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09 Apr 2005 06:14:32 PM |
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Are You Older Than Dirt? |
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
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Fred Stone
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"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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| User: "DianaC" |
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09 Apr 2005 06:25:27 PM |
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"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews...
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
According to that?
yep.
much older. ;-)
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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: "stoney" |
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13 Apr 2005 08:34:33 PM |
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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:25:27 GMT, "DianaC"
<dianaiad@vernoyoudontizon.net> wrote:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews...
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
According to that?
yep.
much older. ;-)
Occupational hazard. Don't worry, it will be an 'eyeblink' before the
'young whippersnappers' take our places. :)
--
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: "skyeyes" |
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13 Apr 2005 09:01:42 PM |
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23 out of 25. It's official - I'm not only old, I'm older than dirt.
<Sigh>
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
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| User: "jwk" |
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14 Apr 2005 02:00:56 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
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."
You're older than dirt if you can't make a web poll page that actually
allows for check boxes.
(I got 13 BTW, but I got milk deliveries (in glass, with paper tops) in
college in the 80's, so they flubbed that one.)
jwk
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| User: "Frank J Warner" |
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10 Apr 2005 02:08:18 PM |
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In article <1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews>, Fred
Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Yep. I scored 22 out of 25.
Speaking of older than dirt, have you seen this?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/09/oldest.object.ap/index.html
-Frank
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Here's some of my work:
http://www.franksknives.com
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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10 Apr 2005 02:52:18 PM |
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Frank J Warner <warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net> wrote in
news:100420050708188655%warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net:
In article <1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews>,
Fred
Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Yep. I scored 22 out of 25.
23 for me. Howdy Doody was just a little bit before my time.
Newsreels were already ancient history.
I remember the knife sharpening peddlar with his cart, though.
Speaking of older than dirt, have you seen this?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/09/oldest.object.ap/index.html
-Frank
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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: "Peacenik" |
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11 Apr 2005 01:28:00 AM |
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"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:1113144739.43197789d65971260966d828d2ffa018@teranews...
Frank J Warner <warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net> wrote in
news:100420050708188655%warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net:
In article <1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews>,
Fred
Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Yep. I scored 22 out of 25.
23 for me. Howdy Doody was just a little bit before my time.
Newsreels were already ancient history.
I remember the knife sharpening peddlar with his cart, though.
I remember the knife sharpening dude outside the local grocery store.
When I visit the family cabin in northern minnesota, we still prime the
pumps and use the outhouse.
I remember old Coke, then the marketing blunder of New Coke, and then its
replacement with Classic Coke which had and still has an anise taste that
real old Coke didn't have.
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11 Apr 2005 04:08:22 AM |
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"Peacenik" <cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:d3cjqq$25k$1@news.seed.net.tw:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:1113144739.43197789d65971260966d828d2ffa018@teranews...
Frank J Warner <warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net> wrote in
news:100420050708188655%warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net:
In article <1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews>,
Fred
Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Yep. I scored 22 out of 25.
23 for me. Howdy Doody was just a little bit before my time.
Newsreels were already ancient history.
I remember the knife sharpening peddlar with his cart, though.
I remember the knife sharpening dude outside the local grocery store.
When I visit the family cabin in northern minnesota, we still prime
the pumps and use the outhouse.
I remember old Coke, then the marketing blunder of New Coke, and then
its replacement with Classic Coke which had and still has an anise
taste that real old Coke didn't have.
I used to drink a lot of Coke, but it's been several years, since I got
into roasting my own coffee beans and making espresso.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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| User: "stoney" |
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13 Apr 2005 09:11:38 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:08:18 -0700, Frank J Warner
<warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net> wrote:
In article <1113070474.b40da91478eee26ab5bb708f7207a1ca@teranews>, Fred
Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Yep. I scored 22 out of 25.
Speaking of older than dirt, have you seen this?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/09/oldest.object.ap/index.html
Wild.
Old items continued.
Houses with milk chutes.
--
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: "Daniel Kolle" |
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09 Apr 2005 08:53:30 PM |
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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.
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-Daniel "Mr. Brevity" Kolle; 17 A.A. #2035
Koji Kondo, Yo-Yo Ma, Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Geirr Tveitt are my Gods.
