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Post by satellite on Sept 27, 2012 17:57:37 GMT -4
Well, after eight (8!) years of begging, I finally got new textbooks for my World Literature class, and I brought in grocery sacks and made each of my students make a cover for their book. Several asked me if they could use one of those fabric thingees, but I told them no because those don't protect the book as well. Oh, boy, the emotional trauma I had over grandma (was raised by her) refusing me the fancy store-bought book covers (which did indeed rip pretty quickly- they were like thicker gift wrap I guess) in lieu of paper bags. She wouldn't buy me real Keds either. I used blue pen to draw the rectangle on the back of my 3 for $10 or whatever Fayva white canvas sneakers.
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Post by bloodredcherries on Oct 2, 2012 17:58:50 GMT -4
When I was your age...
The Game Boy Color was totally awesome -- which of course meant that I didn't have it when it first came out and had to get my older [by 9 months] cousin's old one when he got a Game Boy Advance.
We didn't have cable -- we had about ten channels because we got both Boston and Manchester ABC and all three PBSes. The rabbit ears were hard to adjust and the picture was often disappointing, but we survived, mostly because everyone else had cable. We got cable when I was in the sixth grade.
We also had dial up internet because my mother didn't realize that high speed internet had been invented.
I read the Baby Sitters Club, Sleepover Friends, Sweet Valley, and Girl Talk serieses. There was no Twilight.
I wore out the tape on one of the library's copies of Spice World.
My father met one of the New Kids On The Block when he towed his car -- the first time they were popular.
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Mierin
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Post by Mierin on Oct 4, 2012 17:22:30 GMT -4
WIWYA, having a 'sick' weekend meant you were sick all weekend. Now, apparently, it's a good thing.
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Post by batmom on Oct 4, 2012 19:18:07 GMT -4
WIWYA, having a 'sick' weekend meant you were sick all weekend. Now, apparently, it's a good thing. When Batboy described his haircut as 'sick and tight' my brother just blinked; "I do not know what that means."
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boxofrocks
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Post by boxofrocks on Oct 5, 2012 7:17:45 GMT -4
"Sick" is the new "bad."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2012 8:39:44 GMT -4
Which is the old "good," naturally.
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heyalice
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Post by heyalice on Oct 5, 2012 9:45:59 GMT -4
The last four posts in this thread have made my day! I had to ask my 23 year old to translate Delonte West's tweets and I'm saddened that he quite fluent in Twitter speak.
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gran4
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Post by gran4 on Oct 5, 2012 10:26:14 GMT -4
When I was, well not your age but eight-years-old, The Beatles were introduced to the world. That's 50 years ago today folks.
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Post by Peggy Lane on Oct 5, 2012 10:44:24 GMT -4
A friend and I somehow started talking about making mix tapes off the radio when we were kids. Her son was completely flummoxed. I'm pretty sure he's never listened to the regular radio or seen a tape.
I know now it was baby piracy, but I do have happy memories of loading a tape into my radio and anxiously waiting on a certain song to come on. Or, because I was lucky enough to grow up in a city with an amazing alt radio station, setting it up to record the concerts they'd broadcast live. And when I inherited my parents old two deck cassette machine and I could then really make mix tapes of my favorite sings I thought I was so super technologically advanced.
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Post by margojata on Oct 5, 2012 11:13:05 GMT -4
Anyone else grow up with WGN TV and WLS radio? I used to go home for lunch and watch Bozo's Circus. Can you imagine a kid leaving school now for lunch?
In 1976 my dad bought a gold Cadillac. It had gold velour seats, and an 8 track tape player. It was the most fantastic thing I'd ever seen. Elvis would have loved it (or maybe had it).
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