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Posted by complainant
on March 10, 2024, 7:58:43, in reply to "
Let’s play ‘I’m old enough’
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Let’s play ‘I’m old enough’
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TarheelIllini
March 10, 2024, 6:42:48
To remember when I thought Chop Suey was the only kind of Chinese food*
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TarheelIllini
March 11, 2024, 18:51:40
water chestnuts!
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 20:51:36
It wasn’t our primary one, but my family had a black and white tv*
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Franklin
March 11, 2024, 16:02:18
I watched Nick Anderson bring Indiana to tears on a 13" B&W tv*
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 20:57:02
ooo
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complainant
March 11, 2024, 21:00:25
I'm old enough to remember the Big Ten Fan Forums, Prodigy live game chats, and the Olympics Board
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RSMBob
March 11, 2024, 15:27:59
I'm old enough to remember when NFL referees knew WTF a catch was*
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ATL
March 11, 2024, 14:58:04
Im old enough to remember when linebackers could shiv a WR on a crossing pattern
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DT
March 11, 2024, 16:10:20
I'm old enough to remember doing "duck and cover" nuclear drills in grammar school*
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MtHoodIllini
March 11, 2024, 14:56:11
I'm old enough to remember using a partyline to get deuce-like chats happening*
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timmer
March 11, 2024, 14:52:42
I'm old enough to remember when a rival high school called Pekin had a crazy racist mascot*
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Sounder
March 11, 2024, 12:22:29
And a roller skating rink with an aligned name too!*
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DocWalk20
March 11, 2024, 14:51:19
I have definitely skated there before*
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Sounder
March 11, 2024, 15:18:35
And also used to have an outlet of a chain restaurant named Sambo’s
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PapaDels
March 11, 2024, 12:50:23
in high school, we played the Freeburg midgets one year for homecoming
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reggiedunlop
March 11, 2024, 12:27:19
Dated a Freeburg Midget in college=====>
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KingTalkyTiki
March 11, 2024, 15:20:49
Just be grateful you weren't playing the corn jerkers*
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Sounder
March 11, 2024, 12:28:06
You could buy new music in Reel to Reel format*
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jfinsocal
March 11, 2024, 11:46:01
My Dad still has a Reel to Reel player.
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 20:54:57
I remember using an aluminum bat as an antennae for our black and white basement TV
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illini
March 11, 2024, 9:49:45
Couldn't figure out why there are 2 different water drinking fountains.
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illinicolt
March 11, 2024, 9:00:20
“Saw this in Mississippi…”*
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bbonb
March 11, 2024, 9:07:06
I'd like to congratulate 1950s Mississippi on being trans-forward.*
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ATL
March 11, 2024, 9:07:04
Winner winner fried chicken dinner! *
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Tuscy
March 11, 2024, 9:02:18
That’s racist.*
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DT
March 11, 2024, 9:02:34
Indeed. *
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Tuscy
March 11, 2024, 9:05:50
To not be able to rent a VHS movie because all your parents had was Beta...
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 8:54:36
We used beta at work because it was a superior product. *
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BoCool
March 11, 2024, 16:37:51
That's why we had Beta.
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 20:53:25
Yep. I worked at Good Vibes, and selling Beta vs. VHS was super easy on quality.
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Illiniphil
March 11, 2024, 16:40:43
Our first was a BetaMax. I think we had to switch by 1984*
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bucktownillini
March 11, 2024, 10:34:00
same. My grandfather worked for Sony, so we were Beta adopters*
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shua
March 11, 2024, 9:43:52
The cheapest gas price I ever recall - $0.69 per gallon in northern California.*
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 8:38:07
I remember when gas stations had to sell gas by the liter because the pumps couldn't register....
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Illiniphil
March 11, 2024, 16:20:56
27 cents during our drive to Minnesota. I guess it was a war but I was too young to care. *
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BoCool
March 11, 2024, 12:21:32
You're just a youngster.
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Memlie
March 11, 2024, 9:30:50
That's crazy.