Head of EAC Denial Department and Madly Insane Scientist.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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10 Apr 2005 07:50:34 PM |
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Daniel Kolle <Daniel.Kolle@gmail.com> wrote in
news:16gg519eakusjn4gfbi7chorbgu2gsqr4b@4ax.com:
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.
19 for me. Older than dirt.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
Yes.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Yes.
3. Candy cigarettes
Yes, but I lived in Japan at the time, those my not have
been common in the US at that time.
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Yes, at my grandfather's gas station.
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Yes, at the diner where my grandmother waitressed.
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Yes, in rural Kentucky.
7. Party lines
Yes, in rural Kentucky and in Roasmond, California.
8. Newsreels before the movie
No.
9. P.F. Flyers
No. Chuck Taylor All Stars, when they weren't retro, though.
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
Yes, in rural Kentucky.
12. Peashooters
Yes.
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
14. 45 RPM records
Yes. I still have a few, but nothing to play them on.
15. S&H Green Stamps
Yes, I remember trading them in at the redemtion center with
my grandomthers as well as sticking them in the books.
16. Hi-fi's
Yes. TV in the center, AM/FM in the top right under a sliding
cover, turntable with multi disk changer on the left.
17. Metal ice trays with lever
Yes.
18. Mimeograph paper
Hell yes! When I started teaching 19 years ago, those
were still common.
19. Blue flashbulb
Yes. I also remember the "new" version, the flash cube.
20. Packards
No.
21. Roller skate keys
Yes, though I never owned a set of skates myself.
22. Cork popguns
Yes.
23. Drive-ins
Yes! The Santee Drive-In last summer!
24. Studebakers
No.
25. Wash tub wringers
Yes, my gandmother used one on the back porch in
Handford, California in the early to mid 60s.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
-- Mark Twain
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11 Apr 2005 01:31:21 AM |
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"Enkidu" <zwi6iv402@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns963482AC3762C255229@130.133.1.4...
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Yes, in rural Kentucky.
Yes, in urban Berkeley, California, certainly as recently as 1984. My
parents cancelled the service after I went to college. They didn't drink
much milk - most of the milk was consumed by me.
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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10 Apr 2005 09:13:08 PM |
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Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make "butch"
(cut very short) haircuts stand up.
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
Yes and I still listen to a lot of Old Time Radio when I walk at night.
Some of those shows were on for more than 30 years.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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10 Apr 2005 09:28:34 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:EFg6e.708$t85.4@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make
"butch" (cut very short) haircuts stand up.
Ah. Like Brylcream (sp)?
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
Yes and I still listen to a lot of Old Time Radio when I walk at
night.
Some of those shows were on for more than 30 years.
I listen to more audio than I watch on video. Mark Steel has some
entertaining stuff.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
The Bible was written by the same people who said the Earth was flat.
-- bumper sticker
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11 Apr 2005 12:44:10 AM |
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Enkidu wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:EFg6e.708$t85.4@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make
"butch" (cut very short) haircuts stand up.
Ah. Like Brylcream (sp)?
No, that slicked hair down and was very oily. It came in a tube. Butch wax
came in a jar and was very dense.
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
Yes and I still listen to a lot of Old Time Radio when I walk at
night.
Some of those shows were on for more than 30 years.
I listen to more audio than I watch on video. Mark Steel has some
entertaining stuff.
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13 Apr 2005 09:09:31 PM |
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:44:10 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Enkidu wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:EFg6e.708$t85.4@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make
"butch" (cut very short) haircuts stand up.
Ah. Like Brylcream (sp)?
No, that slicked hair down and was very oily. It came in a tube. Butch wax
came in a jar and was very dense.
Now it's called politicians and Fundamentalist Christians.
--
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: "Virgil" |
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10 Apr 2005 11:34:17 PM |
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In article <Xns9634934A76C01255229@130.133.1.4>,
Enkidu <zwi6iv402@sneakemail.com> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:EFg6e.708$t85.4@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make
"butch" (cut very short) haircuts stand up.
Ah. Like Brylcream (sp)?
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
Yes and I still listen to a lot of Old Time Radio when I walk at
night.
Some of those shows were on for more than 30 years.
I listen to more audio than I watch on video. Mark Steel has some
entertaining stuff.
