Friday OT #1 - That's Not A Thing

[Cyclone.TV]

Remember when cereal boxes came with 45's built into the box?

Ok you must be old.

My kids are REALLY into cereal right now. Why does everything have to to marshmallows?

 

[jbindm]

Friday Night Videos. Trying to record a song playing on the radio to a cassette tape. I remember my older sister used to get so pissed at me when she was trying to record a song because as a child I was incapable of being quiet for more than ten seconds at a time. I ruined multiple takes.

 

[jcyclonee]

Friday Night Videos. Trying to record a song playing on the radio to a cassette tape. I remember my older sister used to get so pissed at me when she was trying to record a song because as a child I was incapable of being quiet for more than ten seconds at a time. I ruined multiple takes.

Does anybody else remember staying up late to watch the unedited version of Girls on Film on the USA network.

 

[mj4cy]

Surge pop.

Using a payphone to call for a ride home after a movie.

Waiting to connect to the internet from a dial tone.

 

[CRcyclone6]

What are things that were a big deal when you were young that aren't a thing anymore.

I was thinking the other day about how Columbia House CD magazine orders were this enormous racket when I was in high school, and how that's not a thing anymore due to digital music. Same with Sears catalogs vs online shopping - do kids ever still sit down with the toy catalog and go nuts circling things anymore? Phone books vs Google - we generally recycle our phone books immediately.

I thought of both of these. Used to love looking at the available records thru Columbia House and the store catalogs.

 

[CRcyclone6]

Does anybody else remember staying up late to watch the unedited version of Girls on Film on the USA network.

Definitely Bikini Car Wash

 

[cyclones500]

Sports-related games (all of these are available on eBay, of course):

 

[AgronAlum]

Pizza Hut buffet

There's still one in Grundy Center. I stop when I get over that way because at seven bucks for the lunch buffet, you can't really beat it. They don't have the red cups though, so it's just not the same.

I think their book club for kids was the only reason I actually wanted to read. Gotta get that free mini pizza.

 

[cyclones500]

Ok you must be old.

My kids are REALLY into cereal right now. Why does everything have to (have) marshmallows?

Do The Marshmallows have a cereal-box-single available?

 

[FOREVERTRUE]

I had one just like this. Pong for those who don't know.

 

[urb1]

How about running to a bank of one or two dozen pay phones at a convention hotel or center, between sessions, so you can call back to the office?

 

[urb1]

Pizza Hut buffet

Urbandale Pizza Hut still has the lunch buffet.

 

[SCyclone]

 

[SCyclone]

Does anybody else remember staying up late to watch the unedited version of Girls on Film on the USA network.

Rhonda was pretty hot, too.

 

[cyclones500]

I had one just like this. Pong for those who don't know.

An opportunity to post the most musically accurate representation of the Pong Experience.

 

[SCyclone]

 

[SCyclone]

 

[jcyclonee]

Yum.

 

[SCyclone]

Yum.

Mellow Days or Easy Nights? (Sometimes we'd put it in the bong, and then drink it afterward. Holy ****.)

 

[CycloneErik]

Surge pop.

Using a payphone to call for a ride home after a movie.

Waiting to connect to the internet from a dial tone.

In the Guard, I was in a communications unit for a long time, and we installed an already-obsolete version of a cell phone network.

The big morale thing was to set up a line for commercial calls home and reminding people to bring calling cards with them so they could call home from the field.

Yeah, I know how bad that all sounds with our technology now. The Army designed this one on the cheap with existing components, but at the time, we had phones and nobody else did.