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What Kids Today Don't Remember

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 10:31 AM

I'm doing a job for a company, and on their website, I came across this description of today's teenagers: ]They don’t remember life without a microwave or a wireless phone. But hell, their parents don't remember life without a microwave either. This is going to have no impact at all on a parent reading it. What would someone born in, say, 1992, not remember?

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 10:33 AM

These "can't remember" lists are always dubious.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 10:35 AM

Typewriters, only 13 channels and rabbit ears on a TV, no ATM/Debit cards,VCRs?

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 10:38 AM

Edgy -- that may be, but my job isn't to tell the boss that he shouldn't have a list at all. Soupy -- I was looking for the other direction. Can't remember a world without.... things that are commonplace to a teenager, but were not invented when their parents were growing up.

sharpie Feb 07 2007 10:40 AM

I have two teenagers and Soup's list is accurate.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 10:42 AM

That's easier - Cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, E-tickets for air travel, e-mail, digital cameras, Reality TV, Paris Hilton...

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 10:54 AM

Paris Hilton -- yikes! Thanks a lot. This is great. Text messaging would be another.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 11:12 AM

Better than MP3s - how about compact discs? The first CD I bought was U2's Rattle & Hum and that had to be circa 1988 I think. I was 24.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 07 2007 11:14 AM

Air bags. Juice boxes. Bar code scanners at the supermarket. Infomercials. Voice mail. Call waiting. Caller ID. Pay at the pump.

KC Feb 07 2007 11:17 AM

"Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?" Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go Do you remember Hullabaloo, Upbeat, Shinding and Ed Sullivan too? Do you remember rock'n'roll radio? Do you remember rock'n'roll radio? Do you remember Murray the K, Alan Freed, and high energy? It's the end, the end of the 70's It's the end, the end of the century Do you remember lying in bed With your covers pulled up over your head? Radio playin' so no one can see We need change, we need it fast Before rock's just part of the past 'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Will you remember Jerry Lee, John Lennon, T. Rex and OI Moulty? It's the end, the end of the 70's It's the end, the end of the century

Yancy Street Gang Feb 07 2007 11:20 AM

When I'd listen to the radio in bed as a kid, I'd hear Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy.

KC Feb 07 2007 11:34 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 07 2007 11:37 AM

Y: >>>I'd hear Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy<<< And Clyde and Pearl dishin' and swishin'. Flip top cans where the tops came off and cans that you needed a can opener to open.

KC Feb 07 2007 11:35 AM

Before all our times prolly, but emptying the drain under the icebox.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 07 2007 11:36 AM

Toads. They used to be everywhere. You'd see them hopping wherever there was grass. You'd see dried, flattened toads in the streets. It used to actually be difficult to mow the lawn without running over a toad.

KC Feb 07 2007 11:38 AM

I imagine there are drive-ins still somewhere, but not around here.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 11:40 AM

Sportsphone.

KC Feb 07 2007 11:47 AM

The Automat

KC Feb 07 2007 11:49 AM

Coin machines on bathroom stalls.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 11:51 AM

Edgy DC wrote: Sportsphone. 976-1313 right?

KC Feb 07 2007 11:55 AM

I just realized all my flashbacks are going against mole's grain. Sorry. The milkman.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 12:05 PM

soupcan wrote: ="Edgy DC"]Sportsphone. 976-1313 right? Wow.

KC Feb 07 2007 12:10 PM

You used to be able to get the time by dialing NESTLES.

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 12:25 PM

KC -- that's OK, I love it. We still have drive-ins up here -- two of them within driving distance. And we still go, in the summertime.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 12:28 PM

Get all your sports news instantly Dial 976-1313

soupcan Feb 07 2007 12:35 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Get all your sports news instantly Dial 976-1313 Yes! I know it was a jingle but couldn't remember how it started. I lived on Sportsphone.

Willets Point Feb 07 2007 12:48 PM

Telephones were big and beige and fixed to the wall and you probably only had one in your house unless you were rich.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 12:55 PM

Willets Point wrote: ...and you probably only had one in your house unless you were rich. Willets used to love summer vacations when he'd get to visit his rich cousins and frolick in their ce-ment pond.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 01:00 PM

There were two other 976- number I dialed a million times in my formative years... 976-2529 and 976-9639. What the hell were they they? I'm pretty sure the second one was the WNEW-FM contest line, as the numbers spell out to 976-WNEW.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 01:16 PM

Dial-a-Joke with Jackie Martling: 922-WINE I'm pretty sure that number still works in (516). He used to promote that pre-Howard Stern on WBAB.

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 01:28 PM

I remember phone numbers from commercials. Like the one for Sunset Appliance Stores: Hickory (Hickory...Hickory...Hickory) six four oh oh oh!

soupcan Feb 07 2007 01:33 PM

Write ZOOM, zee double oh em, box three five oh, Boston Mass, oh two one three four... Send it to Zoom!

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 01:40 PM

Go into your Mommy and Daddy's bedroom before they wake up, take all those little green pieces of paper out of their pockets, and send them to Soupy!

Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 01:47 PM

two-six-six Oh-eight-four-one The Pocono Gardens Lodge (remember zoom all too well. Spooky)

Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 01:56 PM

I was kinda in to Bernadette.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 02:10 PM

I was into Christine from "You Can't Do That on Television." I was too old for the show and I probably wouldn't have dug it if I was younger. But I watched for Chrisitine. She is not an edgy-scorned Canadian.

