"when i was your age . . . "

[datasuspect]

fill in the blank

[TrogL]

1. They still had horse-pulled milk wagons

and kids rode horses to school.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. you got to ride a HORSE?

you were lucky

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. I had to walk to a one room schoolhouse

through 6ft snow drifts and howling wolves

[MissMillie]

4. up hill!

both ways!

[leftofthedial]

15. in the snow

[Roon]

18. I lived in a valley with my house on one side

and my school on the other side. So it really was uphill both ways!

[jmm]

25. I lived on a hill and my high school

was on top of another hill so I too can say I walked uphill both ways :D.

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. We listened to music on a turntable, and the discs were called records...

:P :yoiks: :rofl:

[datasuspect]

5. we played imaginary games OUTSIDE that didn't involve executing our fellow pupils

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. I had pity sex with lots of older men. So, come on."

[AlCzervik]

8. ther was no diet coke, only tab and fresca.

[sakabatou]

9. The internet was just starting

[datasuspect]

10. back in 1968?

arpanet?

[sakabatou]

12. Nonono

public internet.

[u4ic]

11. Papyrus was the newest fad...

[datasuspect]

17. i alighted from the boat in the piraeus

it was right after socrates took his own life.

had a very profitable papyrus concession in athens.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. They invented the wheel.

n/t

[cwydro]

14. I would never have imagined

that I would have a phone I could carry around with me everywhere.

[bamacrat]

16. The economy was good.

[azmouse]

19. Gasoline cost $0.39 per gallon.

[Kat45]

22. I remember that!

:-)

[swimboy]

20. We used wedge-shaped sticks to record our thoughts on tablets of clay

and there was no zero.

[Burma Jones]

21. We would pick out a kid every year, by lottery, and stone them to death

That'll teach 'em....

[Akoto]

23. I actually said that phrase for the first time recently ...

Starting in early at twenty-two, I guess.

"When I was your age, video games were just blocky pictures, but it was cool."

I was mortified by the fact that I'd really just said: "In my day, we had X, and we liked it!"

[Arugula Latte]

26. ...

Mr. Burns: So do you have a way to get rid of the protesters?

Grandpa: One way to get rid of them is to tell 'em stories that dont go anywhere. Like the time we went over to Shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my nelt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)

[otherlander]

24. When people say something along those lines to me

I find it useful to remind them, "When you were my age, they put the Japanese people in camps."

They usually shut up after that.

[datasuspect]

30. they also red-baited and blacklisted labor movement activists

but then again, other people worked from day-to-day, fought and died in wars, fucked, drank.

etc.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. The dinosaurs chased me to school....

"They crawled out of Lake Erie, kinda like Nessie, and chased me to school."

My dad told me that. But then, he picked the PRIMO year to granulate from high school in the 20th Century: Ta-da!!!! 1929!!!

[Joe Fields]

28. time had yet to be invented

[Saphire]

29. we got our first "color" t.v. so we could watch Carol Burnett.....in color!!!

[Skittles]

31. .....I was in the military

yes INDEED

[Left Is Write]

32. I have no idea what I was doing when I was your age, because I don't know your age.

What's my age again?

[bertha katzenengel]

33. we didn't have touch-tone phones, let alone wireless phones, let alone

CELL phones.

We had to listen to our music on vinyl disk or cassette tape (I'll tell you later what those are)

We didn't have VCRs, let alone DVD players or Blue-Ray or Tivo

As a favorite comic said, we only had three channels, and if the president was on, your night was shot. "He's on every channel!" (was that Jeff Foxworthy?)

Barry White had the most disgusting sexual lyrics - or even connotatoins - in popular music

And of course, back then, to have a computer that could do what I'm doing right now, it would have to be as big as this house.

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Oboy!

I get to post this again! :bounce:



Yorkshireman I (Eric Idle): Very passable, this, eh? Very passable.

All: Ay, oh ay.

Yorkshireman II (Graham Chapman): Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselet, eh, Josiah?

Yorkshireman III (Terry Jones): Oh, you're right there, Obadiah.

Yorkshireman II: Ay.

Yorkshireman I: Who would 'ave thought, 30 years ago, we'd all be sitting 'ere drinking Château de Chaselet, eh?

All: Ay, ay.

Yorkshireman IV (Michael Palin): Them days, we were glad to 'ave the price of a cup of tea.

Yorkshireman II: Ay! A cup of cold tea!

Yorkshireman IV: Ay!

Yorkshireman I: Without milk or sugar!

Yorkshireman III: Or tea!

Yorkshireman IV: In a cracked cup and all!

Yorkshireman I: Oh, we never used to 'ave a cup! We used to 'ave to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!

Yorkshireman II: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth

Yorkshireman III: But you know, we were 'appy in those days, although we were poor.

Yorkshireman IV: Because we were poor!

Yorkshireman III: Ay!

Yorkshireman IV: My old dad used to say to me: "Money doesn't bring you 'appiness, son!"

Yorkshireman I: 'E was right!

Yorkshireman IV: Ay!

Yorkshireman I: I was 'appier then and I 'ad nothing! We used to live in this tiny old tumble-down 'ouse with great big 'oles in the roof.

Yorkshireman II: 'Ouse! You were lucky to live in a 'ouse! We used to live in one room, all 26 of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to 'ave a room! We used to 'ave to live in the corridor!

Yorkshireman IV: Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor! Would 'ave been a palace to us! We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by 'aving a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! 'Ouse, eh!

Yorkshireman I: Well, when I say "'ouse," it was just a 'ole in the ground, covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a 'ouse to us!

Yorkshireman II: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground. We 'ad to go and live in a lake!

Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to 'ave a lake! There were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!

Yorkshireman IV: A cardboard box?

Yorkshireman III: Ay!

Yorkshireman IV: You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank! We used to 'ave to get up every morning at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill, 14 hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got 'ome, our dad would thrash us to sleep with 'is belt!

Yorkshireman II: Luxury! We used to 'ave to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a 'andful of 'ot gravel, work 20 hours a day at mill for tuppence a month, come 'ome, and dad would beat us around the 'ead and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

Yorkshireman III: Well, of course, we 'ad it tough! We used to 'ave to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night and lick the road clean with our tongues! We 'ad to eat 'alf a 'andful of freezing cold gravel, work 24 hours a day at mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got 'ome, our dad would slice us in two with a bread knife!

Yorkshireman I: Right! I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, 'alf an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work 29 hours a day down mill and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got 'ome, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing 'Allelujah!

Yorkshireman IV: Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!

All: No, no they won't!

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