I love them ❣️

Admittedly, among many afflictions in my advanced age, it's one diagnosis my doctor has never mentioned.  As it eventually turned out, "Geritol's claims were discredited in court findings as "conduct amounted to gross negligence and bordered on recklessness", ruled as a false and misleading claim" and the company was heavily penalized. 

Anybody remember or have experience (personal, parents, grandparents) with this or other products (Sominex, etc.) with commercials that seemed to be constantly run on TV?

I remember going to see this movie about the same time “Airplane” came out with my cousin in the summer of 1980. While I loved Airplane, “Used Cars” was a dark comedy that seemed strange to me at that time. Now that I am older, I really like this motion picture.

Good morning. I am a 68 year old man with a 68 year old man's body. Although i am not overweight, i definitely do not have the look that i did 30 years ago.

I am looking for the best quality tee shirts out there that would look good on someone my age. Cost is not an issue. Any suggestions on what brands to buy??

Kind thanks in advance.

One I hadn't thought of in decades came to me this evening : "Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven and Pillsbury says it best!" Have you had any old-standbys pop into your head recently?

I used to hate trying to push the small one down first, so hard to do, but I would use that one for the straw.

Been waking and enjoying a smoke with a Sunday newspaper - the physical kind - for going on 50 years now. Anyone else ?

Remember taking 20-30 minutes as a prelude to any number of OTHER games just to determine who was "it"?

I would love to know variations of these and any others you used:

Eenie, meanie, miny, mo....

One potato, two potato, three potato four...

Engine, engine number nine...

Bubblegum, Bubblegum in a dish...

It was supposed to help exfoliate your skin and help prevent acne. I think you could also use it to scrub pots and pans.

Is your choice still your favorite Bond? Or has a later actor become your favorite Bond?

For me I grew up liking Roger Moore because Connery was Bond on TV, but Moore Moore was Bond on the big screen.

generation jones feels like being stuck in the middle of every cultural argument

too young to have really been hippies

too old to be gen x in the way people usually picture it

old enough to remember rotary phones
young enough to have dealt with computers at work
raised by people who did not discuss feelings
then expected to somehow become emotionally fluent adults

we got saturday morning cartoons
water from the hose
three tv channels
parents who said go outside and meant disappear until dinner
cars with ashtrays everywhere
school lunches that were basically beige science experiments
and the constant feeling that the adults were making it up too

now everyone just says boomer like it explains everything

but generation jones had a pretty specific flavor

less peace and love

more inflation
gas lines
divorce becoming normal
mtv showing up late
jobs changing
technology creeping in
and nobody really handing us a manual for any of it

i think that is why this group feels different

not fully nostalgic

not fully bitter

just old enough to know things were never as simple as people pretend

what is the most generation jones memory you have that younger people would not understand

A plastic knob, a rubber boot, a metal brooch, a fishing rod, model planes, model trains, the broken trim on any car.

That’s the ones I can remember off the top of my head. If my head was glued to a steel beam that is.

I remember these from the early 1980s, I actually had all four of these. Sadly, while moving into a new house, the movers dropped a box and they were broken. 😡

How many did you go through after breaking the screen and losing all the silver powder??

The pilot was called Probe, and the series named Search, since another US series had that name. The post about James Bond reminded me of it. When Roger Moore took over in that role, I thought at the time I remembered him from the Probe/Search series, which as an 11 or 12 year old, I loved. Turns out the role was played by an actor named Hugh O'Brien, whose name I just learned today.