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"Fred Stone" |
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09 Apr 2005 01:14:32 PM |
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Are You Older Than Dirt? |
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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| User: "wcb" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 05:48:22 PM |
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wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:18:19 +0800, "Peacenik"
<cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ay_5e.18528$FN4.16205@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five
cent
phone calls and slide rules.
I remember 15 cent candy bars and 20 cent Cokes.
Three or five cent candy bars here and ten cent cokes.
I also remember <Not that long ago> when we could open a candy bar or
packaged toy without needing a pair of sissors or a sharp knife.
I hate Disney and Barbie :-)
I also remember candy cigarettes. Can't imagine those now!! I know of a
place that still has a bottle-dispensing soft-drink machine!
I think they taste better from a bottle.
There was a time soft drinks used sugar. Then they went to
corn syrup sweetners. They tasted better way back then because
of sugar rather than corn syrup.
--
When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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10 Apr 2005 07:06:36 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:48:22 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:18:19 +0800, "Peacenik"
<cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ay_5e.18528$FN4.16205@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five
cent
phone calls and slide rules.
I remember 15 cent candy bars and 20 cent Cokes.
Three or five cent candy bars here and ten cent cokes.
I also remember <Not that long ago> when we could open a candy bar or
packaged toy without needing a pair of sissors or a sharp knife.
I hate Disney and Barbie :-)
I also remember candy cigarettes. Can't imagine those now!! I know of a
place that still has a bottle-dispensing soft-drink machine!
I think they taste better from a bottle.
There was a time soft drinks used sugar. Then they went to
corn syrup sweetners. They tasted better way back then because
of sugar rather than corn syrup.
Thats the reason Coke lost my business.
Do you remember when they went to "New Coke?"
I thought there was going to be a revolution.
It was the only thing I can recall in my life that most Americans
stood together on without disagreement.
All I drink now is Sunkist orange soda and if you haven't tried a
really cold one on a hot day you should.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
13 Apr 2005 04:05:27 PM |
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:06:36 GMT, wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:48:22 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:18:19 +0800, "Peacenik"
<cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ay_5e.18528$FN4.16205@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five
cent
phone calls and slide rules.
I remember 15 cent candy bars and 20 cent Cokes.
Three or five cent candy bars here and ten cent cokes.
I also remember <Not that long ago> when we could open a candy bar or
packaged toy without needing a pair of sissors or a sharp knife.
I hate Disney and Barbie :-)
I also remember candy cigarettes. Can't imagine those now!! I know of a
place that still has a bottle-dispensing soft-drink machine!
I think they taste better from a bottle.
There was a time soft drinks used sugar. Then they went to
corn syrup sweetners. They tasted better way back then because
of sugar rather than corn syrup.
Thats the reason Coke lost my business.
Do you remember when they went to "New Coke?"
I thought there was going to be a revolution.
It was the only thing I can recall in my life that most Americans
stood together on without disagreement.
All I drink now is Sunkist orange soda and if you haven't tried a
really cold one on a hot day you should.
Vernor's Ginger Ale. :)
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
09 Apr 2005 11:38:39 PM |
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On 09 Apr 2005, Mike Painter dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Don't forget 15¢/gallon regular gas (not that sissy unleaded crap they sell
now).
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
Plonked by Jason Gastrich for all eternity...
______________
As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.
--- Hunter S. Thompson
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 02:27:53 AM |
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In article <Xns9633DC6845873vicman@216.196.97.136>,
Vic Sagerquist <address@withheld.com> wrote:
On 09 Apr 2005, Mike Painter dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Don't forget 15¢/gallon regular gas (not that sissy unleaded crap they sell
now).
Five cent candy bars, 25 cent movie tickets (for kids), and 78 rpm
records.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 07:34:31 AM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:27:53 -0500, johac wrote
(in article <jhachm-786D70.00275310042005@news.giganews.com>):
In article <Xns9633DC6845873vicman@216.196.97.136>,
Vic Sagerquist <address@withheld.com> wrote:
On 09 Apr 2005, Mike Painter dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Don't forget 15¢/gallon regular gas (not that sissy unleaded crap they sell
now).
