50 Painfully Funny Pics Of People Who Are Getting Old Faster Than They Expected (New Pics)
You gotta hand it to the person who came up with the saying that old age isn’t so bad—if you consider the alternative.
All jokes aside, there’s more to be had. For instance, being old also gives you the opportunity to be mind-blown by how fast time passes and seeing things from your childhood can deliver a very fond sense of nostalgia.
And what better place to get a chronological heart attack than if not at the [Heck], I’m Old subreddit which is dedicated to sharing all of our beloved old school things and memes to reminisce about.
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Remembering…
Automatically included. The 60s were starting to be the oldies in the late 80s :-) :-(
Load More Replies...Remember? A good portion of the music I still listen to is from 80s. I'm almost word perfect!
Being Quick Enough To Hit 'Stop' Right Before The Dj Starts Talking Was An Art Form
I'm 'got their finger stuck in the cassette tape while trying to rewind because they didn't have a pencil' old...
My boomer boss was trying to describe this to me today, as if my 31-YO a*s had never experienced this before. I was like “dude you had to use a pencil! I was there in the 90s, I did this too!” 😂
Load More Replies...My new laptop doesn’t even have a disk slot so I wish I could burn CDs!
Load More Replies...I recorded Beatles songs from a transistor radio to a reel to reel tape recorder.
Man, no need to go that hard, Granny/Gramps, you win, lol! Dang, that's old.
Load More Replies...My Aunt taught me the dark arts of cassette piracy back in the '80s. That's how old I am.
I Loved Mad Magazine! It Was So Damn Funny!! Anyone Else A Fan?
I’d forgotten about that fold together thing - thanks for the memory!
Load More Replies...That was my constant favorite! Sometimes the parodies were the best.
Load More Replies...the MAD magazine is still in the stores, not quite the same funny as it was long ago!
I haven't seen it for decades, but I assume my sense of humor has evolved since then... at least I hope so.
Load More Replies...Loved their movie parodies...they did King Kong back in 1976 and the last panel had Kong lying dead after his great fall and a cop angrily saying "Whose monkey is this?! You have to have a permit in this city to own a monkey!!!" Still funny all these years later!
When I was too young, per mom, to see movies my friends were seeing, I could get an idea what it was about from Mad Magazine's parodies.
Load More Replies...Mad magazine was the best! Al Jaffe was my favorite artist for Mad.
I have an 8 inch stack of my father’s from the early to mid 60s
Load More Replies...So, there’s a subreddit with a name that my mother and general decency wouldn’t allow me to type out, but it’s based on a quite common saying expressing a somewhat comedic realization and acceptance of being old.
The online group has been around since 2013 and, as of this listicle, it has 160,000 members.
Travel Back To 1989
No, that's her new "Bratz" doll look, isn't it just creepy af?
Load More Replies...That is not an accurate picture of Roseanne these days. roseanne-6...d2737a.jpg
Even though she got her whole show cancelled and all those people lost their jobs because she said some racist stuff?
Load More Replies...What We Did For 8 Hours…
Caught tadpoles, fell in the creek, cut across the corner of the bull paddock, climbed up and jumped out of a gum tree.
Played kick the can in the street, saw how far a croquet ball would go after you hit it with the mallet (through the basement window was not considered for points), threw some lawn dart's
Load More Replies...We used to tear pages from the phone book in the public phone box, crumple them up and stuff them up the coin return slot. Then come back for our ill gotten gains and spend the money on chocolate. The sum total of my criminal career. 😂
We used to pick random people from phone book and call to ask for the husband.
Load More Replies......went 5-7 miles away from home, explored half a dozen abandoned buildings, climbed a bunch of trees, built 3 or 4 forts in the woods, caught 5 snakes, 2 turtles, 1 baby bunny, and 4 frogs to take and release inside at home...all between the hours of 3:pm til the street lights came on!
Younger years: do whatever but come home as soon as the street lights go on. Found two wheels connected with an axis and made a cart from it (10+). Taught myself how to roller skate and do pirouettes out of sheer boredom in the barn (only smooth surface/11+) explored abandoned buildings(12+) , looooong bike rides (when 16+: with a bottle of red wine) , making dens under and climbing poisonous trees (10+ Please don't do that under a yew, folks!), weekly going by train to the next village to visit a classmate for reading together (we 13y.o. girls found the steamy romance novels stash of her mother), ...
Load More Replies...They never thought we were just riding around the block, because they didn't care what we did just as long as we were out of the house.
The boy on the right looks just like my brother, but the dog should be a black lab cross
Mine was a black lab cross from the street and always were with me and my friends. His name Golfo, but my friends called him "El padrino" because he was the boss 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies...Climbed into an abandoned mineshaft, jumped from one block to another in the old pumping station, got threatened by mad shotgun-toting farmer, commando crawled across single remaining railway line over a 20 foot drop, hung out with inappropriately older bikers.... ah the good old days
Played Jarts, went to the cemetary to smoke cigarettes that we stole from one of the dads, wrapped Weeping Willow branches around our arms and swung out over "the valley," drank from the hose, ran barefoot and and played Ghosts in the Graveyard.
Steve Martin Is 78!
He had dark hair, but grayed very early.
Load More Replies...If you've never seen Steve Martin with dark hair, I present this marvelous pic of him from the early '70s (it was used on the back of one of his comedy albums, hence the flag behind him). Dude had it going on, rowr! Steve-Mart...2a150d.jpg
His hair turned fully grey/white in his 30s apparently, but theres an interview where he says he found his first grey hair at 15.
Me, at 13, to my best friend: Hey, check it out... you have some mutant, colorless hairs! Him: It's called "grey," and shut up. (probably should clarify he was also 13)
As you might have probably understood by now, the subreddit features photos of nostalgic things, concepts, ideas as well as memes that throw us back to the good ol’ days.
Judging by the subreddit’s flairs, the majority of its content is aimed at Millennials, Xennials and Generation X. While Zillennials and Gen Z are also included, they have an “observer” tag.
Who Remembers The Noise These Made?
This was used to process credit cards - it made a carbon copy of the card
Load More Replies...It was the worst when someone used a credit card (MasterCHARGE) for a pack of smokes ($1.10 at the time) One of my first jobs had a 50s style mechanical cash register. (where you had to push in the buttons for $10s, $1s, dimes and cents and then pull the mechanical crank to ring up each item
Worked in a department store for 20+ years. That sound is saved in my brain!
The training video for my last job had this. I was like how old is this video
Just About Every Mom I Knew Had One In The Kitchen
Right?! And no one ever bought one. They just sort of appeared in the corner cabinet.
Load More Replies...I mustard yellow, pea soup green, and bright orange.
Who Remembers Growing Up Watching This Show Every Year??
I'm furious that Apple bought the Peanuts shows so they are no longer on a free TV channel. These specials are part of the American holiday tradition and you shouldn't have to pay to experience them. I'm fine with watching the same commercial for Aquaman 4 times if it means my kid can listen to Linus tell the Christmas story.
PLUS they don't even have ALL of the shows/specials! I'd be willing to pay and watch ads (my boyfriend is a huge Peanuts fan) if they had ALL of the specials, but noooo
Load More Replies...My favorite! 🩷 I live in the town Charles Schulz grew up in and there are random statues of Peanuts characters all over.
It was the same four or five shows. This one, that weird stop motion one with the elves. I forget the other two. One time I saw them being sold as a DVD bundle at costco and was like = Yup! Those are the same specials we saw on TV EVERY year since before the television was even invented. :)
These are more than just pictures and memes. They are actually also the memories that, say, one of those hulking television sets unearthed in our brains. After all, it’s not just a TV—it’s the memory of how it took 4 family members to lift it up and relocate it into a better spot so that everyone at your Thanksgiving party could now watch the holiday game.
