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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:59 AM
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Post a picture of something that someone under 20 yrs old might not recognize
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:01 AM
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1. Hell, *I* don't recognize that thing
and it's been a long, long time since I was 20.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:01 AM
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3. Well, then.
A good start to my thread, wouldn't you say? ;)

It's a teletype machine. I've seen them in movies.
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:03 AM
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323. Me either!!!
But now that you mention it LOL that was a really good one!
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:29 AM
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447. I used one like that. The Signal Corps was thinking about replacing the...
leftover Korean War shit we were still using in the 60s.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 08:15 AM
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419. Neither do I and it's been a long, long, long, long time since I was 20.
Edited on Mon Jan-04-10 08:16 AM by RebelOne
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:01 AM
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2. My first teminal.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:05 PM
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27. Acid flashback!
I used one at a law firm I worked at -- it was a very big deal when a Telex was coming in from our London branch -- we would have to coordinate our transmission time.

And who could forget getting a fax back in those days -- a spinning drum that resulted in a pretty shitty image.
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:24 PM
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34. Actually owning one was outside the range of possibility for a financially strapped student like me.
But my college made a dozen available to students.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:51 PM
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96. A shitty image that smelled like the machine was burning up!
I feel like the Four Yorkshiremen sometimes. Old Fax paper wasn't thermal. Thermal would have been luxury! No, a Fax machine's paper was double-coated. There was a layer of black shit, covered by a layer of aluminum. The fax image was formed by selectively burning off the aluminum coating.
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:46 PM
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225. Yep! Remember those too
It was a rare occurence when we sent or received a fax.
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:43 PM
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224. Mine too....
And that was back in the early/mid '80's. Those things were a real pain in the ass!
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:17 AM
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4. I have at least 3 of these that work (not the same model)


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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:21 AM
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5. Ooh, yeah!
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:36 AM
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7. I've got a bunch of those as well. I don't think I have that one.
I'm almost afraid to try playing them. The tape is 30+ years old and I ran the things constantly.
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canoeist52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:27 AM
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6.  phonograph stylus


phonograph stylus
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:40 AM
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8. I've also got one of these and use it regularly


This is the actual unit I own. I've got a great collection of laser discs and love the picture quality.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:19 PM
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369. My Mickey Mouse Rotary Dial Phone looked SOOO cool wearing my Koss headphones.
Still have Mickey, have no idea what happened to the headphones.
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:56 PM
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406. I love mine!
And you can get some great movies cheap on ebay.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:42 AM
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9. Here's one:


I love the smell of duplicator fluid in the morning...
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dugaresa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:43 AM
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11. jinx!
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:56 AM
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20. Our kids will never know the smell of fresh dittos...
When I was teaching there were absurd limits on the Xerox machine, we were allowed to make 100 copies a semester, which was sort of useless since I had over 200 students throughout the day. But we could make all the dittos we wanted if we bought our own paper, masters and fluid.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:13 PM
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139. We didn't have dittos
we had mimeograph machines. Of course those had a smell to them also and they usually left a lasting impression on the readers hands when they were handed out to quickly.
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:22 PM
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158. I remember mimeographs!
The teacher would pass out freshly printed tests or handouts and all of us would immediately put then to our face and smell them! Lol!
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volstork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 09:25 PM
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452. You must've
been in my class!
I would LOVE to smell that ditto smell again!
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:20 PM
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33. That brings back memories.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:14 PM
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52. DITTO! Ever seen a movie called "Teachers?"
:rofl: GREAT movie, including a character, a teacher who was nastily nicknamed "Ditto" because he hogged the Ditto machine.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:04 PM
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81. Teacher, Teacher ...

... can you teach me ...

There's also a scene in Fast Times and Ridgemont High that my daughter never understood until I tried to explain it to her ... the scene where Mr. Hand passes out some papers to the students, and they all sniff them.

Ah, memories ... er, at least those memories the fluid fumes allowed to remain. :)
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BuelahWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:50 PM
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106. With Nick Nolte?
And one of the teachers was actually a mental patient who escaped from the hospital? I used to LOVE that movie!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:40 AM
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203. That's the one.
Great movie.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:13 AM
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212. Great movie. Poor Ditto died at his desk and no one noticed
because his classroom routine was to have kids hand out and complete dittos while he sat at the back of the room. The screenwriter apparently went to my high school.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:14 PM
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285. DITTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffffffffff snifff sniff!

I remember making a thread about dittos a few months back. When was it that they stopped using them, around 85?
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:52 PM
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404. Mmm Used to love the smell of fresh pages w/ duplicator fluid
in school. I wonder if it was a mild high kind of thing that kept reinforcing it?
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dugaresa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:42 AM
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10. one of these
<>

i remember the smell of this bugger in action vividly today!
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:45 PM
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42. First you have to cut a stencil
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:06 PM
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108. You really cut a true stencil for a mimeograph, but not for a spirit duplicator:
the mimeograph used a horrid thick sticky ink that was spun through the cuts in the stencil that you placed on the drum; but the spirit duplicator used a reverse image in paraffin-like material that dissolved slightly in the spirit for direct transfer to the paper
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:44 AM
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12. You just made CMW's heart go pit-a-pat.
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 11:47 AM by Richardo
:hi: Happy New year, Bertha!

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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:51 AM
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18. LOL!
I will not look for old teletype machines. I will not look for old teletype machines ...

I'm not this familiar with cars, but that's the thing to ground them, isn't it? So the passengers won't get sick from static electricity? You can still see some cars going around with them here, instead it's some sort or rubber band at the rear. :hi:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:56 AM
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21. A car grounding attachment - you are correct sir!
The old glass-disk rotors and cat-fur brakepads used to build up ENORMOUS, potentially lethal amounts of static electricity. It was quite the safety coup when they switched over to the asbestos brake pads.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:02 PM
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24. ZOMG! Think what happened if they would have gone loose!
A car on cruise control full of dead, electrocuted people!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:49 PM
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58. I thought they were curb-feelers. That's what my grandma used them for
-- when she heard them scratching on the curb, she knew she was too close.

Learn something new every day.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:55 PM
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61. Oh Bertha, please do not take my riffing with CMW seriously...
...they ARE the curb feelers. :hug:
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:08 PM
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67. Really, you should know better than to make jokes here.
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Still Blue in PDX Donating Member (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 06:34 PM
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398. Wholey Jayzus, you had me going.
:blush:
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:57 AM
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22. they're called 'curb feelers'...
to help you park the car correctly.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:00 PM
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23. Heh!
:rofl:
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:07 PM
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29. it's not about static electricity...it's about not scraping hubcaps or whitewalls against the curb.
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 12:07 PM by dysfunctional press
you can buy them at amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Superior-26-6331-Duplex-Feeler-Chrome/dp/B00029K702

Superior 26-6331 Duplex Twin Curb Feeler, Chrome, 10.5" Long



Product Features

* Never Hit A Curb Again
* Helps Prevent Tire, Fender Damage
* Take That Old Classic To An Original Look
* Twin Curb Feeler
* Clean Chrome Look
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:13 PM
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32. I stand corrected
and will go spank Richardo! Thanks for the input! :hi:
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:28 PM
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145. I had those on a car a long time ago.
They were damn useful.
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uncle ray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:11 PM
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30. this IS the correct answer.
though they do make grounding straps for cars, these are not those.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:15 PM
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53. Happy new year, Richardo
:hug:
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:46 AM
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13. *sigh*
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:25 PM
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35. Too true. LOL
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:53 PM
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60. + 1
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snailly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:24 PM
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307. +100 Just sad
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:47 AM
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14. Sure:


Kidding (I hope,) but this might be something:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:55 PM
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128. That looks like the first typewriter I ever typed on. My grandmother
had that model and I was just fascinated by it.

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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:19 PM
Response to Reply #128
143. Hmmm. That is what I learned to type on.
I went from that to a smaller type, then to a portable one, then an electric typewriter, then to a work processor, then a huge computer, smaller computer and now a lab top. If I live long enough I wonder what would come next.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:05 AM
Response to Reply #143
177. That was my path too.
My daughter still can't believe I used to type on one of those things.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:10 AM
Response to Reply #177
178. That is what we built our finger strength up on.
Edited on Fri Jan-01-10 01:26 AM by rebel with a cause
You really had to pound on those keys to get them to leave ink on the paper. ;)

edited to correct sentence structure. It is now almost twelve thirty a.m. here. The new year has begun. Let NYC drop their apple, here we had almost five minutes of cannon fire. Yipee! :rofl:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:00 PM
Response to Reply #178
273. A few thousand miles on one of those monsters and you crack
Brazil nuts in your bare hand.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:09 AM
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211. why are the Z and Y keys in different spots?
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:48 PM
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266. European layout.
Here, it's 'QWERTZ.' :hi:
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:07 AM
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325. I did not know that.
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 06:20 AM by Lasher
I wonder if this European convention applies to computer keyboards nowadays?

