The "I'm so old" thread game

[olbriar]

Long time, long time
Chewy chewy Tootsie Roll
Lasts a long time, lasts a long time.

 

[AugieTN]

LOL! I got one of these when I was a kid. I still remember the commercial jingle

6 finger, 6 finger, man alive, How'd I ever get along with 5

 

[Milo Williamson]

I still remember looking out my window,and pretending I was one of the shadows..
And count my toes several times again, until my ADHD got a hold of me, then...
Well.. What? Onion soup on sale?!? Quick better fly up there, Peter, who is Peter?
And scene.

 

[Lady Dixie T]

I'm so old I remember doing the wash with a wringer washing machine and yes, I got my pigtail caught in it more than once!

 

[nickdalzell]

I'm so old I still know what a 12BA6, 6BQ6 and 3BA6 are.

 

[Davdi]

I'm so old I remember cars with a starting handle.

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that when I was much younger I was still old.

 

[nickdalzell]

I'm so old that when I was much younger I was still old.

"And I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now"

~ The Byrds 'My Back Pages'

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that I know that was written by Bob Dylan

 

[AugieTN]

I'm so old I met Bill Clinton when he was the Governor of Arkansas

 

[ozonetrooper]

I remember this after the 3 channels grandma got on her black and white tv went off for the nite @ 6pm :

The movie theater was a quarter back then !

 

[nickdalzell]

We always got the star spangled banner with music then snow. Never had the Fallout style test pattern.

Nickelodeon also had a quite unique sign off in the early '80s:

 

[olbriar]

This was the sign off on my TV as a child prior to the test pattern. (everything is on YT)

 

[AugieTN]

This was the sign off on my TV as a child prior to the test pattern. (everything is on YT)

I have seen that clip before. I don't think it was before sign off, but I remember it.

 

[lunatic59]

This was the sign off on my TV as a child prior to the test pattern. (everything is on YT)

I'm so old that I knew the aircraft in that video is a Lockheed F-104.

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that the local AFB had a B52 wing and they filled the sky with their majesty.

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that I remember when all of the local phone exchanges had names. JA for Jacksonville, SU for Summerville, WH for White House, TE for Temple, etc.
I'm so old I remember calling TE8-1876 to hear the recording... "At the tone, the time will be 12:18"

I'm so old that I typed text messages with only a num pad.

 

[AugieTN]

88 was the Tuxedo exchange here

 

[AugieTN]

I'm so old I think I saw myself in an early episode of Gunsmoke.

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that I thought Kitty was hot.

 

[Bearsyzf]

I'm soo old that my SSN# is 1.

 

[Milo Williamson]

I am so old, I remember someone working for the first ever goverment, his name was also Milo.
We shared a few ideas and he did it correctly. We had laughs, I got frustrated, the end

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that my first printer had a ribbon and printed with 24 pins on form fed paper.

 

[AugieTN]

I'm so old we had to use carbon paper to make copies in our typewriter

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that I printed out pamphlets on a mimeograph machine.