And the older you get, the more such memories you’ll have.
It's Furniture
Had one of those. Kept going well into the 90s. I was playing N64 games on that old beast.
" If you got a working TV sitting on top of a non-working TV...you may be a redneck"-Jeff Foxworthy (I think)
Load More Replies...These were deliberately designed to blend in with the furniture and wall paneling of the times and they certainly did! Next to this was the Zenith combo record/8-Track/cassette player, a shelf full of recorded off TV VHS tapes and vinyl records with a splitter box to switch between TV and Nintendo. When we used the VCR it would occupy one of those spots and you'd have to switch out the coaxial cable to use one or the other. Good lower middle class times!
I love wood console tvs. If I won a huge lottery jackpot, my new, large house would have a room featuring one and other 70s aesthetic items.
For a next level experience, when this one died, you'd but a new one and put it on top.
When I was a teenager I bought a TV at the second hand shop and it was so heavy I could only move it for a few steps at a time. By pure luck my maths teacher happened to be driving past, saw me, and gave me a lift! That TV lived in my room for years, hooked up to my PS2. Ah, those were good times.
My grandpa actually took the old tv out of the housing and made some clever adaptations to put his 55” OLED tv in it because he liked the design. Clever man.
My mom eventually hollowed out the casing and replaced it with a new TV. It was very cool, retro sheek
Who All Had These, Candy Cigarettes Growing Up ?
In Australia, I remember ones just called "F.a.g.s" (the slang term for cigarettes, dots added just to avoid BP censorship)...I think they changed the name to "Fads" later on
The ones that came in real cigarette paper or the ones that tasted like soap?
Load More Replies...Loved the taste. I think they were flavored with wintergreen.
is it this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaultheria_procumbens
Load More Replies...The gum ones did that! I scared the $h!t out of my great auntie one day pretending I was smoking.
Load More Replies...Got them as "consolation award" after going to the dentist. The dentist himself needed to light a real one after having to deal with me, though :D
Anyone Remember This 80's Show??
Let the music play, down in Fraggle Rock!!!
Load More Replies...Dance your cares away, worries for another day Let the music play, Down in fraggle rock
I've been out with Uncle Traveling Matt for so long I can't remember my way back
One of the bigger benefits of growing old is retirement. Sure, existential dread might kick in, but instead of work, you can now redirect your attention to the other things in life.
This is a great opportunity to finally pursue your dreams. Things like learning new languages, taking trips, writing—whatever—is now suddenly on the table for you to realize.
They Were Doing Things On TV Back In The 60s That We Might Have Missed But Were, None The Less, Brilliant. Like This
Grandpa! Funny guy and a dedicated activist!My ex used to attend protests and he was often there!
Later ran as an independent for governor of New York. Amazingly, he did not win.
Load More Replies...Watch old episodes of The Carol Burnett Show. Wow! I missed a lot back then! 😆
This guy was my stepdads HS football coach! Looks the same without makeup
Who Had A Large Collection Of These When You Were Growing Up??
If only... I remember having to copy over them. The surprise of listening to a song end only to jump in the middle of another, totally different song. (Songs recorded from the radio, of course.)
I had a self-hypnosis tape. It worked beautifully to relax me, so it really felt like I was lying on a riverbank, listening to the birds, every muscle relaxed, until BANG! Star Wars music started at full volume. My son, bless him, had tried to record the soundtrack of the original Star Wars movie and had used that particular tape.
Load More Replies...Had? still have it and a working B&O set to play them as well as my vinyl records. There is some mighty good s**t on those
oh darn !! quit putting in astrixes ...... good S-H-I-T on those
Load More Replies...Yes, the longer ones were rare here. I always cherished really new oneso ly had about 2 or 3. The rest were...ummm... good question... gifted, borrowed?
Load More Replies...Some Thing Nobody Said In The 1980's Can You Think Of Anymore?
also you didn't call people and asked them where they are.. because there were (almost) no cell phones back then so they had to be near the phone, that you called ..
My grandma did that, actually. She'd phone after we've come home from a long trip and ask "Have you arrived yet?"... while calling us on a landline phone.
Load More Replies...Once when I was 10 or 11 (1992-93) I was on the phone with my best friend for HOURS watching the same program on tv with her. We didn’t have call waiting and apparently my dad was trying to get through. Our conversation was interrupted by the operator getting on our call and telling me to “hang up already, my dad is trying to call.” I didn’t know they could do that!
I reckon that's why everyone's so darn mad these days. Punching that hang-up button on the cell is not the same as SLAMMING that headset down on the old-timey phones. So much phone rage out there with nowhere to go.
Load More Replies...Being old also means having significantly more time for loved ones and socializing. And if you have grandchildren or even (grand) nieces or nephews, get involved in their lives. Not only will that help you fill that potentially lonely void, but research has shown that kids need involved and caring grandparents to fully develop on a social and emotional level.
Anybody Else Remember Playing This???
It's the toilet game!!! Always had them in the bathroom with the magazines and stuff for throne time
I remember my Aunt Ginny visited us and came out of the bathroom one time remarking about how much fun she had playing the ring toss! :)
Load More Replies...I had a small yellow one with a lil swordfish. You had to get the rings on his nose 🙂
The Current Generation
It's nice to know that the internet will still not give Monica a moment's peace, over mistakes she made in her 20s, 30 years ago. Everyone makes jokes about her, but no one says a word about the massive power imbalance in that relationship.
Have you seen her Twitter comments? She's joking about it now than anyone else I've seen. My favorite one of her's I've seen is someone doing a "what was some terrible advice you followed?" and her responding with "An internship at the Whitehouse would look great on your resume." XD
Load More Replies...Bill Clinton had an affair with an intern at the white house. The joke is claiming she's under the table in this picture.
Load More Replies...Ha! That was the dumbest thing he ever uttered!
Load More Replies...Self Titled
Try hanging one of those on new hinges. Helps to have an engine hoist.
Floor jack under the bottom of door with a block of wood. Disassembled door to shell only is helpful. I still do these :-)
Load More Replies...My mom accidently slammed my fingers in one of those when I was about 6. I honestly thought they might fall off.
And when it invariably went out of alignment you grabbed the end and...LIIIIIFFFTTTEEEDDD.
ha! so true! in order to close some doors, that's what you had to do. I'm looking at you Ford LTD
Load More Replies...I still remember the childhood struggle of trying to open these when parked on a steep hill.
It's still not any different :-) Fun fact: my 1968 Fury 2 doors are 14 feet wide with both doors open. And a 2024 Jeep Wrangler is 14 feet long.
Load More Replies...Some car doors were reinforced with an extra steel plate, making cars much safer than they are today,
The C pillar in my 68 Fury fastop is three layers thick
Load More Replies...Unless you drive a Tesla... longer battery mileage = more batteries = one very heavy car.
yep. all EVs are very heavy. My friend has a Rivian... which is 8000lbs
Load More Replies...But if you plan on being a bitter loner who just wants everyone to get off their lawn, you can look forward to a guaranteed minimum income, medicare and social security, as well as senior discounts, and other senior-focused benefits that come with age.
In any case, you might end up with a happier outlook on life as your age will entail more comfort with who you are and you’ll be better equipped to deal with challenges.
Does This Describe You?
This is like the same exact meme that was in the cringiest memes ever list here on BP recently 🧐
Not only were seat belts not required but our family wagon never even had them. It was a '64.
also higher alcohol content(?) in your blood was allowed when driving?
Load More Replies...as a kid I really loved the taste of water out of the hose on a summer day!
