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Title: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: _33 on April 15, 2019, 11:07:43 AM
Remember busy signals?  It's like, well I know they are home because the line is busy but I'm just waiting for them to get off the phone.  Or, omg it's been busy for like an hour, get off the phone people!

Feel free to discuss busy signals and your memories of them and also new certain things that you remember.
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 15, 2019, 11:08:38 AM
They were on the internet
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Post by: _33 on April 15, 2019, 11:12:29 AM
Not when I was trying to call my grandma.  Get off the phone grandma sheesh!
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Post by: DQ12 on April 15, 2019, 12:41:09 PM
hey how about dial tones?
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Post by: _33 on April 15, 2019, 01:08:41 PM
hey how about dial tones?

Yeah, dial tone, wow.  On a number of occasions when their were people around I would say "I've got tone!" and then as I was dialing the last number I would say "firing!"
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Post by: GregKSU1027 on April 15, 2019, 08:00:55 PM
All of these belong in the signs of getting old thread.


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Post by: Spracne on April 15, 2019, 08:04:46 PM
You scrubs don't have landline phones anymore? Wow. Sucks to be poor, or so I've heard . . .
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Post by: _33 on April 16, 2019, 08:58:43 AM
Remember: Time & Temp?  You would call and a robot would tell you the time and temperature.  I called it all the time because the only other way to figure out the temp was to wait for the Local on the 8's on the Weather Channel.  The Topeka # was 271-7575.  I remembered it just now off the top of my head because that's how often I called Time & Temp.  Wow, it still works!  You have to listen to a 30 second diabetes product commercial but then you get the time and temp. 
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Post by: IPA4Me on April 16, 2019, 09:17:05 AM
Shocked it still exists. Guess the olds still call it.
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 16, 2019, 09:22:35 AM
I used to call time and temp all the time in grade school. Needed the temp because my mom wouldn't let me wear shorts to school if it was below like 40 or something (don't remember the threshold)
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Post by: Brock Landers on April 16, 2019, 09:45:09 AM
In college we would call the time and temp # in the middle of summer and make bets on when it would hit 100 degrees.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 16, 2019, 09:47:22 AM
In middle school I use to call the radio station and requests songs for my crushes.  :fatty:
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Post by: Winters on April 16, 2019, 09:49:06 AM
I like the dial up noise
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Post by: ChiComCat on April 16, 2019, 11:44:11 AM
Everything to do with figuring out movie times.  Calling into the theater and searching the paper for the ad.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: kslim on April 16, 2019, 12:12:36 PM
bag phones

 :driving:
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Post by: Spracne on April 16, 2019, 12:13:00 PM
Everything to do with figuring out movie times.  Calling into the theater and searching the paper for the ad.
Same for the TV guide in the Sunday paper to figure out whether, and where and when, your sports team was playing on TV.
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Post by: star seed 7 on April 16, 2019, 12:52:13 PM
Newspapers  :lol:
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Post by: catastrophe on April 16, 2019, 01:53:22 PM
Preview channel, then the TV guide channel
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Post by: 8manpick on April 16, 2019, 02:31:07 PM
Switching over from A To B Cable to watch ESPN
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Post by: kslim on April 16, 2019, 02:46:27 PM
tv trays
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 16, 2019, 03:00:59 PM
I love POTS lines
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 16, 2019, 03:06:58 PM
AskJeeves.com was so bad lol
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Post by: Church Creeper on April 16, 2019, 03:39:17 PM
Pull tabs on beer/pop cans
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Post by: Pete on April 16, 2019, 06:32:15 PM
Pay phones.  Had to explain those to my kids once.
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Post by: schreds21 on April 16, 2019, 08:28:29 PM
VCR rentals at Dillons.  Not just renting the movies, but the actual VCR
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: Institutional Control on April 16, 2019, 09:26:57 PM
In middle school I use to call the radio station and requests songs for my crushes.  :fatty:
Mix tapes were the way to go.


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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 16, 2019, 09:27:56 PM
:thumbs: Recorded songs from the radio all the time.


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Post by: MakeItRain on April 16, 2019, 10:10:21 PM
VCR rentals at Dillons.  Not just renting the movies, but the actual VCR

Yaaas, this was awesome. The dillons video section. I also used this to rent Super Nintendos and Sega Genesis before I got them for Xmas.
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Post by: MakeItRain on April 16, 2019, 10:15:30 PM
You scrubs don't have landline phones anymore? Wow. Sucks to be poor, or so I've heard . . .

