Nostalgic Nerd Gifts

"Mommy, look! Tablets from olden days!"

'Do you know what I miss? - Chalk talks!'

'Sorry, guys. I can't go out. I'm grounded.'

"I'm sorry, but you didn't recognize me as the Messiah when I had braces and glasses."

'Quick! Let's burn our O'level certificates before the children see them...'

'Isn't it just like your sister to be fashionably late?'

'And there's where dear old Mom and Dad would measure my hump!'

Young and old man toast to different characteristic noises.

"Well, before computers there were girls."

"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

"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.'

'I've told you it's not the old pencil and paper battleships.'

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

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

Before the Internet

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

'Bring out yer books!'

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

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

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

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

Inside One's Memory Bank

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

'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