Edit: Wiki strikes again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

Sometimes I amaze myself with my own ignorance. But I learned something today, thanks.

So do you use the Swiss German or Swiss French layout?
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:07 AM
Response to Reply #325
327. Ths Swiss German layout,
with all the umlauts. The French accents are there, too, but the umlauts are dominant.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:39 PM
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263. I was sitting beside a woman who was using a Kindle the other day and
it didn't look appealing to me at all. I'm sure many will find it useful and convenient, but, for me, there is nothing like the feel of turning the pages of a good book.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:55 PM
Response to Reply #263
269. I do find it useful and convenient.
Does it mean I abandon real books? No, I just ordered a bunch I'd never would want to have as some e-reading digitalized text-bits. Besides, nobody can sign a book on the Kindle. ;) There are still quite (quite!) a few books left here and many more yet to come. :hi:
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:57 PM
Response to Reply #263
342. I have to look at a computer screen
at work so I have no desire to look at that thing while I read. I'm with you. As long as books are made, I'll go with that.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:47 AM
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15. Hmmmm... maybe --
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 11:51 AM by Hell Hath No Fury
more like a 30 year old would recognize! God I hated these things:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:02 PM
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25. Bwahahahahaha!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:11 PM
Response to Reply #25
31. Those were the days, eh? :D
At least I didn't have to use the kind with safety pins!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:33 PM
Response to Reply #31
38. Your underwear always ended up with two gaping holes
One in the front and one in the back...lol
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #15
62. Those were being phased out as I came of age
but gawd, I can imagine how unpleasant.
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tonysam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:18 PM
Response to Reply #62
286. Same here. The maxipads started coming out in around
1969-1970, and the rest is history.
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Stardust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:38 AM
Response to Reply #286
333. My first experience with maxipads--didn't know which side was "up" --OUCH!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:24 PM
Response to Reply #333
364. Husband said the pads should be printed with the same instructions on claymore mines:
"This side toward the enemy."
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:09 PM
Response to Reply #286
357. I remember there were special underpants with "slots" for the pads to slide in.
That was a long time ago...
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:26 PM
Response to Reply #15
71. Hah! Those were my training wheels
My mom had never used tampons, so....

And let's not forget the fun Kotex pamphlets I learned from, such as "Why Sally Can't Go Swimming Today."
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:23 PM
Response to Reply #71
87. Those Kotex pamphlets served as "the talk" for me.
My mother never talked to me about the facts of life, periods, etc. When I first got my period, she handed me an envelope of Kotex pamphlets. :rofl:
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #87
113. Me too
but by then I had understood the facts of life:
Don't marry a bum :rofl:
even if he was a Merchant Marine :patriot:
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #87
144. You were lucky,
My mother sent my one sister in to talk to me. I about had a nervous break down.

I told on here the other day about my family having company and my asking for the Kotex napkins (meaning paper table napkins) to be passed. I was about eight at the time and had seen the Kotex hidden away in the bathroom closet. I had no idea what they were, just knew they were napkins. They gave me a hard time over it for years but I figure it was their fault for being so secretive about them. :rofl:
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:49 AM
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185. Kotex belts. ICK.
When I was in the hospital in 1985 having a baby, they had huge pads with the gauze strings on the end, like you would use with a belt. But did they have any belts in their supply??? Heck no!!!!

Thanks a lot you incompetent maternity nurses at Park Plaza Hospital, Houston, Texas.

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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:21 AM
Response to Reply #87
216. I got one of those pamphlets in 5th grade, a day when the boys were
sent out to the playground and the girls were taken to the auditorium to see a Disney movie about the "wonderous" changes we were about to undergo. I know my mon was very relieved that she didn't have to discuss any of it. I'm sure she was grateful that Bambi stepped in.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:55 PM
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268. We saw those movies too!
Minnie Mouse gets her period. LOL
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:02 PM
Response to Reply #268
274. And Mickey stops sweating. "Missed again, thank Walt." n/t
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:28 PM
Response to Reply #87
362. My mother gave me a "Feminine Hygiene" box and a talk when I was 12....
It contained pads, tampons (I think...) a "panty girdle"
and a "belt.

There was a booklet included that I used to take out and
read once in a while...

for FOUR LONG YEARS...I didn't get my period until I was
almost 16....

By the time I was ready to use the products, they had
disintegrated!

:cry:

Here's a blog that's good for a laugh:

http://jezebel.com/348766/let-it-bleed-a-look-back-at-period+related-advertising
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #71
154. I thought that thing was a garter belt.
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:58 PM
Response to Reply #71
343. ah! now I know what it is
thank you.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:40 PM
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72. Thanks heaps for that blast from the past.
:puke:
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:22 PM
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86. Thanks for the reminder.
Yay for the advent of adhesive strips!
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:24 PM
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89. And the pads were so thick.
They were huge!
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:52 PM
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97. OMG I hated those!
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:28 PM
Response to Reply #97
147. I think we all did.
I hated them and the garter belts also. People now think garter belts are sexy and I always thought they were torturous.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:00 PM
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100. Lord , BAD memories!!!!
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:57 PM
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129. ROFL!!!
Yep, I remember those things. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:30 PM
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148. AAAGHH! That's a memory I'd repressed...
Ick.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:17 PM
Response to Reply #15
155. Jeeze. Memories.
:rofl: Bad ones.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:17 AM
Response to Reply #15
215. My mom couldn't bring herself to discuss what that was for. One day
when I was 13 one of those plus a Kotex box mysteriously appeared in my bedroom. I had to figure out what to do with them. Awful, awful memories.
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:56 PM
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232. God, we all had horrid memories of those things!
And they could show through your pants. My mom was one of those that thought if I used tampons, I wouldn't be a virgin anymore.
She never really had a talk with me, just a mention that it would happen one day.

I'll never forget on the school bus talking with girlfriends when I was around 9 and they said boys had periods too, but it was white stuff.

:rofl:


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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:34 PM
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240. Truth be told.
I think many of us got laid just we could comfortably wear a tampon.

Still remember the look on the doctor's face when he was briefing me pre-op about the hysterectomy.

Him: You won't have periods anymore.

Me: No kidding. Side bennie.

Glad to know my mom wasn't the only one who didn't give The Talk.

:eyes:
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Stardust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:43 AM
Response to Reply #232
335. My beloved sister gave me the "facts of life talk" including the part
where boys pee inside you. Amazing that I ever lost my virginity.
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Highway61 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:49 PM
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244. Damn
I just spewed coffee all over my keyboard :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:56 PM
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270. YEEPS!
You just made me squirm in my chair!
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:27 PM
Response to Reply #15
279. Today, there's probably a fetish website for those.
n/t.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:54 PM
Response to Reply #15
304. OMG...having flashbacks to the day
that the school nurse handed me that thing in 1974!
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:05 AM
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324. lmao
OMG that is the worst thing ever!
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 01:08 PM
Response to Reply #15
392. That and garter belts were horrible!!!
Especially when used at the same time.
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 08:09 PM
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408. Is that for a strap on?
::evilgrin:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 09:40 AM
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423. Woah. Yeah, I've...never actually seen one of those (turned 30 last year.)
Always wondered what they looked like.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:47 AM
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16. New Coke
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:58 PM
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74. Oh, yeah, that was their transitional coke so that they could go to HFCS next. nt
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:36 PM
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281. What about Coke II?
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 08:14 PM
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409. Remember this one?
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:49 AM
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17. I've got one of these.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:24 AM
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217. Mine never took. My parents took me to the Dr. 3 times. Finally he
declared I must have "natural immunity." Hope so!
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Mollis Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 02:22 AM
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448. ?
What is it? haha
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:54 AM
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19. Given the last 4 or 5 years...



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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:04 PM
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26. ...
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:05 PM
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28. Sure
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:28 PM
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36. I lost mine sometime after high school.
I always wanted one of those Cray circular slide rules.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:32 PM
Response to Reply #36
150. I still have mine from high school.
I keep it on my desk at work, just to prove what a nerd I've always been.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:33 PM
Response to Reply #150
256. Not at all what I thought you were talking about losing in High School
:yoiks:
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 05:58 AM
Response to Reply #36
414. I have an old circular. I must have been one of the last people to use a slide: the
calculators were still improving, and I couldn't see any reason to buy a clunky battery-powered gizmo if you were doing quick calculations where you didn't need more than 3-place accuracy: it drove everybody I knew crazy
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:50 PM
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59. Thanks to Ebay, I own about a dozen slide rules
including a six inch plastic Pickett I keep in the glove box for figuring gas mileage. It never needs batteries and is a great conversation starter at the pump.

