....your children sincerely ask how a rotary telephone worked--and were amazing that it coexisted with touch tone dialing

....when teenagers laugh at the quality of movies that used to terrify you

....you tell stories about your wild teen years and have to refer to a the use of a beeper or pay phone as you share those memories

....you used enclyclopedias when writing your high school papers

---you once owned an atari 2600

tinaz said:

paintedlady said:

I don't have a church key...

but I tap the side of the lid of the jar on the edge on a counter top sometimes thqat works too.

*googles church key*

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never knew those were called church keys....

StillGotIt said:

....your children sincerely ask how a rotary telephone worked--and were amazing that it coexisted with touch tone dialing

....when teenagers laugh at the quality of movies that used to terrify you

....you tell stories about your wild teen years and have to refer to a the use of a beeper or pay phone as you share those memories

....you used enclyclopedias when writing your high school papers

---you once owned an atari 2600

Not only did I own an Atari 2600, but I was blown away by how much more "advanced" it was than my old Pong console.

you know you're old when......you consider std's a bonding experience...

tinaz said:

Churchkey

A key used to open cans by rolling their part on it

Churchkey from 3 angles

A modern butterfly opener which combines a serrated wheel and a churchkey

Churchkey initially referred to a simple hand-operated device for prying the cap (called a "crown cork") off a glass bottle; this kind of closure was invented in 1892.^[9][10] The first of these churchkey style openers was patented in Canada in 1900.^[11] The shape and design of some of these openers did resemble a large simple key.^[12] In 1935, beer cans with flat tops were marketed, and a device to puncture the lids was needed. The same churchkey opener was used for piercing those cans. It was made from a single piece of pressed metal, with a pointed end used for piercing cans—devised by D.F. Sampson,^[13][14] for the American Can Company, who depicted operating instructions on the cans themselves,^[15] The churchkey opener is still being produced, usually as an attachment to another opener. For example, a "butterfly" opener is often a combination of the churchkey and a serrated-wheel opener.

There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origin of the term "churchkey". The phrase is likely a sarcastic euphemism, as the opener was obviously not designed to access churches. One explanation is in Medieval Europe, most brewers were monks. Lagering cellars in the monasteries were locked, to protect aging beers and the monks carried keys to these lagering cellars. It may have been those keys, which remotely resembled the early churchkey openers, that gave the "churchkey" opener its name.^[16] Another motive for assigning the device such an ironic name could have been the fact beer was first canned (for test marketing) in 1933^[17]—the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Bill.^[18] This act, which predated Repeal of Prohibition, amended the Volstead Act, making 3.2 beer legal. Some experts have posited the term "churchkey" was a way to "stick it to" the religious organizations who had effected Prohibition in the first place.^[19]

Another key opener with completely different design was patented by J. Osterhoudt in 1866.^[20] Instead of piercing the can it was used to roll a stripe off the can. It was also called "key", because of resemblance to a door key. Such openers are attached to many small, thin-walled cans nowadays.^[21]

So you call them churchkeys because you were around during the prohibition days? Wow, you really ARE old.

when u suddenly realize u've grown up......... or is that just being mature?????

....when your balls reach your knees.

Visionnaire said:

....when your balls reach your knees.

when i was 8 the cost of a movie was 1.25

jon1967 said:

when i was 8 the cost of a movie was 1.25

it was 25c and there were

at least three movies to watch.

with $2.00 you could ;

take a friend

pay busfare roundtrip

buy more stuff than you could eat

and still have enough for candy...

KingBAD said:

jon1967 said:

when i was 8 the cost of a movie was 1.25

it was 25c and there were

at least three movies to watch.

with $2.00 you could ;

take a friend

pay busfare roundtrip

buy more stuff than you could eat

and still have enough for candy...

took the family to the movies recently n had to take out a loan

wth's up with life ..

jon1967 said:

KingBAD said:

it was 25c and there were

at least three movies to watch.

with $2.00 you could ;

take a friend

pay busfare roundtrip

buy more stuff than you could eat

and still have enough for candy...

took the family to the movies recently n had to take out a loan

wth's up with life ..

(you know you're getting old when you're older the the highest number on the lotto ticket playslip.)

lotto instructions:

Pick five numbers from 1 to 47 and a MEGA number from 1 to 27 on the playslip or choose

remember when some people would say, i'm playing my age. now that same person has to transpose their number to fit their current age. instead of playing #54, they now play "#45," because the playslip stops at #47.

