You know you're old when...

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by rwheels

Your parents? Get off my lawn. Ask them if they remember watching Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In show.

Well, young man. Do you remember them as Caesar and Cleo?

[rwheels]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Well, young man. Do you remember them as Caesar and Cleo?

Was tv invented then?

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by jamesinaz

She probably didn't miss ones like me. Ask her about "ICU psychosis". After 30 days of drugs and pain with my belly split open and a large tube sucking out the poison in me I was no longer on planet earth. I was especially irked by the little gremlin that hid behind the machine on the wall.

I can relate. About 10 years ago, I went into the ER two days after coming home from my girlie beach week. I wound up in NYU for a month with a room overlooking the East River and LIC. In my mind, I was at a beach resort with an ocean view room. Those drugs.....

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by rwheels

Was tv invented then?

Maybe Black and White

[mightyaa]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Maybe Black and White

I bet it still glowed and made popping noises cooling down after you turned it off...

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by mightyaa

I bet it still glowed and made popping noises cooling down after you turned it off...

As a matter of fact it did. When the TV was not working, we used to pull the tubes out and take them down to the liquor store and test them. I guess that qualifies me for this thread.

[jamesinaz]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I can relate. About 10 years ago, I went into the ER two days after coming home from my girlie beach week. I wound up in NYU for a month with a room overlooking the East River and LIC. In my mind, I was at a beach resort with an ocean view room. Those drugs.....

My loss of reality included a visit to a North Vietnamese hootch where I was being held prisoner. Why I have no idea as I did not serve in the military. At another point I could hear the nurses plotting to get me if I got out of the bed. Ridiculous since I was too weak to get up anyway. And the nurses were always very nice to me. I know that NOW but at that time I thought they were going to kill me.

I was also convinced the nurses were selling pharmacy quality narcotics to guys in zoot suits driving harleys up to the window. The fact we were on the 4th floor had no bearing on my hallucinations.

All I know is if I ever have a loved one in hospital that is suffering from this I will be more understanding of it. It seems very real to the person living through it.

[mightyaa]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

As a matter of fact it did. When the TV was not working, we used to pull the tubes out and take them down to the liquor store and test them. I guess that qualifies me for this thread.

Vacuum tube tv’s were my early years; way too young to have to work on it, but would still get in trouble for watching tv when I supposed to be doing chores and/or sneaking out of my room to watch tv after hearing my parents go to bed. Rake the shag was a chore along with 'normal' first grader stuff like mowing the lawn.

The Sony Walkman/Arcade rat generation here. But kids get it; they’ve seen Stranger Things, and It. So I’m still pretty retro-cool… or is that vintage?

[wcr3d]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

Your parents? I can remember watching the show....

I didn’t want to admit to watching it!
Yes I remember the others, including gasp He-Haw!

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

I didn’t want to admit to watching it!
Yes I remember the others, including gasp He-Haw!

I miss Johnny Carson. And the Carol Burnett show. Freakin riots.

[wcr3d]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I miss Johnny Carson. And the Carol Burnett show. Freakin riots.

Those shows I do miss, some of the others not so much.
One that always made me get up and leave.... Lawrence Welk.

[jamesinaz]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I miss Johnny Carson. And the Carol Burnett show. Freakin riots.

Tim Conway. Hysterical.

[Dpc2u]

Originally Posted by wcr3d

Those shows I do miss, some of the others not so much.
One that always made me get up and leave.... Lawrence Welk.

I always watched for the bubbles at the end of Lawrence Welk on Sunday night because it signaled the start of The Wonderful World of Disney which came on next.

[wcr3d]

Ya I could watch anything but Welk, there were some good ones like mentioned above.
Oh and another good one....Laugh-In

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by jamesinaz

My loss of reality included a visit to a North Vietnamese hootch where I was being held prisoner. Why I have no idea as I did not serve in the military. At another point I could hear the nurses plotting to get me if I got out of the bed. Ridiculous since I was too weak to get up anyway. And the nurses were always very nice to me. I know that NOW but at that time I thought they were going to kill me.

I was also convinced the nurses were selling pharmacy quality narcotics to guys in zoot suits driving harleys up to the window. The fact we were on the 4th floor had no bearing on my hallucinations.

All I know is if I ever have a loved one in hospital that is suffering from this I will be more understanding of it. It seems very real to the person living through it.

Wow, that's pretty screwed up. I can't imagine what it was like. At least my delusion calmed me because I thought I was in my happy place.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by jamesinaz

Tim Conway. Hysterical.

Dom Deloise and Robin Williams on Carson were gold. I would laugh so hard I'd cry.

[King Rudi]

I'm over people's shit.....this makes me old enough to remember a time when I didn't give a shit.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Dom Deloise and Robin Williams on Carson were gold. I would laugh so hard I'd cry.

And would have peed, if you were as old as you are now

I'll do it so you don't have to:

[rwheels]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

I always watched for the bubbles at the end of Lawrence Welk on Sunday night because it signaled the start of The Wonderful World of Disney which came on next.

You had to be old to watch Lawrence Welk. Anybody here that old; or care to admit it (watching that show)?

[upstatedoc]

...you keep reading this thread

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by rwheels

You had to be old to watch Lawrence Welk. Anybody here that old; or care to admit it (watching that show)?

Not by choice. Great Grandma had to watch that on Sunday night. Sunday was always grandma's house and back then there was no such thing as a TV in every room. And back then, the adults won, not the kids.

[Dpc2u]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Not by choice. Great Grandma had to watch that on Sunday night. Sunday was always grandma's house and back then there was no such thing as a TV in every room. And back then, the adults won, not the kids.

Exactly. I had no option other than when the bubbles started it was over and I could watch something I liked.