I have a landline and it doesn't have dial tones or busy signals and it rings on my cell phone. Technology, man.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: hemmy on April 16, 2019, 10:57:41 PM
I still have the Salina time & temp in my phone contacts, since they just got transferred from one phone to the next
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: _33 on April 17, 2019, 11:41:11 AM
These are some great Certain Things.  Good work everyone.

Remember Encyclopedia sets?  We had a full set in the living room.  Do you need to know something about something?  Well you better know what letter it starts with.
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Post by: Church Creeper on April 17, 2019, 11:45:46 AM
Going to my friends house and wondering why the hell they had Beta instead of VHS.
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Post by: kslim on April 17, 2019, 11:52:27 AM
game genie
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Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on April 17, 2019, 01:59:12 PM
Nextel phones.  <chirp>
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Post by: AppleJack on April 17, 2019, 02:31:42 PM
Garbage Pail Kids and Madballs
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Post by: XocolateThundarr on April 17, 2019, 02:38:04 PM
The huge old school satellite dishes you had to go outside and turn to get different programming.
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Post by: kslim on April 17, 2019, 03:09:38 PM
silly putty

shark bites
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 17, 2019, 04:01:19 PM
that sound your RAZR made when you closed it.
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Post by: AppleJack on April 17, 2019, 04:05:57 PM
Kudos bars
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 17, 2019, 04:07:12 PM
I have a question for Greg. Greg - if you want to get you a pie from pizza shuttle do you still call 776-5577 or is there just an app for that now or how does that all work? for reference not everyone had smart phones when i graduated they were still just first catching on so the word "app" kind of had a different meaning back then thanks for everything greg let's roll
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Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 17, 2019, 04:12:42 PM
also remember when a huge selling point for cell phones was how many (or few) long distance minutes were included with your plan? i almost can't even wrap my mind around the concept of long distance or collect calls.

Moreover, before everyone had cell phones there were those commercials that would make fun of you for dialing 0 to make a collect call, they would be like dial 10-10-321 or 10-10-9000 idk there were a few companies out there
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: 8manpick on April 17, 2019, 04:29:24 PM
also remember when a huge selling point for cell phones was how many (or few) long distance minutes were included with your plan? i almost can't even wrap my mind around the concept of long distance or collect calls.

Moreover, before everyone had cell phones there were those commercials that would make fun of you for dialing 0 to make a collect call, they would be like dial 10-10-321 or 10-10-9000 idk there were a few companies out there
I remember hearing about my cousin running up a huge long distance phone bill when he lived at my grandparents house for a summer and he’d spend hours on the phone with his cross-country girlfriend. It was a major cautionary tale in our family!
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: DQ12 on April 17, 2019, 04:32:38 PM
a dollar?  what can i buy with a dollar?  :confused:

*BOOM*

Terry Bradshaw: 20 minute phone call for onlay nine-tey-nine cents
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Post by: Spracne on April 17, 2019, 05:13:19 PM
*69

And *67 if you were up to shenanigans
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Post by: catastrophe on April 17, 2019, 05:35:56 PM
Pogs
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: kslim on April 17, 2019, 06:24:16 PM
I have a question for Greg. Greg - if you want to get you a pie from pizza shuttle do you still call 776-5577 or is there just an app for that now or how does that all work? for reference not everyone had smart phones when i graduated they were still just first catching on so the word "app" kind of had a different meaning back then thanks for everything greg let's roll
the correct answer is you call Gumby’s and get a big ass
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 17, 2019, 06:24:30 PM
Pogs

Oh man! I probably still have all of mine at my parents house buried in storage.
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Post by: AppleJack on April 18, 2019, 08:52:18 AM
Beckett magazine
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Post by: schreds21 on April 18, 2019, 09:15:44 AM
Garbage Pail Kids and Madballs
Oooooooooooh good one.  Large Marge!
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Post by: schreds21 on April 18, 2019, 09:18:01 AM
Do kids still have lunch boxes?  Man, what grade school kid in the 80's didnt have a Star Wars, Dukes of Hazzard,  or Pacman metal lunch box?
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Post by: IPA4Me on April 18, 2019, 09:28:32 AM
Do kids still have lunch boxes?  Man, what grade school kid in the 80's didnt have a Star Wars, Dukes of Hazzard,  or Pacman metal lunch box?
Soft sided coolers around here. Not cool looking at all.

