AATB- we had one of those huge satellite dishes growing up- it still might be at our old house actually.
Sesh- that is really creepy about your moms friend.
I remember my first time on the internet at my aunt and uncles- I was probably in 7th grade, and I didn't get it. They told me to have fun with it and look around, I didn't know what to do with it, and I was stuck on some generic shopping site.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:8f476ab9-fb9a-48b9-860e-8af44739ed65">Re:Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]Yeah the sandlot is pretty epic. I say "you're killin me smalls" at least on a semi daily basis and if the person I'm talking to doesn't get it, then I get really sad.<strong> I asked my brother what the earliest Olympics that he remembers is and he said Athens 2004.</strong> Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE] See, that makes me feel old. The first Olympics I can remember is '92, and I was 9.
Haha omg aatb I wrote a book, literally because I took a book making class during a summer program at school, about a girl named Dominique who won a gold medal in gymnastics...because of that Olympics.
I also walked around and told people my name was Dominique and my mom had to constantly correct me.
Sesh, you're gonna have to fix that. Stand By Me is amazing!!!
Speaking of "fixing" things, I need to see Top Gun as I never have so Lizzie, I don't think I get your reference. Is that a remake too?
There's a ride at Kings Island called Top Gun and the scenes it shows through the line are my only knowledge of it. Well, it's called something else now because Paramount sold the park but I'll forever call that ride Top Gun. Just like Face-Off, Italian Job and all of the other rides they had to rename in order not to pay the rights. In a few years, I'll be confusing youngsters all over the place referring to the rides by their old names.
I don't remember doing stuff like hurling myself across the living room or telling people the wrong name. I wonder what kind of stuff I can get out of my parents because I KNOW I had to have been an odd kid.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:6de7fc9a-2d20-4f45-bfb2-1e83d0a7dd4a">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : I was born in 1985. Posted by edielaura[/QUOTE]
<div> </div><div>Youngster! </div><div> </div><div>I kid.</div><div> </div><div>I remember that I thought 40 was old waaayy back in the day when I was in my 20's, but now that I'm in my mid 40's I can honestly say that I don't feel like it. </div><div> </div><div>Sure, I'm not as spritely as I used to be, and my skin isn't a smooth, but I can tell you that I've never felt more...whole. I can say that I feel younger than I am, too. I don't think that I've ever been happier, and it's not just because of having FI in my life. It's hard to explain.</div><div> </div><div>Don't be afraid of getting older, is what I'm trying to say. It's not that bad and honestly, while life can get harder in some ways, it also gets easier. It's not that bad. It's all in how you approach life.</div><div> </div><div>/lecture mode.</div>
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:bd7fad9c-d11b-41b7-bbe4-cd189681eba4">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]AATB do tell. Posted by lbarr088[/QUOTE]
She was waitressing somewhere, either a 50s diner or a house of pies. I dunno. But she had regular customers (this was Southern California, late 1970s). One was a very nice looking young man about her age that she could tell had a crush on her but he was always really shy and didn't say much. But he was always nervous when she came around. She said it was cute.
One day, she was leaving for work and found a box outside the door. It was full of love letters and poems and there was a compilation of songs he'd written for her on them. She actually kept that stuff and she let me listen when I was in high school. It sounds weird to say... because nowadays, this sort of thing makes people run for the hills - but it was kinda sweet. She wasn't freaked out at all by it. But he never came by the restaurant again. I think he got up the nerve to give her all that stuff but then got too embarassed to come around again.
I wonder if she still has that box of stuff, lol. She said she kept it all those years because it was too good of a story to tell without the goods to back it up.