Here is an on-line implementation of the N600-ES (the slide rule that went to the moon): http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/virtual-slide-rule.html

Explanation of scales:
C/D: multiplication (and division)
CF/CF: 'folded' C/D scales for working with pi
A/B: squares (and roots) of C/D
K: cubes
CI/DI: reciprocals of C/D
L: log
Ln: natural log
LL: log-log exponential scale
S: sine (and cosine)
T: tangent (and cotangent)
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 03:33 PM
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65. I bought that very nice Post slide rule cheap around 1975
Scientific calculators had become affordable and the bottom had fallen out of the market for expensive slip sticks. I think I still have one or two of the plastic ones I used in high school. And, like you say, they never need batteries!
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 03:54 PM
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66. By the time I was in high school, slide rules were no longer taught
but when I spotted the classroom wall model in the science room storage locker I made my teacher show me how it works. To this day, I don't understand why slide rules aren't used to illustrate logarithms.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:59 PM
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168. I used to clean an office every night
And the engineer for the company had one of those behind glass hanging on the wall with a sign that says "In Case of Emergency..Break Glass"
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:16 AM
Response to Reply #28
214. My dad graduated from Penn State as a mechanical engineer in 1942. That
was the most important tool he owned. He never took a liking to calculators and the computer completely baffled him in later years. But he sure could use a slide rule.
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:00 PM
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247. A professor I had used to have one that was 5 feet long
With really small numbers covering the whole thing.

I still have no idea how to use one.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:20 PM
Response to Reply #247
259. Your reply could be a classis Lounge post all its own
:toast:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:03 PM
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275. BMOC. n/t
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:02 PM
Response to Reply #28
436. I've got a round one of those...
It was my mom's. I learned how to use it, too.

Looks like this:
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:28 PM
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37. this could be found in most drug stores
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:44 PM
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125. I remember those!
When our old Magnavox TV would break, my dad would remove half the tubes from it and cart them down to the local Safeway, which had one of those testing machines. When he figured out which tube was burned-out, he'd buy a replacement, cart all the tubes back home again, and then realize he'd forgotten which tube fit in which socket. A sheepish call to the local TV repairman usually followed. I wish I could say this little tableaux only happened once...
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #125
156. I think that was a common story.
The days when one could fix their own tv.

Old radios were the same.

I have two old radios one from the 30's, the other one from the 40's.
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:57 PM
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166. I used to fix TV sets when I was in high school.
It helped to know which types of tubes were used for which purposes. For example, the high voltage rectifier (the most likely tube to burn out) was either a 1B3 or a 1X2A. If there was sound but no picture, that was probably the culprit. Either that or the horizontal oscillator. I used to know the common tube types for horizontal oscillators, but I have forgotten. That was over 50 years ago. Another tube which often burned out was the low voltage rectifier. It was usually made of glass and would glow purple if some air got in. To see that, I would have to defeat the safety interlock.

After the set had been on a while, if a tube was cold to the touch, that was the bad one. I never removed more than one tube at a time. I had my own tube tester and other test equipment, but I seldom needed them. Only once did I have to use a soldering gun.
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:44 PM
Response to Reply #37
164. The sign says COLOR TV
You don't see or hear that any more. It reminds me of Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing"

"we've got to move these refrigerators,
we've got to move these COLOR TVs."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPjxz4LGak
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:26 AM
Response to Reply #37
220. I was telling my teenager about the TV repairman just the other day and
how he'd show up with a truck full of tubes. I forgot about those machines. Thanks for the memory.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:35 PM
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39. Baghdad.


The bombing started January 15, 1991. Nineteen years already.
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:38 PM
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40. I believe not many use these anymore...



Most use a blow dryer and a big round brush...


Tikki
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:51 PM
Response to Reply #40
44. My sister had a "mobile" hair dryer --
that you strapped to your waist with a belt and had a long cord so you could move around while drying. :D She used to do the dishes while drying for the big date.
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 01:02 PM
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344. omg! I remember that one!
my mom had a big pink one however the dryer portion was less "sophisticated" than the one shown here. The tube attached to this big box that blew out the hot air. I think it was from the fifties.
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:43 PM
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41. well, of course anybody can recognize milk
but those under 20 would probably wonder why it is sitting on the doorstep~

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FunkyLeprechaun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:23 PM
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88. We get those here in the UK
It's really nice!
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:47 PM
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126. Yep, daily milk delivery...
...was one of the things I loved about living in the UK. Even when I got up late and found that bids had pecked through the foil caps to get to the lovely cream inside.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 11:58 AM
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389. Lucky bastards
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 01:03 PM
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345. more like under 60!!
how many of us really had milk delivered?
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 07:02 AM
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417. I am in my forties, and I sure remember the milk delivery guy
we would sit on the porch and wait for him in the mornings. I realize now that was my mothers way of getting peace and quiet.

"Go sit outside and wait for the milkman"
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 11:53 PM
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444. Denver's still got it
http://www.royalcrestdairy.com/
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canoeist52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:50 PM
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43. bobbin winder
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 08:02 PM
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115. Those are still around
at least on my sewing machine. :shrug:
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:35 PM
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257. Get a load of the oldtimer.....
no one uses those anymore..................................................teasing..even the brand news ones have them I think. But your post was cute...
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Ryano42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 12:56 PM
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45. Last model year was 1987


:D
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victoryparty Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:28 PM
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56. Now all you need,..
...is a picture of a young Bill Clinton standing by his Ranchero (or was it an El Camino?).
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 03:03 AM
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318. My cousin still drives one of those...
...it's been restored probably 3 or 4 times, and is on its 6th engine. But, it still looks pretty much the way it did the day he drove it home from the dealership.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:04 PM
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437. I still own an 84. Use it rarely but good to have for when it's needed. n/t
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:01 PM
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46. ok
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:41 AM
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180.  Even I missed out on this machine yet I still call the modern ones steam rollers


My Great-grandfather had a steam powered trencher. He was a mover and shaker in the septic sewer systems around the turn of the century (um, the last turn of the century). I regret only a photograph of it remains.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:03 PM
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47. People who were once kids would know this.
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:07 PM
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50. for the hydrants, right?
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:10 PM
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51. Nope.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:22 PM
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54. Roller skate key?
"I got a brand new pair of rollerskates and you got a brand new key" (old song)
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:31 PM
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57. Kids didn't wear sneakers, they wore hard shoes and the skakes clamped on to them.


A skate key tightened the clamp.
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dugaresa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 03:07 PM
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63. i had a pair of those!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:31 PM
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149. Had a pair just like that.
I clamped them to my saddle shoes. They were not very maneuverable and I fell down a lot.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 06:49 PM
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433. I still have a pair.. and a pair of clamp on ICE skates
that were my aunt's.. she was born in 1911, so they must be pretty darned old..:)
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:06 PM
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48. okay


unless you had older brothers or sisters who kept it around
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:14 AM
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213. this is the first thing on this entire thread I recognize, and I'm 31
:D
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 02:10 AM
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313. Aww, now I miss my original 2600.
It still works, but my parents insisted on keeping it when I moved out oh so many years ago.

They never touch it, just keep it locked away hoping it will appreciate in value. I'd love to get it back from them and play it again for the retro value...
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:07 PM
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49. Likely one of these:
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:36 PM
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91. That's beautiful, man.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:17 PM
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141. Holy crap, is that a carburetor?
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:32 AM
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171. yepper, it's a Holley 4bbl (4 - barrel)
.
.
.

I used to rebuild them things many moons ago

(sigh)
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:12 AM
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187. A four barrel Holley....wow
My big sister LOVED fast cars and loved to work on them.

She got a Motor's Auto Repair manual one Christmas, and a socket set. She also put a four barrel Holley on her GTO and later took out the block on her '67 Sting Ray Convertible 427/390 and shaved the heads to increase the stroke. She and our dad and her boyfriends.
I think she got the HP from 390 to 415 or so.

I remember the new stainless steel camshaft as well.

Just like this one, only silver, with black ragtop:


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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:48 PM
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291. Is this a test? shaving the heads dos not increase the stroke
.
.
.

