re: Want to prove yourself an old geezer, start a sentence with "I Remember" ...

I remember having to get off the couch and "turn" the channel on the tv.

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Obama sucks but that has nothing to do with thread.

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Speaking of that ... I remember when JFK was president and he didn't have a favorite college team.

Imagine that. Everyone since, has.

BTW, who did LBJ pull for? A&M or tejas? Texas State right? But I remember him pulling for a specific team in the 60s and it caused a little bit of an uproar. '63 it was made an issue, but I think around '68 or '69 it was big because Tennessee was a state he needed when he was mulling his decision and '69 the Catholics were involved.

I remember the following were SEC coaches the year I went to my first Tiger game at age 5:

Vaught, Bellard, Jordan, Bryant, Dooley, Battle, McClendon, Graves?, Curci? (don't remember Vandy's)...

I remember when I opened your link and it got flagged by AVG as a threat

When I was a kid I used to cut grass for people for 50 cents ... and that was using a rotary "push reel" lawn mower, no engine.

I saved-up enough money to by an engine powered lawn mower, it was rebuilt and looked like hell, but it worked and it sure made the job go faster.

I was buying a gallon of gas for 25 cents, in a square metal rusted turpentine can, and I could cut ten yards with that gallon of gas. My productivity sky-rocketed and my net went through the roof even with the cost of oil for the engine which blew smoke like a Sheridan tank.

I was able to buy a swing blade for ditches and a rake, which allowed me to make more money per yard once I learned how to sell the extras and all the bells and whistles. Not long after that I bought my first hedge trimmers and man I could keep those things razor sharp.

By the time I was twelve I had $100.00 in the bank and I was rich for a twelve year old. Then we moved to the country and since there were no yards to cut within walking distance of our farm I started a produce business out of my garden with the leftover produce that the family didn't use.

Made good money with that too. People would actually drive to our house to buy my tomatoes and cucumbers, corn, beans (I got premium prices for shelled beans), and the eggs from my chickens. I used to deliver a baker's count gross of eggs to people at church every Sunday ... 25 cents per dozen and that was big Sunday money - always gave ten percent to the church too.

Damn, those were the days and they put me on a path for the rest of my life. Good memories.

I remember when I could log onto Tiger Droppings and not see stupid threads like this.

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Beats me. I remember 30 cents, occasionally 10 cents during price wars. (How crazy is it that back then gas stations sold gas for less than they paid to get customers to come in for an oil change?)

Haven't seen this one yet: I remember hay bales. (Not the large cylindrical stuff that require a machine to move, but the ones that built HS football players.)

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Back then all gas stations were full service. You stopped for gas and the attendant came-out and washed your windshield and checked your oil while your tank was filling.

There used to be this commercial where this guy was in his 55 chevy, young kid with his girl friend, and he pulled into the station and the Gulf attendant came to his window and the kid says, "give me 50 cents of good gulf" and then he looks down at his gas pedal and he had one of those hang five gas pedals with the toes and all.

Don't know why that commercial came back to me just then.

Speaking of square bails of hay ... I've hauled many of them. Used to be able to walk behind the trailer slinging bails with each hand. Talk about a day's work - you went to bed early that night and slept well.

I remember never having air conditioning in the house - sleeping with the windows open and the ceiling fans on at night and you could go to sleep with the bullfrogs and grasshoppers chirping outside your window.

Man, those were the days.

I remember when FM radio first happened ... it was a really really big deal. Only the most expensive cars had FM radios and, even then, only so many stations broadcast in FM.

We used to sit around at night on the porch and listen to 1510 WLAC AM out of Tennessee. You'd get the Wolfman Jack show and Braves and Vols football when they played at night and the station had their power turned-up.

I remember Bama running the wishbone and the backs wearing tear away jerseys.

I remember the wide recievers with globs of stick-um on their thighs and hands.

I remember Rocky Felker beating LSU