My mom was smoking hot back in the day. She said most of the guys who crushed on her were Mexicans, she says mostly because she kind of "looked like them." She had really dark hair and was always really tan from the beach. One guy used to peak over the stone-walled fence of their back yard looking for her. There's a loose brick there to this day from him creeping over the fence.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:bf82431b-46d1-48f6-ad95-978d1088ee89">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]Sesh, you're gonna have to fix that. Stand By Me is amazing!!! Speaking of "fixing" things, I need to see Top Gun as I never have so Lizzie, I don't think I get your reference. Is that a remake too? There's a ride at Kings Island called Top Gun and the scenes it shows through the line are my only knowledge of it. Well, it's called something else now because Paramount sold the park but I'll forever call that ride Top Gun. Just like Face-Off, Italian Job and all of the other rides they had to rename in order not to pay the rights. In a few years, I'll be confusing youngsters all over the place referring to the rides by their old names. Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]<div> </div><div>No remake of Top Gun, yet. Thank God!
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:e396e17e-5d78-4517-93f0-ea4f69466e90">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]I don't remember doing stuff like hurling myself across the living room or telling people the wrong name. I wonder what kind of stuff I can get out of my parents because I KNOW I had to have been an odd kid. Posted by Brandi0714[/QUOTE]
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:89704d9a-2c9b-4034-9baf-3abf96b52c93">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]Oh, speaking of dolls. When I was in 4-5th grade or so, Cabbage Patch dolls came out (way before AG's time, lol) and they were SUCH a big deal. People were going bonkers over them and the wait list to get one was ridic. Sadly, I never got to 'adopt' one of those things. I was too busy playing with my Barbie Dream House. Yup. OMG, this really dates me -- I remember the Barbie airplane thing so I could play 'stewardess' with Barbie. I really wanted to grow up and be a stewardess, or, to be PC: flight attendant. Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]
We were too poor for Cabbage Patch. I did have a ton of Magic Nursery dolls though. And I also had the Barbie airplane/fuselage. I think I even have a pic of me and my little brother playing with it.
And Lizzie, our hose water was never warm. It could have been 100F outside and that damn hose water was always frigid. Being the mean older sister, I used to hold the hose up so that it made an arc, kind of like a bridge, and would tell my little brother to run under it. He always made me promise not to spray him as he went under it, and when he did, I'd totally nail him with the cold hose water. I was such an asshole kid.
Does anyone remember "Now And Then"? That's the kind of childhood I always wanted for my future kids, and it's sad to think that that may never happen.
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In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:9e7f9e79-1e29-49c5-8b44-4d891a7695cc">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : No remake of Top Gun, yet. Thank God! Posted by Lizzieyounce[/QUOTE]
Well that's good. :)
Another remake I hate? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I normally love Tim Burton and I know they got it closer to the book, but it's just not Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I think the first Olympics I really remember was the '96 Olympics. I was obsessed with Dominique Moceanu first and foremost but pretty much loved them all. I was a gymnast at the time and so was my neighbor. She was older than me so she always "played" Dominique. Biatch.
We had pine trees that had branches lower to the ground and we would do bar routines on them (and consequently I'd spend hours getting the sap off of my hands), and we flipped a trashcan over and used that as a vault and the wall of a patio was used as beam. The whole yard was used for floor routines. I remember at another house I tore up the whole front lawn doing flips. I would blast music from my boombox and put on a show.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:546621e0-0a68-41ea-96e6-edc78fd38900">Re:Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]The first Olympics I remember was Lillehammer, I was 6. I remember my parents being pumped because we are pretty norweigan. Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]
That was the first Olympics where I stayed up to watch the figure skating in its entirety. I was rooting for Nancy Kerrigan bc of all the bullshit surrounding her and Tonya Harding, but Oksana Baiul was so cute that you just couldn't help but love her.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:ce85d4cb-6e6f-4b74-bdf5-6f009c02220a">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]I quit movies if they ever remake Top Gun. That is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Posted by ILoveMilkDuds[/QUOTE]
<div> </div><div>Dittos.. I cried when Goose died.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:53bfa71c-f59a-44bb-9b7d-c58e93f0fb68">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : Well that's good. :) Another remake I hate? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I normally love Tim Burton and I know they got it closer to the book, but it's just not Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE] Ha, I love that remake, mainly because I always thought C&CF was creepy as hell and Johnny Depp nails that part of it. That's still one of the most terrifying stories ever IMO.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_things-that-make-you-feel-old?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:701bdffa-bd72-402e-a712-7e7616302085Post:7552fa90-0795-4fdd-a4e6-30e6281cf737">Re: Things that make you feel old</a>: [QUOTE]Ha, I was born in 1985 too. I will see Stand by Me if I can find it free anywhere. I'm not allowed to buy movies for awhile :( Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]
I always owned it on VHS, but recently bought the DVD version from the $5 bin at WalMart.
