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What are some things you say that make you feel old?

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kinda James Bondish.
 

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Twitter, instagram, snapchat, and the rest. What's app with all that? :eek:
 

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I ONLY knew that (I'm 31) from the movie Four Brothers. In which Tyrese Gibson's character starts throwing them at Andre lol!


31 years old ... then probably everything in this thread you've only heard about or seen in movies. (or now it's streaming video apps)
 

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We felt old when we found out the Baby Shark video had been out for over 2 years before we even heard about it.

 
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One of the things we say, that makes perfect sense to our family, is "Olde Town Mall". OTM hasn't been called OTM for probably 35 years or more. In the late '70s it started as an indoor mall less than 10 minutes from my parents' house; all the shop facades were meant to look like early 1900s, there was a carousel for kids, etc. At some point they gutted it and put a changing parade of larger stores with front doors facing the parking lot, and over time they built out buildings that also changed store names regularly. We were going to pick up burgers last month to take to Mom and Dad, but because we don't live in that area any more we aren't in sync with where some of the newer things are. Called up Mom, "where the heck is that In N Out? We can't find it." "It's on the corner with Olde Town Mall", she answered, so we immediately knew where it was!
 
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When did I go from being "Miss" to "Ma'am"? :)

That is better than SIR. Why do people assume because you are tall and have a deeper voice, that without actually looking at you they assume you are a sir. I get it on the phone more than in person, but I got it in person last week. Kid was mortified when he actually looked up and realized that it was a tall, definitely female, person that he was speaking to, and just called me SIR. I'm not exactly androgynous Pat

Do I look like a Sir to you?
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There are many companies that can't replace old good fully functioning equipment just because some thing new comes along. We had equipment from the 80's to present time. So you had to know years of technology. Only the experienced knew how to make them talk to each other. Before I retired i was very valuable.

My husband retired ten years before me. He was extremely good and had a steel trap memory. There was this old piece of equipment that we had upgraded but another office in a remote area in another state had not. A tester called me up and asked me about it. I knew there was a little piece of information that you had to do things a certain way. I couldn't remember. We were on a conference call and I told them to call this number. So when my husband answered I said sweetie I have our friend tester Steve and a tech on line. They need to know this.......about this equipment. So he told them. The boss on line wanted to know who he was, where he worked (he was retired, didn't work for anyone) then did he want to come work for them. He said no that he didn't want to work for anyone and she is the only one that can call me. They asked why? He said " because I'm going to get lucky tonite".
 

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That ^^^ is funny. :)

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What's cursive writing?

I know what it is, it's just when younger ones don't. ;)
It's how old people send each other secret messages.
 

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What's cursive writing?

I know what it is, it's just when younger ones don't. ;)
I have ET (go home ...) so my cursive has always been crap. I have printed most of my life.
 

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Our fortysomething 'kids' were visiting last week. I needed the number of a restaurant for reservations, so I opened the phone book. They pointed and laughed and said, "What's THAT thing?"

Jim
 

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That is the program card drum from a keypunch machine, (probably an earlier IBM 24 or 26, based on the lever lock at the top.) It told the machine which columns were to be keyed, which were alpha, which were numeric, duplicated, skipped, right-justified, and so forth.

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Correctamundo and it was used because here is the layout of the IBM 024 keypunch keyboard, note what a pain it is to enter numbers:
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Correctamundo and it was used because here is the layout of the IBM 024 keypunch keyboard, note what a pain it is to enter numbers:
CxpgULrUoAAJXQV.jpg

I never used a 024, but I did use a 026. Later spent a lot of time with a Univac 1710 keypunch machine. I graduated first in my keypunching class because I was the only guy who could do 10-key by touch. Skilz, I tells ya. I gots skilz! :)

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I never used a 024, but I did use a 026. Later spent a lot of time with a Univac 1710 keypunch machine. I graduated first in my keypunching class because I was the only guy who could do 10-key by touch. Skilz, I tells ya. I gots skilz! :)

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The 024 was obsolete in the early 70's when I was at school (that's why they were there). When I went to another school we had the 029 keypunches, OMG!, what a difference! The keyboard was actually laid out like a typewriter.
 

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The things I say that make me feel young are what make me feel old occasionally. Dealio, no joke, nice and crazy all seem timeless to me. Last night I was telling a couple in a mineral spring hot tub that I recently went to an America concert. They thought I was at a Trump rally. I had to explain that America is a 70's rock band and we recently saw them at a casino.

Somethings just cycle. I like rock, my older kids like rap and my grandkids like rock. My grand daughter wants me to go to a Greta Van Fleet concert. They kind of sound like Led Zeplin to me so I might go.

Bill

 

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The things I say that make me feel young are what make me feel old occasionally. Dealio, no joke, nice and crazy all seem timeless to me. Last night I was telling a couple in a mineral spring hot tub that I recently went to an America concert. They thought I was at a Trump rally. I had to explain that America is a 70's rock band and we recently saw them at a casino.

Somethings just cycle. I like rock, my older kids like rap and my grandkids like rock. My grand daughter wants me to go to a Greta Van Fleet concert. They kind of sound like Led Zeplin to me so I might go.

Bill


My daughter took us to see Josh Grobin several years ago. She's a major fan. I thought it was nice, if a little pedestrian. We went to see the Dixie Chicks in Canada a few years ago. My daughter stayed home; said it wasn't her kind of music. Go figure. :)

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Monday is my 35th anniversary with the company I work for which makes me one of the old guys. I really felt old before a staff meeting yesterday. Cars were the subject and everyone was saying what their first car was. They were all late 90’s early 2000’s. Then of course I had to say mine was a 1968 Chevy Caprice. I know many of you are older than me and have earlier first cars but I felt old at that meeting.
 
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