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Post by: Brock Landers on April 18, 2019, 09:53:26 AM
Crutchfield catalogs.  I designed so many badass car stereo systems that I was totally gonna save up money for!
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Post by: 8manpick on April 18, 2019, 09:53:35 AM
I have a question for Greg. Greg - if you want to get you a pie from pizza shuttle do you still call 776-5577 or is there just an app for that now or how does that all work? for reference not everyone had smart phones when i graduated they were still just first catching on so the word "app" kind of had a different meaning back then thanks for everything greg let's roll
the correct answer is you call Gumby’s and get a big ass
Lol, not since like 2010
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Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 18, 2019, 11:24:01 AM
I hope I don't sound like I'm tellin tales out of school but restaurants used to have smoking sections.
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Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on April 18, 2019, 11:41:59 AM
I have a question for Greg. Greg - if you want to get you a pie from pizza shuttle do you still call 776-5577 or is there just an app for that now or how does that all work? for reference not everyone had smart phones when i graduated they were still just first catching on so the word "app" kind of had a different meaning back then thanks for everything greg let's roll
the correct answer is you call Gumby’s and get a big ass

uh, about that....

thats one thing people are remembering now in MHK.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: kslim on April 18, 2019, 12:21:57 PM
I have a question for Greg. Greg - if you want to get you a pie from pizza shuttle do you still call 776-5577 or is there just an app for that now or how does that all work? for reference not everyone had smart phones when i graduated they were still just first catching on so the word "app" kind of had a different meaning back then thanks for everything greg let's roll
the correct answer is you call Gumby’s and get a big ass
Lol, not since like 2010
yeah I know, I was putting myself back in the way back timeframe 
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: _33 on April 18, 2019, 01:00:59 PM
also remember when a huge selling point for cell phones was how many (or few) long distance minutes were included with your plan? i almost can't even wrap my mind around the concept of long distance or collect calls.

Moreover, before everyone had cell phones there were those commercials that would make fun of you for dialing 0 to make a collect call, they would be like dial 10-10-321 or 10-10-9000 idk there were a few companies out there

Ha, yeah I remember the two big 10-10-xxx companies had huge advertising campaigns.  I mean in 1998 it doesn't get much bigger than Lithgow vs Lloyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mIcdM-AiVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lv306wObVs
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Post by: mocat on April 18, 2019, 01:04:56 PM
a dollar?  what can i buy with a dollar?  :confused:

*BOOM*

Terry Bradshaw: 20 minute phone call for onlay nine-tey-nine cents

i cannot believe this was 2003 and not 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noer35FHnJ4
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Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2019, 01:20:35 PM
Beckett magazine

I had my name in Beckett basketball for completing the crossword puzzle and winning a year subscription to it. Top 5 highlight of my childhood.


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Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2019, 01:20:52 PM
It had Alonzo Mourning on the cover iirc


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Title: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2019, 01:23:53 PM
This one! July 1993. What a year.

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Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2019, 01:25:41 PM
You remember a lot of details from a world changing event like that.


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Post by: steve dave on April 18, 2019, 01:40:15 PM
you may also want to consider that I completed this crossword in a pre-internet-at-steve-dave's-house era. you had to know a lot about sports and sports memorabilia to finish the thing with 100% correctness and spelling. I believe I had to phone my grandfather (long distance) to get his input on a couple old timer questions. when you accomplish something of this magnitude at such a young age and are appropriately awarded for your work it just feels so good guys. I hope each of you get to experience a rush like that at some point in your pathetic lives.
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Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 18, 2019, 01:55:14 PM
they say smell is most closely tied to memory but i would say 10-10-220 youtube commercials are a close second because my goodness you guys wow
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Post by: catastrophe on April 18, 2019, 02:25:13 PM
Truly an amazing ad campaign especially considering the crap product they were all selling.

I never even used any of those things and yet I felt weirdly loyal to 10-10-220. 10-10-321 could go eff itself for all I cared.
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Post by: MakeItRain on April 19, 2019, 12:18:42 AM
Beckett magazine

We had a trend in middle school where we would wear basketball cards in hard cases on lanyards. I wore Blair Rasumssen and David Robinson

This one! July 1993. What a year.

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Awesome!
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Post by: Spracne on April 19, 2019, 12:30:02 AM
I, for one, refuse to doxx sd despite that substantial breadcrumb.
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Post by: _33 on April 19, 2019, 09:22:43 AM
This one! July 1993. What a year.

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In case you didn't already know, this is where the _33 in catdude33 came from. 
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Post by: AppleJack on April 19, 2019, 10:32:01 AM
My God I loved Zo at Georgetown.
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Post by: pissclams on April 19, 2019, 10:39:05 AM
My God I loved Zo at Georgetown.


