You know you are over 40 if...

[Rolo]

You thought Fonzie was cool and Richie was actually Opie all grown up!

[Anesa]

You know who's girlfriend "Pinky Tuscadero" was?   

[Rolo]

You had a big ass comb in the back pocket of your Hash Jeans.

[Taymynx]

*now you are just making things up*

You rode a skateboard that didn't bend.

You made your own skateboard by dismantling "key" skates and nailing them onto the bottom of a 2 by 4 by 10....(well, maybe your big brother did it for you)
or got screamed at by your mom when picking up the party line phone while the other party was on a call....
or when your allowance was a nickle and that was a LOT of candy.

[Taymynx]

DROP, DUCK, and COVER Drills...

and by God, your skirt had better touch the back of your calves while on your knees, if not the ground, or you were headed home....and your brother's hair had better not touch his ears or collar.

This is a fun thread!

[Rolo]

You shed a tear when Elvis died.

[Autumn52]

If you remember playing with paper dolls. Also when Ken and Barbie were not anatomically correct. Also when baby dolls did not look real.

[Rolo]

If you remember when Oliver killed the Brady Bunch, and your wife used to babysit the actor that played Oliver.

[Captain Maltese]

If music videos on your tv were not originals, but versions translated to your own language by crappy musicians rented in by the state television.

[Sybl]

You remember the original Lite Brite.

[bunny]

You remember Joanie and Cha Chi's first "date."

[Sybl]

Your parents had a brand new 1953 Chevrolet and you rode in it.

[Rolo]

You know who's number is 867-5309.

[Wykyd]

You ever saw an episode of Love American Style!

[LunarSage]

You know who's number is 867-5309.

Jenny, right?

[Autumn52]

You use to watch Solid Gold every weekend

[yoniek]

you have watched television in your childhood in black and white.

[derek]

You know you are...
If you watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan LIVE.

[Rolo]

You were ever paddled by the principal in grade school for stepping out of line.

[TaintedAndDelish]

Funny, when I was a kid, We had a gym teacher who used to give out birthday spanks in the cafeteria with a ping pong paddle while everyone watched and cheered...

Good times....

[derek]

You know you're over 40 when the 1964 Corvette Stringray was a new car in the showroom and not yet a classic

[Mordred]

Ok.. I forgot what it was like to be over 40. The year was 351.. and I was still in a chaotic transitional period.. (and to be completely honest.. certain memories are hazy.. for the ground does take it's toll). But.. what I can do is give my insight upon..

You know you are over 400 if...

You start to see the significance in everything.. every little swerve, each moment, and yes.. every adorable blade of vibrantly green grass.. and just beyond the fringes of awareness, you can feel that amazing pattern that encompasses all. It has a pulse.. I just wish it'd let me take a bite, even if it vaporized me out of existence as the inevitable price.

[Codswallop]

There was a time in your life when you would have given anything to be this much of a masculine badass.


Street toughs circa 1984.
Not pictured: Dignity

[TaintedAndDelish]

... When people start labeling you as "mature"...not as in "fully matured" but rather as in "mature porn"

:)

[auroraChloe]

this on the telly meant it was sunday evening.... 

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