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Stuff you don’t see anymore (list).
Posted on 6/25/24 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 6/25/24 at 1:37 pm
Flappers
Phones screwed into walls/rotary phones
Belgian social clubs
Italian social clubs
German American Bund campgrounds
Hot plates
Blackboards
Violins
Non-tattooed people
McDonald’s Playplaces
Anne Heche
Rabbit-eared televisions
Televisions built into rich, solid wood cabinets
Guillotines
Grandfather clocks
Men who know how to knot a tie
Intercity bus stations
Bloom County
Dukes of St. George
Bewigged judges (east of the Mississippi only)
Jarts
High quality professional dominatrixes
Smokestacks
Yugos
Apple IIe’s
Peasants with sickles working the fields
Those TV dinners that took an hour
Saccharine cubes
A lot of cats
Block after block of bungalows
Pamphlets denouncing the King of Mexico
Daguerreotype studios
Massacres of Huguenots
TGIF lineup on ABC
North American Soccer League trading cards
Tupperware parties your grandma hosts
Saddle shoes
Cocker spaniels
Endless acres of antennas as you ride the train into Chicago
Esperanto congresses
Barbers doubling as the town surgeon
Lovers of Sturm und Drang
Hi-heel sneakers
Guys named Leroy and Gary
Metal ice cube trays
Burger Chef
Night Court reruns
Switches, straight off the tree
Emme the plus-size supermodel
Radio repair shops
Fulsome bushes, like a nice boxwood or something
Wallpaper
Bench seats
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets
45’s (and 78’s!)
Wrist sweatbands
Red stripe wide ovals
Dollar hot dogs and dollar beers at the ballpark
Lou Christie LP’s in the cutout bin of the music counter at the department store downtown
Thoroughly convinced Cartesians
Japanese cars made in Japan, dammit
Old Stuckey’s that *haven’t* been converted to “adult superstores”
Swaggering, alcoholic Britpop bands
Well-annotated and affordable editions of Faulkner’s novels
Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips
Albums with titles like Al Green Gets Next To You
Pepsi Free
Nice photos of Alan Greenspan
Kids who know cursive
Lowenbrau
Do they still make Blatz?
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom
Ditchweed
Pool hustlers
Pool halls for the working class
Marxist-Leninist-Stalinists
Alan Thicke (R.I.P.)
Robin Thicke
A really top notch tobacconist
Shoeshine stands in airports and bank lobbies
Movie series about bloodthirsty midgets
Dialup internet
Socks the cat (R.I.P.)
Any of Kim Jong Un’s - and the Korean people’s - many, many enemies
Pay phones
Pay toilets
Karen Carpenter (true both before and after her death)
Queen of the Sea 24-Hour Buffet (Stony Island Avenue, Chicago)
Emilio Estevez’s career
The National
Cute girls reading Kipling on the bus
Newport ads in Sports Illustrated
Chicks in overalls (real farmer ones, not fashion designer crap)
Hitchhiking hippies
Criminals forced to clean highway trash
Drummers in red leather suits and skinny ties
Shave and a haircut two bits
Old fashioned 4-ply toilet paper like Grandpa used to weave
Jimmy’s mom (?)
A ballot the Socialist Workers Party manages to sneak a candidate onto
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Transfat!”
Macarena
Acid-washed jeans
“Desuetude” used properly in a sentence
51/49 beef at the butcher
CARtoons
Dogs without a trace of pit bull blood
Dutch royal family action figures
Odes on the Hoover Factory
Good taste in upper-upper-middle-class housing
Richard Simmons showing up at malls
The VHS tapes I used to fill with “The Three Stooges” and late late night HBO and Showtime super soft core back in junior high I wonder whatever happened to
Geranium dainties
Häagen-Dazs Honey Vanilla, the dirty ****ers
Kids who answer to “Timmy”
Chickens loaded up on antibiotics
Gondola traffic on the Wabash River
Songs about fairies and gnomes and shite
Macramé plant hangers
Bead doors, while we’re at it
B-36’s
Aunts who remember the first time they saw a car
Phones screwed into walls/rotary phones
Belgian social clubs
Italian social clubs
German American Bund campgrounds
Hot plates
Blackboards
Violins
Non-tattooed people
McDonald’s Playplaces
Anne Heche
Rabbit-eared televisions
Televisions built into rich, solid wood cabinets
Guillotines
Grandfather clocks
Men who know how to knot a tie
Intercity bus stations
Bloom County
Dukes of St. George
Bewigged judges (east of the Mississippi only)
Jarts
High quality professional dominatrixes
Smokestacks
Yugos
Apple IIe’s
Peasants with sickles working the fields
Those TV dinners that took an hour
Saccharine cubes
A lot of cats
Block after block of bungalows
Pamphlets denouncing the King of Mexico
Daguerreotype studios
Massacres of Huguenots
TGIF lineup on ABC
North American Soccer League trading cards
Tupperware parties your grandma hosts
Saddle shoes
Cocker spaniels
Endless acres of antennas as you ride the train into Chicago
Esperanto congresses
Barbers doubling as the town surgeon
Lovers of Sturm und Drang
Hi-heel sneakers
Guys named Leroy and Gary
Metal ice cube trays
Burger Chef
Night Court reruns
Switches, straight off the tree
Emme the plus-size supermodel
Radio repair shops
Fulsome bushes, like a nice boxwood or something
Wallpaper
Bench seats
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets
45’s (and 78’s!)
