Remember when?

[marv2]

God only knows what we were licking! Eew!

They said the glue was from horses. LOL!

[arr&bee]

they said the glue was from horses. Lol!

mr.ed must be rolling in his grave!!

[Jerry Oz]

They said the glue was from horses. LOL!

And also, soap. And dog food. BTW, remember these commercials:

[Jerry Oz]

I remember being able to count on getting my mail on a consistent basis. My mailman seems to think that placing it in a mailbox on my block is close enough. So much for pride in one's job.

[marv2]

It is true that "Jello" gelatin is made from the ground up animal bones. When water is added to it, it "gels" up.

[Jerry Oz]

It's also true that a lot of red food dye is processed from tiny red insects called cochineals. And the FDA has a standard that regulates the maximum number of rat hairs that can be detected in hot dogs and processed meat. And there are also standards for how many bug parts can be found in processed spices. There's a reason for the old quote "Nobody wants to see their sausage being made". Oh, and this:

[arr&bee]

it's also true that a lot of red food dye is processed from tiny red insects called cochineals. And the fda has a standard that regulates the maximum number of rat hairs that can be detected in hot dogs and processed meat. And there are also standards for how many bug parts can be found in processed spices. There's a reason for the old quote "nobody wants to see their sausage being made". Oh, and this:

then i guess you don't wanna watch the new documentary that greasy grady has coming,hehehehe!!

[Jerry Oz]

then i guess you don't wanna watch the new documentary that greasy grady has coming,hehehehe!!

Is that the one where he tells us that the grease he uses is actually recycled pomade? I heard it was a good one.

[marv2]

Is that the one where he tells us that the grease he uses is actually recycled pomade? I heard it was a good one.

I always thought it was old bacon grease.

[nysister]

Great thread. You guys are too funny!

[marv2]

Absolutely gross

[Jerry Oz]

If I understand correctly, he uses old bacon grease as a personal lubricant. Grady says that he's allergic to K-Y but I think he just likes the smell of bacon during "intimate moments". Also runs it through a strainer and puts it in old motor oil containers that he sells in the alley behind his joint.

[arr&bee]

THE STATION THAT AIRED IT..[sub cable channel 0.1]REFUSED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT GRADY MIGHT SHOW ON AIR.

[lakeside]

I remember going to the barber as a little kid and getting a crew cut and
the barber slathering that on my head. I guess it helped the hair in the
front stand up. It smelled good...but, dear God...you could lay bricks and
hang wallpaper with that stuff! I probably still have an inch of that adhered
to my scalp!

[Jerry Oz]

I remember getting my afro touched up and having the barber spray enough Afro Sheen on make me run out of the shop for fresh air.

[nativeNY63]

True dat, Jerry! And once the Afro Sheen fog cleared, then the leftover hairs on your neck and back started itching like crazy! You couldn't wait to get home to either wash your new cut in the sink or take a shower!!

[marv2]

To this day, my barber, Rafael house of fades spray this alcohol that is so cold on your scalp and neck you almost want to jump out of the chair. LOL!!!

[arr&bee]

Remember when we always addressed our aunts and uncles as-aunt this-uncle that? These kids today don't do it.

[lakeside]

Remember when we always addressed our aunts and uncles as-aunt this-uncle that? These kids today don't do it.

They're too busy staring at their IPhones to addres anyone.

[nativeNY63]

Lakeside, you're on to something. A study was done back in the 2000's with some teens. They took away all their electronic devices for a week. And were told to find another way to communicate. It was suggested to write a letter, for example. To say those younguns were clueless was an understatement!!

[Jerry Oz]

Remember when we always addressed our aunts and uncles as-aunt this-uncle that? These kids today don't do it.

I remember when my mother sat us down and specifically asked us to to that. We had no reason not to since we didn't realize we were being disrespectful. To this day, all of them are "uncle" and "aunt" to me.

[marv2]

I remember when my mother sat us down and specifically asked us to to that. We had no reason not to since we didn't realize we were being disrespectful. To this day, all of them are "uncle" and "aunt" to me.

Same here, as well as, addressing adults as "sir" and "ma'am".

