Age poll...Ladies 1st...Socalgal!!

[R[][]FER]

Since you are in control, I figured you should have first dibs at it.

Only the truth too!!

We can wait...Ha,ha.

[socalgal]

Hee hee, that's a good one, R[][]FER! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Sorry, my secret goes to the grave (Hint: won't be too much longer, lol).

Thanks for the thought, though http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif


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[R[][]FER]

Like I said....We can wait.

Heh,Heh.

PS: Okay lie if you must http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[JeffD78]

**Sneaks in front of Socalgal**

I'm 21, 22 in April.

[Dave_H]

I watched Capt. Kangaroo when I was a kid, no such thing as a muppet back then.
Dave

[Ed_S]

Would be interesting to see the ages here...

But the thread will roll off if you insist on waiting for the gals to do it! Especially the truth! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif It just ain't natural!

OK, I'm almost 41, & actually look (http://www.hostclub.net/photos/eds.jpg) older (I didn't weather well, what can I say... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[DaveLewis]

I was born the year Eisenhower was elected to his first term (for the educationally challenged he was after Truman and before Kennedy. Pretty much ancient history. Radios and computers had vacuum tubes.

[JeffD78]

Jeez. Bunch of old geezers in here.
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/icons/icon12.gif

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[jam57]

Yea Dave! Capt.kangaroo, me to,I think I was almost in first grade. How about J.P. Patches? the cool thing is i still feel young!! went from building and riding harleys in my 20's to overclockin' pc's now! I know there is a connection...wow did i get off topic oh well talk later. Jim.

[R[][]FER]

Yup, it sure takes a woman a long time to type out an answer...doesn't it?
And I thought they were fast typers http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
Ok...I'm not 54 yet but I'm over 53...there ya go!

[pickel]

I was born a few months before "Hiroshima"
I believe a week or so either way of the death of President Roosevelt.A true "Ancient" member. But I'm sure I don't look as old as Ed_S (HEHE), but not as good looking!!

the pickel

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[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

29 years young. Wife is 20. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

I remember watching Capt. Kangaroo. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Jim


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[alpha]

I was born around the time of Chernobel.
Being 13, I'm just an ickle yout.

[Mntsnow]

Well I'm 31. Will be 32 in May. I try and stay active and fit as my 2 kids like to go Snowmobiling (http://www.aros.net/~mntsnow/Help!.JPG) with me http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif (and no I dont like that part! lol)

Mntsnow

[R[][]FER]

Do you remember watching...

The Three Stooges...The Ed Sullivan show...Spanky and his gang.

Or how about when you wore your hat with the ears while watching The Mousekateers with Annette and group.

And the theaters only cost $.10 to get in.

Ahhh, the good old days http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[richamies]

I'm 20 and feel the same now as I did when I was 13 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif.

It all seems to go so fast, and I've only just started!!

[Chainsaw]

Contrary to popular belief, I was NOT born before moss was invented.
But I was in about the 5th grade when JFK died.
...CHNsaw

(First line in ref. to comments as per senior member status)

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[pickel]

Hey Dood: Capt. Kangaroo(actually a Ltjg) flew an A5A Vigilante when I was aboard
the Independance. Kool dood ,too!!!!

the pidkel

[pickel]

Hey Dood: Capt. Kangaroo(actually a Ltjg) flew an A5A Vigilante when I was aboard
the Independance. Kool dood ,too!!!!

the pickel

Dang mouse**********

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[Ed_S]

R[][]fer - Yeah, I remember those shows. But the youngsters have seen the reruns, too.
Remember when ALL TV was black-and-white???
And there were only 3 or 4 channels?

pickel - HAHAHAHAH!!!!! Where's YOUR pic, BUDDY? (just kidding) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[jad1097]

I remember those shows . I am 30 wife 26

[Joel Kleppinger]

I'm 20... born about 2 weeks after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown (that's what I blame my weirdness on http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif).

wife? what wife? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Ceeffa]

Hi all http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I am 30 and will be 31on June 29,mmmm getting old http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif


Chris

[jad1097]

Ceeffa,
I have you beat by two days.

