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Windows 1900 ME?

Thats the one.....

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=Xe...sTkcRGoB6RX7Lzx
sorrry but the more i read this thread the more i heard this in my head

priceless...notice my 'because we were poor" comment above...one of my favorite sketches... thanks!

LOL THAT IS GREAT!

I had never seen that before...

[WE HAD TO WAIT ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little
rat-Ba$tard!]

I laughed so hard I feel off my chair. .......ANGELIS

had to carry this to school uphill with no shoes. All I had to wear was shorts when i was 8 cause ma hadn't made me pants since i was 3.

My first car cost $100. I mowed yards to get it. $4 a yard...my daughter wants something Japanese in about the $15,000 range.

I had to get up and change channels for my Dad and watch what he watched....now I pay $100/mo for cable and my kids watch whatever they want.

We ate what my mother cooked. ALL of it. Last night there were wrappers and to-go cups from three different fast-food places scattered around for my wife to clean up.

I remember (vaguely) as a teenager being roused every so often from my induced sleep under the coffee table by the clacking of the 8-track as it changed tracks...oops, got distracted there.

You have a chair? When I was young, me and my sister had to take turns sitting on each other.

I remember our first VCR and when MTV started. But we had (still have) an air popper for the popcorn, none of that jiffypop crap!

Back in my day,

We didn't have robot pets whose behavior is based on interactions with us; we had Sea Monkeys that resembled swimming maggots, and they usually died by supper.

We didn't have grass-fed, cage-free, all-naturual meats and organic produce; we had to eat the dead sea monkeys for dinner.

And we didn't have bottled spring water or filtered ionized water; we had to drink the water from the sea monkey container.

MP3, iPod, satterlite radio? Ha! We had to listen to our old man's rhythmic tone of put-downs and the solo percussion section that usually followed when he threw punches at our heads.

We had no cell phone and our older sister was always on the kitchen phone talking to her mullet-haired, Camaro-driving, high-school dropout boyfriend; we had to, instead, ride our yellow plastic banana skateboard through town, across two main freeways, and up a long hill to our friend's house, where in the end we found that he wasn't home because his parents placed him into a youth halfway house for smoking hash (which was fake, because it was actually the moist soot we scraped out of our dad's Oldsmobile tail pipe and sold it to him for $3).

And so we rode our yellow plastic banana skateboard back across town, and got hit by a milk truck driven by the drunk father of the camaro-driving boyfriend of our sister's. There was no Helivac to fly us to the hospital; we had to pick up our shoes and our teeth and limp home on a broken leg and a crushed pelvis. (It wasn't easy breathing with a collapsed lung.)

Our parents weren't the worry type like the high-strung, all-organic, everything-for-the-kids parents of today. When they found us at the front door with our bloody mouth, missing teeth, broken leg and crushed pelvis, they screamed at us for ruining a good pair of hand-me-down shoes.

That night we had no dinner and sister got to eat our portion of the dead sea monkeys.

You spoiled ba$tards have it good today.

well ok then ......... we where so poor that we had to fight the dog across the street for a lick at the ugly kids pork chop.
"You have a chair? When I was young, me and my sister had to take turns sitting on each other." is it just me or can everyone hear dueling banjos in the background ?

Hey man, I just turned thirty...and can remember our first VCR too. It was a top loader with a corded remote. Super high tech.

Wow, two Benny's born in 77? That's crazy talk... We were a little behind the times in VT, ours was an early front loader with 13 channels that you could program to be different than 2-13... Each one had a little dial tihng under it. Old school. My dad probably still had it. He never throws ANYTHING away according to my mom.

I remember Intellevision and it was 10 times better than Atari (that I had my neighbor had the Intellevision)I remember no cable TV, Regular gas, unleaded was an empty gun!, bias tires,Vietnam interupted my cartoons so did the 1st moon landing! I remember belts to run the dentists drill.

Top loader VCE but do you remember the Betamax?

I remember our first microwave oven. We had the first in town. It weighed........200 pounds.

Oh the whining here's mine, we didn't get a TV until 88.
And that TV had knobs until 95.
We still have rabbit ears.

I remember when Michael Jackson's Thriller came out. we had to rent a Beta VCR because they were too expensive to buy. I was the envy of every middle class kid in my neighborhood. owning a VCR was the equivalent of having a mini movie theater in your house by todays standard.

I remember my first encounter with a laptop computer. My little brother got himself a Commodore SX64 "Portable" PC. Yep, it was the size of a 24 inch Samsonite hardside suitcase, and weighed as much as one weighed down with gold bullion!!! And talk about computing power, WOW!!! Yep, in addition to the 64KB of RAM, you could expand the memory with a 5 inch and 3-1/2 (Double Density) Floppy Disk, and it had an impressive 5 1/2 inch COLOR monitor! Yep, 1985 was a great year for technology....

I remember when they still used the bigger floppies at my dad's office, what were they 8"? 7-1/2"?

The first computer I used was an Atari 800. You stored programs on a cassette tape.

Soren

Buncha SNK,s, I was on the committee that designed Dirt.

(and in 30 years hence......)

"You kids today with your jet-powered backpacks!!! You know, in MY DAY we had to DRIVE to school!!!"

Back in my day Triumphs were shipped from England .....

(Sorry)