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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: daywane on April 24, 2024, 05:28:35 pm
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who s the oldest person here.
I am 59 born March 18th 1965
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You kids today :)
High school class of ‘81 baby! Now get off my lawn :)
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Graduated High School 1979.
I'm happy to see some folks who are in the same ballpark. :)
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You kids today :)
High school class of ‘81 baby! Now get off my lawn :)
TTC
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in the navy 1982-1986
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You kids today :)
High school class of ‘81 baby! Now get off my lawn :)
TTC
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Damn son, I was 8 in ‘81!
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Graduated High School 1979.
I'm happy to see some folks who are in the same ballpark. :)
I was born in '79 :)
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it seems like many of us have 1 foot in the grave already :)
"I hate it when it's my turn" :angry:
One thing fer sure, I want my MAME Cab with me. Pretty sure Kids/Grand Kids will keep it to themselves and leech off my hard work :( (like they have done all their lves) :banghead:
Long Live Thenasty
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Good 10 years younger than most of you if not more. The only reason I like this old garbage is I used to get hauled to a beach bar in the 90s that randomly got stocked with early 80s arcade games. Other option was play pool on beat up tables and get screamed at about “don’t scratch the felt” or put quarters in the jukebox and get screamed at about “if you play another ---fracking--- Pink Floyd song I’m going to kick your ass.” Swell things to tell a 12 year old. Tempest it was.
On the other hand, they would let my grandfather bring in a traveler fifth of McCormick provided he bought a “bucket of ice.” He’d kill it and my 5’ grandmother would sit on a phone book and drive us home. The older I get the more I get it. They had a police scanner behind the bar and occasionally things would be whisked away and we’d all be told to shut the ---fudgesicle--- up. Every now and then someone would parade around a woman in the place that I now realize was a whore.
Enough time had passed that you didn’t immediately get out of the water and rub yourself with mineral oil to dissolve Mexican tar balls from their offshore leak in the 70s, but just barely enough time. We all had that mineral oil ready just in case.
It was an oyster shell beach so you wore closed toed shoes into the water. You’d make the mistake precisely once of going barefoot.
Coastal plains Texas are a weird place.
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I was stationed in Kingsville and Beeville TX
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My other grandfather was from Beeville. Not much out there. We had a ranch. Oddly, the sculptor that finished Mount Rushmore was from there and a beloved friend I was told.
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Born in 1977, graduated high school in 95. I went to college in Kingsville and lived in a 10x40ft trailer house down the road from the base. Sometimes the jets flying over would shake the whole house.