JasmineFire said:

i used to want a hypercolor shirt sooooo bad...

i remember filmstrips, too...and making little peace signs n'stuff in front of the projector before/after the movie and seeing your hand's shadow on the screen. film projectors were still in use when i was in high school and junior high...ohmigod, i remember in my 7th grade language arts class (i think that's what class it was in) we had to watch this educational film from the '70s called say goodbye, and it was about how the environment was starting to get fucked up or something. it had footage of seal hunters clubbing baby seals and stuff like that.

there was this one part with a rancher who dealt with the influx of prairie dogs on his land by shooting 'em with a rifle...it had a slow-motion scene with a prairie dog being shot at and then the bullet hit it. grooooody. i still remember that. exactly why we had to watch that shit, i do not know...

Did anyone take driver's ed??

The simulators that they used were from at least the 70's. They had the long speedometer, the gear was near the steering wheel, and the film.....

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I had one... It started out kind of a olive green but it would turn yellow.

chalkboard. teachers be having chalk dust all over their clothes.
Macintosh was the system back then
Oregon Trail was the hottest game that was played.
filmstrips
floppy disk
New Kids on the block lunch boxes that those girls used to carry
toxic paste aw I hate smelling that shit.
teacher aides.
teachers used to spank kids when they acting bad. that was when I was in K-grade before they outlaw it couple years later

November said:

I'm pretty sure they were from the 1950s -- at least the films from my Driver's Ed class...

fantasyislander said:

I'm 39.....40 at the end of this year.


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dewalliz said:

omg, oregon trail was the bomb! i'd always play the hell outta that game...i'd always make silly names for the people ("buttface has died of typhoid").

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

don't worry, you're not as old as my mom. i remember when i was in school they came out with the lame clackers that weren't string, just a handle with hard plastic spokes. took all the skill out of using them.

Nikster said:

OMG!! hypercolor t-shirts!!! i had one real one, and one knockoff! those brings back some memories!!

anyone remember these???



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November said:

they had those when i was in kindergarten.

fantasyislander said:

omfg! Yes I remember that computer exactly. I used to use it in the classroom in the late 80s onto the early 90s
God had technology change.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

oh yes like buttface getting sick or all the characters going to die. i forgot totally how it went since I havent played it since 1991. we played that game to death during free time in school

fantasyislander said:

same here--in my elementary school we had a computer lab full of those. plus there was this huge rug on the floor that was in the shape of the apple logo.

dewalliz said:

oh wow! i completely forgot about oregon trail!! i loved that game! i don't think i ever made it all the way! everybody died of typhoid or dysentery, and i could never kill any food while hunting!


wow, this is bringing back some memories . . .

fantasyislander said:

the only thing i could ever kill was the buffaloes, because they were so slow...most of the time all that'd ever show up on the hunting part were squirrels. i hated 'em, they were too fast.

I spent every spare dime on as many of these I could find:

OdysseyMiles said:

i had a TON of those stuck around the doorway of my closet door when i was a kid...

omg! I MADE a film strip once! It was very cute. I think it's still at my parent's house somewhere. Too bad I'll never be able to watch it again.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

The gum was an instant throwaway ("is gum supposed to shatter in my mouth?") , while you tried to complete the puzzle on the back of the cards.

OdysseyMiles said:

oh man...that gum was rock-hard, but i still ate it anyway.

Genuinely nice, cute girls with no issues. Those were the days. I miss thpse years before high school.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I did too. It became a routine. A triflin' (as my mom would say) lil' routine.

Innocence!

Spats said:

you got to be bullshittin: the "popular" crowd(s) of girls, the shut-outs, the sluts (rumored or otherwise)...i don't miss that shit at all, it was a load of crap.

I said before High School. I didn't see that stuff until High School. That's when things start to fall apart.

Spats said:

f'real? gotdamn, you seriously must've been totally oblivious to girls in elementary & junior high, then. either that, or girls were turned off by your wussalicious aura, even then...

i bet the girls gave you hell back in grade school--sand in yer hair, pushing you off the monkey bars, spittin in your pb & j sammich whenever you weren't looking...

That horrible jelly paste glue you used to stick things in your scrap books.

fantasyislander said:

What the hell!!! Talk about lazy.




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Sloppy Joes and tater tots...

Now, the school orders lunches from Papa John's and Panda Express...