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Posted: 4/9/2020 11:12:38 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X'er checking in... Ass whippin' with Hot Wheel tracks Drank from the hose Played outside until the street lights came on No bike helmets No seat belts Realistic toy guns Steel playground equipment over concrete Eating whatever was put in front of you (or starving) Great time to be a kid.  That was my life as a kid. Side effect of growing up in the midwest I suppose, since I was born in 85. Everything used to be behind the curve. Shit on me all you want, I still grew up free and dangerously. 
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Posted: 4/9/2020 11:40:15 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: To be fair, we Gen-Xers had no reason to learn to type. The internet hadn’t yet rounded the corner when typing classes were a thing. I remember my school counselor talking to me in the hall to suggest typing classes for an elective. I threw him an “Are you fucking high?” look and said, “No... I don’t plan on being a secretary” as I walked away. Whoops.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not a meme but all my gen X friends can't type for shit. Gen X = boomers https://media1.tenor.com/images/63a4afee7d28caa61c821bddaa1e6fa3/tenor.gif To be fair, we Gen-Xers had no reason to learn to type. The internet hadn’t yet rounded the corner when typing classes were a thing. I remember my school counselor talking to me in the hall to suggest typing classes for an elective. I threw him an “Are you fucking high?” look and said, “No... I don’t plan on being a secretary” as I walked away. Whoops. The only good advice from a HS counselor I ever got was to take a typing class. I did squeak by, despite 4 stitches in my right hand index finger, the Friday before we did b's. I still type them with my left hand. |
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Posted: 4/9/2020 11:41:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As an early millenial, I have to ask; can you blame him? Personally, I look at the Corvette as an indicator of generational variance. In the year you were born, did the Corvette have the big swoopy front end that looked like two bananas? Yes? Gen X. In the year you were born, did the Corvette have a shorter front end that basically made it look like a front-engined Fiero? Millenial. Were you born in 1983? You're fucked either way. There was no Corvette. I was born in 1983.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's funny. My youngest brother was born 8/1/81. He claims that he's not a millenial b/c Gen X runs thru 82; the rest of us responded, "You know who says that shit? People who don't want to be associated with millenials." As an early millenial, I have to ask; can you blame him? Personally, I look at the Corvette as an indicator of generational variance. In the year you were born, did the Corvette have the big swoopy front end that looked like two bananas? Yes? Gen X. In the year you were born, did the Corvette have a shorter front end that basically made it look like a front-engined Fiero? Millenial. Were you born in 1983? You're fucked either way. There was no Corvette. I was born in 1983. The C2's were pure sex. The C3 was ugly. The C4 was much better than the C3. There I said it. I grew up in Bloomington, IL, home of "Bloomington Gold", ie, the biggest Corvette show. Still not a big fan of the 'vette. For reference, my younger brother was born in town in '71. |
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Posted: 4/9/2020 11:41:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember that store, but can't for the life of me remember the name. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: WTF was the name of the shitty knife store in every mall? Sold all that D&D bullshit, fake Rambo knives, and all that ninja shit.. I remember that store, but can't for the life of me remember the name. I'm wanting to say Spencer Gifts. Also had blacklight posters, t-shirts, fundies and other "erotic" crap. |
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Posted: 4/9/2020 11:47:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm wanting to say Spencer Gifts. Also had blacklight posters, t-shirts, fundies and other "erotic" crap. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: WTF was the name of the shitty knife store in every mall? Sold all that D&D bullshit, fake Rambo knives, and all that ninja shit.. I remember that store, but can't for the life of me remember the name. I'm wanting to say Spencer Gifts. Also had blacklight posters, t-shirts, fundies and other "erotic" crap. Spy Shops? |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 12:39:48 AM EST
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'72 checking in
This thread is awesome! Thank to everyone for pulling me out of a tough time with all this BS going on right now. @KampusKop @CarmelBytheSea In our mall that store was called Keyhole. Ninja stars, Rambo knives, handshake buzzers, whoopie cushions, stink grenades et al. Speaking of malls. I was fortunate enough to see Tiffany live 2 times in 2 different malls. She was hot AF then and I'd still rack her today. Debbie Gibson, Belinda Carslile, Molly Ringwald. Lawd. Playboy magazines were worth more than hard currency. School teachers would still whoop your ass in the 70's. I remember my dad's favorite ass whoopin' method was to grab me by the cuff of the arm and kick me in the ass so hard he had to keep hold of me to keep me from flying away. Atari 2600 and those damned joysticks with one button. The cover of the joystick would always eventually come off and you'd be playing with a sharp ass piece of plastic. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start BB gun wars without even sunglasses on. Red Dawn, Red Dawn and Red Dawn First Blood, M*A*S*H*, GI Joe Watching the original Star Wars in the theater (4 times) Sleeping on the back window shelf of a Grand Torino while driving on family vacation to Disney Land. TV Dinners with tin foil on them. Pull tab cans. Everyone with a truck in high school had a stocked gun rack in their back window in the school parking lot. Tote Goat's. Vuarnet sunglasses with the leather shields. Those sunglasses with the mirrors on the edges so you could see behind you. Women with hairy beavers. The emergence of the woogit. Losing my virginity with Bobby Brown singing in the background. Dam fellas thanks for the memories. I fkn love you guys for this. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 12:52:52 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a meme but all my gen X friends can't type for shit. Gen X = boomers https://media1.tenor.com/images/63a4afee7d28caa61c821bddaa1e6fa3/tenor.gif |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:01:11 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ATCs were a holdover from the Baby Boomers. Prove me wrong. Had about a dozen ATCs starting with this one Kinda freaks me out to think about how my dad was 15 years younger than I am now in that picture  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:08:07 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You left out surviving the Ninja wars of the 80s...and becoming trained silent assassins by watching Sho Kosugi movies. That's right...only a Ninja can stop a Ninja. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:08:09 AM EST
