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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:31:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Kids these days will never know the joy of going over a sweet jump (either wood or a driveway curb) in a heavy-ass steel Huffy with a banana seat. I can remember the KLANG of you chain flopping against the chain guard...or sometimes the kick-stand flopping down. Had to be careful about removing the chain guard or else your bellbottoms will get caught between the chain and crank. '79 in S California, a banana seat bike ridin' fool  |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 7:21:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We studied shotgun news for guns I had pages cut out of shotgun news on my wall. I remember one in particular, full page add "whoops, I just stepped in some shiite" Dad bought a Colt SP1 from a guy coming out of the National Guard in 76, paid $300 for it! That was my deer rifle for years! I don't think Dad ever realized how much that rifle was going to cost me later! |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 8:19:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1972 checking in.  My Dad just asked me to find him one of these. He's 96  |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 8:31:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/480138/bike-jumping-5_jpg-2956123.JPG Not my photo but have the scars none the less.  We werent living unless we were hurdling ourselves from every janky piece of plywood ramp in the neighborhood from sunup to sundown, or out in the woods playing war games.Me too brother! That was the life and my kids will never know that sort of freedom 
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Posted: 9/19/2023 8:51:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Born ‘71. I agree. Same |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 9:58:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/19/2023 10:12:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: there are so many hot 50 year old women these days it's not even funny Shit, back in the day there were SO much HOTTER women in the way back. Actual ladies, form, function and prose. They wold dote on on you, offer encouragement and feed you. Unfortunately they wouldn't fuck you, unlike today's crew. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 10:24:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was the kid with the spring loaded bb gun, I usually won and got to do minor surgery. I had a Crossman 66 and 760. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 10:37:22 AM EDT
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Bones brigade, Oakley pilot's, enough said.
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Posted: 9/19/2023 10:39:58 AM EDT
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Tell me the items below don't give you a warm fuzzy.
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Posted: 9/19/2023 4:19:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tell me the items below don't give you a warm fuzzy. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_103218_png-2959241.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_103342_png-2959242.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_103453_png-2959243.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_103550_png-2959244.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_103657_png-2959245.JPG Lol.. yest to all of those but we had sundeck beach shorts with the rainbow'ish arch across the ass that were super popular for a long time.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 5:32:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/19/2023 5:44:49 PM EDT
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Member's Only Jackets
Parachute Pants Fat Shoe Laces Airbrushed Jean Jackets Butterfly Knives Mullets, hahahahaha Blue Jeans You Bleached Cut-Off Jeans (with a bunch of stringy fringe along the cut) A Polo Shirt (with collar) Under an Oxford Shirt (with collar) The only trends I fell victim to was the butterfly knife and the preppy oxford over polo. I'm so glad its 2023. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 5:54:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:17:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: My young kids are so jealous (I'm an old dad) and want to be Gen X so bad. I would tell them about the days of bumper sliding home from school. Can't do that anymore. Hell, cars don't even have real bumpers. Bumper sliding = skitching? |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:18:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We made our own before this modern marvel came along. Pass the sexwax! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/112839/1000005990_jpg-2959671.JPG If we couldnt make it to the beach we towed each other my any means necessary in the drainage swales in the front yards by ski rope! how we arent all dead from amoeba flesh eating parasites is beyond me because we played in some seriously questionable water. We also made sand boards out of plywood and old seat belt straps for the little dunes and sand hills we could find.
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:24:10 PM EDT
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‘75
-“Kill the man with the ball” at recess full contact no one gave a fuck -BMX bikes -Crab apple fights -Wrist rockets -Fireworks -BB guns -Street Hockey -Walking to school -real lawn darts |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:27:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ‘75 -“Kill the man with the ball” We had a different name for this that will probably catch a ban now.
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:31:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm old gen X age 56 Most 18 - 23 year olds would have an aneurysm if they had to live like I did from about 85-90 ... No cell phone No social media Telephone attached to the wall Use a physical map to travel I'm glad I lived it. Wanna see fear in the eyes of a millennial? Hand them a paper map (like pirates used) in an unfamiliar area. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:31:54 PM EDT
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Did ya'll ever play indian ball when you only had a few kids? One batter hit, everyone else in the field. If you got the ball you threw/rolled it trying to hit the bat laying on the ground. If you hit the bat it was your turn to bat till someone else hit it with the ball?
Getting hit in the face with a green pine cone during pine cone wars.  Dirt clod fights and one hitting you in the mouth mid summer with no water to be found for miles. 
