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Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussion' started by texasrho83, Jan 30, 2023.

  1. Jan 30, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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    texasrho83

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    My childhood TV people are dyin off....

    Shirley from Laverne & Shirley has passed on at 75 years young.

    Addendum: Coincidentally, Penny Marshall (Laverne) died at the age of 75 in 2018.

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    Oh damn. We must be close to the same age lol. I remember that show.
     
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    I'll be 46 next month
     
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    time goes by in a blink of an eye!! Time wise we are but a tiny spec in this world!!!:)
     
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  5. Jan 30, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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    Not bad lol....I'll be 50 in July. I started a thread a couple years ago on old candy and toys from our childhood. 4x4 Stomper trucks and Astro pops lol.
     
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    RIP Shirley.

    I never watched that show (or much TV) but I hear it was pretty good.
     
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  7. Jan 30, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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    Back when TV was still good...
     
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    I like series and certain genre of TV today.
     
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    Yep....Mork & Mindy, What's Happening, Mash.
     
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    When I was a kid we used to drive passed the Mork and Mindy house on the way to school. I didn't know it then but my step dad went to Julliard with Robin Williams.
     
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    I loved Good Times, Jeffersons, Fall Guy, Magnum PI.....
     
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    Probably posted this before (I'm old and forget stuff) but here's Zakk Wylde as a kid in 1972... on the front of a Tinkertoys canister.

    zakk wylde tinkertoys.jpg zakk wyle tinkertoys.jpg
     
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    Rest in Peace. We have been watching the L&S show on Pluto for quite some time along with Happy Days and Three's Company. Sad!
     
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    Al Bundy...Married with Children
     
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    I LOVED this show as a kid.


    Anyone else remember learning to type on typewriters?

    I saw a pay phone yesterday and my son asked me what it was for :(. Before anyone asks I’m pretty sure it wasn’t hooked up.
     
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    Typed on the old gigantic dinosaur typewriters in H.S. typing class!
     
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    When I was a kid, we walked to school and long walks ... uphill both ways!
     
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    My cousin had the action figure haha.
     
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    Space 1999 and Myra.
     
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