Five cent candy bars, 25 cent movie tickets (for kids), and 78 rpm
records.
15 cent movies for kids in our town, but they didn't carry any 5 cent candy
bars (and no sneaking them into the movie.)
My first record was a 78 rpm, Peg-O-My-Heart, I got it from my aunt.
(Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" was on the flip-side, now that was
real music.)
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new
vocabulary."-James D. Nicoll
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 06:22:56 PM |
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In article <0001HW.BE7E87870028925CF02845B0@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry F. Leopold <hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:27:53 -0500, johac wrote
(in article <jhachm-786D70.00275310042005@news.giganews.com>):
In article <Xns9633DC6845873vicman@216.196.97.136>,
Vic Sagerquist <address@withheld.com> wrote:
On 09 Apr 2005, Mike Painter dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Don't forget 15¢/gallon regular gas (not that sissy unleaded crap they
sell
now).
Five cent candy bars, 25 cent movie tickets (for kids), and 78 rpm
records.
15 cent movies for kids in our town, but they didn't carry any 5 cent candy
bars (and no sneaking them into the movie.)
The 25 cents was the regular price. On Saturdays, the matinees were
twelve cents, IIRC, and you got to see two features, a newsreel, and two
or three cartoons. That is if you didn't raise enough hell with your
friends to get kicked out before the end of the show.
My first record was a 78 rpm, Peg-O-My-Heart, I got it from my aunt.
(Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" was on the flip-side, now that was
real music.)
"Goodness Gracious...!"
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "skyeyes" |
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13 Apr 2005 04:05:40 PM |
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johac wrote:
Five cent candy bars, 25 cent movie tickets (for kids), and 78 rpm
records.
Having a class prayer at the start of the school day - in a *public*
school, yet.
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 01:22:05 AM |
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Vic Sagerquist wrote:
On 09 Apr 2005, Mike Painter dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of
three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled
dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Don't forget 15=A2/gallon regular gas (not that sissy unleaded crap
they sell
now).
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
Plonked by Jason Gastrich for all eternity...
______________
As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.
--- Hunter S. Thompson
Do you remember buying lead additive for your old car, when they
started selling unlead only?
Kermit
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| User: "stoney" |
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13 Apr 2005 03:51:26 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five cent
phone calls and slide rules.
Penny candy.
5 pence ice cream cones
15 cent petrol (For a time I had bought it at 25 pence/gal)
Muscle cars at $3,500 new.
Rotary dial phones
When stores had customer service
When schools were allowed to teach.
When employees weren't classified as; 'to be disposed of.'
Record players and "Hi-Fi's."
When having an FM radio in your car was a hefty OOOOOOOOOOOOO
factor, as that meant no signal cut-out when going under an overpass.
8-track tapes were an improvement over cassetes (no more terminal fast
fwd).
Record stores and vinyl albums at $8/ea.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "" |
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10 Apr 2005 01:04:23 AM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five cent
phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "Peacenik" |
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10 Apr 2005 08:24:01 AM |
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<atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:q6eh51tf8idf3blb80aa5k519dbkkhbl7f@4ax.com...
Push button transmissions.
A friend of mine had a Dodge Dart with a pushbutton transmission.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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10 Apr 2005 02:54:27 PM |
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"Peacenik" <cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote in news:d3b9da$iv7$1
@news.seed.net.tw:
<atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:q6eh51tf8idf3blb80aa5k519dbkkhbl7f@4ax.com...
Push button transmissions.
A friend of mine had a Dodge Dart with a pushbutton transmission.
I carpooled to college in one of those! It caught on fire behind the
parking structure across from the BAM building.
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Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-- lapel button
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| User: "wcb" |
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10 Apr 2005 02:31:24 PM |
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wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) ,
five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
When Coke bottles came in yellow wooden crates.
--
When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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10 Apr 2005 03:16:31 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:31:24 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) ,
five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
Swamp coolers?
When Coke bottles came in yellow wooden crates.
They tasted like Coke then :-)
atheist@home#1554
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10 Apr 2005 05:54:56 PM |
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wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:31:24 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) ,
five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
Swamp coolers?
Big fans with water that was pumped to the top
and trickled through a loose coco-mat type 'filter'.
