Man, back in the day when "has a cell phone" was a character trait. I can't lie, when one of my buddies got a cell phone and answered it in a wal mart circa 1998 I was like "Who the hell are you to need to be on call like that?"
(12-07-2020, 12:36 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Man, back in the day when "has a cell phone" was a character trait. I can't lie, when one of my buddies got a cell phone and answered it in a wal mart circa 1998 I was like "Who the hell are you to need to be on call like that?"
About a decade before that I was stationed in the 82nd Airborne. 8 out of every 24 weeks we had to be on constant recall. I was cutting edge with a pager and a quarter for the payphone.
(12-07-2020, 12:36 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Man, back in the day when "has a cell phone" was a character trait. I can't lie, when one of my buddies got a cell phone and answered it in a wal mart circa 1998 I was like "Who the hell are you to need to be on call like that?"
I got my first cell phone right around that time. It was strictly to be used for if my car slid off in to a ditch and was completely immobolized, or if somehow I managed to end up in a Camp Crystal Lake environment.
(12-07-2020, 12:40 AM)bfine32 Wrote: About a decade before that I was stationed in the 82nd Airborne. 8 out of every 24 weeks we had to be on constant recall. I was cutting edge with a pager and a quarter for the payphone.
Did anybody ever page you for weed with *911 after it just to let you know they really wanted it and needed that shit fast.
(Only a select age group of pot smokers in the 90's will get this, but I promise they know exactly what I'm taking about.)
(12-07-2020, 12:33 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I used this in the gameday thread for something else, but this fits. Here comes ZT to the rescue to save us from the Marvin era!
This and NHL, where the players heads bleed, are true pinnacles of 90's gaming.
(12-07-2020, 12:51 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Did anybody ever page you for weed with *911 after it just to let you know they really wanted it and needed that shit fast.
(Only a select age group of pot smokers in the 90's will get this, but I promise they know exactly what I'm taking about.)
Surprisingly no. Nobody paged me for weed when I was in the military.
(12-07-2020, 12:40 AM)bfine32 Wrote: About a decade before that I was stationed in the 82nd Airborne. 8 out of every 24 weeks we had to be on constant recall. I was cutting edge with a pager and a quarter for the payphone.
That same friend of mine had a pager he'd have with him when his ol' man dropped him off at my house when we were 11 or 12 or so and he'd get a page when his ol' man was on the way to pick him up. Wacky.
To relate this to complaining about the Bengals...pagers were cutting edge and overly-fancy technology years after the Bengals' most recent playoff win.