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Old 03-17-2011, 06:10 AM   #1
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Are you old enough to have done the following?

A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots
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Old 03-17-2011, 08:30 AM   #2
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A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots
yes, yes, yes, and yes.
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Old 03-17-2011, 08:34 AM   #3
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1) what's a type writer? o.O
2) wow! rotary engines in a phones?!?!?
3) like... left overs?
4) which game system was that one? X-box? PS2? Gamecube?
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Sadly yes. I'm old enough to remember when Pacman was a big thing.
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so... i'm guessing many of you were around when t_g_farrell's SA rolled off the show room floor...
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Old 03-17-2011, 08:50 AM   #6
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A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots
I was there when they invented forum spammers...
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Old 03-17-2011, 09:27 AM   #7
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Glad I'm not the only one to find this odd for a first post LOL.

I also find it odd even for a spammer though. What is the point?
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may be a spammer...but still fun!
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I had one of the first video games ever made, PONG.

Anyway, didn't realize it was a spammed post. Oh well.
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Old 03-17-2011, 09:57 AM   #12
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A) typed a report for school on a typewriter
B) dialed a rotary telephone
C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven
D) played Rock em Sock em Robots
Yes to all of the above.... And I had the ORIGINAL Rock em Sock em robots, where all the KO noises made were purely mechanical - no electronic sound effects like the ones my kids had!
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lets just say that when i started driving, gas was like .68/gal. and my first video game console as a kid was the atari 2600.

a quick search revealed this site on current values:
http://www.atari2600.com/priceguide/

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Old 03-17-2011, 02:05 PM   #14
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lets just say that when i started driving, gas was like .68/gal. and my first video game console as a kid was the atari 2600.

a quick search revealed this site on current values:
http://www.atari2600.com/priceguide/
I never had a video game console, but I do recall waiting in LOOOONG lines during the 1st gas crisis (Carter administration) to buy some of that $0.68 per gallon gas!
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Old 03-17-2011, 05:54 PM   #15
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I was there when they invented forum spammers...
I saw this when it was 1st posted and thought the same thing about forum spam. but did not see any links and decided to let it play out.
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