The evaporation of water as the fan blew air through
the wet matting could drop tempertures 10 - 15 degrees.
We had one when I was a child in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
It was the size of a refrigerator.
And noisy. It gurgled and made all sorts of watery sounds.
We had one for the car too. A large bullet shaped device
that was held in the window by rolling the window up, which
clamped it in place. As you drove, the air turned a fan
which ran a pump that kept the water trickling through
the filter element. You had to stop every so over and
refill the resevoir.
Circa 1954.
When Coke bottles came in yellow wooden crates.
They tasted like Coke then :-)
atheist@home#1554
--
When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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| User: "" |
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10 Apr 2005 07:00:32 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:54:56 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:31:24 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) ,
five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
Swamp coolers?
Big fans with water that was pumped to the top
and trickled through a loose coco-mat type 'filter'.
The evaporation of water as the fan blew air through
the wet matting could drop tempertures 10 - 15 degrees.
We had one when I was a child in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
It was the size of a refrigerator.
And noisy. It gurgled and made all sorts of watery sounds.
That is incredible.
I never heard of the things but I found some websites that sell them.
They don't cost much and rather than the fan I usually have in my open
garage in the summer I could get one of these.
I also have my workout equipment in the garage but sometimes it gets
so hot in the summer that it makes it difficult to work out.
Lol!
I'm all excited :-)
We had one for the car too. A large bullet shaped device
that was held in the window by rolling the window up, which
clamped it in place. As you drove, the air turned a fan
which ran a pump that kept the water trickling through
the filter element. You had to stop every so over and
refill the resevoir.
Circa 1954.
Fascinating.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "wcb" |
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10 Apr 2005 08:12:20 PM |
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wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:54:56 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:31:24 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
Swamp coolers?
Big fans with water that was pumped to the top
and trickled through a loose coco-mat type 'filter'.
The evaporation of water as the fan blew air through
the wet matting could drop tempertures 10 - 15 degrees.
We had one when I was a child in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
It was the size of a refrigerator.
And noisy. It gurgled and made all sorts of watery sounds.
That is incredible.
I never heard of the things but I found some websites that sell them.
They don't cost much and rather than the fan I usually have in my open
garage in the summer I could get one of these.
I also have my workout equipment in the garage but sometimes it gets
so hot in the summer that it makes it difficult to work out.
Lol!
I'm all excited :-)
These things don't work well where you have high humidity.
The Gulf coast, Southern Florida etc. But they are dandy
in places like West Texas or Arizona. You still seem them from time
to time in big green houses.
We had one for the car too. A large bullet shaped device
that was held in the window by rolling the window up, which
clamped it in place. As you drove, the air turned a fan
which ran a pump that kept the water trickling through
the filter element. You had to stop every so over and
refill the resevoir.
Circa 1954.
Fascinating.
atheist@home#1554
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:12:20 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:54:56 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:31:24 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three
cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers)
, five cent phone calls and slide rules.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Penny candy.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Kewpie dolls.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Window fans.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Push button transmissions.
Radio theater.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
atheist@home#1554
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
Swamp coolers?
Big fans with water that was pumped to the top
and trickled through a loose coco-mat type 'filter'.
The evaporation of water as the fan blew air through
the wet matting could drop tempertures 10 - 15 degrees.
We had one when I was a child in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
It was the size of a refrigerator.
And noisy. It gurgled and made all sorts of watery sounds.
That is incredible.
I never heard of the things but I found some websites that sell them.
They don't cost much and rather than the fan I usually have in my open
garage in the summer I could get one of these.
I also have my workout equipment in the garage but sometimes it gets
so hot in the summer that it makes it difficult to work out.
Lol!
I'm all excited :-)
These things don't work well where you have high humidity.
Have been advised of that.
Won't work here.
The Gulf coast, Southern Florida etc. But they are dandy
in places like West Texas or Arizona. You still seem them from time
to time in big green houses.
We had one for the car too. A large bullet shaped device
that was held in the window by rolling the window up, which
clamped it in place. As you drove, the air turned a fan
which ran a pump that kept the water trickling through
the filter element. You had to stop every so over and
refill the resevoir.
