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SCantiGOP

(14,239 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 10:09 AM Jan 2018

My son lost his cable TV

During the end of the double overtime OK-GA game. He texted me that “it’s like being trapped in the 20th Century.”
Funny till I realized how long ago the 20th Century was. Someone in their mid-40s has lived half their conscious life after the 20th Century.

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My son lost his cable TV (Original Post) SCantiGOP Jan 2018 OP
Yeah back when you didn't have to pay for cable to watch live sporting events. n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2018 #1
My equivalent of the had to walk to school in the snow story SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #2
And you had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2018 #3
My story/joke is not longer funny becasue only oldsters understand it. SharonAnn Jan 2018 #4
I know SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #6
And you had to read fiction Bob Loblaw Jan 2018 #5
+1000 trof Feb 2018 #7
Tweaking the 'rabbit ears'. trof Feb 2018 #8

SCantiGOP

(14,239 posts)
2. My equivalent of the had to walk to school in the snow story
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 10:31 AM
Jan 2018

My grandkids won’t believe me when I tell them there was only ONE game on every Saturday, and sometimes it was the Army-Navy game!

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,763 posts)
3. And you had to get up and walk to the TV to change the channel, ...
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 11:35 AM
Jan 2018

And, you had to shake a pot on the stove to make popcorn.

Oh, the humanity!

SharonAnn

(13,883 posts)
4. My story/joke is not longer funny becasue only oldsters understand it.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 11:37 AM
Jan 2018

In 1994 when my granddaughter asked me to bring her the phone and I said I couldn't, she asked "Why". I said "Because the cord isn't long enough." She paused and asked "Why does it have a cord?" That was when I realized that her generation may not have seen or used what we used to consider "standard" phones.

It's no longer funny because hardly anyone has them any longer and anyone under 40 may not have ever seen or used them.

SCantiGOP

(14,239 posts)
6. I know
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 11:48 AM
Jan 2018

I told my 13 year old grandson, who often loses his phone during the 10 minutes a day he’s not looking at it, that I was going to invent a way that would let you permanently secure your phone to a spot on the wall with your power cord so you would never run out of battery.
He said: very funny, I’ve seen those on old
movies.

trof

(54,273 posts)
8. Tweaking the 'rabbit ears'.
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 07:55 PM
Feb 2018

Raise you hand if you had either a wad or a 'fan' of aluminum foil on the antennas.
And by god IT WORKED!
The snow disappeared from channel 3!
Them wuz the days.

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