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DACK FAYDEN posted:Why point out exactly one dated reference in Blazing Saddles and have that reference not be Hedley Lamarr's name and everyone getting it wrong? Unless you're of a certain age, you probably wouldn't get the reference with the Mexicans not needing badges.
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Oct 11, 2019 20:14
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My Lovely Horse posted:I mean, okay, but that's the stated production reason for the haircut. Might not have been Special Forces, maybe I'm mixing things up in my head. Force Recon, which is pretty much the Marine version of Special Forces.
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Oct 14, 2019 12:22
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For the purposes of a movie, close enough.
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Oct 14, 2019 13:55
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Somebody leaving their job and taking their Rolodex with them.
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Nov 14, 2019 14:04
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mystes posted:I think the phone companies also charged extra for touch-tone dialing, and in some places they continued doing so for a very long time. Yes, touch-tone phones were extra. Also colored phones (anything other than white or black) and "designer" phones like the Princess. It also cost extra to have an unlisted number. quote:I remember the heady days when there was only THE phone company, an all-powerful organization of which you lived in existential fear. That's why they could get away with it.
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Nov 25, 2019 14:38
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Krispy Wafer posted:Sure, but usage was inconsistent and generally stopped sooner than was safe. I was like 4 and injured in a Ford Pinto accident and it wasn’t weird at all that I was rolling around unbuckled in the back seat. My younger siblings got proper car seats several years later, but only stage 1. By the time you could sit up you graduated to a restaurant style booster seat. Even in the 90’s advocates were still fighting the ‘my baby is safest in my arms’ mindset. The car seat thing keeps changing since the 80s (rear-facing, front facing, rear seat, front seat, until 4 years old, etc.) just like the advice of how babies should sleep. When my kids were infants, it was "always put them on their stomach." Then it was "never put them on their stomach." Not sure what it is now.
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Nov 26, 2019 14:21
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I always carry a small amount of cash because I like to tip in cash, also I'm old.
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Jan 15, 2020 13:33
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doctorfrog posted:I watched Weird Al's UHF with a five year old recently and extended explanation was needed for nearly everything except the silly jokes. Yeah, I tried to explain the concept of UHF to my kids and they just didn't get it.
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Jan 21, 2020 15:03
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FreudianSlippers posted:
My Credit Union is like this. Nothing but kiosks and one or two workers.
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Jan 23, 2020 14:34
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Original_Z posted:While watching some old movie I came across another reference that many people may not get, "government cheese", usually in reference to people on welfare. Nowadays one would probably just assume that cheese is slang for money, but in fact Government Cheese was an actual thing. I remember this, there was also beef, and peanut butter for a while.
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Jan 29, 2020 16:14
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Back when the government used to pay by check, on the back of the check where you endorsed it was printed "If signature is made with an X, it must be witnessed by two people who can write." I don't write in cursive because my cursive is so bad it looks like a prescription written by a stoned doctor. My signature looks like a toddler's scribble but it's never been challenged at a polling place or anywhere else a "legal" signature was necessary.
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Feb 26, 2020 20:54
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Something that fits this thread and also the derail - Travelers Checks. Are they still a thing? The last time I purchased them was almost 30 years ago when I was traveling overseas. They were a pain because you had to sign each one in the presence of the clerk who sold them to you.
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Feb 27, 2020 13:14
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I was at CVS a few months ago and got stuck behind an incredibly old (like “this is her last trip to CVS” old) lady for half an hour while she paid with a check. Gotta love how CVS is so understaffed all the time they can’t even open a second lane when something like that happens. This seems to happen to me every time I go to Walgreens. There's invariably an old lady in front of me who is doing her grocery shopping there, and has coupons, then writes a check.
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Jul 7, 2020 18:18
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am older than Olduvai dirt, but I saw Highlights for Children only at dentists' and doctors' offices. Same.
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Nov 19, 2020 16:18
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I made one of my own the other day in a thread about MLK. I commented that I could listen to that man read the phone book. I wonder how many people other than boomers would get that reference?
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Jan 19, 2021 14:10
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Cobalt-60 posted:The Lego Movie referenced that, with Morgan Freeman (describing his own voice). What was the earlier reference? Didn't know about the Lego Movie. I was thinking that the phone book would be an archaic reference.