Circa 1954.
Fascinating.
atheist@home#1554
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10 Apr 2005 07:49:45 PM |
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That is incredible.
I never heard of the things but I found some websites that sell them.
They don't cost much and rather than the fan I usually have in my open
garage in the summer I could get one of these.
I also have my workout equipment in the garage but sometimes it gets
so hot in the summer that it makes it difficult to work out.
Lol!
I'm all excited :-)
Still sold in most parts of America but be aware that these cool by
evaporation. If you live in a high humidity area they are all but useless
and just add humidity to the air. Arizona Good, Louisiana Bad.
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11 Apr 2005 04:25:10 PM |
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:49:45 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
That is incredible.
I never heard of the things but I found some websites that sell them.
They don't cost much and rather than the fan I usually have in my open
garage in the summer I could get one of these.
I also have my workout equipment in the garage but sometimes it gets
so hot in the summer that it makes it difficult to work out.
Lol!
I'm all excited :-)
Still sold in most parts of America but be aware that these cool by
evaporation. If you live in a high humidity area they are all but useless
and just add humidity to the air. Arizona Good, Louisiana Bad.
Dang!
Won't work here.
atheist@home#1554
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13 Apr 2005 04:02:16 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:31:24 -0500, wcb <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
[]
Before air conditioners, swamp coolers.
When Coke bottles came in yellow wooden crates.
Swap coolers are still used in the Mojave Desert. 'Course it doesn't
do any good in August. ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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10 Apr 2005 07:31:05 AM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:04:23 -0500, wrote
(in article <q6eh51tf8idf3blb80aa5k519dbkkhbl7f@4ax.com>):
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five
cent phone calls and slide rules.
Check, check, check and check.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
Check, though I didn't smoke at the time.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Check, but icemen were on the way out other than some businesses, I think my
grandfather may have been the last person in our area that had a real
ice-box.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Check.
Penny candy.
Check.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Check, though poodle skirts were never one of my favorites.
Kewpie dolls.
Check.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Check, watched a lot of drive-in movies while a bunch of kids were playing in
the playground.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Both at my grandfather's, watch out for the spiders, and don't put your
tongue on the pump in the winter.
Window fans.
I still see people using these during the summer.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Check and check.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
I owned one, though it was a car, not a truck.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Drove quite a number of such cars in my early driving years.
Push button transmissions.
Saw them, never drove one. (Nobody was getting me into an Edsel, no way, no
how. Damn those were ugly cars.)
Radio theater.
Caught the last few years of it, enjoyed them.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
No, but my mother had a coal-fired iron, and used it once just to see if it
still worked. I couldn't believe that such words could come out of her mouth.
My grandmother got one hell of a laugh out of the episode, it was her old
iron. According to her she used many of the same words to tell that iron off.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³That's their whole point. They put a Groucho Marx mask on their god and call
him an 'intelligent designer.' No one is supposed to notice.³- johac
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10 Apr 2005 03:13:55 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:31:05 -0500, Harry F. Leopold
<hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:04:23 -0500, wrote
(in article <q6eh51tf8idf3blb80aa5k519dbkkhbl7f@4ax.com>):
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:36:48 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of three cent
stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled dispensers) , five
cent phone calls and slide rules.
Check, check, check and check.
Three pennies change inserted in the cellophane of ciggarette packages
that came from machines.
Check, though I didn't smoke at the time.
The iceman lugging a block of ice upstairs to the icebox.
Check, but icemen were on the way out other than some businesses, I think my
grandfather may have been the last person in our area that had a real
ice-box.
Collecting up and selling coke bottles back for three cents each.
Check.
Penny candy.
Check.
Jane Ann Marble's poodle skirt and beautiful knees.
<Third grade>
Check, though poodle skirts were never one of my favorites.
Kewpie dolls.
Check.
Drive in movie theaters with playgrounds up front for the kids.
Check, watched a lot of drive-in movies while a bunch of kids were playing in
the playground.
Drawing water from a well, priming a pump.
Outdoor toilets.
Both at my grandfather's, watch out for the spiders, and don't put your
tongue on the pump in the winter.
Seems like some fool always had to try it :-)
Window fans.