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:32:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Same here, late 1963. Yup. +1. Had to learn how to use tech hands on. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:34:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Born '71. I agree. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:38:10 PM EDT
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Yeah, it's just peachy watching the years roll by
 
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:38:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: '72 checking in. I know the joy of sitting on the tailgate dragging my toe on a dirt road. Are you 9 feet tall? |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:39:35 PM EDT
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Add to the OG skate theme
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:40:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Born ‘71. I agree. Born in the Summer of '69
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:46:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_094947_png-2959203.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_095545_png-2959204.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_095750_png-2959206.JPG Remember which one was the "poser" board? I dont remember any of those being generic. All 3 brands, Powell, vision, and hosoi were well known. I remember gator killing his hot girlfriend and going to prison over it. Kinda rocked the skate world back then. I had the top 2, but the gator was the second gen where it was more like lighting bolts, blue deck and flouro yellow graphics and clear grip tape, lol. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:47:11 PM EDT
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Smear the queer was a legitimate game to create men.
We broke our teeth out on trampolines and liked it. Helmets are for fags, unless (and only if) you race motocross. If you crashed your bike and broke yourself, you bled, but rode yourself home to get patched up before mom saw anything. Crawdads were created to shoot with your bow and arrow, or bb gun. Fireworks were a rite of passage for all boys. If at least one firecracker didn't blow up in your hand each summer break, you're a fag. Grandpa giving you a snort of Hamm's to laugh at you as you gag was normal parenting. If you didn't mow the lawn, you didn't get to play baseball. If you didn't play baseball, you're a fag. Being offended wasn't invented yet. I thank God for my timeline. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:49:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1970 gen x here. I played hard up to my mid/ late 40's. Still roll around in my early 50's, but keep it under the coping now. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/484065/457663_2841391008616_730940791_o-2956193.jpg We had shit for ramps, no skateparks. Vertical was achieved on primitive plywood ramps with no curved surfaces. The transitions were a bitch. 38 mph was achieved on a state park scenic tour road with new, perfect asphalt. I left my pound of flesh on that hill in 77. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 6:54:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We broke our teeth out on trampolines and liked it. Yuup... we would stack like 5 kids on it at once and see who could ge the best rebound bounce. Also took those long/large thin beach towels and tied a knot in one end. It was a game of sweep the feet while jumping. dunno how many times we got cracked in the nads or took an errant knot in the face intended for someone else. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 7:00:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had shit for ramps, no skateparks. Vertical was achieved on primitive plywood ramps with no curved surfaces. The transitions were a bitch. 38 mph was achieved on a state park scenic tour road with new, perfect asphalt. I left my pound of flesh on that hill in 77. We did grandpas house in the carolinas every year for the 4th. We save our allowance to spend on fireworks and had bottle rocket wars with the grown ups up the hill a bit. One year I wanted a pair of these SO FUCKING BAD. Spent all my allowance on them and went out to skateboard as soon as we got back. Florida kid on his first hill learnt real quick what speed wobbles were. Again I was trying to show off for some neighborrhood girls and managed to fully blow out both layers on both knees within an hour of getting my new pants.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 7:09:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy friend's mom across the street somehow got her hand mangled by a wall mounted electric can opener. She damn near bled out while attached to the can/attached to the can opener/attached to the wall. Somebody next door outside heard her scream. |
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Posted: 9/19/2023 9:18:31 PM EDT
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Find secret spot in the woods.
Multi-day infil of troops and materials. Multi-day terrain modification and setup of FOB. This:  Attached FilePlus this:  Attached FilePlus this:  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 8:18:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My wife is fascinated by Action Park. Also known as "Traction Park" and "Class Action Park". She's always finding YouTube videos with old footage for us to watch. That place sounds like awesome. Crewed mostly by high school kids who were often drunk and would get in fights with the customers. And who would take the governors off the go karts and drive them on the local roads (again often while drunk. In high school). Sounds like my kind of place. Sorry I didn't grow up anywhere near there. Born late 68. Action park was amazing. Shit would be extreme by today's standards. But was just a little crazy back then. |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 9:21:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Never got a speeding ticket in it!  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: bike riding and ramp jumping was fun. But so was setting a tire on a skateboard and riding it down a 2x8 plank set on the stairs to the unfinished basement. I was the last single family home on an extended cul de sac filled with townhouses. When they were building those townhouses, the construction sites were our playground. Edit to show Crappy Capri: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/58424/RenderedImage_jpeg-2958223.JPG That 2.3L I-4 with a one barrel carburetor put out a beastly 88hp. Never got a speeding ticket in it! Had an 81 ford escort. NJ cop wrote me up for 76 up hill on I 80 , he clocked me from the opposite lane. I went to the hearing brought the car along. I told them I would gladly pay if they can get the car over 55 on that hill. They threw it out. |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 9:44:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen "X"- had to help our parents with the computer printer AND help our children with the computer printer. Gen "X'- the ONLY generation that figured out how to set the clock on a VCR... Their biggest accomplishment in life is setting the clock on a VCR? Sad. |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 10:04:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smoked my first cigarette around 8-9  |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 10:18:35 PM EDT
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Remember candy cigarettes, Big League Chew, and lawn darts?
