You know you are getting old when:

[ChiTownScion]

The Bulger murder and Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs Woodward are etched in memory.

I remember the latter because of my wife's comment at the time, to wit: "These people hire au pairs and have no idea what they're getting into. Those Brit girls just want to come over here to party. The parents who hire them think that they're getting Daphne Moon from Frasier!"

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when somebody says "the turn of the century" and your first thought is about William McKinley.

I wasn't around for that one, so when I hear "turn of the century" I tend to remember all of the people that lost their minds worrying about whether or not the Y2K computer glitch was going to end civilization as we know it. lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

Civilization as we knew it ended long before Y2K.

 

[jamespowers]

Civilization as we knew it ended long before Y2K.

It ended in 1960.

 

[Gregg Axley]

It ended in 1960.

 

[Stearmen]

It ended in 1960.

1980!

 

[Stearmen]

You know you're getting old when somebody says "the turn of the century" and your first thought is about William McKinley.

I have a standard joke when people say turn of the last century, when the actually mean 1900. "I remember back in ought 6, Dagnabbit!"

 

[Zombie_61]

Civilization as we knew it ended long before Y2K.

Yeah, but the nitwits I was referring to didn't know that...probably still don't.

 

[1mach1]

Yeah, but the nitwits I was referring to didn't know that...probably still don't.

.....and never will.

 

[1mach1]

It ended in 1960.

What event could you ever be referring to?

 

[LizzieMaine]

For New Englanders, the answer to that one is simple: the retirement of Ted Williams.

1980!

If I could delete any two years of my own lifetime they'd be 1980 and 1981. No redeeming features whatsoever. 2013 was pretty bad, but those were worse.

 

[Edward]

Somebody, somewhere, is quite likely looking at us in much the same way. :lol:

I remember the latter because of my wife's comment at the time, to wit: "These people hire au pairs and have no idea what they're getting into. Those Brit girls just want to come over here to party. The parents who hire them think that they're getting Daphne Moon from Frasier!"

Ha.... Yeah, that was an odd case. Odd on every level; I don't think we'll ever fully know the truth on that one. The element of it thatinterested me most was the reaction of the British press, which was the usual "one of *ours* is in troubled abroad - we must supportg them to the hilt - boo, Johnny foreigner with your nonsense legal system that can find a British citizen guilty, boo!". Same corners of the press that would have been bursting to go out eith "nanny bitch from hell" as soon as sentence was passed had it happened over here. Odd world.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Somebody, somewhere, is quite likely looking at us in much the same way. :lol:

How People Dressed In The Era.

How People Think People Dressed In The Era.

 

[31 Model A]

It ended in 1960.

Life as I knew it ended 9 Feb 1964....when the Beetles came to town.

 

[vintage68]

My parents are/were hippies, and I was born 1968. As far as I'm concerned the hippies really ruined any sense of proper attire or grooming standards from that point forward....

 

[Edward]

How People Dressed In The Era.

How People Think People Dressed In The Era.

That's a bingo! Especially the uniforms.... Oh, and the furs. Amazing how many women you see at big vibtage events i thd UK suffering near heatstroke because Vintage Women Wore Fur. In August.

My parents are/were hippies....

On the contrary, if they hadn't rejectdd tailoring so soundly, instead of seeing it preserved by subsequent subculture rebellions, it might have simply faded away.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

They're missing the Pat Benatar pixie cut.

 

[jamespowers]

1980!

It was long gone by then.

 

[jamespowers]

my parents are/were hippies, and i was born 1968. As far as i'm concerned the hippies really ruined any sense of proper attire or grooming standards from that point forward....

amen!

 

[jamespowers]

Life as I knew it ended 9 Feb 1964....when the Beetles came to town.

Agreed there too. That was all the nastiness of the 60s though. It ruined everything.