Age Gauge..
The Besaw Household
ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so I
found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How many do you remember ?
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
{} {} Moondragon
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Batty
>How many do you remember ?
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
no
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
no
>3. Candy cigarettes
no
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
no
>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
no
>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
no
>7. Party lines
no
>8. Newsreels before the movie
yes
>9. P. F. Flyers
no
>10. Butch wax
no
>11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
no
>12. Peashooters
no
>13. Howdy Doody
no
>14. 45 RPM records
yes
>15. S&H Green Stamps
no
>16. Hi-fi's
yes
>17. Metal ice trays with levers
yes
>18. Mimeograph paper
yes
>19. Blue flashbulbs
yes
>20. Beanie and Cecil
yes 8) (Another Bob Clampet car-tooOOOooon!)
>21. Roller skate keys
no
>22. Cork popguns
no
>23. Drive-ins
yes
>24. Studebakers
yes
>25. Wash tub wringers
yes
It's deceptive. Items 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,15,21,and 22 did not exist
in Australia. Stoodies had to be specially imported but I never saw a new
one. Such was life in Sydney in the 60s.
batty
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This is serious, Mum.
Mark Severson
>
> ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
I
> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
> 10. Butch wax
> 13. Howdy Doody
> 14. 45 RPM records
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
> 16. Hi-fi's
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
> 21. Roller skate keys
> 22. Cork popguns
> 23. Drive-ins
> 24. Studebakers
> 25. Wash tub wringers
>
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
>
> {} {} Moondragon
> < > the curry luvin Dragon.
> \------/
> ________________________________
>
> May the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie thaaaaaaaaaats Gross
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I only think this stuff up .. then I have to write it down so it doesn't
> corrupt the rest of my brain.. " ME..
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mark Severson
mar...@eoni.com
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then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used
st. - George R. Kirkpatrick
Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci
of but didn't pesonally experiance, I know them all.
On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
Dalia
Ack! I'm getting older??? And I thought 22 was still young. Awe poo, get me
my cane and I'll go lay down for my afternoon nap. Somebody make sure dinner's
ready by 4pm.
Thanks,
Lonnie :)
Baloo Ursidae
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
No
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Still avalible in Portland at some of the downtown stores.
> 3. Candy cigarettes
Was able to get them until they became illegal in Oregon.
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
My school has them...but if you mean glass, most of the Cascade Pacific
Council camps have them in thier trading posts.
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
There's a diner on in Huntington Beach, CA that has those.
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Still avalible in Portland if you call around...and I believe the
cardboard stopper is called a pog...
> 7. Party lines
Also still around here in Portland if you're on GTE.
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
Nope.
> 9. P. F. Flyers
Nope.
> 10. Butch wax
Nope.
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Yes. Still around in Portland depending on the neighborhood, but from
what I can tell its only in the old neighborhoods, and its a name and one
digit. Mine is National 7, or NA7. The west hills have all the SKyline
ones, Old Town and some of downtown has the DOwntown ones. In case
anybody's curious, Nike Internationonal is all of (503) ORegon 1.
> 12. Peashooters
Nope.
> 13. Howdy Doody
Nope.
> 14. 45 RPM records
Yes. They still make them, U2 released Discotech on a 45 even.
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
I've seen them, but never seen them used.
> 16. Hi-fi's
One of my best friends has one in his dorm.
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
Vaguely, we had one in mid 80's, I was maybe 4 then...
> 18. Mimeograph paper
No.
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
No.
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
No.
> 21. Roller skate keys
No.
> 22. Cork popguns
I had one when I was young.
> 23. Drive-ins
Regal Cinemas Estacada Drive In is still in operation anytime between May
and October that its warmer than 60F out.
Act III Merlo Station Cinemas used to have a REALLY powerful AM Stereo
signal, so we'd sit in the school's parking lot and watch the movies for
free. The drive-in is on the national historic register, and now Tri-Met
(the rapid transit district) owns it, so theres busses parked in the drive
in most of the time.
> 24. Studebakers
Nope.
> 25. Wash tub wringers
Nope.
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
I scored a 12... and Im 17!
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
--
Baloo
BlacKat
> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
> ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so I
> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> How many do you remember ?
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
nope
>
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Used to get them at the local Penny Candy Store
>
> 3. Candy cigarettes
>
See Above
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
There were a few left by where I grew up, but they rarely worked.
>
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
>
A couple of old diners near Laconia had them.
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Nope
>
> 7. Party lines
Had one till I was 8 or so.
>
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
Nope
>
> 9. P. F. Flyers
Nope
>
> 10. Butch wax
Nope
>
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
nope
>
> 12. Peashooters
Never actially saw one, but a few of my really old comics advertised them.
>
> 13. Howdy Doody
Hear it on reruns on an airplane on the way to Mexico when I was 8.
>
> 14. 45 RPM records
My parents have lots of them.
>
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
My father had alot of them. But never saw them used.
>
> 16. Hi-fi's
Had on till it died in '85.
>
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
Still use them.
>
> 18. Mimeograph paper
Helped my dad print a fanzine on a mimiograph machine. We might still hvae one
floating around.
>
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
Yes
>
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
Nope
>
> 21. Roller skate keys
I know what they are, saw a few, but I never used one.
>
> 22. Cork popguns
Saw them but never had one.
>
> 23. Drive-ins
Wiers Beach Drive in still exists and runs.
>
> 24. Studebakers
Heard of them, see rebuilt ones occasionally.
>
> 25. Wash tub wringers
>
Seen them. My gradparents used them for a while.
>
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I fall into the range of Don't tell your age. I am only 24, but where I grew
up was a bit backwards. I grew up in the Lakes Region of New Hapshire. Many
places out there still do not have cable, and if someone says they do not have
a phone, running water or electricity no one really looks at them wierd.
BlacKat
The Besaw Household
I have discovered that depending on this planet you are from you will
remember certain items that others don't.. like Party lines.. I.e... one
line that the community uses.. probably 5 or 6 people.. so you have to wait
for the others to get off..
but its very interesting to see who remembers what..
{} {} Moondragon
< > the curry luvin Dragon.
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May the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie thaaaaaaaaaats Gross
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"I only think this stuff up .. then I have to write it down so it doesn't
corrupt the rest of my brain.. " ME..
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Todd Knarr
> On a related note, now many remeber
>Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas
Wasn't born yet.
> 1st showing of StarTrek,
Was alive, there was only 1 TV in town.
>Moon landing
Suprisingly, yes. My grandparents thought I was too young to be
paying attention to and understanding it, until I started reciting
the coverage from an hour before verbatim, plus comments.
>Preimeir of StarWars?
Stood in line for it. Still have problems with the idea that I have
co-workers who weren't _born_ when Star Wars premiered.
--
It may be great to soar with the eagles, but weasels don't get sucked into
jets.
Mike and Carole Curtis
The Besaw Household wrote in message <7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com>...
>{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
I
>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>How many do you remember ?
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>8. Newsreels before the movie
>10. Butch wax
>13. Howdy Doody
>14. 45 RPM records
>15. S&H Green Stamps
>16. Hi-fi's
>19. Blue flashbulbs
>20. Beanie and Cecil
>21. Roller skate keys
>22. Cork popguns
>23. Drive-ins
>24. Studebakers
>25. Wash tub wringers
>
>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
I remember all of that and so does Carole.
Let's go for more.
Flav-R-Straws
TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would
move around.
Kid show hosts
Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
Chum Gum
Fizzies (they're back)
Thirst Fighters
Cyclamates
Chocks vitamins
Ruff and Reddy
Gum card packs with gum inside
Penny tattoos with gum
Wowee wax whistles
10 cent movie popcorn
Double features
Serials
YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors hanging in
blackness
DARK SHADOWS
GREAT GHOST TALES (truly scary videotaped summer show)
Ramar of the Jungle
Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
The Funny Company
The Mighty Hercules
Matty's Sunday Funnies
You can tell it's Mattel..It's Swell!
Thingmaker
Give a Show Projectors
Tru-Vue, the poor man's viewmaster
Pinky Lee
Winky Dink
Video Village
Local TV Wrestling
The threat of Pay TV
Bill Dana and the Vegas Network
Turn-On, from the producers of Laugh In
The Real McCoys
Local TV, dammit!
I Married Joan
The Dumont Network
Songs like Sukiyaki
The Singing Nun "Dominique"
The song TELSTAR
TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
The Early Movie
The Late Movie
Popeye cartoons
Happy Hal, Loony Zoo, Sivad (only in the mid-south)
Greasy Candy Lipstick
Monster cards
Funny Valentines Cards
Wacky Plaks
Twinkles Cereal
OKs cereal with Yogi Bear
Jay North as Dennis the Menace
Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Mr. Bingle
Letters to Santa
Magicland
Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
Alakazam (the same)
My Friend Flicka
Fury
Sky King
Fireball XL5
Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
King Leonardo
Calvin and the Colonel
Captain Video
Powerhouse Candy Bars
Baron Von Raspberry cereal
Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
The TV Farm Report
and last but not least...
WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
NIGHT.
old Mike
S.J.Laitila
>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
A lot of them remind me of the 80's... But it's centered to the american
culture, so I can't say much... But I don't think you know too much about
Raptori, large plastic Jaffa bottles, and the time when Jenkki didn't have
xylitol in it...
Yes, I definitely remember candy cigarrettes... I always wanted some...
Chuck Lochel
The Besaw Household <be...@hbci.com> wrote in message
news:7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com...
> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
I
> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
> How many do you remember ?
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
Vaguely- I don't think I had it too much....
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Yup!
> 3. Candy cigarettes
Yup!
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Kinda. I still seek out and am happy when a store has the newer 9 oz. Coke
bottles. I wish they'd still make the 16 oz. Glass bottles- I'd probably pay
up to $1.50 for it....
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
I can think of at least 2 places around here that still have them....
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
I grew up with a neighbor who got a daily visit from the Milk Man....
> 7. Party lines
Some friends of mine in the mountains of New York only got rid of theirs 2
years ago....
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
Not personal experience. Like them, though....
> 9. P. F. Flyers
Nope.
> 10. Butch wax
Heard the name, don't know what it is.
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Yup! Mine was DElaware....
> 12. Peashooters
Know of them, never used one...
> 13. Howdy Doody
Not the original. Knew it when they brought it back on in afternoons in the
Mid-70s.
> 14. 45 RPM records
Had 'em. I think I still have a few....
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
I remember my Mom having a book, but them S&H dissapearing before she could
redeem them....
> 16. Hi-fi's
I'm sitting next to a 40-year old HH Scott Tube Hi-Fi Tube Amplifier
connected to a Cable Box with Digital Cable Radio... ;)
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
Yup!
> 18. Mimeograph paper
Yup!
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
Yup! Got a whole box of the huge ones one time, and used a battery to set
one off manually. They get really hot.
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
Know of them, but not from original experience.
> 21. Roller skate keys
I didn't have one, but had friends that had skates with them....
> 22. Cork popguns
Yup!
> 23. Drive-ins
Went to a Drive-In last year ;). Before they bulldozed it for a Supermarket
:(
> 24. Studebakers
I've seen them, but don't 'remember' them.
> 25. Wash tub wringers
Same here.
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Ack!!! I can't be Older Than Dirt already!!!!
I'm right on the borderline, though......
Chuck Lochel aka KastaFox
gre...@my-deja.com
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> How many do you remember ?
