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unijesse
2007-03-18, 03:15 AM
just came upon this nifty little list , for you kids born late 80s early 90s this will make you remember(im prety sure this stuff is just for Americans though)...


You're a 90's kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
-Salute Your Shorts

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."

You remember:
-TGIF
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World.

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You remember reading "Goosebumps"

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not

when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.

when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.

"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.

Captain Planet. He's a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular. *They Still Rock*

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"

You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where's Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-3 Ninjas movies.

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

Oh, oh, oh! and JOSTA!!!

If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune teller things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected "Pogs" :)

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

. . . Furbies (yes, we hated them THEN, too).

You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out.

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop's song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

You remember a time before the WB.

You collected all the Troll dolls

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

You know the Macarena by heart.

"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

Before the MySpace frenzy . . .

Before the Internet & text messaging . . .

Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .

Before MIKE JONES . . .

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .

Before Spongebob . . .

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.

When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.

You had slap braclets!

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!

James_Potter
2007-03-18, 03:29 AM
Old Nickelodeon shows were soooooooo good....

Spudman
2007-03-18, 03:34 AM
That just about sums up all of my childhood. I can't believe that I forgot about pogs... If I remember correctly, Disney actually made <what seemed like> decent animated movies then, too!

john_childs
2007-03-18, 03:39 AM
Fortunately I'm too old to identify with most of that list.

James_Potter
2007-03-18, 03:41 AM
That just about sums up all of my childhood. I can't believe that I forgot about pogs... If I remember correctly, Disney actually made <what seemed like> decent animated movies then, too!
the 90s is about when Disney started making crappy movies...except for the Lion King, that is one AMAZING movie.

Goats_On_Unicycles
2007-03-18, 03:47 AM
i totally don't remember any of that. but then again my family isn't that mainstream...

The Buddy
2007-03-18, 03:50 AM
the 90s is about when Disney started making crappy movies...except for the Lion King, that is one AMAZING movie.

Dude. Lion King...Best Disney movie ever. When I was like 8...I watched that movie everyday for a month when I got home from school.

And that list is pretty much my entire childhood. I miss the 90's and I really miss AHHHHH Real Monsters...That was a good show. Ooo! And Angry Beavers...I REALLY miss that cartoon.

Goats_On_Unicycles
2007-03-18, 03:55 AM
Dude. Lion King...Best Disney movie ever.
really?? i thought that never cry wolf was their best and it was ok... the book was sooooo much better tho...

Radical Reed
2007-03-18, 04:27 AM
wow i cant believe I forgot about all that stuff. i remember thinking my friend was living in the space age when he got windows '98. aaahh...good times

Brian O.
2007-03-18, 06:09 AM
That brings up an interesting point. We are one of the last generations to be able to remember growing up in a time without the internet, in most place in the US at least. I find that sort of frightening. I remember recently seeing my 4 year old nephew playing a flash game on the Disney website and coming to this realization.

I'm on the track to a bachelors degree in computer science and I've recently been coming to the realization that I don't really like computers or what they've done to our lives. Sure they make a lot of our lives really easy and make communication very simple but is this healthy? I wasted a good many years (age 12 - now) with the computer and what have I gained? I've gained underdeveloped social skills, sure I can operate in daily life and I have real world friends but I feel like I can only truly connect with someone through the computer. A good IM will do it. Where is this bringing us?

Jerrick
2007-03-18, 06:35 AM
I remember this all, every single one I read through and remembered it, or looked for it in my room and still have it. Like the pogs, I still have my collections, I have a lot of stuff still from that list.

tomblackwood
2007-03-18, 06:54 AM
You're a 90's kid if:
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember watching the 1st Batman
You remember drinking Tang.
You remember making those little paper fortune teller things, and then predicting your life with them.
You remember silver dollars, which were cool to have.
You collected all the Troll dolls

Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!
Just to set the record straight, Yo-Yo's were cool many decades before 90s kids were born. And 90s kids can't remember watching the 1st Batman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%28TV_series%29), as that privelege was reserved for their parents and grandparents. Same with Tang, which the 60s kids were the first to enjoy, often to wash down the horrid Space Food Sticks (http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/spacefood/pres.html). Both products were marketed to take advantage of the "moon race" frenzy of the decade. Those little paper fortune teller things were around in the 60s too, and probably decades earlier. Maybe the (18)60s. Speaking of the 1860s, silver dollars were pretty darn cool to have back then, and in every decade since. Finally, it pains me to point out that Troll Dolls (http://www.badfads.com/pages/collectibles/trolls.html) were also originally marketed to 60s kids.

Hey, maybe it's history just repeating itself, and 90s kids are the parallel to the 60s kids. The 60s kids went on to ingest many creative items in the 70s...is there a parallel in the 00s? I've been out of touch...

bedheadben
2007-03-18, 08:20 AM
Okay, that just summed up my childhood perfectly. Wow.

Hazmat
2007-03-18, 09:50 AM
Okay, that just summed up my childhood perfectly. Wow.
Mine too. :D :D Those were the days. hahaha... AHHH real monsters was da bomb. :D :D

gabetheunicycleman
2007-03-18, 11:17 AM
angry beavers kicked ass

JJuggle
2007-03-18, 01:50 PM
Nostalgia on the part of 40-somethings and up is desperate and sad but understandable. Nostalgia on the part of teens and 20-somethings is just plain pathetic.

dudewithasock
2007-03-18, 03:46 PM
Nostalgia on the part of 40-somethings and up is desperate and sad but understandable. Nostalgia on the part of teens and 20-somethings is just plain pathetic.

I don't see how you came to either of those conclusions. Nostalgia isn't desperate or pathetic. Please explain.

UniBrier
2007-03-18, 04:20 PM
Fortunately I'm too old to identify with most of that list.Due to raising 90's children, I'm able to identify with too much of that list.

Just to set the record straight...Thanks for that, I was formulating a similar response until I saw your post.

Nostalgia on the part of 40-somethings and up is desperate and sad but understandable. Nostalgia on the part of teens and 20-somethings is just plain pathetic.Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

zfreak220
2007-03-18, 04:27 PM
was that dinosaurs show the one with the transforming dinosaurs?

benjaug
2007-03-18, 04:55 PM
I miss Doug...

DK
2007-03-18, 04:56 PM
Its really sad when a generation of kids identify each other with tv shows and products.

James_Potter
2007-03-18, 05:09 PM
was that dinosaurs show the one with the transforming dinosaurs?
Nah, that was the one with the family of dinosaurs...I didn't watch it very much, but I remember it vaguely.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b131/burntashesupon/Dinosaurs-tv-show-02.jpg

James_Potter
2007-03-18, 05:10 PM
Its really sad when a generation of kids identify each other with tv shows and products.
But that's what it's all about, innit? More than any other, ours is the generation of materialism, and consumer-whoreism.

dudewithasock
2007-03-18, 06:02 PM
Its really sad when a generation of kids identify each other with tv shows and products.

What would you rather identify with? Seems like shows and products are a fine way to see who grew up at the same time as you.

koebwil
2007-03-18, 06:10 PM
i totally don't remember any of that. but then again my family isn't that mainstream...
or because you were probably born in like 92, so you would just have been in school for 98 and 99.

JJuggle
2007-03-18, 06:21 PM
I don't see how you came to either of those conclusions. Nostalgia isn't desperate or pathetic. Please explain.
Let me rephrase so someone your age will understand.

Nostalgia on the part of 40-somethings and up is desperate and sad but understandable. Nostalgia on the part of teens and 20-somethings is just plain pathetic. ;)

UniTyler
2007-03-18, 06:29 PM
Rocco's Modern Life was "da bomb!" I would cry if it came back on...not!

PSYCHE!

No, seriously, though, Rocco Rocc'd. :cool:

dudewithasock
2007-03-18, 06:30 PM
Let me rephrase so someone your age will understand.