It DOES increase the compression ratio, and if other things are syncronized, the horsepower.

AND

ya don't have to remove the block to shave the heads, just just take the heads off and leave the block in the chassis.

but anyhoo

kudos to your sis

:thumbsup:
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:43 PM
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296. Yeah that was in about 1968.
She met boys by working on cars. She used to do tuneups on my Subaru.
And then she'd clean up and fix her hair and polish her nails!

I was so proud of her for being a mechanic!

OK I was wrong. The stroke is not any longer but the compression DOES increase, and the horsepower if done right, you are right.

She died in 1990 from brain cancer at the age of 42, and I miss her terribly. :cry:

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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 07:05 PM
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300. Lost my only sis to a car accident when she was only 43, I was 44 at the time
.
.
.

I hear ya

I got/had 4 brothers - oldest brother died some years back, but sis and I were the closest.

"fix her hair and polish her nails"

ya - I hear ya loud and clear.

I miss my sis more than anyone else I ever lost in my life, and I'm 59 now - seem to be losing them at an ever increasing rate.

Life - ya never get out of it alive . . .

(sigh)
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:05 PM
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438. Holley 600 n/t
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Hayabusa Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 01:23 PM
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55. You know that new game your parents got you for your DS for Christmas?
This is how it started...



(Well, not exactly how it started since I'm about to raid the third dungeon. It's also iffy on the 20 years thing due to being rereleased for the GBA in 2002 and on the Wii virtual console. However, it's likely the majority of those who bought the rereleases played the original game)
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 03:20 PM
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64. My eight year old knows what that is.
I set up my old school Nintendo a while back for him. Sure, I could have let him play all the old games on the new system, but I'm of the opinion that a proper geek should have permanent little dents in his hands from the old controllers, it'll help him to appreciate the newer, better designed stuff.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:59 PM
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132. I still have my NES I got for my 4th birthday in 1990.
Still works! :D
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 08:20 PM
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410. He may not recognize this


Might I add, this was one of the most useless peripherals ever, but it was cooler to get the full NES kit with the light gun and R.O.B.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:57 PM
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130. I have the original Zelda on my GBA!
:)
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:58 AM
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222. I remember when that first came out...
and it came in a gold cartridge. It was acclaimed as revolutionary and video-game industry-changing, a completely-different type and quality of video game than had ever been made.

And yes, it was. The Legend of Zelda came out when I was 6 or 7, I was still playing it like 4 years later when Zelda 2: A Link To The Past came out...man, that was like the worst sequel in history.

The bomb limit was completely dumb too. Why 8 bombs? It wasn't like they were a vastly better weapon except against that one boss.
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 02:14 AM
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314. My wife and I still have the gold cartridge, and it works.
You just have to blow it right to get the damn thing to turn on. ;)
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:19 PM
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68. At 25 I've seen almost all of those
In museums.

But really, I've seen pictures of most of those things.


The best part of that photograph is that it is the double whammy. Look at the telephone in the background.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:23 PM
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69. I had that exact phone in my kitchen when I was growing up.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:58 PM
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75. i have that exact phone in my kitchen right now...
and a beige rotary-dial desk model on the end table in the living room.

when my father-in-law passed away a couple years back, all the kids were 'salvaging' stuff from the factory before it was all scrapped and sold. we got LOTS of cool stuff.
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:30 PM
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124. I I still have and use a phone like that.....
old rotary dial on a hard-wired pulse line. Actually still had dial-up internet until about a year ago. :D
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:58 PM
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131. I desperately want a rotary dial cellphone. (nt)
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:36 AM
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194. Rotary dial Iphone app? n/t
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:49 PM
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243. Nah. Normal cellphone with a big physical dial. (nt)
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:26 PM
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252. It is only cool if you also have a....
Iphone wedged into a old phone body with a blue tooth headset mounted into the receivers.

Yeah, my cell phone is rotary and my home phone is touch screen.
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One_Life_To_Give Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 10:31 AM
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385. Just want Cell as durable as West Elect Rotary Phone
I would settle for a Cell phone that had some mechanical robustness. Now the Western Electric Rotary Dial sets, that was some mechanically robust design. Didn't have to worry if it was dropped to the floor. (Unless you had some cheap linolium that might be damaged.)
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:25 PM
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70. Before my time this one.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:00 PM
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76. can that thing be converted into a transmitter, too...?
at least it's stereophonic.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:52 PM
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112. It was used before radar. To detect incoming enemy aircraft.
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:39 AM
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195. All I can think about when I saw that was getting someone to put them in
and farting really loud by the opening.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 04:55 PM
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73. From my duffel bag of memories




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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:10 AM
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169. My father retired from lockheed martin
but I remember him using the punch cards at his work when I was a kid.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 07:06 AM
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191. The AF started using them early '60's.
I hammered out a mountain of them. However, bless 'em, they did take over doing that bete noir, The Morning Report.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:57 AM
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201. That's exactly when my father was using punch cards
he was in the AF as well..
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:52 AM
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208. If he's still with us, give him "Hey, Zoomie" for me.
If not, hand salute and a CAVU.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:38 PM
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223. Oh, Ok! I will!
He did go to vietnam,he has never uttered a peep about it. I had his dogtags for years and years and finally LOST them.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:58 PM
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233. Hubby put in two tours in that hell hole. He doesn't talk much about it either.
As they say, if you been, you know. If not, you won't understand.

:hug:&:patriot: to your Dad.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:33 PM
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239. Thanks Sarge!
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:09 AM
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202. I did some of my Master's thesis statistics with punch cards
The rest I did on an original Mac. Talk about spanning the technological spectrum!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:24 PM
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237. I'm still amazed how much has changed in one life time. n/t
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:42 PM
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264. My husband was a Computer Science major at Cal State in the
Edited on Fri Jan-01-10 03:43 PM by LibDemAlways
early 1970's and he used to carry around stacks of those things. Amazing how far we've come in such a relatively short period of time.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:58 PM
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271. Howls of pains when after sorting thousands of those things,
dropping the canister and spilling them down the hallway. Of course, one card would run and hide, so hi-ho, here we go again.

The good old days weren't.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 09:12 PM
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450. My mom worked for an AF base and she is forever telling me and my brother about the punch cards
I was wondering if someone was going to put that on this thread. :)
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:01 PM
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77. They look funny when running...
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 01:08 PM
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347. what is it? n/t
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 03:45 PM
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349. It's a wire recorder. It pre-dates tape recorders.
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 03:48 PM by Gold Metal Flake
It recorded audio onto a reel of wire. In the picture, you can see two reels and a small cylindrical item inbetween them. That central cylinder contains the record & playback heads and guides the wire to helps it wind flat on the reels by bobbing up and down.

I had a few of them. They work pretty well.
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 10:01 PM
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380. cool!
i've heard of them (of course) but haven't seen a picture before now.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:01 PM
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78. rotary phone


How does one push the holes to call????
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:30 PM
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161. Featured in Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1F6pnXlPY
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:49 PM
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242. We still have one. nt
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 08:23 PM
Response to Reply #78
411. Woe be unto you if you made a mistake dialing, especialy on the last digit
of a long distance number.
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:02 PM
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79. Analogue
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:03 PM
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80. Missed it by that much...
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:46 PM
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93. Ah, the CED Video Disc
Does that bring back the memories!

The early RCA players had a manufacturing defect: a little too much slop in the stylus drive that caused the colors to rainbow like a weekend at Jimi Hendrix's house. RCA paid us ten bucks a unit to add a washer to the shaft under warranty.

My boss had a roll of shrinkwrap and a heatgun. One of my duties was to re-wrap all the discs that came back from rental so they looked brand new. Our customers were impressed that we always had new discs for them to rent. Suckers!
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:50 PM
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95. And, also along those lines...


and

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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:02 PM
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134. We had the thing on the bottom when i was in elementary school (1990s)
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:38 PM
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151. We had both of those things when I was in elementary school (1950s)
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:36 AM
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173. LOL - "thing on the bottom" is a slide projector - carousel style
.
.
.

damm I must be gettin' old . .