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
no
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
yes
> 3. Candy cigarettes
yes
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
yes
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
yes
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
no
> 7. Party lines
no
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
no
> 9. P. F. Flyers
no
> 10. Butch wax
no
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
yes
> 12. Peashooters
yes
> 13. Howdy Doody
no
> 14. 45 RPM records
yes
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
yes
> 16. Hi-fi's
yes
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
yes
> 18. Mimeograph paper
yes
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
yes
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
unfortunately... yes
> 21. Roller skate keys
yes
> 22. Cork popguns
yes
> 23. Drive-ins
yes
> 24. Studebakers
no
> 25. Wash tub wringers
yes
>
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
Well, I beg to differ, but at under 30 w/ a score of 17
I don't consider myself older than dirt.
However growing up in the Midwest exposes you (well at the time)
to a lifestyle more like the 50's than most places.
Or so it seemed to me.
grell
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Baloo Ursidae
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:00:10 -0500, "The Besaw Household"
> <be...@hbci.com> (The Besaw Household) left the following spoor in
> alt.fan.furry:
> In one respect, party lines are still available (though the
> multiple billing isn't).
Yes, multiple billing still is, too, you just gotta share the line with a
neighbor. Ironic that the only place I know of this to be true still, the
Silicon Forest area, its not a popular choice simply because its illegal
to put a modem on a party line.
--
Baloo
John F. Martin
"Mike and Carole Curtis" <shan...@cyberback.com> wrote:
<snippo>
> Let's go for more.
>
Okay. (I'll by 29 in a week. Let's see how bad my memory is!)
> Flav-R-Straws
Nope.
> TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman
would
> move around.
I'll go you one better. How about TV weather were there was just a
U.S. map that the weatherman took a marker and *drew* the clouds and
fronts and such on?
> Kid show hosts
Bozo. And some local guy in Memphis.
> Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
Yes.
> Chum Gum
> Fizzies (they're back)
> Thirst Fighters
> Cyclamates
> Chocks vitamins
> Ruff and Reddy
Nope.
> Gum card packs with gum inside
Yep!
> Penny tattoos with gum
> Wowee wax whistles
> 10 cent movie popcorn
> Double features
> Serials
> YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
> TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors
hanging in
> blackness
No.
> DARK SHADOWS
Only in reruns. :(
> GREAT GHOST TALES (truly scary videotaped summer show)
> Ramar of the Jungle
> Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
> The Funny Company
No.
> The Mighty Hercules
Yep.
> Matty's Sunday Funnies
> You can tell it's Mattel..It's Swell!
No.
> Thingmaker
Why does thais sound familiar...?
> Give a Show Projectors
I think so... Or something similar.
> Tru-Vue, the poor man's viewmaster
> Pinky Lee
No.
> Winky Dink
Again. Sounds familar...
> Video Village
No.
> Local TV Wrestling
Jackson, TN, and Houston, TX. (Home of the Rock and Roll Express,
baby!)
> The threat of Pay TV
Yeah.
> Bill Dana and the Vegas Network
> Turn-On, from the producers of Laugh In
> The Real McCoys
No.
> Local TV, dammit!
God, yes!
> I Married Joan
> The Dumont Network
> Songs like Sukiyaki
> The Singing Nun "Dominique"
> The song TELSTAR
> TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
Nope.
> The Early Movie
> The Late Movie
> Popeye cartoons
Yes to all! The early Popeye 'toons kicked ass!
> Happy Hal, Loony Zoo, Sivad (only in the mid-south)
> Greasy Candy Lipstick
> Monster cards
No.
> Funny Valentines Cards
Yep!
> Wacky Plaks
> Twinkles Cereal
> OKs cereal with Yogi Bear
Nope.
> Jay North as Dennis the Menace
Again, only in reruns.
> Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
> Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
> Mr. Bingle
Nope.
> Letters to Santa
Writing them? Yeah.
> Magicland
Yes!
> Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
> Alakazam (the same)
> My Friend Flicka
> Fury
> Sky King
> Fireball XL5
No.
> Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
Yeah.
> Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
Yep.
> Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
> King Leonardo
> Calvin and the Colonel
> Captain Video
> Powerhouse Candy Bars
> Baron Von Raspberry cereal
No.
> Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
> Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
> The TV Farm Report
Yep, yep, and (sadly) yep. ^_^
> and last but not least...
>
> WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR
FOR THE
> NIGHT.
>
Oh, yeah!
> old Mike
>
>
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Elf Sternberg
>On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
>1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
Challenger exploded.
But then, I was only a few miles away.
Elf
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I have looked into the abyss, and the abyss has looked into me.
Neither liked what we saw.
--- Brother Theodore
WalksFar
Gallacci) wrote:
>Gads, with the exception of HowdyDoody and Peashooters, which I was aware
>of but didn't pesonally experiance, I know them all.
>On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
>1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
With the exception of Pearl Harbor which I do not remember,
having not been born yet, I remember all the rest.
What about "Astro Boy" on TV. "Huckleberry Hound?" "Fearless
Fosdick?" "Thunderbirds?" "Engineer Bill?" "Captain Zoom?" "The
Lost Continent? "Superman Cartoons?" Space Cadets?"
WalksFar who remembers waaay too much. . . .
Hespa
"The Besaw Household" <be...@hbci.com> wrote:
> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
> ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all
that so I
> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
> How many do you remember ?
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
Yep!
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Yep!
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> 7. Party lines
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
> 9. P. F. Flyers
> 10. Butch wax
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
> 12. Peashooters
> 13. Howdy Doody
> 14. 45 RPM records
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
> 16. Hi-fi's
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
> 18. Mimeograph paper
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
> 21. Roller skate keys
> 22. Cork popguns
> 23. Drive-ins
> 24. Studebakers
> 25. Wash tub wringers
>
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
"Wow, I'm young! I'm not sure if this should be good or bad for my
self-esteem..."
> {} {} Moondragon
> < > the curry luvin Dragon.
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>
>
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
>
This foxy is forever young. The other guy, though, claims to be "A man
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> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
> ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so I
> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> How many do you remember ?
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
I think, then again the memory is not that good.
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Ergg.. yes.. blah! I used to chew on them and spit them out later.
> 3. Candy cigarettes
Probably where I got my childhood fascination for smoking.
> 6. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
STOP IT!! Ahhh!!! Gawds! Yes!
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Scary enough, yes, we used to have one around my area
when I was a kid :P
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
I KNOW i'm not that old, however, my folks used to prior to
getting me some 2x years ago.
> 7. Party lines
Hmmm.. not quite sure what that is.
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
Geesh.. I ain't THAT old.
> 9. P. F. Flyers
Nope.
> 10. Butch wax
Nope.
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Been to places where all you have to do is dial the last
4 digits though, if that counts.
> 12. Peashooters
*laughs* Like the .22 caliber derringer my friend has? ;)
> 13. Howdy Doody
Geesh.. I ain't a fossil!!!
> 14. 45 RPM records
Gahs. I had a 45 when I was a kid, and only bought
vinyl :P
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
Nope.
> 16. Hi-fi's
Hmmm.. Probably NOT what I am thinking though.
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
Hmmm... I think we hand one as a kid, but nto sure.
> 18. Mimeograph paper
Not a clue. Sounds familiar though.
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
Nope.
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
Nope.
> 21. Roller skate keys
erk.. yes, the skating rink at the other end of
town used to have rentals you had to fix up with the
keys :P blah.
> 22. Cork popguns
Yes :)
> 23. Drive-ins
*grins* we USED to have on of the oldest drive-in
theters, and Sonic Drive thruough type places. They
tore down teh drive through when I was a kid, there is
a pharmacy on the lot, and on the lot where my old
house used to be. They sat next to each other ;) hehe.
They rebuilt the Sonic, and they plowed the Drive in
about 2 years ago, turning it into a part of the gravel
pit that has sprung up next to where it used to be.
> 24. Studebakers
Nope, ask my dad though ;)
> 25. Wash tub wringers
*snickers* Be a boy scout, those come in handy.
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Ick.. I remember a few over 10, and I am only 2x years
old. Either I live in a REALLY backwater section of
this rock we call earth, or I am older then I though I
was. :P
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
>
> {} {} Moondragon
> < > the curry luvin Dragon.
> \------/
> ________________________________
>
Heh.. overall, that was cool. I like it.
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We should police ourselves, as we are our own best censors.
The Lupra'nite
>
> All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
> Challenger exploded.
>
> But then, I was only a few miles away.
>
> Elf
Gah... I remember that, I was watching on TV. Me and my classmates of eons
ago, all thought it was a joke. :P We only let it hit us later when the shock
had died off. Tradgic, just totally tradgic.
When I think about it, It bring to mind the line from 'Armageddon' when Steve
Bucimy says the line, "Just think, a billion tons of fuel, 250,000 moving parts,
all contracted out to the lowest bidder." hehe.
Sorry, can't help myself, weird morning.
Jj62118
>>
>> ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
>I
>> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>>
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> How many do you remember ?
>> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
>> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
>> 8. Newsreels before the movie
>> 10. Butch wax
>> 13. Howdy Doody
>> 14. 45 RPM records
>> 15. S&H Green Stamps
>> 16. Hi-fi's
>> 19. Blue flashbulbs
>> 20. Beanie and Cecil
>> 21. Roller skate keys
>> 22. Cork popguns
>> 23. Drive-ins
>> 24. Studebakers
>> 25. Wash tub wringers
>>
>> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
*chuckles* Only 5 here, I guessd I don't have to worry yet =)
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> All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
> Challenger exploded.
Who here remembers where they were and what they were doing when they
found out Jerry Garcia died?
I was on SR-118 in Los Angeles with Mike (the one who is my father but no
longer deserves the title...long story...) stuck in traffic listening to
Mark And Brian when they made the announcement after a break...
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Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci wrote:
> Gads, with the exception of HowdyDoody and Peashooters, which I was aware
> of but didn't pesonally experiance, I know them all.
> On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
> 1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
Pearl Harbor and Sputnik: No
Everything else: Yes
I got to see the Apollo 11 lift off, from about 10 miles out. (That was about
as close as you could get.)
The sound that came across the water was incredible!
Saw Alan B. Shepherd's 15 min fight on an old Zenith B&W TV. (The quality
goes in, before the name goes on!)
I paid to see, Star Wars 32 times, Once in 70 mm, dbe surround sound, stereo!
(Front row, all the way! :)
I was in third grade, on that day in November. :(
Ramseys
Kilroy
I can remember 3 and 14. I don't know what some of these things are like
18. I'm still young, I guess.
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
>
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Mike and Carole Curtis <shan...@cyberback.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
>I
>>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>>
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>How many do you remember ?
Assume the answer "No." if there isn't an answer.
>>1. Blackjack chewing gum
>>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Maybe.
>>3. Candy cigarettes
>>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
>>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
>>7. Party lines
>>8. Newsreels before the movie
>>9. P. F. Flyers
>>10. Butch wax
>>11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
>>12. Peashooters
>>13. Howdy Doody
>>14. 45 RPM records
Yep. Dad had 'em
>>15. S&H Green Stamps
>>16. Hi-fi's
Not sure if it was a Hi-fi, but my dad built a goodostereo (TUBES!) from
a Heath-Kit. Same with the color TV.
>>17. Metal ice trays with levers
Yep.
>>18. Mimeograph paper
Are those the things we called 'dittos' in school? If so, yes.
>>19. Blue flashbulbs
Not sure. We had those flash-cubes at the time.
>>20. Beanie and Cecil
>>21. Roller skate keys
>>22. Cork popguns
>>23. Drive-ins
Billiken Drive-in was a medium walk from my house. They only showed
x-rated films(!) on it at the time.
