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Whatever happened to______?

Asked by ucme (50047points) July 26th, 2011

Anything goes here, as is consistent with a blank in attendance.
Yeah, basically whatever you feel is appropriate for yourselves.
Something or someone that makes you feel slightly curious or nostalgic even.

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rebbel's avatar

…@zen_
....global warming?

Coloma's avatar

Green Goddess salad dressing, Club Cheese and Mr. Bubbles?

Berserker's avatar

Arcade machines, VCR’s and yeah, where the hell’s Zen?

flutherother's avatar

Creamola Foam and 10 bob notes.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Corded telephones, and sliderules?

picante's avatar

chivalry, civility and common sense
$2.00/gallon gasoline
my imaginary friend

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@picante I remember when gas was $1.08, and I thought THAT WAS HIGH! I’d take those days back in a minute.

ucme's avatar

…...the likely lads. One for the British sit com lover there.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?
It’s a present for the Jellies that are Statler Brothers fans, country music, and westerns.

picante's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central, I think gas might have been 35 cents a gallon when I first started driving. At present, I’d be happy for anything under $3.00.

ucme's avatar

@Pied_Pfeffer Randolph Scott!! All hail to the chief ;¬}

Fly's avatar

Predictability?
I’m sorry, please ignore me and my moment of 90’s reminiscence.

rebbel's avatar

….the rest of this sentence?

linguaphile's avatar

…it being safe to play outside for hours at end.
I agree… where’s @Zen?

ucme's avatar

White dog shite.
This hot rod. Used to see them all the time on British roads.

MacBatman31's avatar

Letting kids play with a stick? But of course due to the lead paint poisoning, there was a recall.

Lightlyseared's avatar

@ucme that hot rod got replaced with this infernal device

ricekristies's avatar

courting a girl before trying to get in her pants?

ucme's avatar

@Lightlyseared Ahh yes, the weapon vehicle of choice for a whole new generation of Mad Max/Maxine’s.
They tear up & down the pavement faster than a fiddlers elbow, scary buggers.

JLeslie's avatar

I was in touch with Zen a few days ago. He has been very busy, but is doing fine. Pdworkin is also doing well.

Russell_D_SpacePoet's avatar

Whatever happened to common sense?

MacBatman31's avatar

Tact, being friendlly or pleasent to others, logic?

linguaphile's avatar

blissful innocence and naivete :)

Judi's avatar

Family meals, seasonal foods, playing until the street lights come on, anticipation of the annual airing of Wizard of Oz, getting lost in a book, ......

woodcutter's avatar

@Russell_D_SpacePoet that could be a question all by itself here

cookieman's avatar

…all the cookies?

Neizvestnaya's avatar

Stability, Courtesey, Fidelity, Integrity and Responsibility being desirable traits?

woodcutter's avatar

@Neizvestnaya Oh they’re still desirable, but there are just enough who ignore them to mess it up for everybody.

Kardamom's avatar

That last piece of pizza in the fridge that I was planning to eat for dinner.

Welsh rarebit

Wallabies shoes

Puka shell necklaces

Dittos pants

Swatch watches

Regular people riding bikes without donning the whole bike rider’s outfit (why does someone need to dress like this when they’re not riding inside a velodrome, and they’re just riding around in the suburbs going to McDonald’s?)

Tear drop trailers

Stroganoff

Green corrugated fiberglass patio covers

Funny Face

Brassieres with bees or roses on them

Neizvestnaya's avatar

@Kardamom: I agree about the bike riders!

linguaphile's avatar

to Saturday night? When you dressed up sharp and you felt alright
It don’t seem the same since cosmic light came into my life…

woodcutter's avatar

Norinco steel core ammunition?

MacBatman31's avatar

Lead paint? I heard it puts hair on your chest. I must have had too much in early childhood then.
Or what happened to the metal swing seats that burn the back of your legs when you sit down on a hot day?

Pandora's avatar

People actually working for their paycheck.
Companies actually making quality products instead of quanity of crap.

Sunny2's avatar

Modesty? It used to be that the sight of an ankle peaked interest. I’m not suggesting going back to those days, but wearing what looks like underwear in public, with nothing left to the imagination, sure changes the whole picture for romance. Now it’s just raw sex.
What happened to romance?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@Sunny2 You have never seen a “pasties bikini” have you?

SpatzieLover's avatar

Space shuttle launches

rOs's avatar

Cloaks?

Pandora's avatar

@rOs So true. People looked cool wearing cloaks. Of course they looked best with knee high boots.

rOs's avatar

Also, what ever happened to apprenticeships? I’d love to get one of those around KC…

woodcutter's avatar

Respect for the working man, or woman. It’s gone. They who say they still have respect are just trying to be politically correct. And you all know how I feel about that.

Sunny2's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central No. Why would they bother? They don’t want a nipple sunburn? Or is that today’s modesty for some?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@Sunny2 Only because in the US they legally cannot show the evil nipple, just about all other parts of the breast ar OK, just not the evil nipple. The mons is in play and the buttocks, so long as no “lips” are seen…...legal and mosest enough today. ;-P

_zen_'s avatar

Back. I had been suspended.

Whatever happened to letting old zen get away with shit?

linguaphile's avatar

welcome back crusty but lovable zen!!!!!!!!

Kardamom's avatar

Welcome back @zen!

Tropical_Willie's avatar

@zen Glad to have you . . . It’s alive!

Summer Theater?

FutureMemory's avatar

@linguaphile Love the RHPS reference ;)

@zen Welcome back man :)

JLeslie's avatar

@zen Were you in the Beta Quadrant?

Jeruba's avatar

Whatever you did, @zen, how about not doing it again? We’d like you to stick around.

Sunny2's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central Thanks for warning me. I might have gotten in trouble.

_zen_'s avatar

Thanks guys :-)

linguaphile's avatar

@FutureMemory Thank You! Hot patootie, bless my soul, someone finally gets it! :D :D

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Welcome back @zen, show us your nipples…...D’oh, they are not female NIPPLES!

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