Stories you'll have to tell your kids one day (gallon, wage, arsenal)

[mcmastersteve]

I suspect that one day I will take my kids to Disneyland, and show them Los Angeles, and tell them how I remember the day China bought California.

[monkeywrenching]

I remember taking a rifle to school and shooting on the schools rifle range.

I remember having a gun rack in my pickup with a shotgun, 2 rifles and a fishing pole and no one thinking twice about it.

[Sergeant Possum]

I remember coming home from school, getting my .22 rifle, and walking down to the beach to shoot tin cans. This was in the middle of a medium-sized city.
I remember studying about World War 2 in the sixth grade, and the kids bringing their fathers' war souvenirs to class. German Lugers, Japanese rifles, all kinds of weaponry. The only rule was "no bullets".
I remember my mother, a widowed schoolteacher, buying her only new car. It was a 1953 Chevy. 3-speed manual transmission, 6 cylinders. No radio, no heater. $1980 cash. We got a heater later that year from Sears, and a radio the next year, also from Sears
I remember coming in from recess in the spring of 1954. I was in the fifth grade. A girl named Penny Burch was standing at the top of the stairs, hysterically sobbing. When I asked her what was wrong, she sobbed "We're gonna have to go to school with n*gg*rs!" That's how I found out about the Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs Topeka Board of Education.

[bgibbs42]

I remember when the United States of America existed, then the diluted masses elected Bambi and the country split in two. Did I say that?

[BigHouse9]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

nope, i meant 20 MB.. (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2339784,00.asp - broken link)

oddly enough, i just bought a 1 TB western digital external today at staples for 99 bucks

How about PC's without hard drives? We had to boot them off of a 3.5 floppy disk and the OS would stay resident. We thought a cool PC was one with 2 floppy drives. I remember my friend talking about a "hard card" which was a term used to describe a hard drive.

My first PC in 1992 had an 80 meg hd and I thought I would never fill it up.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by BigHouse9

How about PC's without hard drives? We had to boot them off of a 3.5 floppy disk and the OS would stay resident. We thought a cool PC was one with 2 floppy drives. I remember my friend talking about a "hard card" which was a term used to describe a hard drive.

My first PC in 1992 had an 80 meg hd and I thought I would never fill it up.

yeah, i remember those floppy-only systems too, but much more fuzzily.
kinda funny how the 'save' icon on a number of programs is still a representation of a floppy disk, even though i'm not sure you can even buy them anymore.

[Siobjuan]

I remember scooting over so there was room in the car for the teenage hitchikers that mom would give a ride to.

I remember the great songs on AM radio.

I remember all the trash along the highways. Used to bum me out.

I remember when people had never heard of being pc. Your opinions defined you, good or bad.

I remember when seatbelts were optional because the cars were made of steel instead of plastic.

[Compression]

I remember...when we were free, the sky wasnt even the limit, and anything we could conceive, and believe, we could acheive...........now there's a regulation, or some pc reasoning to prohibit all of that.

And it seems to get worse, every day.

[Icy Tea]

I remember hearing only english at work and being very impressed by those who spoke it but it was a second language to them they had worked hard to learn.
I remember when the weather wasn't blamed on mankind.
I remember when the people would talk on the phone at home instead of while driving, shopping, walking, etc.
I remember seeing kids playing games outside instead of watching TV or playing video games.

[CharlottePirateFan]

"Let me tell you about Bill Brasky"
He's a ten-foot tall beast man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.
He orchestrated the merger between UNICEF and Smith and Wesson.
Brasky went public with his own buttocks and made seven million.
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Well anyway, Brasky decides he's gonna hunt down all four members of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all beg for their lives, except Fleagul.
We once had a bachelor party for Brasky. He ate the entire cake, before we could tell him there was a stripper in it.
Brasky once hosted the Grammy's and gave every award to Cory Hardt.
He has a toenail on the end of his penis.
Brasky got his wife pregnant, and she gave birth to a delicious sixteen ounce steak. The afterbirth was sautéed mushrooms.
Brasky's family crest is a picture of a barracuda, eating Neil Armstrong.
Brasky's ranked eighteenth in the AP College Football Poll.