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Wow, I go to bed and wake up to see arch in this thread pyulling his usual schtick, why am I not surprised? I wonder if arch and fletch were separated at birth?
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I have a few buddies who are cops, and they say that saggy pants must have been invented by a cop. They said it makes it so much easier chasing a guy when he has to slow down to pull his pants up. 
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Arch, I agree with you. Sagging is stupid.
But, so are bellbottom pants, platform shoes, and paisley shirts, etc.
That's all I'm sayings, is why is your generation so hard on our generation, when you had some stupid fads yourself?
Just like you outgrew those things, people from our generation have/will outgrow our things.
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SNOPESWhile sagging did gain its start in the US prison system, it was not a clothes-wearing style attributed by imprisoned homosexuals intent upon advertising their interest in casual flings. Saggy pants became a behind -the-bars thing thanks to ill-fitting prison issue garb: some of those incarcerated were provided with clothing a few sizes too large. That oversizing, coupled with the lack of belts in the big house, led to a great number of jailbirds whose pants were falling off their behinds.
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Hilarious list - I shared it with others. However, being 33 years old, I am on the back cusp of the age range. 
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Arch, I agree with you. Sagging is stupid.
But, so are bellbottom pants, platform shoes, and paisley shirts, etc.
That's all I'm sayings, is why is your generation so hard on our generation, when you had some stupid fads yourself?
Just like you outgrew those things, people from our generation have/will outgrow our things.
Exactly. These kids or adults look no worse that I did with my feathered mullet, parachute pants, white painters hat, one right glove, and "Awesome" neon teal breakdancing T-shirt. Regardless of the fad, it shows you're just following the crowd (harmless immaturity).
Baggy or drooping pants are just a clothing fad. It might look more stupid than anything in our past, I'm 36, but that's just your or our perspective. They're trying to look different by looking the same. Most will grow out of it and be normal adults.
My favorite are the morbid's or emo's. Dressed in black, safety pins, ripped jeans, trench coats, piercings, black makeup and combat boots. They claim to be againt conformity....but they're dressing like all the other non-conformists, which makes them conformists too.
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That reminds me of Chris Rock in "Bigger and Blacker"... "The trench coat mafia... 'no one will play with us'... I looked in the yearbook, there was 6 of 'em... That's 3 on 3 with a halfcourst. I didn't have 6 friends in high school, I don't have 6 friends now, and I'm rich!" 
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LOVED it. thank you.
the grocery one is so true.
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Absulutely hilarious!!! So many apply. The quote about the nintendo stood out in the sense that as a kid, I recall the last ditch effort if blowing on the game didn't work and the red power light continued blinking. Folding the game case and stuffing it in with the game as well to hold the game down in place. It was usually a fail safe. 
Back in my day we had it tougher....it was an Atari and it was the "Combat" cartridge.
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I noticed you didn't mention leisure suits with butterfly collars. Because we all know those were and always be the ultimate of cool. 
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Since I fall into that age group, a lot of those were spot on. Good stuff Beer, thanks for sharing.
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-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
This one cracks me up, too. It's spot on.
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-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
This one cracks me up, too. It's spot on.
That was the same one that I was laughing about. It's funny, because I do it at work all the time. I did it yesterday. Came into work, and meant to stop in the nursing office to pick up stuff, but hit the number for my floor. Instead of staying on and looking dumb, I walked out, went around the corner, and went down the steps. 
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Haha, I do that same thing! Or, even if no one is there, you try to explain it out loud. "Oh, wait, I need to go to..." As if someone is waiting around the corner to see what you're doing.
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Interesting. I have 2 older brothers. I wore more hand-me-downs than most. Never had them hanging off my ass, though.
I guess this "...poor, hand me down pants that hang below my ass" thing is a recent fad. Why? Because there have been poor people forever - and until the last 5-8 years or so no one had pants hanging below there ass no matter how rich or poor they were.
Bet your dad wore hand me downs. Ever see any pictures of him with his ass hanging out?
I'm with you Arch. I'm 42, have 4 kids (who all wear hand me downs) and have never seen the underwear thing. I was under the impression it came from prison. The lifers wouldn't let the short termers wear close that fit (I won't get into the reasons). Since the lifers don't get out, and the foo-foo- boyz do, I mean the short timers do, they would come out of stir wearing their saggy jeans as a badge of hone, that they had been in stir.
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We would wedge one game on top of the game we were trying to play to hold it down. Also, remember, there were different ways to blow on the game. You would try the quick forceful blow. If that didn't work you would try the slow, warmer blow (and for those who it applies, which is most of us - get your mind out of the gutter!). Patting the top of the game counsel would work sometimes too.
I just roared out loud at this one!
By the time I was in college, I learned that hydrogen peroxide on a q-tip would do a great job of cleaning the games as well.
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We had a Nintendo in college. My buddy became absolutely obsessed (again) with Zelda. He'd skip classes and stay up all night since it was so hard to save the game. Well, he got right to the end, it overheated, and he lost the game.
So, my one buddy took the nintendo apart and put a fan on it powered by an external lantern battery. The Nintendo never worked again. However, it also didn't overheat.
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Haha, I do that same thing! Or, even if no one is there, you try to explain it out loud. "Oh, wait, I need to go to..." As if someone is waiting around the corner to see what you're doing.
LMAO
I do that too!
