What makes you feel old?

POSTED BY: reginaroadie
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REGINAROADIE

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:49 AM

For all those out there who are feeling a bit intro and retrospective, I'm curious. You're walking down the street, watching tv or surfing the internet. You stumble across info or something about blank, and suddenly, your hit with this notion that you're getting old. By that, I mean you're hit with the notion of how much time has passed between when your first saw that or experienced it and when you're reminded of it again.

For me, oddly enough, it's cartoons. I'm an animation fan, and I love Looney Tunes and all that, but I don't feel old when I'm watching Looney Tunes. Like I suppose I'm a third or fourth generation of fan, and over the holidays I watched some of them with my four or five year old cousin, so I felt like I was passing the torch.

But when I hear about a syndicated cartoon from the late 80's or early 90's coming to DVD, I'm suddenly hit with this sense of tangent time. Of the fact that fifteen or so years has passed between then and now and that I'm not longer the little boy who loved these shows as a kid. Mostly the Disney and Warner Bros shows, like DUCK TALES, TAIL SPIN, DARKWING DUCK, CHIP AND DALE RESCUE RANGERS, BONKERS, GOOF TROOP, the various spin offs of the early 90's Disney movies, ANIMANIACS, PINKY AND THE BRAIN, FREAKAZOID and the best of them all, BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. I have all four volumes of BATMAN: TAS, and maybe I'll get either ANIMANIACS or PINKY AND THE BRAIN. But it's so weird that the shows I used to watch as a kid are now relics of a long ago time. It's those I remember the most more than primetime tv, fashions, music or movies of the time.

So how about you? What broadsides you and makes you feel all nostalgic and retrospective?

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QUEENOFTHENORTH

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:51 PM

You must be about the same age as me, cuz all those cartoons you listed I can remember watching as a kid. Loved 'em all, too. Old movies, TV shows and music do contribute to making me feel old, but not that badly.

It's mostly the people I know that make me feel old. I have five cousins who are younger than me, and the third oldest is graduating from high school this year. That just makes me feel old cuz I'm like, it's been such a long time now since I was in high school and I don't even know anybody there anymore. Well, except for my few remaining cousins.

I also worked with a guy a couple years back who was about 26, 27 who freaked out one day cuz he heard "Enter the Sandman" on the classic rock station. He remembered listening to it in high school, and he was all, "How old must I be if they're playing music I listened to in high school on the classic rock station?" I had to spend the next hour calming him down. So that's my take anyway.

By the way, on a totally unrelated topic, you're from Regina, Saskatchewan right?

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URSULA

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:02 PM

People who don't remember (or worse--weren't born yet!) when "Star Wars" came out, or "Battlestar Galactica" in its 1970's incarnation.

Or that "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" was a movie first.

Or rushing in from the school bus to watch "Dark Shadows"!!! Oh, that Barnabus!

TRIO

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:12 PM

Actually, all I need to feel old is to realize that I have two kids...that will make you feel old...

but what made me feel really old recently was commercial jingles...

I have gone back to school later in life so the folks I am in school with are all in their early 20s (22-25...well I was talking to them after we went to the grocery store and none of them knew...

The Oreo Jingle (Oh, oh, oh, Ice cold milk and an oreo cookie, they forever go together..etc etc.)

The Bologna song...(My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R, etc etc...

or the Hot Dog song...(I wish I was an Oscar Meyer weiner, cause that is what I'd really like to be...)

i just told them to go away so i could tell "Back in my day" stories to my sons...

RICKKER

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:22 PM

the aches in my body make me feel old. Watching my nephew grow like a weed.

PURPLEBELLY

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:30 PM

Watching Jason Scott's documentaries on BBSs and thinking how young the raconteurs look -- OK, Vint Cerf doesn't look that young, but a well-cut suit'll work wonders

CALHOUN

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:40 PM

I was born way, way back when man first walked on the moon.. I remember being 8 years old and seeing Star Wars at the cinemas. What really makes me feel old is watching how fast my kids are growing up..

INDIANABANZAI

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:21 PM

The realization that this year celebrates the 25th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

And next year is the 25th anniversary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and the 30th anniversary of Star Wars.

OLDFOGEY

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:38 PM

what makes me feel old... Reading y'alls posts and realizing I'm older than that. Hey, just proves it's never too late to pick up a new hobby. Not an
obsession. Not. Course not.

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by trio:

The Oreo Jingle (Oh, oh, oh, Ice cold milk and an oreo cookie, they forever go together..etc etc.)

The Bologna song...(My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R, etc etc...

or the Hot Dog song...(I wish I was an Oscar Meyer weiner, cause that is what I'd really like to be...)

i just told them to go away so i could tell "Back in my day" stories to my sons...

Well, I've never heard the Oreo jingle, but come on, they don't know the hot dog song? I'm 21 and I know the whole thing word for word!! Course, that could be a side effect of my obsession with Simpsons, where they have a big ol' scene singing that song, but I digress . . .

"I'm having one of those things - a headache with pictures."

"Of course I'm right. And if I'm not, may we all be horribly crushed from above somehow."

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