I Remember When..........
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Catholic primary and secondary/boarding education.
The strap was certainly a well-remembered feature as was a sharp rap on the knuckles or finger tips with a wooden ruler.
No "sparing the rod" at those institutions
I remember when people could speak and write in complete sentences, had full grasp of proper grammar, syntax etc., and had enough of an attention span to get through more than two or three words without zoning out like they're on some kind of experimental drug or something.
Coincidentally, I also remember a time when Idiocracy seemed like a comedy movie. Now it just looks like straight prophecy.
Coincidentally, I also remember a time when Idiocracy seemed like a comedy movie. Now it just looks like straight prophecy.
A time before everyone was constantly glued to social media and smartphones.
I remember Jamesway, Hechinger’s and Kmart bluelight specials.
50 cent candy bars and 25 cent stamps
and a GIJOE was $1.67 @ Toys R Us
50 cent candy bars and 25 cent stamps
and a GIJOE was $1.67 @ Toys R Us
My millennial stepdaughter always asks, “Steve, how do you know so much about everything?”.
She never got to read encyclopedias because there wasn’t 24/7 TV and electronic babysitting going on…
There are 2nversions of this game. One is rarer. I forget the details.That was a great NES game
The old Dewey Decimal System
Which reminds me of a story.
In the early 1990’s I had cofounded a digital visual effects studio at Warner Brothers.
Our receptionist was a skinny Goth girl who was bright, funny, intelligent, and extremely foul mouthed.
One morning she got a call from a girlfriend, and forgetting that she had left on the intercom, launched into a highly detailed description of the acrobatic sexual romp she had engaged in the night before with a guy she had met at a bar. She went on for about three spectacular minutes before she became aware that she was broadcasting the details throughout the entire facility.
There was an embarrassed “Oh shit! OH SHIT!!!” before she killed the intercom, following which the whole studio erupted with applause.
Small price to pay to grow into a functioning human capable of critical thinking, no?
Walked right into that one...
I played the NES version and a version in the arcade but I don't think that had Mike Tyson in it. It was basically the same game but the boxer you controlled was a little white guy. I think it was just called Punch Out.
And kids could make change without the damn register doing the simple S I M P L E math. The looks of confusion when they try just fuel my vexation with public education.
I remember when some of the games in the arcade had built in (or added on later) ashtrays. I remember one cabinet had a small piece of sort of zig zag shaped miniature corrugated metal on it. Perfect for resting your cigarette without burning anything.
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"
- L. P. Hartley
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"
- L. P. Hartley
I remember when I found out Santa Claus wasn't real...... 25 years old, I was
I remember using a road atlas to drive to faraway places. I also remember being able to get lost (for better or worse).
In a lot of ways the world seems a lot less grand than it once did. Obscure, "out-of-the-way" places are on google maps street view. And there's probably a reddit.
In a lot of ways the world seems a lot less grand than it once did. Obscure, "out-of-the-way" places are on google maps street view. And there's probably a reddit.
Damn this took me back. Jamesway and Hechingers! Caldor too.
So much fun looking at toys there.