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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #30 on: April 11, 2008, 08:48:30 PM »
Quote from: ChrisMek on April 11, 2008, 07:21:33 PM
- HBO going "off the air" for the night!

I remember most of the channels doing that.  If I fell asleep with the TV on, I would awake sometime after midnight to the extremely loud "snow" channel.  I can't believe it took them so long to discover they could fill all that down time with infomercials.

Quote from: ChrisMek on April 11, 2008, 07:21:33 PM
- not having cartoon network! we only watched cartoons on Saturday mornings!

It was the only reason to get up early on Saturday!  If you slept until noon, you missed all the good cartoons for the week.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2008, 10:12:08 PM »
i miss the channels going off the air.  the fuzz and snow is so much less obnoxious than the infomercials.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2008, 08:11:31 AM »
Quote from: RogueClown on April 11, 2008, 10:12:08 PM
i miss the channels going off the air.  the fuzz and snow is so much less obnoxious than the infomercials.
I miss that they played the Star Spangled Banner right before the channel went off the air, with all of the fighter jets flying around and such.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #33 on: April 12, 2008, 01:58:20 PM »
YouTube has a lot of old TV nightly signoff videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=television+signoff
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #34 on: February 12, 2010, 03:53:22 PM »
Remember when I made this thread?  It was awesome!
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2010, 04:37:29 PM »
I loved everything about the 80s except:

-Rainbow Brite

-Nell Carter (she was fucking everywhere)

-New wave

-ColecoVision... My dad got one that fell off a truck. He wouldn't buy a 2600, which is what all my friends had, so I couldn't trade games with them. My graphics were better, but I was stuck with Rocky and Ladybug.

-The McDLT. That thing was a pain in the ass to eat, always fell apart.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #36 on: February 12, 2010, 05:55:26 PM »
Quote from: bosco on February 12, 2010, 04:37:29 PM
-Nell Carter (she was fucking everywhere)

Was she everywhere?  I only remember her on the TV show Gimmie A Break.   Which for some reason I watched as a kid.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #37 on: February 12, 2010, 08:35:20 PM »
Back in my day we caught Pokemon, not STDs.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #38 on: February 13, 2010, 01:54:44 AM »
Quote from: rbcp on February 12, 2010, 05:55:26 PM

Was she everywhere?  I only remember her on the TV show Gimmie A Break.   Which for some reason I watched as a kid.


Gimme A Break was bad enough, but I remember seeing her all over the place. Hollywood Squares, talk shows, guest appearances, etc. We get it Nell, you're sassy and you don't take any shit.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #39 on: February 13, 2010, 11:40:52 AM »
Guess I didn't watch talk shows and other stuff she was on when I was that age.  At least she's dead now though!  I actually watched a random episode of Gimmie a Break last year.  I was skimming through Hulu and saw it, so I decided to watch it.  It's one of those shows that was funny in the 80's, but not at all today.  I didn't even make it to the end of the episode.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #40 on: February 13, 2010, 08:05:19 PM »
Quote from: bosco on February 13, 2010, 01:54:44 AM
Quote from: rbcp on February 12, 2010, 05:55:26 PM

Was she everywhere?  I only remember her on the TV show Gimmie A Break.   Which for some reason I watched as a kid.


Gimme A Break was bad enough, but I remember seeing her all over the place. Hollywood Squares, talk shows, guest appearances, etc. We get it Nell, you're sassy and you don't take any shit.

Hollywood Squares was only good when Triumph the Insult dog was on it.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #41 on: February 14, 2010, 11:33:10 AM »
Quote from: Zyklon C on February 13, 2010, 08:05:19 PM
Hollywood Squares was only good when Triumph the Insult dog was on it.


The best they could do back then was Rip Taylor or Yakov Smirnov
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2010, 10:39:00 AM »
Michael Jordan - To this day, this man is a franchise like none other.

Reebok Pumps - these things were the shit when they first came out.

One of my neighbors had an Intellivision, which was pretty sweet, and in high school some friends and I bought a Magnavox Odyssey off eBay for the nostalgia, but we didn't have directions, overlays, or supplemental stuff, so it didn't really work.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #43 on: February 17, 2010, 08:02:55 AM »
I don't remember computers sucking this bad back then, but apparently they did...

http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Computer_Chronicles_Christmas_Edition_1985.aspx
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #44 on: February 17, 2010, 09:15:59 AM »
Excerpt from the abovementioned article:

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in the middle of programming this awesome game for your Commodore-64, and you have to stop, and who cares if you want to watch Gimme a Break and enjoy the comedy stylings of Nell Carter


I TOLD YOU!!! SHE'S FUCKING EVERYWHERE!
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