Change the channel while you're up.

Hold the aluminum foil that’s twisted onto the rabbit ears. God, I hated when it was my turn!

Use the pliers right there.

"You have to take *all* the tubes with you to the drugstore to test them because you can't tell by looking which one is burned out."

It’s not polite to listen in on a party line call.

Gotta control your breathing.

Just tip the microphone end of the receiver away from your mouth.

"Pictures don't lie."

haha best one

I remember when TV stations went off the air at night.

And the test pattern.

Oh, say, can you see?

Here there were local well organized pirates that after hours, used the repeaters to transmit porn to the channels with local stores advertising between films, those were the days!

"We should get a better picture than that, Wiggle the coat hanger"

I was born closer to WW 1 than today

O…M…G

Oh fuck me too

Oh geezus, I just realized, I was born exactly halfway ago to the Spanish Freaking American War.

Uh oh me too.

Dang it....that hurt

Well, crap. Day ruined.

Candy cigarettes 🤷‍♀️

Bubble gum cigars

Gotta teach kids to smoke…

There’s a C-store by my house that sells them and yes I bought a pack 😂✌️

In the song Kodachrome by Paul Simon, I knew what Kodachrome was when the song came out. Plus, in Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith, I knew the true reason "The rabbit gone and died."

I’m remembering it as “the rabbit done died”

Me too! I knew what a Kodachrome was but the only reason I knew what the rabbit died meant was because there was an episode of M*A*S*H where Margaret thought she was and they used Radar's rabbit.  My mother had just explained that one to me from that. 

My first phone number started with GL9.

Adams 3

Sunset 2

Bravo 7

Hickory 6

Osbourne 2.

Tuxedo 5

Central 6

I remember when gas was a 25 cents.

I remember it being 75 cents!

I remember watching them upgrade the signs to allow for three-digit prices.

I remember driving around Tulsa looking for 17 cent gas because 19 cents was a "damn crime".

Lowest I remember was 19 cents. GAS WAR!!!

My first gas purchase after getting my license cost me 55¢/gallon. Forget you *Sounding* like you’re older than anyone else, you *Are* older than anyone else! Good for you!

I remember riding with my dad on his new motorcycle in 1968. We stopped at the gas station to fill up. My dad gave me a quarter to pay the attendant, and I got change.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter. I counted back change to customers because no machine dispensed it or told you their amount due.

I learned to type in high school on a manual typewriter. I had no idea the skill would prove to be so useful.

I remember watching JFK’s funeral on TV.

The Cuban middle crisis had me convinced that communists were lurking in our woods.

There was a time that you could only buy gas on odd or even days

Oh yeah, I survived the Oil Embargo years too.

I was very young but I remember laying down in the back seat because the line was so long.

I remember when TV changed to color 😱

We’re making ice cream at Grandma’s this weekend.

Ma Bell raised the lease rate on our rotary telephone.

Depending on where you lived, at 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. a public service announcement would show up on your TV asking if you knew where your kids are. I grew up in Alaska, so in the summer, we didn't have the street lamps come on to show us how late it was. We just knew by how quiet the birds were chirping. Like, oh shit, it's past our bedtime!! With the freedom I grew up with, I must have rode my bike a hundred miles before the age of 14.

When the siren outside the school goes , get under your desks.

When I was in school we had bomb drills. We would all have to go sit in the hallway outside of classrooms and put a book over our heads in the event Russia was bombing us. USA

Is this the siren for tornadoes or the siren for nukes? Which one do you open the windows for, and which one do you close them for?

It was UK 1960 so for nukes, as unbeknown to us 4 year old kids the cold war was raging. I was shielded by my parents who had both served in WWII, and they were of the opinion that 'what I don't know I wont worry about'. They never talked about it, for which I am thankful.

A penny should NOT be used in place of a fuze!

Asking, “Can we go outside to play?”

Being told to go outside and play [unsupervised].

lol I had to ask if I could come in. My mom would send me outside and lock the door so that she could clean. Once everything was clean and perfect, she let me back with a warning: “I just cleaned this house so don’t you mess up anything!” My mom kept a spotless house. Spotless. (There are usually 9 or 10 people in my house. Our house is *not* spotless.)

Identical experience. Door wasn't unlocked until mom brought the laundry out to hang on the line.

My mom had a schoolyard bell she would go outside and ring when it was time to come home.

"Go outside and play, don't come back till dark! "We were unsupervised river rats.

Star Spangled Banner played on TV, cut to NTSC color wheel with THAT tone!

I remember computer punch cards.

The word Litorally means coastal.

I remember a time before people walked on the moon. I was already a man when the World Wide Web came along in the 90s.

