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And I still have the radio that uses those, but the turntable turns at 78! Argh.

 

 

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I have three tube radios at home and two victrolas with a stack of 78's!

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If you're old, you know what this is ...

 

It's a great musical instrument!

 

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It's a great musical instrument!

 

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As played by the great Zydeco artist the late Clifton Chenier (heard him in Montreal decades ago).

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If you know why a TV remote it called a "clicker", you're old!

 

 

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Well before the era of infrared, Zenith invented the wireless remote control.

 

The first widely used TV remote control had four buttons (power, volume, channel up, channel down) but no batteries. Press a button, and a tiny hammer inside the remote would strike an aluminum rod, transmitting an ultrahigh-frequency tone to control the set.

 

They were affectionately known as clickers, because they actually clicked when you pressed the buttons.

 

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Before these slick devices, they actually had a remote that was physically wired directly to the TV. . . and before that they had kids that they would tell to go change the channel, or turn up the volume.

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You know you're old when you're driving down the strip with your suped-up-to-the-tits shiny burgundy Nova ss and people look at you weird cause they don't know what kinda car it is.

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Your remote for the VCR was less complicated than this.

 

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Mine had a thirty foot cord and a single button that said "pause"

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Your remote for the VCR was less complicated than this.

 

 

Mine had a thirty foot cord and a single button that said "pause"

 

This was my TV "remote" which was a big improvement on the broom stick I used before that:

 

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You know you're old if you had these items in your household:

 

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And you might have seen this around your neighbourhood:

 

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When you had a series of parties based EXCLUSIVELY on this movie....

 

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You know you're old when the first thing you do when you get in the car is turn down or off the stereo your kids had cranked way up.

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You know you'e old when the MILF Cougars are actually young ladies in relationship to yourself.

 

So it goes.

 

 

You know your old when talk of cougars makes you think back to Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

RG :-)

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