You know you are getting old when:

[Zombie_61]

*Babysitting* your teen nephews and taking away a Playboy.

"Taking away"??? Sounds more like a teaching opportunity--correct the misinformation their friends have told them, then give 'em a few pointers!

 

[Touchofevil]

On the plus side, it brought the joy of that internet conspiracy theory that they weren't allowed to reference 'chicken' any more, hence the switch to just KFC, because their "chickens" were genetically engineered mutants with four legs.... I knew someone who believed that for real...



Fingers crossed, should keep me going til they can plop the old brain into a robot body!

A friend and I had a buddy believing in Jackalopes and Mountain Cows when we were in college. He was excited to go Jackalope hunting and bummed when we told him the truth.

 

[Zombie_61]

A friend and I had a buddy believing in Jackalopes and Mountain Cows when we were in college. He was excited to go Jackalope hunting and bummed when we told him the truth.

Hey now, I have a mounted Jackalope head around here somewhere. You can't try telling ME they aren't real.

 

[tonyb]

… you remember when in certain circles cigarettes were called “squares,” and you know why.

 

[tonyb]

*Babysitting* your teen nephews and taking away a Playboy.

I can’t recall when I last saw a copy of Playboy. The ready availability of online porn pretty well doomed the print porn industry.

But, you know, people read Playboy “for the articles.” (Credit where it is due, some good writing did appear in its pages. But the T&A was its bread and butter, obviously.)

 

[Tiki Tom]

Playboy really had a winning formula in its day… a young man could buy it for the playmates, but pretend that he was suave and sophisticated because of the name authors, allusions to a “high class” lifestyle and products, and its general James Bond tone. It was brilliantly marketed to the aspiring young middle class male who had no release in sight. Haven’t seen a playboy magazine in ages. I imagine the brand is on life-support, but they are probably still making money off that iconic logo. As someone said, Playboy seems almost quaint nowadays. Can’t imagine growing up with nonstop access to unlimited internet porn.

re: chicken. It’s a folk myth in our family that someone said “I thought they had six legs, because that’s how they are packaged at the supermarket.”

re: Jackalopes; I remember seeing a mounted head at a general store up in Big Bear when I was about eight years old and getting excited. My dad had to break the truth to me. Was that the start of my weird interest in cryptozoology?

 

[GHT]

Playboy, the end of an Era.

That chicken myth does have a kind of plausibility about it. The ending that I heard was: A chicken farmer had bred his birds with six legs, when asked what they tasted like, he replied. "I don't know, I've never been able to catch one."

 

[Edward]

But this just raises another hurdle for me.....pretty sure my retirement capital will not last me into my 100's.

I'm banking on a robot body meaning I can save on thibgs like food. I'm already working on tge assumption my academic pension won't make full retirement affordable.

 

[Harp]

Playboy, the end of an Era.

Is Mayfair still published? Back in college I habitually bought both Mayfair and the Sunday Times.

 

[belfastboy]

Is Mayfair still published? Back in college I habitually bought both Mayfair and the Sunday Times.

But both strictly for the articles...right?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I grew up next to a town where poultry processing was a dominant local industry, and it was a very common thing to find chickens, mostly White Leghorns, with enormous, bloated bodies and freakish tiny legs flapping around in the ditches at the side of the road after their cages fell off trucks and broke open. I knew someone who took one of these birds home, and it had been so deformed by force-feeding and being squashed into a tiny pen all its life that it was never able to walk.

It was also common to find various parts of said birds at the side of the road -- heads, feet, wings, etc -- in various states of separation and decomposition. And the layer of rendered fat and scum floating on the bay down in the industrial district was such that the neighborhood was widely derided as "Schmaltzville."

 

[Harp]

But both strictly for the articles...right?

I actually read Playboy. The magazine was informative and interesting with exacting editorial standards.
Mayfair less strict; however this deficiency I overlooked for abundance of pulchritude found therein.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Haven’t seen a playboy magazine in ages...

According to the 'Net, the last print issue was released March 17, 2020; it's apparently only been available in digital format (online) since.

 

[Harp]

^^^Aside from the obvious porn cache online, Playboy had clearly fallen on rough times
with Hugh Hefner's death. A man who outlived his own day, Hefner nevertheless undoubtedly possessed
the chutzpah chops to get the magazine and its corporation up and running; whereas Junior has
neither the acumen to adapt the corporation to present tense, and is a progressive liberal caught
between the proverbial rock and a liberal intolerance anathema to continued 'sexism' however cast.

 

[ChrisB]

You know you're getting old when you see "CRT" in a news headline and think, "What's the deal with cathode ray tubes these days?"

I kept on wondering what the problem was with the Bureau of Land Management.

 

[ChrisB]

...when you realize that the reason so much of the world no longer seems to make sense is not that there's something wrong with the world, but that the world is no longer about *you.*

 

[tonyb]

Were Joe Namath’s ears that big back in ’69?

 

[Zombie_61]

Were Joe Namath’s ears that big back in ’69?

Not quite. Gravity constantly pulls on our ears and noses among other body parts, slowly breaking down the cartilage and causing them to sag which gives the illusion they're growing. So his ears (and nose) are probably a bit longer than they were in '69, but not necessarily bigger.

 

[belfastboy]

Not quite. Gravity constantly pulls on our ears and noses among other body parts, slowly breaking down the cartilage and causing them to sag which gives the illusion they're growing. So his ears (and nose) are probably a bit longer than they were in '69, but not necessarily bigger.

What is that old saw...."I have a gravity problem....my chest is sagging into my drawers."

 

[LizzieMaine]

Not quite. Gravity constantly pulls on our ears and noses among other body parts, slowly breaking down the cartilage and causing them to sag which gives the illusion they're growing. So his ears (and nose) are probably a bit longer than they were in '69, but not necessarily bigger.

Plus the rest of him appears to have shrunken considerably. Remember those dolls that were popular with the heads made out of dried apples?