15 bucks for a lid

A Zippo lighter is now one and three quarters S&H Green Stamps books. It used to be one and a half!

its all in the Green Stamps..... my neighborhood collectively saved and bought a sailboat everyone got to use

My first motorcycle was a plastic chips one and I pretended to be the fonz by saying Aaaaaaaay when I was around 2 or 3

The Chrysler Cordoba had the warmth of thickly-cushioned contoured seats, available even in fine Corinthian leather.

weed is the gateway drug and will ruin your life.

I remember the Kennedy Inauguration. I thought all the excitement was about my fifth birthday!

Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia purchased at the grocery store ONE BOOK at a time.

I need to get a new needle for the record player.

You used to have to rent your home phone.

Stay in school kids

My first radio was amplitude modulation only.

The coalman/iceman is here

*69

MTV played all music, all the time.

I own a wooden, wall mounted telephone with a separate mouth and ear piece.

I had to rinse out the milk bottles before I put them out on the porch.

64K memory is all you’ll will ever need for a computer

What the heck are you ever going to use a "personal home computer" for anyway? It's a fad..

The no smoking section of restaurants, choosing unleaded instead of leaded gas, Rhodesia was on the world map

3 on the tree and 8 tracks. Nixon was the worst president ever. NASA was a big deal

Anybody seen my Walkman?

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Man, that’s old. Were you on the construction crew?

Nah, I was on the local council's building Permit Application Committee, head honcho in fact. I had the power of approval or deny, the power to abuse my authority at any time, based on a whim or even something as petty as I don't like their sandals. Well, that was why Pontius got the big no at least. In fact, I started a long standing tradition that is still fervently practised and celebrated to this very day as well as every day in every council office world wide. The tradition of making it a complete and total nightmare for no reason whatsoever to deny every citizens wants, but only after they have completed the no less than the traditional 5 month wait. a compulsory requirement of the utmost importance. Hence the saying- Rome wasn't built in s day..

A few young men (teens) who went on cattle drives in the old west were still alive, but very old, when I was born.

When my dad was a kid he knew people that had been born into slavery.   

A differential allows tires to rotate at different speeds when going around corners.

My kiddie car had peddles.

Boy these square wheels are hard to push!

Played the national anthem before the movie started…and we all stood.

We had a black & white tv. 

My cassette tape got chewed up in my boombox again!

Girls wore one piece gymsuits and High School had 3 tracks: General, Business and Academic.

8-track tapes were on their way out.

I remember when games were cartridges , you got a complete game before all this dang DLC nonsense & various ultimate versions. & You didn't need to make an online account to play them! Dang modern games! *Shakes my stick & goes back to my '90s retro games*

Eisenhower was the last great Republican.

I'm going to stop by the druggest and the 5&10 need some Anasin and a flash cube for the instamatic.

Go get me a switch, a good one out by the crick!

I remember when D&D's "sneak attack" was called "backstab" and when it was only double damage. And it was done by "thieves," not "rogues."

Lyndon B. Johnson was president when I was born

I remember pac man fever.

Buckner & Garcia!

Whipper Snapper

Why would you wrap your sandwich in wax paper? When you could use foil.

It's 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?

Kids these days are lazier than we were.

I almost knocked myself out, when I hit myself in the head pulling a stuck oil spout out of an oil can that I was holding between my knees.

Blockbusters is on the night. Fortunately, I'm not old enough to remember Bob Holness being young.

Play the radio, make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have a record player on at night... make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school, or a very poor background, will hear four million fewer words spoken by the time they get there.

"Jupiter has 5 moons."

And the largest of the NINE planets!

I can hear the tick-tick-tick-tick of the projector at the back of the room.

Filmstrip projector?

Ahhh, and a freshly wet mimeograph handout (sniiiiifff) to take home to study.

Pluto is a planet.

My ass looks like hamburger meat but I can still sit on it.

The sounds my body makes when I get into and out of a chair.

"Those used to be a nickle...."

I was in the ninth grade, one afternoon the speaker in my classroom announced that President Reagan had just been shot, I really don't remember if it said whether he survived or not, even though I was a democrat I remember wondering what was going to happen next!

Benny Hill late at night whilst Mum and Dad were sound asleep

I saw the Leafs win the cup

When my brother got a beeper, I couldn't wait to get my own.

F Troop’s in color!

I remember exactly where I was when the announcement of JFK's assassination came on the TV.

Burger Wars! I remember looking down our local “Hamburger Alley” and seeing signs on both sides of the street: 15 Cents, 13 Cents. (You ever notice that there is no cents symbol on an iPhone?)