Nostalgia on the part of 40-somethings and up is desperate and sad but understandable. Nostalgia on the part of teens and 20-somethings is just plain pathetic. ;)

That hurts. :p

dudewithasock
2007-03-18, 06:30 PM
Rocco's Modern Life was "da bomb!" I would cry if it came back on...not!

PSYCHE!

No, seriously, though, Rocco Rocc'd. :cool:

Weren't you born in like '95?

UniTyler
2007-03-18, 06:30 PM
Nah, that was the one with the family of dinosaurs...I didn't watch it very much, but I remember it vaguely.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b131/burntashesupon/Dinosaurs-tv-show-02.jpg

That show ruled. They should have a day every week for the 90s cartoons on Nick or something. :)

UniTyler
2007-03-18, 06:31 PM
Weren't you born in like '95?

'93.

And our first computer, which we still have in some closet, was a Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. I remember whining enough so that my Dad stayed home from work the day it arrived to hook it up. It was way expensive then, but is now worth a grand total of a few bucks plus s&h. ;)

unijesse
2007-03-18, 06:36 PM
'93.

And our first computer, which we still have in some closet, was a Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. I remember whining enough so that my Dad stayed home from work the day it arrived to hook it up. It was way expensive then, but is now worth a grand total of a few bucks plus s&h. ;)
i think thats the same exact computer i had, i remember back thern we were greatful(well as greatful as a 7 year old can be) to have a dial-up connection, now people whine about how slow dsl is! it's sad

tomblackwood
2007-03-18, 10:57 PM
Nostalgia on the part of 40-somethings and up is desperate and sad but understandable. Nostalgia on the part of teens and 20-somethings is just plain pathetic.
Ahh, kwitcherbitchin and go start a "Gallery of Curmudgeonly Thoughts" thread in JC. :p

Joe2005
2007-03-18, 10:57 PM
That brings up an interesting point. We are one of the last generations to be able to remember growing up in a time without the internet, in most place in the US at least. I find that sort of frightening. I remember recently seeing my 4 year old nephew playing a flash game on the Disney website and coming to this realization.
That is a very interesting point. But the solution is easy...Don't let your kids play online all day long!

musketman
2007-03-18, 11:07 PM
Wow! That is amazing! Almost everything on there is right! Go 90's!

Brian MacKenzie
2007-03-18, 11:28 PM
you're an 80's kid if you know what newton the centaur's sidekick's name was :)

Uniman_3
2007-03-18, 11:30 PM
oh yeah!!
The power rangers green and pink were meant for eachother but they never did..stupid idiots..

Tim Morin
2007-03-18, 11:33 PM
you're an 80's kid if you know what newton the centaur's sidekick's name was :)

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!

Goats_On_Unicycles
2007-03-18, 11:44 PM
or because you were probably born in like 92, so you would just have been in school for 98 and 99.
well, actually, i've been homeschooled all my life... i just didn't remember any tv shows cuz we didn't have a tv, didn't remember the video games or lack of video games since we don't play video games...

johnfoss
2007-03-19, 03:38 AM
Yup, as Tom explained, lots of stuff on that list, though it may be remembered by 90s kids, goes back years or decades before that. I was right at the age to watch the first Batman TV show. We were nuts about it. I think that was 1966. Poor Adam West never got over the typecasting. My generation also gets to claim Hot Wheels, which came out when I was six!

the 90s is about when Disney started making crappy movies...except for the Lion King, that is one AMAZING movie.
The 90s doesn't get to claim the first crappy Disney movies either. There were plenty before that, they just aren't classics. Disney made an incredible amount of films during the 1960s, for example, for the theaters and their one-hour weekly TV show. This was where Kurt Russel got his start. Some of that stuff was pretty lame. Anyone remember The Black Hole? That was right at the beginning of Disney branching out into non-kids movies. It was one of many very lame Star Wars ripoffs at that time (1980 I think).

