Retro Fan Gifts

Help. Didn't grasp the new technology.

'He's a little 'old school,' but he's got great leadership qualities.'

'I started whistling classic rock one day and now they won't leave.'

Old rocker.

"You could at least try to look a bit techno"

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

"I like living in the past. It makes me think I know where I'm going."

"There I go again, it's 2024 and I'm still writing checks."

"Thieves hacked my car's electronics and stole data. Remember when they only took the hubcaps?"

Hip Operation

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

'Soda jerk...just a jerk.'

"Now that I've invented it, I have-this odd compulsion to hold it in my hand whenever I go and glance at it incessantly."

Punk rocker passing punk codger in street.

"Google says it's some form of ancient timing device."

Comparing music and food from then to now.

'Grandpa, tell me about the days when people had pen-pals, not e-pals.'

"Of course I'm living in the past, what else is there?"

"Do you do much walking?"

High Tech/Low Tech.

Then: phone static. Now: email spam filters.

"I'd like to give you all the things I wanted as a kid, son, but I'm afraid they're illegal!"

Elevator Stuffing was a very short lived fad in the 1950s.

Self-serve no-frills gas.

Gramophone dreams of mp3 player.

2011 New Year

'If you don't want to go digital, fine, but if you're going to store film in our cooler you have to save room some soda and beer."

'I think they're old phones...from from when people used to just talk into them.'

"Remember you told me to put my client list on my computer."

"Just watching old stuff from 2019."

"Grandma remembers when a software update meant new socks and underwear."

"Who do we know who wears lilac corduroys?"

"The next song is for all you unreconstructed commies, who are still in love with their tractors."

Seventies heartthrob

"I'm puzzled as to why we're not making much progress on your seventies-phobia."