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 10:31:31
I remember 87 cents a gallon in Bushnell, Ill., in the mid 90s. *
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illini
March 11, 2024, 9:16:37
Yeah, I remember around .80/gallon Christmas of 1998 in South Dakota*
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Blazer
March 11, 2024, 16:34:41
Gas was in the 90 cent region in Georgia in 1997. People used to stop to get gas
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ATL
March 11, 2024, 9:18:19
I was in Dallas for a summer in the late 90s and gas was under $0.909/gal (probably ~$0.859)*
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illinibone
March 11, 2024, 12:44:21
Gas was 99 cents on September 11, 2001 in the morning and 2.23 in the afternoon
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JacobRDaugherty
March 11, 2024, 9:55:14
Gas was also under a dollar a gallon here in mid-March, 2020.*
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MojoJojo
March 11, 2024, 12:14:04
stocking up on dried beans/canned meat*
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complainant
March 11, 2024, 21:06:02
I can remember mid 90s fairly regularly as a kid
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illini
March 11, 2024, 9:25:28
nice*
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VIV
March 11, 2024, 9:14:44
nice*
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bbonb
March 11, 2024, 9:07:34
a cable box with a channel slider
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ATL
March 11, 2024, 8:37:21
I remember when our town finally got cable *
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jdl
March 11, 2024, 16:23:23
I had one of those *
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TarheelIllini
March 11, 2024, 11:33:45
TV antenna rotors.
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 8:40:29
our house had an antenna on the roof when we bought it in the 80s*
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Potomac
March 11, 2024, 8:58:17
Foil on the rabbit ears.*
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Tuscy
March 11, 2024, 8:44:37
Pliers to change the channel
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BradUnderwoodforprez
March 11, 2024, 9:59:06
Me - Holding the antenna like a contortionist. My dad - DON'T MOVE!!*
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Tuscy
March 11, 2024, 10:17:02
To remember my HS computer teacher talking about 'Multimedia"...
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EffinIllini
March 11, 2024, 8:36:04
Self serve at the gas station wasn't an option. "Fill 'er up with regular and check the oil, please*
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Tuscy
March 11, 2024, 8:34:25
I remember going over those tubes on my bike trying to get them to ring
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DT
March 11, 2024, 10:34:44
Hahaha, I forgot about those*
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TarheelIllini
March 11, 2024, 11:39:37
TV station sign off and waiting for 6 a.m. on Saturday morning for the broadcast to resume.*
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Tuscy
March 11, 2024, 8:33:22
Watching a test pattern on Saturday mornings until the cartoons started.
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TarheelIllini
March 11, 2024, 11:31:19
The national anthem being played before a station signed off for the night*
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TarheelIllini
March 11, 2024, 11:31:58
to remember when conservatives hated the Russians and would never worship a former KGB agent*
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VIV
March 11, 2024, 8:32:42
Is Grog's Pizza around? I remember when it started and you could get
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ibdoc
March 11, 2024, 7:55:27
They went away in '96, IIRC. They briefly pivoted to a non-pizza takeout place.*
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Sammich
March 11, 2024, 8:29:35
If you’re a low end pizza place and can’t even get customers for that
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DT
March 11, 2024, 8:48:14
my guess is they figured the late-night sandwich/burrito market was less saturated
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Sammich
March 11, 2024, 8:52:44
battle of the network stars (the real ones) and laff a lympics*
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torinese
March 11, 2024, 7:52:20
I regularly drive by a Murgatroyd Road not far from my house. Always reminds me of the announcer*
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DT
March 11, 2024, 8:19:22
Carbon paper *
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TarheelIllini
March 11, 2024, 6:49:28
Mimeograph machines.*
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Illiniphil
March 11, 2024, 7:30:55
Ditto*
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DT
March 11, 2024, 7:50:12
To see Lonnie Perrin play for Bob Blackman. *
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BoCool
March 10, 2024, 13:58:15
Flying Tomato Brothers*
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memyselfandillini
March 10, 2024, 13:53:15
Pizza World!*
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RSMBob
March 11, 2024, 11:41:27
Jumers Castle Lodge*
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DT
March 11, 2024, 7:50:44
Downer!*
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ATL
March 11, 2024, 8:58:22
You always get a free onion!*
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PapaDels
March 11, 2024, 9:36:26
Rolling a pen-shaped thing over a map to calculate distances*
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SatoshiEaterOfSouls
March 10, 2024, 13:47:16
First rotisserie league in 1991. Same time back from then 1958*
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JeffFrank
March 10, 2024, 12:54:08
Rotary dial phones *
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jdl
March 10, 2024, 12:11:32
Exchanges that started with 2 letters
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TarheelIllini
March 10, 2024, 12:43:11
Calls C-U's Time and Temperature over and over
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LWillhite
March 11, 2024, 11:15:35
Our family's first phone number had 2 digits.