The Good Ol' Sick Days
yessss. for me sick days were crackers and flat schweppes lemonade (the fizzy australian kind - but flat, for some reason.)
I was told as a kid that the carbonation would upset my tummy more, hence the flat ginger ale. Lol
Load More Replies...I'm sick right now, 48yrs old, going to call out of work in 3 hours. I already have this arsenal set up for lunch
It was Campbell's chicken noodle soup, saltine crackers and Sprite for me.
Me too! Exactly! Price is Right, then Dialing for Dollars, DOOL and Another World!
Load More Replies...My "sick days" from school (which were most always BS 😆) were always about a fried egg and cheese sandwich and chocolate milk for breakfast and a bologna and ketchup sandwich with a creme soda for lunch. I always faked being sick when I knew the Disney Channel were running a "free preview" and I'm sure my parents knew but didn't care and gave me the pass.
Holy hell you had some royal meals, I'm jealous! I had the meal in the pic but instead of ginger ale, it was 7up...
Load More Replies...We Are Daniel Radcliffe's Curse
::hugs:: Well, we're all glad that you are still here with us! And Mr. Auntriarch too, of course, even if we've never met him directly! :D
Load More Replies...Daniel should have dinner with Macaulay. They might find something in common.
12 years older 😜. But I'm feel young but with a bunch of pains in my back and arms end.......well all over my body🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies...Too true. Whenever I think about my sufferings at 73, I remember that too many people are sleeping peacefully in graveyards.
Now, if you want to age well, you gotta look after yourself. Eating healthy is a key factor in having a higher life quality when you grow old, so losing 5% of your body weight, avoiding processed meats, and skipping packaged foods are great ways you can make a significant change to how you feel in seniority. Or maybe even until then.
Reverse
Milli Vanilli
Yeah, I never understood why they copped the flack for it - it's not like they're the manager, producer, exec that created the albums or organised the tours.
Load More Replies...I don't care that they were lip-syncing I still freaking love their music.
Rob Pilatus died in 1998 from an alcohol and prescription drug overdose. The one on the left.
Load More Replies...TBH that's like comparing a three card monte to Amway. MV were the Amway of lip-syncing scams.
Mmmm Plastic Water
Omg this is sooo funny! I'm almost 40, haven't tasted squirt gun water in at least 30 years, but man, I remember exactly how it tastes, like I just drank it yesterday. 😆
Everything use to be Made In The USA at Walmart but they sold out. My Grandpa would shop there Religiously because he believed we should be making our own goods. I’m sure he would have a lot to say about things now.
Now it's getting a bit disgusting but we used to pee each other's legs in the community showers in the swimming pool, because due to the water temperature nobody noticed it anyway...🚿🤦🏽
You never had all the colors, either. It was always purple, green, or blue, and the rest had gotten lost somewhere.
It goes without saying, movement and exercise are also a must in making sure your body lasts. Intense exercise intervals—e.g. 15 minute bursts—reverses natural decline of muscles with age.
And that’s besides all the other benefits of exercise: improved brain health, better weight management, reduced risk of disease, bone and muscle strength, among other things.
Me Irl
Remember the constant pain of dread that you set the time wrong, so you'd constantly double check, and it was always right, until you went to watch the show and realized you had it set to AM instead of PM and had a full hour of nothing but ant races and that you'd have to wait until summer reruns to find out what happened to Buffy? No? Me neither.
Load More Replies...For those who don't know and are actually curious: You'd buy blank CD-R's in bulk (CD-R and CD-RW was CD types you could burn things to) then you'd need a computer with a compatible CD-R drive. For this you'd need a disk burning program for example Nero, that you'd have to physically buy as a cereal box sized cardboard box from a store. If you wanted to rip tracks from other CD's you could use something like Windows Media Player or WinAmp. Then after you've done ripping you'd plop an empty CD into the drive and start up Nero. The drive would use its fricking laser(!) to imprint, like actually burn the song data unto the CD. This could fail the first attempt so you'd sometimes need to put in another CD and try again. All and all very cumbersome process but like with cassettes, there's something really novel to appreciate about physical homepirated media :D
Let's not forget writing on the CD with a sharpie what hot songs was on your mix too
Load More Replies...Happy Birthday Jonathan!
He lives on St. Helena, the same island where Napoleon was exiled. He hatched only about a decade after Napoleon died.
"Excuse me. I ask this with respect but could you get that f****n' thing out of my face. Thank you."
Country Crock
it's habit I still do too, smaller tubs now though (as live alone) ,have a 6ft tall freezer full of "leftover" meals.....lol the whole COVID food panic buying I managed to completely avoid 😆😆😆
Load More Replies...Ultimately, your brain needs enough stimulus to keep it from declining as well. Activities that involve movement, socializing, and creativity have great potential to keep the brain active so as to not have it age too fast.
Lastly, stay connected and socialize. Apparently, being social helps outweigh negative habits such as smoking and lack of exercise. If that means entering retirement without quitting your day job, that’s fine—it just expands your circle of friends, allowing for higher self-esteem, greater empathy for others, and making us more cooperative.
Want To Feel Old?
get me for a minute, i was thinking i find Woody Allen attractive 😵🤢😂
In this pic he has the same expression in his face like Stan Laurel. But it suits him well...
That means we aren’t Jersey “Girls”. We are Jersey Mamas .. and in a few cases maybe Jersey Grandmas” (Please note you just can’t take Jersey out of us - Evan)
Did You Ever Take A Picture With One Of These Bad Boys?
Which, apparently, is not what you should do. Instead you should keep it dark and let it develop on its own. But I'm still shaking it. Sorry, it's instinctive.
Load More Replies...Yeah but as a kid you only got to take like two, cause it cost 1000 bucks for a thing of film according to your parents.
I only got to take one. And my parents got mad at me for taking too long to decide what to take a picture of. I was like, "What do you expect?! I'm only allowed one!!" I didn't say that out loud, though. I would've been murdered by said parents, lol!
Load More Replies...A great marketing scam. Make the cameras cheap, charge out the butt for the film. A marketing strategy repeated by HP only with printers and ink.
i loved these - and now in japan they have the expensive "looks like a polaroid " camera but it's just a regular camera - for like 30.000 bucks
Axl Rose
Thank you - now I have that music buzzing in my head.
Load More Replies...That bit where chunk is telling the fratellis all the bad things he did
Load More Replies...My oldest daughter, who's majoring in theatre, told me that of all the modern popular singers, Axl Rose has the biggest range, and that most of the high notes he's hitting he's actually singing, and not even using his falsetto. So, I guess I'm just super impressed with his skills!
So, accept the fact that you’re getting old—we all are—and embrace the finer things in life. Like checking out the subreddit about things that remind you of your age, and checking out another Bored Panda article on the same topic.
But if you truly need to retire for the night, at least leave a comment of the things you miss from your childhood in the comment section below!
Born At Age 48
Worse than that is the boy looks like my nephew. Who's only eight.
Load More Replies...Their kid just graduated college and they couldn’t be prouder.
Me too, now I remember the pain of the hair rollers,Dippety Do and teasing my hair way up.
Load More Replies...The Internet, C. 1974
I still have the 1950's encyclopedia my parents bought when they just got married. I refuse to part with it, I had so much fun going through them as a kid.
I did that with my dads National Geographic, they always had a map of something.
Load More Replies...We had the "Funk and Wagnalls" encyclopedia that my mom got with Green Stamps.
yep same here! :) S&H green stamps. Use to enjoy pasting them into the savings books when ever mom got some.
Load More Replies...If it weret for these encyclopedias, i wouldve never have known there was more out there and that i had to get out of the small town i grew up in.