[nativeNY63]

Yup! We kids weren't even allowed to use our female kinfolks name. They were simply Auntie, Grandma. Go figure! But I agree with everyone: respect was behind it all.

[arr&bee]

Exactly jerry,respect for our elders was something that was ingrained in us from the crib...today there's no crib.

[sansradio]

I remember my mother grilling me after she observed me in church: You STAND when you shake a woman's hand. I learned later that one should stand when shaking the hand of anyone regardless of gender. Who is teaching the youth of today such pearls?

[Jerry Oz]

I was taught to stand in attention every time "Lift Every Voice And Sing" [[the Negro National Anthem, as it was called) was played. Even my white teachers drilled it into us. The song is played every Sunday morning during Black History Month at my church. I work in the sound room with a couple other guys, one of whom is my age, and I'm the only one who stands when they sing it.

[arr&bee]

Along with such old school teachings as-standing when a lady enters a room,tipping your hat...of course with the women's movement these things might be taken out of context which is sad..tip your hat a get hit with sexual harassment..ladies calm down!!

[Jerry Oz]

Man, I still take off my hat in elevators when there are ladies present. And walking down the street with a female, I always make sure I'm on the side of traffic. And I still call my elders "sir" and "ma'am". Not sure why things like manner and decorum have been forgotten in our society but it appears that they're gone forever.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about a generation that thinks it's kosher to walk around with your underwear showing and your pants barely hanging onto your knees.

[nativeNY63]

Man, I still take off my hat in elevators when there are ladies present. And walking down the street with a female, I always make sure I'm on the side of traffic. And I still call my elders "sir" and "ma'am". Not sure why things like manner and decorum have been forgotten in our society but it appears that they're gone forever.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about a generation that thinks it's kosher to walk around with your underwear showing and your pants barely hanging onto your knees.

How true. In elevators and indoors. I'm 55, and I still take off my hat indoors! Even when no one else does!

[nativeNY63]

Man, I still take off my hat in elevators when there are ladies present. And walking down the street with a female, I always make sure I'm on the side of traffic. And I still call my elders "sir" and "ma'am". Not sure why things like manner and decorum have been forgotten in our society but it appears that they're gone forever.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about a generation that thinks it's kosher to walk around with your underwear showing and your pants barely hanging onto your knees.

To your second point, Jerry: I truly believe it also ramped up after corporate world's Casual Friday engulfed the whole week! It's nothing to see biz people decked out in a stained logo t, pre-ripped/holed ratty jeans, and runned-over-by-a-Mack truck sneeks!! And don't get me started on the multi-,colored hair [[didn't Grandma start that trend in the ,'60',s?!)

[nativeNY63]

To your second point, Jerry: I truly believe it also ramped up after corporate world's Casual Friday engulfed the whole week! It's nothing to see biz people decked out in a stained logo t, pre-ripped/holed ratty jeans, and runned-over-by-a-Mack truck sneeks!! And don't get me started on the multi-,colored hair [[didn't Grandma start that trend in the ,'60',s?!)

...or flip-flops/sliders, also with matching logo!!!!

[arr&bee]

Jerry,the other day i saw this young dude with a baby trying to hold his pants up with one hand and carry the child with the other...what the hell??????

[Jerry Oz]

Jerry,the other day i saw this young dude with a baby trying to hold his pants up with one hand and carry the child with the other...what the hell??????

A few years ago, I went downtown for a niece's graduation and I saw a guy trying to walk across the street while holding his pants up just high enough to cover his knees. It was crazy. He was taking baby steps while everybody else was breezing past him.

And I'll never forget when my cousin got married. He had two groomsmen light candles and one had to stretch up to get the highest one. When he did, the back of his tux raised up to reveal he was sagging! In a tuxedo! Jane, get me off this crazy thing.

Finally, I once worked in a group home. There was a particularly rough kid named Mike who got a $300 clothing voucher so he could get enough nice things to wear to school since he brought next to nothing with him when he was sentenced to us. For some reason, he wanted me to take him to get the clothes. He grabbed $120 worth of things in spite of my telling him to blow the one-time voucher and get as much as he wanted. That was all he wanted though, so I respect it. Well, when we got to the register, he had a pair of size 32 jeans even though he had about a 28 waist.

