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Ginger Lynn

How Grandma Sees the Remote

'In my day, we didn't concern ourselves with wimpy notions of workplace ergonomics.'

"We don't sell CDs anymore. We sell colorful jackets for the music you download illegally."

'Wo! Look at that thing! What a brilliant idea!'

'He's our finance director - kind of old school.'

In the Nostalgia District

'Your trouble is you're living in the past.'

"Vinyl is what we listened to before CDs."

"Rugged romantic seeks elegant lady. Must like hunting and gathering"

VHS at the Antiques Roadshow: 'I'm afraid the fact that you've 'got tons of blank tapes for it' doesn't make any difference.'

Computer looking rather annoyed at owner whoes hugging his typewriter

Tuned In, Turned On, Dropped Out, Dropped In, Worked Out, Saved Up, Dropped Dead.

'Hit hard -- you're making four copies.'

Nobody warned Marge that a side effect of a hip replacement is feeling more hippy.

A man's instant camera picture falls into his soup.

'But how do you download music?'

'Grandpa says that, in his day, he had to walk 20 miles in the snow just to steal music.'

Ed reflects on his checkered past.

'Modem Times,'

"Talk faster. I'm on a land line and I have the feeling we'll soon be disconnected."

Concerts back in the good old days...

Accountant

I have an analogue mind in a digital world.

'Dad, the PC crashed and I lost my calculator.' - 'Here Son. Try this.'

"Man, look at these young guys! This 'wheel' thing is making them all soft. Next, they'll be using animals to pull themselves around!"

A very,very,very funny cartoon if read in 1985: 'I got my neon shoelaces caught in my Rubik's Cube and it took me an hour and a half to tie my shoes!'

The antiquated adding machine in case of emergencies

"In case you haven't heard, we live in caves now, and we wear clothes."

'This is from City Hospital...Everyone born in 1931 is being recalled.'

Ever wondered what the future will be like? Well, apart from robotic trousers it's just like the seventies.

'We've got to do spring cleaning more often. I found three eight-track tapes!'

'Who are you calling 'oldtimer', sonny?!'

Nurse's introduction training - "We don't get the quality of student we used to"