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Y'all I was in high school when Madonna released her first album. I remember watching The Jackson Five when Michael was a little tyke.
I also got to meet Jon Bon Jovi when he was first starting out, because I was dating a DJ. He was in New Orleans for the Slipery When Wet tour. He was really nice.
I can't stand Tim Burton either Musu. And he and Johnny Depp just have this weird thing going. Every time I see Johnny Depp flash up in a movie preview and he's all camped out and fucking acting like a bizardo psychopath I'm like OH YAY, ANOTHER TIM BURTON FUSTERCLUCK. JOY OF JOYS.
Re: Things that make you feel old
[QUOTE]Yeah the sandlot is pretty epic. I say "you're killin me smalls" at least on a semi daily basis and if the person I'm talking to doesn't get it, then I get really sad.<strong> I asked my brother what the earliest Olympics that he remembers is and he said Athens 2004.</strong>
Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]
See, that makes me feel old. The first Olympics I can remember is '92, and I was 9.
Sesh, you gotta see Stand By Me, it's so good!
Books read in 2012: 21/50
Speaking of "fixing" things, I need to see Top Gun as I never have so Lizzie, I don't think I get your reference. Is that a remake too?
There's a ride at Kings Island called Top Gun and the scenes it shows through the line are my only knowledge of it. Well, it's called something else now because Paramount sold the park but I'll forever call that ride Top Gun. Just like Face-Off, Italian Job and all of the other rides they had to rename in order not to pay the rights. In a few years, I'll be confusing youngsters all over the place referring to the rides by their old names.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : I was born in 1985.
Posted by edielaura[/QUOTE]
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</div><div>Youngster! </div><div>
</div><div>I kid.</div><div>
</div><div>I remember that I thought 40 was old waaayy back in the day when I was in my 20's, but now that I'm in my mid 40's I can honestly say that I don't feel like it. </div><div>
</div><div>Sure, I'm not as spritely as I used to be, and my skin isn't a smooth, but I can tell you that I've never felt more...whole. I can say that I feel younger than I am, too. I don't think that I've ever been happier, and it's not just because of having FI in my life. It's hard to explain.</div><div>
</div><div>Don't be afraid of getting older, is what I'm trying to say. It's not that bad and honestly, while life can get harder in some ways, it also gets easier. It's not that bad. It's all in how you approach life.</div><div>
</div><div>/lecture mode.</div>
[QUOTE]AATB do tell.
Posted by lbarr088[/QUOTE]
She was waitressing somewhere, either a 50s diner or a house of pies. I dunno. But she had regular customers (this was Southern California, late 1970s). One was a very nice looking young man about her age that she could tell had a crush on her but he was always really shy and didn't say much. But he was always nervous when she came around. She said it was cute.
One day, she was leaving for work and found a box outside the door. It was full of love letters and poems and there was a compilation of songs he'd written for her on them. She actually kept that stuff and she let me listen when I was in high school. It sounds weird to say... because nowadays, this sort of thing makes people run for the hills - but it was kinda sweet. She wasn't freaked out at all by it. But he never came by the restaurant again. I think he got up the nerve to give her all that stuff but then got too embarassed to come around again.
I wonder if she still has that box of stuff, lol. She said she kept it all those years because it was too good of a story to tell without the goods to back it up.
