Actual GenX memory: loaf of bread, container of milk, sticka butta”

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HURTBOTPEGASUS9@reddit

When ever I think of one I think of the other. Both used the same style of animation.

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Temporary-Block-9452@reddit

Every single time I go to the grocery store.

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rpcyclone1995@reddit

Also a Coke and a pack of Kool cigarettes.

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

I'm Canadian. I remember being so confused by the stick of butter. I'd never heard of it and didn't understand what she was saying

You can buy a pound of butter cut in to sticks now, but back then, they were unheard of, at least where I lived. Very expensive to buy. For that price, I'll cut my own!

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Dramatic_Side_856@reddit

I remember this! Also the kid making a fruit salad.https://youtu.be/nVP0Z8ioP2Q?si=DQRUoI2ElfDWjBfr

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Upstairs_End_4202@reddit

Nope, “loafuh bread, gallon of milk, sticka buttah.” 😁🤣

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Upstairs_End_4202@reddit

Nope, “loafuh bread, gallon of milk, sticka buttah.” 😁

I stand corrected. I’m sorry. It IS “container”!

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Oh yeah, a gallon of milk. And Big Gold Top bread. I always wanted Wonder bread like all the other kids. Stupid Big Gold Top with no prize at the bottom of the bag. I really felt like I made it in young adulthood when I bought myself a whole loaf of Wonder Bread, though they no longer came with prizes

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Outrageous_Plum5348@reddit

No. Home Pride Butter Top and you light into that little strip of butter (which I guarantee was not butter but a merger with Imperial Margarine.)

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missusfictitious@reddit

I JUST showed this video to my kids last week 🤣

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onewomancaravan@reddit

I think about this all the time as a parent. I can't imagine sending my 6 year old to the store like that. Times have changed so much. (I had my kid in my mid-40s so yes I'm still GenX.)

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Both-Basis-3723@reddit

I’m not saying that the reason we moved out of the country but sending our ten year this weekend for a loaf a bread, bananas and some pasta. We only got two plus some chips. I had forgotten that clip. Funny.

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mEp1973@reddit

My husband said this yesterday 🤣

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ContrastsOfForm@reddit

We say this regularly!!! Stickabuddah!!!!

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StillC5sdad@reddit

My mom added " pack of Virginia Slims"

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Automatic-Unit-8307@reddit

My dad added a 6 pack and latest issue of Penthouse…and they would sell to an 8 years old, as long as you say it was for dad

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Individual-Trick3310@reddit

they would sell to an 8 years old, as long as you say it was for dad

TIL. They sold me smokes, I should've tried the same thing for primitive second millennium porn.

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Automatic-Unit-8307@reddit

We tried porn rental and it worked. A bunch of us 12 years old went to a video store and said dad was ill and wanted us to rent a movie. He actually rented to us, we were all shocked while watching 1980s Amber Lynn and the Hedgehog, Ron Jeremy.

Kids gave it so easy today, back in our days, we had to lie and steal our ways to porn

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Individual-Trick3310@reddit

Kids gave it so easy today, back in our days, we had to lie and steal our ways to porn

Or comb the woods...

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dreadful_cookies@reddit

Right? Why so many porno mags out in the woods? Dunno, but they were out there, in stacks, getting rain damaged. I don't think I've ever thought about it, weird.

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Happy_Lake_11@reddit

I was well known at the grocery store and drugstore, but do remember having a note for the liquor store once for Glenlivet

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Individual-Trick3310@reddit

Like an 8 year old buying Glenlivet?

Honestly I'd let the transaction go through even now. If he's got the money and the taste and there's no way local PD would use an 8 year old in a sting.

Sláinte, kid.

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StillC5sdad@reddit

I had to bring a note, kind of like Juan Epstein

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Ignignokt73@reddit

She was alive with pleasure! 🤣 (maybe that slogan is for Newports). But definitely in flavor country.

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Happy_Lake_11@reddit

Mine too, and it was a loafa bread and bring back the change

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SimpleServe9774@reddit

Yup

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Poison_Ivy_Rorschach@reddit

I have a tshirt that says this and I love when someone sees in and is like “heeeeyyy”. Instant fist bump.

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LeTigre71@reddit

I remembered!

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EbbRevolutionary7475@reddit

Underrated comment

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AlternativeSpinach84@reddit

Oh I can HEAR THAT right now!!!

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PhotoJim99@reddit

I made butter from stickers once. It tasted awful.

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Mammoth_Cheek6078@reddit

I love this so much and say it pretty often!

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JesMon421@reddit

Sesame Street - Milk Song

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Cancer_Heiress@reddit

Yes, but do you remember, “It’s the plumber, he’s come to fix the sink”?

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

That was an Electric Company one, wasn’t it?

“HEY YOU GUYSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!”

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Cancer_Heiress@reddit

I thought Sesame Street, but I’m not sure. Those days are blurry.

