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| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: duckduck on June 21, 2021, 07:03:29 am ---You remember crank calling. --- End quote --- Ah, yes. The anonymous, random heavy-breather. I miss being able to do that. I miss receiving them too, if I'm really honest about it. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: HobGoblyn on June 21, 2021, 07:35:52 am --- --- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 16, 2021, 06:38:17 am ---When the salesman looks at you strangely when you ask where the colour TV's --- End quote --- I remember as something like a 7 year old, going to a friends house and they had a new colour TV. They played around with the colour knob turning it to b&w and back to colour. I then went home and tried to do the same thing on our b&w tv --- End quote --- When you remember seeing the words 'Colour TV" on the big sign outside the motel you were driving around looking for. |
| schmitt trigger:
Indeed! Colour TV were the free WiFi of the 60s and 70s |
| radar_macgyver:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on June 21, 2021, 07:58:32 am ---When you remember seeing the words 'Colour TV" on the big sign outside the motel you were driving around looking for. --- End quote --- There's parts of Oklahoma that still have these signs! |
| thermistor-guy:
Your kids ask for help with homework, on historical events, and they are shocked to realize you lived through it. |
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