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|  03-17-2011, 06:10 AM | #1 | 
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				Are you old enough to have done the following?
			 
			
			A) typed a report for school on a typewriter B) dialed a rotary telephone C) peeled the aluminum foil off of your TV dinner cooked in a oven D) played Rock em Sock em Robots | 
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|  03-17-2011, 08:30 AM | #2 | 
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			yes, yes, yes, and yes.
		 
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|  03-17-2011, 08:34 AM | #3 | 
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			1)  what's a type writer? o.O 2) wow! rotary engines in a phones?!?!? 3) like... left overs? 4) which game system was that one? X-box? PS2? Gamecube? 
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|  03-17-2011, 08:35 AM | #4 | 
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			Sadly yes.  I'm old enough to remember when Pacman was a big thing.
		 
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|  03-17-2011, 08:44 AM | #5 | 
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			so... i'm guessing many of you were around when t_g_farrell's SA rolled off the show room floor...
		 
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|  03-17-2011, 08:50 AM | #6 | 
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			I was there when they invented forum spammers...
		 
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|  03-17-2011, 09:27 AM | #7 | 
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			Glad I'm not the only one to find this odd for a first post LOL. I also find it odd even for a spammer though. What is the point? | 
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|  03-17-2011, 09:35 AM | #8 | 
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			may be a spammer...but still fun!
		 
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|  03-17-2011, 09:37 AM | #9 | 
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			Remember pogs? ?
		 
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|  03-17-2011, 09:42 AM | #10 | 
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			I had one of the first video games ever made, PONG. Anyway, didn't realize it was a spammed post. Oh well. 
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|  03-17-2011, 09:44 AM | #11 | 
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			Duck Hunt, Nintendo!       
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|  03-17-2011, 09:57 AM | #12 | 
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			Yes to all of the above.... And I had the ORIGINAL Rock em Sock em robots, where all the KO noises made were purely mechanical - no electronic sound effects like the ones my kids had!
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|  03-17-2011, 12:32 PM | #13 | 
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			lets just say that when i started driving, gas was like .68/gal. and my first video game console as a kid was the atari 2600. a quick search revealed this site on current values: http://www.atari2600.com/priceguide/ Last edited by rxtasy3; 03-17-2011 at 12:36 PM. | 
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|  03-17-2011, 05:54 PM | #15 | 
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			I saw this when it was 1st posted and thought the same thing about forum spam. but did not see any links and decided to let it play out.
		 
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