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Post by: pissclams on April 19, 2019, 02:33:40 PM
life before apple pay, my goodness

whenever i see a n00b pulling out their wallet and putting the cc into the machine i just smdh and lol to myself.  double click my watch and i'm on my way, it's life changing
Title: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: catastrophe on April 19, 2019, 03:14:38 PM
Taking my credit card out of my wallet and putting it in the chip reader is one of my son’s greatest joys.
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2019, 05:24:00 PM
Newspapers 
I used to look forward to getting the Sporting News delivered to 352 Marlatt Hall every Friday while in college.

Tom

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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2019, 05:27:32 PM
Wendys used to have a salad bar.

Tom

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Post by: star seed 7 on April 19, 2019, 05:30:02 PM
Newspapers 
I used to look forward to getting the Sporting News delivered to 352 Marlatt Hall every Friday while in college.

Tom

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Tom, when I was in school you could get the NYT for free and I would read that sob everyday and then do the crossword puzzle in class
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Post by: KST8FAN on April 19, 2019, 05:30:33 PM
Party lines...

Not just a busy signal for an hour you could listen to Francis and Olivette talk about nothing for hours on end.

and your number was alpha numeric... TU7-6671

Tom

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Post by: Pete on April 19, 2019, 06:24:01 PM
life before apple pay, my goodness

whenever i see a n00b pulling out their wallet and putting the cc into the machine i just smdh and lol to myself.  double click my watch and i'm on my way, it's life changing

I use apple pay on my phone, because I do not have a watch.  Are you telling me I need to get a watch?
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Post by: steve dave on April 19, 2019, 06:40:01 PM
Wendys used to have a salad bar.

Tom

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Holy crap, this just exploded into my remembery. As a kid on road trips it was the best. Pasta bar, nacho bar, crappy salad I’m not eating, frostier station. WOW


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Post by: GregKSU1027 on April 19, 2019, 10:44:11 PM
Newspapers 
I used to look forward to getting the Sporting News delivered to 352 Marlatt Hall every Friday while in college.

Tom

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Tom, when I was in school you could get the NYT for free and I would read that sob everyday and then do the crossword puzzle in class
We lost access to the New York Times last year because of budget cuts. I miss it every day


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Post by: stunted on April 19, 2019, 10:53:43 PM
apple's notch phone lol people actually buy that thing
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 19, 2019, 10:54:54 PM
Newspapers 
I used to look forward to getting the Sporting News delivered to 352 Marlatt Hall every Friday while in college.

Tom

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Tom, when I was in school you could get the NYT for free and I would read that sob everyday and then do the crossword puzzle in class
We lost access to the New York Times last year because of budget cuts. I miss it every day


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5 Free articles a month online, unlimited if you know how the internet works
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 19, 2019, 10:55:48 PM
apple's notch phone lol people actually buy that thing

The people that didn't(not smart ones) pre-ordered the fold-able one
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Post by: stunted on April 19, 2019, 11:07:48 PM
nobody bought the fold phone and it's not their flagship. they're just trying to be innovative. where's apple's innovation recently? :lol:
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Post by: pissclams on April 19, 2019, 11:27:27 PM
life before apple pay, my goodness

whenever i see a n00b pulling out their wallet and putting the cc into the machine i just smdh and lol to myself.  double click my watch and i'm on my way, it's life changing

I use apple pay on my phone, because I do not have a watch.  Are you telling me I need to get a watch?
game changer
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 19, 2019, 11:29:54 PM
If you want to use it for fitness - NO

Pay 5 seconds quicker than whipping out your phone - Yes
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Post by: IPA4Me on April 20, 2019, 08:06:49 AM
I get a weekly paper here in hillbilly land. They have an online version. It's updated weekly. Heh.
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Post by: Brock Landers on April 20, 2019, 11:22:15 AM
Wendys used to have a salad bar.

Tom

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Holy crap, this just exploded into my remembery. As a kid on road trips it was the best. Pasta bar, nacho bar, crappy salad I’m not eating, frostier station. WOW


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Not just a salad bar, sd, but a SUPERBAR

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Post by: michigancat on April 20, 2019, 11:26:33 AM
Wendys used to have a salad bar.

