Nostalgic Thinker Gifts

How Grandma Sees the Remote

'Someday, when our pre-frontal cortexes are fully developed, we'll look back on this and shake our heads.'

Ten Plagues for Today's Seder

Golden Oldies: "Hey! Remember this great chart from the nineties?"

'I think we're being educated for failure...'

'How did you waste time before the internet?'

"Back in my day, kids had a little respect for the law of gravity."

'You have it easy. When I went to school, we never had a day off for metal detector maintenance.'

'When you're a kid, you keep score with report cards. When you grow up, it's credit scores.'

"What's your best childhood memory?" "My back not hurting."

'I was pro-union when I was a kid, and the teachers were on strike...'

"That's where we smoke the e-cigarettes.'

"They make us learn reading, writing, and arithmetic to prepare us for a world of videotapes, computer terminals and calculators."

Smokers' Museum: We smoked these everywhere, even in public places!

I have an analogue mind in a digital world.

The Cycle of Life

'It was easier when you went to school, Dad. That was before the information age.'

"God I miss Brexit!"

'Ah, those were great days. The Pre-Accountability Era.'

"What do you want to be when you're in the 18-65 age demographic?"

"Remember when we used to feel sorry for people our age?"

'That's my parents...still stuck in the ice age.'

'Sir, we need to upgrade our technology. We've used up our last roll of ticker tape.'

'Do you feel as foolish as I do, having a conference with Billy's teaching machine?'

'They're extinct in nature, but a number have managed to hang on here in the corporate world.'

Toy Shops and Educated Children

'In my day we called it 'parenting', not 'troubleshooting your kid'.'

Man noticing corsets in a window are shaped like four waists he has embraced

'40 years from now, they'll look back at this decade as the good old days.'

'Sure your grandmother and I used drugs when we were your age, but they were all acne medications.'

'I was apathetic when I was your age, too, but I didn't have an app for it.'

"I enjoy books a lot more now that I can consistently color inside the lines."

'I faced my first reality check today. My mom kissed my boo boo but it didn't get better.'

Y2K Solutions Inc.

'In today's electronics world, printed books have become historical and museum pieces.'