[Edited 1/17/12 20:34pm]

wait u mean my balls are gonna go down to my knees ? oh hell no .. nut tuck

sextonseven said:

tinaz said:

Churchkey

A key used to open cans by rolling their part on it

Churchkey from 3 angles

A modern butterfly opener which combines a serrated wheel and a churchkey

Churchkey initially referred to a simple hand-operated device for prying the cap (called a "crown cork") off a glass bottle; this kind of closure was invented in 1892.^[9][10] The first of these churchkey style openers was patented in Canada in 1900.^[11] The shape and design of some of these openers did resemble a large simple key.^[12] In 1935, beer cans with flat tops were marketed, and a device to puncture the lids was needed. The same churchkey opener was used for piercing those cans. It was made from a single piece of pressed metal, with a pointed end used for piercing cans—devised by D.F. Sampson,^[13][14] for the American Can Company, who depicted operating instructions on the cans themselves,^[15] The churchkey opener is still being produced, usually as an attachment to another opener. For example, a "butterfly" opener is often a combination of the churchkey and a serrated-wheel opener.

There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origin of the term "churchkey". The phrase is likely a sarcastic euphemism, as the opener was obviously not designed to access churches. One explanation is in Medieval Europe, most brewers were monks. Lagering cellars in the monasteries were locked, to protect aging beers and the monks carried keys to these lagering cellars. It may have been those keys, which remotely resembled the early churchkey openers, that gave the "churchkey" opener its name.^[16] Another motive for assigning the device such an ironic name could have been the fact beer was first canned (for test marketing) in 1933^[17]—the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Bill.^[18] This act, which predated Repeal of Prohibition, amended the Volstead Act, making 3.2 beer legal. Some experts have posited the term "churchkey" was a way to "stick it to" the religious organizations who had effected Prohibition in the first place.^[19]

Another key opener with completely different design was patented by J. Osterhoudt in 1866.^[20] Instead of piercing the can it was used to roll a stripe off the can. It was also called "key", because of resemblance to a door key. Such openers are attached to many small, thin-walled cans nowadays.^[21]

So you call them churchkeys because you were around during the prohibition days? Wow, you really ARE old.

My dad called them that! WHich he probably got from living with his grandpa!!

My present life;

30 year old women give up their seat for me on the trolley or bus

I think it is rude when young men don't give up their seat for me on the trolley or bus,lol

I get messages from young guys on the singles site I use saying " I really like older women, do you like younger men?" these younger men are 30 and 31. I am cougaring what use to be considered middle age men.lol.

When the hair on your balls turns gray and looks like tinsel hanging from a Christmas tree ornament.

tinsel ? no dont tell no more neg shit bout the balls man .. {speakn to em} dont listen to em boys .. a tuck n a tint great mayb ill get em some shades to, raybans ..

kimrachell said:

when your 7 year old son asks you if they had cars in 1978.

urbandramaqueen said:

you know you're old when......you consider std's a bonding experience...

You know you're old when the only STD you ever had to worry about could be cured in a couple days with penicillin.

lazycrockett said:

When you bend over to pick something up and you make that "oogh" sound.

Or you squat down to pick something up, and can't get back up.

bluesbaby said:

lazycrockett said:

When you bend over to pick something up and you make that "oogh" sound.

Or you squat down to pick something up, and can't get back up.

BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUES!!!

or when you have to call out

7 names before you get the one you're

talkin to.

or you just end up sayin "YOU"

^ been there

"heyyyyy... you...!

how are you these days? and how's ms you? and all the little yous too?"

Deadflow3r said:

kimrachell said:

when your 7 year old son asks you if they had cars in 1978.

Hee hee... I remember, as a kid (probably about 1978), asking my Auntie if she got to see Frankenstein in the theatre when she was a kid.

What's up with the old dudes in the gym who walk around the locker room with their junk flapping in the wind, having conversations and just lounging beacuse they have nothing better to do/nowhere to go and want to show the world their dangling bits?

I guess when I start doing that, I know I'm too old to be going to the gym.

vainandy said:

When the hair on your balls turns gray and looks like tinsel hanging from a Christmas tree ornament.

thx 4 putting a laugh in my eve. it's too funny to imagine, and i did!

You eat more salad to "keep you regular".

when schedual doin somethin late at night

because that's whut time you wake up to

take one of your pees

dseann said:

You eat more salad to "keep you regular".

The last thing I thought about 25 years ago was "regularity" and fiber content .

You know your old when the woman pushing high-fiber yogurt to keep one regular is YOUR AGE!!!

Next the denture cleaning products will be promoted by Marie Osmond.

Deadflow3r said:

dseann said:

You eat more salad to "keep you regular".

The last thing I thought about 25 years ago was "regularity" and fiber content .

You know your old when the woman pushing high-fiber yogurt to keep one regular is YOUR AGE!!!

Next the denture cleaning products will be promoted by Marie Osmond.

You're also old when golden oldies music advertized in infomercials are what you danced to as a teenager. Come to think of it, this thread is depressing me.