Wrist sweatbands
Red stripe wide ovals
Dollar hot dogs and dollar beers at the ballpark
Lou Christie LP’s in the cutout bin of the music counter at the department store downtown
Thoroughly convinced Cartesians
Japanese cars made in Japan, dammit
Old Stuckey’s that *haven’t* been converted to “adult superstores”
Swaggering, alcoholic Britpop bands
Well-annotated and affordable editions of Faulkner’s novels
Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips
Albums with titles like Al Green Gets Next To You
Pepsi Free
Nice photos of Alan Greenspan
Kids who know cursive
Lowenbrau
Do they still make Blatz?
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom
Ditchweed
Pool hustlers
Pool halls for the working class
Marxist-Leninist-Stalinists
Alan Thicke (R.I.P.)
Robin Thicke
A really top notch tobacconist
Shoeshine stands in airports and bank lobbies
Movie series about bloodthirsty midgets
Dialup internet
Socks the cat (R.I.P.)
Any of Kim Jong Un’s - and the Korean people’s - many, many enemies
Pay phones
Pay toilets
Karen Carpenter (true both before and after her death)
Queen of the Sea 24-Hour Buffet (Stony Island Avenue, Chicago)
Emilio Estevez’s career
The National
Cute girls reading Kipling on the bus
Newport ads in Sports Illustrated
Chicks in overalls (real farmer ones, not fashion designer crap)
Hitchhiking hippies
Criminals forced to clean highway trash
Drummers in red leather suits and skinny ties
Shave and a haircut two bits
Old fashioned 4-ply toilet paper like Grandpa used to weave
Jimmy’s mom (?)
A ballot the Socialist Workers Party manages to sneak a candidate onto
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Transfat!”
Macarena
Acid-washed jeans
“Desuetude” used properly in a sentence
51/49 beef at the butcher
CARtoons
Dogs without a trace of pit bull blood
Dutch royal family action figures
Odes on the Hoover Factory
Good taste in upper-upper-middle-class housing
Richard Simmons showing up at malls
The VHS tapes I used to fill with “The Three Stooges” and late late night HBO and Showtime super soft core back in junior high I wonder whatever happened to
Geranium dainties
Häagen-Dazs Honey Vanilla, the dirty ****ers
Kids who answer to “Timmy”
Chickens loaded up on antibiotics
Gondola traffic on the Wabash River
Songs about fairies and gnomes and shite
Macramé plant hangers
Bead doors, while we’re at it
B-36’s
Aunts who remember the first time they saw a car
This post was edited on 6/25/24 at 2:02 pm
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Posted on 6/25/24 at 2:05 pm to Radio One
Posted on 6/25/24 at 2:15 pm to Radio One
Looks like you covered all of it Radio. 
Posted on 6/25/24 at 3:53 pm to OK Roughneck
I'm impressed with your list.
I'm impressed with your effort.
I was about to say that you don't see anyone with moxie anymore, somebody that has fire in their belly and a plan to get stuff done, but then there's you here with the "gusto" to put together that list. Even though I actually see many of the things you mention not seeing anymore. But it's not a contest. I'm not you and you are not me. Maybe I see some of those things because I'm a "weird duck", who knows?
Some things I don't see anymore(that also make me sad)
1. Shrinky-Dinks
2. Sea Monkeys
3. Magic Sand
4. Horny Toads, the actual animal.
Sometimes when I think about the horny toads I start to sing "Where have all the horned frogs go-o-oooonnnnne" to the tune of that Paula Cole song, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Man, Paula Cole, what a tasty piece she was back in the day. She has a nose piercing so I guess that makes her OT-Trashy, but she was a real life "Denim 10" when this song was in the charts.
I'm impressed with your effort.
I was about to say that you don't see anyone with moxie anymore, somebody that has fire in their belly and a plan to get stuff done, but then there's you here with the "gusto" to put together that list. Even though I actually see many of the things you mention not seeing anymore. But it's not a contest. I'm not you and you are not me. Maybe I see some of those things because I'm a "weird duck", who knows?
