That Dates Me, Doesn't It

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Give e.g.s of things that make you seem old to those around you.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

when i tell stories about crossing the atlantic on the santa maria.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

talking about building sites in Mosiac and using Veronica for work.

(I've been thinking your username was Grandpa Genie)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

talking about cutting class in high school to go smoke cigarettes with my friends moses and jesus.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

explaining that my first wife was killed by a mastodon.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

This face.

― Laurel, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

seeing Willie mays hit a home run

using rotary phones

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

conversation with colleague earlier this week.

L: I was watching Top Gear last night. They had that pop star on, Lemar.

M: Limahl? Really?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

laurel and chicago kevin pwn.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Dropping Allen Funt's name into a conversation.

― patita, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Talkin' 'bout "wot it was like in 'oscow the day Brezhnev died".
UHUH, like.

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sort-of following the Watergate hearings in summer of '72.

Starting to buy comics when the cover price was 20¢.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

fxccing 19 yr olds

― danbunny, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

when i get drunk and brag about that one summer when i discovered fire and invented the wheel.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Ay, mate!?! You discovered the fire, yesh, but I invented teh wheel, shuely!

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

My incontinence.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

My scalp.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

The other day, some youngsters in the office were talking about going to Glastonbury and assorted festivals, and one of them mentioned something about an Isle of Wight festival. This prompted the other young thing to say that once, long ago, the Beatles and Hendrix had appeared at an Isle of Wight festival. Of course, I had to point out that by the time the Isle of Wight festival had started, the Beatles had given up touring. It seemed odd that something that happened in my teens was now some sort of legend or myth or even history to the youth of today.

― AbdyJack, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Dropping Allen Funt's name into a conversation.

Yeah, pop culture references get me every time. Though the last time it happened, I wondered if the other people were too young to get a Kitty Dukakis reference, of if they'd just never heard of her.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sort-of following the Watergate hearings in summer of '72.

'73!

Shook my fist thru White House fence, late July '74. Drew warning from guard.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

kicking it with Increase & Cotton

― gershy, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

when out celebrating my birthday 2 days ago people would ask how old i was. 34, i said, which dated me quite accurately.

― andrew m., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a youngin', but I watched way too much Nick at Nite in my formative years, so once in a while, without thinking, I'll make a Dobie Gillis or Patty Duke reference, and am regarded as Unsane.

― en i see kay, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, it was '73, wasn't it? Weird...I remember watching at my grandmother's house when we were back home in MS for my sister's wedding, which was in '72. But it couldn't have been that...

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Rock, perhaps you were watching George McGovern accept his nomination at 3a.m.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Flirting with girls who I later discover were born the year I first traveled abroad on my own.

― Michael White, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

punk ethics
coming of age pre-internet

― sexyDancer, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I used to time-waste in the office by fax.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

zines vs. blogs

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

a niece on the way has done quite nicely, thanks.

― darraghmac, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

cut and paste

― Ai Lien, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Remembering when Eastern Europe was more than a source of plumbers.

― .stet., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

e-mailing a girl i met when she was 16 (and i was 18) to wish her happy 30th birthday.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Remembering when Eastern Europe was more than a source of plumbers.

..."more"?

What century are yer talkin' here 'xactly?

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

I was talking to someone the other day about the dissolution of the USSR.

It might have been my son, actually. (Also, I have a son who will be NINE!)

― Sara R-C, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Getting all excited about seeing Stanley Baxter on the 34 bus

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have a son who will be NINE!

That's ...born in 1998??

T-t-t-time flies, like, shuely.

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

(in 'nother words: i soooo date that!:)

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

My arthritis and my nostalgia for disco.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I *could* have had a nine-yr old son. just now I'm debating logistics of hitting a one am, weekday sxsw party to see the pack with my boyfriend. Nine-yr-old kid, early morning parties so not happening.

It's bad enough that my nephew whom I doted on upon his birth, is now 7. And what do I have to show for those past seven years? :(

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, 1998, I remember it well... it was late enough in the century that they had painkillers for childbirth and everything.

