<p>I just finished listening to a recorded book that those with memories of the 70s and 80s might enjoy, especially if you like to “geek out” on movies, video games, and TV shows from that era: “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline. The recording was read by Will Wheaton.</p>
<p>The windows on both of our vehicles roll down. (they are pickups). I suggested I’d like electronic ones next time, and H quickly told me that was “just something else to break”. Guess I’ll keep rolling…</p>
<p>Bet nobody cracks the wing on their cars anymore.</p>
<p>“Ugly as sin”</p>
<p>I remember one of my mom’s peers saying, “ugly as home-made soap”. I guess that was an expression back in the day. </p>
<p>I remember an early remote control for a TV actually had a cord that connected to the set!!!</p>
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<p>we had one of those. And we only had ONE TV in the house…oh my! Dad always had the TV for the news in the evening, and Saturday morning cartoons were over when Soul Train started! I cannot remember the last time I saw the American Flag and heard the national Anthem because a station was going off the air.</p>
<p>My mother said,“ugly as an old mud fence.” WHAT is that?</p>
<p>We had one TV for a long time, until my sister got one for her bedroom. We did not have a remote and not only that, but the knobs would invariably fall off somehow and we had to use pliers to change stations</p>
<p>OhioMom300,</p>
<p>Same here with the pliers. A hanger for the antenna, too.</p>
<p>Yes, adjusting the antenna was always challenging, as was keeping it from getting bent (5 kids).</p>
<p>An elderly patient hit the call button in the ICU to tell me she needed help because she was all “cattywompus.” I had never heard that word before!</p>
<p>My mom used cattywompus. It means something is really tangled up or messed up. Not sure if it’s generational or “southern.”</p>
<p>The first cable box I ever had was actually box-sized, was attached by a cable to the TV, and it had 30+ separate push buttons, one for each channel.</p>
<p>ohhh, “notrichenough”, you came from money then! LOL…those were expensive in the day!</p>
<p>Cattywompus is used in the Midwest as well.</p>
<p>Who used a telex?</p>
<p>Munequita, I worked in an office where we had one. It would clatter away with a very distinctive sound.</p>
<p>My dad, who was from Chicago, used to say cattywompus a lot. My H is from the same area used to hear that a lot, too.</p>
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Hehe, I wish. I was a poor college student at the time. I don’t remember it being expensive though. Couldn’t have been on my budget.</p>
<p>The first VCR I bought had a remote that was connected by a cable.</p>
<p>“needs must” or “must needs”</p>
<p>When I said this sometime over the Christmas break, my daughter had never heard the adverb used. Later that same day she came down with a book she’d been reading, saying “I shouldn’t show you this; it’ll only encourage you.” 
Sure enough, there on the printed page to back me up: “needs must”.</p>
<p>Spell check here: cattywampus. ;)</p>