You know that you're old school if you can....

Remember ROBERT Vaughn in his prime.

 

1990's is "Old School"?
Now, that's funny.

 

When every team in the major leagues had a chance to win it all.

When shortstops and second basemen could not hit.

When your team had only one or two guys who could throw 90 mph.

 

He was the man from UNCLE. Has the coolest name I know.... Napoleon Solo.
Can you remember the girl from UNCLE and who she was.

 

That's Sherrif (bing-bing-bing) Ricochet Rabbit and Deputy Droop-a-long.
Get their titles right and put the bings in the right place

 

"White Shadow" edition of "Bas-ket"

Bumbling Boxing

Ice-Brrrgers (Burger King's frozen dessert in the mid-70s -- grape, root beer or cherry)

BK's free toys: the Pickle-O and the blowpipe (which probably had uses other than what was intended)

Burger Chef

Spider-Man Web Shooters (actually bracelets attached to suction darts by yarn)

Commercials for Johnny Bench's "Batter-Up"

Pete Rose's commercials for Jox shoes

Dr. Don as the voice-over MC for afterschool cartoons on Detroit's TV-50.

Labatts' "You Gotta Have Heart" commercials

NBA Finals on tape delay

The Mello Yello commercial where Mike Torrez chugs his bottle faster than Randy Jones

The G-Force (Mark, Jason, Tiny, Princess and 7-Zark-7) -- anime before its time

Bruce Jenner Wheaties Boxes

Holding down two channel buttons at the same time while screwing with the tuning dial at the end on the old cable-tv converters in order to tune in the Playboy Channel for a split second.

All-Star Anything Goes (the cast of Fernwood USA, whatever that was, always dominated)

"Smear the Queer" at recess (do kids still play that? ARe they allowed to? By that name?)

 

No, JR, not 1990s. The era of the songs being sampled...

For example, "Egg Man" by the Beastie Boys from Paul's Boutique samples Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly." And then there's Dr. Dre and Snoop resurrecting Parliament-Funkadelic's career. Now do you catch my drift?

 

.....remember Wacky Packages. Not as cool as baseball or hockey cards - no gum, for one thing - but lots of fun.

.....remember those massive yellow and blue paged catalogues good record stores had that allowed you to see what product was available.

 

If you remember the Bowery Boys, Our Gang and you know who Michael D. Roberts is.

 

Nope. But I remember Ilya Kuryakin.

 

Kuryakin was cool too. Stephanie Powers was the girl from UNCLE. Bonus for anyone who knows what the acronym stands for without googling.

 

Smear the Queer, Suicide (the intense gym version of dodgeball) and other physical games are, sadly, not allowed in many of today's schools.

Fat Johnny and Chubby Susie at our children's school are required to roll a ball while playing dodgeball instead of throwing it. The children are expected to ... wait, wait ... get out of the way of the rolling ball or they are "out."

Remember when the football coach was the PE teacher? On rainy days, you knew without a doubt the gym bleachers would be pushed back, 10 volleyballs would be lined up at midcourt and he would pick by counting "1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2" until there were two sides.

Last man standing wins. Cover the nads and turn your head if you wear glasses.

Remember when if you got into it with someone, it either was settled there with boxing gloves and the coach acting as Mills Lane or after school somewhere?