You Know You're A Member of AW When...

[daveamkrayoguy]

I remember seeing a TV tube tester that was like a Your Weight & Fortune Scale, and the quality of your tubes ranging from Good to Replace, w/ a lot of "suggestive" words in-between...

 

Here's a "Rock The Boat"sound-alike from almost the same time:

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHyyHn1HME

 

[vacerator]

I remember

that one as well. It looks like it was filmed in Amsterdam. I spotted a Vauxhall Victor, or Viva, and an Opel Kadette.
I was about 14, listening to it in my room, when my grandma came upstairs. She visited on Sundays usually, or we her. She said I was growing up, and would soon be interested in dating, and asked would I want to someday get married and sleep with a woman. I asked her how will I know? She said, you will know when you get the "ding".
I let it just go over my head. I eventually got the "ding" alright, but not for a girl. LoL.

 

[tolivac]

Yes,remember those well!!!Some were rigged,though-so you would think you need to buy new tubes at the stores inflated prices.When I needed tubes-got them from a commercial supplier-MUCH cheaper-and you could get real name brands like GE,Sylvania,Mullard,Tung-Sol,not the unknown white box stuff many of those tubes testers were stocked with.Show this to young people-they wouldn't have a clue.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you demonstrate the preparation of the meal you're making to an invisible TV crew when no one's around.

 

[laundryshark]

Still Collecting Old Washer Demos

Although I am too much of a Facebook junkie, I still love checking back into AW, as I still love collecting computer videos of old washers, along with classic household cleaning commercials. Always ready to receive more as I keep finding and others share. I also am glad to contribute a few old ads as well.--Laundry Shark

 

[sarahperdue]

...you'd rather knock off old country churches for the appliances than rob a bank.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you don't mash potatoes with a masher, scramble eggs with a fork or whip whipping cream or beat egg whites with a balloon whisk. Those are jobs for your vintage still goin' strong American-made hand mixer.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You wait by the radio for your favorite songs which I did even as a kid--and got "Evil Woman" by ELO (got a teaser from some knock-off instrumental sound-alike that came out at the time by---????) and Styx "Come Sail Away"--and more to the Starland Vocal Band than "Afternoon Delight"--That was "The Light Of My Life"--teary eyed, from the idea it would NEVER to come on, to the relief that it DID!!!!

 

And that was a General Electric lighted dial clock radio w/ AM Only, that at our local toy store, Kiddie Land there was an AM/FM version of, while for nostalgia's sake more-than-ten-years-ago, came the AM Only version at a flea market bought for $4 out of the $5 it was marked for ($4 was all I had "You can give me another dollar, next week..." --the person selling it) but the clock didn't glow, and shortly got rid of, as the alarm was hard to set, as it became on my old one, too...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

I remeber AM stereo

My '92 GMC Sierra had it, but why? $22 used to fill that truck up.
You have to be carefull whipping potatoes with a mixer, or they get sticky. A potato ricer works best, then fold in the butter, milk, sour cream, etc. Sure, a hand mixer is gentle enough.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you honestly and sincerely believed that once family and friends saw the beautiful picture quality, even at the extended recording speed, they'd buy a Beta VCR like yours but they all went with VHS.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

FluffY: R.I.P. Sept. 29, 1991--25-years-ago!

My cat Fluffy meowed over the bed every morning before my clock radio went off to wake me when it was time to go to trade school... And got the "No School" whispered to her purring on weekends, as well as "Bad Kitties!", said, when I had my work smock on, going off to my job at Arbor Drug Store, interrupting "our time together"...

 

One time the clock-radio went off before she could climb up on the bed to meow at me, playing "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp, then she'd meowed along with the cat-noises the instruments made, over me waking up... --And my mom looking in, admiring everything...

 

Memories with Your Favorite Pet! --That is what makes a Member of AW.org...!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

My old cat Scooter

Supertramp, Alan Parsons project, Level 42, Men at Work, Jefferson Starship, Blue Oyster Cult, and on and on.
Oh, and yes I had a Sony Beta-HiFi. It still worked when someone pitched it in the trash when I wasn't home. I had most of the Miami Vice episodes on Beta and the Golden Girls.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . your eventually relished the smug satisfaction of making the superior choice while friends and family thought you were strange because you installed a cassette player in your car instead of an 8-track.

 

[vacerator]

I had a Craig

8 track under the seat of my 1970 Impala, then an in dash Sanyo auto reverse cassete radio in my Gremnlin which a neighbor stole out of it. Three of them ran the neighborhood casing cars for CB's and stereos. No, this was not a high crime area. I had a job, they were thieves.
I left at age 19. Good riddens to bad rubbish.

 

[grwasher_expert]

You Know You're A Member of AW When...

-You know which company produces each detergent
-When you buy a new electrical appliance,you thoroughly read the instruction manual as if it was a novel
-Your favorite place in a super market is the laundry detergent isle
-You know how to use the washing machine better than your mother/wife
-You argue with your grandmother about which detergent cleans the best
-You remember all detergents tv commercials with every detail
-Laundromats are your happy place
-You know which model of washer has every friend and relative of you
-Doing laundry is your favorite household chore
-You get caught by the chambermaid sneaking into the hotel's laundry room and secretly using the hotel's washing machine(yes ,yes I've done it and I'm proud of it)
-When you visit a home for first time,you go to the bathroom,even if you don't have to,in order to see which model of washer they have and what detergents they are using(in greece,most people have their washer in the bathroom)
-The first time you look at when you go to a kitchen,is the dishwasher
-Friends and relatives ask you for laundry advice
-Every time you travel,visiting a laundromat is always on your "must do" list
-Every time you go to the mall,you pay a visit to the electric appliance store,even if you don't need to buy something
-Friends call you with detergent names as nickname
-You hate havind to wash mixed fiber garments,because you always get in dilemma on which wash programme you should select
-You will use the dishwasher,even if you have only a few dishes to wash
-You love watching the wash process of a washing machine through the door window.The sight of clothes tumbling chills you out
-You wish that dishwashers had windows too,so you could take a look at the washing process

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . during every entertainment awards telecast, you fire up a pizza, ice up some brewskis and settle in to watch the entire Heavy Duty cycle (with extra rinse and extended spin) on your front-loader (or top-loader if you've overridden the safety interlocks).

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you didn't buy a first-generation Maytag Neptune washer because it didn't have a window in the door.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . it takes you at least 5 seconds to remember Jesse White's name when he shows up on TV not playing the lonesome Maytag Repairman.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

How do often do you seem to sing out "I gotta get my laundry clean" and think of this song?

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy46iOwWQiE

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you can fill in all these blanks without help from friends, family or Google:

You Can Be Sure If It’s __________

It’s a _________, The One and Only

__________ __________ Progress Is Our Most Important Product

__________ just slightly ahead of our time

__________ That Little Blue Flower And A Whole Lot More

Don't give away the answers but feel free to admit you can or confess you can't.