― Sara R-C, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Well well.
My son's soon 23, and the daughter 'll be 20 in the autumn. - I sooo predate 'em :(

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

I am envying you in that your kids are past not only preschool, but high school. (My 4 year old daughter makes me feel old every day with her terrifying amount of energy.)

― Sara R-C, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

Mixtapes. In fact, tapes in general.

― mike a, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

My classmates' abortions could have been voting by now...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

CDs. . .

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

paying 300 dollars for a 20 megabye external harddrive.

― dan selzer, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost: I am envying you in that your kids are past not only preschool, but high school. ...O-oh, unfunny ol' world -- my son didn't finish high school. And he perhaps never ever will. The daughter's in teh last grade, tho.)

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

23 skidoo!

― Bnad, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Well, hang in there - at least he is old enough where you don't need to be responsible for his day to day life.

I can't imagine having kids that are already in their 20s, but I know it's going to happen... and I will still be boring them of stories about when their grandmother couldn't figure out how to use the family VCR and how we didn't have a computer and there was no internet yet...

― Sara R-C, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

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Listening to the Cocteau Twin's daughter singing with another band and thinking "hang on wasn't she only born a while back OH SHIT THAT WAS 17 YEARS AGO".

― Trayce, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

JUST KDIDING, PLEZ.

― Laurel, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

[i]I'm a youngin', but I watched way too much Nick at Nite in my formative years, so once in a while, without thinking, I'll make a Dobie Gillis or Patty Duke reference, and am regarded as Unsane.[i]

this is true. Dobie Gillis in particular artificially dates you cos no one our age(assuming you're an 80's child?) or even 25 years our senior has any frame of reference for this show. I remember calling a slightly shorter kid "smallboy" as an endearment and being taken for a cheap-shot artist! Sticking to I Love Lucy is a sellout though, I think color episodes of Bewitched is a good middle ground.

― tremendoid, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

oops. i like that it doesn't italicize everything, there's a certain dignity retained.

― tremendoid, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, Dobie Gillis references must NEVER DIE. If the children ask you who Maynard is, just say "he's Shaggy, only REAL."

― nabisco, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

enjoying time with my mother.

― aimurchie, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

it's my colostomy bag isn't it? it makes me look old, that's what you're saying right?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, laurel. I'm a little sensitive about that Boz Scaggs thing.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 10 March 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

no bar codes on things, a long time ago. Also, Steve Malkmus was in a band once, before the Jicks! (sighs deeply)

― Morley Timmons, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

I drank Coke out of steel cans, before aluminum.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

With pull-tabs too, I'd bet.

My great-grandmother had bottle openers built into the door jambs of her house so that wherever she was, she'd be able to open her Coke.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 10 March 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

drinking coke from those little 6 1/2 oz bottles my grandpa kept in his basement.

remembering where I was when JFK was shot -- in kindergarden, but still I remember coming home from school and finding my mom teary-eyed in front of the TV.

― m coleman, Saturday, 10 March 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

wrote president nixon a letter in sixth grade (1970) asking him to withdraw troops from vietnam. got a form letter back 6 months later. the war finally ended in 1975.

― m coleman, Saturday, 10 March 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

I drank Coke out of lead goblets.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 11 March 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

getting really pissed off about paying £5.90 for two pints of lager in plastic glasses and remembering how i used to be able to go out in lytham, aged 16, with a fiver and get three pints, 10 rothmans AND MY BUS FARE BACK HOME.

10 rothmans cost 89p. happy, happy, happy days.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 11 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Everything , to my kids !

― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 11 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

remembering where I was when JFK was shot -- in kindergarden, but still I remember coming home from school and finding my mom teary-eyed in front of the TV.

I was in 1st grade, watching a boating safety film in the cafeteria ( or maybe a general safety film that was in the boating section). They stopped the film to announce it, I don't remember if they continued the film after or sent us back to class. The one year of my life I went to a Catholic school. I decided to slap on Steve Miller's Living In The USA (formerly Sailor) LP of a vinyl two-fer that I bought in the 70s afetr catching up on this thread. 50 in July, I stretch and I kick!

― nickn, Monday, 12 March 2007 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

And now I'm playing Children of the Future!

― nickn, Monday, 12 March 2007 06:57 (eighteen years ago)

I still sign my name as "Two Birds, an Ankh and a Sideways-looking Pharoh".