My mom was smoking hot back in the day. She said most of the guys who crushed on her were Mexicans, she says mostly because she kind of "looked like them." She had really dark hair and was always really tan from the beach. One guy used to peak over the stone-walled fence of their back yard looking for her. There's a loose brick there to this day from him creeping over the fence.
[QUOTE]Sesh, you're gonna have to fix that. Stand By Me is amazing!!! Speaking of "fixing" things, I need to see Top Gun as I never have so Lizzie, I don't think I get your reference. Is that a remake too? There's a ride at Kings Island called Top Gun and the scenes it shows through the line are my only knowledge of it. Well, it's called something else now because Paramount sold the park but I'll forever call that ride Top Gun. Just like Face-Off, Italian Job and all of the other rides they had to rename in order not to pay the rights. In a few years, I'll be confusing youngsters all over the place referring to the rides by their old names.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>No remake of Top Gun, yet. Thank God!
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[QUOTE]I don't remember doing stuff like hurling myself across the living room or telling people the wrong name. I wonder what kind of stuff I can get out of my parents because I KNOW I had to have been an odd kid.
Posted by Brandi0714[/QUOTE]
Well, I used to bark at people. Lol.
[QUOTE]Oh, speaking of dolls. When I was in 4-5th grade or so, Cabbage Patch dolls came out (way before AG's time, lol) and they were SUCH a big deal. People were going bonkers over them and the wait list to get one was ridic. Sadly, I never got to 'adopt' one of those things. I was too busy playing with my Barbie Dream House. Yup. OMG, this really dates me -- I remember the Barbie airplane thing so I could play 'stewardess' with Barbie. I really wanted to grow up and be a stewardess, or, to be PC: flight attendant.
Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]
We were too poor for Cabbage Patch. I did have a ton of Magic Nursery dolls though. And I also had the Barbie airplane/fuselage. I think I even have a pic of me and my little brother playing with it.
And Lizzie, our hose water was never warm. It could have been 100F outside and that damn hose water was always frigid. Being the mean older sister, I used to hold the hose up so that it made an arc, kind of like a bridge, and would tell my little brother to run under it. He always made me promise not to spray him as he went under it, and when he did, I'd totally nail him with the cold hose water. I was such an asshole kid.
Does anyone remember "Now And Then"? That's the kind of childhood I always wanted for my future kids, and it's sad to think that that may never happen.
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"Are you one of those vegetarian zombies that only eats grrrrrraaaaaaiiiinnnnnsssss?" -- raynes
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : No remake of Top Gun, yet. Thank God!
Posted by Lizzieyounce[/QUOTE]
Well that's good. :)
Another remake I hate? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I normally love Tim Burton and I know they got it closer to the book, but it's just not Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I will see Stand by Me if I can find it free anywhere. I'm not allowed to buy movies for awhile
AATB, that was amazing.
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[QUOTE]The first Olympics I remember was Lillehammer, I was 6. I remember my parents being pumped because we are pretty norweigan.
Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]
That was the first Olympics where I stayed up to watch the figure skating in its entirety. I was rooting for Nancy Kerrigan bc of all the bullshit surrounding her and Tonya Harding, but Oksana Baiul was so cute that you just couldn't help but love her.
Books read in 2012: 21/50
[QUOTE]I quit movies if they ever remake Top Gun. That is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time.
Posted by ILoveMilkDuds[/QUOTE]
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</div><div>Dittos.. I cried when Goose died.</div><div>
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : Well that's good. :) Another remake I hate? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I normally love Tim Burton and I know they got it closer to the book, but it's just not Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]
Ha, I love that remake, mainly because I always thought C&CF was creepy as hell and Johnny Depp nails that part of it. That's still one of the most terrifying stories ever IMO.
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[QUOTE]Ha, I was born in 1985 too. I will see Stand by Me if I can find it free anywhere. I'm not allowed to buy movies for awhile :(
Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]
I always owned it on VHS, but recently bought the DVD version from the $5 bin at WalMart.
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The madagascar movies are over 10 years old (IIRC).
The American Pie movies are 13 years old.
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