Things that make you feel old

We had a "H.O.T.S." thread a few months ago. The football scene was filmed at Brentwood School in L.A. I worked at the local paper. We got a call that "There are topless Playmates playing football at Brentwood." Anything to Help. Out. The. Seals.

 

The Pasadena Star-News assigned Steve Hunt to cover the Dodgers in 1982. While meeting some of the players, Hunt was introduced to Jerry Reuss. Reuss said, "I don't care what you think your name is, your name now is Mike Hunt."

 

Gymkata!!! One of the first movies I ever recorded with the aforementioned VCR. I set the VCR for a middle-of-the-night airing. First thing I did upon waking up was race downstairs to see if it'd recorded. It did! Then I watched it later that day. Still no earthly idea what that shit was about.

And American Anthem had a very young and very hot Janet Jones, as well as this great Andy Taylor song on the soundtrack. Hi @Huggy!

 

We’ve been talking about b movies for pages and we have been talking about Cannon in most of them, but I have to be the first to bring up that it was Cannon that created most of the Chuck Norris legend with stuff like Invasion USA, Missing in Action and Delta Force?

Shame, shame....shame

 

I never saw either of these movies but that is a killer song, one of the great lost classics of the 80s, probably the best rewrite of "Bang a Gong" ever!

 

I remember my sister telling my parents that her friend had a Sound of Music machine so she could watch it whenever she wanted. We got it once a year on channel 4.

 

Never rented this, but always saw it on the shelves. Anything with Shadoe Stevens screams "1988."

 

This Man Has Just Blown Away Six Terrorists, Dynamited A Drug Smuggling Compound, And Baked A Dozen Cookies, All While Subscribing To The Oxford Comma But Treating Every Word Like A Proper Noun

 

Among Chuck Norris movies, 'The Octogon' is No. 1 and 'Lone Wolf McQuaid' is No. 2.
All others are No. 3 or lower.

 

When discussing 9/11, the guy who was "acting" as my boss (real one on leave; it's what we do where I work) mentioned he'd been in high school when it happened.

 

Priscilla Barnes, a real beauty who joined the cast of "Three's Company" later in the run.
She was a patient in the Beverly Hills dental office where my wife worked. I was there one day when she was also scheduled. She came running in late, wearing a tight, bright red micro-mini dress and 6-inch CFM heels. She was fully made up.
She apologized for being late. The front desk woman asked if she was just coming from an audition. Yes. And she said that while she was crossing the street, a guy in a Mercedes convertible stopped and shouted, "Fifty bucks." Just then the dentist, who was in his 60s, appeared from the back room and said, "Hell, I'll give you $75." Cracked everybody up.

 

A conversation I had with a current undergrad at U-Md. We were talking about when 9/11 happened. He was 3. I was 28.