You could open any volume to any page and find something interesting.
My copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica has a copyright date of 1942, and it has only 24 volumes. May not be quite adequate anymore but it certainly ain't raw sewage like the current version of the internet.
Childhood Remedies
I'm telling you all, Chicken and stars are magic for colds - my dad said so.
Nowadays, it’s reruns of Friends or Attack on Titan, Sprite, soup, crackers, and Vicks
If You Can Remember The Sound This Made Like It Was Yesterday
I remember buying one, on a shool day trip to France when I was young!
Especially after shaking it too much to get that disco moo/annoy your siblings
Load More Replies...Still around. Maybe with different designs on them, but a classic in novelty shops.
i didnt even have to see the cows to hear the sound!! as soon as i saw the top of the can.......MMMMOOOOOOO
I Always Thought These Were Weird. Do You Remember Seeing These In Bathrooms Back In The Day? 🤣
These "ugly-cool" dolls would Discretely hide a roll of TP, simply by placing the doll on top of the roll. 😎
It was to protect the toilet paper from sitting there and seeing what fate awaited it. 😳
Grandmas had to have something to make in their craft circles. My grandma made loads of this kind of stuff.
Not in the bathroom. I remember these sitting on the hat rack of cars (to hide the emergency toilet paper)...
I remember it covered one of my babysitters' phones 🤢 You had to lift her up to answer.
Unfriending
I paid big money to have big hair back in the 80s. I don’t think my follicles have ever recovered.
I swear you can hear the dusty rustling of hair when they would move like sitting in front of you in math. Looking at you Carla!
See, in the 1980s, we didn't have those little caps that keep kids from sticking forks in electrical outlets.
Even back in high school, I thought the look was stupid. But then, I was always the oddball.
You would go into a woman's restroom and walk into a cloud of hair spray.
I remember listening in o a girl that had hair like this talk about how it took her 4 HOURS to get ready every morning!
Younger folks should realize these pics are not fake or out of the ordinary at all! Every high school yearbook page looked like this for a few years.
Do You Remember?
Do you realize that there was a day where you all went out to play for the last time?
As a teen, I went to my first concert because my friends were on their way and had an extra ticket, so lo and behold, they showed up on my porch like this and I went with them!
I had a friend that I would just walk into their house. Later on in life, their mother would call for us to come and wake him up lol.
I used to do that in the 2010s in high school. My friend went to a different school but lived near the one i went to so id just walk to her house after school and wait for them to get home lol
Load More Replies...yes - but no one remembers the very last time their friends called for them to play out.
No. But my brother and sister had people come for them. I was brought up to be a lady.
I remember telling my um to answer the door sometimes when our next door neighbour came to play and tell them I was grounded so I didn't have to! Not all the time, but certainly a few times when I was preteen-teenage
Anyone Remember Who This Is??
MAX HEADROOM! "Y'know... I get the feeling there's a lot of faces out there... watching... me! And I can tell you it brings a lump to my ratings. Yes, this is Network 23. The net-net-net-net-network that puts it right... where they want you to be!"
For a company mascot, the TV show was actually pretty good.
Load More Replies...I remember feeling duped when it was finally revealed that he was an actor and not some AI creation.
Load More Replies...That was light-years ahead of its time; hell, it's ahead of its time now.
Funnily enough (as I've just learnt), he used to be a (would-be) British Channel 4 reply to MTV, a "CGI" presenter of music videos.
Load More Replies...Found This At A Restaurant Yesterday. My Kid Didn't Understand Why I Was So Excited
They have them at every light rail and transit station here for 911 reasons.
Load More Replies...It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these!! “ Would you like to accept a call from Michelle?…”Hello?” “We’redoneatthepool come pick me up in about fifteen minutes thanks love ya bye!”
Who Remembers These Car Stereos?
we still use it in our old yariseseses
Load More Replies...Remember them vividly. Preferred the ones with the removable face plate.
I love the ongoing joke in mcgruber, makes me feel like the joke is just for me.
I'm Lucky If My Phone Lasts 8 Or 9 Hours Nowadays
Battery was only 1020mAh, nowadays smartphone batteries start at triple that capacity. So they didn't care so much for battery life but more for efficient use of energy. Todays phones are capable of so much more complex tasks that require a lot of energy.
Load More Replies...But one drop of water and it was dead for a week 😁
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That's cause the receiver was also a charger lol
Load More Replies...Danny Glover
Anyone ever think that Stanley is what would've happened to Murtaugh if he got a desk job at a paper company instead?
I'm A Few Years Past 40. But Still
Yes. It will be dark soon. That's why we stat at 9am instead. (Joking here guys)
You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning
Load More Replies...There is no way out of here. It will be dark soon. The Master does not approve!
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who remembers this movie.
Load More Replies...YES! So glad more people knew where it's from! 😄👍
Load More Replies...When my friends phoned at ten pm and said let's hit the bars. I replied I’m going to bed.
I remember waiting until 10-11pm before going out to clubs. That was followed with being in bed by 10-11pm.
Scary
"Packman's ghosts once had legs, Daddy? What happened.?
Load More Replies...Don't get me started on the Crypt Keeper. My dad would watch that s**t and I'd be crying in my room under the covers...
Don't forget about the Meth Tree inside the restaurant n_slprR0qC...738582.jpg
Oh my god, I forgot about those little yarn-y mushroom creatures with googly eyes. WTH were they even supposed to be?! i recently learned that Grimace is a tastebud, of all things.
Who Else Remembers These Guys??
Lol my 8th grade science teacher would just stick her arms & legs through a black trash bag for her California raisin Halloween costume - every year.
Load More Replies...My older sister worked at Hardee's when this promotion was going. Needless to say, we had the whole set.
We lived near one and my mom would go every week to get an ice cream so she could collect them all.
Load More Replies...and i'm just about to loose my mind honest honey - i sweat they always showed it around xmas time
Yowza
Maybe you had a crush on him, but you could not have crushed him...
Load More Replies...YouTuber says he always looked pissed when she saw him on Peacemaker
Load More Replies...When he appeared in anything other than T2, it never felt right. My brain typecast him.
Lots of guest spots on tv, his last role of note was on Scorpion on CBS.
Load More Replies...He is one of those actors who seemed to get old, and out of shape looking, over a short period of time.
Like Lawrence Fishburn. He was Morpheus then...really went downhill from there.
Load More Replies...I’m Old Enough To Remember When I Actually Liked John Travolta
Old enough to have liked him (Saturday Night Fever) , hated him (Staying Alive), liked him again (Pulp Fiction), and hated him again (Battlefield Earth).
Travolta is one of those actors I've never disliked. He's definitely had highs and lows, and the Scientology stuff is bonkers but I like him well enough to still watch his work.
There is a new documentary out that sheds some light on his relationship with Scientology. Sounds like he wanted out at one point, but they blackmailed him into staying. He's a lot more low key about it than he was in his younger days. At least, from my memory/perspective. That's the problem with their "audits", and it's been brought up by several past members, that they will absolutely blackmail u into staying quiet
Load More Replies...I can still hear Bar Bar Bar Barbarbarino - done to the tune of the Beach Boys Barbara Ann
TV show in the 70s called Welcome Back Kotter, Travolta’s character was Vinnie Barbarino - stud
Load More Replies...Kurt Cobain’s Daughter Is Now Older Than He Was At The Time Of His Death. She’s 28, He Died At 27
He looks so unhappy. I wish he would have retreated to some quiet island where no one knew who he was living a quiet life, instead of taking his own life. One of the many missed terribly.
He had issues with his digestion that caused him pain. My understanding is that what got him into heroin to begin with.
