It is the "attitude" for sure. I own a 77 Classic Mini 1000, my wife absolutely loves her 06 MC S. . . her favorite "ever" car(I would have bought one too, but I couldn't find "saddle bags for it"--need more room in my work car, and for the 35 to 40000 work miles(with a 1000 or more hours behind the wheel a year) time, I drive a Magnum with a 340 HP HEMI. . . . now, I conside the small HEMI my contribution to "being GREEN". . . it WAS the smallest HEMI I could buy. . . anyway the MINI and Mini are the best cars because - - - they ALWAYS cause people to smile. So, by some, we are into geezerland with 4 kids and the grandkids, but like I said. . . It is the Attitude.

Tom. . . Maxfield Mini's Caregiver

 

I believe I've found a group I belong in. You all have made me smile with talk of kids, grandkids (not yet) and Zappa quotes. I am very proudly a BOG, also from my mid-twenties when we were BYG's? 54 outside and half that inside.

 

Embrace the inner geezer! Love it.

Careful there bud... though "executive" is a little, um, starched for what I do (management, organizational, and supply chain consulting. primarily implementation...)

I love that I can drive the Mini in jeans, cutoffs, a suit, whatever and it still looks good. Me? Well, I look like me. Sometimes 21, sometimes 33, sometimes 45, always a Dad and always ME.

Drives me crazy when people just won't be themselves.... unless they're real jerks, I suppose, then they can pretend to be someone nicer. That'd be good.

 

If you can't remember F1 and Indy Cars WITHOUT wings, you're not a geezer.

 

If you've never seen AUH2O on a bumper sticker, you're not a geezer.

 

If you can't remember when Firestone tires had a good reputation, you're not a geezer.

 

If you've never walked out of Mickey D's with change back from your dollar after buying a hamburger, fries, and a coke - you're not a geezer.

 

If you can remember watching "Spin & Marty," you're a geezer.

 

If the following terms mean something to you...

33 1/3
Rabbit Ears
timing light, points

If you remember vacuum tube testers in the lobby of your favorite department store...

If you don't remember what you had for lunch... and it's only 2PM...

...consider geezerhood!

Hmmm. Maybe technically I'm a "pre-geezer". Or I'm just old for my age.

 

If you can remember when computers took up an entire floor of a building,
Captain Kangaroo, Beany & Cecil, Kofax and Drysdale, the Cuban Missle Crisis, and watching JFK's funeral...

Geezerdom!

 

The computer I used in college is in the Smithsonian! The Univac 1108.

 

Hey, I remember making tons of $$$ of the trusty (for repair people) W35 vacuum tube!

 

If you remember having to count the number of times the phone rings to determine if its for you (party lines), you're a geezer.

 

You must work for the phone company. I worked for the phone company when they still had clapper switches.

Anybody remember black & white TVs and no cablevision? or vaccuum tube radios?

 

Yes, yes and yes. What I don't remember is what I had for lunch! Does any one remember key punching?

 

Geezer Memory:

When starting your car meant pushing a dashboard button (sound familiar). But you would never push it while the engine was running unless you enjoyed the sound of starter gears clashing against running engine starter gears. I mention this because still, every once in a while, some primeval memory causes me to hesitate before pushing the button on my MCS for engine shutdown.

 

Key punching??! KEY punching??!???!

Only Geezer poseurs used keypunches.

Real Geezers used an Abacus!

... and carried it to school in the snow, walking, uphill both ways, wearing nothing but newspapers on their feet!

("YOU had NEWSPAPERS....")

:D

 

I'm old...medicare old. Sold my MINI 2 yrs ago because I needed something practical. Dumb. Had 2 years of MINI separation anxiety. Fell in love again last week and in a MINI again. When my kids found out they all chanted "Mom's back!". I am definitely back and the MINI takes years off of us old ones.

 

Ifv you can remember all seven Mercury astronauts... WITHOUT looking them up, verily thou beist geezer!

 

I worked on the caution warning system for the Apollo...have a letter of thanks from astronauts totally unknown at the time but became significant to NASA history. Why do you remember the Mercury?

 

I remember how proud I was that the slide-rule I used in high school had a leather case that clipped on to my belt.

 

Abacus's, sliderules - we have to differentiate between just geezers and geezer nerds. Wait a minute, I cut my teeth on a keypunch machine .....nevermind.


Edit: No phone company here Beken, but I did grow up on a farm, hence the party line.

 

My friend's grandmother drives a MC. She LOVES it. It's great seeing older people driving things other than Buicks and Grand Marquis(es?).

 

You guys are making me feel old. I remember ALL of it--from 3 on the tree (actually 4 in my case), to AUH2O, to rabbit ears--there wasn't a thing I didn't remember. I'm definitely a geezerette!

I went to Purdue as an engineering student. I remember the freshmen--boys, actually--buying the biggest slide rule they could find! Back then it was 400 guys...and me.

How come no one's mentioned the war we were fighting back then, before "Saigon" fell? How about draft numbers? And Luuucy? Nancy Drew? If you remember these, you're a geezer...

 

Well Geezerette, let me help you out here. Don't want you feeling too old. If you saw the film, Radio Days you saw my generation in action (pre TV).

As far as the sliderule is concerned (I still have 2 lying around somewhere), I imagine you were involved as technology really started taking off in 1972 when the sliderule became instantly obsolete. In that year, Hewlett Packard became every engineer's hero with its advent of the scientific calculator, the HP-35.