Nostalgia Novice Gifts

'I thought I'd have one more look at the old room before I leave for college.'

'Good evening. I am an onscreen announcer, so you must have time-travelled back to 1956.'

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

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

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

"Unfortunately, once the child contracts Pokémon, he lives with it forever."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Don't get strung out by the way I look, don't judge a book by its cover."

Cocktails on the verandah.

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

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

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"It only goes forwards and backwards. So, you won't need a GPS."

'This is the only part of my old Army uniform that still fits.'

"Remember that time you tried to kill me?"

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

"I can't give you a prescription for milk and cookies."

"These colder temperatures always cause my tire pressure to drop—it's a good thing I stopped to check." Peter finally grows up.

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

"Honey! Where are my lucky Incredible Hulk board meeting socks?!?"

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

"Remember when we used to wonder if there other beings somewhere out there?"

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

"Don’t worry, this guy is totally cool. Just don’t mention the Red Baron."

'How do you like my two-tone car?'

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

"We're airship people, not mega-airship people."

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

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

Before the Internet

'I'm just not as ambidextrous as I used to be.'

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

"Bram Stoker's Bambi"

"Yep, I've read this chapter before."