Load More Replies...It does seem so in this pic, and she definitely has his nose for sure, but if you ever see her with her mom (Courtney) in person, she is the spitting image of a young Courtney. They even hold their mouth the same, it's trippy.
Load More Replies...Isn't she tying up all the 90's loose ends by marrying Tony Hawk's son?
Forget who, but think it was a band member from Motley Crue? Or some other heavy metal band, Kurt and him were on the same commercial flight and chit chatting ironically. As they got off, of course there was a bit of a crowd, he went to invite Kurt over to help him re-roof his house and chill out a bit. But when he looked for him, he was already gone. Next day, Kurt took his life. That's gotta suck to think if you just asked him a few moments earlier things might have been different.
How Many Do You Recognize?
I remember the full glass box phone booths before those crappy blue ones came out.
And Superman has nowhere to change, now. Luckily, Rainman can't fart while you're on the phone.
Load More Replies...What the heck?! No mimeograph? Just *smell* that new English exam!
I was born in '81 and did not grow up with an 8MM film projector nor do I have any idea what Jabberjaw is but the rest, most definitely! That's a "modern" Pepsi logo on the vending machine next to the pay phone but I've always had a nostalgic fascination with old/abandoned/non-operative pay phones.
The most futuristic shark you ever saw! Lol Jabberjaw was basically Scooby-Doo underwater - interestingly enough, I'm your age and I watched it here in Germany (dubbed), so I suppose it was somewhat of a thing back then :D
Load More Replies...I have my 2600 right here, with my rotary phone, and tube TV. CB base station and 8mm projector in my garage
Load More Replies...If You Were Sick On A School Day, Then He Was Your Idol
I used to watch Days Of Our Lives when I as off school sick. It’d be months between watching (no taping shows, back in the day!) yet I’d still manage to pick up the storyline within 5 minutes 😂
Kids those days! I used to get "if you're too ill to go to school, you're too ill to watch telly"
The Little Rascals
If we stopped placing so much importance on those things as if our entire identity and value is based on them, the world would be in a much better place.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we could all play together again?" - We can! always could, it's just that tiny vocal minority of troglodytes that would disallow it.
Two things have killed this concept. The mobile phone and social media.
And reality. Reality killed this concept. It was never a thing. In any universe.
Load More Replies...I lived for Saturdays with these guys on the old black & white Zenith.
What A Great Year For Music
And I got all of em for a penny. With a promise I'd buy 11 more at full price which of course "Ben Dover" never did.
Pearl Jam was the first CD I picked when I purchased my CD player for $150 at Montgomery Ward.
Load More Replies...Growing Up Poor
Aye, but we had to walk 't'shop, 5 miles, uphill both ways in the snow, barefoot.
Load More Replies...Menopause triggered a gluten intolerance in me, where I get miserably sick if I ingest anything with gluten in it. So, after a lifetime of loving baked goods, I had to find gluten free alternatives. BTW, they are s**t in comparison to the real thing, in either taste, aftertaste, texture, or any combination of the three. Now to my point: Gluten free hamburger buns just crumble away and you’re left holing the patty directly. Gluten free bread is only a bit better, but it will hold a hamburger and fixings better. So now, instead of burgers, I have patty melts, though I can’t bear the texture of gluten free bread unless it’s toasted. And no, lettuce wraps just don’t work for me, because the lettuce doesn’t absorb the hamburger juice, making them even messier than the gluten free hamburger buns. I would kill for a real hamburger bun that will hold up and taste good, but they do not exist yet. Probably never will. In the meantime, it’s patty melts on toast for me.
My uncle used to eat "wish sandwiches". Two pieces of bread and you wish there was something in between em
actually use a plain slice lightly spread butter on it and sprinkle with garlic powder, then lightly toast it.
Load More Replies...Anyone Else Remember This One?
We never had that. We had Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. I used to love that. Same vintage I think?
Host Peter Marshall (born Ralph Pierre LaCock) is still with us at age 97.
Who Else Agrees?
We wanted it to be sooner so we could do anything we wanted. Be careful what you wish for.
Load More Replies...Who Remembers These?
Of course. It was used in a classic episode of The Simpsons from back when it was still good.
"Stupid bird! I never should have put you in charge!" *chokes bird*
Load More Replies..."King sized Homer" Season 7 Episode 7, the same toy Homer's half brother Herb powell gave to nim, in exchange for $2000 ...
The Simpons debuted as a show in December 1989. I remember the drinking bird from the 1970s.
Yes, I've seen Darkman. I was too young and that bird has lived rent-free in my nightmares for 30+ years...
Remember When
Remember when we didn’t care what other wore at the grocery store because other people don’t exist to give you something pretty to look at while you’re picking up pork chops and Diet Coke, Brenda.
I remember grocery shopping in the ‘70s…women had housecoats on & rollers in their hair. Nobody cared.
Load More Replies...I remember grocery shopping on Saturday nights with my parents, when I was too young to stay home alone. My mother, a SAHM, would struggle to get into her girdle and dress up to go, because all the other SAHMs would be at the grocery store too and she didn’t want to look dowdy. Anytime we went out, my mother would dress up, including wearing a girdle. Though I am happy I was part of the generation that never wore girdles—-though people don’t realize that Spanx (which I have never worn) are just the modern version of a girdle—-I do at least wear actual “outside” clothes when I go out, and not pajamas. So maybe a bit of my mother’s habit rubbed off on me, just not to such an extreme.
🤣. The good old days. I still refuse to go out looking like a bag lady.
Correct we evolved, and learned that being comfortable makes you more productive and less stressed.
I work in education and let me tell you I see people in pajamas a lot at work. I’ve never understood showing up to work in pajamas, whether one is a student or teacher- excepting school spirit days!
Someone reminiscing about a time when people dressed up to go grocery shopping, ignoring the fact that the people in the photo were probably forced to use a separate drinking fountain. The "good old days" weren't necessarily good for everyone.
Who Remembers Their Parents Saying This?
I love liver and onions. My wife doesn't like onions so she makes liver with fresh pineapple. This is quite different but still delicious.
Load More Replies...The country with the starving children would change, depending on the decade, but yeah, this is part of childhood. For me, back in the sixties, my “greatest generation” mother would tell me there were starving children in China who would love to have that plate of food I wasn’t eating. Usually it was something gross like her favorite liver and onions, or beets, or any of her other favorites, all of which I cannot stand and refuse to eat, to this day. I remember getting fed up with it one day, and telling her she can just wrap up my plate and send it to China, because I am NOT going to eat the beets/liver and onions/whatever else on my plate. She hated it, but my father laughed his a*s off. He said she might as well just stop trying to get me to clean my plate if I really didn’t like what was on it, because it just wasn’t working.
We had Africa first. China only came a decade later.
Load More Replies..."so give me an envelope and I'll mail this sh1t to them" - Did not make me popular at the time :P
Reminds me of a very old Doonesberry cartoon where a Chinese diplomat chided his son for not eating his jellied duck's web because "there are starving children in West Virginia who would love some nice jellied duck's web"..."I'm sorry father...I didn't know..."
After those came “Etheepiopia” as my,daughter called it. And she’d happily pack it up and send it away. 😂
Happy Birthday To Michael Keaton Who Turns 72 Today!
Anyone remember Johnny Dangerously? Great silly comedy that never got its due.
The DEFINITIVE modern Batman. No contest.
Load More Replies...William Blazejowski ....this is is Chuck reminding Bill to shut up!
Who Else Remembers Watching This Show???
Bob Keeshan had double kiddy show immortality. He played Captain Kangaroo on his own program and the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show.
Back When Cars Were Cars And Not Looking Like Clones Of One Another
I still have a 1984 Caprice Classic. You can see it coming from miles away.