― peteR, Monday, 12 March 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

Still saying "ace" and "wicked", probably. No idea what the teenspeak is these days.

― ledge, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

x x post

those are the only 2 good steve miller albums IMHO. went to a friend's 50th b-day party on saturday and it was fun, feel better about facing the inevitable myself in december tho tellingly my 49 y.o. system is still trying to process the mexican eats guess that dates me too doesn't it hahahahahaha ugh.

― m coleman, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Remembering when the Beatles released "Hey Jude"

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

My first pint cost 38p.

I can remember Zokko, a TV programme which only 4 people in the world have ever seen. (me, my older sis, Mark Sinker and my mate AJ)

I saw the Sex Pistols with Glen Matlock.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Still thinking that John Bluthal impersonating Hughie Green on Spike Milligan's Q8 series is the funniest thing I have ever seen on television.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Zokko, a program hosted by a pinball machine?

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

How to introduce cartoon w/ Felix the cat..

"ZOKKO!! EXTRA BALL!!! FELIX!!"

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey. I remember Ali Bongo's Cartoon Carnival but not Zokko the Pinball Machine.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, THAT Zokko. That's 5 people who saw it. Ali Bongo was on it though, M.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I wrecked my knee doing the Charleston.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

My first pint cost 38p.

you know what, for someone who likes beer as much as I do, it is perhaps surprising that I have no clue what my first pint cost. I *can* remember that the cheapest pint on offer upon arrival in Oxford in 1993 (central Oxford anyway) was Henry's IPA at the Bulldog for £1.10.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

whenever anyone says "What time is it?" I immediately say (or at least think) "It's time for house" recalling Coldcut feat. Yazz and the Plastic Population's Doctorin' the House from 1988.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Or indeed Coldcut's "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" from 1987 white label only innit.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

show off.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I saw the Sex Pistols with Glen Matlock.

Hey, me too! On the Filthy Lucre tour.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Glen Matlock w/ Wally Nightingale.

fwiw.

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I have a prehensile tail.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

and a luxuriant coat of fur.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

and my mother has gills.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah? Well, I'm only a single celled protozoa!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

and my grandmother was a single-celled organism.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

When I worked at the Hammersmith Hospital I saw Wally Nightingale practically every day.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

simple minds think alike!
The xpost thing is like being interrogated in separate rooms of the police station.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

mine was prokaryotic.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I remember seeing Simple Minds play at the Mars Bar when they were still called Johnny and the Self Abusers.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Anita Bryant perform at the Eastern States Exposition, which is a big New England 4-H hoopla (4-H is sort of a Future Farmers of America kids club, for you Britishers). This was when she was just a wholesome gal representing Florida Orange Juice! Before she embarrassed herself with poisonous anti-gay public statements!

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I remember when cafes had the following features:

plastic gingham table cloths
tomato ketchup bottles shaped like tomatoes
milk machines with whisks
orange squash machines with whisks and plastic oranges in the juice

Milk Marketing board posters (eg pic of a tiny cress sandwich w/ a glass of milk on it and the slogan "Milk turns a snack into a meal)

'Naughty But Nice' cream cake posters

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

God, I just wikied Anita Bryant. This shit is priceless:

"...concerns over "homosexual recruitment" of children inspired the name of Bryant's political organization, Save Our Children. Among Bryant's assertions during the campaign were “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children” and “If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.”

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

"..."Save Our Children," the start of an organized opposition to gay rights that spread across the nation, and the beginning of what came to be known as the religious right. The Rev. Jerry Falwell went to Miami to help her, but it was Bryant herself who first led fundamentalist Christians into politics under the banner of a domestic social issue. Her personal attack on homosexuals drew tens of thousands of new recruits into the movement."

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Our telephone service once included a party line. I used to only have to dial (I said "dial") four numbers to call my friend. I once received a ten-cent check from Southwestern Bell after falsely telling the operator that the payphone ate my dime.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

I get this feeling all the time because of all the students walking around my place of work. This year's graduates have never known a world without Kylie! But I still don't look at shoes and think "mmm, they look comfy" so I'm OK for the time being.

― Madchen, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

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