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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:56 PM
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98. delete
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 05:56 PM by sakabatou
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:05 PM
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82. I played in one of these...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s77XPQZjRl0/Sqmwuz6YSeI/AAAAAAAAEPY/iys65UyTuA4/s400/riddell+3b.jpg
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:06 PM
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83. We brought freedom to the dodo...
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:14 PM
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84. Here's a couple


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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:19 PM
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85. Ooh, both are good ones!
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 05:23 PM by Gold Metal Flake
Two other versions...
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:46 AM
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204. Love it! Those flash cubes SO remind me of my grandma.
:)
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:29 AM
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221. Half the time the little flash cubes wouldn't flash or turn like they
were supposed to. No wonder old family photos are so awful. It was all very hit or miss.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:25 PM
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90. These


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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:47 PM
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227. I had both of those radios in the 70s.
The round one was white and the twisty one was yellow. Sooo cool.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:41 PM
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92. Something I wish I still had...
The original "Creepy Crawlers", with metal plates and a heater. The current iteration has a "magic oven" with a light bulb to heat-cure the goop. The poor kids these days don't get to know the joys of burning their hands on the hot plates.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:39 PM
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104. I've got a scar on my forearm from that.
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:59 PM
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133. Wow, I would LOVE to have those plates!
Gonna look for that on eBay
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:35 PM
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163. That was my favorite toy.
I loved it.

I made good money with the toy.

The plates got really hot.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:52 AM
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198. There wasn't a kid in America that didn't get blistered by a Thingmaker
Those were good times.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:47 PM
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228. I loved those!
:D
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 03:43 PM
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393. Don't forget it's cousin, Vac-u-form!
My little brother got one. We played with it more tnan him
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 02:29 PM
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427. I had a vacuform!
I'm still surpised I didn't maim myself.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:49 PM
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94. Without even looking at the filename I realized that was a Model 19 ASR
There were four versions of the Model 19:

Model 19 ASR (automatic send and receive): has printer for receiving, keyboard for line servicing, paper tape punch for preparing messages, paper tape distributor for sending traffic. Was used for circuits with heavy two-way traffic--if you were a Western Union office this is what you probably had.

Model 19 KSR (keyboard send and receive): paper tape capability is missing--used for circuits that had some outbound traffic but mostly inbound traffic.

Model 19 RO (receive only): only has a printer. If you see photos of banks of wire service printers in newsrooms, those were almost always Model 19 RO units.

Model 19 TD (tape distributor): just the paper tape reader. Someone who had a lot of people feeding one line would have this--they'd install thirty or forty ASRs for punching paper tape. As people punched their tapes, they'd take them to the communications center, where a clerk would transmit the tapes. There is an army regulation on message preparation that, in the version dated 1989, had complete instructions for preparing these tapes. I called the office that put it out: "Does anyone in the Army have a paper tape subsystem anymore?" 'No, but it's in there just in case.' Apparently I wasn't the only one asking this.

Fun trivia: No one ever cleaned the inside of a Model 19; the more grease and muck in it, the better it runs.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:48 AM
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205. "the more grease and muck in it, the better it runs."
Wow, what descriptions. I didn't actually expect anyone here to have used this. Thanks!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:21 PM
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236. I've used several teletypes
I was in a unit that had quite a collection of these old monsters, which we used. Don't ask what for.

We had the Model 19, which I already discussed. I really didn't like it much; it was so fucking old it needed LOTS of tender loving care, and we had to teach ourselves how to do it. The people who really knew how to work on the Mod 19 are all dead.

You can change the sending and receiving speed on a Model 19, but to do it you need to change a gear.

We also had the Model 28. Mod 28s were louder than Mod 19s because they used a "type box." All the characters were stacked up in this little box the machine moved around until it got to the right position, then a solenoid whacked the bottom of the type block to make the character imprint on the page. I guess you could have replaced a worn-out character if you needed to, but figure the odds on getting one in the 1980s. I'm pretty sure they were bulletproof.

Someone put a picture of the Model 33 above this post. The Mod 33 introduced seven-level ASCII signaling to the Teletype line. All previous Teletypes (it's a brand of teleprinter) were five-level Baudot with 31 different character combinations. "So how'd you do numbers?" Good question, and I'll tell you. There are two keys on a Baudot keyboard: shift and unshift. Most of the keys on your teletype had two characters on them--E would have also had 3. To type the letters on top, you press the Shift key. The teletype sends the "shift" character, and the machine at the distant end goes into shifted mode. You then type all the shifted characters you want. When you wanted to type unshifted characters, you then pressed the Unshift key. So to type a sentence like "George W. Bush went AWOL from the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group" (it would have been in all caps because Baudot teleprinters don't have lowercase letters) you would type:

GEORGE W. BUSH WENT AWOL FROM THE <shift>147<unshift>TH FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR GROUP

This was as big a pain in the ass as it appears it would be.

The Model 40 was used in lots of communication centers. It has a CRT terminal for composing and a separate teleprinter for receiving, and it uses cassette tape instead of paper tape for data storage. The Mod 40's printer uses a type band--a rubber belt that has the type blocks stuck into it. It turned all the time the machine was on. The machine knew where the characters were in relation to the type hammer. IIRC there were five sets of characters in each band--this because the band ran all the way across the carriage. It was also a durable machine.

And that. I think, is what the twentysomethings are REALLY missing out on--not this old funky-ass equipment (as romantic as the idea of a teletype might be, the reality is they literally stink; between the motor, the smell of burning rubber and the machine oil you needed to lubricate the thing, you wouldn't want this in your house or in most offices)--but computers that actually last, and that they make their money not by selling ink cartridges but by selling the machine itself. Right now it's often cheaper to throw the printer in the trash and buy a new one when the ink runs out. Does that make sense to anyone else? Because it doesn't to me.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 05:57 PM
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99. This guy
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:02 PM
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101. How about some things it's GOOD they don't recognize?
This everyone here should recognize


Flvegan might know what this is...


And then there's this...


and this (we can only wish)...


and this.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:50 AM
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206. Iron lungs. What a sad legacy.
I can't imagine needing one of those things.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:52 PM
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231. I would love it if there was one in every town
Or at least a few in every state. There are people out there in the anti-vaccination movement who say there's no connection between polio vaccine and the eradication of polio. It is for these people the iron lung is for--I would take the "the polio vaccine doesn't prevent polio" crowd into the room with the iron lung and explain that the polio vaccine is the reason you don't see these anymore.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:24 PM
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102. The rocket radio is something someone under 50 wouldn't remember.
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 06:25 PM by valerief


I had this as a kid. I'd clip the wire (it had an alligator clip tip) to a chain-link fence and listen to the Four Seasons. Of course, I was stuck to the fence and looked like a dufus. But I was grooving!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 10:51 AM
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207. that is awesome, valerief
:thumbsup:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:39 PM
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103. Ok
I have a small collection of these
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:46 PM
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105. Analog iPod:
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 08:42 AM
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421. Looks like digital tuning. I like it.
Shut out the noise without jamming earbuds into the ears.

Nice

:hi:
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 06:51 PM
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107. This
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 06:52 PM by 1gobluedem
When we moved into our new offices one of my student employees found one in a desk and had no idea what it was. He'd never even heard of typewriter erasers, let alone seen one.
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TokenQueer Donating Member (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:13 PM
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109. 1970s homemade tanning elixir...


plus...
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:18 PM
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110. A little thing called a "watch" and not on a wrist:



If someone asks you for the time, it takes a minute to dig it out of your pocket, open it and read the analog display. They may end up asking someone else for the time instead of waiting twenty seconds, too :P
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:08 PM
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136. I use a pocketwatch because I hate wristbands.
I have a pretty one with a bass relief Northern Pike on the cover I got 10 years ago.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:10 PM
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153. Nice!
:)

I have found, though, that it's usually older folks that find them interesting when you pull them out. No one else seems to notice. I guess if it was a phone, then those under 20 would think it's cool ;)
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:56 AM
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183. My open face watch hardly takes a minute to pull out
I can sling it out as fast as anyone can shoot their cuff, but only into the safety of the cup of my palm as I keep it on a short leash. I don't believe most people even know I carry it.

My old worn 1904 Waltham is on a leather thong and rides in my watch pocket with the pristine crystal facing in and the thong tied to a belt loop. It may look silly, but it's always been a workingman's watch and on the rare occasions it catches on an object, the leather thong parts, leaving my watch safely in the pocket. It was my grandfather's for sixty-eight years, I simply followed his custom.


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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:20 PM
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234. Hubby has one.
Suggest for tradition sake you get a velvet poach for storage when you not using it. Prevents scratches on the crystal and metal.
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:32 PM
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261. Yes.
And a watch in a big pocket with loose change or keys will surly wreck havoc on the crystal in a short order.

I had a pair or jeans that didn't have a watch pocket and I never wore with the watch with them. I need the dedicated pocket up close for easy removal and safety.