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Jan 20, 2021 14:31
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There's a scene in The Accountant where Anna Kendrick talks about her father's dorky pocket protector, and Ben Affleck says, "I have a pocket protector." and shows it to her.
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Jan 22, 2021 18:02
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From The Eiger Sanction (1975), George Kennedy telling Clint Eastwood "That guy looks like he could change a nine-dollar bill in threes." Spoilered for homophobic language. MightyJoe36 fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 14:46
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Xiahou Dun posted:
My parents were theater buffs (we lived about 20 minutes from NYC) and used to listen to show tunes all the time. I have my own version of PTSD.
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Feb 5, 2021 14:14
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From an episode of Frasier last night; Roz is talking about being attracted to a much younger man and Frasier says, "Coo coo ca choo Mrs. Robinson." From the same episode; Frasier's dad is talking about getting mocked for crying while watching Brian's Song.
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Mar 23, 2021 11:51
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Krispy Wafer posted:
You want to come over on Sunday night? Sorry, Thunderball is on at 8:00.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:21
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:
It's also handy to have when your internet goes down and you can't get any streaming services.
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Mar 26, 2021 12:51
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I still have my yearbook from Basic Training in 1981. I don't have my high school yearbook.
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Mar 30, 2021 20:15
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Imagined posted:drat dude, more like MightyJoe66. Not quite there yet, but close.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:12
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I think the only Abbott and Costello reference anyone under a certain age would recognize is "Who's on First?" and a lot of them would only recognize it from Rain Man.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:31
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Apr 26, 2021 12:21
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The_Franz posted:also luddites who need someplace to get physical disc movies from now that all the video stores are closed I still see a couple of Red Box machines around here also.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:46
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All of our hall monitors were teachers.
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May 13, 2021 13:02
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Re: hall monitors, here's a reference from older media that probably wouldn't fly today:
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May 13, 2021 13:05
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In the movie Red Dragon, the two serial killers were communicating with a secret code that they passed through personal ads in a newspaper. Would anybody today know what that was? Are personal ads even a thing anymore?
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Jun 13, 2021 16:08
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Annabel Pee posted:But you doesn't have to call it Johnson!
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Jun 29, 2021 12:48
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Do people still say, "Oh well, back to the drawing board."? Would anybody younger than a certain age get the reference?
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Jul 22, 2021 18:13
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VideoGameVet posted:Here's a popular brand for a carpet cleaning service that refers to an automobile that was last produced in 1924: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Motor_Carriage_Company I knew about it, but I never saw one. I even wrote a book report about the "Steaming Stanley Twins" in Elementary School.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:21
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A cigarette girl in a restaurant/nightclub. What would be the equivalent today? The dude that comes in off the street to sell you a flower? (although now that I think about it, that was more of a European thing).
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Jul 29, 2021 02:34
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:Well she wasn't pregnant anymore was she? It amazed me that my wife, a smoker at the time, was able to quit cold turkey the day she found out she was pregnant with our first, and then go right back to smoking when she was done nursing.
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Aug 25, 2021 12:21
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In 1974, all cars manufactured in the United States by law were equipped with a mechanism that prevented the car from being started until the driver and passenger had their seat belts buckled. There was such a public outcry that by model year 1975, the law was repealed and the only mechanism they had was the buzzer reminding you to buckle up. here's an article about it: https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2009/11/the-great-safety-belt-interlock-fiasco/
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Sep 21, 2021 12:45
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My dad never wore a seat belt because, "I learned how to drive before there were seat belts." That was basically his reason for smoking: "When I started smoking, nobody knew it was bad for you."
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Sep 22, 2021 12:20
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SpelledBackwards posted:See, that's why I'd rather be thrown clear of the wreck. Furthermore, the reason why vaccines are harmful to your health which "scientists" don't seem to understand is that I know this was a joke, but that also one of the reason there were so many fatalities/serious injuries back then. Almost nobody wore seat belts. Hell, they weren't even mandatory in American cars until maybe the mid-1960s.
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I know I'm old, but one of the happiest days of my life was the day my son sold his motorcycle.
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