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[quote=Anonymous]Let me pop my collar here . . . .

-- Erasermate pens.  Pens that erase?!?!?  To a 5th grader, this was genius.  That the ink smudged and faded within hours was of no consequence.  Pure genius.

-- Speaking of the 5th grade, that was 1980-81.  Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th President of these United States.  My Western Nassau County, Long Island elementary school marked his ascension to the highest office in the land with duck-and-cover drills in the hallway that spring.  We actually filed in the hallway, crouched against the wall, and covered our head with our windbreaker jacket.

-- I read "1984" in 1984.  Scared witless.

-- Paper routes.  I had one for Long Island's Newsday.  Kids don't have paper routes anymore; grown-ups do.

-- Video arcades as a teen destination in every mall in America.  Video game machines in the most random places.  Hey, there's one at the grocery store.  Hey, there's one at the gas station.  Hey, there's one at church.  (Not mine, but the Catholic church had one.  God Bless the Catholics!)

-- Carrying dimes for the payphone to call my mother to pick up me from the mall.

-- I had a birthday party at the roller skating rink when I turned eight, and a party at the bowling alley when I turned ten.  There were video game machines there, too.

-- We were an Intellivision family, and we pitied Atari 2600 families.

-- Dot-matrix printers and looooooong banners on perforated printer paper.

-- Max Headroom.  I have no explanation for that.[/quote]

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