You can't get to the end of the day without hearing somebody say "back in the day."
Back in the day, there were boards. Bulletin Board Systems. BBS's. No Net, no Web, no cyberspace, nothing.
Back in the day, I was in Jersey. I don't know if it was the center of the BBS world; it was probably the ass-end of it, like it was of everything else. But it felt like the center.
He should know. Back in the day, when he was struggling to make it as an actor in New York, he did it for $3 an hour.
After graduation, he left town and spent several years in Nashville.
Back in the day, it was a tent city.
Along the way it lost that status, but back in the day it was a biggie.
"I used to party with him back in the day, apparently," said Tom.
Back in the day, he was literally "the man with the plan" ...
The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were.
"It used to be a pretty good organization back in the day. We're going to start putting things back together," he remarked.
"I don't want a bunch of old heads talking about how great things were back in the day."
Back in the day 2600 hertz was the frequency that AT&T put on all of their long distance lines ...
I'm not saying it was better back in the day when Ma Bell was our only choice. Well, actually, ...
He's reluctant to look back. He doesn't want to fixate on "back in the day" whimsy. But this was special, so we asked some of the participants to share their recollections.
I hear she was quite the partyer back in the day.
Back in the day, we were more alienated from society than kids are today, and Thoreau was to blame for it.
Back in the day, there was no need of abstract rhetoric on what black is.
"We could use a lot more color. I remember back in the day when I was growing up, we used to see more flowers around. If we could do that, then people would take notice. It would give people a sense of pride."
I've tried to explain to people that, back in the day, Hyundai thought the Excel would have been a decent car.
Back in the day, the Eagle was among the first crossover vehicles ever made ... It was a blast!
I think it might have been something I remember from watching wrestling back in the day.
"Air guitaring has come a long way from back in the day when you used to only do it alone in your bedroom."
"Back in the day, when I was part mountain goat, that path was so steep I feared for my life."
It is funny how we complain gas is almost $3 a gallon, yet we willingly pay upwards of $1 for half-a-liter of bottled water. Back in the day, it wasn't just a part of life; bottled water was a craze.
You might be thinking this is a fad. One of those alleged trends like feminists burning their bras back in the day, back when women wanted to be like men, or maybe like the mullet haircuts on guys in the 1980s.
The first record that I really went to a record store to buy was Billy Squier’s Emotions in Motion. This was back in the day when record stores sold bongs, black lights and tapestries -- real multi-purpose establishments.
"Back in the day, there were things to sing about," he says.
DJ Food started out as a moniker for Coldcut, back in the day when they made sample-friendly snippets ...
When the body of a young woman is found along an L.A. street, her body bisected and lacking a single ounce of blood, he instantly focuses on her "professional" status and thinks of his old boss ... After all, the calculating crook/pimp turned semi-legit businessman had a thing for fresh faces and Tom used to run prostitution money for him back in the day.
Back in the day, gay and lesbian publications were all about the activism.
Back in the day, U.S. currency represented a specific amount of gold or silver for which the paper certificate could be redeemed.
They don't look like the girls of the Lingerie Bowl. And the ones that did look as good, back in the day, never had a chance to participate [*] in a Lingerie Bowl.
"MySpace has enabled us to keep in contact with our fans. Back in the day you always had to have actual mailing lists and that is very costly. Obviously we can’t afford to do that, so MySpace lets us get messages out to our fans and cultivate our fan base."
"Jim’s got one of those hardcore Nashville accents and he’s like ‘well I used to play for Elvis back in the day when I was a kid’ and I’m not an Elvis aficionado or anything like that. But that’s a big thing.
It's just a party like back in the day, when parties like Pip 'n' Ting and Gin 'n' Juice use to 'run the place'. That's the vibe we want to create again. It's all about a new school vibe with an old school flavour.
Henry Rollins labors over his playlists and it shows. Every week is an in-depth lesson in contemporary music history ranging from Delta blues to death metal to little-heard art rock from across the globe. Some of the songs he plays were never released to the public -- a few he received as gifts "back in the day," and some he retrieved from the clutches of another collector.
... back in the day, when punk rock was punk, it wasn’t such a lucrative prospect.
Back in the day, offering solutions was called "having a platform", but we did away with that ...
It’s when I cozy into the warm embrace of a chair at [the] radio show that I have to resist the urge to lie back and start talking about the time my dog got hit by a car when I was seven or how much I miss those Jello pudding pops we used to get back in the day.
Secretary Gates may have been thinking about Congress as he waxed nostalgic about back in the day -- when Democrats and Republicans actually agreed about something. Gates wants that again.
Oh, Jon [Bon Jovi], you know that’s not true. You were great when you sang "R2D2, We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on that Star Wars album back in the day.