>>24. Studebakers
>>25. Wash tub wringers
>>
>>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
I fit in here, and I'm 32.
>>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>>
>>so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
>
>I remember all of that and so does Carole.
>
>Let's go for more.
>
>Flav-R-Straws
Pixy Stix?
>TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would
>move around.
No movable clouds, just big plastic maps with the weather data pre-written
in marker/greasepen
>Kid show hosts
Larry Beck on the Mother Moose Show, Ch. 2 KENI
>Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
>Chum Gum
>Fizzies (they're back)
>Thirst Fighters
>Cyclamates
>Chocks vitamins
>Ruff and Reddy
>Gum card packs with gum inside
Still had 'em in the 70's
>Penny tattoos with gum
>Wowee wax whistles
>10 cent movie popcorn
>Double features
Before they sold it to better management, the only theater chain would show
nothing BUT double features. Actually, they had no matinees...price of a
ticket was always the cost of _two_ movies.
>Serials
>YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
>TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors hanging in
>blackness
>DARK SHADOWS
>GREAT GHOST TALES (truly scary videotaped summer show)
>Ramar of the Jungle
>Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
>The Funny Company
>The Mighty Hercules
>Matty's Sunday Funnies
>You can tell it's Mattel..It's Swell!
>Thingmaker
>Give a Show Projectors
Yeah, at least the ads for them.
>Tru-Vue, the poor man's viewmaster
>Pinky Lee
>Winky Dink
No. Tom Terrific, anyone?
>Video Village
>Local TV Wrestling
No wrestling, but we had ROLLER DERBY!!!! (Usually the T-Birds vs. whoever)
>The threat of Pay TV
>Bill Dana and the Vegas Network
>Turn-On, from the producers of Laugh In
Was this before or after Laugh In? I remember the original Laugh-In. Couldn't
understand why that angry lady (Ruth Buzzi's character opposite Arte Johnson's
Dirty Old Man) had a big ol' spider on her forehead.
Had never HEARD of hairnets...
>The Real McCoys
Yes. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.?
>Local TV, dammit!
Yes! The Theda Comstock Show!
>I Married Joan
>The Dumont Network
>Songs like Sukiyaki
>The Singing Nun "Dominique"
>The song TELSTAR
>TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
>The Early Movie
>The Late Movie
>Popeye cartoons
>Happy Hal, Loony Zoo, Sivad (only in the mid-south)
>Greasy Candy Lipstick
>Monster cards
>Funny Valentines Cards
>Wacky Plaks
>Twinkles Cereal
>OKs cereal with Yogi Bear
>Jay North as Dennis the Menace
Wasn't Jay North in "Lassie" (B&W) as well?
>Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
>Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
>Mr. Bingle
>Letters to Santa
>Magicland
>Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
>Alakazam (the same)
>My Friend Flicka
>Fury
But no Lassie, huh?
>Sky King
>Fireball XL5
>Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
>Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
>Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
>King Leonardo
>Calvin and the Colonel
>Captain Video
>Powerhouse Candy Bars
>Baron Von Raspberry cereal
You sure this isn't Frankenberry cereal?
>Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
No. How about "The Rosary, sponsored by the Daughters of St. Paul" on
Sunday morning radio?
>Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
>The TV Farm Report
>and last but not least...
>
>WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
>NIGHT.
Actually, if I was ever up that late, that happened on at least one local
broadcast channel up into the mid-80's...
>
>old Mike
>
>
John L. Friese
fri...@math.arizona.edu
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wrote:
I was watching someone's newgrouping of a huge tribute to Jerry Garcia pop
up on IBM net. Other than that, JG just doesn't get my attention, dead or
alive.
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WalksFar
>>
>Flav-R-Straws
Yes!
>TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would
>move around.
Yes, out of San diego. His name was Bob Dale. He also used
chalk on a map board.
>Kid show hosts
Johnny Downs, Bill Stulla (Engineer Bill), Tom Hatten, Andy
Devine
>Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
Jeepers Creepers, Jeeper's Keeper, Semour and the Slimy Wall
and his "Golden Flush Award" (pre mst3k)
>Chum Gum
No, never heard of this.
>Fizzies (they're back)
Yes!
>Thirst Fighters
Yep!
>Cyclamates
Yep! Saccharine, too!
>Chocks vitamins
Yep!~
>Ruff and Reddy
Yep!
>Gum card packs with gum inside
Yes, a sheet the size of the cards!
>Penny tattoos with gum
Uh-Huh!
>Wowee wax whistles
Yep!
>10 cent movie popcorn
And 20 cent admissions for kids, 6 cent candy bars and sodas
>Double features
Yep and a newsreel and cartoon to boot!
>Serials
Yep! Gene Autry, Jan of the jungle, Flash Gordon, BuckRogers
>YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
(shrugs)
>TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors hanging in
>blackness
Yes! Very clearly.
>DARK SHADOWS
Yes and Barnabas the vampire!
>GREAT GHOST TALES (truly scary videotaped summer show)
vaguely
>Ramar of the Jungle
ep! Watched it all the time
>Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
Nah! How about Colonel Bleep? I remember him.
>The Funny Company
No.
>The Mighty Hercules
Yes!
>Matty's Sunday Funnies
(shrug)
>You can tell it's Mattel..It's Swell!
Oh, yes!
>Thingmaker
Yep!
>Give a Show Projectors
Yep!
>Tru-Vue, the poor man's viewmaster
Yes!
>Pinky Lee
Yes!~ I loved his show.
>Winky Dink
no
>Video Village
no
>Local TV Wrestling
Yes! From the Olympic Auditorium in LA, Dick Lane the
announcer, and Jimmy Lennin, the voice of the Olympic.
What about wrestlers?
Shandor Zabo?
Mr. Moto?
Freddy Blasse
John Tolos, the Golden Greek
Ricky Starr
Gorgeous George
The Destroyer and his figure 4 leg lock
The Preacher,
Los Medicos
The miget wrestlers. . . .
How about Roller Derby on TV?
>The threat of Pay TV
My dad ranted about this enough.
>Bill Dana and the Vegas Network
Yep!
>Turn-On, from the producers of Laugh In
No
>The Real McCoys
Yes, with Walter Brennan
>Local TV, dammit!
We never had any. It was always from San Diego or LA
>I Married Joan
Yes and December Bride and their running joke with Harry
Morgan the neighbor and his wife, Gladys who no one ever saw.
>The Dumont Network
Not around here.
>Songs like Sukiyaki
Yes. I even have a copy of the original
>The Singing Nun "Dominique"
Yes, and her album with a picture portfolio she did herself.
I still have it.
>The song TELSTAR
By the Ventures? Yes! I have the 45 rpm record!
>TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
I remember that. Channels 2-13 with 12 as a Mexican Station
from Tiajuana
>The Early Movie
Yep. Here twas "The Million Dollar Movie."
>The Late Movie
Yes, and the Late, Late show, too
>Popeye cartoons
hosted by Tom hatten. He did the 3 stooges, too and had them
on live once while they all still lived. That was fun to see.
>Happy Hal, Loony Zoo, Sivad (only in the mid-south)
No, not around here.
>Greasy Candy Lipstick
Yes. My sister had that stuff
>Monster cards
Yes, and Garbage Pail kids, too
>Funny Valentines Cards
Yep
>Wacky Plaks
No
>Twinkles Cereal
Yes
>OKs cereal with Yogi Bear
No
>Jay North as Dennis the Menace
Yes!
>Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
Yes. I watched both!
>Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
No
>Mr. Bingle
No
>Letters to Santa
I wrote my share
>Magicland
No
>Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
No
>Alakazam (the same)
Yes
>My Friend Flicka
My sister's favorite show (the horse), not mine.
>Fury
Yes, her's, too!
>Sky King
Yes! Every Saturday!
>Fireball XL5
Yep!
>Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
No
>Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
Never did that, but collected them and still have them.
>Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
I remember those. Too bad we lived in California
>King Leonardo
Yes!
>Calvin and the Colonel
Yes!
>Captain Video
I remember him and Captain Zoom, too.
>Powerhouse Candy Bars
Yes. I liked them.
>Baron Von Raspberry cereal
And a few other strange flavors, too.
Shredded Wheat used to have cardboard dividers between the
layers of biscuits that had woodland lore and survival facts on them.
We collected them.
>Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
ARRGGH!
>Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
Boring! YUCCH!
>The TV Farm Report
Yep! They still do it where I live since we are in an
agricultural area
>and last but not least...
>
>WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
>NIGHT.
PBS here still does, and so does Channel 26, an independent.
WalksFar, who has dated himself terribly. . . .
>
>old Mike
>
>
WalksFar
<be...@hbci.com> wrote:
>{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so I
>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>How many do you remember ?
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
Yes! And Cloves, and a red cinnamon gum, too. I can't
remember the name.
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Yes!
>3. Candy cigarettes
Yes!
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Yes! Ne-Hi and White Rock sodas were my favorites
>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Yes, i used to repair them.
>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Yep! We used to play games with the caps called "pogs."
>7. Party lines
Heeheehee! Yes
>8. Newsreels before the movie
Yes! And, a second feature, plus a cartoon, 6-cent candy
bars, 20-cent theatre admissions for kids, 10-cent popcorn, and
10-cent soft drinks!
>9. P. F. Flyers
Aha! The original Tennis shoes or sneakers! Yes! I had
some.
>10. Butch wax
Ooo! yes! Nasty stuff!
>11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Yes! Mine was saratoga 7, and i remember 4 digit phone
numbers before the prefixes. Ours was 2255!
>12. Peashooters
Yep! Owned and used them. they even suplied the peas, too.
>13. Howdy Doody
Yes! Buffalo Bill, Clarabel the Clown, Flub-A-Dub, the P-Nut
Gallery
>14. 45 RPM records
Yes! I own a good 5,000 of them
>15. S&H Green Stamps
Yes, and Blue Chip Stamps as well
>16. Hi-fi's
I owned one right up till a few years ago when it quit.
>17. Metal ice trays with levers
Yep! I remember them and the ones without levers. They were
near impossible to get ice out of for us kids.
>18. Mimeograph paper
Should this not be ditto paper with the denatured alcohol
solvent used to transfer the ink from the masters? When the teacher
handed them out, us kids sniffed away on the fumes. That says a lot.
>19. Blue flashbulbs
Yep, used them.
>20. Beanie and Cecil
Yes! Bob Clampett, Captain Huff'n'Puff, DJ (Dishonest John)
Nyaa Ahh Ahh!
>21. Roller skate keys
Yep! I lost enough of them.
>22. Cork popguns
Fun, fun, fun!
>23. Drive-ins
Yes! i still go to them occasionally.
>24. Studebakers
Yep! A friend owned an Avanti.
>25. Wash tub wringers
Sorta . . . My Uncle was a collector of antique washing
machines
WalksFar, dating himself terribly. . . .
WalksFar
>>Jay North as Dennis the Menace
>
>Wasn't Jay North in "Lassie" (B&W) as well?
No, that was Tommy Rettick who was followed by John Provost
later on.
>
>>Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
>>Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
>>Mr. Bingle
>>Letters to Santa
>>Magicland
>>Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
>>Alakazam (the same)
>>My Friend Flicka
>>Fury
>
>But no Lassie, huh?
>
>>Sky King
>>Fireball XL5
>>Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
>>Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
>>Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
>>King Leonardo
>>Calvin and the Colonel
>>Captain Video
>>Powerhouse Candy Bars
>>Baron Von Raspberry cereal
>
>You sure this isn't Frankenberry cereal?
No, tis the Raspberry kind.