Hey, that's something a lot of young people might not even know, "What's this pocket called?".
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:32 PM
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280. Special care for an old timer like yours.
Like a fine straight razor, back when a quality pocket watch was a source of pride for a man and they were cherished.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:26 PM
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278. Cool story and history
:) Mine's not very old at all, but I wouldn't mind finding another one later on. Don't know if it'll be an antique or not; I was never very good at winding even wristwatches...

Mine does take a bit of time to dig out because it's not the only thing in my pocket. Then again, I'm pretty laid back, and knowing the time right now!!! is rarely a priority. I'm willing to wait a bit to pull it out, open it, and look :)
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 10:09 PM
Response to Reply #110
381. Pocketwatches are back in fashion.
Only we call them cellphones now.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:21 PM
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111. Here's one:
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:09 PM
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137. We had those in my school, I graduated in 2004.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 07:58 PM
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114. An ad for a product nobody today uses as advertized
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TokenQueer Donating Member (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 08:07 PM
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116. Ouch.
and Yikes!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 08:12 PM
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117. Here:
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 08:51 PM
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118. Here ya go
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #118
284. Tincture of merthiolate!?
I have a much older-looking bottle of the stuff in my cabinet right now :)
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 06:16 AM
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416. I don't think mercurochrome and tincture of merthiolate were the same thing:
I use to buy them both as a kid because they were stinky staining chemicals that you could play with, and drops of them behaved very differently in long columns of water: they had different densities, and one was an aqueous solution, while the other was alcohol based. Drops of one of them tended to form rings when falling through the water
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blue_roses_lib Donating Member (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:13 PM
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305. I remember that
From my childhood in the 80s. Do they still make that? My parent's 20 something yr old bottle finally ran out, and dad wants more, but I don't know if it's still in existence. That stuff hurt like hell, but it worked.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 10:34 PM
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383. Get him some Betadine instead
Betadine is an iodine preparation but it works better than tincture of iodine.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:22 PM
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306. We had bottles of that stuff laying around
Bleh, my parents and siblings used it to put on canker sores in our mouths!:shrug:
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 03:05 AM
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319. Monkey Blood!!!
At least, that's what we called it in Louisville, Kentucky.
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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 09:59 PM
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379. I'm 29 and remember that
my grandfather used it as a cure all and whenever he mentioned it my sister and I would run
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 03:50 PM
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394. Mercury AND Chrome in one bottle!
Edited on Sun Jan-03-10 03:50 PM by Capn Sunshine
that would cure anything!
After returning to the professional kitchen environment, I searched out some iodine for the millions of nicks I got, and it was urprising how hard it was to find
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 02:45 AM
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412. I didnt know that stuff was mercury and chrome!
No wonder it was called mercurichrome. Duh! It was actually considered good to put mercury on a wound? Wow!
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caraher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 03:43 AM
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413. No chrome
Mercury, yes. I think the "chrome" part of the name is an allusion to the dye present.
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Tom_Foolery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:43 PM
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400. My dad called it Red Medicine...
Whenever I would cut myself as a kid, I would cry more over the thought of the Red Medicine than the pain of the injury.
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 08:56 PM
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119. O.K, I'll play
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:11 PM
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120. Prelude to "ouch!"
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:14 PM
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121. The band Abba. My niece who is about 11 told me did I know the music
from Mamma Mia was actually from a band beforehand. Made me feel really old.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:24 PM
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122. The Toy Of Death
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:43 AM
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174. someone
died playing with those as recently as 1997.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:37 AM
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182. That's tragic and is why the were banned for sale in the US in the mid 80s.
Unfortunately there are still probably a lot out there.
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:51 AM
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197. My buddy has those and we still use them
It actually is a pretty fun little game.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:56 AM
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199. I loved that game and was pissed when they took them off the market
I must have played a hundred games of lawn darts and was never even aware there was a danger.
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 02:33 AM
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316. Picture a group of four-year-olds,
at a large company picnic, stumbling across the set left in the yard by the adults when they went to eat the BBQ.

Oh yeah, we were throwing them into the air for height records. Then when we realized how deep into the ground they sank, we started throwing them at various objects trying to make them stick...including the brick wall of a building...

Ah, to have the innocence and energy of a four-year-old once again.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:17 AM
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331. Survival Research Laboratories created a "Parking Lot Dart"
for one of their catapults. They used to have the video on their site, but can't find it anymore. I recall the dart went into the asphalt a good six inches :o
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:24 PM
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123. Still have a scar on my thumb where one of these sliced me


dg
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 02:42 PM
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428. Ring tabs!
We used to call those Aggie class rings. :)
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 09:47 PM
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127. What the hell is that thing? some kind of primitive fax machine?
It looks connected to the phone.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:15 PM
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140. It looks connected to the phone because it is
A teletype is kinda like primitive e-mail.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:18 PM
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142. Teletype? don't Deaf folks use those to use the phone?
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:47 PM
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226. They certainly do
The ones they have now are about the size of modern-day laptops.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:05 PM
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135. This:


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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:39 PM
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363. I still have one. It was my husband's. It is BROWN.
I can't believe they made a princess phone in brown...hubby got it because he said it looked masculine...:rofl:
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:11 PM
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138. Here you go
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 10:28 PM
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146. My 14 year old has told me he has never seen a record player.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:04 PM
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152. How about these?














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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:27 PM
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160. I really love those! now, remember this guy?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:58 PM
Response to Reply #152
167. I used to have a ViewMaster collection. The oldest one was metal
and it was made by a different company. :)
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:51 PM
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298. I had an electric viewmaster projector.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:52 AM
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176. Fizzies and Spoolies!!! Ha! I loved them both. nt
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:19 AM
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179. You are killing us with this one...
It's too familiar, but we can't place it. Watizzit?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:42 AM
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181. "If you see a plane on high/a diesel train go roaring by/a bumble bee/ or
a tree--it's me! When there is trouble/I'm there on the double..."

Or how about this...

"I'm mighty Manfred (oomph) the wonder dog..."
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:24 AM
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218. JOOOOOOOOYYYY!!!!
Wow, that woke up some long-buried grey matter. And it's on You Tube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI-BT5OOY4
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:08 PM
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439. Tom Terrific. n/t
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:39 AM
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188. I dunno about you folks
But if I saw that "Brylcreem" dude hanging out by the playground, I'd call the cops!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:05 AM
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210. It lasted into the 1960s
I recently watched some episodes of Naked City from around 1961-62, and they had Brylcreem ads.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:20 PM
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235. I remember all of those, had most of them.
Gawd, I'm old.
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Stardust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:10 PM
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338. Is it just me or does Howdy Doody look just like Ronnie Raygun?
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 04:56 PM
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351. I remeber the 1st 2 and the fizzies!
Fizzies made a comeback when I grew up in the 90s! :)
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lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 10:23 PM
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382. " A little dab'll do ya' " Bryllcreem
x
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 07:08 PM
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435. I accidentally brushed my teeth with Brylcream when I was a kid.
And I loved - and still have - my Viewmaster
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:20 PM
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157. Syringes, rubber bulb?
Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 11:21 PM by babylonsister
http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-ear-wax.htm

Mom swore by these, and lined all 5 of us kids up to clear them out.



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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:52 AM
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322. They still sell 'em.
I have one in the bathroom that came with some solution you put in your ear to break down the wax.

I swear by it! For years I'd get bad wax buildup and have to go to the doctor and have them flush it out. Now I just do it at home.

And some of the shit I pull out is NASTY! :o
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 04:58 PM
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352. My mom used those when I was little.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:22 PM
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159. Road signs:
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:40 AM
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189. Aerial wolf-shaving is legal in Alaska, btw...
:sarcasm:
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:32 PM
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162. A few good 'uns




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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-31-09 11:49 PM
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165. Parachute pants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_pants
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:28 AM
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170. A real phone
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:34 AM
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172. that looks a lot
Edited on Fri Jan-01-10 12:47 AM by lazarus
like a DSTE paper tape machine we used in the comm center in the Air Force. I couldn't even find a picture of one, but I could type 120 WPM on the bastard.

On edit:
I found a picture of the tape we used.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:42 PM
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241. How neat!
This has been such a fun thread for me.
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1awake Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:45 AM
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175. Remember carrying around one of these thinking you were cool?
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:18 PM
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249. OMG!! I am blushing because I used to carry one.
and thought I was cool!
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:00 PM
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353. My sister did!
BOOMBOX!!! :rofl:
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:27 AM
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184. Pick one or the other ...


