the vynsane asylum

anarky wrote:For the love of God, does anyone under the age of 30 remember the janitor was named Beauregard?

(raises hand) Yo.

When I was a kid, I was still exposed to that stuff because they showed reruns of The Muppet Show and even Muppet Babies on Nickelodeon. Not to mention I saw the movies as well.

As for your list, 'Nark, the only one I semi-disagree with are phones with cords. Sure, there hasn't been one in my house for over 10 years, but there's still a load of them around today, just not in homes. Mainly in businesses. So if a kid goes to visit his mom or dad at work, there you go. Plenty of phones with cords in the building.

We have one of them 10 pound clasic phones with actual ringing bells, cost 2 bucks at a feal market

Freaks people out when it rings if they haven't heard it before, but everyone loves it

mabudon wrote:We have one of them 10 pound clasic phones with actual ringing bells, cost 2 bucks at a feal market

Freaks people out when it rings if they haven't heard it before, but everyone loves it

those don't work in america. you can call out and receive calls on it, but the signal to ring the bell doesn't run on our phone lines anymore, so it doesn't ring. if you want to actually receive calls on it you need an electric phone that rings, then you can pick up the analog phone and talk.

of course, i can't do that at home because we have vonage with phones that hook up directly to the router. so it's all broadband/digital, no analog-to-digital converter.

I keep a traditional phone in my house in case power goes out and renders all cordless phone useless. Its not a bad idea to have one. I would say most intelligent people do have at least one in their home

John Holmes

kidhuman wrote:I keep a traditional phone in my house in case power goes out and renders all cordless phone useless. Its not a bad idea to have one. I would say most intelligent people do have at least one in their home

Yeah, but everyone else's phones are dead because they have cordless phones, so you can't call anyone anyway.

Rotary phones have to be extinct by now, right?

Record players
Mr. Rogers
The NBC Thursday night lineup of Cheers, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and Night Court
Having to look things up in an actual paper bound encyclopedia.
a 386 computer with 5.25" floppy disk drives.
Crystal Pepsi and New Coke
Leaded Gasoline
having to choose from the self-service and full service islands at the gas station
Where's the Beef?

Rogue II wrote:The NBC Thursday night lineup of Cheers, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and Night Court

Were kids in the '80s even aware of that? I mean, I didn't grow up in the '80s, but weren't kids more likely to watch Saturday morning cartoons than the Thursday night lineup? I thought kids in the '80s watched "Masters of the Universe", "GI Joe", "Thundercats", and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", not "Cheers" and "Night Court".

In line with record players is turning over a record or tape to hear side 2. Going to school for 6 blocks... hell, how about going downtown on the bus? We did that shit all the time, starting at about 11 years old (with my 8 year old brother in tow). Part of the reason kids don't WANT to go outside anymore is because they're smothered - they have an easier time being out from under their parents' thumbs in the basement with the x-box or on the computer. That's the shitty truth.

"How/Where to find the clitoris."

Is that on the list?

Double_G wrote:

Rogue II wrote:The NBC Thursday night lineup of Cheers, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and Night Court

Were kids in the '80s even aware of that? I mean, I didn't grow up in the '80s, but weren't kids more likely to watch Saturday morning cartoons than the Thursday night lineup? I thought kids in the '80s watched "Masters of the Universe", "GI Joe", "Thundercats", and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", not "Cheers" and "Night Court".

Yeah, I watched all of them. It was the one night in our house that we all watched TV together. To tell you the truth, I didn't really care for He-Man or Thundercats. TMNT came out later than the rest of those and I was old enough not to really care about them. I stuck with shows like Voltron, GI Joe, Transformers, MASK, Silverhawks, Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors, the classics like Bugs Bunny & Woody Woodpecker, and whatever version of Spiderman or Superfriends were on.

Even with the wild sex antics of Dan Fielding, sitcoms in the 80s were "safer" than most shows now. They were still going for an all-ages audience, with some kid humor mixed with sex, but mostly subtle enough that kids didn't "get" it. I knew everyone on Cheers wanted to have sleepovers a lot, or at least that's what I thought.

And Night Court and Golden Girls were my two favorite non-cartoon shows by a long shot.

The Cosby Show spinoff where Denise went to college was a barometer for cool when I was 15 or so. Dwayne Wayne was always rockin' the latest Air Jordans and there was usually a snippet of some cool hip hop in there (Eric B & Rakim I recall playing at the end of one episode). Plus, the rich bitch had a great rack.

jjreason wrote:The Cosby Show spinoff where Denise went to college was a barometer for cool when I was 15 or so. Dwayne Wayne was always rockin' the latest Air Jordans and there was usually a snippet of some cool hip hop in there (Eric B & Rakim I recall playing at the end of one episode). Plus, the rich bitch had a great rack.

different world. awesome.

dwayne wayne got a perfect score on his math SAT's.

oh, yeah... the old SAT's!

jjreason wrote:Plus, the rich bitch had a great rack.

And she was fucking awesome in Harlem Nights. Whatever happened to her?