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Former_Boysenberry45@reddit

That and the Bert and Ernie "I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear" established my sense of humor early on lol

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cuzwhat@reddit

Bread / milk / butter girl is about as common as Ernie’s chocolate pudding is in my household.

“I used it to write this note, Bert!”

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FrostedMoon8888@reddit

That one lives rent free in my head “awwwwk who is it “ “it’s da Plummer I come to fix the leaky faucet!”… the stupid shit that stayed In my head I swear.

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DaddyOhMy@reddit

My mom & I still use that line whenever the opportunity arises. I've even gotten my kids to use it after showing them the bit on YouTube.

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keystone52@reddit

My five siblings and I are all in our '50s now, And we still bring this one up.

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IMTrick@reddit

Should this mean something to me? For a "core memory" it's not ringing any bells.

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Javatex@reddit

I only know this because it was referenced on family guy

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punkdrummer22@reddit

Yeah no clue what this is

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

Sesame Street skit

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

It’s a Sesame Street short.

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SocialSyphilis@reddit

The grocery list you had to walk up to the store for when you were 8

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Silver_Daikon6974@reddit

Forgot a pack of McDonald’s menthols

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youngkpepper@reddit

We are out of sweet rolls!

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StraightChemGuy1@reddit

Ok, then I’ll have a small coffee and a sweet roll.

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jets_or_chasm@reddit

My name is Elmer J. Fudd, milwonaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.

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DeepRoot@reddit

"Again!"

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jets_or_chasm@reddit

I am Elmer J. Fudd, milwonaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.

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DisenchantedIdealist@reddit

Years ago I saw a cartoon of a man lying on a psychiatrist's couch saying, "I don't understand Doc. Every time I go to the store I have to buy a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter." The caption underneath read, "Subliminal Sesame Street."

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KarenCT@reddit

Omg. Brilliant.

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

That’s a classic

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ZippyNomad@reddit

My wife and I make this statement to each other regularly

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WaltFlanagansDog77@reddit

If I send my husband to the store for a few things and he almost always says this as he heads out the door.

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RubberRuss@reddit

This is done at my house too

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WaltFlanagansDog77@reddit

Usually that's my cue to text the list to him, because he's going to forgot something otherwise.

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DeepRoot@reddit

A new vat of Crisco, the one on the bottom shelf.

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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

I walk to the grocery store 95% of the time, and I can't help but repeat this while I walk. Regardless of what I actually need.

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walter_grimsley@reddit

I cut cable and most tv ages ago, but made damn sure my Gen Alpha daughter saw this, plus the Yip-Yips encountering a phone, pinball counting to 12, the crayon manufacturers, am I missing any other must-see bits?!

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

https://youtu.be/xONikEykMaU?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/z_trSIBCgF0?feature=shared

Those are just three that immediately come to mind. I could do this all day lol

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flagrantstickfoul@reddit

does anyone else remember it as a "quart" of milk, or did my brain just morph the list over the decades?

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0_IceQueen_0@reddit

Morph 😁

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flagrantstickfoul@reddit

i seem to be using the phrase "curse this aging brain" more and more these days

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

Loaf of bread container of milk stick of butter

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dadofsummer@reddit

She pronounced it ptainer, if I remember correctly, this randomly pops into my head every couple of months.

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no-thanks-thot@reddit

I thought it was potato

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Dramatic_Channel52@reddit

I have a tshirt with this and when I wear it it’s for sure a way to identify the fellow GenXers.

Funny (to me) story - I wore this shirt to my kids basketball game. One of our neighbors is a solid 10 years younger than us. The wife says “nice shirt” and the husband looks at it too and didn’t say anything.

I followed up and said “You do get it, right?” And the wife looked at me a bit funny … I looked at the husband and got an equally confused look.

I said … “it’s a Sesame Street skit … a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter”

Went right over their heads

It’s fine. Again, it’s almost like a way to ID the GenXers.

I get similar nods when I wear my Reading Rainbow shirt.

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

Reading rainbow was another classic. PBS

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slasherbobasher@reddit

I don’t remember this at all. Wah.

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

Sesame Street

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Francis_Lynch@reddit

A fire engine!

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Francis_Lynch@reddit

I just experienced a Mandela effect. I mixed up the little black girl with the white boy who's mom sent him for a loaf of bread. His train of thought would be derailed by a new dog, a baseball game, then a firetruck. To further my misremembering, I've been saying Fire engine! For the past 47 years.

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MrsPottyMouth@reddit

Omg I keep trying to find the little boy version and it's like it never existed. I just keep getting the Family Guy version.

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Francis_Lynch@reddit

https://youtu.be/AQ-72S4aZns?si=SKgd73u7FYo0EKHp

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MrsPottyMouth@reddit

Omg thank you!!

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jtrades69@reddit

and now we might get in trouble if the kids go to the park 3 blocks away on their own!!

