Things the next generation simply won't understand

[Defender]

  On 2/26/2024 at 5:24 PM, NoBanStan said:

The worst show I ever witnessed was at Starwood. It was Dave Matthews during his prime. He had a broken rib and had to sit in a chair. The place was dead. My girlfriend and I (wife a bit later) sat out in an almost empty grass area and just casually talked over the music. Nobody around us. We wound up leaving early.

Not that I'm a Dave fan mind you. It was just a chance to see some live music. No bueno.

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I saw Meatloaf there right after Bat Out if He’ll 2 came out, but the show was 1 mostly.  One of the best concerts I ever saw.  

[NoBanStan]

[deerslayer]

[monkeylizard]

About 1/2 those NFL team have different logos now and three aren't in those cities any longer. 

 

[FUJIMO]

  On 3/23/2024 at 11:05 PM, monkeylizard said:

About 1/2 those NFL team have different logos now and three aren't in those cities any longer. 

 

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Next you're gonna tell me the Dukes don't even live in Hazzard anymore 

[NoBanStan]

  On 3/24/2024 at 12:15 AM, FUJIMO said:

Next you're gonna tell me the Dukes don't even live in Hazzard anymore 

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Or exist at all. And Daisy isn't hot in tiny shorts anymore

[monkeylizard]

The Dukes will always live in Hazzard, but about that second part . . . .

[deerslayer]

  On 3/23/2024 at 11:05 PM, monkeylizard said:

About 1/2 those NFL team have different logos now and three aren't in those cities any longer. 

 

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I think I got that lunchbox in the 1st grade.  
 

I think technically four.  Chargers, Raiders, Oilers moved and the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens.  Then a new Browns team was started.  It also sucked. 
 

ETA:  make that five - the Colts were still in Baltimore.  

Edited March 24, 2024 by deerslayer

[monkeylizard]

LOL! I was counting the Browns but totally forgot the Raiders had moved.

You're right about the Colts too. That lunchbox is from 1976 and the Colts left after the '83 season.

[NoBanStan]

The REAL Stanley

[E4 No More]

  On 1/31/2024 at 8:55 PM, gregintenn said:

Girls without muffin tops and tattoos.

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And nose rings. Yesterday, a young lady at Firehouse Subs had one, and apparently it blocked the sound to her ears considering she screwed up the order.

[E4 No More]

  On 3/12/2024 at 12:40 PM, NoBanStan said:

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I remember, and used, those.

[BigK]

  On 3/12/2024 at 12:40 PM, NoBanStan said:

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You'd think that since it looks like maple syrup it'd taste good, but it's not as good as the one with pig on the label.

[gary_boom]

I remembered that they were glue bottles but can’t remember what kind of glue.

[NoBanStan]

 

[AuEagle]

  On 3/24/2024 at 7:36 PM, gary_boom said:

I remembered that they were glue bottles but can’t remember what kind of glue.

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Was it LePages glue?

[E4 No More]

  On 3/24/2024 at 8:53 PM, NoBanStan said:

 

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I spent a LOT of my weekly allowances at the TG&Y store during my childhood. Last thing that I bought there was a real leather first baseman's glove. I had it for years, but somehow it didn't make it through all of our moves.

[deerslayer]

  On 3/25/2024 at 1:33 AM, E4 No More said:

I spent a LOT of my weekly allowances at the TG&Y store during my childhood. Last thing that I bought there was a real leather first baseman's glove. I had it for years, but somehow it didn't make it through all of our moves.

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Way back in the day, I blew pretty much every penny I could find on model airplanes at TG&Y.  WW2 fighters in 1/48 scale were my biggest weakness.  

[ArmyBrat61]

I remember spending lots and lots of Lincolns, Roosevelts, Jeffersons, Washingtons at the Ben Franklin. I had the largest, well equipped little green army in my neighborhood. Even had a balsa wood air force. Good times!

[Jamie Jackson]

  On 3/24/2024 at 11:56 PM, AuEagle said:

Was it LePages glue?

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I think that was the glue. iirc it would harden sealing the slit in the rubber top and would need to be reopened with a knife or pair of scissors. Good times  

[Snaveba]

  On 3/25/2024 at 10:41 AM, ArmyBrat61 said:

I remember spending lots and lots of Lincolns, Roosevelts, Jeffersons, Washingtons at the Ben Franklin. I had the largest, well equipped little green army in my neighborhood. Even had a balsa wood air force. Good times!

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Ah, good ol’ Ben Franklin. I had many of those little green army men.  Most ended up succumbing to the bic lighter. 

[Jamie Jackson]

  On 3/25/2024 at 12:38 PM, Snaveba said:

Ah, good ol’ Ben Franklin. I had many of those little green army men.  Most ended up succumbing to the bic lighter. 

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Black Cat firecrackers got mine. Durable little guys  

We only had Zippos and matches LOL

[E4 No More]

  On 3/25/2024 at 2:55 AM, deerslayer said:

Way back in the day, I blew pretty much every penny I could find on model airplanes at TG&Y.  WW2 fighters in 1/48 scale were my biggest weakness.  

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I bought a lot of models too.

[tacops]

  On 3/25/2024 at 12:38 PM, Snaveba said:

Ah, good ol’ Ben Franklin. I had many of those little green army men.  Most ended up succumbing to the bic lighter. 

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$1 for a bag of 100 men.  Great war games with firecrackers and BB guns.  I left divisions of these in the dirt at every childhood home.

[deerslayer]

  On 3/25/2024 at 8:03 PM, tacops said:

$1 for a bag of 100 men.  Great war games with firecrackers and BB guns.  I left divisions of these in the dirt at every childhood home.

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The short Lincoln Log pieces were my mortar rounds, which I launched from a Lincoln Log-made see-saw.  One accurate shot could wipe out a whole platoon of green men.