Nostalgia is nostalgia at any age. It's only meaningful to people of similar age, who remember the same stuff. I remember being nostalgic about the early years of Hot Wheels, for example, in the late 1970s after my friend and I dug up some old catalogs. They don't make 'em like they used to!

Ducttape
2007-03-19, 06:10 AM
Yup, as Tom explained, lots of stuff on that list, though it may be remembered by 90s kids, goes back years or decades before that. I was right at the age to watch the first Batman TV show. We were nuts about it. I think that was 1966. Poor Adam West never got over the typecasting. My generation also gets to claim Hot Wheels, which came out when I was six!


The 90s doesn't get to claim the first crappy Disney movies either. There were plenty before that, they just aren't classics. Disney made an incredible amount of films during the 1960s, for example, for the theaters and their one-hour weekly TV show. This was where Kurt Russel got his start. Some of that stuff was pretty lame. Anyone remember The Black Hole? That was right at the beginning of Disney branching out into non-kids movies. It was one of many very lame Star Wars ripoffs at that time (1980 I think).

Nostalgia is nostalgia at any age. It's only meaningful to people of similar age, who remember the same stuff. I remember being nostalgic about the early years of Hot Wheels, for example, in the late 1970s after my friend and I dug up some old catalogs. They don't make 'em like they used to!
I was born in '90 and remeber most of hat, I also remeber a frined smuggling his NEW furbie into school and it was sticking out of his backpack someone walked by it and it went off, and annoyed the crap out of everyone..... I'm not gonna be nostalgic because the 90's weren't all that fun the quality of Tv shows was way better then and I don't bother getting up on saturday mornings anymore..... Cartoons today SUCK!

Unitik908
2007-03-19, 04:14 PM
i literally can identify with 95% of that list... if not a little more.

Chase

johnfoss
2007-03-19, 04:49 PM
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
Hmm. I do, but that was over by the early 80s for me. I think part of those perceptions have to do with your age, rather than the actual quality of content.

when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
None of those even *sounds* like they came from the 90s.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
I think that was the 1950s.

Making those little paper fortune teller things, and then predicting your life with them.
...in 1970. I wonder what the origin of those things was?

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
I think they actually stopped being silver in 60s or earlier...

If you even know what an original walkman is.
Those came out in the late 70s (though they were around for quite a while).

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
Ouch. I'm not even going to say the prices I remember from when I was a kid... :o

Still fun to go through and think about changes.

Unitik908
2007-03-19, 05:51 PM
well, actually, i've been homeschooled all my life... i just didn't remember any tv shows cuz we didn't have a tv, didn't remember the video games or lack of video games since we don't play video games...

wow man, your life must have suck..

Chase

Brian O.
2007-03-19, 07:19 PM
wow man, your life must have suck..

Chase

I doubt it, I'd rather have been raised that way.

oneisenough
2007-03-19, 07:56 PM
i remember most of that stuff...remember pokemon?? that was soooo popular

chester1234
2007-03-19, 08:19 PM
I remember about 2 thirds of that stuff.

And ya I remember when pokemon came out. I was in grade 3 and it was right at the end of the 90's. I remember everyone had a huge stack of cards but nobody knew how to play, and then they got banned from my school.

johnfoss
2007-03-19, 09:38 PM
wow man, your life must have suck..
Maybe, but at least he came out of it with the ability to form a sentence. Except for the capitalization part... :p

Wedgehog
2007-03-19, 09:56 PM
Holy crap I remember most of that.. creepy.. Get away get away! arghhhhhhhh lifeforce melting! *dies*

... Also yoyos phase in and out of being cool. Depends whats popular with the culture and toy companies.

Kaasi
2007-03-19, 10:38 PM
Also when I was like 3 (in 96,97) I used to listen to Jazz all the bloody time!! It was my favourite genre of music :)

Also Donky Kong and Jazz JackRabbit were my two favourite games ever :P

C-Einrad
2007-03-20, 12:56 AM
what about when pokemon was cool? anyone remember that. and when there were only 150 pokemon. and what about when there was the big thing with kids stealing them and then they had to put them behind the counters? can't believe that nobody mentioned that.

