Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

^^^^^^^^^ had both!

 

I remember when fat people were just fat people and not rolled around airports.
Somehow society now thinks they need to board a plain early with the 4 generations of family members.

Fat is not a handicap, if you start walking to the plain early you can walk one like everyone else. God knows you can use the exercise you 6 fat bastards.

Yes, I am stuck in the Atlanta airport.

 

^^^^ Yup! That is older than dirt! ^^^^

 

If you remember when homeless people were called bums.

 

Now the Bums are called Congressmen.

 

Free Range Humans

 

Air-cooled V'Dubs...

 

Water Rockets

 

You can still get toy water rockets! I haven't seen one in years.

Water Rocket, Classic Science Toy!-ScientificsOnline.com

 

I had one that looked like Gemini rocket with capsule and parachute. Lots of crickets made flights in that thing.

 

Lucky Lager with the puzzle tops.

 

^^^^^ What a flashback that is, reminds me of my Army days on

Okinawa.

 

Generic "BEER", in the white cans with BEER in black letters.

It was made in the Lucky Lager brewery in Vancouver, Wa.

 

You mean that stuff?
He's 38 now, by the way with two of his own.

 

I used club soda for fuel in those rockets :biggrin5:

 

I remember when people respected the Police and never even thought of shooting them.

 

You are older than dirt if you can name the vast majority of people in this video.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSC-WZFw1c"]John Wayne`s --- God Bless America - YouTube[/ame]

 

I recognize about 20 out of 25 there. The other 5 look familiar but can't place them.

 

Police officers killed in the line of duty was actually higher when I was a kid. In 1974 I was a teenager, and more than twice as many cops were killed that year compared to 2014.

No 24-hour national news channels back then.

CD

 

That brings back bad memories. My mom bought ALL my clothes according to the "You'll grow into it" philosophy. I hated getting new clothes.

CD