I still see people using these during the summer.
I suspect they do up north.
Bonita Raymond's beautiful face.
<Fifth grade>
Safety cooties.
Check and check.
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
I owned one, though it was a car, not a truck.
Whoa!
Was it hard to crank?
My grandfather and at least one other guy we knew had them.
I don't remember how much effort it took.
Then there was the Harley with the kick starter several years ago.
Those things could hurt.
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Drove quite a number of such cars in my early driving years.
Push button transmissions.
Saw them, never drove one. (Nobody was getting me into an Edsel, no way, no
how. Damn those were ugly cars.)
Heh, they were :-)
Radio theater.
Caught the last few years of it, enjoyed them.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
No, but my mother had a coal-fired iron, and used it once just to see if it
still worked. I couldn't believe that such words could come out of her mouth.
My grandmother got one hell of a laugh out of the episode, it was her old
iron. According to her she used many of the same words to tell that iron off.
Lol!
The kerosene iron came out in the thirties I think so the one I saw in
the early fifties was already pretty old.
I don't actually remember seeing it used.
There were also once kerosene powered refrigerators but I never saw
one.
I've never heard of a coal fired iron.
I wonder how it worked?
I love to collect up old magazines and read the adds for the "latest
modern marvels."
Sometimes I'm awed by the things we have now and it's interesting to
see the progression in the magazines.
Last night for dinner I had microwaveable mashed potatoes that were
every bit as good as home made and pre cooked shredded pork that just
required heating in a pan.
The whole thing took about 10 to 12 minutes and tasted great.
I sat surfing the net on my wireless laptop while I ate.
Btw, a few years ago I showed a nineteen year old neighbor a vinyl
record and an eight track tape.
He had heard of them but had never seen one.
He was sort of fascinated by it.
atheist@home#1554
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10 Apr 2005 04:21:45 PM |
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Window fans.
I still see people using these during the summer.
I suspect they do up north.
I do. House shut up during the day and open with the fan on at night.
I've had the air on maybe five time in the 15 years I've lived here.
But I like it hot.
July and August will see long runs of days in the 90's and it's not unusual
to go over 100 for fair stretches. Early morning will see mid 70's.
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10 Apr 2005 05:58:59 PM |
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Mike Painter wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
Window fans.
I still see people using these during the summer.
I suspect they do up north.
I do. House shut up during the day and open with the fan on at night.
I've had the air on maybe five time in the 15 years I've lived here.
But I like it hot.
July and August will see long runs of days in the 90's and it's not
unusual
to go over 100 for fair stretches. Early morning will see mid 70's.
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It used to be common before AC to have houses built with large
attic fans. I lived in an old 30's house with one. Not much
good on a hot Houston summer evening, but nice during cool fall
and spring weather. Attic fans disappeared from Southern architecture
in the 60s it seems.
--
When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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11 Apr 2005 04:24:08 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:21:45 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
Window fans.
I still see people using these during the summer.
I suspect they do up north.
I do. House shut up during the day and open with the fan on at night.
I've had the air on maybe five time in the 15 years I've lived here.
July and August here in Memphis can get pretty unbearable in the
humidity department.
The heat isn't so hard to take but walking outside in those final two
months of summer can feel a bit like walking into a sauna.
I think I'm goinf to try an adjust a bit better this summer by not
using the air conditioner so much at the beginning.
But I like it hot.
I like it warm except for sleeping.
July and August will see long runs of days in the 90's and it's not unusual
to go over 100 for fair stretches. Early morning will see mid 70's.
We had a stretch of a few weeks several years ago during which temps
hit over one hundred with 105 being the high I believe.
Construction workers were shutting down at noon and going home.
It was absolutely miserable.
Mutual aid became almost the norm even on fires that could usually be
handled easily by two engine companies.
I wouldn't be all that interested in seeing that again.
atheist@home#1554
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11 Apr 2005 07:48:01 PM |
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Mutual aid became almost the norm even on fires that could usually be
handled easily by two engine companies.
I wouldn't be all that interested in seeing that again.
My very first wildland fire was done before I had been issued wildland gear.
So I wore my turnouts.