>
>>Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
>
>No. How about "The Rosary, sponsored by the Daughters of St. Paul" on
>Sunday morning radio?
>
>>Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
>>The TV Farm Report
>>and last but not least...
>>
>>WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
>>NIGHT.
>
>Actually, if I was ever up that late, that happened on at least one local
>broadcast channel up into the mid-80's...
WalksFar. . . .
WalksFar
wrote:
>In alt.fan.furry.bleachers Elf Sternberg <e...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>
>> All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
>> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
>> Challenger exploded.
>
>Who here remembers where they were and what they were doing when they
>found out Jerry Garcia died?
I was watching TV at home. It rather surprised me.
WalksFar. . . .
Ross Smith
>
> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
Er ... and a slim fast *what*?
> ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so I
> found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
The trouble with this is that most of them are specifically US cultural
references, so the quiz isn't much help to us Un-Americans.
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
-- American
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
-- American
> 3. Candy cigarettes
-- Yes
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
-- American [here, dispensing machines didn't become widespread
until after cans had taken over)
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
-- American
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
-- Yes
> 7. Party lines
-- Yes
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
-- No
> 9. P. F. Flyers
-- American
> 10. Butch wax
-- American
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
-- American
> 12. Peashooters
-- Yes
> 13. Howdy Doody
-- American
> 14. 45 RPM records
-- Yes
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
-- American
> 16. Hi-fi's
-- Yes
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
-- No
> 18. Mimeograph paper
-- Yes
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
-- Errr ... aren't all flashbulbs sorta bluish?
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
-- American
> 21. Roller skate keys
-- Dunno, I never tried roller skates
> 22. Cork popguns
-- Yes
> 23. Drive-ins
-- American
> 24. Studebakers
-- American
> 25. Wash tub wringers
-- Yes
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I get 9 yes, 2 no, 2 dunno, and 12 can't tell because it's American. If
you're wondering, I'm 37.
(Actually, I'm still 37 even if you're not wondering. :-) )
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Dalia
Baloo Ursidae wrote:
> Who here remembers where they were and what they were doing when they
> found out Jerry Garcia died?
I was Babysitting. I nearly cried and rushed to call my friend who *was* in
tears. I wore tye-dye for a week strait to mourn him.
Yea, I'm a Dead freak, whattya gonna do about it?
Dalia
Dalia
Elf Sternberg wrote:
> I also know exactly where I was when
> Challenger exploded.
I was in third grade. It was a big deal in my school cause one of the first
graders was a cousin of Christa McCauliff (sp?), the woman who was supposed to
be the first teacher in space. I remember none of us really understood why
our teacher turned the TV off so quickly. I always wonder what the lil boy
who was her cousin was feeling when the ship exploded. I just remember the
Challenger crash as being my first experience with media desensitisation. By
the time it died down, we were so saturated with the media coverage that it
lost a lot of the meaning for us. But then again, it could just have been
cause third graders bounce back really easy. :)
Dalia
Peter da Silva
The Lupra'nite <anon...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>When I think about it, It bring to mind the line from 'Armageddon' when Steve
>Bucimy says the line, "Just think, a billion tons of fuel, 250,000 moving
>parts, all contracted out to the lowest bidder." hehe.
That line is actually a paraphrased quote from an astronaut, I don't know
who... it's been credited to Neil Armstrong and Wally Schirra and John
Glenn, when asked what it was like waiting for a launch.
Here's what John Glenn had to say about it in an interview:
There's a joking comment someone once made,
and I'll paraphrase it, that it's a little disconcerting
as an astronaut to know that your spacecraft, and
the rocket it's setting on, were built by the lowest
bidder working on a government contract. Seriously,
I had every confidence in Friendship 7. We knew
that the United States had the best minds working
on the Mercury Project. All the pilots were closely
involved in the preparations for our flights --and
that included input on the craft itself.
Here's another:
Many years ago, over a beer, Walter Cronkite asked Mercury astronaut
Wally Schirra what he had really been thinking in the last minutes
before blasting off on his first mission. Many of you may recall
Schirra saying, "Well, I was lying there looking up at all the
dials and buttons and toggle switches on the control panel and I
thought to myself, 'Good God, just think, this thing was built by
the lowest bidder'."
I don't think there's any way now to untangle who said it first, but it was
already a running joke back in the days of Mercury and Gemini, and I suspect
all the way back to the first military aviators back in World War I.
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>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>How many do you remember ?
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Yes.
>3. Candy cigarettes
Yes.
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Yes.
>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Yes.
>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Tinfoil caps, but same principle.
>7. Party lines
>8. Newsreels before the movie
>9. P. F. Flyers
>10. Butch wax
>11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Letter prefixes, yes, but they didn't make up words in Australia.
>12. Peashooters
Yes.
>13. Howdy Doody
>14. 45 RPM records
Yes. Pretty soon it's gonna be "you remember records?".
>15. S&H Green Stamps
>16. Hi-fi's
Yes.
>17. Metal ice trays with levers
Yes.
>18. Mimeograph paper
Yes.
>19. Blue flashbulbs
Yes.
>20. Beanie and Cecil
>21. Roller skate keys
Yes.
>22. Cork popguns
Yes.
>23. Drive-ins
Yes.
>24. Studebakers
>25. Wash tub wringers
Yes.
>
>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I'm only 39.
Baloo Ursidae
> How about Roller Derby on TV?
ESPN2 covers it still.
--
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> --
> This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references
> to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document
>
> Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, Entropy Gradient Reversals.
Hehe.. yah.
Just admit, the US Government is a bunch of greedy and cheap bastards. ;) hehe. No
wonder they got a hold of everyones pubes :P
--
The Luphra'nite
We should police ourselves, as we are our own best censors.
excuse me if i always sound a bit cynical, because I am anymore.
Life sucks.
Mark Freid
"I'm grateful they're dead! Smelly hippies..."
Yaknow, for all the supposed Influence Jerry Garcia supposedly had on music,
his death was amazingly subdued, and inspired very little memorials and
reaction, compared to other musicians who have (arguably) contributed far
less, such as that drug addict loser fuckhead Cobain.
Mark
Baloo Ursidae wrote in message <7pms5r$e8f$4...@crucigera.fysh.org>...
>In alt.fan.furry.bleachers Elf Sternberg <e...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>
>> All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
>> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
>> Challenger exploded.
>
>Who here remembers where they were and what they were doing when they
>found out Jerry Garcia died?
>
>I was on SR-118 in Los Angeles with Mike (the one who is my father but no
>longer deserves the title...long story...) stuck in traffic listening to
>Mark And Brian when they made the announcement after a break...
>
>--
>Baloo
Baloo Ursidae
<can...@FUCKSPAM.blackbird.poocher.net> wrote:
> Yaknow, for all the supposed Influence Jerry Garcia supposedly had on music,
> his death was amazingly subdued, and inspired very little memorials and
> reaction, compared to other musicians who have (arguably) contributed far
> less, such as that drug addict loser fuckhead Cobain.
Because my generation worships idiots. I've seen my generation completely
trash the spirit and name of Woodstock twice now. I swear I was born
twentyfive years too late...I missed the hayday of Scouting, and I missed
the 60's...
--
Baloo
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>The Besaw Household wrote:
[munch]
>> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and
>> a slim fast.. }
>
>Er ... and a slim fast *what*?
Slim Fast(tm) shake, I'd imagine -- it's a slimming-aid. Why anyone
would want such a thing here in Alfandra when there are so many
goodies, though ... oh, I see.
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>
> Quoth Ross Smith <r-s...@ihug.co.nz>:
> >The Besaw Household wrote:
> [munch]
>
> >> {Appears out of the Background with a time machine and
> >> a slim fast.. }
> >
> >Er ... and a slim fast *what*?
>
> Slim Fast(tm) shake, I'd imagine -- it's a slimming-aid. Why anyone
> would want such a thing here in Alfandra when there are so many
> goodies, though ... oh, I see.
Aha. I should have guessed -- *another* American cultural reference :-)
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>{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so I
>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>How many do you remember ?
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
Yup.
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Yup.
>3. Candy cigarettes
Yup. They were overrated though.
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Barely.
>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
No.
>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
No.
>7. Party lines
Yes. My dad actually was on one until about ten years ago.
>8. Newsreels before the movie
No.
>9. P. F. Flyers
What?
>10. Butch wax
Eh?
>11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Heard of 'em (Pennsylvania 6-5000!) but never saw one.
>12. Peashooters
Same thing.
>13. Howdy Doody
Saw a few reruns. Does that count?
>14. 45 RPM records
Hey! I still have a few of those!
>15. S&H Green Stamps
Barely.
>16. Hi-fi's
Heck. I had one.
>17. Metal ice trays with levers
Heck. I have one of those too!
>18. Mimeograph paper
Heard of it. Never saw it though.
>19. Blue flashbulbs
I still see those occasionally!
>20. Beanie and Cecil
Who?
>21. Roller skate keys
I gotta brand new pair of rollerskates. You gotta a brand new key.
I think I do.
>22. Cork popguns
Heard of 'em yes. Saw one no.
>23. Drive-ins
Hey! There's still one operating not too far from here! Too bad
another one closed down about three or four years ago and a third,
well I never saw it open.
>24. Studebakers
There used to be one for sale that I would pass on my way to
college(circa 1989).
>25. Wash tub wringers
Heard of 'em yes. Saw one, can't remember. Maybe in somebody's
garage somewhere.
>
>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Heh. In some ways it does depend on where you live. Since we do have
an actual drive-in movie not too far from here, of course I'm going to
remember it. And of course, to someone where they no longer exist or
never existed to begin with, of course they won't.
>
>so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
Depending on how you score it I'm either in the don't tell your age or
the older than dirt category.
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<shan...@cyberback.com> wrote:> > The Besaw Household wrote in message
time machine and a slim fast.. }> >> >ok I have read a lot of people posting
on how old they are and all that so> I> >found this in one of my E-mail
logs.. so you think you old do this..> >> >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>
that dispensed bottles> >5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxesI remember
those!> >13. Howdy DoodyRemember the 120 shows shot in color is 1976? I do.>
>14. 45 RPM recordsYep-great place in Cambridge,MA still carries them!> >15.
S&H Green StampsWhen did they go under. I have a 1964 TV comercials with Bill
Mumy for S&H! They sponserd "The Dannyu Kaye Show" on CBS c.1965> >16.
Hi-fi'sWe had an RCA portable one,amd my Granmother had a big floor unit!>
>17. Metal ice trays with leversWe had an old fridge growning up.> >18.
Mimeograph paperAh the smell of Memoied tests in school!> >19. Blue
flashbulbsI remember the square cubes!> >20. Beanie and CecilGotem on video.>
>21. Roller skate keys"I got a brand new pair of Rollerskates,and you got a
brand new key.." :}> >23. Drive-insNearest one to Boston is 40 miles SW of
the city!> >24. StudebakersAnyone remember the Studebaker Dealership in the
1955 Segments of Hill Valley in "Back To The future" Town square,left of Town
hall. > > > Let's go for more.> > Flav-R-Straws*LOL* flavors as I recall! >
TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would>
We had a newscast every day. I did Weither and Entertainment.> Kid show
hostsI lived in Buffallo for 5 years-'Commander Tom-ran
Stooges,Rascals,Universal toons-made me what I am today!> Horror Show hosts
(heck I was one one summer in 1974)Son of Svenghouli was shown in Boston f
rune....@worldnet.att.mil
>
> The Besaw Household wrote in message <7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com>...