Some things I don't see anymore(that also make me sad)
1. Shrinky-Dinks
2. Sea Monkeys
3. Magic Sand
4. Horny Toads, the actual animal.
Sometimes when I think about the horny toads I start to sing "Where have all the horned frogs go-o-oooonnnnne" to the tune of that Paula Cole song, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Man, Paula Cole, what a tasty piece she was back in the day. She has a nose piercing so I guess that makes her OT-Trashy, but she was a real life "Denim 10" when this song was in the charts.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 11:56 am to DrDenim
Phone booths
Manners
Respect
Courtesy
Manners
Respect
Courtesy
Posted on 6/26/24 at 2:08 pm to Radio One
Movies about kicking the shite out of communists.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 5:40 pm to Radio One
Alterless TRanters
Posted on 6/26/24 at 5:54 pm to GetPiggywithIt
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Alterless TRanters
I've never had a single alt in the entire time I've been a member here.
Posted on 6/26/24 at 6:23 pm to 3down10
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Movies about kicking the shite out of communists.
Who needs movies?
Back in the day they gave you a gun and let you bag as many of the bastarts as you could.
Now we have a former POTUS who wants to play kissy face with Red Russia, Red China, and that fat asian.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 10:13 am to Radio One
Brevity
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:38 am to Cheese Grits
quote:
Who needs movies?
Back in the day they gave you a gun and let you bag as many of the bastarts as you could.
Now we have a former POTUS who wants to play kissy face with Red Russia, Red China, and that fat asian.
I got suspended for a week on twitter for telling a communist I only joined the military decades ago to kill people like him.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 12:37 pm to 3down10
quote:
I've never had a single alt in the entire time I've been a member here.
Amen. I barely have enough time and energy to post under one account. Much less multiple ones.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 3:25 pm to Radio One
Very good list.
I’d add colored toilets like that pink or blue.
Also carpet in the bathroom.. such a dumb idea.
Shifter in the column
Those cowboy hats with the feather collage on the front.
There’s the top of my head adding.
I’d add colored toilets like that pink or blue.
Also carpet in the bathroom.. such a dumb idea.
Shifter in the column
Those cowboy hats with the feather collage on the front.
There’s the top of my head adding.
Posted on 6/28/24 at 1:13 am to JEC119
quote:
Shifter in the column
My first car/truck had a 3 speed in the tree. And they weren't synchronized, so if you downshifted and went from 3rd to 1st, it would lock them up. Have to pop the hood and unlock them. Doesn't take long to learn though, because it's a pain in the arse when you frick it up.
Posted on 6/28/24 at 12:57 pm to DrDenim
She was a bit of a Lilith Fair type lesbo back in the day. Would have hit though. Still would actually.
Posted on 6/28/24 at 7:00 pm to 3down10
That’s what I learned to drive with. My step dads f-100 with 3 on the tree and no power steering.
Posted on 6/28/24 at 7:34 pm to Radio One
Minute Man Restaurants
Gun racks in trucks at school, with zero school shootings
Jeffrey Epstein, living it up in France with Roman Polanski
The Far Side
Burning the Bermuda grass football field in the spring
Dogs not tied up
Teenagers brave enough to drive on an ice-covered lake
HeeHaw
MTV and VH1
Astroturf that draws blood
Montreal Expos
real Mazzio's Pizza
Gun racks in trucks at school, with zero school shootings
Jeffrey Epstein, living it up in France with Roman Polanski
The Far Side
Burning the Bermuda grass football field in the spring
Dogs not tied up
Teenagers brave enough to drive on an ice-covered lake
HeeHaw
MTV and VH1
Astroturf that draws blood
Montreal Expos
real Mazzio's Pizza
Posted on 6/29/24 at 3:23 pm to 3down10
quote:
I got suspended for a week on twitter for telling a communist I only joined the military decades ago to kill people like him.
Not fair.
You have a former POTUS marry not 1, but 2, Commie women and now it is OIK to buddy up.
Not me.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 10:39 am to JEC119
quote:
Those cowboy hats with the feather collage on the front.
Like this:
I've been maintaining my found feather collection so I can one day have enough to make my own feather band for another hat of mine.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 12:54 pm to Radio One
Adding to your list:
Mood Rings
Mimeograph Sheets
Aluminum Pull Tab Cans
Cars with Woodie Panels
Go Karts
Air Raid Drills
Reverse Polish Calculators
Mood Rings
Mimeograph Sheets
Aluminum Pull Tab Cans
Cars with Woodie Panels
Go Karts
Air Raid Drills
Reverse Polish Calculators
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