"Mike," says I. "Do you suppose these are big enough?"

I should have kept my pie hole shut because he looked at them, told me "Good looking out," and replaced them with a pair that was size 36. So glad I was born 20 years before everything went nuts.

[arr&bee]

Remember those old insect sprays back in the day?..it's a wonder we all ain't dead from those fumes,now that stuff worked..no bug in his right mind would come anywhere near that stuff.

[marv2]

Remember those old insect sprays back in the day?..it's a wonder we all ain't dead from those fumes,now that stuff worked..no bug in his right mind would come anywhere near that stuff.

JAI, back in the day when I was a kid, they would send the mesquito trucks through the neighborhood with thick, white billowing smoke coming out of them. All the kids would run into that thick fog of pesticide for fun!

[arr&bee]

jai, back in the day when i was a kid, they would send the mesquito trucks through the neighborhood with thick, white billowing smoke coming out of them. All the kids would run into that thick fog of pesticide for fun!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...and they call me crazy!!

[nativeNY63]

JAI, back in the day when I was a kid, they would send the mesquito trucks through the neighborhood with thick, white billowing smoke coming out of them. All the kids would run into that thick fog of pesticide for fun!

What the bombs and fumigators. You had to leave the house for hours. And you folks usually scheduled it when you favorite shows were either on or about to come on!!!

[nativeNY63]

Remember those old insect sprays back in the day?..it's a wonder we all ain't dead from those fumes,now that stuff worked..no bug in his right mind would come anywhere near that stuff.

Arr&bee, that's on point! Black Flag! Raid! [[The commercial showed the roaches screaming, Raid! And then exploding!!)

[arr&bee]

Remember when almost every neighborhood had a-big junior-little junior,and they weren't related?

[marv2]

Remember when almost every neighborhood had a-big junior-little junior,and they weren't related?

Yep! My friend Troy was little Junior to his Dad Big Troy or Big Junior. His Dad was in the Black Panthers too!

[arr&bee]

Remember when the local news was at-6pm and 11pm? Now it's every fifteen minutes!

[marv2]

Remember when the local news was at-6pm and 11pm? Now it's every fifteen minutes!

Yep! The also use to call the brief update at 12 midnight "The Sign Off Edition" and the National Anthem was played and then nothing but snow until the next morning! LOL!!!

[Jerry Oz]

Yep! The also use to call the brief update at 12 midnight "The Sign Off Edition" and the National Anthem was played and then nothing but snow until the next morning! LOL!!!

Remember when there were cartoons on Saturday mornings and if you were lucky, creature features on Saturday afternoons? Now, they have live action shows and reality TV on Saturday mornings and infomercials in the afternoon until the sports shows come on. Infomercials!

[marv2]

Remember when there were cartoons on Saturday mornings and if you were lucky, creature features on Saturday afternoons? Now, they have live action shows and reality TV on Saturday mornings and infomercials in the afternoon until the sports shows come on. Infomercials!

Jerry yes I remember. That all changed in 1990 when the networks began dropping cartoons from the their Sat. morning schedules. They claimed animated shows were too expensive.

Here's how it use to go in the 60s and 70s at my house. Up at 7:30 am on Sat. Have a bowl of some super, sugary sweet cereal and milk, then on came the TV for the start of the cartoons. The cartoons on all three networks would run up to about noon. Then you had shows like The Monkees or Children's Playhouse that showed short films directed towards kids,etc. Then after 1pm we had "Sir Graves Ghastly" who hosted "Monster Movies" every Sat afternoon on WJBK, Channel 2 Detroit! LOL! We watched him every weekend from the time I was in the 3rd Grade until I was almost out of high school:

[nativeNY63]

Jerry yes I remember. That all changed in 1990 when the networks began dropping cartoons from the their Sat. morning schedules. They claimed animated shows were too expensive.

Here's how it use to go in the 60s and 70s at my house. Up at 7:30 am on Sat. Have a bowl of some super, sugary sweet cereal and milk, then on came the TV for the start of the cartoons. The cartoons on all three networks would run up to about noon. Then you had shows like The Monkees or Children's Playhouse that showed short films directed towards kids,etc. Then after 1pm we had "Sir Graves Ghastly" who hosted "Monster Movies" every Sat afternoon on WJBK, Channel 2 Detroit! LOL! We watched him every weekend from the time I was in the 3rd Grade until I was almost out of high school:

Don't forget Soul Train [[The Hippest Trip In America). And some kung-fu movies and then, and only then, were we free to go outside to play.