[daveleau]

I watched the Muppets too when I was a kid. I also loved Bsttlestar Galactica. Remember that one? BTW I am a 1/4 century old (25).
Dave

[socalgal]

Gotta love Moe, Larry and Curly! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

<disclaimer>: This is not a comment on my age, as The Three Stooges are in permanent rerun mode.</disclaimer> nyuk nyuk http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

I guess this would qualify as a useless post. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/redface.gif

[Warthog]

Gosh...I feel like a little kid (guess I am to some of you guys http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif). I'm going to be 16 on February 19.

Warthog

[R[][]FER]

Happy 32 on Monday OuTpaTienT and many more to come.

Socalgal...LOL...nice try!
I suppose if your birthday was on February 29 (leapyear), you would have been the first to post huh!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[garybeafl]

Sorry to say there was no TV to watch in 1939 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[seti]

20, and I feel soooooo old http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

hahaha.

[codybear]

3 channels and only B&W......

[Dreamboat Annie]

Hey jam57, I'm a PATCHES PAL as well!! Most people I know have never heard of him because he was only local. I used to watch him every morning. I wish they would play reruns! As for my age, lets just say that the year I graduated from high school was around the time Pat Benatar was making her debut!

[richamies]

And I thought I was the only person on this planet to know who Pat Benetar was!!

[drizzle]

Well, 23 here....I'll be 24 come March...

[Romulus2]

They always had a national holiday with fireworks on my birthday when I was a kid. I grew up in Canada and my birthday is 1st July.

Now I live in the UK it's just another day. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[U-96]

28 this February!

Only two 'till the big three-zero.

I used to watch Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, LOVED the Muppets (AAAANNNNIIIMMMAALLLLL! Buuudddddy Riiich! Budddddyyy Riich!) and saw Star Wars *first* time round.

My first computer loaded from cassette tape.

U-96

[Ceeffa]

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop was wonderful http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif
I also loved SPACE 1999!!
my first comuter was a Vic 20


Chris

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[alan]

capt kanga****ing who?

33 going on 25 looking like an oap
oppppssss
the only thing memorable to happen in the year of my birth was me, or so my mum tells me lol

many happy returns for all those with em coming up and belated to those who dont
alan

[Susan]

Better late than never http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

I remember Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse as well as the Capt.

3+9=12 (?) Nah....it's 39.

[noresull]

Just 24, Fiance is also 24. Nothing exciting happened that year!

[tonym]

I never thought I'd get here but I'm 43 -- 44 in June. I remember:

*15-25 cent hamburgers,
*the first color broadcast of Walt Disney (on an old Zenith set that was obviously designed for air traffic control!!!),
*LOOK and LIFE magazines,
*large passenger aircraft with propellors,
*"duck and cover",
*JFK's assasination (I was in my driveway, just after getting off the school bus),
*No "clicker". Watching TV meant getting erstwhile exercise.
*McHale's Navy, Flintstones, F Troop, Car 54 Where Are You?, Payton Place, Donna Reed, etc.
**REAL* muscle cars!!!,
*party lines and rotary phones,
*hula-hoops, per rocks, mood rings, "Musk" cologne, Nehru jackets, etc.

Sorry about the memory flood...it made an old guy feel better!!

And you young whipper-snappers ought to seize the opportunity that fate/time has handed you, life has never been so good for humankind even with all the problems we have -- and do as much as you can in as short a time as you can! Oh to be 16 again!!!


Tony

[silver]

40 and counting. I think I qualify for the OLD FARTS CLUB now!
I remember when our family got a color TV in the mid 60's. Also, how many remembers the rotory dial telephone?

[Brydon]

Hell I,m 31...times runnin' out. lol

[new2]

Guess I just joined the "old ****'s club" Don't remember duck and cover, but do remember:

mood rings
stairway to heaven
platform shoes (which have returned)
.35 McDonald's cheeseburgers
flintstones
partridge family
mickey mouse club, the capt'n (roo and crunch)
Monkees on Sat morning-

Not necessarily in chron. order.

[The Mighty One]

I hate to make ya all feel old but...I'm only a little boy at the age of 15! The sad part is.. my back huts like an old mans already. =)

[dab]

36 this comming friday (28th) feel like 136
hey ,I`m a member now, that must be my buffday presunt http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[izzzy12k]

I'm 28, and will be 29 in April.

