think this is because of my lack of maturity at the time, not due to any increase in watchability of any Disney live action film) Jodie Foster was a twelve year old hooker in a movie I wasn't allowed to see. Ike Eisenman was HAWT. We wore the exact same clothing styles that are popular now. Which is really, really scary. Hiphuggers and bellbottoms were bad enough the first time through.
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Post by ownlife on Mar 18, 2005 23:57:54 GMT -4
...That '70s Show wasn't a show, it was real life.
No one knew what a singer or group looked like until their album (yes, album) was released. There was no MTV or BET.
You didn't have to worry about getting to the theater before the movie started; you walked in during the middle of a movie and stayed through the next showing until you could say "this is where I came in."
There was no multiscreen megaplex where you had to choose from among 21 movies. The movie theater had one screen and you saw whatever was listed on the marquee. Only technogeeks with expensive hi-fis (pronounced high-fighs) listened to FM radio, everyone else listened to the AM band on a tinny-sounding transistor radio.
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Post by Malle Babbe on Mar 19, 2005 10:00:00 GMT -4
When I was your age, we didn't have Napster, KaZaa, or binary newsgroups; if you wanted a song without paying for it, you had to tape it off of the radio. And you had to hope the DJ didn't blather too much at the beginning or ending of the song, or that you weren't listening to the shortened version of a given song (Dammit, I want to listen to the instrumental bit of "Light My Fire).
And mind you we had to sprint through 3 feet of snow across the bedroom in order to hit "record" on our boom boxes... Which were big suckers, nothing like these new fangled flash players the size of a Zippo lighter.
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Post by Gracie on Mar 19, 2005 12:18:44 GMT -4
Unless you had the handy-dandy all in one AM/FM/cassette/record player combo with the big plastic cover over the turntable. Then you were the best thing evah because you could tape your records - LP or 45s and take your music wherever on the tinny cassette players with the built in mic (and hope you didn't push the record button along with play and record over your hard work).
Yes, that is a run-on sentence, thank you very much. However, when I wax nostalgic, I tend to run on.
Edited because AM/FM needed to be added just to emphasize how wonderful my first dorky stereo was
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Post by suzyp on Mar 19, 2005 12:43:19 GMT -4
WIWYA, not every house was wired for cable and even if you had cable, MTV was not always included. Back then if you wanted to see music videos (yes, at one point MTV played videos), you had to convince your parents to let you stay up late or set up the new fangled VCR to tape Friday Night Videos! I still have the memory of staying up with my Dad to see The World Premiere of MJ's Thriller. Yes, even MJ was kind of still cool WIWYA.
And, we had to walk uphill both ways to get to school! Now get off my lawn you crazy kids! ;)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2005 13:01:20 GMT -4
I still have one of those! it's hooked up to my computer as we speak. It still works, though I have to use the bony part of my thumb to turn it off when I use the remote.
I can't think of any WIWYA things yet; I'll get back to you on that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2005 13:48:45 GMT -4
Remember Headbanger's Ball?
WIWYA, girls still got perms. Big, stiff, curly hair was in. Aqua Net came in a huge, pink aerosol can (containing CFCs, of course) and girls would spend hours scraping its residue off of their curling irons.
Pastel colors were where it was at.
Breakdancing never usually broke anything.
At any given time, you could turn a street corner and find a group of guys rapping and wheezing in sinc w/ eachother. The only instrument involved was a white bucket, turned upside down and tapped out w/ drumsticks.
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Post by decormaven on Mar 19, 2005 16:17:57 GMT -4
This "age" is mid-20s, yes? Then WIWYA, computers had just entered the workplace, but most of the work continued to be banged out on IBM Selectric typewriters. (And we thought we were cutting edge!) Music videos were very early in their infancy, and were seen on a Friday night show on WTBS. Disco dancing was the rage and there were some truly heinous polyester clothing on display. "Protection" meant you were on the Pill.
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