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Interesting. I have 2 older brothers. I wore more hand-me-downs than most. Never had them hanging off my ass, though.
I guess this "...poor, hand me down pants that hang below my ass" thing is a recent fad. Why? Because there have been poor people forever - and until the last 5-8 years or so no one had pants hanging below there ass no matter how rich or poor they were.
Bet your dad wore hand me downs. Ever see any pictures of him with his ass hanging out?
I'm with you Arch. I'm 42, have 4 kids (who all wear hand me downs) and have never seen the underwear thing. I was under the impression it came from prison. The lifers wouldn't let the short termers wear close that fit (I won't get into the reasons). Since the lifers don't get out, and the foo-foo- boyz do, I mean the short timers do, they would come out of stir wearing their saggy jeans as a badge of hone, that they had been in stir.
That was popular in the 90's and maybe early this decade..... I didn't think people still did that, or at least don't really see it. Things must be about 10 years behind there.
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If you think about it, why do people do that? I mean, is it so ingrained in our mind not to look stupid that we have to do these little things? Or we're convinced that people are actually paying that much attention to us, and we don't want to look stupid in front of total strangers?
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10 years behind in NY? I still see it, though not nearly as much as 10 years ago.
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I see it very rarely anymore. Back in the 90's, it was basically around their knees.
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Absulutely hilarious!!! So many apply. The quote about the nintendo stood out in the sense that as a kid, I recall the last ditch effort if blowing on the game didn't work and the red power light continued blinking. Folding the game case and stuffing it in with the game as well to hold the game down in place. It was usually a fail safe.
Back in my day we had it tougher....it was an Atari and it was the "Combat" cartridge.
Rogue...I am right there with you....I had the Atari 2600...whish I still did. Pitfall, DigDug, Missle Command, Asteroids, 10 yard fight, Outlaw...Classics
As an aside...I thought the comment about answering more than 3 Scantron test questions with the same letter as petrifying was spot on. Again, the whole list is dead on the mark.
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If you think about it, why do people do that? I mean, is it so ingrained in our mind not to look stupid that we have to do these little things? Or we're convinced that people are actually paying that much attention to us, and we don't want to look stupid in front of total strangers?
I think you nailed it.....we somehow think the focus is on us and as you say don't want to look stupid. When in reality nobody is really paying attention. I guess we are all just narcissists.
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Try this ....... http://reviews.cnet.com/consoles/atari-flashback-2/4505-10109_7-31581693.htmlThese days, retro gaming is all the rage. The Xbox Live Arcade's mixture of old arcade games and original casual gaming fare is a big hit on the Xbox 360, and the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, and the PSP will all have similar classic downloadable offerings available soon. PC gamers can opt for a service such as GameTap, which offers hundreds of past titles. Alternately, there are plenty of compilations available for just about any system--PC, home console, or handheld--that let you relive your glory days at the arcade. But if you want to go truly old school, the Atari Flashback 2 may be just the ticket. The Flashback 2, released in 2005, is a faithful replication of the Atari 2600, the product that effectively created the home video-gaming market in the late 1970s. It's about two-thirds the size of the original and sports big yellow and orange buttons instead of toggle switches, but it's an otherwise faithful re-creation, right down to the faux wood paneling. A six-foot A/V cable is hard-wired to its backside; betraying the age of the source material, it's monaural, not stereo, but it'll plug into any free A/V input on your TV, A/V receiver, VCR, or DVD recorder. The Flashback 2 is powered by an AC adapter, unlike many of the other plug-in games that require batteries. Instead of a cartridge slot, the Flashback 2 has 40 built-in games. From a main menu, the games are divided into four categories: arcade, adventure, skill, and space. Titles range from bona fide 2600 classics (Asteroids, Adventure, Combat, Pong, Space War) to some more obscure games (Haunted House, Yars' Revenge) and even a couple from third-party publisher Activision (Pitfall and River Raid). Moreover, if some of the other games--Aquaventure, Combat 2, Frog Pond, Save Mary, and Wizard--sound unfamiliar even to enthusiasts, it's because they're unreleased prototypes, available here for the first time. At the same time, many will lament the dearth of other favorites (Space Invaders, Pac-Man) that didn't make the cut for one reason or another. (my comments .....) And it's cheap too!
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Thanks for the link YTown. I'll give it a look. Nowadays I just lack the time for any video games. I'm either working or spending time with the wife and kids.
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The interesting thing about this particular console is that it can be hacked to play original 2600 cartridges without too much effort. (if someone has any lying around. lol)
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I'd have to look-up the name, but there's a specific part you can buy for $20...comes with a kit to take apart an old Nintendo...
Bought it about 6 months ago and haven't had a game freeze up or not start once. It's like the day it came out of the box...better even.
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-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
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-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
This is funny because it's true.
WHY did it work, though?? Except I wasn't a kid, I was in my early 20s.
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That really is enough from Nickelback! They are the single most generic, untalented, corporate jackasses who are just all about the money. Everything they churn out is cheesy garbage and Chad Kroeger couldn't be any more annoying. If I ever meet their producer I am kicking him right in his privates. That and they're Canadian...
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Yeah, those Canadians are rude, obnoxious and self-absorbed. I bet the whole world hates them. September 11th was their fault, too.
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THANK YOU! Finally, one of has sense 
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Good post.  BTW I completely agree about your thoughts on Nickleback.
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