The only other time in my life i've gone from good to bad so fast was doing
the 40 yard low crawl in the military (on your stomach using elbows and
knees). I was a bit younger then that being 1963...
I was smart enough to realize what was happen so just quit, got my coat off,
found a tree, water and sat under it.
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13 Apr 2005 04:00:37 PM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:48:01 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
Mutual aid became almost the norm even on fires that could usually be
handled easily by two engine companies.
I wouldn't be all that interested in seeing that again.
My very first wildland fire was done before I had been issued wildland gear.
So I wore my turnouts.
The only other time in my life i've gone from good to bad so fast was doing
the 40 yard low crawl in the military (on your stomach using elbows and
knees). I was a bit younger then that being 1963...
I was smart enough to realize what was happen so just quit, got my coat off,
found a tree, water and sat under it.
I got lost, here.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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11 Apr 2005 10:10:25 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:13:55 -0500, wrote
(in article <9c2j51dua0pqr3rdbdo44q8mnt0buggse4@4ax.com>):
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:31:05 -0500, Harry F. Leopold
<hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote:
snip
Both at my grandfather's, watch out for the spiders, and don't put your
tongue on the pump in the winter.
Seems like some fool always had to try it :-)
Yeah, every couple of years someone would try it, and learn the hard way.
Window fans.
I still see people using these during the summer.
I suspect they do up north.
Yes, we do.
snip
Old trucks with hand crank starters.
I owned one, though it was a car, not a truck.
Whoa!
Was it hard to crank?
It was on a 1957 MGA coupe, which had a starter, but also had a crank as a
secondary, emergency starter. It turned out to be pretty handy after I
rebuilt the engine, and it is pretty hard to use (fortunately I was on
Treasure Island - San Francisco Bay - and there were plenty of Marines handy
to use as crank yankers, so it was not as hard as it could have been.)
My grandfather and at least one other guy we knew had them.
I don't remember how much effort it took.
Then there was the Harley with the kick starter several years ago.
Those things could hurt.
Hand cranks on cars could kill, which is why the first electric starter was
invented, the inventor lost a good friend after he had his arm broken while
trying to start his car. (I think it was Olds, of Oldsmobile, who invented
the electric starter, can't remember at this moment just who it was that
died.)
Gear shifts on the columns of cars.
Drove quite a number of such cars in my early driving years.
Push button transmissions.
Saw them, never drove one. (Nobody was getting me into an Edsel, no way, no
how. Damn those were ugly cars.)
Heh, they were :-)
Radio theater.
Caught the last few years of it, enjoyed them.
One kerosene powered cordless iron.
No, but my mother had a coal-fired iron, and used it once just to see if it
still worked. I couldn't believe that such words could come out of her
mouth.
My grandmother got one hell of a laugh out of the episode, it was her old
iron. According to her she used many of the same words to tell that iron
off.
Lol!
The kerosene iron came out in the thirties I think so the one I saw in
the early fifties was already pretty old.
I don't actually remember seeing it used.
There were also once kerosene powered refrigerators but I never saw
one.
Those are actually quite good, I think they had one moving part. The only
real problem with them is that they are connected to the source of fuel by a
fuel line, which makes them very awkward to move to clean behind. Much more
efficient than electric fridges so I have heard.
I've never heard of a coal fired iron.
I wonder how it worked?
DamnifIknow. I think that may have been part of the problem my mother had
with trying that one.
I love to collect up old magazines and read the adds for the "latest
modern marvels."
Sometimes I'm awed by the things we have now and it's interesting to
see the progression in the magazines.
Last night for dinner I had microwaveable mashed potatoes that were
every bit as good as home made and pre cooked shredded pork that just
required heating in a pan.
The whole thing took about 10 to 12 minutes and tasted great.
I sat surfing the net on my wireless laptop while I ate.
Btw, a few years ago I showed a nineteen year old neighbor a vinyl
record and an eight track tape.
He had heard of them but had never seen one.
He was sort of fascinated by it.
And so the world goes, in another 10 years, or less, some kid is going to be
handed a floppy disk and have to ask what it is.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³Hey, you are the evolving one not me.³-IKnowHim@leavingsoon.com
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