Old enough to remember

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I remember the butch wax that my brother used to put on his hair.

[bjd]

That jar reminds me how horrified I was on emigrating to Canada at age 7 and seeing all those boys and men with brushcuts. No little boys in England had short hair like that. I disliked really short hair then and still do.

[imec]

I remember when good old family fun involved activities that didn't require technology (except maybe a good old incandescent light bulb). My kids bought us a jigsaw puzzle and I spent a wonderful afternoon with my daughter putting it together yesterday. Everyone pitched in with even my son pulling himself away from the video games to lend a hand.

[bixaorellana]

Ha ~~ good one. I was in a hotel over Christmas that lost its wifi connection. Lo & behold I came down to the breakfast area to find an entire family happily gathered around a board game.

[bjd]

The French son of a friend's friend opened a place in Toronto called Snakes and Lattes. It's a café with loads of board games of all kinds, and no wifi.

[bixaorellana]

I wish him great success. Anyone who'd come up with that name for his place richly deserves it!

[onlymark]

I remember when the Thorn Tree had a WT and YC branch.

[Deleted]

Me too -- however I am too young to have ever used or looked at "Talk Politics."

[bixaorellana]

You wouldn't have to be very old to appreciate this -- only old enough to remember the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s:

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I don't even have that in my pocket yet, but I will have it before the year is out.

[htmb]

Jan 10, 2013 21:17:44 GMT kerouac2 said:

I don't even have that in my pocket yet, but I will have it before the year is out.

Want mine?

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[bixaorellana]

I guess the image looks like that because it's not in your pocket yet, right?

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It was a picture of a cat.

[bixaorellana]

If you say so, although I'm inclined to argue the point.

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I remember when the Thorn Tree was one of the most pleasant places on the internet.

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I remember having to sit with my brothers at the kitchen table a few times during the year and have to paste "green stamps" or their equvalent into little books that would then be redeemed by the grocery stores for merchandise and or "prizes", (usually some type of kitchen appliance).
I hated it, it was so tedious.

[onlymark]

Green Shield stamps, they were?

[bixaorellana]

The ones in the US looked like this and were called S&H Green Stamps or simply Green Stamps:


My grandmother was a fiend for those things and I used to help her paste them into the books. Unlike Casimira, though, I caught her zeal for getting something free for the labor of saving and pasting. For instance she used them to acquire several of these Fresh-O-Lators, which are real jewels:

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Shudder, yes, those were the ones.....hours and hours of pasting.
There was another kind offered by another grocery called "plaid stamps" I remember.

Btw, I 'scored' one of those nifty Pure o laters at a yard sale just last year, and, naturally thought of you Bixa while purchasing it.
They are jewels, particularly in our humid ridden climate here.
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[htmb]

I "purchased" several things with those stamps back in the day, but I can't say I miss them.

[htmb]

When some people would walk around carrying large "boom boxes" blaring out their favorite music.

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I remember when these signs were everywhere. Now, I am sure that younger generations will soon not even know what the word "film" means. Speaking of which, we will soon have to stop talking about seeing films or having film critics and all that stuff. I suppose the word "movie" will totally take over all of the film references because I can't really imagine people saying "I saw a good digital file yesterday."

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I remember when a curtain opened to reveal the screen before the movie started.

[rikita]

doesn't it still do that in some places? i am pretty sure i had seen that recently.

[bixaorellana]

Feb 8, 2013 4:58:55 GMT htmb said:

When some people would walk around carrying large "boom boxes" blaring out their favorite music.

You know, I have been trying & trying to recall what boomboxes were called before they were called boomboxes.

[htmb]

Portable cassette player

[slowcoach]

When reality TV was science fiction:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Sex_Olympics (1968)

That is a cracking title.

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Anyone else remember the original TV production of "A for Andromeda" (1961) with the gorgeous Julie Christie, and the rather ambiquous scene were the computer punishes her.

[slowcoach]

When you could be inside ring of stonehenge at dawn and nobody cared.

[bixaorellana]

Thanks, Htmb.

I can't remember your #747, Slowcoach, because of coming from a different country, but it sounds very cool.

Your #748 sounds all Tess of the d'Urbervilles-ish. You can't be that old!

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Questions about what people could remember:

I was watching a recent tv program where a character in her mid- to early thirties quips "Altamont!" as a sarcastic rejoinder to an accusation that she's not following procedure.

A little later on, a sixteen-year-old making fun of another teen's use of dated terms quips, "Thank you, Louise Brooks."

Whereas it's fairly amusing dialogue, it seems unlikely that people in those respective age groups would reference either of those cultural items. I got the first reference because I'm old enough to remember, but even as a fairly well-read sixteen-year-old, doubt I'd have gotten, much less used the second.