Jack Armstrong, All American Boy (Wheaties);
Little Orphan Annie (with the Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring);
The Shadow (Wo knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men,..);
I Love an Adventure, with Jack, Doc and Reggie;
Inner Sanctum with its creaking door;
Captain Midnight; and many others, pre-WWII.
But I got them first time around, before there was any television
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11 Apr 2005 12:17:21 AM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:34:17 -0600, Virgil
<ITSnetNOTcom#virgil@COMCAST.com> wrote:
In article <Xns9634934A76C01255229@130.133.1.4>,
Enkidu <zwi6iv402@sneakemail.com> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:EFg6e.708$t85.4@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make
"butch" (cut very short) haircuts stand up.
Ah. Like Brylcream (sp)?
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
Yes and I still listen to a lot of Old Time Radio when I walk at
night.
Some of those shows were on for more than 30 years.
I listen to more audio than I watch on video. Mark Steel has some
entertaining stuff.
Jack Armstrong, All American Boy (Wheaties);
Little Orphan Annie (with the Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring);
The Shadow (Wo knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men,..);
I Love an Adventure, with Jack, Doc and Reggie;
Inner Sanctum with its creaking door;
Captain Midnight; and many others, pre-WWII.
The Lone Ranger and I seem to remember Turoc, Son of Stone."
But I got them first time around, before there was any television
I was invented in 1948 shortly after television and before sets became
common.
<At least among the people we knew>
Heard a lot of radio.
I have some old radio shows on vinyl somewhere and a stereo to play
them on.
I need to find the things.
atheist@home#1554
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11 Apr 2005 12:54:39 AM |
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In article <5igj51ppl3b6bhp5dv7kno95s6qafm2rk6@4ax.com>,
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:34:17 -0600, Virgil
<ITSnetNOTcom#virgil@COMCAST.com> wrote:
In article <Xns9634934A76C01255229@130.133.1.4>,
Enkidu <zwi6iv402@sneakemail.com> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:EFg6e.708$t85.4@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make
"butch" (cut very short) haircuts stand up.
Ah. Like Brylcream (sp)?
13. Howdy Doody
No, but I remember the Micky Mouse Club, The Lone Ranger,
and the Green Hornet. Anyone ever listen to "The Space Patrol"
on radio? I did, on Armed Forces Radio, in Japan.
Yes and I still listen to a lot of Old Time Radio when I walk at
night.
Some of those shows were on for more than 30 years.
I listen to more audio than I watch on video. Mark Steel has some
entertaining stuff.
Jack Armstrong, All American Boy (Wheaties);
Little Orphan Annie (with the Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring);
The Shadow (Wo knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men,..);
I Love an Adventure, with Jack, Doc and Reggie;
Inner Sanctum with its creaking door;
Captain Midnight; and many others, pre-WWII.
The Lone Ranger and I seem to remember Turoc, Son of Stone."
But I got them first time around, before there was any television
I was invented in 1948 shortly after television and before sets became
common.
<At least among the people we knew>
Heard a lot of radio.
I have some old radio shows on vinyl somewhere and a stereo to play
them on.
I need to find the things.
atheist@home#1554
When I was young, there wasn't any stereo, victrolas all ran at 78 rpm,
and about half of them were wind-up operated with cactus needles.
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13 Apr 2005 09:07:42 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:13:08 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Enkidu wrote:
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Think of pink vasoline with a different smell. It was used to make "butch"
(cut very short) haircuts stand up.
BING! Now I remember that suff.
[]
--
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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12 Apr 2005 03:26:31 AM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:50:34 -0500, Enkidu wrote
(in article <Xns963482AC3762C255229@130.133.1.4>):
Daniel Kolle <Daniel.Kolle@gmail.com> wrote in
news:16gg519eakusjn4gfbi7chorbgu2gsqr4b@4ax.com:
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.
19 for me. Older than dirt.
snip
10. Butch wax
No. What is it?
Hair wax, for really short hair, made it stand straight up.
snip
16. Hi-fi's
Yes. TV in the center, AM/FM in the top right under a sliding
cover, turntable with multi disk changer on the left.
No, this is not Hi-Fi, (high-fidelity). What you are talking about was a
combination console TV/Stereo. Hi-Fi was the Rolls-Royce of record players,
designed to put out the best possible sound from a mono record. Stereo
records had not yet come out (other than some experimental prototypes in the
labs.) And FM was still a lab trick, we are talking 1940's here.
