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Subject: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Andrew-CoolestDude on 02/22/04 at 01:14 p.m.

I did, it was terrible.
My family didn't have a phone for a long time.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Andrew-CoolestDude on 02/22/04 at 01:15 p.m.

Share the pain.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Izod on 02/22/04 at 01:44 p.m.

We finally got a VCR when I was 16 (1986). I was the one that had to hook it up (even though I had never hooked up one before). I remember it was one of those TV's that had the screw connectors in the back, & it took me a while to figure out how to connect it. When I was done (or gave up) I could watch the tapes, but couldn't record anything (goes w/out saying...it wasn't hooked up right). But...that was then!  8)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: LyricBoy on 02/22/04 at 01:54 p.m.


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I did, it was terrible.
My family didn't have a phone for a long time.
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My grandparents had neither a TV nor a car, all the way up to 1967 when they died.  :'(

My Mom did not have a drivers license until she was 36.

My Dad never ate pizza until he was 72.  Claimed he did not "like the smell of it".

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 02/25/04 at 12:44 a.m.


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Share the pain.
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Andrew, you think you had/have it rough?  

Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter.  In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.  We were poor but we had love, that's the one thing my Daddy made sure of. He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.

My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mine. All day long in the field hoeing corn. Mama rocked the baby at night
Read the Bible by a coal oil light and everything would start all over come break of morn.

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a coal miner's pay. Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day. I've seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no need.  She'd smile in Mama's understanding way.

In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear. But in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pair from a mail-order catalogue, money made by selling a hog.  Daddy always seemed to get the money somewhere.

I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well, the well where I drew water. The work we done was hard at night we'd sleep, cause we were tired. I never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler.

Well a lot of things have changed, since way back when and it's so good to be back home again.  Not much left but the floor.  Nothing lives here anymore, just a memory of a coal miner's daughter.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Cheetara on 02/25/04 at 03:41 p.m.

Andrew,
I can relate.  My family didn't have a VCR either.  In fact, now that I think about it.  I didn't get a VCR until I became an adult and was able to buy my own items.   8)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Bobby on 02/25/04 at 03:59 p.m.

That was absolutely lovely cs.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 02/26/04 at 07:13 a.m.


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That was absolutely lovely cs.


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I try Bobby, I try.   ;D

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Numnum on 02/27/04 at 08:22 p.m.


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Share the pain.
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Isn't there more important things in life than not having a VCR???

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: LyricBoy on 02/28/04 at 04:54 a.m.


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Isn't there more important things in life than not having a VCR???
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Yeah.  Like not having any tapes to put in it.  :P

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Paul_UK on 02/28/04 at 05:09 a.m.

                              ^
                            (Arf!)

Andrew - I won't share the pain, life's too short...

...but I will share the humour - something along the same lines...

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003KZC

...and read the skit about the four Yorkshiremen (right at the top of t'page...!)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Bobby on 02/28/04 at 06:20 a.m.

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                              ^
                            (Arf!)

Andrew - I won't share the pain, life's too short...

...but I will share the humour - something along the same lines...

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003KZC

...and read the skit about the four Yorkshiremen (right at the top of t'page...!)
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That was wonderful, Paul. I nearly cried laughing at that one.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 02/28/04 at 07:12 p.m.


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Isn't there more important things in life than not having a VCR???
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Oh yes!  Like not getting enough money from the government to support my family and then b*tching about it. :)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Dagwood on 02/29/04 at 07:07 a.m.


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Andrew, you think you had/have it rough?  

Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter.  In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.  We were poor but we had love, that's the one thing my Daddy made sure of. He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.

My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mine. All day long in the field hoeing corn. Mama rocked the baby at night
Read the Bible by a coal oil light and everything would start all over come break of morn.

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a coal miner's pay. Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day. I've seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no need.  She'd smile in Mama's understanding way.

In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear. But in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pair from a mail-order catalogue, money made by selling a hog.  Daddy always seemed to get the money somewhere.

I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well, the well where I drew water. The work we done was hard at night we'd sleep, cause we were tired. I never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler.

Well a lot of things have changed, since way back when and it's so good to be back home again.  Not much left but the floor.  Nothing lives here anymore, just a memory of a coal miner's daughter.
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Wow, CS, I didn't know you had it so rough...you brought tears to my eyes. :'( ;) ;D

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 02/29/04 at 07:10 p.m.


