Kids these days eh? - Page 2

Herr-Berbunch · 01-09-12, 07:59 AM

Osmium Steele · 01-09-12, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

When I was a kid we didn't have PCs, so we had LAWN parties instead!

With real Lawn Darts and everything. 1 lb. pointy, brass darts thrown high into the sky to land just inches away from your cousin!

Sailor Steve · 01-09-12, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

With real Lawn Darts and everything. 1 lb. pointy, brass darts thrown high into the sky to land just inches away from your cousin!

Close. I remember playing 'Cowboys and Indians' with the kid next door. I was the Indian, rubber-sucker-tipped arrow and all. I told him I'd shoot at him, he would duck and then shoot me dead with his six-gun. Unfortunately he forgot to duck. Nailed him in the forehead. Went home crying. Me in trouble.

Funny thing is, I still remember his highly improbable name: Harold Shotwell.

USS Drum · 01-09-12, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Shotwell.

Was he good with the gun?

soopaman2 · 01-09-12, 10:18 AM

LAN with consoles?

Lulz

Back in my days we had to lug our pc to peoples houses.

Kids these days don't exercise enough.

Herr-Berbunch · 01-09-12, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

Back in my days we had to lug our pc to peoples houses.

And not just the PC, the wonderful green-screen monitor too, if you could afford it. And the tape player.

And tapes. Lots of very-long-to-load tapes.

Kongo Otto · 01-09-12, 10:43 AM

Herr-Berbunch · 01-09-12, 10:58 AM

Was anything else so perfectly matched?

Sailor Steve · 01-09-12, 11:00 AM

Wasn't the "Manual Fast-Winding Stick" created for that purpose?

Herr-Berbunch · 01-09-12, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Wasn't the "Manual Fast-Winding Stick" created for that purpose?

And then some brainiac decided to put some graphite in the middle, and an eraser on the other end...

Sailor Steve · 01-09-12, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

And then some brainiac decided to put some graphite in the middle,

But...but...I thought that was to help guide it into the hole.

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and an eraser on the other end...

What's an "eraser"? Isn't that something to chew on when you're not winding? Oh, maybe it's to erase the gunk from your teeth...

Penguin · 01-09-12, 01:55 PM

ha, I know the answer to Kongo Otto's riddle:
You can use the pencil to write the name of the mp3's, that you burned on that tape, on the white, blank space!

Do I get a cookie?

Sailor Steve · 01-09-12, 02:37 PM

Nope. That's what pens are for.

Penguin · 01-09-12, 02:43 PM

Pens? Ha! You crazy young sports used pens for your tapes!

We used to carve the band names in stone and then stick it onto the tapes!

Betonov · 01-09-12, 04:25 PM

Pha, at least you had tapes and pencils, I grew up in the Balkans

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soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	LAN with consoles? Lulz Back in my days we had to lug our pc to peoples houses. Kids these days don't exercise enough. __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.

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Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	Was anything else so perfectly matched? __________________

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Wasn't the "Manual Fast-Winding Stick" created for that purpose? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Nope. That's what pens are for. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	ha, I know the answer to Kongo Otto's riddle: You can use the pencil to write the name of the mp3's, that you burned on that tape, on the white, blank space! Do I get a cookie?

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Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	Pens? Ha! You crazy young sports used pens for your tapes! We used to carve the band names in stone and then stick it onto the tapes!

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Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Pha, at least you had tapes and pencils, I grew up in the Balkans