Pager Nostalgist Mugs

Oh, the pager's flashing and vibrating - looks like our barstools are ready.

Lennon and McCartney.

"This next one's another oldie."

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

"Was that my pager or yours?"

The Paper Route

"I'll never forget you."

Art Garfunkel.

Neil Young

The Last Non E-Book In The World.

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

"It's a sad state of affairs when Lever House begins to seem like a warm old friend."

"I love the popping sounds on old vinyl LPs..."

The benefit of an old-fashioned newspaper.

"In my day I played a pretty mean cowbell."

'You said you wanted to start reading the newspaper online.'

His master's voice

"Horton hears The Who!"

"Is that when you turn the juke box off?"

"When I was young, music and lyrics were important! Now it's all about production...it's all jiggly butts, smoke, sexy clothes and crazy videos!"

'Did I hear right - Bob Dylan's changin' his name back?'

"Can't believe you've still got an eight-track player in this thing."

"Sure, e-mail is faster . . . but I miss biting the mailman!"

'Walkman' 'Shuffle man'

His Master Voice Desert Island

'I miss fighting who gets the front page of the paper first.'

'Rorschach multiple-choice test'

"He're the pitch; a sequel to 'Yesterday', but instead of The Beatles, it's The Carpenters. We'll call it 'Yesterday, Once More'."

'Do you by any chance have any conservatory music?'

"I don't get it...there are so many cool new bands out...but it looks like you haven't bought anything in forever!"

Santa delivering newspapers

New York, London, Paris, Munich, Everybody Talk About Pop Music

'Master corrected me with a newspaper... the Sunday Edition.'

Did you see our favorite comic strip today. The oldy Oldersons. Lemme see! Jebediah Drake's The Oldersons by Abner Drake, Jr. Oldena, you know, I can never tell the difference between pastrami and corned beef. Don't be so rye. Hilarious! But you know what bothers me? It's only in 95% of newspapers. Some papers are replacing it with new strips. What?! Mobilize the troops! The most powerful political group in America: AARC. The American Association of Retired Cartoon Readers. Give us Oldy or give

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