Tom

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Holy crap, this just exploded into my remembery. As a kid on road trips it was the best. Pasta bar, nacho bar, crappy salad I’m not eating, frostier station. WOW


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Not just a salad bar, sd, but a SUPERBAR

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Holy crap I forgot they had Mexican and man that takes me back to hitting up the Wendy's at Kellogg and Dugan after a trip to Towne West Square
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Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 21, 2019, 09:03:10 AM
Wendys used to have a salad bar.

Tom

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Holy crap, this just exploded into my remembery. As a kid on road trips it was the best. Pasta bar, nacho bar, crappy salad I’m not eating, frostier station. WOW


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Not just a salad bar, sd, but a SUPERBAR

(https://assets.change.org/photos/7/id/dx/FuIdDXSFWlYuhKo-800x450-noPad.jpg?1509436484)
Holy crap I forgot they had Mexican and man that takes me back to hitting up the Wendy's at Kellogg and Dugan after a trip to Towne West Square

And Dave Thomas was in pretty much all the commercials
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Post by: SleepFighter on April 23, 2019, 02:18:56 PM
This thing right here:

(https://i.imgur.com/5KgEoYL.gif)
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 23, 2019, 02:56:36 PM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)
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Post by: DaBigTrain on April 23, 2019, 03:32:11 PM
omg yes to both of those :love:
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Post by: MakeItRain on April 23, 2019, 11:51:36 PM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)

I've never seen this, looks like a minesweeper knockoff. I spent way too much time in the Seaton Hall computer lab playing minesweeper.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 24, 2019, 07:53:46 AM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)

I've never seen this, looks like a minesweeper knockoff. I spent way too much time in the Seaton Hall computer lab playing minesweeper.

It was part of the the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack installed on our Windows ME home computer. I played so much Chip's Challenge too. wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack

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Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 24, 2019, 08:06:57 AM
any of you guys have that commander keen game? man that was fantastic
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Post by: Institutional Control on April 24, 2019, 08:11:24 AM
My favorite toy of my childhood was Stretch Armstrong.


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Post by: kslim on April 24, 2019, 08:42:32 AM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)

I've never seen this, looks like a minesweeper knockoff. I spent way too much time in the Seaton Hall computer lab playing minesweeper.

It was part of the the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack installed on our Windows ME home computer. I played so much Chip's Challenge too. wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack

(https://classicreload.com/sites/default/files/Windows-chips-challenge.png)


packard bell had a 3 disc trial with nfl films bills vs oilers comeback, a sweet ass racing game, i cant remember the 3rd..
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Post by: DQ12 on April 24, 2019, 09:59:27 AM
I played a ton of minesweeper.  I actually played a game of minesweeper yesterday after seeing WW's weird pipe dream game.
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Post by: pissclams on April 24, 2019, 10:12:34 AM
you know who is good a minesweeper?  BRAD f’n KORN
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Post by: DQ12 on April 24, 2019, 10:48:54 AM
you know who is good a minesweeper?  BRAD f’n KORN
I saw BRAD KORN talking about it on KORN'S KORNER a few weeks ago.  Guy seemed like he knew his way around a minesweeper board.  Pretty impressive.

Minesweeper is frustrating because it's pretty easy, but there are times when you just have to guess.  Very upsetting. 
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: 8manpick on April 24, 2019, 12:11:02 PM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)

I've never seen this, looks like a minesweeper knockoff. I spent way too much time in the Seaton Hall computer lab playing minesweeper.

It was part of the the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack installed on our Windows ME home computer. I played so much Chip's Challenge too. wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack

(https://classicreload.com/sites/default/files/Windows-chips-challenge.png)
I played the hell out of Chip’s and Pipe Dream
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: 8manpick on April 24, 2019, 12:15:01 PM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)

I've never seen this, looks like a minesweeper knockoff. I spent way too much time in the Seaton Hall computer lab playing minesweeper.

It was part of the the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack installed on our Windows ME home computer. I played so much Chip's Challenge too. wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack

(https://classicreload.com/sites/default/files/Windows-chips-challenge.png)
I played the hell out of Chip’s and Pipe Dream
Also Rodent’s Revenge
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Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 24, 2019, 12:52:05 PM
any of you guys have that commander keen game? man that was fantastic

https://classicreload.com/commander-keen-1-marooned-on-mars.html (https://classicreload.com/commander-keen-1-marooned-on-mars.html)

you can play it online wow i'm having all the flashbacks this game was amaze.
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Post by: WillieWatanabe on April 24, 2019, 01:23:58 PM
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/246404-pipe-dream-windows-3-x-screenshot-level-1-complete.png)

I've never seen this, looks like a minesweeper knockoff. I spent way too much time in the Seaton Hall computer lab playing minesweeper.

