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66. I am reacting to someone naming they kids Dash and Maxim

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Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:53 PM

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Kids react to "rotary phones": [View all] Are_grits_groceries Mar 2014 OP

So cute, but now I feel old :-) n/t TDale313 Mar 2014 #1

Try explaining broadcast/cable television to them! frazzled Mar 2014 #2

"You have it! Just press the icon!" Brigid Mar 2014 #11

That's hilarious laundry_queen Mar 2014 #14

Rabbit ears and... pipi_k Mar 2014 #50

hahaha, my dad was too lazy to get up and change channels laundry_queen Mar 2014 #65

Sitting that close pipi_k Mar 2014 #71

I had to see an ophthamologist when I was little Mariana Mar 2014 #89

I WAS the remote control. Autumn Mar 2014 #79

That was the entire reason for having kids... AnneD Mar 2014 #82

I used to complain "if we can't get up off our butts to change the channel..." CTyankee Mar 2014 #92

we have an antique we inherited: a telephone table. CTyankee Mar 2014 #24

Our first house (c. 1940 era) had a telephone "niche" frazzled Mar 2014 #55

Now *I* feel old. malthaussen Mar 2014 #78

Hey!!! pipi_k Mar 2014 #83

ours has an oval top but otherwise looks the same. CTyankee Mar 2014 #86

Give me rotary over cell any day Politicalboi Mar 2014 #3

Those kids are most likely texting on your lawn. Orrex Mar 2014 #35

I've lived in four countries and I have YET to find a place where cell works better than a landline Number23 Mar 2014 #95

That is hilarious sarisataka Mar 2014 #4

I've been meaning to pick up a reproduction for years now... Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #5

You can buy a very nice one on eBay. MineralMan Mar 2014 #10

we still have my hubby's old princess phone, in brown for a guy...very funny CTyankee Mar 2014 #27

I like old phones. MineralMan Mar 2014 #29

I consider those to be classic but I guess the older the princess phones get the more classic CTyankee Mar 2014 #32

I have one of these Berlin Expat Mar 2014 #53

I don't think that one is considered a princess phone. llmart Mar 2014 #51

I think that is a Trimline, definately not a princess- bettyellen Mar 2014 #81

Ah, thanks...I've been callling it a princess phone for nearly 30 years...LOL... CTyankee Mar 2014 #87

no problem! the trimline was the "mod" more unisex touchtone update to the princess.... bettyellen Mar 2014 #90

yes, that was my impression, too: a girly phone CTyankee Mar 2014 #91

Really cute kids. northoftheborder Mar 2014 #6

Even the narrator, "50 cents for a pay phone" PowerToThePeople Mar 2014 #7

Exactly! geardaddy Mar 2014 #23

This video does a great job at making me feel a wee bit more ancient. Nika Mar 2014 #8

I'm pretty sure that the only rotary dial phones my grandkids have seen in the Arkansas Granny Mar 2014 #9

I am going to wander off and moulder a bit right now. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2014 #12

I was floored last year when I realized that my 16 year old didn't know what a busy signal was. Xithras Mar 2014 #13

I have to admit . . . Brigid Mar 2014 #15

i LOVE my rotary phones. i got a rotary wall phone from a church rummage. pansypoo53219 Mar 2014 #16

We had a black phone, not one of frogmarch Mar 2014 #17

So pipi_k Mar 2014 #52

The idea of a 'Party Line' would totally freak these kids out. Raine1967 Mar 2014 #18

Hell, I remember party lines. progressoid Mar 2014 #19

I have a rotary pay phone. tammywammy Mar 2014 #20

I still have one hooked up in the garage. B Calm Mar 2014 #21

thought I heard one kid refer to the act of entering the number as "dialing" yet rurallib Mar 2014 #22

I have a rotary phone.... MADem Mar 2014 #25

My dad worked for Northwestern Bell geardaddy Mar 2014 #26

that old Bell equipment could survive a nuclear bomb, I swear... CTyankee Mar 2014 #33

I know! geardaddy Mar 2014 #41

Funny how the idea of "making things to last" is nowadays. CTyankee Mar 2014 #44

Plus the whole idea of planned obscelence geardaddy Mar 2014 #45

I have a Western Electric 302 built in 1942 FuzzyRabbit Mar 2014 #56

Hey, you are my lovely person! CTyankee Mar 2014 #67

Unfortunately, they want to do away with land-lines altogether. malthaussen Mar 2014 #80

+1 Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #61

We had a party line...and a rotary phone. PDJane Mar 2014 #28

I still use one. Lancero Mar 2014 #30

Oooooooooooooooh!! so thats what it is... yuiyoshida Mar 2014 #31

Are_grits_groceries Diclotican Mar 2014 #34

Imagine How They Would React to a Phone Where Leith Mar 2014 #36

This message was self-deleted by its author Orrex Mar 2014 #37

at 2:53 - "I wasn't born in the 40s so I have no idea what you're talking about." Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2014 #38

Brick phone is weird too ErikJ Mar 2014 #39

I had a coworker who used to tote her mobile phone around in a shoebox in her car... CTyankee Mar 2014 #46

That first portable motorola was gangsta as hell Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #62

did it look like this? CTyankee Mar 2014 #70

I meant more like this Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #74

ours has a cord. It was hubby's before we got married in 1986... CTyankee Mar 2014 #75

You can have my rotary phone when you pry it from my cold arthritic fingers npk Mar 2014 #40

It strikes me that, for a whole bunch of people I am aquainted with, if you could take jtuck004 Mar 2014 #42

thanks !!!! unionthug777 Mar 2014 #43

...And if it were to ring after 8pm the first resonse was bkanderson76 Mar 2014 #47

LOL - "I'm a fan of plastics" cyberswede Mar 2014 #48

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2014 #49

Remember how it used to hurt your finger if you dialed the phone a lot? reformist2 Mar 2014 #54

My wife and I bought a house built in 1956 Aldo Leopold Mar 2014 #57

"I love old technology. I'm a fan of classics." Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2014 #58

Reminds me of this.... yourout Mar 2014 #59

I know what you posted before I clicked to open you post. I love that! nt ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #64

I don't think all of the changes have been good. Dustlawyer Mar 2014 #60

I think if I had pipi_k Mar 2014 #73

That was so much fun! I didn't like those phones, lol. nt ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #63

I am reacting to someone naming they kids Dash and Maxim underpants Mar 2014 #66

I bet that one little girl's mother wants to kill her. JoeyT Mar 2014 #68

Funny. Try explaining "carriage return" to a 20 something ReasonableToo Mar 2014 #69

Speaking of which... pipi_k Mar 2014 #72

We used those at Huntington Banks up until the mid-90s... ScreamingMeemie Mar 2014 #77

OK so pipi_k Mar 2014 #84

When I was a grocery clerk, we used cash registers like that. Had to know how to make change. KittyWampus Mar 2014 #94

I remember telling my kids.. SummerSnow Mar 2014 #76

bahahahah!!! pipi_k Mar 2014 #85

Yes we went to bed. texanwitch Mar 2014 #96

Too good malaise Mar 2014 #88

Those kids are adorable Hekate Mar 2014 #93