Remember when..

[JPRoy392]

Please add your own

Remember when...

Stadiums didn't have corporate sponsors and events didn't either (ex: "Safeco Field" and "FedEx presents the Sugar Bowl")

T.V.s didn't have remote controls

You had to keep your own bowling scores.

Musicians played instruments and didn't lip-sync (Milli Vanili)

Coffee before Starbucks

When cigarettes weren't $5.00 a pack.

When golfing colthes were really ugly (no one wears plaid anymore, thank you Jack Nickalus).

Commodore 64, my first home PC. (My friend had the Commodore Vic 20 and a cassette player to store his info. I had the disk drive that weighed 50 lbs. and when it ran, everything metallic in the room flew and stuck to the side of it).

Bowling for dollars (bowling game show).

You spelled fat as "F-A-T" and not "P-H-A-T"

Marsha Brady (Brady Bunch) and Mary Ann (Gilligan's Island) were your two fantasy girls.

My Dukes of Hazzard lunch box. Do they even make lunch boxes anymore?

That's all I remember, please add your own

[Gary.Lowe]

Remeber when..

You heard a new song on the radio and could go out and buy it the same day and not wait 6 weeks for it to be released.
(Do they still make 7" singles)

A can of Coke was 15p.

Sherbet limes that sliced your tongue to shreds.

Andy Pandy.

When jemery Beadle was funny.

All the Misters:

Mr. Green Jeans
Mr. Wizard
Mr. Ed

[SteveCRM]

I only remember a few episodes of Mr. Wizard, and I've seen re-runs of Mr. Ed, other than that, my bowling scores are electronic and my T.V.'s have remotes.

[PJB]

you could beat your children and not get in trouble

those were the days...

[parksie]

I'll stay here where you can beat your parents and not get in trouble...

[PJB]

Yes i've heard that, but my mom's 60 and walks with a cane, probably wouldn't be much fun to beat up

Remember when even on U.S. tv you could always catch reruns of Benny Hill and Monty Python's Flying Circus

[parksie]

Okay...beat up your siblings then.

Here in britain (where are you, btw?) we've just had showings of the major monty python films on terrestrial television

[barrk]

I watched the meaning of life last night on Comedy Central....funny, funny stuff!

[JPRoy392]

The world has not been the same since Benny Hill left us. A couple of weeks ago Adam and Jim (from Comedy Central's Man Show) did a nice tribute to him. It was funny as hell.

[PJB]

I'm in the USA but i'm a big fan of British humor, not alot of it to really be found on TV here though, Meaning ofLife was good, of course the best ever was Holy Grail

I missed that episode of The Man Show unfortunately, Benny Hill was one of the best ever

[parksie]

Originally posted by barrk
I watched the meaning of life last night on Comedy Central....funny, funny stuff!

You're right about that. Especially the dinner party where the grim reaper turns up

[Sophtware]

i was a senior in high school and i would buy cigarettes for 2.25$ !!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhh and that was only three years ago!!! haha eh

[HarryW]

I don't think Jeremy Beadle was ever funny

[parksie]

Me neither.

[barrk]

Don't know him...who was/is he?

[HarryW]

Weird guy on telly, presented one of those amusing home videos programmes. One of his hands is child size, the other fully grown. Altogether, a symbol of cheesy TV shows in the UK.

[barrk]

Plenty of cheesy shows here too

[HarryW]

Yes, from what I've seen of US TV, the cheese density over there is significantly higher.

[JPRoy392]

Do ever get to see reruns of The Young Ones in the UK? MTV (when they used to play music videos) ran that show once in a while. I wasn't as Classic as Monty Python or Benny Hill, but it was worth a couple of laughs.

[HarryW]

I don't really see the appeal of Benny Hill myself. The Young Ones was a classic show, we get it rerun every now and again. My nickname is from The Young Ones (and later, Bottom) - Harry The Bastard.

[Paul Warren]

Do you remember :

Faulty Towers
The Clangers
the first mobile phones the size of house bricks ?
that sweet stuff that came in a packet and when you put in your mouth it fizzed/crackled like mad ? What was it called ? I think it got banned.
the labour government before Thatcher ?

I agree about Benny Hill, couldn't stand him.

[parksie]

Was that the fizzy stuff that kids were eating about 30 packs a day of, and getting headaches and diarrhoea?

[HarryW]

It was called space dust.

[PJB]

thought it was called Pop Rocks, thought Space Dust was something completely different altogether

[Benjamin]

pop rocks are still sold here.... I think they are horrible... give me a headache after one pack.... :puke:

damn..... we seriously need a puking icon....

[Edited by Benjamin on 01-06-2001 at 02:34 PM]

[Guv]

I remember using punched cards and computers with magnetic drums for main memory.

I also remember non-digital clocks and watches. My girl-friend's grandson told his parents he wanted Guv to answer a scientific question. When they wanted more details, he said it was too scientific for them to answer, he would wait for Guv and Gloria to visit.

The question was "What does clockwise mean?" The kid had a digital watch and could tell time. Neither his home nor any of his friends' modern homes had a clock with hands. He had seen clocks with hands in school and elsewhere, but he did not know that they were clocks.

When his father heard the question, he was philosophical about the situation, saying, "I never claimed to be a research physicist, what can I be expected to know about clocks?"

[PJB]

space aliens didn't abduct you on a regular basis and subject you to anal probes...

not that it's ever happened to me i've just heard that that kind of thing goes on alot nowadays, i wear a tinfoil hat so i don't need to worry about it.

[parksie]

You'll need your tinfoil hat somewhere else to protect against anal probes...

[Benjamin]

yeah... this is a situation where the term "shove it up your ass" really goes well....