header pic

Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

The 'Old' CFN/Scout Crowd- Enjoy Civil discussion, game analytics, in depth player and coaching 'takes' and discussing topics surrounding the game. You can even have your own free board, all you have to do is ask!!!

Anyone is welcomed and encouraged to join our FREE site and to take part in our community- a community with you- the user, the fan, -and the person- will be protected from intrusive actions and with a clean place to interact.


Author

Topic: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness

 (Read 43460 times)

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 23353
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #280 on: May 31, 2026, 07:12:48 PM »
I've done all of these things. We had a milk man. The mail man came to your door. We only had one car. We caught fish and shot things for dinner.

We lived in the basement. Upstairs was for company and the furniture was covered in plastic (Dago things).

I can't think of anything more right now. I feel like shit.
Well the mail still comes to my door :017: but haven't seen hide nor hair from a milk man in my 'Burb when I was but a lad. But I'd rather have the mail in my hands and go fetch the milk so there's that
« Last Edit: May 31, 2026, 07:28:07 PM by MrNubbz »
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games" - Ernest Hemingway

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 54623
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #281 on: May 31, 2026, 07:17:27 PM »
We had some friends whose parents used rotary phones because it supposedly lowered their phone bill. The one normal phone that they had was always set to pulse instead of tone, which simulated the rotary dial.
yes, the touch tone features cost a dollar or two more per month
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 23353
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #282 on: May 31, 2026, 07:20:36 PM »
You're about 45? 50?

I'm 59. Fearless is 86 and CD is about 124.
If FF is 86 then I'm 88 which means we're incredibly fit,I'm going to the Pub with my 2nd wind - after I ask Cindy
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games" - Ernest Hemingway

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 54623
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #283 on: May 31, 2026, 07:30:17 PM »
good luck!  ;)
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

Riffraft

  • Starter
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 1894
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #284 on: June 01, 2026, 09:59:40 AM »
Pretty sure I’ve done all of them but 1. I think I had family with rotary phones, and maybe played with one, but never made a real call.

And man do I remember being the remote on our crappy kitchen TV where the volume knob was also the on/off that you pulled in and out.
There was nothing worse then a number with lots of 7s 8s and 9s and you were almost done and your finger slipped out halfway to completely one of the last numbers

utee94

  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 26969
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #285 on: June 01, 2026, 10:09:51 AM »
I kind of liked dialing a rotary phone.  There was something satisfying about flinging that dial all the way around for a 9 and then watching and hearing  it click-click back into place.

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 23353
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #286 on: June 01, 2026, 10:15:40 AM »
Yup and so inconvient people weren't yammering on them all the time and damn sure didn't consult them for advice
:86:
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games" - Ernest Hemingway

847badgerfan

  • Administrator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 36213
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #287 on: June 01, 2026, 10:28:14 AM »
My first cell phone.

U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 54623
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #288 on: June 01, 2026, 10:41:57 AM »
looks like my 1st - 1997 - never left the company truck
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

847badgerfan

  • Administrator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 36213
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #289 on: June 01, 2026, 10:56:53 AM »
looks like my 1st - 1997 - never left the company truck
Same. Mine was in 1986/87 though.

1997 they already had flip phones out. Even the bricks were phased out by then.

I think you're off a decade.
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 54623
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #290 on: June 01, 2026, 11:01:30 AM »
well, I took the job in 97, this was there in the truck for my predecessor - could have been there for 10 years 
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

MikeDeTiger

  • Team Captain
  • *******
  • Posts: 6591
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #291 on: June 01, 2026, 11:57:59 AM »
I'd like to know things that @Cincydawg has done that are not on this list.



I think you need a completely different list for CD.  I've done everything on this one, and I'm nowhere near as old as that geezer :)

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 89905
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #292 on: June 02, 2026, 06:54:08 AM »
I did all those things once they came into existence in my dotage….

I remember using a party line too.

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 23353
  • Liked:
Re: 2026 Offseason Stream of Consciousness
« Reply #293 on: June 02, 2026, 07:36:49 AM »
My first cell phone.


I guess if you're out in the fields though it would be unwieldy yet handy. About the size 12 pk
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games" - Ernest Hemingway

 

Support the Site!
Purchase of every item listed here DIRECTLY supports the site.