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Wow, CS, I didn't know you had it so rough...you brought tears to my eyes. :'( ;) ;D
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Yes, I just figured it wasn't healthy to dwell on the past.  Now I am happy. ;)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 03/01/04 at 09:12 a.m.


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Yes, I just figured it wasn't healthy to dwell on the past.  Now I am happy. ;)
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That's just cuz you're stoned 8) ;) ;)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 03/01/04 at 11:38 a.m.

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That's just cuz you're stoned 8) ;) ;)
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No but,

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick up truck, she got runned over by an old train.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 03/01/04 at 12:16 a.m.

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No but,

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick up truck, she got runned over by an old train.


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You met your husband there, didn't you?

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 03/01/04 at 02:11 p.m.


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You met your husband there, didn't you?
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Yeah, we met at the station.  

My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine till five and then he takes another home again to find me waiting for him.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: BrianMannixGirl on 03/01/04 at 09:16 p.m.


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No but,

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick up truck, she got runned over by an old train.


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and on the way home - didnt you run over the treasured family dawg ??


For the record - I was 15 before we got a TV, VCR, microwave, phone, and a dryer.  And we werent what I would call "poor" poor - we just didnt surround ourselves with unneccessary items.

Andrew - grow up - there are people out there with far less than you and they are getting up each day and getting on with their life.  It is not the be all and end all that you had a few years without a modern convenience.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 03/02/04 at 09:07 a.m.


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You met your husband there, didn't you?
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PM me with your unedited post.  It couldn't have been that bad.  Could it?????

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Dagwood on 03/02/04 at 06:53 p.m.


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Yes, I just figured it wasn't healthy to dwell on the past.  Now I am happy. ;)
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Glad you got over your horrible childhood.  ;)

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Howard on 03/02/04 at 08:02 p.m.


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Yeah, we met at the station.  

My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine till five and then he takes another home again to find me waiting for him.

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Why u singing Sheena Easton? ;D


Howard

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: cs on 03/03/04 at 06:58 a.m.


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Why u singing Sheena Easton? ;D


Howard
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Been quoting songs throughout this thread...because it's FUNNY!!!!!!

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Brian Dybzinski on 03/13/04 at 09:49 p.m.

Being born in 1987, I was a child of the 90s and a teenager in the 2000s. I remember of the 90s, television, OJ trial, Clinton affair, Computers, video games. We got out first VCR in 1991 when I was 4 years old. The first VHS movie we got was Fantasia. I remember only having a 13 inch tv until 1993 when we got a big tv.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/14/04 at 06:44 a.m.

Now we have Fantasia on American Idol.

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Howard on 03/14/04 at 01:59 p.m.

I was born in 1974 so I don't think that VCRs came into exsistence until we got our first VCR in 1985.

Howard

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/14/04 at 03:15 p.m.


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I was born in 1974 so I don't think that VCRs came into exsistence until we got our first VCR in 1985.

Howard
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I got my first VCR in 1983.  They really started selling big-time in late 1981 and 1982.  :D

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Howard on 03/15/04 at 05:59 p.m.


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I got my first VCR in 1983.  They really started selling big-time in late 1981 and 1982.  :D
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I don't have a clue if in 1974 they had VCRs ??? We were using 8-Track Tape Machines at the time. :D


Howard

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Xcess-N-HTown on 03/15/04 at 08:26 p.m.

Same here.  Didn't get one until me and my roommate went in half on one.  We thought since Sony was making Beta's instead of Vhf, that Beta would win out.  I still have the Beta machine with a wired remote. Seems like we had to pay 2-3 hundred for it.  

Quoting:
Andrew,
I can relate.  My family didn't have a VCR either.  In fact, now that I think about it.  I didn't get a VCR until I became an adult and was able to buy my own items.   8)
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Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Marian on 03/16/04 at 01:38 p.m.

;DI was born in 1965,so you could say i grew up without a VCR!Cheers!

Subject: Re: Anyone else grow up without a VCR

Written By: Howard on 03/16/04 at 07:13 p.m.


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;DI was born in 1965,so you could say i grew up without a VCR!Cheers!
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So Marian,next year you hit 40,how does it feel? ;D


Howard