Load More Replies..."Gonna buy me a Mercury and cruuuuuiiisssee up and down this roooad"
Nah, plenty of cars had power steering in those days. I remember when an automatic transmission was just an option.
Load More Replies...I'm old enough to remember when there were basically 3 car makers, Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler. And, you could, tell just by looking at the car, which brand it was. Now there are so many different manufacturers I can't tell what I'm looking at.
Same but red interior. Every vehicle I saw had that ugly red interior with an itchy carpet covering the seat
Happy Birthday To Jane Curtin Who Turns 76 Today!
Clint Eastwood
Nope... it's a picture of Clint Eastwood from 1885. Just happens to look amazingly like Calvin Klein from 1955. :)
Load More Replies...Love all the lost people who corrected the post saying it Michael J. Fox!
IT IS MICHAEL J FOX! That's the JOKE! my god people. Did you all not see that it says 1885?! Clint Eastwood was not alive in 1885.
it is a reference to "back to the future 3", because of an error, it finds itself in the middle of the cowboys in 1885 instead of 1985 and takes the name of Clint Eastwood
Load More Replies...Who Remembers The Church Lady Bit On Snl?
One of my favorite SNL reoccurring sketches. Church Lady would a have field day with recent current events
Had to wake my mom up at 6 in the morning when he came back and hosted purely because church lady was on
Who Remembers This 80's Show??
Me too! I think i got parented by them more than my actual parents in the end lol
Load More Replies...Hated this show, felt they were talking down to(making fun of) regular people
Did Anyone Else Use Mr. Bubble As A Kid?
I was thinking the same thing... only now I use liquid Mr. Bubble instead of powder.
Load More Replies...Didn’t have a bath tub, just washed in the sink. Took a bath at grandmas house on Saturdays.
Pam Anderson, 56, No Makeup
She seriously looks fantastic for her age. Aging beautifully. But tell me someone saw Debbie Gibson on Jeopardy last night. 53 ans looks like she's still in the 1980s.
That's something i never get. Ladies you are beautiful without makeup. Go for it and save yourself some stress. Makeup for nights out, hey, You do you but going to Walmart? Embrace the natural
Who Remembers This Show?? Trivia Question.........anyone Remember What His Real Name Was??
I found an Easter egg in a mid nineties sf story ( sorry, can't remember the story). Minor character named Lt. Shumway. A few paragraphs later, someone walks by and says "hey, Gordie, how's it going?"
Load More Replies...I fell asleep with the TV on recently and woke up to the pilot episode playing at 3am.
Anyone Else Watch This Cartoon Growing Up??
Speeeeed of lightning, roooaaar of thunder, fiiiiiighting all who rooooobb and plunder, Underdog!!
Load More Replies...that was mighty mouse, i think. i THINK...
Load More Replies...anyone remember Andy Koufman's skit with the Underdog "Here I Come To Save The Day!" song playing, while standing silent next to a record player?
Yes, that was hilarious. But it was Mighty Mouse.
Load More Replies...But when I keep a pill hidden in a ring and try to fly, the TSA gets all upset
I remember the girlfriend was Polly Purebred, but for the life of me I can't remember what Underdog's real name was
The Fuck Is This?
The dried glue around the opening.... peeling it off was soooo satisfying!!
and can't forget Elmer's white glue...smearing on your hand then peeling it off after it dries...
Yes, I Remember When Toilet Paper Came In Color!
Or flowers. Not posh enough to buy it, though I yearned for it
Around 1993 or so, I went to a slumber party for one of my girlfriends' birthday. Her aunt (who was hosting the party) arranged a neighborhood scavenger hunt, splitting us into groups to see who could find everything first. One of the things on the list was colored toilet paper. Lol we had to knock on her neighbors' doors and ask if they had any. Yeah, I stayed at the back of my group, behind everyone else, lol.
When You Become Older Than The Old Folks On The TV Shows You Use To Watch
I am older now than every single one of them was then.
Load More Replies...I absolutely cannot fathom that Edith Bunker was only 44. She still looks 60 to me.
I'm about to turn 50 and I'm noticing at my age people can look anywhere from 25 to 150. 🤣 It's all genetics, how you lived your life and how you took care of yourself. There are people I graduated with who look 20 years older than me, easily. Don't get discouraged by a number.
Happy Birthday To George Wendt Who Turns 75 Today! Pictured Here As Norm On The TV Show Cheers
Sam: "how's life treating you Norm?" Norm: "Like I slept with his wife" and (when it was cold) Sam: "What's up Norm?" Norm: "My nipples!"
It always gets me when I realize he was only 34, and John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin) was only 35, when Cheers premiered in 1982.
"Do you eat beans?" "Would you like to see a new movie starring George Wendt?" "Do you eat beans with George Wendt?"... If you know you know.
This Pic Should Be Easily Recognizable To Anyone Over The Age Of 40. It's Cool To See Shit From A Different Perspective. The Caption On This Said, 'The Stroll That Started It All, 1960.'
As soon as I saw that picture the theme song started playing in my head!!
I was afraid that someone would nip it in the bud.
Load More Replies...I Was So Glad To Get This For Christmas. My Sister Got The Incredible Edibles
Back when they had real toys that could burn you, cut you, stab you and remove an appendage if you had enough imagination.
And Chemistry kits that actually blew up stuff. And Physics kits with a little bottle with real uranium LOL
Load More Replies...My Little brother had this in the 90s actually and we made these all the time. I had to help him with it. And yes, I have an almost 30 year old scar from it 😆
I had the thing you put green wax in and made different type army men!!
Good Old Al Bundy!
At the time, he was considered a loser... But he had a three bedroom house with a two-car garage on a retail salary...
It was a breath of fresh air, along with shows like "Roseanne". Aussies loved it so much I think it ran on two different networks at the same time at one point
My dad was an electrician but other than that he was the epitome of Al Bundy. He loved us but he was over life. Coincidentally, my mother was just like Peg and she drove me crazy and my dad called me Kelly and my little brother was Bud. We all acted pretty similar to our show counterparts. It was a crazy life. My friends thought my family was a riot. Now I just realize we were insanely dysfunctional.
He was a youngster. I identify with Alf Garnet and with the elder Steptoe. And sometimes with young Mr Grace.
Phil Collins
He's been dealing with a spinal injury and nerve damage sine 2007 which seems to have contributed to his aging. Well that and the sweater....
Nope...I love(d) his Tarzan soundtrack as a child, still got the CD somewhere. Might have a listen..
In The Parking Lot, Back In The Day…
They had the best apple dumplings! And the sub sandwiches in the front were the best. Mom used to buy 4 or 5 at a time for Monday lunches. 2 for $1.
Load More Replies...Station wagons, yes. Minivans or SUVs, hell no. Jacked up pickup trucks two stories high, f**k no.
UGH im a girl and absolutly would beg for a 63' corvair.....UGH (im 13 rn btw
great taste for cars you have! Keep it up, your generation has to keep it alive!
Load More Replies...We could find our vehicle easily as we had a yellow Bedford Dormobile. Had a red Bedford van with bench seats before that
Didn't need an SUV back then, the MASSIVE trunks often doubled as seating for At Least 4.
I don’t think my local Kmart had an eatery. I think the last time I visited was when I was 12-ish.
Who Remembers When Pepsi Made Clear Pepsi Back In 1992? What Did It Taste Like?
They released it again sometime in the 2010s. Tasted just like pepsi
I spilled it on the carpet and it turned into a huge sticky spot. Took my mom forever to clean it up and she vowed it would never enter her house again. She was correct.