But I still feel as if I were 17! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

izzzy12k

[smokin1]

I just turned 2F last summer...I feel it some days too
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[netsurfer]

16 (17 in May), gonna be c/o 2001. woo.

But in regards to my age in computing, I'm about 10. 8)

[Eli]

I would be 20 years of age; 21 in July. I feel so... unspecial... lol

[OuTpaTienT]

Good one Smokin'. Use HEX. That 2F sure looks alot younger than 47. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif Heck, it makes you only "1" older than me since I'm 1F (and soon to be 20).


(& thanks for the bday wishes people!)



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[AuraEdge]

17, but still dont feel it. I still got the hieght of a little kid at 5'3, but at least I look 17...I remember back in Nov where I didnt have to worry about anything...now I got colleges on my back...still have to go for liscence..and then I have to keep my time here! Time's so hard to budget. :P

Doesnt it suck how age only goes one way? and that if someones younger or older than you now, you can never change that?


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[smokin1]

LOL...figured you would be the one to catch that OP...
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Prospero]

27, and I remember Cptn Kangaroo and watching Morgan Freeman on the Electric Company.

[arn]

Geeeez, I believe I'm the oldest one here. I have pickel beat. I was a few months old when Pearl Harbor got bombed.

I remember 10 cents to get into a theater, Ed Sullivan (my dad liked that).

First computer was a trash 80 (TRS-80 by Radio Shack). Had to load DOS with a 5-1/4 floppy. What a dream machine.

[deep_sky]

i am 15 (figure out whether i mean dec or hex http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif )

[desmocat]

get the ole' binary calcs out,or do it in your head: 00100010.
sometimes I feel:00110010
alot of the time I act:00001100.
just remember, if life had a rewind button,we would all live in utopia right about now!

[R[][]FER]

Boy, there sure are alot of different ages on Sysopt.

Now for the next poll coming up...

Who Lied ??

[Richard_Cranium72]

15 year old boy TRAPPED in a 47 year old body. Saw invention of color TV, fuel injection on cars, space flight, sno-mobiles, sno skiing affordable to the masses, transformation from piston engine air transit to Jet power, lived through the free-love generation and SURVIVED. Arrived alive in the year 2000. Thanks to God, DrVette

[BBA]

Well, I could be 20 like smokin1 would say...

[GMAGDNA]

It's a long one:

Feeling Old Today?

Each year, the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of that year's incoming freshmen.

Here's this year's list:

1. The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980.

2. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and did not know he had ever been shot.

3. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.

4. Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.

5. There has been only one Pope. They can only really remember one president.

6. They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War.

7. They have never feared a nuclear war. "The Day After" is a pill to them, not a movie.

8. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up, and Tiananmen Square means nothing to them.

9. Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

10. They never had a Polio shot, and likely do not know what it is.

11. Bottle caps have not only always been screw off, but have always seen plastic. They have no idea what a pull-top can looks like.

12. Atari pre-dates them, as do vinyl albums.

13. The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.

14. They have never owned a record player.

15. They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.

16. Star Wars look very fake to them, and the special effects are pathetic.

17. There have always been red M&Ms, and blue ones are not new. What do you mean there used to be beige ones?

18. They may have heard of an 8-track, but chances are they probably never have actually seen or heard one.

19. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.

20. As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents

21. They have always had an answering machine.

22. Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black-and-white TV.

23. They have always had cable.

24. There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA is.

25. They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

26. They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.

27. Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.

28. The Tonight Show has always been with Jay Leno.

29. They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.

30. Popcorn has always been cooked in a microwave.

31. They have never seen Larry Bird play, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a football player.

32. They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

33. The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII, or even the Civil War.

34. They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.

35. They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

36. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

37. They never heard the terms: "Where's the beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," or "de plane, de plane!"

38. They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. is.

39. The Titanic was found? I thought we always knew where it was.

40. Michael Jackson has always been white.

41. Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not groups.

42. McDonald's never came in styrofoam containers.

43. There has always been MTV.

I'm 29.

