I'm so old I remember... (jokes, commercial, popular)

[LaceyEx]

I remember going out for $5 a night and that was a couple of pitchers of beer, pizza and money left over for tip.

[RDSLOTS]

I remember when, in the South, no one thought to tell us kids not to chase after the mosquito spray trucks. And my parents wonder what's wrong with me?

[brokencrayola]

Originally Posted by RDSLOTS

I remember when, in the South, no one thought to tell us kids not to chase after the mosquito spray trucks. And my parents wonder what's wrong with me?

lol, I hear ya". Many years ago in S. CA we had a garden and it had bugs. My mom bought a big container of Sevin powder and told me to go out and put it all over everything. The wind was blowing and this stuff blew all over me and I was white. I was alone and began having trouble breathing. I took a shower but that still was awhile later. Makes you wonder what it may have done.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by RDSLOTS

I remember begging, almost on hands and knees, for a box of 64 Crayola Crayons, which at the time was the biggest box of crayons available.

That was a real class divider in the early grades at my school (mid-60s). Only the "rich" kids had the box of 64.

Being solidly middle class, I had the round tin of 48.

[RDSLOTS]

Wow, Ohiogirl, but you must'a been r-i-c-h. A tin? of 48 crayons?


I felt lucky to get a box of 24. I remember looking, enviously, across the aisle at a kid with his box of 64, open, sitting on his desk, for all the world to see, an amazing spectrum pointing at the classroom's ceiling.

"May I borrow a color," I'd ask.

"NO."

Tickled me *rose* when he had a crayon break.


I remember getting my first box of 64 Crayola Crayons. I was a freshman in college. Shortly thereafter, I learned, much to my dismay, there were even bigger boxes!

[Visvaldis]

I'm so old I remember places like Podunk Junction and people like Chuck Farley.

[Northwoods Voyager]

I'm so old I remember when boys would go around saying such silly things as 'Hubba, Hubba'.

[square peg]

I remember adults being able to have conversations with children on the street without folks assuming that they were perverts.

[desertsun41]

Recently while tearing out some old walls we found an old can of HOW NOW BROWN COW.

Anyone remember that old chocolate milk commercial that was so popular? I think it was mid 60s?

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by quiet walker

When Pearl Harbor happened dad was drafted and on one of his first days in boot camp, the sergeant had his draftees assembled and asked for "three men who can type."

Same with my dad! Kept him out of a good bit of combat (he was in African and European theaters).

Originally Posted by quiet walker

But dad said that he had learned one of the most valuable lessons about the Army in the first few days, _never_ volunteer for anything! And that lesson served him well.

LOL! My dad said the same thing about army life!