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    had to walk 10 miles to school. up hill. both ways.

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    Back in the days you could smoke and get away with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 85AKbN View Post
    had to walk 10 miles to school. up hill. both ways.
    Cantilevered hill?

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    i remember curb feelers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterBoll View Post
    Back in the days you could smoke and get away with it.
    and Paul Henreid lite two cigarettes at once, and handed Bette Davis one in Now, Voyager (1942).

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    I'm so old I use WordStar.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD

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    Back in the days you could smoke and get away with it.
    and Paul Henreid lite two cigarettes at once, and handed Bette Davis one in Now, Voyager (1942).
    If you did that today you would get slapped.

    Which reminds me of a movie quote -

    "These are the bad new days"

    I forget which movie though.....

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    I remember using a fountain pen before they were collector's items.

    --I remember when diapers only came in one type: cloth.


    John

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    I saw "The Sound of Music" when it came out in the theater.

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    I remember coal delivers and ice delivers for ice boxes
    To continue to diminish the place of the handwritten in our lives is to diminish, in a small but real way, our humanity. Philip Hensher

    Dunno ergo sum

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    Our phone was on a party line
    Online arguments are a lot like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
    As soon as the audience begins to participate, any actual content is lost in the resulting chaos and cacophony.
    At that point, all you can do is laugh and enjoy the descent into debasement.

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    I remember when the milkman made house to house milk deliveries...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 85AKbN View Post
    i remember curb feelers.
    I'm not old enough to know....what are curb feelers? And why feel the curb?

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    ... learned cursive as part of the standard curriculum in elementary school, and remember seeing all the cursive alphabet characters on little cards placed around the room above the black chalkboards. Music and PE (physical ed) were also standard in the curriculum, though only a few times a week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazyorange View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by 85AKbN View Post
    i remember curb feelers.
    I'm not old enough to know....what are curb feelers? And why feel the curb?
    They were lengths of spring that stuck out far enough from your fender to let you know when you were in danger of tearing up your hubcaps on the curb. Curbs used to be a foot or more in height back in the day...
    Online arguments are a lot like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
    As soon as the audience begins to participate, any actual content is lost in the resulting chaos and cacophony.
    At that point, all you can do is laugh and enjoy the descent into debasement.

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    I sing snatches of The Girl From Ipanema around work and my coworkers think it's a new tune...

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    ...I know that the rubber eraser on pencils was the proper way to rewind a tape.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kia View Post
    ... learned cursive as part of the standard curriculum in elementary school, and remember seeing all the cursive alphabet characters on little cards placed around the room above the black chalkboards. Music and PE (physical ed) were also standard in the curriculum, though only a few times a week.
    +1.......I can remember it like it was yesterday--and the cursive letters were white on a blackboard
    green cards,about 2 or 3 feet long..


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    .....I can remember the Teaberry Shuffle tune.


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    ... I played Pong.

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