Boomer Support Thread

[Rosco Benson]

In 1976, I was at the drive-in with a girlfriend and a buddy and his girlfriend, watching "Carrie". We had all had a few beers and were mellow. Right after the big terrible prom scene, the movie cuts to an epilogue shot of Amy Irving putting flowers on Carrie's grave. Suddenly Carrie's arm bursts out of the grave and grabs Amy. It's a real jump scare.

Right at that exact moment, someone walked into the speaker wire and the speaker lurched forward on the window with a BANG! We all screamed like girls and splashed beer all over the place.

Then we all laughed until we couldn't catch our breath.


Rosco

[Hambo]

I need to dip in here to make a ruling.

Black socks are appropriate with flip flops *or* sandals, but only before Easter or after Labor Day.

Carry on.

White socks and flip flops are an indicator that you've done time.

[HeavyDuty]

In 1976, I was at the drive-in with a girlfriend and a buddy and his girlfriend, watching "Carrie". We had all had a few beers and were mellow. Right after the big terrible prom scene, the movie cuts to an epilogue shot of Amy Irving putting flowers on Carrie's grave. Suddenly Carrie's arm bursts out of the grave and grabs Amy. It's a real jump scare.

Right at that exact moment, someone walked into the speaker wire and the speaker lurched forward on the window with a BANG! We all screamed like girls and splashed beer all over the place.

Then we all laughed until we couldn't catch our breath.


Rosco

When Alien was first out, I saw it with friends before I took my GF to see it. Since I knew the plot, I goosed her right when the baby alien popped out of Kane’s chest. She literally wet herself. I was only cut off for a few days, so I guess it was worth it...

[willie]

[QUOTE=Hambo;987188]White socks and flip flops are an indicator that you've done time.[/QUOTE

Ya'll give'em socks?

[peterb]

I remember arriving at my college and thinking it was the height of luxury because every dorm room had a hardwired phone. Most friends at other schools had one phone per hall, or per dorm.

Visiting a friend at a women’s college: the dorm had a reception desk(students had to take shifts) where you had to identify yourself, and then they’d page the person you had come to see. Female visitors were “visitors”, male visitors were “callers”. A “.......you have a caller” page would result in a few women drifting down the stairs to see if it was anyone interesting.

First computer class was FORTRAN 77, using punch cards. Turn in your stack, wait, pick up your printout, find out you’d mistyped a character, submit the stack again........

Remember airport walls covered with pay phones? A flight would arrive, and folks would race to the pay phones and start calling.

Long distance calling cards? And the excitement of “ _______’s calling! Hurry! It’s Long Distance!”

[p7fl]

My son won the original ok boomer case for .gov
You cannot imagine how much money went into his education for this "victory".

[AKDoug]

I remember arriving at my college and thinking it was the height of luxury because every dorm room had a hardwired phone. Most friends at other schools had one phone per hall, or per dorm.

Visiting a friend at a women’s college: the dorm had a reception desk(students had to take shifts) where you had to identify yourself, and then they’d page the person you had come to see. Female visitors were “visitors”, male visitors were “callers”. A “.......you have a caller” page would result in a few women drifting down the stairs to see if it was anyone interesting.

First computer class was FORTRAN 77, using punch cards. Turn in your stack, wait, pick up your printout, find out you’d mistyped a character, submit the stack again........

Remember airport walls covered with pay phones? A flight would arrive, and folks would race to the pay phones and start calling.

Long distance calling cards? And the excitement of “ _______’s calling! Hurry! It’s Long Distance!”

I remember all that shit and I’m a solid Gen Xer.


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[J0hnny]

Gen X here, but I know what that is

[theJanitor]

Gen X here, but I know what that is

I'm GenX. My65 mustang didn't have reverse lights, and the other door mirror was optional, too.

I'm just glad I never sat in one of these:
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[RoyGBiv]

I'm just glad I never sat in one of these:
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My wife remembers her younger brother, when he was an infant, riding in the car in a laundry basket.