It was part of the the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack installed on our Windows ME home computer. I played so much Chip's Challenge too. wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack

(https://classicreload.com/sites/default/files/Windows-chips-challenge.png)
I played the hell out of Chip’s and Pipe Dream
Also Rodent’s Revenge

I wasn't very good at that game. :frown:
Jezzball was another one that I loved. My brother was always better at it than me tho.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: MakeItRain on April 24, 2019, 11:56:59 PM
Chip's was the truth :love:
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: puniraptor on April 25, 2019, 01:25:47 AM
CHEX blasters

it was a reskin of DOOM that i got on a cdrom from a box of chex

i cant remember if you shot chex, were shooting at chex, or were a chex
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Post by: puniraptor on April 25, 2019, 01:26:43 AM
CHEX blasters

it was a reskin of DOOM that i got on a cdrom from a box of chex

i cant remember if you shot chex, were shooting at chex, or were a chex

dangit it was called chex quest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest)
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: steve dave on April 25, 2019, 10:23:18 AM
snood


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Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 25, 2019, 10:57:18 AM
GUYS!!!

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Post by: Brock Landers on April 25, 2019, 11:41:38 AM
At first glance I thought that was an assortment of Swatch watches, which is also a fine addition to this thread.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: kso_FAN on April 25, 2019, 12:17:16 PM
What was better... Wendy's buffet or KFC buffet?

I say KFC.
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Post by: steve dave on April 25, 2019, 12:26:38 PM
There is a KFC Buffett in Wichita. Saw it as I drove in a couple weeks ago. Boldly daring people to come in and lay waste to it.


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Post by: pissclams on April 25, 2019, 01:32:33 PM
What was better... Wendy's buffet or KFC buffet?

I say KFC.

pizza hut imo
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: steve dave on April 25, 2019, 01:46:06 PM
Meade Pizza Hut still has a Buffett. Everyone waits like at the starting line and when the HS girl brings out the new ‘za everyone sprints in there. MORE SUPREME? WTF?


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Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: DQ12 on April 25, 2019, 01:57:25 PM
snood


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nice one

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Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on April 25, 2019, 02:31:43 PM
Meade Pizza Hut still has a Buffett. Everyone waits like at the starting line and when the HS girl brings out the new ‘za everyone sprints in there. MORE SUPREME? WTF?


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maybe this goes in the maps thread (lol) but Meade is actually closer to Lubbock than it is to Lawrence. Manhattan only slightly closer than Lubbock (like 20-30 minute drive). Geography guys...incredible. Good luck to all you non-western kansans trying to wrap your mind around that one.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 25, 2019, 02:32:33 PM
Meade Pizza Hut still has a Buffett. Everyone waits like at the starting line and when the HS girl brings out the new ‘za everyone sprints in there. MORE SUPREME? WTF?


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Scott City one was where all the elites went for lunch.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: kso_FAN on April 25, 2019, 03:32:35 PM
Meade Pizza Hut still has a Buffett. Everyone waits like at the starting line and when the HS girl brings out the new ‘za everyone sprints in there. MORE SUPREME? WTF?


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JC still has the buffet. Pretty elite.

The certain thing I remember is planning to meet up with a group of friends and then just hoping everyone made it. There was no texting/calling on a cell phone to make sure last minute; you just show up at the meet up place and wait until everyone is there.
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Post by: kso_FAN on April 25, 2019, 03:36:43 PM
I like the dial up noise

Very satisfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSRG0TqxLWc
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 25, 2019, 09:04:44 PM
Popples
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on April 29, 2019, 11:02:14 AM
A couple of the Topeka Pizza Huts still have a buffet.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: star seed 7 on April 29, 2019, 11:05:58 AM
The one next to wal-mart in mhk does too  :th_twocents:
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Post by: Trim on April 29, 2019, 11:09:51 AM
"Smoking or non?"
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: ben ji on April 29, 2019, 07:14:16 PM
Completely forgot that KFC used to have buffets, the no longer standing KFC on 95th and Quivira definitely had one in the early 2000's. My dad always had BOGO lunch buffet coupons.

I was never very impressed.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: _33 on April 30, 2019, 09:05:46 AM
Remember when Cicis Pizza buffet was $2.99?  Wow.  Also the grand slam breakfast at Denny's was $2.99.
Title: Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
Post by: star seed 7 on April 30, 2019, 09:08:18 AM
$.79/gallon gas the summer of my senior year