PurpleTree Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About Hubby just emailed me this link to an article http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/ How many of these things do you all remember? I like the one about Spam being a meat product or even a Monty Python sketch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 There were at least 95 things there that mean nothing to me, never mind my children! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 There were at least 95 things there that mean nothing to me, never mind my children! and me ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Palmer Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I knew lots of these, though the more computery things were a bit beyond me. (It's the sort of thing my OH talks about though). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I know what you mean. The very geeky stuff went over my head! I do feel nostalgia for some of them though. For some reason the Lego reference made me miss the houses that I used to build with the boring brick shaped bricks! (Yes - I know how sad that is!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 yeah a few bits didn't mean much to me, but I can remember the noise of a modem dialling up and having to wait forever for a game to load on our old Spectrum computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I actually knew most of them Probably because my dad complains about them so much, or reminises and seeps the whole house with nostalgia and puts and LP on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Ok, how about this. When I started work, we didn't have a photocopier in the office I worked in. Copies had to be made by cutting a stencil and then running it through this machine (Gestetner? I might be wrong) which produced purple copies, they got paler and paler as the copying went on. We also had a manual switchboard, where you had to physically plug the lines in. I never got the hang of it! I was always cutting people off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 "Ah, yes, hello. I'd like to speak to -" BEEEEEEEEP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Nope went right over my head. I thought it would be about Radio Luxembourg, and the Ovalteenies, Spangles, Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorders. Listening to Around the Horne, and the Navy Lark on Sunday lunch times. Bootsie & Snudge. Rag Tag & Bobtail, Muffin the Mule, Charlie Drake, The Bucaneers, and Andy Pandy on the Television, I can also remember the Potters Wheel and the Windmill (Interludes). When Biscuits came in big tins, and the Baker would slice your loaf in the big red machine, and buy a Pennyworth of broken biscuits. When sweets came off ration, going with my mum to pick up my Malt and Orange juice. Nursery School when you had to have a lie down/sleep after lunch. I'm afraid whoever it was who thought up 100 things, was still wet behind the ears....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I remember the Spectrum games taking forever to load and making a right row when doing so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I knew quite a few. There is a link where they gave a teenager a tape walkman to test out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape... When I saw it for the first time, its colour also struck me. Nowadays gadgets come in a rainbow of colours but this was only one shade - a bland grey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Palmer Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 We came across a Walkman at a church summer fair last weekend and had 'what IS that?' from 11yr old son. Had to explain it all to him and that basically it was the old fashioned version of his ipod. I don't think he was impressed! Had a good reminisce about them with the lady that was selling it. I was glued to mine all through university and had little speakers that plugged into it, so I could listen to tapes in my room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I can remember having to save for MONTHS AND MONTHS to buy a "cheap" walkman, I thought I was to bees knees when I got it. Great Thread Purple Tree brought back lots of memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Lego was much more than square blocks - I had round turret bits all sorts of roofing shapes and a garage with a red lego lorry tanker that went in it - and I was at least 3 at the time - so it was much better than that. Starbuck - ooh yes him for the other thread! I do remember our bank computers used to leak oil all over our feet. I prefer using maps - still do and I've never been lost. I even have a homing instinct. DD can read a map - DS is hopeless. I still like my old 35mm camera best - it had instant shutter speed and took the picture I wanted - there was no time delay unless I pressed that button. Unfortunately it went for a drink in a rockpool when I was trying to help DD who had fallen in fully clothed. And I still have a Super 8 cine camera - hardly seen the films because I never had a projector to go with it. I remember I wanted a Kodak Instamatic camera but ended up with the cine. Never had Betamax and our TV only had BBC and ITV - no BBC2. It had a dial at the side that you turned. We only had videos when mum worked at a TV rental place. And I still write cheques (not checks tut typical) for birthday moneys. Other stuff I haven't a clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helly Welly Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 OH managed to get the equivalent of Betamax, in that he went for HD DVD and everythings gone blu-ray I definately remember dial tv and being the family remote control. And the TV listings at Christmas were a real treat, as you'd never seen any of the films before. I skipped through the computer stuff, went straight over my head DD was amazed at some of the things in the list, made me feel positively ancient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Nope went right over my head. I thought it would be about Radio Luxembourg, and the Ovalteenies, Spangles, Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorders. Listening to Around the Horne, and the Navy Lark on Sunday lunch times. Bootsie & Snudge. Rag Tag & Bobtail, Muffin the Mule, Charlie Drake, The Bucaneers, and Andy Pandy on the Television, I can also remember the Potters Wheel and the Windmill (Interludes). When Biscuits came in big tins, and the Baker would slice your loaf in the big red machine, and buy a Pennyworth of broken biscuits. When sweets came off ration, going with my mum to pick up my Malt and Orange juice. Nursery School when you had to have a lie down/sleep after lunch. I'm afraid whoever it was who thought up 100 things, was still wet behind the ears....... I have to agree.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Er, I have Charlie Drake's record "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" on a 45rpm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 - well, I suppose someone has to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I had a lovely pink walkman. I had to explain it to my kids the other day too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I got most of these too Does anybody remember the old A and B button phone boxes? In 1975 I had a boyfiriend who had his own flat with a push-button phone that warbled instead of ringing. I thought that was really cool He had a TR7 which was even cooler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