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Memlie
March 11, 2024, 9:25:59
Carpet cleaning at HUdson 3-2700*
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Potomac
March 11, 2024, 8:59:55
i was about to say needing to only remember 7 digit phone numbers, but yours is older*
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torinese
March 11, 2024, 7:55:51
my house's phone in high school was on a party line*
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Potomac
March 11, 2024, 9:19:44
Those manual slide credit card receipt things.*
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DT
March 10, 2024, 11:48:49
A clerk once told me that those things are called kerchunkers.*
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Memlie
March 10, 2024, 12:09:09
To see a game with Gary Moeller as the illinois hc*
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bulldogmba
March 10, 2024, 11:46:19
Thankfully the 0-0 tie against Northwestern was the year before I got there*
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RSMBob
March 11, 2024, 11:42:37
To worry not to put leaded gas in my unleaded car.*
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ibdoc
March 10, 2024, 11:45:21
to have walked past the Beta section to get to the VHS section at the local movie rental place.*
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JFG
March 10, 2024, 11:38:04
..to use correction paper when typing. Not a ribbon, but the little sheets. You tried to
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Philo
March 10, 2024, 11:38:02
to remember when people were GRATEFUL for lukewarm showers*
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Herman Blume
March 10, 2024, 11:31:42
Ditto*
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TarheelIllini
March 10, 2024, 12:44:05
…to hang my book bag in the cloakroom at the start of the school day. And to be excused to
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Philo
March 10, 2024, 11:31:18
Dave Kingman was one of my first baseball heroes. (nm)
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Jack McMurdo
March 10, 2024, 11:30:09
to remember when Michael Jackson was black *
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ATL
March 10, 2024, 10:24:00
see also Sammy Sosa!*
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RSMBob
March 10, 2024, 10:35:35
…to know when cars had ONLY two rear brake lights
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timmer
March 10, 2024, 10:23:00
Seatbelts in cars didn’t have the shoulder strap*
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bjl63
March 10, 2024, 8:38:14
Cars didn't have seatbelts. *
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larue33
March 10, 2024, 10:43:19
duplicate*
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Potomac
March 10, 2024, 11:12:30
and they had the little vent windows for smokers*
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Potomac
March 10, 2024, 11:12:30
I forgot about that window.*
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complainant
March 10, 2024, 11:18:06
JFK shot*
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Stu
March 10, 2024, 8:03:21
8 track players*
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PapaDels
March 10, 2024, 8:02:14
the white spot*
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complainant
March 10, 2024, 7:58:43
conservative conservatives*
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complainant
March 10, 2024, 7:57:31
I’m old enough to remember when girls were required to wear swimming caps. Heck
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TarheelIllini
March 10, 2024, 6:55:49
Black and white TV.*
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MojoJojo
March 11, 2024, 8:55:52
nm*
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timmer
March 10, 2024, 7:17:43
I’m old enough to remember pull tab aluminum cans and cigarette lighters in cars.*
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DT
March 10, 2024, 6:48:47
dots...
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torinese
March 11, 2024, 7:49:06
My 2016 Audi had a cigarette lighter *
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ATL
March 10, 2024, 10:28:15
I’ll start…To remember when there were magazines on airplanes
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TarheelIllini
March 10, 2024, 6:43:43
ooo (playing cards)
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illinibone
March 11, 2024, 12:39:47
And planes had a smoking section.*
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DT
March 10, 2024, 6:49:47
Cigarette dispenser machines in restaurants and bars *
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TarheelIllini
March 10, 2024, 12:45:20
I used to ride my bike to the convenient store and buy cigarettes for my dad
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Sounder
March 11, 2024, 12:24:24
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