Nostalgia For Early Works Gifts

'To be frank Benjie, I don't think you've ever really recaptured the edgy brutality of your early potato-man period.'

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

'R2-D2 is not in. Please leave a message after the beep-wheep-zip-booop ...'

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

"We made all the wheels out of old coffee tables and chandeliers."

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Before the Internet

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

"I remember him before he was getting hte winter fuel allowance."

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

'I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still (would you believe?)')

'Bring out yer books!'

'Take my tip,sonny and say it with jelly babies.'

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

"It's probably just seasonal."

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

Paul goes home for the holidays

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

Fun (circa 1955)

'New Game'

'Thirty years from now, this will seem terribly quaint and awash in charming period detail.'

"I'm thinking of getting the old band back together."

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.

"When I was a puppy, I barked as a puppy, I understood as a puppy, I thought as a puppy. But when I became a dog, I put away puppy things except for my shabby, old, beat-up stuffy toy. I still freaking love this thing."

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

Back in my day, we were drawn with ink on paper, not on some fancy digital pad, but at least we knew we existed.