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In my day, we had to post in proper hieroglyphics and woe unto those who messed up the conjugation of "eagle, eagle, bear-claw, feather, squiggle." It wasn't all fun and games, not like today.
When we posted, we had to walk two miles uphill in a driving blizzard just to read the thread, then we'd chisel our thoughts out on the internet and sit for days HOPING someone would notice.
Why, we would live for the day someone would post a as a response. If you got a you would archive the page and show it to your folks!
Every enumerated list had to end with 7), or people would just think you were trying to be cool.
And if you took the HIGH ROAD, people noticed, and told you were nicer than they ever hoped to be, let me tell you! Those were some days.
Bah, you people have it easy!
Back in my day, the ENTIRE internet was filled up with "404 Error -- file not found." We had to provide our OWN content. And we LIKED it that way!
Feh! Pampered, the lot of you!
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Bah, you had 404 Error? We had 202 errors, and were happy with them.
And lists with 7 things? We hadn't even invented the 7 in my day. If you had more than 6 things you just had to many.
And chisels? You modern punk kid. We used our teeth, and chewed our way through rock, and were happy if it didn't taste like granite.
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Meh! When we wanted to e-mail someone, we had to look up our random number generator/Compuserve ID and scrape that into a sandstone deposit using the bones of our ancestors.
Then we'd tap out the message on hollow tree trunks.
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Hah, we didn't need teeth to much. We could use our computer mouse. Course, it was a Saber-Tooth Mouse, but that's the risk you took.
Punch cards with oles? You guys had holes? He dreamt of holes...wait, that sounds even naughtier. Nevermind.
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*tapps chin* Now, who should we use as the elderly female nerd who makes them fight for her attention?
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Why is your cook using a personal massage device? And shouldn't that have some sort of knitted covering?
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Bah, in my day little blond girls had to carry three flamingoes or it was "off with their heads!"
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The interesting thing about this performer is the very macho kind of preening quality he gives to this dance.
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quote: Ummm, I'd have to say that Claudia doesn't hold a candle to AoD.
Oh... my... god. This has me laughing so hard I've got tears leaking from my squinty eyes. It really does!
And Dick, whoever you are ::coughelizabethorfiazcocough::, your pithy commentary is witty and fascinating. It has a certain Pre-Raphaelite lovelyness about it, dont you think?
edit: damnit. I didnt see your pre-raphaelite comment. Now mine sounds reduntant.
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I remember when punk-ass kids wouldn't dream of saying something cruel and unflattering to a women's face in public, or compare her unfavorably to another woman where all can hear. Regardless of your personal preferences, Advent, where precisely are your manners?
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Yes, we Japanese are very repressed. And it's your fault. You know how your parents will say how hard it was to have to walk to school in the snow, and that sort of thing? Whenever we'd complain, our parents would say, "When I was your age, we had a nuclear bomb dropped on us." How do you compete with that?
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We older folks go to bed early, and look what I missed. I just wanted to add...
COBOL? COBOL? THe only way we could program in COBOL was if the giant saber-tooth Kobol swallowed us hole. Then we programmed the bejeezes in the freakin Kobol. And let me tell you we did some dang good programming that way. Real programming, not like the sissy stuff you kids do today.
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In my day, young men had manners! We would never insult a lady's looks, heavens no! We realized, rightly so, that were a woman to truly describe our persons, there would be nothing left to us but to become a hermit. Fortunately, women are generally much subtler, often to the point where the guy doesn't realize he's been put down until years later. When some kind woman explains it to him, pats him on the head and tells him "it's okay...that was a long time ago. You're nothing like that now.
And, in my day, when teachers didn't like your first draft of something, it meant scraping the rock clean and chiseling the whole thing over from scratch! Literally!
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Back in my day, we had to whisper asides "loudly" to each other because no-one had invented sotto voce yet!
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He has a wonderful kind of flair, very much in the style of the 19th Century Romantic poet Bryon might have been. He's kind of Byronic, isn't he?
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quote:Originally posted by Advent 115: Ummm, I'd have to say that Claudia doesn't hold a candle to AoD.
Wow, just wow. I haven't heard anything this stupid in awhile- especially not on Hatrack. I'd give you an award, but it would involve drowning you to prevent you from breeding.
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