> >{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
> >
> >ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
> I
> >found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
> >
> >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >How many do you remember ?
Couldn't stand it.
> >2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Think there's one in a drawer here...
> >3. Candy cigarettes
Chocolate or mint paste?
> >4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
The one in the barber shop is etched in memory.
New bottle dispensing machines are appearing now. (20 oz.)
> >5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Do diners with them count? (I was too young for coffee shops.) (Some
diners here still have them.)
> >6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
That would pop up from the cream when they got warm...
> >7. Party lines
Heard of them as kid. Never had one.
> >8. Newsreels before the movie
And cartoons, stooges, travelogs, and documentaries.
> >9. P. F. Flyers
Don't forget Keds.
> >10. Butch wax
And Brylecreem (sp?)
> >11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Had them until 70s here.
> >12. Peashooters
Some came with candy pellets. Stained whatever they hit. We used navy
beans when they ran out. The yard busted out with bean plants all
summer.
> >13. Howdy Doody
He was around never cared much for him. Did catch the last show, though.
> >14. 45 RPM records
Still have them. They were around through the 80s so that isn't too hard
to recall.
(Still available, in fact.)
> >15. S&H Green Stamps
And "True Value" stamps. The Green Stamp premium store was around until
the 70s.
> >16. Hi-fi's
Most of which weren't. Still have one in the garage. (Yes, it works.)
> >17. Metal ice trays with levers
Some people still have them. Saved from old fridge.
> >18. Mimeograph paper
I remember the damn machines! Wotta mess.
> >19. Blue flashbulbs
And the big bowl-type flash attachments they went into. M2B, M3B, M25B
and even big honkin' ones that looked like house lightbulbs (for press
cameras.)
> >20. Beanie and Cecil
On prime time.
> >21. Roller skate keys
"I've got a brand-new pair of roller skates..." Remember busting old
ones apart to make skooters out of a milk crate and two-by-four?
> >22. Cork popguns
With and without strings in the cork.
> >23. Drive-ins
Memories....
> >24. Studebakers
Grandfather had one. One of my in-laws collects them.
> >25. Wash tub wringers
And wringer washers. Just like in the cartoons.
> >If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> >If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> >If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> >If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
And went to school with God.
> >so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
See above.
> I remember all of that and so does Carole.
>
> Let's go for more.
>
> Flav-R-Straws
Damn! I had forgotten them. Used to take out the flavor element and try
to get one more cup from it.
> TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would
> move around.
Still did until the late 70s in most places.
> Kid show hosts
Sally Starr, Wee Willie Weber, Dickory Doc, Uncle Pete, etc.
> Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
Roland! (Zacherly before he went national), Doctor Shock
> Chum Gum
Very appropo name.
> Fizzies (they're back)
They just didn't seem the same with sacharine (gag!). Haven't found them
here yet.
> Thirst Fighters
Nope.
> Cyclamates
And the products they made possible, including _good_ sugar free
Kool-Aid
> Chocks vitamins
Now I'm getting flashbacks on the ads.
> Ruff and Reddy
Crusader Rabbit
> Gum card packs with gum inside
Around until the early 80s (have some Tron and Black Hole packs around
somewhere.)
> Penny tattoos with gum
Loved them. Didn't want some to wash off (and parents used to wonder why
kids didn't want to wash.)
> Wowee wax whistles
Nope. Not Wowee anyway.
> 10 cent movie popcorn
5 cent movie candy.
> Double features
Matinees yet.
> Serials
Vaguely (too young)
> YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
Nope
> TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors hanging in
> blackness
Nope. No soap fans in our house in those days.
> DARK SHADOWS
Yep
> GREAT GHOST TALES (truly scary videotaped summer show)
Nope
> Ramar of the Jungle
"Survival of the fittest," he would intone. (With stock footage.)
> Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
Who?
> The Funny Company
Ick! Yes.
> The Mighty Hercules
Too well. ("Fighting for his life,
With a rubber knife...")
> Matty's Sunday Funnies
Somewhat.
> You can tell it's Mattel..It's Swell!
"It's Kenner...It's fun! AwK!!"
> Thingmaker
And Vac-U-Form
> Give a Show Projectors
We even made our own strips for them.
> Tru-Vue, the poor man's viewmaster
Got one.
> Pinky Lee
Have his View Master reels
> Winky Dink
And the plastic screen sheet. (All dry and stiff now. Sniff.)
Many kids just drew on the safety glass of the CRT.
> Video Village
It was around. Didn't watch it.
> Local TV Wrestling
And boxing.
> The threat of Pay TV
"It'll never work."
> Bill Dana and the Vegas Network
Nope.
> Turn-On, from the producers of Laugh In
Cancelled quickly.
> The Real McCoys
With Granpa limping around. "Luke! Luke!"
> Local TV, dammit!
Was on some of it.
> I Married Joan
Nope
> The Dumont Network
Before my tv days.
> Songs like Sukiyaki
By Kyu Sakaimoto. Recently redone.
> The Singing Nun "Dominique"
Aghh! Now I can't stop hearing it! Make it stop!!!
> The song TELSTAR
When Telstar was new. Early electronic music.
> TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
Yes.
> The Early Movie
Yes
> The Late Movie
Which would not be considered very late today.
> Popeye cartoons
Farmer Al Falfa cartoons.
> Happy Hal, Loony Zoo, Sivad (only in the mid-south)
Nope (in the Northeast here.)
> Greasy Candy Lipstick
Ick, no. (Not us boys!)
> Monster cards
And Mars Attacks! and 3 Stooges cards
> Funny Valentines Cards
Yep
> Wacky Plaks
Damn they were great! Mad Magazine type humor.
> Twinkles Cereal
With a comic book on every box.
> OKs cereal with Yogi Bear
OKs cereal with Big Otis was before that. (Big Scot in a kilt.)
> Jay North as Dennis the Menace
Heck that was around forever.
> Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
Accept no substitutes.
> Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Only saw once.
> Mr. Bingle
Nope
> Letters to Santa
Had a live show like that. That the one?
> Magicland
Somewhat.
> Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
"Pip the piper, piper, piper?"
> Alakazam (the same)
Only remember Alakazam The Great (Saiyuki)
> My Friend Flicka
Came on after...
> Fury
Saturdays.
> Sky King
"Out of the blue of the Western skies..."
> Fireball XL5
With the great special effects by Meddings!
> Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
I had to sit through a god-awful clown-hosted show to watch them.
> Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
I read them. Never did get around to writing.
> Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
With the roller coaster.
> King Leonardo
And his short subjects.
> Calvin and the Colonel
Still have a tape of the opening I made on an olde tape recorder we had.
> Captain Video
Nope
> Powerhouse Candy Bars
Yep
> Baron Von Raspberry cereal
Nope
> Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
Ran into it while changing channels.
> Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
As above.
> The TV Farm Report
If you got up that early...
> and last but not least...
>
> WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
> NIGHT.
Ala "Poltergeist" for you youngsters out there. (Some of our smaller
stations here still do that, btw.)
> old Mike
You might just be older than me at that.
rune....@worldnet.att.mil
>
> On 20 Aug 1999 15:34:05 GMT, bev...@netcom.com (Bev Clark/Steve
> Gallacci) wrote:
>
> >Gads, with the exception of HowdyDoody and Peashooters, which I was aware
> >of but didn't pesonally experiance, I know them all.
> >On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
> >1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
>
> having not been born yet, I remember all the rest.
>
> What about "Astro Boy" on TV. "Huckleberry Hound?" "Fearless
> Fosdick?" "Thunderbirds?" "Engineer Bill?" "Captain Zoom?" "The
> Lost Continent? "Superman Cartoons?" Space Cadets?"
All of above.
Don't forget:
Clutch Cargo (and Space Angel)
Rocky & His Friends (before Bullwinkle took over)
Linus The Lion Hearted (and Crispy Critters cereal he promoted)
Rin Tin Tin (Live action)
Circus Boy (Mickey Dolenz before he became part of a certain rock group)
khromat
> bev...@netcom.com (Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci) writes:
>
> >On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at
Dallas,
> >1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
>
> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
> Challenger exploded.
>
*sigh*
I remember sitting with my dad to see the Moon Landing and being all
excited because I knew dad had "worked on the rockets" (to be more
precise, he worked on various control systems for Mercury, Saturn,
Gemini and Apollo projects). A shame we had moved to California by that
time, or I would've felt the launch from our old home on Merritt Island,
Fl, immediately south of Cape Canaveral by a scant few miles. I was
rocked to sleep as an infant by the rocket-engine tests....
I remember going to the only premier drive-in theater in Orange County
to see this new movie called "Star Wars" and dad and I being the only
ones awake in the car by the end of the movie, excited to talk about
what we were seeing.
I remember how I tried to get up and watch every shuttle launch I could
(the timezone difference made it tough), and that I remember stumbling
out to the front room to join my housemates to see the Challenger launch
When I saw the first puff of smoke, the back of my mind ticked
"something's wrong... something's wrong" just before the main explosion.
At that moment, I had wished more than anything that my father was still
alive so that we could've cried together....
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>
>The Besaw Household wrote in message <7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com>...
>>{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>>
>>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
>I
>>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>>
Ok, let's see here:
{No answer = no}
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>How many do you remember ?
>>1. Blackjack chewing gum
>>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
>>3. Candy cigarettes
Yep
>>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Yes, even for the old ones that predate can dispensers.
But in Southern Ontario now, 600ml plastic bottles is the norm
from pop machines (often for the price of a litre in a convinence
store or a 2l in a supermarket).
>>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Yes, but mostly as a nostalgia gimmic.
>>6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
>>7. Party lines
Yes, the town^Wvillage^Wgeneral store and handfull of
houses[1] my mother is from only got individual lines a little while
ago (and even then, only because there is a rail line running by).
>>8. Newsreels before the movie
>>9. P. F. Flyers
>>10. Butch wax
>>11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Yes, but from helping with a high school reunion (we were
doing databases, may as well do something useful).
>>12. Peashooters
Yes
>>13. Howdy Doody
>>14. 45 RPM records
Yes, we still have some.
>>15. S&H Green Stamps
>>16. Hi-fi's
Yes, and we still have it.
>>17. Metal ice trays with levers
Yep
>>18. Mimeograph paper
Ja
>>19. Blue flashbulbs
Da, and to answer the question 'why blue?': It's because B/W
film is more sensitive to blue light.
>>20. Beanie and Cecil
>>21. Roller skate keys
Yes
>>22. Cork popguns
>>23. Drive-ins
Oui
>>24. Studebakers
>>25. Wash tub wringers
Yes, my paternal grandparents had one.
>>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
>>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Don't tell, and I'm only 25.
>>
>>so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
>
>I remember all of that and so does Carole.
>
>Let's go for more.
>
>Flav-R-Straws
>TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would
>move around.
Yes
>Kid show hosts
Yes, and I even met Uncle Bobby (he lived in my
neighbourhood). I feel sorry for any kids that got onto his show, the
guy was an a**hole who hated kids.
>Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
Yes
>Chum Gum
>Fizzies (they're back)
>Thirst Fighters
>Cyclamates
I can't help thinking I should, but I can't place them.
>Chocks vitamins
>Ruff and Reddy
>Gum card packs with gum inside
Yep
>Penny tattoos with gum
>Wowee wax whistles
>10 cent movie popcorn
>Double features
Yes
>Serials
Not in the theaters.
>YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
>TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors hanging in
>blackness
>DARK SHADOWS
>GREAT GHOST TALES (truly scary videotaped summer show)
>Ramar of the Jungle
>Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
>The Funny Company
>The Mighty Hercules
Oh you had to bring up those memories.