Load More Replies...We didn't have that one in Australia, but we did have 3 clear versions of Pepsi that tasted either like raspberry, strawberry or cherry. The cans were identical so you didn't know which one you were gonna get. Sadly they were only around for a year or so.
Everyone Pictured Here Became A Household Name After This Movie Came Out. Anyone Remember The Movie?? Tom Cruise (Far Right) Looks So Young In This
As a gay youth, I was always a Cherry with a corvair.
Load More Replies...I'm a middle school teacher. Our 7th graders read that book and watch the movie every year. I love pointing out Tom Cruise to them (he's the only one they really know now).
What about "And this guy you may have seen in Kobra Kai?"
Load More Replies...MY SECOND FAVORITE MOVIE AND MY #1 FAVORITE BOOK!!!!! Johnny and dally deserved better tho :(
This is an old thing? I just read it today...also I will admit the movie does not do the best job at keeping the appearances like the book.
It's Been 21 Years Since Kelly Clarkson Won American Idol
I loved Solid Gold! Except when Marilyn McCoo would start trying to sing...
Load More Replies...Anyone Else Remember Watching This Show??? Anyone Else Have A Major Crush On Winnie??
The wonder years, loved that show. For years people thought the actor who played Paul (Josh Saviano) was Marilyn Manson LOL
Old People Slang
I prefer, "When we next meet, there will be blood...". But I am a bit strange.
Right? 36 and I use a bunch of these all the time...
Load More Replies...Last time I met with my two best friends from school, I couldn't resist "when shall we three meet again"
Or "What did the shepherd say to the sheep? Let's get the flock outta here!!!"
Load More Replies..."All right, let's make like a bread truck and haul buns, ladies, come on!"
My father always said/says "Well, Imma go ahead and head on down the pike."
Hi Fi Stereo
And a TV too—-and a heavy and substantial piece of furniture!
Load More Replies...I wish they still made things like this. Of course, if they did they'd probably be unaffordable to many of us.
My mother made a makeshift crib out of one of these for me while she was visiting an out of town friend. I was only a few months old.
Those can handle an 80 gallon tank easily! That like 700 pounds of water.
Load More Replies...Remember These Old Bottles With The Styrofoam Wrapper?
I used to slide the styrofoam down a bit, then hit the bottom of the bottle with the palm of my hand. It would make an awesome "POP!!" sound.
Alyson Hannigan Is Now 49 Years Old
What Is The First Thing That Comes To Your Mind When You See This?
That’s exactly how I started learning to write in cursive, too. I still do it in the many decades since I have learned it.
Load More Replies...The callace I had on my finger from years of holding my pencil incorrectly.
I learned to write cursive with a fountain pen.
Load More Replies...Elementary school teachers asking me how to get this as a permanent background on their classroom’s new touchscreen. :p
Happy Birthday To Paul Hogan, Who Turns 84 Today!
We may have lost the Crocodile Hunter, but we still have Crocodile Dundee.
That’s not a knife, THIS is a knife. Best line ever.
Load More Replies...But wasn't he like 50 back then? I thought he was long since dead...
If You Know This Dog, You Really Old Af!
Going Way Back, Morgan Freeman Got His Start In Television...... Anyone Remember What Show This Is??
Easy Reader!!! Between him and Rita Moreno, we little 70s kids had no idea how cool the people on that show were.
Who Remembers What This Dog's Name Is??
Who Remembers Where This Logo Is From? 1980’s
I have that on a t-shirt. :) Did anyone catch the anime-style remake in... umm... 2011? I so wish they had continued it! It was amazing!
Anyone Remember This Commercial??
Still my favorite meme: "we would like tp congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs." The only mixed results that came out of Reagans war on drugs were the sentences handed out depending on your race.
Load More Replies...Does anyone remember all the spoofs on this? I had a poster, famous brains on drugs, with all the frying pans: the best one was millli vanilli with a carton of imitation eggs in the pan!
The best one was Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Dead.
Load More Replies...My Favorite Christmas Present Ever!
Omg, my dad got me this when I was little. He was an electrician and wanted his little girl to know what's up. What a good dad.
I got one for my son a couple years ago and he looked at me like a had grown a second head.
Back in the 90's my mother got me a wood burning kit. I was in my 30's lol! Same reaction.
Load More Replies...ooh my brother got one of these and I was jealous for YEARS. Can't remember what I got that year, probably a toy horse or doll or something.
I have one of the newer ones in a box somewhere. They're still selling these.
Encyclopedia Brown Was My Favorite
My mother saved her Bobbsey Twins books, and I read them as a child. She was born in 1920 and I was born in 1960.
I read my mom's Bobbsey Twins books in the 80's. She saved a whole bunch of her books from the 50's for me and I grew up reading them. I actually still have a few although they're falling apart.
Load More Replies...I remember that his first name was Leroy, and that Jim Croce had described him very differently.
Read a ton of these in the 80's. Loved Hardy Boys and Tom Swift too. If you want a good parody book made for adults who read encyclopedia brown as kids, check out Research Randy by Tom Lucas, it's basically encyclopedia brown vs HP Lovecraft mythos.
We Were A Harvest Gold Household
My family mixed em up! Brown dishwasher and stove, green fridge. Lovely!
Load More Replies...We had a 4 Plex, we had coppertone, avocado and 2 harvest gold. The wierd colors were cheap 2nd hand. The avocado lasted until 2013(30-40 years).
Yup, everything was gold, including the cupboard doors and the carpet. Yikes.
Name That Movie. My Favorite Don Knotts Role
The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Again, you want me on your trivia team.
My personal favorite Don Knotts film was The Ghost and Mr Chicken.
Who Lived Here?
Saddest Death In Movie History
I think we're all forgetting a little horse called Artax. Still scarred.
Any. Lassie. Movie. Ever. Made. I cannot watch them, because something bad always happens to at least one of the animals. Same with other movies where animals suffer. Just can’t watch them.
Black Beauty, the fact he finally was retired did not make up for losing his friend to abuse and being abused his whole life. Yeah I know the book started the SPCA/humane society and made people realize animals deserve respect.
Who Use To Watch The Phil Donohue Show?
A fellow teacher once told me that I was the staff's Phil Donohue. I'm still processing that.
The Price Is Right, 1973
I remember when the price of the cars was 4 digits. Then they just started putting a 1 in front.
Is Anyone Here This Old?
Cafeteria food late '80s early 90s. I prefered Sloppy Joe Day.
Til The Ages Of The Actors During The First Season Of All In The Family
From the OP: Carol O’Connor was 48, Jean Stapleton was 46 while Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers were both 23.
For some reason Rob looks like he's holding in a fart and Sally looks like she mad as heck for the fart Rob let rip earlier.
Gloria always looked pissed and stressed. Probably because Archie was her dad.
Load More Replies...Australians of a certain age will more likely remember Sally Struthers from her interview with Norman Gunston
I had a big crush on Gloria as a 7-10 year old kid. Glad I avoided her type when I got older...too whiny
Anyone Remember What 80's Movie These Cars Were In??
Now Hiring: Baby Boomers Only
Is this the one where the bf's stayed with the girls working there because a number of the customers were creepy to the point the girls felt their safety was threatened and the manager refused to do anything about it?
Off topic, but good luck finding a boomer who will work a cash register these days. They're all retiring on SS these days.
You left the young lady alone at night at a store so you could save a few$$. Clearly she is the evil, lazy POS. F U.
Apparently this person isn't aware Millenials and Xers are a thing. xD
Y'all Remember Miss Cleo?
Which One Is Your Favorite?
Booberry. They put these on sale every Halloween season. There was a new one this year that I never got around to buying. Caramella creeper. It's getting harder to convince myself that super sugary cereal is worth it.