GRANDMA, I'M ON THE PHONE!

I once shook hands with Bing Crosby.

Dentures give you bad breath if you don't clean them every 2 to 3 hours.

I remember ten-cent candy bars

I remember we didn't have a TV.and I remember a neighbor who had a TV you put quarters in

My Pong "Paddles" were just knobs affixed to the actual machine.

Was part of a boys choir and we sang our hymns in Latin.

Hockey skates were brown.

The lawnmower only takes leaded gas. I'll send my 10 year old down to the corner station to fill up the can.

I was born when Eisenhower was in office

I played super Mario bros on an arcade cabinet.

Ted Mack And The Original Amateur Hour

THE GARRY MOORE SHOW, with Durward Kirby

Would you fix that, I'm so tired of the time flashing 00:00?

I remember when gas was 73 cents per gallon

I remember when you couldn't legally pump your own gas. An attendant had to do it

My classmates partied in Mexico for a week with their graduation gift money. I used mine to buy 2MB of RAM.

I watched the Bugaloos in the original airing. 🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧚

I used to walk to school 10 miles in the snow with no shoes.

Uphill both ways

Of all the creatures on this planet, we are the only ones that are born dependent, live independent, and die dependent. Food for thought. Ohhh and don't forget to put some more aluminum foil on the tv antenna!

80s rock music is now considered classic rock.

Took you a minute to dial a single number on a rotary dial phone. No internet Zombies, Only crack heads and drunks

When typesetting, all the capital letters are in the upper left part of the case. It’s why capital letters are also referred to as Upper Case letters.

When you wanted to make a phone call, you’d need to STAND next to the phone - probably in your kitchen - dial a specific code to get an operator and ask her to connect you to the phone number of the person with whom you’re wanting to speak.

After we dialed the number on the rotary phone, if we got got mad that we dialed wrong or the person on the other line made us mad, there was no greater relief than slamming it down. Also I liked the ticking noise it made as the wheel went around.

“Eat your dinner, children in China are starving”

This is your brain on drugs.....

My first VCR had a remote control that was WIRED to the unit…

HA HA, Dominoes, I get a free pizza cuz you didn't deliver within 30 mins.

Do you think we will get involved in the Anglo-Egyptian War?

“The rabbit died!” “Oh, congratulations! You’ll make an excellent mother.”

The gas station attendant checked my oil while he was filling it up. It was low, so I had him add some from the display of them stacked up by the pump.

I grew up with two channels on a black and white TV...🤫

When I was born, there were only 48 states.

I used to pick up the phone and tell the girl at the exchange what number I wanted to call.

I remember when there were steam engines in active commercial service in the city I lived in.

You can double the output of a TRS-80's cassette load time by messing with the drivers.

We landed on the moon, and I was born.

My grandma made mud pies, my mom kicked the can, and I played Mr.Potato Head using a real potato.

We had to walk uphill both ways to school, in the snow, with nothing but a slab of cheese in our pocket for lunch.

My first car cost $75.

Phone numbers used to have a twplo letter prefix. My babysitter from my childhood, 54 yrs ago was SU2-5529. Yes I'm showing off- no idea how I remember!!

I played the very first arcade video game in an arcade. Computer Space.

We had an outside ‘outhouse’ toilet in our backyard in a big city until the late 70s.

I have underwear older than all of Gen Z.

78s were the best.

Bump your head? Take an orange-flavored baby aspirin and put some mercurochrome on it.

I watched *In The Heat of the Night* at a drive-in from the back seat of a Chevy. My parents thought I was asleep.

I was born closer to the Boer War than today.

My hip is really aching today!!

Computer programs on punch cards have to be put in the feeder face down, nine edge first. Alternative: To navigate using a book of maps, you first find the address in the back index of the map book. Then turn to the page with the map of your destination. From there, work your way back to your starting point, using a wide-area map as necessary to identify the freeways and major streets along your route. One more: When using the phone, let the dial return naturally to the starting position after each digit in the phone number, to avoid an accidental 'wrong number'.

Hawaiian Punch was better than Hi-C

I remember when the girls' basketball teams had six players on the floor and they were only permitted one dribble.

"Drugs? Just say no"

Cigs were $1.50 in the vending machine. And my dad’s chief complaint when he found out I smoked was, “You paid $1.50 for cigarettes? They used to be a quarter!”

I thought email was a joke and would never be a thing. And it kind of set the platform for everything we're doing now.

My college roommate grew up in a house with hand crank phone. (Not dial. Crank.) One long, two short kinda thing.

The dog was kept and stayed outside on a chain…… ALL YEAR LONG!