>Matty's Sunday Funnies
>You can tell it's Mattel..It's Swell!
>Thingmaker
>Give a Show Projectors
>Tru-Vue, the poor man's viewmaster
>Pinky Lee
>Winky Dink
>Video Village
Yes, but likely not what you're thinking of (minor chain of
video rental places, serving both VHS and beta).
>Local TV Wrestling
>The threat of Pay TV
We have that here, now (CBC gets government funding).
>Bill Dana and the Vegas Network
>Turn-On, from the producers of Laugh In
>The Real McCoys
>Local TV, dammit!
CITY is still going strong.
>I Married Joan
>The Dumont Network
>Songs like Sukiyaki
>The Singing Nun "Dominique"
>The song TELSTAR
>TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
>The Early Movie
Great Movies on CITY-TV
>The Late Movie
Late Great Movies on CITY-TV
>Popeye cartoons
Yes
>Happy Hal, Loony Zoo, Sivad (only in the mid-south)
>Greasy Candy Lipstick
>Monster cards
Yes
>Funny Valentines Cards
Yes
>Wacky Plaks
>Twinkles Cereal
>OKs cereal with Yogi Bear
>Jay North as Dennis the Menace
>Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
>Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
>Mr. Bingle
>Letters to Santa
Yes
>Magicland
>Pip the Piper on Saturday mornings
>Alakazam (the same)
>My Friend Flicka
>Fury
>Sky King
>Fireball XL5
Yes, but only because TeleToon put it on.
>Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
Yes, similar reason (but with Space).
>Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
>Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
>King Leonardo
>Calvin and the Colonel
>Captain Video
Yes
>Powerhouse Candy Bars
>Baron Von Raspberry cereal
>Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
Still going (Vision TV has it).
>Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
>The TV Farm Report
Yep
>and last but not least...
>
>WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
>NIGHT.
CBC Toronto and WNEZ (Buffalo PBS) still do this, WNEZ doing
both the US and Canadian anthems[2].
[1] It exists because of the rail line, every so often a water
tower and siding (single track line) had to be put in. These required
a railroad employee working there at all times, and if there was good
farming in the area it was where the general store and everyones
houses went.
[2] Buffalo stations know where their audence lives, and it's
not in the States.
Dragonpearl
>{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
I
>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
>How many do you remember ?
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
no
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
yes
>3. Candy cigarettes
yes
>14. 45 RPM records
yes, but only casue my mom had some
>18. Mimeograph paper
yes
>19. Blue flashbulbs
yes
>23. Drive-ins
gawd i miss those
>
>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
thats me!
WalksFar
Heeheehee! Burma Shave and their signs along the highways!
>
>> >11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
>
>Had them until 70s here.
>
>> >12. Peashooters
>
>Some came with candy pellets. Stained whatever they hit. We used navy
>beans when they ran out. The yard busted out with bean plants all
>summer.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
>
>> >13. Howdy Doody
>
>He was around never cared much for him. Did catch the last show, though.
>
>> >14. 45 RPM records
>
>Still have them. They were around through the 80s so that isn't too hard
>to recall.
>(Still available, in fact.)
>
>> >15. S&H Green Stamps
>
>And "True Value" stamps. The Green Stamp premium store was around until
>the 70s.
>
>> >16. Hi-fi's
>
>Most of which weren't. Still have one in the garage. (Yes, it works.)
>
>> >17. Metal ice trays with levers
>
>Some people still have them. Saved from old fridge.
>
>> >18. Mimeograph paper
>
>I remember the damn machines! Wotta mess.
>
>> >19. Blue flashbulbs
>
>And the big bowl-type flash attachments they went into. M2B, M3B, M25B
>and even big honkin' ones that looked like house lightbulbs (for press
>cameras.)
Yep! I used them as a photographer!
>
>> >20. Beanie and Cecil
15 minute episodes every weekday at 5:30 PM on Channel 5 KTLA
Los Angeles.
>
>On prime time.
>
>> >21. Roller skate keys
>
>"I've got a brand-new pair of roller skates..." Remember busting old
>ones apart to make skooters out of a milk crate and two-by-four?
Yep, and skateboards, too!
>
>> >22. Cork popguns
>
>With and without strings in the cork.
We always got rid of the strings. Heeheehee!
Uh-huh!
Yes, them, too!
So was I in the 70's out of Fresno -- part of PM Magazine, a
half-hour magazine format show of the San Joaquin Valley.
I have a copy of the video for this one.
WalksFar who dates from the 40's and 50's. . . .
WalksFar
>WalksFar wrote:
>>
>> On 20 Aug 1999 15:34:05 GMT, bev...@netcom.com (Bev Clark/Steve
>> Gallacci) wrote:
>>
>> >Gads, with the exception of HowdyDoody and Peashooters, which I was aware
>> >of but didn't pesonally experiance, I know them all.
>> >On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
>> >1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
>>
>> With the exception of Pearl Harbor which I do not remember,
>> having not been born yet, I remember all the rest.
>>
>> What about "Astro Boy" on TV. "Huckleberry Hound?" "Fearless
>> Fosdick?" "Thunderbirds?" "Engineer Bill?" "Captain Zoom?" "The
>> Lost Continent? "Superman Cartoons?" Space Cadets?"
>
>All of above.
>
>Don't forget:
>
>Clutch Cargo (and Space Angel)
>Rocky & His Friends (before Bullwinkle took over)
I remember. Does thou remember who did the voices?
>Linus The Lion Hearted (and Crispy Critters cereal he promoted)
Yes! That cereal's name got used for a whole lot of jokes and puns.
>Rin Tin Tin (Live action)
Yes. Who was the actor who played Rusty?
>Circus Boy (Mickey Dolenz before he became part of a certain rock group)
I remember . . . reluctantly.. . .
WalksFar, who remembers more than he wished he did. . . .
dIRTYgIRL
Baloo Ursidae wrote:
<snip>
> > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>
Hey, don't feel bad! I remembered 12, and I'm 19! But it should work the
opposite way, as in, if you're old enough to have seen all those things
first hand, you should have forgotten most of them. But then why do we
remeber them?
dIRTYgIRL
> > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
>
> --
> Baloo
Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> How many do you remember ?
> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
Remember? I still buy it! (50 cents a pack!)
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Thought they were hideous as a youth as well...
> 3. Candy cigarettes
My dad smoked, I wanted to be like him. My dad quit smoking, I stopped
getting candy cigarettes as well. Connection there? :)
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Old Texaco gas station in Tustin, California.. still has a dispenser for
them. :)
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Huh? They still exist, at least in half the diners in my current hometown.
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Yup. Am told those cardboard stoppers from old delivery services are
collector's items. Local dairy here still sells milk with those stoppers.
> 7. Party lines
*shudder* Bothered me even as a curtain climber.. ;)
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
Last I saw of those were during Saturday matinees as a kid.. mainly for
Civilian Defense raids, 'duck and cover', and reports on the Vietnam
War...
> 9. P. F. Flyers
Owned one..still in my parent's attic.
> 10. Butch wax
Struck out on this one...
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Was phased out by the time I popped into the world.. though it was
intriguing to hear on old "I Love Lucy" reruns.. and myself asking my mom
why New York City was so strange. (A habit that hasn't gone to stray...)
:)
> 12. Peashooters
McDonald's straws and sunflower seeds. >:)
> 13. Howdy Doody
Before my time..
> 14. 45 RPM records
Still have them! I think my last was an ELO single. :)
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
yup!
> 16. Hi-fi's
have one stashed in my parent's attic..
> 17. Metal ice trays with levers
ibid!
> 18. Mimeograph paper
Who remembers the *smell* of mimeograph paper. :)
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
Kodak Instamatic.. "No Jeff.. You can't take anymore pictures of Shamu
jumping until I get more flashcubes.." :)
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
"A Bob Clampette cartoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN!!!" :)
> 21. Roller skate keys
...and sharing mine with Valerie in the 5th grade.. <-- intense crush!
> 22. Cork popguns
Yes.. preferred the Star Trek "phaser" guns that shot little plastic discs
at my sister. :)
> 23. Drive-ins
Hehe.. still around, though it was a big thing for our family to go to a
drive in. My sister and I liked the playgrounds. :).. Later in HS, drive
ins took on a new meaning. :)
> 24. Studebakers
Nooo.. but my family has a Winged '67 thunderbird! with a POW and "Navy
Seabee" bumper stickers :)
> 25. Wash tub wringers
Nope.. they had Maytags when I was in diapers.. lucky mom, who preferred
the cloth kind. :)
>
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
> so how did you do.. me I am a older than dirt..
21.. Older than dirt.. but I already knew that. I get reminded of that too
frequently.. :P
-Skorzy
--
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UMASS Medical Center ** jeff....@umassmed.edu**
Program in Molecular Medicine Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn
Worcester, Massachusetts Anthrocon Artshow Asst.Directorat
--
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Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn
> In article <7pjshd$b...@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
> bev...@netcom.com (Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci) writes:
>
> >On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at Dallas,
> >1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
> All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
> Challenger exploded.
I remember, vaguely.. Apollo 13...one of my earliest cognitive memories,
in fact. Challenger's explosion? Who could forget.. I still have the
newspaper clippings.
I also remember...
Nixon's Resignation speech...
Apollo/Soyuz conjuction in orbit...
SkyLab missions and its plummet to earth...
Voyager's flyby of Jupiter...
The Iranian Hostages...
John Lennon's assassination...
Seeing the original Star Wars for $1.50 matinee prices..FOUR times in one
day. :)
The *ORIGINAL* Dungeons and Dragons Rulebooks...
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom...
Leaded Gasoline...
Chief-test gasoline...
Driveup A&W Rootbeer fastfood...
Feeling the earth shudder during underground nuclear tests in Nevada (I
lived in So. Cal.)
Full-serve gas stations that checked your oil, tire pressure and coolant...
Jimmy and Tammy Faye-Bakker...
Captain Kangaroo (Keesham)
Bob McAllister's "Wonderama"
The Electric Company
The Big Blue Marble
Walter Cronkite
The Apple ][ Computer
Sleepless summer nights with the original "Castle Wolfenstein"
Ugh..that's enough!
Baloo Ursidae
Um, please, PLEASE snip so its *just* the text that you're responding to
and your text thats left over...not everybody's got infinite bandwidth...
--
Baloo
Baloo Ursidae
> Hey, don't feel bad! I remembered 12, and I'm 19! But it should work the
> opposite way, as in, if you're old enough to have seen all those things
> first hand, you should have forgotten most of them. But then why do we
> remeber them?
Umm, I do remember the ones I said firsthand...some are still around in
the Pac NW...
--
Baloo
Dr. Cat
building is still there and is a museum or something. The old Studebaker
mansion, Tippecanoe Place, is now a really really fancy restaurant. My
parents liked to take us kids there for special occasions, or visits back
once we left the nest.
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rune....@worldnet.att.mil
>
> In article <7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com>, "The Besaw Household"
> <be...@hbci.com> wrote:
>
> > 9. P. F. Flyers
>
> Owned one..still in my parent's attic.
One? Why one? They came in pairs.
Or are you thinking of Radio Flyer?
rune....@worldnet.att.mil
>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:31:20 -0400, rune....@worldnet.att.mil wrote:
>
> >WalksFar wrote:
> >Rocky & His Friends (before Bullwinkle took over)
>
> I remember. Does thou remember who did the voices?
June Foray and Bill Scott (uncle to childhood friends.)
> >Rin Tin Tin (Live action)
>
> Yes. Who was the actor who played Rusty?
