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  1. Friskie

    Friskie Well-Known Member

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    Going next door to see what a television was.
     
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    When you asked for somene to please pass the salt at "The Last Supper". :lol:
     
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    If you remember Howard Cosell, "Dandy" Don Meredith and Frank Gifford.

    "Turn out the lights.... The party's over...."
     
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  6. Firebro17

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    I can and I've still got the records to go along with the speeds!
     
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    If you asked your future father-in-law for his daughters hand in marriage.
     
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    Maybe I should have done that, it could have saved me a lot of trouble

    (and expense).
     
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    If you can remember the what TV series featured the Flying Sub
     
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    How about just A BETTER COUNTRY?
     
  12. cristo

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    ...feeding punch cards into a reader to run a Fortran program.
     
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    Then waiting 2 hours for it to compile, only to have an error, that in another 2 hours you figure out is a missing comma on card 296 of 423.
     
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    Antenna Rabbit Ears with tin foil at the end for reception.
     
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    ... and guitars and amps
     
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    You remember Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" on your grandmother's radio.
     
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    That's when the kids took turns running to the TV turning the channel...That was abuse.
     
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    I built a Lafayette shortwave radio kit when I was a kid, it had tubes in it.
     
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    Your basement and living room finished off in Pine Wood Paneling.
     
  20. cristo

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    Or actually used it in part of your high school physics class to demonstrate
    longitudinal and transverse wave properties.