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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:25 AM
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219. I have one of those!
my parents gave it to me. I assume its a camera, but I'm not sure how it works.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:29 PM
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238. Google or Wiki "Polaroid SX-70"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX-70

Some diehards are trying to keep the film in production.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:00 PM
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272. I have the brown SX-70 (with fresh film,)
and several analog cameras which could use the Kodachrome displayed here. ;)
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:00 AM
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186. yo. Suffering for beauty.
ttp://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-25014124926995_2066_52759791
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:45 AM
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190. Here's some:



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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:02 PM
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354. ETCH-A-SKETCH!!!
:D
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 09:01 PM
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376. Here's something else
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 09:03 PM by Ken Burch
(You need to read the ingredients list) :
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 07:12 AM
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192. Sock darning egg
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:35 PM
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295. That just might be the definitive obsolete object....
in our throw away society.

A friend on mine, born in Germany but of Estonian decent, visited Estonia with his father soon after the the USSR collapsed. He met his Estonian aunt who did more than just darn socks, she actually wove dog hairs into the soles of the socks to beef them up for winter wear. He brought back a pair of socks reworked by her and we marveled at them.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 07:13 PM
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302. I remember my mother using one.
Depression habits didn't go away easily.

Depending upon her age, that woman may have considered a pair of socks a luxury. The people of Eastern Europe went through some horrific times.
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caitxrawks Donating Member (431 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:14 AM
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193. LOL ya'll are funny.
I'm dying over here. I know what a lot of these things are, but some just look like sex toys.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:44 AM
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196. "Weeellllllllll ....." (Jack Benny, remember him?)
Welcome to DU.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:02 AM
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209. Welcome to DU, caitxrawks
:hi:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:42 PM
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373. like this? :O
I slept with one of these in England when our only source of heat was to make a coal fire in the morning - when I woke up in the winter I could see my breath

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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:01 AM
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200. Some things I think most young people wouldn't recognize
Edited on Fri Jan-01-10 09:06 AM by Taitertots
A "Choke" lever for a manual choke carburetor.

Those things to hold socks up on guys legs before good elastic bands.

An old octopus style coal fired home furnace.

Maypo

Drum brakes

Edit: Battery hydrometer, turkey baster with floating balls.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:48 PM
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229. A clutch for a standard transmission
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:24 PM
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260. My husband wouldn't drive a car that didn't have a standard
transmission. His 2007 Accord has one of those!
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:43 AM
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334. I won't, either.
I hate automatic transmission. I would only have it if I lived in some place with a lot of steep hills and/or constant heavy traffic, like San Fransisco.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 01:03 PM
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346. Believe it or not we live in a place with constant heavy traffic - LA.
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 01:04 PM by LibDemAlways
However, my husband would still rather have the standard shift - better gas milage and less to go wrong. He's a master at driving it, but when we go out to someplace where there's a valet, we take my automatic. Too many valet guys have no idea what to do with a stick shift.
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:25 PM
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370. Well my Toyota had a stick shift and I managed on the highest hills we have
But unfortunately, it got totaled last year, and I'm now driving an automatic. I miss my standard trannie a lot!!
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 12:51 PM
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230. I had a desk lamp my mom bought by saving these
Edited on Fri Jan-01-10 12:53 PM by Zomby Woof
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:18 PM
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250. You beat me to it. We had those, but in So. Cal. we also had



There were blue chip stamp redemption stores all over the place and the stamps were handed out at gas stations and supermarkets. Came in handy for buying new small appliances. This all brings back good memories.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:57 PM
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245. Spirograph
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 01:58 PM
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246. These are the drawings it made.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:25 PM
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277. Spirographs rocked!
Anybody know where you can get spirograph screen savers?
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tonysam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:38 PM
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290. They still make 'em.
Same is true with Etch-a-Sketch and Viewmaster.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:05 PM
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355. OMG, I loved those when i was a kid!!!
I still have mine! SOOOO pretty!!! :D
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 06:04 PM
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396. We did those around the same time we were doing the spinning ink thing
You put a piece of paper down on a platter and the electric motor spins it. You take little drops of ink and drip it on the paper and it would make all kinds of cool designs.. Forget what it's called though.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:17 PM
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248. Fun Thread!!
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:23 PM
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251. How about
Edited on Fri Jan-01-10 02:25 PM by hedgehog


or



Some are still around, but sightings are very rare. I got 3 for my wedding!
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:32 PM
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262. Is that an electric frying pan? I have an old Sunbeam here...I love those things!
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tonysam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:09 PM
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293. There are lots of those being made.
link
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:08 PM
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356. I have an old electric frying pan my mom gave me when I moved out.
It's very useful for making stuff in gravy, like meatballs or biscuits and gravy.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:28 PM
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253. A little something for those of you who grew up in So Calif:




When these were first introduced they were $2.50 for adults. $1.00 for children. Things have certainly changed - and not for the better.
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:49 PM
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267. Wooho an E ticket ride
I remember burning the A tickets at Frontierland's shooting gallery at the end of the day. That, or ride Dumbo the Elephant. Mad Tea Party teacups might have been a B ticket ride, but I don't remember much these days.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 08:13 PM
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303. Here, youngsters, is where we get the term "E-Ticket ride."
The e-tickets were the ones to the best rides, like the Matterhorn.

Thanks for posting this, LibDem. I even remember the ticket kiosks scattered through the park.

You really did take me back. :hi:
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:28 PM
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254. My husband issues this challenge:


and
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 03:48 PM
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265. The first thing looks like a set of points from a car distributor.
I recognized them because way back when, we'd remove the points from our friends' cars, put the distributor cap back on, and watch in amusement while they tried to figure out why the car wouldn't start.

The second gadget is some sort of electrical testing device, maybe for an ignition system.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:35 PM
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294. That's a set of points and a dwell meter for setting the timing.
:)
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:53 PM
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299. I remember timing lights - like a chrome space gun.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:24 PM
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276. Is the one on the bottom a shortwave radio you can power through the dashboard cigarette lighter?
n/t.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:32 PM
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255. Before cable
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:46 AM
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336. They still make 'em.
Not everyone has cable...
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:10 PM
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358. BUNNY EARS!
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 02:40 PM
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258. Anyone else remember this stuff? The little girl who lived next door to me
drank it right out of the plastic container. LOL
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:38 PM
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282. The Pepsi sex can.
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AbbeyRoad Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 04:42 PM
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283. An entire aisle of generic products w/ black and white labels
like this:




My grade school principal called a beginning of the year assembly to show us this item, which he mentioned he drilled holes in specifically for aerodynamics.




And probably this:
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:22 PM
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287. During the black and white label craze, there was a local sailboat simply called ....
Generic White Boat. It had a barcode painted on the stern. I believe it was a J-24. It was dry sailed so even the bottom was plain white. Competitive, too. I never got to meet the skipper.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:52 PM
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310. The movie "Repo Man" had a whole series of generic product jokes (nt)
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:28 PM
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309. So that's what a Trapper Keeper is. When my now 16-year-old daughter
was in elementary school the yearly list of school supplies would always say "three ring notebook - no trapper keepers." I had no idea what they were talking about. Now I guess the list was drawn up by someone who grew up in an earlier era.
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Recovered Repug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 02:24 AM
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315. My principal used to refer to the middle one
as "The Board of Education".
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AbbeyRoad Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 08:53 PM
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375. Isn't that clever?
Being a good little girl, I never had to face "the Board."

I used to have a teacher in middle school who would write up demerit slips for disruptive students.

As he was handing the slip to them, he'd say that they suffered from diarrhea of the mouth, and he had the prescription.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:13 PM
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359. I had a more modern trapper-keeper in high school.
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 05:13 PM by Odin2005
It was part of my IEP special ed program. nice fabric thing that zipped up.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:25 PM
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288. My father had an old Triumph TR6 with one of these
I wondered if it hurt the engine when he used it.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:29 PM
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289. Wow - this thread is a real trip down memory lane.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 05:57 PM
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292. late to the party, but twenty somethings have probably never seen one of these....
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:53 PM
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311. Blotter acid?
One of my first joints was rolled in "Spiro Agnew" rolling paper....
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:36 PM
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340. yup
eom
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 06:45 PM
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297. These
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 07:05 PM
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301. My Marantz receiver, circa 1971.
Still using it in a stereo system. It was part of my xmas 1971 present. I was a senior in high school. Still cranks out clean power.


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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 09:27 PM
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308. Da Comrades, I have all of you beat
I just turned 24 last week and vaguely remember this
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-01-10 11:57 PM
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312. How about this??


I had to register for Vietnam, but fortunately by the time I turned 18 they were no longer drafting soldiers
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 08:22 AM
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328. I was '1H' also
Turned 18 in late 1974 so did not get called up (It was all over five months later).