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:18:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I made a thread about that but GD wasn’t interested  https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/459941/2BDE5468-F6EB-4CEB-8E2F-7976A2B91D29_jpe-1357856.JPGI certainly would have been interested if I saw the thread. I loved the Ninja craze in the 80's. Asian World of Martial Arts and Dolan's Sports were my main supplier of shuriken and other "Ninja" weapons. Well except for the ex-con ice cream man that used to sell us cheap balisongs and survival knives out of the back of his truck. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:24:19 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Growing up in the 70s when the best rock was made and now still played. Stupid oil embargo and shortages made up my mind that Walter was wrong it's not the way he said it was. Growing up with doubt of the blatant lies of the big three media. I could see and experience what was told and what was happening around me. The wonder years tried to blur the reality of double digit interest rates and how life really was. 1976 my boy scout troop went to DC toured for a week. That was a blast and we had a great time walked into the white house given a tour while Ford was president. Graduated in 81 and both my drill instructors were Vietnam veterans. Rode in the back of my granddad's pickup with my cousins. No stupid political correctness people had freedom of speech and if you were offended you didn't say anything or you'd never hear the end of it and teased all the more. Boomer whatever don't matter I got to wear leisure suits and stacks growing up. Did you dodder into the wrong thread? |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:26:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I certainly would have been interested if I saw the thread. I loved the Ninja craze in the 80's. Asian World of Martial Arts and Dolan's Sports were my main supplier of shuriken and other "Ninja" weapons. Well except for the ex-con ice cream man that used to sell us cheap balisongs and survival knives out of the back of his truck.  DOS Game: Ninja (1986 Mastertronic, Inc) |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:30:24 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I want to say "Spencer's" ? Nah...Spencer's was all gag gifts, sex toys, and black light posters. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:34:27 AM EST
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:37:45 AM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Edge? Edge Co. was switchblade kits via mail order. I miss Edge Co. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 1:51:57 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I saw that movie. In theaters. Because I wanted too. Because my folks thought Gobots "were just as good". Joke's on you Mom, that movie suuuuucked. Try being the only teen kid in the neighborhood with a Sega master system when everyone else got a Nintendo in 1985. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 2:04:40 AM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryKarate Champ was the best. I miss playing it. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 2:24:07 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Karate Champ was the best. I miss playing it. I also played  Arcade Game Kung Fu Master 1984 Irem |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 6:06:39 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For #3, if you voted in that election, you are a boomer. I don' think I did but can't remember. Back then when I was younger all I wanted to do was work, play, hunt/fish and hang out with friends. Oh, and girls. To busy living I guess. So not caring enough to vote means you are X-gen? Yeah maybe I am a boomer if you're that narrow minded...wow. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 6:11:52 AM EST
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Posted: 4/10/2020 8:18:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don' think I did but can't remember. Back then when I was younger all I wanted to do was work, play, hunt/fish and hang out with friends. Oh, and girls. To busy living I guess. So not caring enough to vote means you are X-gen? Yeah maybe I am a boomer if you're that narrow minded...wow. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: For #3, if you voted in that election, you are a boomer. I don' think I did but can't remember. Back then when I was younger all I wanted to do was work, play, hunt/fish and hang out with friends. Oh, and girls. To busy living I guess. So not caring enough to vote means you are X-gen? Yeah maybe I am a boomer if you're that narrow minded...wow. You missed the point entirely. He's saying that Gen-X couldn't vote in the 1980 election, since even the oldest gen-xers, being born in 1965, would have only been 15 in 1980, and too young to vote. Ergo, if you had voted in that election, you technically meet the age definition for being a Boomer, nothing "narrow-minded" about it. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 8:24:28 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You missed the point entirely. He's saying that Gen-X couldn't vote in the 1980 election, since even the oldest gen-xers, being born in 1965, would have only been 15 in 1980, and too young to vote. Ergo, if you had voted in that election, you technically meet the age definition for being a Boomer, nothing "narrow-minded" about it. Actually the point is generations overlap so it can go either way. There is no strict rule. I was born in 1962. Late boomer or X-gen. Either way its all good! 