James_Potter
2007-03-20, 12:59 AM
Also Donky Kong and Jazz JackRabbit were my two favourite games ever :P
Jazz Jackrabbit is an AMAZING game....

C-Einrad
2007-03-20, 01:01 AM
the sequel was pretty sweet, too, with that red guy in there.

saam
2007-03-20, 02:51 AM
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

What do you mean 'was'? :confused: Gak is still the coolest stuff invented, hands down :D

dudewithasock
2007-03-20, 02:58 AM
I remember about 2 thirds of that stuff.

And ya I remember when pokemon came out. I was in grade 3 and it was right at the end of the 90's. I remember everyone had a huge stack of cards but nobody knew how to play, and then they got banned from my school.

Oh geez, I remember them getting banned from my school, too...that sucked. Pokemon Red was my first game on my first original GameBoy...ahh, good times, good times.

johnfoss
2007-03-20, 03:44 AM
What do you mean 'was'? :confused: Gak is still the coolest stuff invented, hands down :D
What's Gak? Anything like Mattel's Slime? I think that came out around 1982 or so...

oneisenough
2007-03-20, 08:03 PM
what about when pokemon was cool? anyone remember that. and when there were only 150 pokemon. and what about when there was the big thing with kids stealing them and then they had to put them behind the counters? can't believe that nobody mentioned that.
yeah i mentioned it-- at the top of the forth page

smcmorrow
2007-03-20, 09:34 PM
I remember about 90% of that stuff. But I didn't really have video games, and I was only allowed to watch PBS.

Pokemon was Huge in my school. I was one of only two kids in my whole elementary school that didn't play. We wanted to get it banned but never did...

Robin Hood was the best Disney movie, though Lion King was a close second. And GAk is definately the coolest stuff ever.

One of my friends recently chipped his tooth yoyoing...That was really funny.

chester1234
2007-03-20, 09:37 PM
Oh geez, I remember them getting banned from my school, too...that sucked. Pokemon Red was my first game on my first original GameBoy...ahh, good times, good times.

I remember when my brother got a gameboy and pokemon yellow and I got really jealous so I went and got a gameboy and got pokemon red with it. Such a fun game. I still have I think

dangerlaef
2007-03-20, 10:50 PM
When I was a kid people were nostalgic for the 50s.

Now people are nostalgic for the 90s?

I must be old :P

Goats_On_Unicycles
2007-03-20, 11:35 PM
wow man, your life must have suck..

Chase
not really. it was pretty fun. but i like having a comp now. :)

PopeSamXVI
2007-03-23, 11:12 PM
If you remember these you grew up in the 1890s

You've ever ended a sentence with "Indeed!"

You can sing the lyrics to "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby"

You remember when Tsar Alexander III of Russia, Heinrich Hertz, Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe died.

You know that "Elementary, my dear Watson" doesn't come from the Sherlock Holmes books and that "Are we not men?" comes from the creatures in "The Island of Dr. Moreau".

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to take three turns about the rose garden.

You got super excited when you could leave school at the age of 12.

You remember reading "The Battery and the Boiler or Adventures in the Laying of Submarine Electric Cables"

You know the profound meaning of "By the by"

You have pondered why women can't vote.

You've danced to "Bicycle built for two". Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot lonelier (Whether she loves me Or loves me not, Sometimes it's hard to tell)

You remember the craze, then the banning of labor exploitation and anti-competitive business practices.

You still get the urge to use "countenance" to describe moods.

Maine was both a naval vessel and a state.

Rough Riders.

When playing cowboys and indians with friends you fought over who got to be who............and still all ended up being General Nelson Miles.

You remember when Andrew Carnegie became popular.

"CRISIS AT HAND! SPANISH TREACHERY!"

