In My Day...

[Mr Sleep]

In My Day...

Honorable Mentions:

In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes.

In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated.

In my day, we didn't get that disembodied, slightly ticked-off voice saying 'Doors closing.' We got on the train, the doors closed, and if your hand was sticking out, it scraped along the tunnel all the way to the next station and it was a bloody stump at the end. But the base fare was only a dollar.

In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the back of a giant tortoise.

Back in my day, '60 Minutes' wasn't just a bunch of gray-haired, liberal 80-year-old guys. It was a bunch of gray-haired, liberal 60-year-old guys.

In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him.

Back in my day, they hadn't invented electricity. We had to watch television by candlelight.

In my day, we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes we did.

Second Runner-Up:

In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot. In winter, we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for traction.

First Runner-Up:

In my day, we didn't have MTV or in-line skates, or any of that stuff. No, it was 45s and regular old metal-wheeled roller skates, and the 45s always skipped, so to get them to play right you'd weigh the needle down with something like quarters, which we never had because our allowances were way too small, so we'd use our skate keys instead and end up forgetting they were taped to the record player arm so that we couldn't adjust our skates, which didn't really matter because those crummy metal wheels would kill you if you hit a pebble anyway, and in those days roads had real pebbles on them, not like today.

And the winner:

In my day, we didn't have rocks. We had to go down to the creek and wash our clothes by beating them with our heads.

Feel free to add your own - just make them funny or at least surreal

[Craig]

In my day we didn't have soaps, o no we had to watch detergent, In my day you had to put a 78 on a Wagon wheel and run along holding a nedle next to it.

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[Sailor Saturn]

"In my day, we didn't have chatrooms. Nope, we had to type it up on the typewriter then fold it up into a paper airplane and throw it out the window, then hope it arrived at the right place."

"In my day, we didn't have vynal. We had to roll our stones down a hill, running alongside'em, holding a bone needle against'em."

[Bloodstalker]

In my day we didn't HAVE elders to respect and learn from, we were the fisrt people on earth and had to figure evrything out for ourselves.

[CM]

In My day we had to actually get up from our computers go to the phone and then dial to order the pizza!

Funny surreal or pathetic you decide!

[Mr Sleep]

In my day we didn't have tissues, we had to blow our noses with the first log we could find

[fable]

In my day, we didn't have computers. We had to write 0s and 1s on the walls of caves.

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[Sailor Saturn]

In my day, there was no such thing as a fable. We had to sit around chatting with epic all day.

[ThorinOakensfield]

In my day we used dial up to get on the internet, now ye lazy kids just use DSL and cable.

[Aegis]

In my day, we had to procss millions of lines of binerary code with our toes...

[fable]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn: <STRONG>In my day, there was no such thing as a fable. We had to sit around chatting with epic all day. </STRONG>

LOL!

In my day, you know, we didn't have Japanese anime. We just forced Oriental tea merchants to wear fukus under threat of spears.

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[Sailor Saturn]

Quote:

Originally posted by fable: <STRONG>LOL! In my day, you know, we didn't have Japanese anime. We just forced Oriental tea merchants to wear fukus under threat of spears. </STRONG>

ROTCLMAO!!

In my day, we didn't have pen and paper. We had to play our D&D games orally and remember everything, except what we painted on the walls of our caves.

[Mr Snow]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn: <STRONG>ROTCLMAO!! In my day, we didn't have pen and paper. We had to play our D&D games orally and remember everything, except what we painted on the walls of our caves. </STRONG>

Well back in my day we didn't even have caves, we had to search for months just to find trees to build a shelter with

[Aegis]

Well, back in my day, we didn't have day!

[Mr Snow]

Quote:

Originally posted by Aegis: <STRONG>Well, back in my day, we didn't have day! </STRONG>

Damn, you must be old then!