Nostalgic Story Appreciator Mugs

"God I miss the good old days when you could huff and puff anywhere you damn well pleased."

"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 don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"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.'

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

Before the Internet

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

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"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."

'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."

"You never told me your dad was so delightfully old-fashioned."

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

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

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

'It's worse than we thought: You've got termites.'

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.