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@TheSentinel I think he thought of things to add to his script (without telling them beforehand) that just made them crack up. This is why we looked forward to the show every week. 😂
@chernobylplaygr0unds Yes. Mine too. We had a mall with a really cool arcade. If you were broke, you could sit in the bleachers and smoke. Place was packed
@WintaTheAngle It makes me feel super old when someone over 40 talks about being a week older than Pac-man. I was a whopping six years old when it hit the arcades big here.
@WintaTheAngle :D yeah I can agree with that. I remember though getting that game for Atari 2600 and oh my gyod it was complete crap. The Ms. Pac-man for the 2600 wasn't "quite" like the arcade but definitely decent enough
No electricity, no indoor plumbing, the radio had tubes and ran off a car battery, and we kept a map of Europe above it to keep track of the post-D-Day offensive drive against the Nazis.
@Really We had a cowtown with postoffice, general store, saloon, and a one-room schoolhouse. But it was 9 miles away, and the first two were unpaved to the highway, which served as the main street for the cowtown.
My same-age wife was at the launching of the royal yacht "Britannia" (still on public display in Edinburgh.)
And in my childhood home we still had a 'gramophone' with a steel needle (if you didn't have one a sturdy rose thorn would do) as well as a 12" shellac record about 1/8" thick recorded on only one side: "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny' by Dame Alma Gluck. (Mother of Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.)
Now how can I remember things like this but not what I ate for breakfast?
@LunarOrbit Oh my GYOD I hated that! And they would talk about NOTHING!
Of course when recording a song there was often the concern of "I hope I am not recording over something important."
And you had to be quick to push record and play at same time. Y they could never make one button record still dumbfounds me
Even logic-controlled cassette decks do not have that. You hit record but then still have to push "play" after.
I can only assume that mess is the analog equivalent of "are you sure?" but even then, pre-recorded tapes had that uncovered notch to prevent recording on.
@HoeBag Which we put tape over to record on top of, so that we could erase a shitty song and put something else in its place (usually decapitating the song immediately after) lol
@LunarOrbit @Ontheroad in 1992 I bought an 81 dodge aries that had only an AM radio, Thing was unnecessarily huge too. That was no radio for a high school kid wanting to jam some good rock music.
@DDonde It is funny because my first CD player when I was 16 back in 1991, it was some generic top load bare bones setup but that thing costed me $70 which is probably like $150 in today's dollars. Heh, for $150 you could now go to thrift and buy 10 used working DVD players. And oh yes, there will likely be at least 10 of them on the shelf.
@DDonde Some of the CD players were like 200 disc carousels, THOSE things cost a serious mint. I seen those once in a while at thrift for a whopping $20 maybe?
In school, I learned to write in cursive using a fountain pen, with a bottle of ink on my desk so I could occasionally refill it. We were not allowed to use ball point.
@DrWatson Hard to believe but my first school used slates, not paper, and some sort of stone stylus to write on them. I think that was also a slim core of thick, bedded slate. I seem to recall bands of lighter & darker color along its length. It had a point but I don't know whether/how it could be resharpened.
My first days at school were miserably bad but that's another subject.
Dial telephones, telephonists, spinning tops, milk in glass bottles with aluminium foil lid, a shilling worth of mince, test pattern on TV, National Anthem on TV when closing down for the night. Sea Monkeys fascinated me,
Potato bread cost 16 cents a loaf Margarine was white but it came with an orange-colored liquid pack My father was older than Humphrey Bogart, my mother was older than Garbo Some TV soap operas were 15 minutes
The milkman, the bread man, the coal man, the fruit and vegetable man, and the co-op grocery van, all right at the house.
Andy Williams LPs and record players, black and white televisions, transistor radios, coal fires, black pudding, tripe, and kippers. School dinners (yum)!
It’s funny what we can eat as kids (maybe because we don’t have a choice), and how the same food now is disgusting to us. I can’t imagine eating black pudding now either. @LunarOrbit
@LunarOrbit My childhood friend had one growing up. In 2013 he told me he no longer had much time to do serious gaming outside of playing like ONE game on his computer so he asked me if I would give the Super Nintendo a good home. So for almost ten years now it's been hooked up to my TV...and still works.
@LunarOrbit Prices of retro systems and game suck these days. Back in the day we mostly played Super Mario World and Mario Is Missing (Don't judge meeee we were 7 and didn't know any better about that other game xD)