You remember reading the newspaper before there were color prints.

Two words.. Wounded Knee.

You never got injured in a steam carriage

You wore a health corset but tightened it too much anyway..

“I love little Pussy, her coat is so warm,
And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.
I'll sit by the fire and give her some food,
And Pussy will love me, because I am good.�?

You remember stream vs. horses

You remember Thomas Edison when he was still cool.

You knew European royalty and their life stories.

You played football before the official rules

You had at least one precious heirloom from your father or grandfather and brought it everywhere

DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN WERE THE BEST HORROR BOOKS

You knew the White Man’s Burden by heart.

Pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were second hand and most likely farm tools

You remember when the new short-layered capes were always sold out.

You remember a time before the labour unions.

You've gotten creeped out by Emily Dickinson

You thought Spain would finally take over the world

You remember when everyone went yellow fever crazy.

You remember when high-wheel bicycles were cool.



When we were younger:

Before the European arms race...

Before the Great War...

Before the Prohibition...

Before Women’s suffrage...

Before the Panama Canal

Before alternating current...

...Back when you walked uphill both ways to school.

When leather shoes were cool.

When petrol was sold in tins in boxes.

When we recorded stuff on tin cylinders & paid $.05 for a flicker-show.

When we used the radio to hear news.

When Emily Dickinson was still alive.

When the New York Wanderers were the only professional team.

Way back.

The great plains.

USS Maine means something to you.

Monopolistic companies.

Flying V in football.

Playing football until you are too injured to keep going.

Carnivals.

Tree Houses.

TOPHATS!!!!!

Before the English translation of the Communist Manifesto

The annoying Bolsheviks.

Getting the privilege to sit in a car.

Drinking Coca-cola when it still had coke.

Reading the Saturday Morning newspaper without your day-coat on.

Teddy Roosevelt wasn’t a president yet.

When Einstein was still a patent clerk

Or what about:

Rudyard Kipling

McKinley in the Philippines

The original European dynastic order.

Kaiser Wilhelm and Queen Victoria.

White Man’s Burden

Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school.

When Christmas was the most exciting time of year.

When $0.05 seemed like a million, & another penny a miracle.

It makes me all misty-eyed.

Chris.James
2007-03-24, 12:14 AM
When Einstein was still a patent clerk

"you know einstein did his best work when when he was working as a patent clerk?"

"A PATENT CLERK! YOU KNOW HOW MUCH A PATENT CLERK MAKES? We need money, and facilities. What we had here was great. They gave us money, and facilities and never had to produce anything. You dont know, youve never worked in the private sector."

great movie, you are truly awesome if you know what that slightly obscure quote is from.

Brian MacKenzie
2007-03-24, 12:19 AM
If you remember these you grew up in the 1890s




when that guy said...'what about a GEARED unicycle hub??'

PopeSamXVI
2007-03-26, 08:22 AM
"you know einstein did his best work when when he was working as a patent clerk?"

"A PATENT CLERK! YOU KNOW HOW MUCH A PATENT CLERK MAKES? We need money, and facilities. What we had here was great. They gave us money, and facilities and never had to produce anything. You dont know, youve never worked in the private sector."

great movie, you are truly awesome if you know what that slightly obscure quote is from.


Ghostbusters, 1984. Six years to early, chief.

UniGirl4
2007-04-17, 09:00 PM
Wow, I love the I found this thread! I have to do a project for media on fads of the 90's...so this is perfect! It is so much fun remembering all the stuff we loved from the 90's, lol

unibuddy
2007-04-18, 04:39 PM
Wow, I remember most of that stuff. The 90's were da' bomb.

Poseidon
2007-04-18, 10:44 PM
I was 5 when all this was around, and I can relate to almost all of it.

NordicUni420
2007-04-19, 02:47 AM
everyone loves to feel nostalgic. i'm glad i spent my earlier years without a home computer or internet. and the lion king can't compare to 101 dalmations. please. the sound effects in that movie are rediculous (in the best way possible)