Cheee... I can see his face but can't remember his name. (Could do a
search but that would be cheating.)
> >Circus Boy (Mickey Dolenz before he became part of a certain rock group)
>
> I remember . . . reluctantly.. . .
>
> WalksFar, who remembers more than he wished he did. . . .
(snicker) I know, I know. (Oh, my lumbago...)
Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn
*thinks* yes.. I do believe I am.
That would readjust my score to 20, which still qualifies me for pension
and dementia. :)
Dalia
"Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn" wrote:
I remember these too....
> Jimmy and Tammy Faye-Bakker...
> Captain Kangaroo (Keesham)
I'm told I screamed in Terror every time the clown came on. :) And I used to
confuse Denny's and call it Dennis' because of Dennis on the show.
> The Electric Company
> The Apple ][ Computer
Yup, our elementary school used em. :)
Dalia
Baloo Ursidae
>> The Apple ][ Computer
> Yup, our elementary school used em. :)
Well, not only that but the one that followed my class on the rolling cart
in elementary school (Raleigh Park 9, an Apple ][e, that had an old Apple
monochrome monitor on it, that didn't have a cutout switch, so when you
shut off the computer and not the monitor, the monitor would emit a high
pitched but impossible to locate whine. I remember taking earplugs to
school once and turning just the monitor on...) just found itself in the
Merlo Station Technomuseum on the high school campus where I go. Other
entries in the museum are a pair of those Fujitsu Eagle drives (wich we're
about to get rid of, they're HUGE, but they still run...one of the
hardware hackers made an interface for them and hooked them into one of
the lab Pentiums. He wrote a program to make them seek fast one way and
slow the other, so we're thinking we'll clear a path in the lab, have a
bunch of people make programs like that, and whoever's program causes the
drive to hit the opposite wall first wins...I think we need longer
cables...)....
--
Baloo
Baloo Ursidae
> I was in third grade. It was a big deal in my school cause one of the first
Just out of curiousity, what age and area?
Im 17 and Portland, OR.
--
Baloo
Rai
>> >Er ... and a slim fast *what*?
>>
>> Slim Fast(tm) shake, I'd imagine -- it's a slimming-aid. Why
>> anyone would want such a thing here in Alfandra when there are
>> so many goodies, though ... oh, I see.
>
>Aha. I should have guessed -- *another* American cultural reference
> :-)
Well, mostly, but they're available over here in the UK, and were
launched with a rather cheesy TV ad campaign, so I'm mildly surprised
there's no trace of them in NZ at all.
Still, you may just have had no need for them, and not noticed the
produce -- good for you! *grin*
XiP the kangy
>
> >Kid show hosts
>
> Yes, and I even met Uncle Bobby (he lived in my
> neighbourhood). I feel sorry for any kids that got onto his show, the
> guy was an a**hole who hated kids.
>
But was he one before or after he had hosted a show(I think you get sick of the
kids after a while)
>
>
> >WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
> >NIGHT.
>
> CBC Toronto and WNEZ (Buffalo PBS) still do this, WNEZ doing
> both the US and Canadian anthems[2].
>
>
> [2] Buffalo stations know where their audence lives, and it's
> not in the States.
Damn, its a small world, I was born in Niagra Falls(and no "that must have been
wet" jokes, awright, I've heard them all) in 1972, and our family moved to
Jersey at the end of 1978.
XiP the kangy
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his own commercials for KFC, I remember when McDonalds brought out the Happy
Meal and when they'd only served 1 Billion. I remember when Crush pop only
came in orange, when Hostess Chips only cost 25 cents and that price was
printed on the bag as part of the package design. I remember when the large
bag of chips was really a foil bag with two smaller white plastic bags
inside. (Occasionally when a new product came out a small sample bag of the
new product. I remember buying penny candy that cost a penny. When 25 cents
bought enough to get you sick. Yes I remember when pop bottles (let alone
beer bottles) had to be opened with an opener tool. No twist caps. Yes, I
even remember leaded gas.
There's as much on an age gauge you'll get from me.
Ed Smith
the Teflon
Cougar
(Don't try to keep up with the Jonses, it's cheaper to bring them down to
your level)
Elf Sternberg
skorzy@SPAM_KILLER.mindspring.com (Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn) writes:
>Nixon's Resignation speech...
"You call that a body?"
>Apollo/Soyuz conjuction in orbit...
Yes, where both countries fought bitterly over the docking
ring design in order to come up with a flat interface. It seems
neither country could stand being the "penetrator" or "penetratee," as
had been used so successfully by Apollo with the lunar lander.
>SkyLab missions and its plummet to earth...
Why do we never talk about SkyLab? It rocked.
>John Lennon's assassination...
Mark David Chapman?
>The *ORIGINAL* Dungeons and Dragons Rulebooks...
With Dave Arneson's names on the cover.
>Bob McAllister's "Wonderama"
Hmm... The only one I don't recognize.
>The Electric Company
>The Big Blue Marble
"The most important person in the whole wide world is you, and
you hardly even know you! You're the most important person!
You forgot "ZOOM! Z-double-O-M, Box 350, Boston Mass 02134!"
What a clutter I've got in my brain.
>Sleepless summer nights with the original "Castle Wolfenstein"
"Schwein! Halt!"
Elf
--
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MST3K - Help save the saving grace of television.
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rune....@worldnet.att.mil
>
> In article <37C24E...@worldnet.att.mil>, rune....@worldnet.att.mil wrote:
>
> > Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn wrote:
> > Or are you thinking of Radio Flyer?
>
> *thinks* yes.. I do believe I am.
>
> That would readjust my score to 20, which still qualifies me for pension
> and dementia. :)
See? Instant youth!
Hmm... Does that mean if I get senile and forget the things on these
lists I get younger?
Baloo Ursidae
> Ok, You want an Age Gauge? How 's this? I remember when Colonel Sanders did
> his own commercials for KFC, I remember when McDonalds brought out the Happy
> Meal and when they'd only served 1 Billion. I remember when Crush pop only
> came in orange, when Hostess Chips only cost 25 cents and that price was
> printed on the bag as part of the package design. I remember when the large
> bag of chips was really a foil bag with two smaller white plastic bags
> inside. (Occasionally when a new product came out a small sample bag of the
> new product. I remember buying penny candy that cost a penny. When 25 cents
> bought enough to get you sick. Yes I remember when pop bottles (let alone
> beer bottles) had to be opened with an opener tool. No twist caps. Yes, I
> even remember leaded gas.
Ok, depending on the batch, you need your own bottle opener for Souix City
Root Beer and Jolt Cola products. Leaded gas is, for some ass-backwards
reason I can't understand, still availible in California on last visit
(four weeks ago) for US$.899/gal.
--
Baloo
Baloo Ursidae
> Why do we never talk about SkyLab? It rocked.
Until it cratered the Australian desert. Surprised the commonwealth
system didn't get pissed about us...
>>John Lennon's assassination...
>>Sleepless summer nights with the original "Castle Wolfenstein"
How odd, I have that in my dos hdimage on my Linux box...
--
Baloo
Doodles
> In article <skorzy-2308...@user-2ive9jm.dialup.mindspring.com>
> skorzy@SPAM_KILLER.mindspring.com (Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn) writes:
>
> >Bob McAllister's "Wonderama"
>
> Hmm... The only one I don't recognize.
An old childrens program that ran on the Metromedia chain of stations.
Locally, it played on KTTV, Channel 11. I still get the theme music in the
back of my mind once in a while. This tends to precede suicidal
tendencies. =};-3
Unca Spooge, singing "Exercise! Exercise! C'mon everybody get your
exercise!"
Wanderer
The Besaw Household wrote in message <7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com>...
>{Appears out of the Background with a time machine and a slim fast.. }
>
>ok I have read a lot of people posting on how old they are and all that so
I
>found this in one of my E-mail logs.. so you think you old do this..
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>How many do you remember ?
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
>3. Candy cigarettes
"Not a fair test", comments Wanderer. "They *still* sell chocolate
cigarettes down here."
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
Wanderer gets a dreamy look on his face ...
>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
"Also not fair", says the wolfurry with a half-smirk. "You wouldn't believe
how old some of the diners down here are ... "
>14. 45 RPM records
Wanderer grins. "I inherited a few from my relatives."
>15. S&H Green Stamps
Wanderer grimaces. "Now I'll never get that raft ... "
>16. Hi-fi's
Wanderer smirks, as at some fursonal joke ...
>17. Metal ice trays with levers
"Not fair again ... I got a pair from Goodwill."
>18. Mimeograph paper
Wanderer looks pained. "And that lousy shade of purple toner ... yeesh ...
"
>19. Blue flashbulbs
Wanderer smirks. "Only because I got an old camera at a thrift store."
>20. Beanie and Cecil
"Uh-uh-uh", cautions Wanderer. "They had a revival."
>21. Roller skate keys
"Only in comic books ... "
>22. Cork popguns
"Only in cartoons ... "
>23. Drive-ins
Wanderer smirks. "If you mean drive-in movies, yes. I never actually went,
mind you ... "
>24. Studebakers
"Does the Muppet Movie count?", Wanderer replies with a grin.
>25. Wash tub wringers
"You wouldn't believe what turns up at these thrift stores ... "
>
>If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
>If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
"Hmmm ... ", ponders the wolfurry, then makes a few checkmarks on his paper.
"If you include everything I've heard about and seen re-fur-enced, then I'm
older than dirt ... however, this is the list of items I've actually
encountered ..." He shows everyfurry the shorter list:
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
>3. Candy cigarettes
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
>14. 45 RPM records
>15. S&H Green Stamps
>16. Hi-fi's
>18. Mimeograph paper
"This", he points out, "eliminates everything I caught on the second time
around, along with drive-ins, which were dying as I was born. By this list,
I'm just getting older."
"The bad part", he half-grumbles, "is remembering when the edge of your city
was a lot closer to your house."
Yours with a wisp of nostalgia,
The long-memoried,
Wanderer**wand...@ticnet.com
Where am I going?I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow.
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I*don't know!
Wanderer
(snip)
>> 7. Party lines
>
>Hmmm.. not quite sure what that is.
>
(snip)
"Ah, yes", replies Wanderer with a curious smirk. "Party lines. Party
lines were shared phone lines, typically paid for by several residents of
the same neighborhood or apartment complex. On the plus side, very cheap.
On the minus, no privacy ... one pjone line makes fur a permanent
con-fur-ence call. If anyone picked up the phone, they could come in in the
middle of just about anything. Fur more, try the movie, 'Party Line', still
a wonderful introduction to some of the possibilities ... " Wanderer winks.
Yours wolfishly,
The movie-ad-remembering,
Wanderer
>Ok....let me see....6....that means...
>
>Ack! I'm getting older??? And I thought 22 was still young. Awe poo, get
me
>my cane and I'll go lay down for my afternoon nap. Somebody make sure
dinner's
>ready by 4pm.
>
Wanderer smirks. "I should be headed fur the old wolves' home any day now,
then ... I'm 29."
Yours with a sardonic smile,
The wolfish,
Wanderer
>
>The Besaw Household <be...@hbci.com> wrote in message
>news:7pjkv7$2h...@enews4.newsguy.com...
(snip)
>> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>
>Kinda. I still seek out and am happy when a store has the newer 9 oz. Coke
>bottles. I wish they'd still make the 16 oz. Glass bottles- I'd probably
pay
>up to $1.50 for it....
>
Wanderer looks puzzled. "But they do. You just have to order it from Coke.