Speaking of which, this generation doesn't have to go outside to play. They got everything they need in their room! Plus social media!!

[Jerry Oz]

We had pretty much the same routine, except Columbus didn't have Saturday afternoon movies until we got cable. Then, Superhost came on channel 43 from Cleveland. Super Corny would have been a better name because he was also their main news anchor during the week, but with a poor-fitting Superman suit and red makeup on his nose. He made me laugh involuntarily during the news because I kept seeing Superhost talking about fires and bank robberies. Then, the Ghoul came on channel 61 at midnight [[I think we talked about him) and he was the best ever, including Elvira [[except for her perfect boobs). After he got fired, we watched Hoolihan & Big Chuck on yet another Cleveland channel late on Saturday night.

Cable TV changed the game for me and my friends.

[nativeNY63]

Try this one on for size: whatever happened to customer service? The customer's always right? You go into a brick and mortar, and can stand for hours and the associate can be right behind you and ignore! And don't ask a question. Which never really comes up. Cause he's having a very animated conversation on his cellphone or eating. And proceeds to turn his back on you!! The gall! Arsenio used to say, things that make you go hmmmmm.

[marv2]

Try this one on for size: whatever happened to customer service? The customer's always right? You go into a brick and mortar, and can stand for hours and the associate can be right behind you and ignore! And don't ask a question. Which never really comes up. Cause he's having a very animated conversation on his cellphone or eating. And proceeds to turn his back on you!! The gall! Arsenio used to say, things that make you go hmmmmm.

Whatever happened to customer service? It moved to India! " Hello I am Bob, Pleased to be speaking to you now........"! LOL!

[marv2]

We had pretty much the same routine, except Columbus didn't have Saturday afternoon movies until we got cable. Then, Superhost came on channel 43 from Cleveland. Super Corny would have been a better name because he was also their main news anchor during the week, but with a poor-fitting Superman suit and red makeup on his nose. He made me laugh involuntarily during the news because I kept seeing Superhost talking about fires and bank robberies. Then, the Ghoul came on channel 61 at midnight [[I think we talked about him) and he was the best ever, including Elvira [[except for her perfect boobs). After he got fired, we watched Hoolihan & Big Chuck on yet another Cleveland channel late on Saturday night.

Cable TV changed the game for me and my friends.

I remember channel 43 in Cleveland. We could pick it up sometimes after it rained. Detroit had a number of notable local movie hosts from Bill Kennedy, to Rita Bell, Sir Graves and others. CKLW Channel 9 out of Windsor, Ontario had their own set of great locally produced shows. Being so close to Detroit and Toledo, we considered it one of our local stations.

If you want to check out a pretty good Horror Movie Channel with in studio hosts, check out "Newcastle After Dark" here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC95...cbBI083GmKRY3A

[Jerry Oz]

I remember channel 43 in Cleveland. We could pick it up sometimes after it rained. Detroit had a number of notable local movie hosts from Bill Kennedy, to Rita Bell, Sir Graves and others. CKLW Channel 9 out of Windsor, Ontario had their own set of great locally produced shows. Being so close to Detroit and Toledo, we considered it one of our local stations.

If you want to check out a pretty good Horror Movie Channel with in studio hosts, check out "Newcastle After Dark" here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC95...cbBI083GmKRY3A

We didn't have Saturday afternoon movie hosts but we had Flippo the Clown in the daytime between 4PM and 6PM. Flippo was more talk than movie and he told the stalest jokes. He went off the air right when I started to figure out his brand of humor. We also had Fritz the Night Owl, who popped up and took over Chiller Theater, which was our Friday night creature feature in the mid-70s. He was pretty cool. The absolute worst was a guy named Jerry Beck who hosted the Almost All Night Theater, which literally showed 10 minutes of movie followed by 10 minutes of Jerry Beck talking about... nothing. It came on at midnight Saturday, was three hours long and I never survived one episode.