[daveleau]

Hey I guess I should feel old too at my age (25) because I have seen and heard of al the things above. :O
Dave

[Ceeffa]

jad1097, i don't feel so old now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Chris

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[scotter]

ok well I rememeber all them shows 37 here and the wife is 28 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif felt like I robed the cradle when we got married LOL http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif 5 years ago loL http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Ed_S]

Warthog, unlike the "real world" there's no little kids here.

<enter geezer mode>
My son's gonna be 16 in Feb too!

These ages (13, 16, etc) should serve as a reminder to all us old folks to watch ourselves! These are bright young folks, but they ARE young!!
<exit old **** mode>

[OuTpaTienT]

31 here. 32 Monday. Figures, bday on a Monday, yuck.

[Ceeffa]

OuTpaTienT
Let me be the first to wish you HAPPY BIRTHDAY http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Chris

[socalgal]

Let me be the second. Happy Birthday, OutPatient! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I think it should be a federal law that everyone gets their birthday off from work as a paid holiday. When a birthday lands on a weekend, then closest Friday or Monday would apply. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[redstone]

I have been alive in 7 different decades...
I was born during the Truman years...
ÿþ

[nimrod]

ive just reached the same age as the number of states. as a kid we got our first TV in 1954 a 17 inch, huge in those days, to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 2. sweets(candy) was still on ration in that year, 2oz a week. anyone remember The Cisco Kid tv series, and Amos and Andy. there was no daytime TV and only one channel, BBC1 in the UK. I got my first Transistor Radio when I was 11, its size was about 4 x 3 x 2 inches and seemed a miracle at the time.
Got my first sports car, a Sunbeam alpine soft top in 1969. What a girl puller.
what a fantastic time we had in the late sixties and seventies.
Computers ? what were they ????

I wont go on, you know what its like once us old uns get going.

[Zotzmein]

Born in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and sixty eight.

Regards,

Zotz Mein

[BillyB]

Since desmocat beat me to the binary, I guess I'll do it in octal to make it a little tougher http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif...41

[Dave_H]

Here is another one.
I'm so old that we used to have to make ice cubes in this metal tray contraption that had this thing with a lever you had to pull and it would always stick to you hand.
(You kids will have to ask your parents)
Dave

[BillyB]

YEAH!!!I remember those!! We used to dare each other to put your tounge on the tray!!

[Ed_S]

Yeah, those metal trays had a major design flaw, common in products of the era.
They WORKED and they LASTED.
How in the world did companies survive making things you only bought ONCE?

Luckily they've since discovered how foolish this was, and seemingly no products are allowed to both work AND last!

[R[][]FER]

How about those hi-tech rabbit ears for tv before the built in antennas. You used to turn a switch for each of the 2 channels for better reception.
And do you remember how many times you used to get up to turn the rabbit ears and move the rods for a beter picture..heh,heh..lots!!

[buitenb]

i am 25
and very happy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


jakob buitenhuis
The \netherlands

[RONALDvd#22]

I may sound wise (socalgal should remove this part) and and old but I am only 16! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif .I have to wait 2 more years to drive a car!

Buitenb,I am from Holland too!What a coincidense (only 16 million other people are)

Ik mag hier zeker geen nederlands schrijven?
Translation dutch>english:
I guess I am not allowed to write dutch here?

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[pickel]

How many remember " The Lone Ranger" and "Arther Godfrey" on the radio? Will you admit
to that Socalgal????? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

the pickel

[Dreamboat Annie]

Your a right! My mom STILL uses the ones they've had for 30+ years! I was lucky enough to find some at a garage sale. They work GREAT!

(I'm referring to those metal ice trays!)

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[bubblehd]

I quit celebrating birthdays last year. I only celebrate anniversaries of my 39th birthday, and June 1st will be my first anniversary.

bubblehd

[Roraycr]

I remember sitting on my mother's lap in the dark looking out of the window in our New Jersey home during air raid drills during WW II. Also, watching German POW's working in the railroad yards by my grandfather's shop.

[Smokey]

I feel like a little tike now compared to the rest of you... I'm 14, turning 15 on July 3rd.