Wow, Grace Jones was on your draft board! :thumbsup:
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:09 AM
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329. That's not *my* draft card
Just an image from google

Mine is stashed away somewhere
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:05 PM
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337. Mine too.
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 04:03 PM
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429. I wonder where I stashed mine.
Possibly in my high school year book.

The lady in the draft office where I registered was a mean, nasty piece. But it ended before they could get me. Ha-ha.
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denbot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 02:50 AM
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317. A sign of our times.


Great thread.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:36 AM
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321. The tank/pimpmobile Mom drove me to school in.
1955 Cadillac Fleetwood, four door, only ours was gray:

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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:11 AM
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330. Drop drills, I think the last Friday of the month
and if we didn't take them seriously, we'd get a lecture from the Catholic school nuns about how the Russians were going to invade us from Cuba
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:18 PM
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360. My university library has one of those signs on it.
And I thought "they were worried about Fargo-Moorhead getting nuked? it's not even a major city!"
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PJPhreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:30 AM
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320. I have a working one of these...


And it still has the Civil Defense emblems on it,freaks the shit outta people when I break out with it.

And what Seventies Kid would ever forget bustin his or her noggin with these...



I got Really good with 'em...until they shattered in an explosion of plastic!
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:11 AM
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326. I got one! hehe
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Bzzzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:28 AM
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332. Clackers...
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:26 PM
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339. ...


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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:52 PM
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341. A couple of entries

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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 02:08 PM
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348. I don't want to get the thread locked! nt
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 04:39 PM
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350. Here's something from my days as a kid... Remember these?
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 04:40 PM by TheMightyFavog
Used the tape recorder to narrate the presentation, and on the fancy models, to automatically advance to the next frame.

Bing!



Man, I can't believe I'm turning 30 in a few days!
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:25 PM
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361. This was the hi-tech toy to have in 59

Just bought one on EBay!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:37 PM
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365. Nurse's watch
Note direction of watch face
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:11 PM
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366. 2 things
Vacuum tube amplifier:


A vampire that is scary, not friendly:
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:18 PM
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367. My 21-year-old daughter and I were in a museum recently
and several of these were present!



She had seen picture of them before, but it really didn't hit me that she didn't know how to use one. So I showed her how to DIAL my childhood phone number. WOW.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 10:22 AM
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424. my childhood number was 491. 3 digits!
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:19 PM
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368. I don't even recognize that!
Teletype or something?
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:40 PM
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371. This one,,,I thought it was so cutting-edge!
In the 21st century, I've bought close to 7 Ipods, and only 3 were gifts for friends!

<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 07:40 PM
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372. My skateboard!
Edited on Sat Jan-02-10 07:55 PM by janx

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/surfingcowboys_2085_0

http://www.surfingcowboys.com/rodemu15visk.html

(Photo won't come through--links will.)
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 08:08 PM
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374. One of my earliest memories!
http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/raven2.html

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=365750
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 09:03 PM
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377. Remember THIS guy?
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 09:28 PM
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378. Saved all my allowance to buy one of these at




Cost around $5 bucks and it was pink. Monosound. In the 60's. Grooving on a Saturday afternoon.
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 12:46 PM
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391. That was my first I-Pod!
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 10:52 AM
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387. Aye, I, I, I
Edited on Sun Jan-03-10 10:54 AM by Doc_Technical
I am the Frito Bandito
I love Frito's corn chips
I love them I do
If you don't watch out
I will steal them from you.

sung to the music of "cielito lindo"
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 06:08 PM
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397. And voiced by Mel Blanc.
n/t.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:17 PM
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440. Ai, ai, ai, ai...
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 10:20 PM by Iggo
...I am the Frito Bandito.
Give me Frito's Corn Chips
And I'll be your friend.
The Frito Bandito
You must not offend.

Ai, ai, ai, ai....
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 10:39 PM
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384. NOT a something... MAYBE a some one

He is still dreamy!!
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spiritual_gunfighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 10:37 AM
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386. this is the first thing i thought of
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 11:12 AM
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388. From the figure skating world:
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 12:23 PM
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390. Can't find a picture but the OLD spinning-drum fax machines
You used to have to wrap paper around a cylinder, set a stylus to one end, and the cylinder would spin while the stylus traveled the length of the cylinder, marking the paper line by line. It took something like 8 minutes for the stylus to travel the length, then you'd have to start over. The phone would also be sitting in two padded cups, transmitting and receiving data. So, a 3-page fax would take something like half an hour to send or receive. When I worked at a bank in the late 80s, they were still using one of these

FedEx briefly, also in the late 80s, offered "same day delivery" of documents for an astronomical fee -- they were simply faxing the originals to another FedEx office near the destination, and then would send a driver out to deliver the faxed pages. When every business got their own fax machines, this service was no longer necessary.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:48 PM
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401. I remember those things! I think I first saw one in the mid-'70s.
I also remember the FedEx fax service. It seemed pretty slick at the time.
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cherish44 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 04:11 PM
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395. Ditto copies

Anyone here try to sniff those to catch a buzz?
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:41 PM
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399. AFL
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:50 PM
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402. WTF is that thing?!
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:51 PM
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403. Used to be one of my favorite toys


Recognize it?
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:55 PM
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405. Ooh, ooh, anybody remember this thing??


The IBM Displaywriter. In the mid-'80s we thought this was greatest invention since the zipper.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 10:26 AM
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425. Oooh! Floppy drives! How fancy. nt
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 07:58 PM
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407. Black Normal Looking Michael Jackson
I am 24 and always knew MJ as Jacko and just missed his music. I am listening to it now and enjoying it very much



I still think I like my USSR entry the best though
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 06:51 PM
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434. He had already had a nose job in that pic..
:( poor michael.. never knew how attractive he was:(
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 06:10 AM
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415. woo!
Edited on Mon Jan-04-10 06:14 AM by Skittles
Bears win Superbowl :D
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 07:14 AM
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418. I guess they still make these.


Can't sell them to children anymore, though.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 08:27 AM
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420. .
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 08:50 AM
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422. The under-20 crowd probably has never seen one of these
Edited on Mon Jan-04-10 08:51 AM by meow2u3
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 01:29 PM
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426. Here's one they might not recognize:



And geardaddy beat me to it, but I'll include the picture of a collection I came across (there are collectors, apparently):



And right now I could really go for a good whiff of fresh mimeographs! *sigh*
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 04:11 PM
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430. OK


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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 10:44 PM
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453. OMG! Voltron! And the lions, not the crappy cars.
That was the perfect end to mine and my brother's afterschool day that included the cartoon GI Joe and He-Man. Ah sweet memories of the early to mid eighties...
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 06:36 PM
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431. FTW
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 06:45 PM
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432. here's an oldie
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:58 PM
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441. One thing:
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 11:06 PM by JanMichael


Couldn't find a picture link for the other one...
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 11:05 PM
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442. There is a whole generation of kids who have never blown on a cartridge
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 11:07 PM by EndersDame
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:06 AM
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445. Or know that sometimes you have to tap it twice before you blow on it.
Edited on Mon Jan-18-10 12:06 AM by rebel with a cause
At least that is how my kids taught me to do it. :rofl:
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:22 AM
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446. Thats what SHE said....Zing!
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 11:42 PM
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443. Buffalo Nickels
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mikeiddy Donating Member (218 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 06:04 PM
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449. My favorite
Edited on Mon Jan-18-10 06:18 PM by mikeiddy


I still think this is the most amazing device I have ever seen - a 20 ton word processor that uses molten metal instead of ink.

My very first real job (1969) was working for a newspaper in a small town. Old style letterpress, none of that newfangled offset stuff. The press was 10 feet high and about 25 feet long. The editor/reporter used an old Underwood like that posted up-thread - he could type about 60 words a minute, while chain smoking. I was the photographer. To get a photo ready for printing, you would put the photo on a revolving drum that had an electric eye attached. The image was transferred from the electric eye to a lathe type device that cut grooves in a zinc plate wrapped around another drum, making a copy of the photo on the plate. The zinc image would be cut to size, glued to a wooden plate so it would be the same height as the lines of type. The shop was dirty, grimy and noisy, and one of most fun places I ever worked. When they finally went to offset printing, they broke the old letter press into pieces, dumped in the pit and poured concrete over it. It was a very sad day.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32912172@N00/3060476693/

(edit to add link for video)
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Blasphemer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 09:16 PM
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451. Reading this thread has made me feel young again
Thanks for that! I recognize the 'ol 2600 but not much else. That garter contraption really had me scratching my head.
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