I just read something that said....

1981 and 2024 are as far apart as 1981 and 1938.

World War II hadn't even started in 1938. That seems so long ago, and intangible in my mind. It might as well have been 1861.

What is interesting is that there are adults... with kids... today... who were born after 2000. They know nothing of 19-anything. It is like the 1800s are to us. They look at us as those folk born back in the 1900s. I remember thinking about that with my great-grandmother and a few others I knew who were born in the 1800s.

Does this mean we're getting old?

I saw that too.....seems so strange....I bet they listened to 80's music back in 1938 too

(06-13-2024, 02:25 PM)Replying to RockmartDawg

UTk sooo misses their 1980 narrative

(06-13-2024, 02:29 PM)Replying to Milldawg

Heck, I was born closer to the 1800's than the 2000's.  Most of my original parts have worn out

(06-13-2024, 02:29 PM)Replying to Milldawg

Heh-heh... Yeah, the OTHER 80s... stuff my great-grandmother grew up listening to.

(06-13-2024, 02:30 PM)Replying to Toasty B

UTk sooo misses their 1980 narrative
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1997, IIRC.

(06-13-2024, 05:05 PM)Replying to RockmartDawg

UTk sooo misses their 1980 narrative
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1997, IIRC.
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I think it's '98

(06-13-2024, 05:15 PM)Replying to Toasty B

UTk sooo misses their 1980 narrative
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1997, IIRC.
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I think it's '98
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Oh.. yes... you are correct. I "think" #16's last year was 1997, and they won it the next year with Tee Martin at QB.

1990's for Tennessee Hugging my Pop after Hobnail Boot Play Screaming "The 1990's are over!" as UT Fans trudged past us out the stadium. They had just scored at end to look like it did all through the last decade, they was rubbing it in, car keys everything. New Coach New Era Larry Munson.

(06-13-2024, 06:17 PM)Replying to Top Row Dawg

I pulled up a highlight video. I forgot that we were unranked and they were ranked #6. 

Also noteworthy:

Tennessee led 14-3 in the 1st quarter
Damien Gary ran a punt back for a TD
It was tied 17-17 at halftime
Georgia, with a 20-17 lead, intercepted a pass with 1:53 left in the game. Thought that might have sealed it. But they used timeouts and we punted with 1:32 left. We only ran 21 seconds off of the clock.
Georgia still leading 20-17, Tennessee with the ball at their own 38-yard-line, executes a beautiful screen pass that Stephens takes all the way to give Tennessee the lead with :44 left on the clock, 24-20.
We took our first snap on that final possession at our 41-yard-line with only :42 left on the clock.
Dawgs drive down the field and with :10 seconds left "Hobnail Boot" happens and the rest is history. Dawgs win, at Knoxville, 26-24.

I always think when i hear a song from the early 80's that it's 40 yrs old. a 40 yr old song in the early 80's probly didn't even have words

(06-14-2024, 07:34 AM)Replying to jmac

I did a lookup and see that the electric guitar was only invented in 1932. It didn't start becoming widely used in pop music until the 1950s. Music in the 1940s was still just big band music, primarily. It was primarily brass instruments, piano, maybe strings/violins, and some percussion.

This was the #1 song in the first week of 1938 (carrying over from being #1 at the end of 1937).

just a little different than early 80's music

Friend and I were talking recently about time and how kids see things.  I have a 2000 Expedition.  It is hard to believe it is 24 years old.  He pointed out that when we graduated HS in 1979, a 24 year old car would have been a 1955 and we would have thought it was ancient and it would have been a vehicle people noticed going down the street.  I wonder if people in their 20s look at my Expedition and think of it as some sort of classic vehicle?

A lot of classic rock music is 50 years old or older.  50 year old music when I was in HS would have been from the 1920s. 

When I was in HS, a 50 year old airplane had two wings.  This is what a 50 year old airplane looks like today:

(06-14-2024, 07:59 AM)Replying to jmac

For sure... Black Sabbath was already broken up by then. Ozzy Osbourne's first solo album (Blizzard of Ozz) was released in 1980.

Van Halen's fifth album was released in 1982.

Metallica's first album was released in 1983.

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(06-14-2024, 08:15 AM)Replying to JC-DAWG83

I don't know what is the current criteria, but it used to be that if your car was 20-years-old you could get a special classic-car tag. Nowadays, there are LOTS of more than 20-years-old cars on the road, in regular use.

It is hard to believe that planes like the F-15, F-16, as advanced as they are, are that old. Shoot... the F-22 contract was won by Lockheed when I was still working there, and I left from there in 1994... 30 years ago. That plane's base technology is more than 30-years-old.

(06-14-2024, 08:44 AM)Replying to RockmartDawg

For sure... Black Sabbath was already broken up by then. Ozzy Osbourne's first solo album (Blizzard of Ozz) was released in 1980.

Van Halen's fifth album was released in 1982.

Metallica's first album was released in 1983.

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(06-14-2024, 08:15 AM)Replying to JC-DAWG83

I don't know what is the current criteria, but it used to be that if your car was 20-years-old you could get a special classic-car tag. Nowadays, there are LOTS of more than 20-years-old cars on the road, in regular use.

It is hard to believe that planes like the F-15, F-16, as advanced as they are, are that old. Shoot... the F-22 contract was won by Lockheed when I was still working there, and I left from there in 1994... 30 years ago. That plane's base technology is more than 30-years-old.
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If you had a car with 100,000 miles on it in the 1970s or 1980s it was pretty well used up and worth nothing, especially an American car.  My last two vehicles had 300,000+ miles on them when I got rid of them and both of them were running perfectly.  My Expedition has 294,000 miles on it now and it runs great.  I'm looking for my next vehicle and nothing I am looking at has less than 100,000 miles on it.  A mechanic told me many years ago that miles don't really hurt a car, neglect does.

(06-13-2024, 02:32 PM)Replying to dirtyolDawg

Heck, I was born closer to the 1800's than the 2000's.  Most of my original parts have worn out
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Me too Milldawg, and now I'm closer to 80 than I am to 70.  Time marches on.

JCDawg... my car crossed 300,000 within the past 3-6 months. I admit that I have driven that car on some pretty tremendous trips... several. I have no idea how many times I have driven down to the Ft. Lauderdale area. I've driven out to Key West and back, once. I've driven as far north as Maine, once. I've driven to/from the Tampa area countless times. My wife and I went on a road trip 5-6 years ago, and put more than 7,000 miles on it just in that one trip. We were as far north as North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho. We were about 250 miles north of San Francisco at one point. We drove down the eastern side of the Sierras to get to Las Vegas, then back across the southern route of the U.S.

We've done no-telling-how-many day trips up to the Smoky Mountains, through the park to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, and back home. The car does use oil, a little but. But I only have ever used Amsoil since I purchased it (it had about 42k miles on it when I got it). It has been an awesome car. I honestly don't have any immediate plans to replace it. I may never replace it. I may just buy another car and keep this one.