[Toadman]

The ole 13-channel B/W 0ne-eyed babysitter,
Gilligans Island, Get Smart, Speed Racer, Kimba, I Dream of Jeannie!. Steel/clay-wheeled skateboards, BIG WHEELS!, Click-clacks, Lawn Darts, Big Jim "dolls", Action Jackson (the action figure, not movie)
And next to Star Wars as most memorable flick... JAWS! (Ok, I'm a mid '60-70's kid)

[Underclocked]

Born the year Harry Truman took office for his second time.

[Banti]

Has anyone claimed hexadecimal??
18
or 24 for those who perfer decimal...
soon to be 25

One thing that I remeber is when Nickeloden was a sci-fi station.. Yep, that's right they used to only have two cartoons back then... DangerMouse, and a spinoff of DangerMouse...


They also had great shows like
What will they think of next?
And The Third Eye
I believe they also ran Doctor Who during late nite


Regards,
Banti

[cyphen]

I'm 19 with 7 years experience! (I'll be 19 again in march, so make that almost 8 years experience!)

Ceefa - Go vic 20!! yeah!!! that was my first comp - i remember "Press Play On Tape"
hee hee! i was so geeked to find out a couple years later that they made plug in cartridge games for it - atari style... what games did you have? My sisters and i programmed the monopoly game from the back of the manual. also we had AMOK, a rip off of space invaders (i forget what it was called), a few text-adventure games, wargames (my first plugin cartridge game - made from the movie) and a couple others i dont' really remember...

Outpatient - I'd like to be the 14th to wish you a Happy Birthday... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

dab - not your birthday yet, but happy reverse-belated birthday! (just sounds better than happy pre birthday!)

daveleau - yeah! I loved those shows - the muppets and Battlestar Galactica! One day when i was editing, i accidentally recreated the silon voice. (controlled feedback) How about these shows:
Lost in Space (Loved it!!!) (wanted to marry Penny!)
Punky Brewster (wanted to marry her, too ... someone else beat me to it!)
(mentioned before, but loved them all): Get Smart, Muppets, I dream of Jeannie, and Gilligans Island
[Dreamboat Annie - was that Patches Pal thing from The Polka-Dot Door?]
Buck Rogers(My absolute favorite show growing up)
anyone remember these?
The Greatest American Hero (<singing> Look at what's happened to me - e.... I can't believe it myself... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif )
The Whiz Kids
Here's a toughie:
Mr. Merlin
non animated Incredible Hulk and spiderman
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Wonder Woman
The Land of the Lost
Dungeons and Dragons (great Saturday morning lineup!)
Superfriends
13 ghosts of Scooby Doo (and of course the original!)
Spiderman and his Amazing Friends
Ewoks and Droids (beechawawa!) (sounded like he was saying "Big Chihuahua!")
ahhhhh ..... care-free days!
Did i miss anything?
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[OuTpaTienT]

BTW, M8B&TE, I was living near Tacoma when St. Helens blew. It was pretty **** cool (hey, I was a kid). By the next day we had about 2 inches of ash. Almost like snow...but different. Instead of pretty and white it's ugly and gray. Instead of melting with rain it just turns to mud. But it got us out of school! Woohoo!

[Yoda]

Hi Guys,

"Life begins at 40" is an old phrase, i think is TRUE.
After that you don't care about age anymore.

I guess only the ones that are younger count their ages.

Me, i care more about who people are and why they are doing what they are doing.

So SOCALGAL, you may take that secret to the grave, but PLEASE give us a picture.

I guess it's the least you could do as the most reflected person in this community.

To whom it may concern, i'm 42 and still going strong.

Stay Healthy!

Yoda

[GMAGDNA]

The creatures in Land of the Lost were Sleestacks (sp?).

How about The Banana Splits? Anyone remember the show Dusty's Treehouse?

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[OuTpaTienT]

Uh oh. Chooooonnnnnngooooooooooo!

[zetor]

Could not wait to get home from school and watch Lost In Space. I'm 37 and my first GRANDBABY arrived 3 weeks ago. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Dreamboat Annie]

Sorry Cyphen, J.P. Patches was a local show here in Western Washington. It was great slapstick humor. As for Polka Dot Door, that show was WAY after my time! Geez, I'm old enough to be your mother!

