Nostalgic Athlete Gifts

1923 - The famous 'Flying Wedgie' formation.

'At the Old Players' Home. . .

"Tyler lost interest in baseball once he tried old-time boxing."

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

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

"Don't be embarrassed. Most heroic archetypes your age have lost the ability to swashbuckle."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"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?"

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

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

Ten Plagues for Today's Seder

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

Before the Internet

The mysterious Sherlock Holmes - 'Is he wearing his cap backwards or forwards?'

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

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

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

'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."

Toy Shops and Educated Children

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

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

"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."

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

Fun (circa 1955)

'New Game'

The Paper Route

"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."

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

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.

"My inner child wants to have a playdate with your inner child."

Before pagers,mobile phones and the internet.