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:09:46 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually the point is generations overlap so it can go either way. There is no strict rule. I was born in 1962. Late boomer or X-gen. Either way its all good! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You missed the point entirely. He's saying that Gen-X couldn't vote in the 1980 election, since even the oldest gen-xers, being born in 1965, would have only been 15 in 1980, and too young to vote. Ergo, if you had voted in that election, you technically meet the age definition for being a Boomer, nothing "narrow-minded" about it. Actually the point is generations overlap so it can go either way. There is no strict rule. I was born in 1962. Late boomer or X-gen. Either way its all good! Okay Boomer |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:22:22 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually the point is generations overlap so it can go either way. There is no strict rule. I was born in 1962. Late boomer or X-gen. Either way its all good! A point lost on many in this thread; generations are fast and loose, that's why you have people argue over where the boundaries are. Generally speaking those in the middle of the bracket are most defined by and define the generation with those towards the gray areas towards the beginning and end of the generation have many of the characteristics of both, they are known as "cuspers". Late 70's born are an example, they're Gen-X but were young enough to experience both events from both i.e. young enough to have played without supervision before dark and analog phones, but still young enough to be impacted by the digital revolution such as the Internet which most Gen Xers were already adults by the time that hit, and most Millenials were still children. As for Gen X I think being born in the 80s really blows past that gray area; many people I know born in the 80's don't remember Gen X defining events from the 80s like the Challenger Shuttle explosion, MTV when they actually played music videos, or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some have really good memories or was exposed more than others which is why hard drawn lines don't work with generations. Some people are more plugged in or exposed to defining events, others less so. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:23:20 AM EST
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:27:15 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: "Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983 Xennial. Definitely the best generation. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:28:21 AM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sounds like millennial butthurt... /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/bubbles_zps5bf5952f_GIF-110.gif Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Okay Boomer Sounds like millennial butthurt... /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/bubbles_zps5bf5952f_GIF-110.gif That sounds like more cluelessness and denial. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:30:16 AM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That sounds like more cluelessness and denial. LOL somebody is butthurt...chill Francis. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:36:47 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL somebody is butthurt...chill Francis. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That sounds like more cluelessness and denial. LOL somebody is butthurt...chill Francis. LOL. Okay Boomer. Just own it already. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:40:53 AM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL. Okay Boomer. Just own it already.  As an X-gen'r I have to laugh... As a boomer, reported! |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 10:58:39 AM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As an X-gen'r I have to laugh... As a boomer, reported! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: LOL. Okay Boomer. Just own it already. As an X-gen'r I have to laugh... As a boomer, reported! You seem to be genderational confused. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:02:53 AM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You seem to be genderational confused. Don't take it out on me if your depends are a little to tight today. Just relax the bladder and let it flow. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:10:34 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Xennial. Definitely the best generation. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: "Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983 Xennial. Definitely the best generation. If you couldn’t see Star Wars in the theater... If the Cold War was over before you learned about “duck and cover”... If Red Dawn and Threads are just movies... If cable TV and computers have been ubiquitous your whole life... If you never spent 20 minutes fucking with a pair of rabbit ears on a crappy 13” TV so you could watch Sesame Street on a UHF channel... If you never made it a life goal to find the secret room in Adventure... If you never shopped at Chess King... You’re probably just a Millennial with delusions of grandeur. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:14:18 AM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Don't take it out on me if your depends are a little to tight today. Just relax the bladder and let it flow. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You seem to be genderational confused. Don't take it out on me if your depends are a little to tight today. Just relax the bladder and let it flow. Depends are you generation, Boomer. And there you go again, making clueless assumptions. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:14:32 AM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you never made it a life goal to find the secret room in Adventure... You’re probably just a Millennial with delusions of grandeur. That one I don’t recall. Also nobody has mentioned shrinky dinks or rubics cube |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:16:27 AM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That one I don’t recall. Also nobody has mentioned shrinky dinks or rubics cube The game Adventure on the 2600. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:20:04 AM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That one I don’t recall. Also nobody has mentioned shrinky dinks or rubics cube Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you couldn’t see Star Wars in the theater... If the Cold War was over before you learned about “duck and cover”... If Red Dawn and Threads are just movies... If cable TV and computers have been ubiquitous your whole life... If you never spent 20 minutes fucking with a pair of rabbit ears on a crappy 13” TV so you could watch Sesame Street on a UHF channel... If you never made it a life goal to find the secret room in Adventure... If you never shopped at Chess King... You’re probably just a Millennial with delusions of grandeur. That one I don’t recall. Also nobody has mentioned shrinky dinks or rubics cube I am thinking that tweaking the channel knob on the cable TV box to be halfway between channels so that you see a staticky, squiggly pair of tits should be on that list, too. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:23:03 AM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It was like a scene from Mission Impossible if you heard your parents pull into the driveway and you were 95% done with your download that you didn't want to start again when they left.... https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/a4/ad/45a4ad2dccd1641561595ba4a703f117.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: A Millennial once asked me if we had porn on the Internet in the "old days." I explained how we would log into a service provider using our dial up analog lines and find alt.binaries on a Usenet server. After downloading all the text files associated with a specific picture, we would use UUDecode to convert the text files back to a graphic. Opening it, you'd finally see what you got, which was usually a shitty flatbed scan from a Playboy. He just looked at me with his mouth open.  Kids these days don't know how easy they got it. And we was thankful, because some folks didn't have it so good. It was like a scene from Mission Impossible if you heard your parents pull into the driveway and you were 95% done with your download that you didn't want to start again when they left.... https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/a4/ad/45a4ad2dccd1641561595ba4a703f117.jpg I put a note on the computer once that said "please stay off the computer, downloading data." LOL. It worked. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:23:34 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Depends are you generation, Boomer. And there you go again, making clueless assumptions. Pot, kettle, Black... There is always one of you in these light heart'd threads that has to be" road captain". |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:26:31 AM EST
[#41]
Birth class of '73 checking in here.
Vans, parachute pants, and a skateboard t-shirt was my go-to outfit in 1984. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:34:32 AM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Pot, kettle, Black... There is always one of you in these light heart'd threads that has to be" road captain". Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Depends are you generation, Boomer. And there you go again, making clueless assumptions. Pot, kettle, Black... There is always one of you in these light heart'd threads that has to be" road captain". LOL. Projection much? |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:42:58 AM EST
[#43]
My shop teachers used to ding our grades if we didn't have a pocket knife on us in school and would randomly grab us in the hall to spot check as well as check in class.
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:48:20 AM EST
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:49:51 AM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryI think it was Milton Bradley that reissued those a few years ago. My brother got me the football and baseball ones. The fun and frustration still holds up. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:50:38 AM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryI got the Mattel Football II for Christmas in 1978. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:50:41 AM EST
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Quote HistoryDamn. I’d completely forgotten about those. |
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:51:00 AM EST
[#48]
There is something for everyone to get offended by in this thread. It’s beautiful, if you are in this thread you have to take pride.
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:51:59 AM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think it was Milton Bradley that reissued those a few years ago. My brother got me the football and baseball ones. The fun and frustration still holds up. I think it was this version 
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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:52:42 AM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There is something for everyone to get offended by in this thread. It’s beautiful, if you are in this thread you have to take pride. Takepride? Pride implies that I care. I'm a Gen Xer. I don't care about shit. 
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