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"Ooh look, the high street's evolved to survive!"

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

"We made all the wheels out of old coffee tables and chandeliers."

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Before the Internet

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

'Bring out yer books!'

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

'Take my tip,sonny and say it with jelly babies.'

'I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still (would you believe?)')

"I remember him before he was getting hte winter fuel allowance."

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

'In my time, we didn't talk to a blackberry. We just ate the damn things!'

'Lover's lance isn't the same as it used to be!'

In utero...boy, THOSE were the days!

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

"It's probably just seasonal."

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

Fun (circa 1955)

'Red rover, red rover, send Billy right over!'

'New Game'

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.

"I'm thinking of getting the old band back together."

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

Back in my day, we were drawn with ink on paper, not on some fancy digital pad, but at least we knew we existed.