PaulH

"You have to wait an hour after lunch before going in the water!"

Paul

(Bike content: Just back from Ocracoke Island, NC, where cycling was our transportation. Needless to say, we did not give this warning to our daughter.)

OH306

Did you take your cod liver oil today?

Thrifty1

What does "for crying out loud" mean???

OH306

You're full of it!

mwrobe1

"Don't make me stop this car!"

"You just wait till your father gets home!"

The enchanting sound of dialing a rotary phone.

Artkansas 

I'll need to see your ID if you want to buy beer.

Artkansas 

When my 26 year old niece was a toddler, she and her mother, my sister came to visit me at the UCSB Microcomputer Lab to see the pictures I was programming. My sister and I talked about kids and computers and came to the conclusion that it was more important for my niece to learn to type than to be able to write cursive.

At that time, I was the only person I knew who used a manual typewriter to do their papers. I did have a different secret weapon. I had free access to a good xerox machine, so I would fix errors by retyping the paragraph and cutting and pasting things together.

Houston

"I'm all stove up."

My excuse for everything.

doctor j

Pronouns such as he, she, him, her. (They)

The pronoun me. (Myself)

Than (then)

Due (do)

Big Paulie

Clocks you could hear ticking...

oldster

When TV just started..
"It doesn't come on till 10 in the morning"...( and then it was a test pattern)
Bud

Jet Travis

As a little kid, I can still remember telling the telephone operator the local number I wanted to call--just like on Andy Griffith. And we had a party line. Man, I feel old.

Sometimes when I really want to freak out my nieces and nephews, I tell them about the days before cell phone, the internet, cable tv and video games--the days when we rode our one-speed bikes for fun and transportation.

Jet Travis

I dunno, but my father sure said it a lot.

Terrierman

I STILL say it and my guys know it is not the preface to " and then, you done good ...."

snavebob

And it went over like a lead balloon.

Digital Gee

Turning on the TV, and waiting for it to warm up.

waldowales

Older than dirt. I'm not, really, but I remember when it was only about an inch thick!

Big Paulie

Which, as legend has it, was the basis of the band name Led Zeppelin. Keith Moon surmised that that's how well the band would go over, when it was in it's embryonic stages.

Beverly

I just knew it had something to do with the Brits

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/140850.html

Digital Gee

1977 Long hair
2007 Longing for hair

1977 KEG
2007 EKG

1977 Acid rock
2007 Acid reflux

1977 Moving to California because it's cool
2007 Moving to Arizona because it's warm

1977 Trying to look like Marlon Brano or Liz Taylor
2007 Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1977 Seeds and stems
2007 Roughage

1977 Hoping for a BMW
2007 Hoping for a BM

1977 Going to a new, hip joint
2007 Receiving a new hip joint

1977 Rolling Stones
2007 Kidney stones

1977 Screw the System!
2007 Upgrade the system!

1977 Disco
2007 Costco

1977 Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2007 Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1977 Passing the driver's test
2007 Passing the vision test

1977 Whatever
2007 Depends

Thrifty1

Both of my parents immigrated from Scotland.
My father arrived in the US just in time for the depression. Relentless stories of depression sacrifices. Strict financial prudence prevailed for us (myself and siblings) while growing up.

CRUM

I actually posted my response in the wrong thread. Don't think I have ever done that before. Oh well. Here's my offering in the correct thread ----

"Son, the White fountain is over there"

I actually had a fellow visitor to the Tallahassee library tell me this when I went in there the first time. I was a clueless 6th grader who had just moved from living in the integrated military culture to the segregated South of the early 60s.

There are some things we don't hear that are signs of positive change.

oldnoob

Do you want to go get me a switch?
In north Alabama and Georgia phrased as "Go cut me a hickory, boy; and make it a good one."

Artkansas 

Yeah, thats a sign that's better in the past. I remember the whites and coloreds fountains and bathrooms. Sadly, the problem is not gone. We just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the integration of Central High, and it has to compete for news time with the Jena 6. People learn so slowly if at all.

CRUM

But at least it is not sanctioned through the government. I always try to balnce my fondness of the past with some fondness for our potential future,