How old/young are members here?

[Caveman Jim]

Stay outta this old man!!

just pointing out what he has to look forward to.... at least when he's 60 you won't be bustin his chops, it'll prolly be Stomper Jr........

 

[Mygrainman]

My son just turned 18, and my daughter turned 16 on patriot day(yep she was born that day)... The realization that I now have an adult offspring was more of a shock to me than turning 40.

 

[BillGabby1]

That top one will keep ya nice and warm in the winter but would cook ya in summer, maybe switch out the chain gun for a grenade launcher for the summer months, yeah that's the ticket!!!

I want it, I want it, with those crawler tracks I could go almost anywhere and cause mayhem!
Gimmie, gimmie!
Gabby

 

[BillGabby1]

My son just turned 18, and my daughter turned 16 on patriot day(yep she was born that day)... The realization that I now have an adult offspring was more of a shock to me than turning 40.

Got you beat I have adult grand kids and now have great grand kids, so that makes me a great grand pa I always knew I was great!
Gabby

 

[BillGabby1]

I remember having to wait for the television,the radio and the radio in the car to warm up before you could use them. On occasion, going to check tubes and buy replacements. Here's a tune I hope you will enjoy.

I remember when he was still doing the bars in Scottsdale and just getting started on the radio. That's before Willie took him under his wing!
Our first phone that I remember was one with the microphone was in the top of a long black stand and the ear piece was on a long cord and had a place where you hung it up, which is where the term Hang up came from.
No dialing either you had to tell the operator the number you wanted to reach.
When you took the earpiece off the rest she would come on the line and ask "Number please", we were on a party line and everyone on our line had individual rings such as 2 short and one long etc. it was great fun to eaves drop when someone else was on the line. It was a PITA if you had really gabby ones when you had to make an important call and they wouldn't hang up so you could get thru. Usually a pair of old biddies with nothing better to do.
Things could get ugly because everyone knew each other.
Gabby

 

[RVTECH]

Old enough to remember carrying an AR-15 in the rifle rack of my pickup and only veterans or AD personnel knew what it was....

 

[The Heretic]

I am over the hill and picking up speed

 

[Stomper]

Old enough to remember carrying an AR-15 in the rifle rack of my pickup and only veterans or AD personnel knew what it was....

Same here! I remember driving all around Portland (day & night) with a Colt AR-15 and one of those three Mossberg 500's you may have seen in past photos held in a two-gun mount in the back window of my '83 Toyota SR5 long-bed 4x4....

Mercy, mercy me.... things just aren't what they used to be!

I am over the hill and picking up speed

That's 'cuz it's all downhill from there!

 

[The Heretic]

I remember taking a shotgun to high school in my pickup (hidden).

I also took rifles to college to hunt deer in the woods behind LCC when I went there.

 

[Stomper]

Only the smarter deer hung around the college campus!

 

[ageingstudent]

Only the smarter deer hung around the college campus!

I miss having full gun racks during hunting season. When you bought a new to you $100 pickup the first thing you did was go to Bi-mart and get a 2 gun rack. Then to the gas station and spend the rest of your money.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

I am 66 but I feel like I am only 64.....

 

[edslhead]

I am 66 but I feel like I am only 64.....

Sweet!! I'm not the oldest guy here

 

[SHPD_Retired]

Come on guys, only women are supposed to be afraid to say their age!

OK, 66

 

[Stomper]

Here's yer trophy!

 

[Norwestr55]

My son just turned 18, and my daughter turned 16 on patriot day(yep she was born that day)... The realization that I now have an adult offspring was more of a shock to me than turning 40.

Just wait until they turn 40! It didn't bother me at all, (it did) I told my daughter that its amazing how she got old so fast.

 

[The Heretic]

Just wait until they turn 40! It didn't bother me at all, (it did) I told my daughter that its amazing how she got old so fast.

I would have gotten slugged had I said that to my daughter when she turned 40.

My co-workers are usually somewhat taken aback when I explain to them that my daughter is older than they are.

 

[Hayshaker]

Old enough {81}to remember what it was like to shoot pigeons off the grain elevators in the mid/late 40's for a penny apece.

 

[Hawaiian]

I am, uh, um, I think I am.......What was the question?

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

You don't know an original Black & White test pattern when you see one? These were often used when a station was preparing to go on the air in order to make certain that the video equipment is properly calibrated and the picture would be in focus as well as without distortion.

Working at a television station teaches you these things.

I used to watch a broadcast test pattern almost every day from the time I got home from school until TV went on the air at 4 pm. Also remember when gas was $.19 a galllon, by the time I started driving it was $.28 a gallon.