You know you are old when..this all makes sense.

[Jilly]

Think it was 6 here, but my mother and aunt always talked before 8 am.

Test pattern.....

 

[Uncle-A]

No long distance calls until after 9pm!

I think it was 8:00 PM

 

[Bad Bob]

Got a dime for a phone call?

 

[David Chaus]

Or a penny for your thoughts?

 

[noncrazycanuck]

no pennies in Canada now across the pond you can still "spend a penny"
penny saved dollar earned or penny wise pound foolish
a nickel for the juke. dime for the call and a quarter for coffee and doughnut.
wish I got 2 cents every time that was brought up.

 

[Bad Bob]

Borrow a fin till Friday?

 

[noncrazycanuck]

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

 

[Uncle-A]

Borrow a fin till Friday?

It has been years since I heard the term "fin" AKA a $5:00 bill.

 

[Uncle-A]

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

Only if your name is Wimpey

 

[GinBuck]

Where's the clicker?

 

[Andy Mink]

Get up, walk across the room, and change the channel.

 

[noncrazycanuck]

Get up, walk across the room, and change the channel.

after there was more than one

 

[Jwrags]

Get up, walk across the room, and change the channel.

While you are up can you adjust the rabbit ears?

 

[Andy Mink]

Get up, walk across the room, and change the channel.

Through two feet of shag carpet both ways.

 

[David Chaus]

Through two feet of shag carpet both ways.

Yup, that’s how we got our exercise, resistance training walking through shag carpet to change the channel and adjust the rabbit ears.
And back.
Sometimes having one person staying there, standing and touching the antenna in order to keep the picture visible.

 

[crgildart]

Got a dime for a phone call?

Ima drop dime on your arse..

Please be kind, rewind!

Where's the clicker?

My grandmother had an early remote control console TV around 1970. The remote wasn't electric but a handset with four bowed pieces of metal inside tuned to the right frequency to turn the TV on, off, channel up, channel down. It made a loud click noise when you pushed a button releasing a hammer to thump /snap the bowed metal.

 

[Sibhusky]

Aren't they still clickers? I've got four of them.

 

[Carolinacub]

from the south....
Don't get your knickers in a knot.
You're slower than molasses in the winter.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Walking in high cotton
he's got gumption
got a burr in the saddle
don't know sh*t from shinola

 

[Uncle-A]

from the south....
Don't get your knickers in a knot.
You're slower than molasses in the winter.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Walking in high cotton
he's got gumption
got a burr in the saddle
don't know sh*t from shinola

Another one from the south is:
Dumber than a coal bucket.

 

[David Chaus]

How about calling the phone company number for the time?

“At the tone, the time will be 1:12pm and 40 seconds.” Beep!