elisi: (When We Were Very Young by kathyh)
elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2011-09-27 02:07 pm
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The other day...

Miss M: "This is a voice recorder!"
Me [looks up]: "It's a walkman."
Impish Girl: "What's a walkman?"
Me: *feels about a million years old*

ETA: After I wrote this entry, I [randomly] went to look up Right Said Fred on youtube...

*cue waves of nostalgia*

Still remember sitting up late on a weekend, listening to the official countdown on Longwave Radio 252 (already indoctrinating myself with English culture - and was there ever anything gayer than that band?), to find out if Deeply Dippy was still Number 1. I think it held the spot for... 4 weeks? And oh, 'I'm Too Sexy' was EVERYWHERE, and one of my friends bought their album (it was called 'Up'), and I only much, much later discovered that 'Right Said Fred' was originally a song recorded by Bernard Cribbins. And thus my life is all beautifully circular.

ETA2: OH GOD. Now youtube is giving me links to Ace of Base: All That She Wants. *cries*

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[identity profile] ladypeyton.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
*snerk!*

(is a million years old as well)
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I can hear time rush past...
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[identity profile] camkin.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
hee hee!
I feel your pain.

[identity profile] hawkmoth.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
*feels about a million years old*

Yah. I can remember when a transistor radio was the coolest thing ever. (Followed in a few years by the portable cassette tape player!)
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Plus she wasn't particularly impressed when I explained. /o\
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember my father had a calculator when I was little, and it was AMAZING...
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[personal profile] unfeathered 2011-09-27 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, I can imagine having that conversation with my son too.

*also feels a million years old*
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly my LJ is now the refuge for million year old parents...
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[personal profile] unfeathered 2011-09-27 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! *g*
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
'Cause we're awesome. :)

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I only feel about a thousand, but yes, I totally had a walkman.

Honestly, it makes me think of Simon Amstell: "I'm so old. We had this rapper on who was born in 1994. How could an adult human be born in the mid-nineties?"

[identity profile] beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
A colleague - someone old enough to actually have a job - gave me a very odd look the other day when I mentioned owning a Discman. Oh, right, those were made redundant 10 years ago.

[identity profile] ladypeyton.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too! It sounds like Duran Duran.
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-09-27 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
God, I remember when I got a Walkman. I was ecstatic.

Was just having a conversation with a friend the other day that people cannot possibly have been born in the Nineties. People walking around like ordinary human beings who were born in the Nineties. How did the universe allow this to happen?
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[personal profile] owlboy 2011-09-27 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I realised the other day that one of my friends was born in 1994. o___O

[identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I binned mine a couple of years ago.

Is also Jurassic.
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I love Duran Duran...
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
We must stick together...

And Simon Amstell is a marvel and a wonder and yes, that is a very worrying thought. /o\
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I had one of those too, once...
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I REMEMBER THAT ONE! /o\
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
*clings to you*

Also, Miss M was born in 1998... THE WORLD IS GOING TOPSY-TURVY!
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn kids. *shakes fist*
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-09-27 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Stop the world, I want to get off...
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[personal profile] owlboy 2011-09-27 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There are people born AFTER the first Harry Potter book came out. ;_____; Who will never understand the phenomenon of the Spice Girls or Mambo #5. (brain melts)
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