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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #25 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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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #26 on: April 16, 2019, 09:27:56 PM »
:thumbs: Recorded songs from the radio all the time.


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« Reply #27 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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« Reply #28 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.

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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #29 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

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« Reply #30 on: April 17, 2019, 11:41:11 AM »
These are some great Certain Things.  Good work everyone.

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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #31 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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« Reply #32 on: April 17, 2019, 11:52:27 AM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #33 on: April 17, 2019, 01:59:12 PM »
Nextel phones.  <chirp>

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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #34 on: April 17, 2019, 02:31:42 PM »
Garbage Pail Kids and Madballs
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« Reply #35 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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« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2019, 03:09:38 PM »
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« Reply #37 on: April 17, 2019, 04:01:19 PM »
that sound your RAZR made when you closed it.
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #38 on: April 17, 2019, 04:05:57 PM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #39 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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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #40 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

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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #41 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!
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« Reply #42 on: April 17, 2019, 04:32:38 PM »
a dollar?  what can i buy with a dollar?  :confused:

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« Reply #43 on: April 17, 2019, 05:13:19 PM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #44 on: April 17, 2019, 05:35:56 PM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #45 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
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #46 on: April 17, 2019, 06:24:30 PM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #47 on: April 18, 2019, 08:52:18 AM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #48 on: April 18, 2019, 09:15:44 AM »
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Re: Remember That Certain Thing?
« Reply #49 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?