[Dreamboat Annie]

By the way, what about Land of the Giants and Dark Shadows, Time Tunnel and the Green Hornet?! Boy, now I'm really dating myself! But then age is just a state of mind..right?

[MAGIC 8-BALL and THE ELF]

I remember Mt. Saint Helens. - Elf

I remember Mt. Vesuvius. I also know how young socalgal is. - 8-Ball

[OuTpaTienT]

OMG, Land of the Lost! (http://livingisland.com/shows/landlost/index.html) hehe. What were those wierd creatures called? They gave me nightmares. And HR Pufnstuf (http://livingisland.com/shows/pufnstuf/index.html) with that magical talking flute. What kind of hippie's drug induced nightmare was that show created from?

And anyone else watch Star Blazers (http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Harbor/3904/geoyamato.html)? That was my first taste of Anime but I didn't know it.

But Speed Racer ruled! I still want a Mach 5 (http://w3.nai.net/~jp/n_heller/speed.htm). (especially those nose mounted circular saws. Would be great in traffic.)

And all you Speed Racer fans, be sure to go get your free e-mail here. (http://mail15.bigmailbox.com/users/speedracercom/)
I just got mine: outpatient@speedracer.com
Pretty cool, huh?


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Yeah, the sleestak... man....
i never understood why they were scary though. I mean, if they started chasing you, all you had to do was walk away for about 10 seconds, then they'd be far enough behind you that you could stop, strike up a lucky, have a relaxing smoke, maybe cook some dinner and have a nice meal before they ever caught up enough to make you have to move again. And if you were smart enough to carry some of those neat rocks around, you could make explosives out of them to keep them at bay while you enjoyed dessert. Oh well, i still liked the show.
But one of my absoulte favorites i forgot to mention - (from a little later in my life) Robotech! I absolutely LOVE Robotech. I remember the first time i watched it at my dad's shop. (my sis and i had to go there in the summer cause my mom worked there too, but we had fun.) We were flipping through the channels when we saw what looked like a cool cartoon. After watching it for a little while, i decided i hated it because it was like a soap opera. I never missed an episode since then! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif What Rick Hunter ever saw in Minmei I'll never know... Lisa was much better for him - glad they ended up together! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I just had to go out and buy the whole series on tape... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif (not the later invid invasion or southern cross - didn't like those as much..)

ANYway boy did i digress! Dreamboat Annie - guess you were a bit before my time, huh. But i do reemmber the Green Hornet and watched a few episodes of Dark Shadows. I also loved Dr. Who! (the fifth guy who played him, i think - the one with the scarf - he was my fav.) Also i listened to a couple episodes of The Shadow (who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men...) Mostly cuz of my parents, i guess. They also introduced me to FibberMcGee and Molly.

Who here remembers the mini series "The Martian Chronicles"? (Ray Bradbury was it?) I think it was on HBO or something - i don't think it was on broadcast tv, but i know it predated the scifi channel by more than 10 years. I think it may have been on a predecessor to the scifi channel - kinda like HA-TV compared to Comedy Central.

[welsh wizard]

Born some time in the 40's before TV,

I remember the one channel B/W being broadcaste for 3 hrs a night only, and a bit extra on a Saturday, ( Rin Tin Tin and few years later the Lone Ranger.)

but it depends how I feel when I wake up, sometimes 6, sometimes 20, sometimes 90,

BTW
pickel nice to see some one in same age braket
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

As to the not wearing to well, then

worn out (http://www.hostclub.net/photos/welshwizard.jpg)

WW



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[Brangwen]