We have to split a box 8 ways, then it's ok
Load More Replies...We did not have any of those in Australia. I used to get very envious, seeing the ads for cereals and lollies that just didn't exist here in my comic books.
None of them. Cereal in general, and particularly those aimed towards children are sugar filled bombs of trash. I have refused to eat it my entire life, along with pancakes, waffles and every other form of "sugared butter flakes" that makes up the average american breakfast.
Full Metal Jacket
Amazingly, the whole film was filmed in a decommissioned gasworks in Leyton, East London.
The attention to detail in the sets is insane. There are burning cars in the "Hue" scenes that can only be glimpsed for seconds in the background of shots. Instead of just grabbing a few local British 1950s cars from a scrapyard, they actually sourced FRENCH cars because they would be more appropriate for depicting Vietnam. You only see them for about three seconds!
Load More Replies...Saw this movie before joining the Corps and we were told in boot camp that this movie is part of the reason we weren't allowed to have ammo in our M-16s, unless we were on the range.
Who Remembers Water Rockets?
They're much bigger and cooler now. Use them all the time in Scouts!
Bet they don't sell these things these days. Way too dangerous.
I bought them for all my neighbor kids last summer, our back yard is a golf course, they had a lot of fun! Google water rocket on amazon.
Load More Replies...These Were The Bomb And I'd Love To Re-Experience Them
They are still available as TGIF loaded potato skins bacon and cheddar cheese flavored.
Forgot about these and yeah they were great. If they were still around I'd love to make a nacho plate with them.
Remember When
Try hooking up a bag of weed through one of these without getting busted for loitering.
Now I just go to the dispensary down the road and get printed receipt that itemizes the city, county and state taxes. And no need to de-seed on an album cover!
Load More Replies...I remember the ones that were rotary phones and in an glass enclosed booth.. I had a job many years ago, driving around cleaning the glass in them.
Just Wondering How Many People Were Fans Of This Show. Can't Believe It Started In 1988. Anyone Who Watched It, What Was Your Favorite Episode Or Episodes???
Still watch the Turkey Day Marathon every Thanksgiving. Beats awkwardly socializing on a holiday I quietly despise.
I still watch this and Rifftrax all the time. Just yesterday, as a matter of fact.
My husband turned me onto this back in the 90's. There is (or was, I haven't searched for it in a long while) a station dedicated to this show on the Roku channel.
I know there’s one on Twitch (an online streaming site).
Load More Replies...One of my favorite shows of all time. They've also done RiffTrax, The Film Crew and Cinematic Titanic. All are highly recommended
Anyone Remember Who This Is?? And......do You Remember Her Dog's Name>>
" I must, I must, I must increase my bust." One of the many episodes that come to mind, as well as when Cherry gets locked in a refrigerator. Punky Brewster was the shizznit and part of the reason I wore mismatched socks.
Yeah Cherry getting locked in the fridge was traumatizing
Load More Replies...Brandon. After her favorite actor, Marlo Brandon. (Marlon Brando) :)
She went on to have a short career in softcore pornography as I recall.
Just Wondering If Anyone Else Read This Series When They Were Growing Up
I read them when I was in about 3rd grade I think. The Apple Paperback editions that we bought from the Scholastic Books program
I loved these. I put this in another post about encyclopedia brown, but check out Research Randy by Tom Lucas. Enough to give you the EB nostalgia but with a massive cthulhu twist.
No, This Is Not A Telephone From The 1980s
For those too young that came this far, Merlin could play Blackjack, tic tac toe, Simon (aka match my sequence), and a few others. List below what else Merlin was able to play :)
I had one of these! I played with it all the time. I also pretended like it was a futuristic phone.
Sargent Taggert (John Ashton) Was 36 Years Old In Beverly Hills Cop
I Just Found This Sub
Unlike Pringles and Combos, these kind of actually tasted like pizza.
Totally forgot these existed. Probably close-ish to spicy doritos today. Kind of.
Load More Replies...Totally forgot about these, yet as soon as I saw this I remembered the amazing pizza like taste.
Anyone Remember Who These Guys Are???
Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood and Mark Goodman. Karen Duffy, Downtown Julie Brown, Adam Curry. Oh yes.
Omg. Idk why I burst out in laughter when I read that
Load More Replies...They would carry around clipboards and read the news from them. There was a porch swing on the set. Alan hunter tried to jump over it he didn't make it. Kinda fell on his face if I remember right. Can't believe I saw it but I watched MTV all the time. I want my MTV!
Here's A Generational Dividing Line: Which Character Do You Think Of First When You See This Actor's Picture - Mr. Feeny From "Boy Meets World" (1993-2000), Or Dr. Mark Craig From "St. Elsewhere" (1982-1988)?
Dr. Craig, definitely. I remember the last St. Elsewhere episode to this day. Talk about a twist!
Denzel Washington and Mark Harmon were in St Elsewhere as well.
Load More Replies...The first thing I thought of was the voice of K.I.T.T. From Knight Rider.
I'm KITT too! Yes all these kiddies wtf :-)
Load More Replies...In The 80's, Hulkamania Was In Its Heyday, But Does Anyone Remember Who This Wrestler Was???
I've looking at the rubbery toy version of him sitting on my bookshelf right now.
I know exactly what you are talking about!! I lost mine decades ago.
Load More Replies...Most of these are way too US-centered for me (and probably many others) to relate. I could tell you about "Bonne nuit les petits" and its iconic music, but that would be too French ;-)) Loved the Little Rascals, though (Les petites canailles).
Don't be bitter. It's not too French if you loved it.
Load More Replies...these nostalgia posts put my brain into a time machine, and for a while I go back to that era while reading thru them!
With shows like Tiswas and The Kenny Everett Television Show, we in the UK from that era grew up perfectly normal.
We watched Bonanza every Sunday night. Lucille Ball was the only successful female. I had to look up to growing up. Her I love Lucy show inspired me to want to be a comedian. I'm not one, but it's my secret ambition!
OK BP, now do the same for the UK, or Europe. I think I actually recognised maybe 3% of these.
So many things from my childhood are not here. For example, the TV show "what's my line" had to guess the occupation of guests. A typical example was a person who made horse-riding gear, that was a fun episode because they thought he made toddler clothes. Well, one guest was a Colonel Sanders from Kentucky. Not only couldn't the panel guess his occupation, they didn't even come close. They thought he sold guns and ammunition.
it was great to learn about whats nostalgic to the "American's", similar vibes here, albeit with different tv shows/foods etc
Most of these are way too US-centered for me (and probably many others) to relate. I could tell you about "Bonne nuit les petits" and its iconic music, but that would be too French ;-)) Loved the Little Rascals, though (Les petites canailles).
Don't be bitter. It's not too French if you loved it.
Load More Replies...these nostalgia posts put my brain into a time machine, and for a while I go back to that era while reading thru them!
With shows like Tiswas and The Kenny Everett Television Show, we in the UK from that era grew up perfectly normal.
We watched Bonanza every Sunday night. Lucille Ball was the only successful female. I had to look up to growing up. Her I love Lucy show inspired me to want to be a comedian. I'm not one, but it's my secret ambition!
OK BP, now do the same for the UK, or Europe. I think I actually recognised maybe 3% of these.
So many things from my childhood are not here. For example, the TV show "what's my line" had to guess the occupation of guests. A typical example was a person who made horse-riding gear, that was a fun episode because they thought he made toddler clothes. Well, one guest was a Colonel Sanders from Kentucky. Not only couldn't the panel guess his occupation, they didn't even come close. They thought he sold guns and ammunition.
it was great to learn about whats nostalgic to the "American's", similar vibes here, albeit with different tv shows/foods etc