Arcades and girls with big hair? Roller Skate Rinks, and making out in the parking lot... Ahhh.... |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 10:23:06 PM EDT
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Wouldn't have it any other way.
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Posted: 10/15/2023 10:24:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something. yup…. RTFM parents! |
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Posted: 10/15/2023 10:57:35 PM EDT
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Born in 65 and did most the stuff mentioned here . We didn't have a lot of money growing up and I had 3 older siblings , so I lived on hand me downs - clothes , bikes , toys everything . Mom would drop us off at a Hotel in town with a big pool . $1.00 for all day . You didn't need to worry about strangers or Perv's back then . We never stayed inside all summer , even in the rain we would beg to go out until Mom relented . If you weren't in the lawn by the time the street lights came on Mom or Dad would drive around looking for the pile of bikes or kids to find you .
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Posted: 10/15/2023 11:03:20 PM EDT
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I watched the US beat the USSR at Olympic Hockey, live on TV in 1980.
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Posted: 10/16/2023 12:28:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/480138/bike-jumping-5_jpg-2956123.JPG Not my photo but have the scars none the less. We werent living unless we were hurdling ourselves from every janky piece of plywood ramp in the neighborhood from sunup to sundown, or out in the woods playing war games.That photo almost captures the essence of 70s living. Its just missing the little brother (me) laying on the ground so my older brother could jump me. |
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Posted: 10/16/2023 10:45:40 AM EDT
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Born in 67.
Grew up remembering tail end of the Moon Landings & Nixon getting in trouble and return of the Vietnam vets and their mental health issues. Had a hippie baby sitter that once the last kid was dropped off, went around topless and would have her boyfriend come home at lunch for some “Afternoon Delight” behind closed doors. At about age of 7 and higher, babysitter went away and was allowed to fend for myself. Summers would have me and my friends meeting up and being gone all day, every day on our bike and skateboards just getting into random things that came our way. That included putting coins on the railroad tracks to watch the trains squish them to finding your buddies father’s Playboy/Penthouse stash and look at titties and 70’s untrimmed bush. High School in the 80’s was pretty much like the movie “Dazed and Confused” but a 2.0 version for the period. Can remember bringing guns to school and left in the vehicle for hunting after school. “Cruising” was the social activity every Friday and Saturday night. Getting into a girls panties was way easier and was not competing with the whole wide world simping for them. Kind of nice that problems or things could wait until the next day to be dealt with. Did not have to be electronically joined at the hip in real time 24/7. |
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Posted: 10/16/2023 11:07:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/16/2023 11:21:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_094947_png-2959203.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_095545_png-2959204.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/Screenshot_2023-09-19_095750_png-2959206.JPG Remember which one was the "poser" board? Lol, Skull and Sword. |
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Posted: 10/16/2023 11:40:01 AM EDT
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When I was in high school, every student's truck in the parking lot had a gun rack in the back window, usually stocked with a .22 and a shotgun. Nobody ever shot up the school or other students and the guns were not for self-defense, they were there because when school got out a little after 3, you still had 2-3 hours before Mom expected you home for dinner, and we went straight to the woods and fields to hunt rabbits, squirrels and birds.
It was a golden age in many respects, sure do miss that America. ETA: And fishing poles and a tacklebox in the bed. |
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Posted: 10/16/2023 12:21:19 PM EDT
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I did my undergrad at a small college in Arkansas.. they allowed rifles in the dorms during hunting season
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Posted: 10/16/2023 12:27:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gen "X'- the ONLY generation that figured out how to set the clock on a VCR... I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something. I messed up because shortly after I programmed ours to record on a schedule, I also go real interested in how it worked and spent an afternoon disassembling it as far as I could without a soldering iron. When my mom found me, bless her heart, she laughed and said it's good to be curious or something like that, but I damn well better program the one she and dad had in the bedroom so dad didn't miss whatever he wanted recorded. |
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