Snip
20. Packards
No.
Brand of car.
snip
24. Studebakers
No.
Another brand of car, though I seem to recall that there was a type of
covered wagon also called the Studebaker.
snip
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³Itıs not over till the fat whale farts.²
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10 Apr 2005 12:36:48 AM |
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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.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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10 Apr 2005 07:52:55 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
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 *OWN* 20 slide rules.
Trivia: In Apollo 13, the engineer on the ground checks the astronaut's
sums on a slide rule. You can't add on a slide rule!
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
Heard on alt.atheism...
Christianity has kept alive a perverse version of the Old Jewish War God,
but put a hideous yellow smiley face upon his Ugly Mug.
-- St. Jackanape
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 09:16:49 PM |
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Enkidu wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:Ay_5e.18528$FN4.16205@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Daniel Kolle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:14:32 GMT, Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> thought hard and wrote:
http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/ff6.htm
Well, I scored a three.
Being the good test taker that I am I scored 100% and thought of
three cent stamps, five cent cokes(out of top open,water filled
dispensers) , five cent phone calls and slide rules.
I *OWN* 20 slide rules.
Trivia: In Apollo 13, the engineer on the ground checks the
astronaut's sums on a slide rule. You can't add on a slide rule!
True but you can with two rulers. It was my five minute method of teaching
the slide rule. People catch on to the addition and interpolation in two or
three minutes, then you show them it's the same on the slide rule but you
are multiplying.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 09:31:17 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:5Jg6e.711$t85.631@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
Enkidu wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
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 *OWN* 20 slide rules.
Trivia: In Apollo 13, the engineer on the ground checks the
astronaut's sums on a slide rule. You can't add on a slide rule!
True but you can with two rulers. It was my five minute method of
teaching the slide rule. People catch on to the addition and
interpolation in two or three minutes, then you show them it's the
same on the slide rule but you are multiplying.
Yes, but you'd need 20 inch rulers. No, I guess you could use the
centimeter side. By the way, did you learn degrees centigrade or degrees
celsius?
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem
it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he
may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow
him to make war at pleasure....
If today he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade
Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him?
You may say to him, "I see no probability of the British invading us,"
but he will say to you, "Be silent; I see it, if you don't."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| User: "Virgil" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 11:24:59 PM |
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In article <Xns963493C07A652255229@130.133.1.4>,
Enkidu <zwi6iv402@sneakemail.com> wrote:
Trivia: In Apollo 13, the engineer on the ground checks the
astronaut's sums on a slide rule. You can't add on a slide rule!
You can if you have a Log scale on it allowing you to take logs and
antilogs, since log(a*b) = log(a) + log(b) and you can multiply on one.
But it is not very practical.
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| User: "Peacenik" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 01:18:19 PM |
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"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.
I also remember candy cigarettes. Can't imagine those now!! I know of a
place that still has a bottle-dispensing soft-drink machine!
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| User: "Peacenik" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 01:21:20 PM |
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"Peacenik" <cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d3b92l$iph$1@news.seed.net.tw...
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ay_5e.18528$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.
I also remember candy cigarettes. Can't imagine those now!! I know of a
place that still has a bottle-dispensing soft-drink machine!
Also, there is a neighbor of ours in California who has a Studebaker. Cars
don't rust in California. My grandmother had an old washing machine with a
wringer. I've been to a drive-in and know of a couple still operating. AH
yes, mimeograph paper from the old ditto machines. Memories, memories!
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
13 Apr 2005 09:04:38 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:21:20 +0800, "Peacenik"
<cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Peacenik" <cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d3b92l$iph$1@news.seed.net.tw...
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ay_5e.18528$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.
I also remember candy cigarettes. Can't imagine those now!! I know of a
place that still has a bottle-dispensing soft-drink machine!
Also, there is a neighbor of ours in California who has a Studebaker. Cars
don't rust in California. My grandmother had an old washing machine with a
wringer. I've been to a drive-in and know of a couple still operating. AH
yes, mimeograph paper from the old ditto machines. Memories, memories!
and the smell of the ink. :)
(blue fingers too)
A large bag of french fries for a quarter.
--
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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| Title: Re: Are You Older Than Dirt? |
10 Apr 2005 08:15:42 PM |
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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.
atheist@home#1554
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