For an opportunity to post, this is a fun topic. I was born in the best year: 1954. My dad was at Normandy on D-Day. Take 10 cents and chase ice cream truck down street! Milk was 2 cents at school. In GLASS BOTTLES! I was walking home from school in 3rd or 4th grade when some nut told me President Kennedy had been shot. And Martin Luther King. Hardware stores were awesome complete with creaky floors. Gas cost about 29 cents per gallon. Cars were huge heavy metal things that a owner could fix him/herself. So were bikes unless you could afford a English Racer. Awesome muscle cars. Beach Boys. Elvis. The British invasion. My family watched Neil Armstrong step on the lunar surface. It was in black & white, but our color TV was one of those that made faces look pinkisk green. TV repairmen would make house calls and it was a big exciting event. Watching TV when one of the Appollo missions exploded on the launch pad. MacDonalds hamburger, french fries and soda about 30 cents. $5.00 bought a lot of neat stuff. My first radio was a 6-transistor that I thought was cool hanging on my bike handlebars. French or Spanish mandatory. Hydrogen generators in lab - very explosive! Cigs about 35 cents a pack. Long hair. Woodstock. Bell bottoms. Flower child. Hippies and Yippies. Beatnicks even. Sam the Sham & the Pharohs. Nam was a drag. Daily body counts and news footage. Nixon and the Constitutional crisis barely averted by his resignation. Ford takes over. "WIN" (Whip Inflation Now). 8 track tapes! ("Cool!") Slide rulers. Calculators... whoa! The Oil Embargo. A nickel bag was huge. Flag rolling papers & headshops. Bongathons. George Carlin and "Toledo Windowbox." "Smoke on the water,, fire in the sky." Led Zepp! Garage bands. Slingerland drums, Les Paul Sunburst guitars, Fender Vanilla amps. (Think they were Fender.) Weed in dorm rooms at Boston University and school policy was to leave students alone. Aids wasn't a concern. Time slows down for no man . . . Studying for Bar exam in Massachusetts when Challenger exploded. First computer was a Tandy 10-Meg HD. My brother told me, "you'll never fill that baby up." Next machine flew -- 386MHz machine with 12MHz clock cost me $1500.00. And on and on. Being born in '54 is the greatest! Ain't life grand? May you live all the days of your life!

Brangwen

[Freakout]

Wow, what a mix of ages!

Me I'm 29 going on 30, and already falling apart.

[LED]

Yes I remember most of these things http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif...
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[Wiruz]

God You're old.... ;-)

I'm 19, and i can't really remember anything special... Lennon was shot about 10 days after i was born (27/11-80) - my first 'puter was a "Videopac" (Don't now if thats the right name)

But i do recall Challenger....

I think that the question for my generation is not what HAS happened, but what's to come: In the '90 alone there has been more things invented than in the entire 19' century - get ready for a rollercoaster ride!

\Divide By Zero\Wiruz

[nilknarf]

"It's not how old you are, what matters is how old you feel"

I was watching the launch on TV when Challenger exploded. I remember Regan as president. Watch the opening shots of the Gulf War on TV. First computer was a TRS-80. Can remember when gas was 89 cents.

BTW, I was born in 1978, I'll be 22 in March!

[orkboss]

I am 30.

Where did the time go?

[Butler]

I've been 20 for 2 years.....go figur http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[OuTpaTienT]

It's not so much "where does the time go", it's "where does it come from" that's really amazing.

This thing isn't 3 pages yet???

[Ed_S]

"It's not how old you are, what matters is how old you feel"

I said before that I was 41, but if you go by THAT, well I guess my age varies from 15 to 150...

Right now (after work) I'd say about 70!!

[jadinolf]

Ready for this? 65!
Just became a grandfather for the first time.

[dawgtuff]

Hint:I collected "Davy Crockett" cards.

[jl123]

Wow there's a variety of ages here. Well i'm one of the young ones at the age of 14. i'll be 15 in march.

[jokostel]

16 17 i july 25 of this year at 9:30 pm or so... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
im going to take my licence test **** in may and goto oklahoma for vacation early june...get my braces off in march...14th to be exact......hell of a great year unfolding.... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
jokostel

[Amarok]

Well I guess I am about middle of the road here......

will be 33 in April.

Land of the lost, I remember that one...

MASH.... practically lived on it....

Diffrent Strokes.... my mom loved it and forced me to watch it. (It was not that baf)

and others....

[setup]

Last Birthday the coffe cup read "OLDER THAN DIRT"

[buddmann]

Boy this is great,
I'm just getting into this forum and I like what I'm seeing.
Born June 19th 1960, Father's Day.