<p>My business partner and I give away little toys/trinkets in the context of workshops we hold. She recently bought some Mr Bill bendable toys. I haven’t the heart to tell her that no one under 40 will get the SNL reference.</p>
<p>Talking on the phone to one of my women friends, I said, “well, let’s try to hook up next week.” My Ds both shrieked, “Mom!!! GROSS!!!”</p>
<p>Nrdsb4–I don’t know that my post-college kid knows how to properly mail a letter. I know he has been shown over the years but I be he hasn’t actually mailed a letter in 6 or 7 years or more. I would think he remembers but maybe not? When he was 7 he did know how to mail a letter because email just wasn’t as popular back then, since then, there just hasn’t been the need to do so.</p>
<p>^^^^^Tsk, tsk, didn’t he mail thank you cards for all those high school graduation gifts?</p>
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<p>Yes he did, but he is out of college so those thank you’s were sent about 6 years ago. I don’t know if he was the one to put the stamps on the letters or if I did that–I don’t remember.</p>
<p>Lol - when did hook-up go from “get together with someone” to “sexual encounter”?</p>
<p>^^^^I don’t know, but it sure did, didn’t it?</p>
<p>I just remember that my mom use to say, " Go outside and get the stink off of you."</p>
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<p>Reminds me of the chorus in a Tim McGraw song.</p>
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<p>This reminds me of my 8th grade nun in the early seventy’s. The classroom pencil sharpener would become loose and fall off it’s base. She would say, “Would someone go screw the pencil sharpener?” 5 or 6 boys would jump up and scramble over each other to get there first. Been around a long time.</p>
<p>When DS was about 10 we constructed a ceiling in one of the rooms which consists of old album jackets - kind of a visual display of DH and my differing musical taste. DS was watching and helping. He looked at one of the vinyl albums and asked how one managed to put this into the player in the dash of the car! This conversation progressed to an explanation of 8-tracks…which admittedly were gone by the time I owned my first car.</p>
<p>^^OhioMom3000, I agree about your pencil sharpener-related word. When I was a young teen in the early 60s, I heard a neighbor kid use that word to describe what a certain couple had been doing. </p>
<p>Although that was a much more innocent era, and I had heard almost no “bad language” prior to that, I immediately grasped the meaning from the context. :)</p>
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<p>That is one of the coolest ideas I’ve ever heard. It would make a great accent wall as well in a basement game room/bar. What a conversation piece!</p>
<p>My high school senior son asked about the stamp location as well.</p>
<p>Nrdsb4: Oh it gets even better. DH, don’t ask me how he does these things, came across a road crew which was replacing old signal lights - you know - the red/yellow/green, the walk/don’t walk and the ones with all the arrows. He asked if he could buy some and the foreman said he can’t sell them but if DH takes them it saves him a trip to the salvage yard. So, in the album ceiling room we have traffic signals! I pointed out to hubby that he had in essence installed the ultimate party room - he’d never thought of that - just thought it was cool.</p>
<p>DH also put a red/yellow/green signal where I park my car in the garage. It was supposed to turn red when I pulled forward to far (in his opinion), funny - that one never seems to work ;)</p>
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<p>That’s much more fun than my DH’s solution (the old hang the tennis ball from the ceiling trick). </p>
<p>I have terrible depth perception. :o</p>
<p>Onward, I still use that expression!</p>
<p>I think my son knows where to put the stamp, but I got a call today asking where to buy envelopes and stamps. He thought Post Office for both! I told him about better places to get envelopes like drug stores and stationaries and told him on the weekend he could try the grocery store for stamps.</p>
<p>Sliderule? i doubt our kids know what they look like, let alone how to use them.</p>
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I never had to use them, either, and I’m older than dirt. But when I asked my father if I could get a calculator, he said, “Sure.” And handed me a pencil and a piece of paper.</p>
<p>And it’s not just older words that kids don’t understand. My d was doing her taxes with one of the on-line products. She came to the questions about “cafeteria plans”, and screamed, “They’re taxing me for LUNCH??? I don’t even eat in the cafeteria!”</p>