Willets Point Feb 07 2007 02:12 PM

soupcan wrote: Write ZOOM, zee double oh em, box three five oh, Boston Mass, oh two one three four... Send it to Zoom! The freaky thing is that I work in Zoom's zipcode now. WGBH is moving soon so I guess they're going to have to make up a new song for their new address.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 07 2007 02:31 PM

Phone booths.

metsmarathon Feb 07 2007 02:34 PM

"beau-ti-ful mount airy lodge..."

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 02:41 PM

Lindsey Nelson WOR without the exta W. Monster week on the 4:30 movie.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 07 2007 02:41 PM

Pallisades Amusement Park

Centerfield Feb 07 2007 02:42 PM

Video games where you call into channel 11 and make your gun shoot by saying "PIX".

Willets Point Feb 07 2007 02:46 PM

Actually you had to say "pixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpix" to win anything.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 02:46 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Monster week on the 4:30 movie. Yup. And Planet of The Apes week as well.

Centerfield Feb 07 2007 02:49 PM

Willets Point wrote: Actually you had to say "pixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpix" to win anything. A friend of mine who is into video games once told me that the system was sound sensitive...and that Intellivision had found a way to make the game respond to the caller's voice. We always assumed that there was some dude with a joystick who had to press a button every time we yelled "PIX". And that way you could blame him if you missed your target. I never actually played, but I sat in front of my TV yelling "PIX!" every afternoon.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 02:53 PM

Typical Monster Week lineup: Godzilla Gamera Godzilla vs. Gamera Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster Typical Planet of the Apes Week lineup: Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes Escape from the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes Conquest of the Planet of the Apes The only other theme week I remember was Bridge over the River Kwai week, though I doubt the movie took more than two or three evenings to broadcast.

soupcan Feb 07 2007 03:13 PM

seawolf17 Feb 07 2007 03:15 PM

Edgy DC wrote: I was into Christine from "You Can't Do That on Television." I was too old for the show and I probably wouldn't have dug it if I was younger. But I watched for Chrisitine. She is not an edgy-scorned Canadian. Moose!?!? Are you kidding?!?! Yikes.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2007 03:23 PM

Sheesh. I was a kid. Meese need lovers too. Besides, the anacronystic Jaclyn Smith hairstyle clouded my vulnerable young mind.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 07 2007 03:24 PM

soupcan wrote: cool.

TheOldMole Feb 07 2007 03:33 PM

Now after all is said and done It's Palisades for having fun So during the day or when it's dark Visit this great amusement park Palisades Amusement Park Skip the bother and skip the fuss (Toot toot) take a public service bus Public service sure is great It takes you right up to the gate So let's get ready now on your mark For Palisades Amusement Park Palisades Amusement Park

Willets Point Feb 07 2007 03:45 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Besides, the anacronystic Jaclyn Smith hairstyle clouded my vulnerable young mind. That was actually a wig that covered up Christine's short punk rock hairdo which apparently could not be seen on television.

cooby Feb 07 2007 09:13 PM

] What would someone born in, say, 1992, not remember? Having someone pump your gas for you. And while they were doing that, they checked your oil and cleaned your windows. Walking across the room to change the TV channel. Having to wait until the next day to see the boxscore ( and sometimes the score) Mailing a letter and waiting for a reply from a friend.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 07 2007 09:16 PM

cooby - in New Jersey, they pump gas for you. In fact, there is no self-service here. And there's a nice gas station near my house that does clean my windshield routinely :)

attgig Feb 08 2007 11:26 AM

Edgy DC wrote: Sheesh. I was a kid. Meese need lovers too. Besides, the anacronystic Jaclyn Smith hairstyle clouded my vulnerable young mind. ugh! i'm sorry but nobody on ycdtotv was anything to look at. i still loved that show, and have downloaded the few episodes i could find on the net, but... not cuz of any girl. How About: blow! hit the box on the side. up up down down left right left right b a b a select start or: tv without remotes? a wired remote control? or encyclopedias, going to the library to research your papers.

MFS62 Feb 08 2007 11:35 AM

Million Dollar Movie - they showed the same movie every night for a week. Driving in a Packard. Buying a magnifier to put over the 5 inch screen on your Dumont tv to make the screen bigger. Listening to the top 40 countdown on AM radio. Pay phone booths where you could close the door. Shit, I feel old. Later

Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 11:52 AM

attgig wrote: i'm sorry but nobody on ycdtotv was anything to look at. Well, maybe that's just it. She flourished in an uncompetitive enviornoment, as Dickshot theorizes, and on Zoom she might have been overlooked. Zoom freaked me out, although it did have the kid at the beginning demonstrate his personality by playing baseball, in a game where ---- through the miracle of editing ---he was simultaneously the pitcher, batter, and catcher. That engaged me somewhat. But come on. The show promoted heavy drug use.

soupcan Feb 08 2007 11:53 AM

A kid in elementary school made fun of my Zoom fandom by telling everyone that I liked shows where the kids wore prison shirts.

seawolf17 Feb 08 2007 12:10 PM

Ah, this was the first one that Edgy was referring to. I apologize again, Edge, but I agree with attgig's thought. Loved the show, though.

Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 12:26 PM

Bernadette:

Johnny Dickshot Feb 08 2007 01:04 PM

Completely metsmerizing.

seawolf17 Feb 08 2007 02:18 PM

Not to get too back on topic, but Beloit College publishes a "[url=http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/]Mindset List[/url]" every year, to remind us student affairs folks where our incoming first-year students are coming from as a group. Some of them are goofy, some are dumb, some are funny. This year's list (well, last fall's incoming list, anyway) is [url=http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2010.php]here[/url].

Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 02:19 PM

They're the ones who piss me off.

Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 02:25 PM

]60. They never saw Bernard Shaw on CNN. He retired in 2001.