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Francis_Lynch@reddit

I remember when I was about 5 and my older sister was 8, we we're sent to get baby aspirin for my little sister. We walked about 10 blocks in freezing late December weather because we didn't see the 7/11 a block and a half to other direction. My mom was freaking out, but only because it took us 3 times as long as it should have. I'm sure we got scolded for her mistake and shoved right back outside.

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JodiB914@reddit

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/loaf-of-bread-container-of-milk-stick-of-butter-animation

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Tim-no@reddit

Of course I remember this! But wasn’t it originally “a quart of milk” as opposed to “a container of milk”? 🥛

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

"A loaf of bread, container of milk, and a stick of butter"

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AriadneThread@reddit

Awwwww🩷

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SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit

I would totally buy that final image (starting at 1:08) on a t-shirt.

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Informal-Chemical-79@reddit

Absolutely it was

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Agreeable_Peak_6100@reddit

“A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter” were the words spoken.

I Can Remember

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Informal-Chemical-79@reddit

Wow how my memories fail me.

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Retracnic@reddit

Ha ha! Not really.

Nobody said a "container of milk" back then, so most people ended up changing "container" to a "bottle", "jug", "quart" or "carton" of milk in their mind from the start. So that's the way you remembered it.

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

If only you had access to a vast repository of knowledge; something you could hold in the palm of your hand...

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Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit

No

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Sufficient_Meal_7074@reddit

...and come home right away.

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baloothebear92@reddit

a loaf of milk, a container of bread, and a joe dirt dvd

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HoneyWyne@reddit

I still say this phrase regularly when I need to make the grocery list.

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BadkyDrawnBear@reddit

I'm English, but I swear I remember this, was it a Sesame Street animation?

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coldbrewedsunshine@reddit

yep!

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BadkyDrawnBear@reddit

thank you

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vw-thing@reddit

Chest of drawers, drapes, sofa

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Francis_Lynch@reddit

Kinda proves what we've been saying about our freedom. That little kid was about 5 years old.

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Independent-Dog5311@reddit

Flout tortillas too.

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Useful_Humor_1152@reddit

Yes Sesame Street was filmed in NY. All of us NYs say "Sticka Butta"

Even in the B52s Rock Lobster song long version, Fred says "Pass The Tanning Butta"

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

Yeah but the B-52s were from Georgia.

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Useful_Humor_1152@reddit

Fred and Kate are from New Jersey even though the band was formed in Georgia. This is why Fred says "butta"

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Both-Honeydew-7801@reddit

I loved that kid

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HoochShippe@reddit

It was always a quart for me.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

See, and I thought it was a carton.

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0_IceQueen_0@reddit

Mommy I remember!

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exhaustedbut@reddit

I thought of this the other day when I red a reddit post by a millennial complaining about being regularly sent to the store as a 14 year old.

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CrashX@reddit

I quote this to my kids every time they say stick of butter.

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pokeynabber@reddit

This one and the Milk Song are probably the two things I remember best.

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funktopus@reddit

What's weird for me is I won't remember it until someone says it then I can hear her voice as she walked.

I never recall the music.

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BuckyGoldman@reddit

I just read the title as I was doomscrolling along. Read it out loud in my head. It made zero sense to me. Why would any of those items be a Gen X thing.

I Swear I was 5 posts down and I said it again in my head and then repeated it... and then everything clicked. Loaf of Bread. Container of Milk. Sticka Butta. I remembered! I remembered!

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lastfreerangekid@reddit

Thats so great. Now let's work on the difference between reading out loud and reading in your head.

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FreeKick17@reddit

This was my introduction to the New York accent. I still say "sticka butta" when I'm getting out ingredients for baking.

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Few_Control7451@reddit

I remembered I remembered!!

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KatJen76@reddit

I can remember.

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NOGOODGASHOLE@reddit

I used this as a memory device. Wife said I was crazy. She turned 50 and I catch her doing it.

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original-whiplash@reddit

My wife says this line all the time

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Quasigriz_@reddit

This is also referenced on The Dan Band Live! “Grandma said, Danny, sweet Danny. Where the eff your grampa Tyrone? Where the F he at! He went out for a loaf of bread, container of milk, stick of butta, and he ain’t come back. You gonna be a piece of shit like him? And she gently laid me down of the linoleum. And I heard her say, and she moonwalked into the sunset….”

“Doooo, doooo, do-dit, do-do-dooo-dit, do dit-dooo-dit, do do doooo-dit. This one’s for you, grandma!”

Unfortunately, none of the streaming versions of Tyrone/No More Problems have the between tracks talking (unlike every rap album with their terrible skit tracks). And I no longer have my CD version.

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Enlighten-Pasta@reddit

This is one of my best memories watching this fantastic show .

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

“I remembered! I remembered!”

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

"You have a good memory!"

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WAstargazer@reddit

My inside voice repeats this every time I am asked, "What do we need at the store? "

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genxcanuckucklehead@reddit

For all those not getting it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WWolHhXjnOs

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