Do you have a friend who grew up in a cave?

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Retriever Mama

Discussion Starter · Jun 4, 2009

I just posted on FB as one of my 5 movies that I can recite the dialogue from as Star Wars IV: A New Hope.

My best friend just posted "not the very first one? I would have thought episodes 1-3 would have made the list?"

Seriously? I bet she hasn't even seen it. I love her, but sometimes....

*shaking head in disbelief*

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LuckyGirl

· #21 · Jun 5, 2009

theoconbrio said:
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Feh. That's nothin'. I still write on the back of a shovel with a hunk of charcoal.

In Linear B.

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Showing my age here....why on earth would you write on the back of a shovel?

Delmonico

· #22 · Jun 5, 2009

LuckyGirl said:
Showing my age here....why on earth would you write on the back of a shovel?

Popular ledgand says Abe Lincoln learned to write with hunks of charred wood on the back of a wooden shovel (common in the time)

His step-mother told one of his biographers in 1868 that he used old boards.

CoCosMom

· #23 · Jun 5, 2009

Every time I see/read/hear Duran Duran it reminds me of the stickers my (older) brother and sister would plaster on their school binders... one of them read "Duran Duran - so good they named them twice!". Of course, they were in Jr High and I pretty much just learned to read, but that saying has stuck with me!

dweck

· #24 · Jun 5, 2009

LuckyGirl said:
I was born in 81.

Good googly-moog. I graduated HS in 1981.

Saw all three of the original STAR WARS movies in the theater upon first release. First one, I was 14 years old that summer and thought I had died and gone to heaven (I imagine the experience was much like my Dad seeing "The Wizard of Oz" upon initial release; you just KNEW you were seeing something monumental).

Weird in retrospect: Fox didn't know what it had on its hands and dumped this space-opera thing on the market with almost no fanfare at all. It wasn't until we teens got hold of it that it started making zillions......

Saw ET on first release, too. And POLTERGEIST.

jzgrlduff

· #25 · Jun 5, 2009 (Edited)

Careful you ex pot smokers, you'll start to lose your memory.

Delmonico

· #26 · Jun 5, 2009

jzgrlduff said:
Careful you ex pot smokers, you'll start to lose your memory.

Might but it's happening as bad or worse with my friends my age who didn't smoke it.

LuckyGirl

· #27 · Jun 5, 2009

dweck said:
Good googly-moog. I graduated HS in 1981.

Saw all three of the original STAR WARS movies in the theater upon first release. First one, I was 14 years old that summer and thought I had died and gone to heaven (I imagine the experience was much like my Dad seeing "The Wizard of Oz" upon initial release; you just KNEW you were seeing something monumental).

Weird in retrospect: Fox didn't know what it had on its hands and dumped this space-opera thing on the market with almost no fanfare at all. It wasn't until we teens got hold of it that it started making zillions......

Saw ET on first release, too. And POLTERGEIST.

My mum graduated in 81 too!!

Everyone who knows me online thinks I'm older because I act a lot older than my age, but I look like I'm 18. lol

Princess Zoe

· #28 · Jun 5, 2009

TangerineFizz said:
I was using the typewriter today (electric one at that!) and some idiottard in my office walked by and went, whoa, is that a typewriter? I've never seen anyone use one before.

Trust me, this chick is really short a happy meal of some fries. Not just fries out of the happy meal, I'm talking the whole happy meal might be missing....

I may honestly throat punch her.

I was in Office Max yesterday and saw they 2 for sale. I said "they still sell those?".

Clanceycanuck

· #29 · Jun 5, 2009

I remember the old manual typewrites. Didn't go electric until I went to work.

dweck

· #30 · Jun 5, 2009

LuckyGirl said:
but I look like I'm 18. lol

Oh, we have something ELSE in common..... How nice.

theoconbrio

· #31 · Jun 5, 2009

LuckyGirl said:
Showing my age here....why on earth would you write on the back of a shovel?

When I was little, in school they told us that Abraham Lincoln taught himself by writing on the back of a shovel with charcoal because the family was too poor to afford paper and pens. I'm not sure what that was supposed to teach us. It did stick in my head, though, even though it's probably apocryphal.

MidwestGirl

· #32 · Jun 5, 2009

Haven't watched 1 Star Wars movie but I know what they are

Duran Duran...eh

Thunders Mom

· #33 · Jun 5, 2009

MidwestGirl said:
Haven't watched 1 Star Wars movie but I know what they are

Duran Duran...eh

My sentiments exactly....

Retriever Mama

Discussion Starter · #34 · Jun 5, 2009

MidwestGirl said:
Haven't watched 1 Star Wars movie but I know what they are

Duran Duran...eh

Sigh...

dweck

· #35 · Jun 5, 2009

theoconbrio said:
But I do know what Duran Duran is. And Kajagoogoo. Sad to say. Sometimes I think my brain needs a complete reformatting to get rid of all the stupid pop culture crap stored in there.

10,000 Maniacs?
Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
Alan Parsons Project?
Bananarama?

Oh, those '80s bands.......

Retriever Mama

Discussion Starter · #36 · Jun 5, 2009

dweck said:
10,000 Maniacs?
Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
Alan Parsons Project?
Bananarama?

Oh, those '80s bands.......

Alan Parsons Project? Just cut straight to Air Supply why dontchya?

Melissa

· #37 · Jun 5, 2009

I still whip out the Duran Duran on occasion. I am not ashamed.

Star Wars is an institution in our house. My husband was lucky to get a kindred SW spirit in Riley.

LuckyGirl

· #38 · Jun 5, 2009

dweck said:
Oh, we have something ELSE in common..... How nice.

It IS isn't it?

A friend use to tease me in high school about my 'baby' face. She was able to buy alcohol since about the age of 12-13. She would say "aww look at that little baby face of yours. Nobody hits on you cause you look so young." She was dating guys TWICE our age or more. "Look at that little baby face of yours it is JUST so cute!"

Finally I had enough and said "Yeah well when we're 30 I'll still be getting carded for everything with this 'baby' face and you'll be getting the senior citizen discount!"

She never opened her mouth again....

Rushpuppy

· #39 · Jun 5, 2009

Delmonico said:
Some group from the 80's I think, only seen the first 3 Star Wars here, do know what a slupee and a fajita is, but what we used to call thongs are now flip-flops and thongs don't go on yer feet no more.

Can you imagine wearing a pair of thongs on your feet these days!

D

Retriever Mama

Discussion Starter · #40 · Jun 5, 2009

Melissa said:
I still whip out the Duran Duran on occasion. I am not ashamed.

Star Wars is an institution in our house. My husband was lucky to get a kindred SW spirit in Riley.

I have their greatest hits album. Try their new one - astronaut- came out a few years back and was really good. Still has the 80s tone, but updated.

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