Nostalgic Thinker Prints

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."

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

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

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

"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."

I have an analogue mind in a digital world.

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

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

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

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

The Cycle of Life

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

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

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

"God I miss Brexit!"

"Oh, darling, whatever happens- ever- I know I'm probably always going to remember this as one of my happiest marriages."

Y2K Solutions Inc.

Toy Shops and Educated Children

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

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

"After 30 years of marriage I still remember the good times, both of them."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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