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Have you seen something that has come and gone in your lifetime?

Posted - March 16, 2019

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  • 46117
    I've seen just about everything go during this lifetime.  
      March 16, 2019 11:32 AM MDT
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  • 53502


     Lots of things, tons of things.

    Intact families
    Family sitting down to dinner
    Single-family homes as opposed to raising children in apartment buildings
    Respectful, profanity-free conversation in public settings
    Parents allowed to parent without government interference
    Bench seats in the fronts of cars instead of bucket seats and center consoles 
    Hub caps
    Full-size spare tires
    Cars that you could work on yourself instead of financing a mechanic shop's monthly overhead
    Maximum 55 mph speed limits on highways
    Fewer than ten TV channels from which to choose 
    Laws against statutory rape
    Automatically offering one's seat without being prompted
    Please, thank you, and excuse me
    Good movies
    Radio dramas 
    Women wearing skirts and dresses more often
    Women wearing gloves
    Men wearing suits and ties more often 
    Men wearing hats (NOT baseball caps)
    All men's underwear was white (well, when it was brand new . . . )
    Cleanshaven men instead of "looking cool"  with 5 o'clock shadow or scraggly, scruffy, stubbly growth
    Prayer
    Respect for teachers 
    Teachers wearing professional attire instead of sweats, t-shirts, jeans, etc. 



    Heck, if I don't stop now I'll go on forever.
    ~
      March 16, 2019 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 17592
    Yep
      March 16, 2019 2:39 PM MDT
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  • 53502
      Continued (I thought of some more):

    Mood rings
    Pet Rocks
    Cabbage-Patch Dolls
    Teddie Ruxpin
    Rock 'Em-Sock 'Em Robots
    Tickle-Me Elmo
    Popiel products' commercials (operators are standing by, call before midnight tonight, and wait, that's not all . . . )
    Cassette tapes and players, especially the Walkman
    Betamax
    VHS
    The war between Betamax and VHS
    VCRs
    Must-See-TV
    Video Game Arcades
    Malls
    Vans (the vehicles)
    VH Radios
    976 Phone numbers
    AOL, MSM Messenger, chatrooms, DSL, modems that required your phone receiver in its cradle
    New Coke
    Music videos on MTV
    Celebs' exercise tapes
    TV series with ensemble casts
    Tie-dye t-shirts
    Pagers/Beepers
    PDAs
    Blackberries
    The Jerry Curl 
    The Mullet
    Spiked Mohawks
    Urban cowboys 
    Valley girls
    Break-dancing
    Soul Train
    The Soul Train Dancers
    The Soul Train Boogie Line
    Members' Only Jackets

    ~





      March 16, 2019 5:38 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    I still say please, thank you and excuse me. Some things will never go away. I still use yes/no sir/ma'am.
      March 16, 2019 1:31 PM MDT
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  • 268
    The DVD came in 97, and went around 2010. Although I still primarily buy movies on that format, I don't think they really make new ones any more. iPods, like the ones that weren't also phones, I think are gone too right? And the popularity of boy bands have come and gone about 3 times over the course of my life. People keep realizing they're s**t and then forget every ten years and we go through the same embarrassing cycle over and over. We're in one right now, again.
      March 16, 2019 1:36 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    Boys grow up, so somebody has to take their place.
      March 16, 2019 1:37 PM MDT
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  • Huh!  Grow up???  I did not get that memo!  LOL!
      March 16, 2019 4:27 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    You're probably still young enough to be in a boy band. Me...not so much.

      March 16, 2019 5:20 PM MDT
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  • 268
    "Boys grow up, so somebody has to take their place"

    that was oddly poetic This post was edited by bigloseridiotman at March 17, 2019 12:36 AM MDT
      March 17, 2019 12:34 AM MDT
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  • 44600
    We have a Family Video store nearby that is still open and rents the latest films.
      March 19, 2019 8:43 AM MDT
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  • 23570
    Same here.
      March 19, 2019 3:46 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    too many things  my friend. HaHa
      March 16, 2019 2:25 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    I still have a transistor radio (that works) that my sister gave me as a Christmas present more than 55 years ago and you can still get them on line at Amazon.  
      March 16, 2019 2:31 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    What Randy said.


    But, wait....
    https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Pocket-Radio-Reception-Built-/dp/B0773TJ1JM?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0773TJ1JM
      March 16, 2019 2:40 PM MDT
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  • 23570

     . . . when original Lucky Charms cereal had only four kinds of marshmallows.


    "The first boxes of Lucky Charms cereal contained marshmallows in the shapes of pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers."



    I admit that I once wrote to the cereal company to please go back to only four kinds of marshmallows -- there are now simply too many marshmallows.

    :)
      March 16, 2019 4:20 PM MDT
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  • Civility.
      March 16, 2019 4:29 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    Ain't that the truth?
      March 16, 2019 5:21 PM MDT
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