Try their website fur more in-fur-mation."
Yours with lots of near-useless in-fur-mation,
Wanderer
Mike and Carole Curtis wrote in message
<93520594...@eagles.cyberback.com>...
>
(snip)
>
>Flav-R-Straws
Wanderer licks his lips with a smile.
>TV Weather with little clouds and rain and lightening the weatherman would
>move around.
Wanderer chuckles.
>Kid show hosts
"Yep", replies Wanderer, "I still remember Mr. Peppermint, the D/FW area's
one and only knockoff of Mister Rogers. It was interesting seeing him in a
different role in "Cloud City" some years ago ... "
>Horror Show hosts (heck I was one one summer in 1974)
"Ah, yes", Wanderer comments, "but one of them's still going strong ...
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark."
(snip)
>Cyclamates
"Only when they got rid of them."
(snip)
>Ruff and Reddy
Wanderer begins to sing:
o/"It's Ruff
And Reddy.
Here comes Ruff and Reddy.
They're tuff
And steady.
Here comes Ruff and Reddy ... "\o
Wanderer trails off and chuckles. "I only ever saw the Munimula episodes,
but they were good."
>Gum card packs with gum inside
"Oh, rub it in, why don't you ... "
>Penny tattoos with gum
"Mother wouldn't let me buy them ... that is, if I'd wanted to ... "
(snip)
>10 cent movie popcorn
"Not in my lifetime ... "
>Double features
Wanderer chuckles.
>Serials
>YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR
"I'm tempted to wake up Mother ... "
>TV soaps that lasted 15 minutes and featured windows and doors hanging in
>blackness
Wanderer blinks, and looks bemused by the idea.
>DARK SHADOWS
"Reruns!", says Wanderer with a laugh.
(snip)
>The Funny Company
"Not until I found the online fandom ... yes, that show has an online
fandom."
>The Mighty Hercules
"You mean the cartoon, with the centaur and the satyr?"
(snip)
>Local TV Wrestling
"Oy, don't remind me", says Wanderer, putting his paw to his forehead.
"Please bear in mind that Dallas still HAS local TV wrestling some nights
... "
>The threat of Pay TV
"Double oy ... ", says Wanderer, wincing. "My family had the first fur-sion
in our area, called 'PreView'. Great reception, and just as repetitive as
moden cable. Plus, we had no interest in watching Porky's I, II, or III, or
Meatballs I, II, or III, which was most of what they showed."
(snip)
>The Real McCoys
"Reruns!"
>Local TV, dammit!
"Still here ... ", Wanderer replies with a grin.
(snip)
>The song TELSTAR
"Performed by the Tornadoes, I believe ... I'll know more when I find the
case to my 'Pop Sixties' tape ... "
>TV Guide with only 4 or 5 channels
"Ouch!"
(snip)
>Popeye cartoons
"Only the ones in color ... "
(snip)
>Jay North as Dennis the Menace
>Johnny Weissmeuller as Tarzan and Jungle Jim
"Rub it in, why don't'cha ... "
(snip)
>Letters to Santa
"Ah, but now you can e-mail him, too ... "
>Magicland
"Que esta, por favor?", asks Wanderer be-fur switching backl to English.
"Down here, we have a magic store by that name."
(snip)
>Marvel Super Heroes cartoons, so bad they were great
Wanderer chuckles, and begins to sing:
o/"When Captain America throws his mighty shieeeld,
All those who chose to oppose his shield must yieeeld,
For he'll fight for the right,
And the good and true,
And the red, and the white, and the blue will come through,
When Captain America throws his mighty shieeeld!"\o
Wanderer ducks his head. "Okay, I don't know the middle part of that one
too well. But here's the other one I know ... "
o/"Spider-Man,
Spider-Man,
Does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web,
Any size.
Catches crooks,
Just like flies, look out!
Here comes the Spider-Man ...
Is he strong?
Listen, bud,
He's got radio-
Active blood.
Can he swing?
From a thread.
Take a look
Overhead, Beware!
There goes the Spider-Man!
In the stiiill of night,
At the scene of the crime,
Like a streeeeeak of light,
He arrives, just in time!
"Spider-Man!
Spider-Man!
Friendly neighborhood
Spider-Man!
You know he's
Never bored
Action is
His reward, to hiiim ...
Life is a great big hang-up,
Wherever there's a hang-up,
You'll find the Spider-Man!!!"\o
Wanderer grins.
>Writing letters to SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR comics
"I wasn't allowed to use stamps then ... "
>Coupons in DCComics for Palisades Park rides
"Only in the used comic shops ... "
>King Leonardo
"Only in combination with 'Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales' ... "
(snip)
>Captain Video
"Oy ... how about Kidd Video, too?"
>Powerhouse Candy Bars
>Baron Von Raspberry cereal
"I don't know *where* you did your shopping ... "
>Gospel Music TV on Sunday mornings
"This has changed ... ?"
>Discussion shows on Sunday afternoon
"This has changed ... ?"
>The TV Farm Report
"This *hasn't* changed. Not down here, anyway ... "
>and last but not least...
>
>WHEN TV STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND GO OFF THE AIR FOR THE
>NIGHT.
>
"Down here, they still do."
Yours truly,
The list-checking,
Wanderer
(snip)
>
>No. Tom Terrific, anyone?
>
(snip)
"With Manfred the Wonder Dog, no doubt ... sorry", replies Wanderer, "but by
the time I came along, Captain Kangaroo had discontinued Tom and Manfred in
favor of things like PicturePages, with Bill Cosby."
Yours with an odd memory,
The Mr. Greenjeans remembering,
Baloo Ursidae
>>23. Drive-ins
> Wanderer smirks. "If you mean drive-in movies, yes. I never actually went,
> mind you ... "
Something registers with the bear, "OH! Drive Ins! Ok...well, there's a
Texaco that has an A&W in it, so you can either order your food while
getting gas, park in front, take the drive through, or walk in. A&W Drive
Ins are commonplace outside the major cities, this one is in the
Interchange Hill area of Beaverton, Real close to the Bethany Bvld/Cornell
Road/W 158th Ave interchange.
> "The bad part", he half-grumbles, "is remembering when the edge of your city
> was a lot closer to your house."
I live near NW 139th Avenue. My mom remembers when W 50th Avenue in the
West Hills (same West Hills in the Everclear song "I Will Buy You A New
Life," by the way), was the edge of town and W 139th was way the hell out
in the middle of nowhere and a mile out of Beaverton. Now Portland
extends along US 26 to NW 185th Ave for a few blocks on either side of the
freeway, and Beaverton is two blocks south of us...
My mom also remembers the worlds shortest air-mail run...Beaverton Airport
to Portland Airport, nine miles. (The original Portland Airport no longer
exists, E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd is where it used to be, Beaverton ran
out of funding for the airport in the 50's, and Beaverton Mall was built
on it, along with two streets cutting across the mall.)
--
Baloo
Baloo Ursidae
> An old childrens program that ran on the Metromedia chain of stations.
> Locally, it played on KTTV, Channel 11. I still get the theme music in the
> back of my mind once in a while. This tends to precede suicidal
> tendencies. =};-3
Isn't KTTV now UPN in Los Angeles?
--
Baloo
...still irked from when he was living in LA and that girl fell down the
well, and they preempted Duck Tales for that idiot being recued from the
well...
...was a little cynical and against stupidity when he was a cub, too...
John Van Stry
> e...@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) wrote:
>> bev...@netcom.com (Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci) writes:
>>
>> >On a related note, now many remeber Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, JFK at
>Dallas,
>> >1st showing of StarTrek, Moon landing, Preimeir of StarWars?
>>
>> All but the last were more or less before my time, although I
>> remember Apollo 13 clearly. I also know exactly where I was when
>> Challenger exploded.
>>
>> But then, I was only a few miles away.
>
>*sigh*
>
>I remember sitting with my dad to see the Moon Landing and being all
>excited because I knew dad had "worked on the rockets" (to be more
>precise, he worked on various control systems for Mercury, Saturn,
>Gemini and Apollo projects). A shame we had moved to California by that
>time, or I would've felt the launch from our old home on Merritt Island,
>Fl, immediately south of Cape Canaveral by a scant few miles. I was
>rocked to sleep as an infant by the rocket-engine tests....
The only thing so far I've seen go by that I wasn't around
for was Pearl Harbor. Guess I'm getting old, huh? I remember
exactly where I was for the Challenger explosion, but I can't
remember where I was exactly for teh Apollo fire. That was
possibly a bigger loss then Challenger, given the times, but
the media acted with a lot more restraint in those days.
Any one here remember echo? Or going out at night to look up
at the sky and watch it go by?
Or the USSR's 'Moon Rockets' that would get released to the press
every so often? My favorite was one that turned out to be a cover
from an out of print Sci-Fi book, the press back then never let them
get away with thier BS. (unlike today, I miss a critical press).
Who remembers what Turkish Taffy tasted like? (and Bo No and Mo ?)
Colonel Bleep?
Test patterns? (Not color bars either)
Navy blimps?
Nike Rocket bases?
Civil defense drills and hiding under your desk?
The show that got Soupy Sales thrown off TV?
The Dick Cavett show (On ABC)
Any of the Agena missions
-Banner
--
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E-mail shall be considered an agreement by the sender to pay me 100
dollars (US) for the service of my reviewing it.
Dale Farmer
>
> Navy blimps?
>
I had a friend who was a US Navy Reserve blimp pilot.
They kept the squadrons going up until the mid-80's, when they
were quietly disbanded to keep the base closure folks at bay.
> Nike Rocket bases?
>
There is one about five miles from my house. The bunkers
Last I heard, are still in use for storage at the zoo.
(Drumlin's Wild Animal Farm, Lincoln, MA)
The National Park service is restoring one as a historical
monument, on a lovely site overlooking San Francisco bay, where
it was installed inside an old coastal defense fort.
--Dale
Doodles
> In alt.fan.furry.bleachers Doodles <doo...@primenet.com> wrote:
>
> > An old childrens program that ran on the Metromedia chain of stations.
> > Locally, it played on KTTV, Channel 11. I still get the theme music in the
> > back of my mind once in a while. This tends to precede suicidal
> > tendencies. =};-3
>
> Isn't KTTV now UPN in Los Angeles?
Nope, Fox.
Unca Spooge, remembering far too much for his sanity.
M. Mitchell Marmel
> >
> > Isn't KTTV now UPN in Los Angeles?
>
> Nope, Fox.
>
> Unca Spooge, remembering far too much for his sanity.
Say, whatever happened to Tom Hatten? I remember him doing a Popeye
show in the early 80s.
-MMM-
Baloo Ursidae
> Civil defense drills and hiding under your desk?
Wich is funny, because recent research shows that hiding *between* the
desks is safer, since the desks are likely to collapse if the ceiling hits
it...so there's less space below the desk. The downside? You're likely
to get hit by crap. The upside? Its less likely to trap you or kill you.
--
Baloo
WalksFar
>
>Colonel Bleep?
Yes. I watched him and he cobilled with Gerald McBoing-Boing.
Remember him?
>
>Test patterns? (Not color bars either)
Yes! Two distinct ones I remember. One with a Native
American in full headdress, and another I thought looked like a fan.
>
>Navy blimps?
Yes. We'd see them go over the coast on a regular basis
between San diego and LA.
>
>Nike Rocket bases?
I remember those. Nike Zues was the one used to sukpposedly
shoot down missiles.
>
>Civil defense drills and hiding under your desk?
Yes, and the weekly siren test downtown.
>
>The show that got Soupy Sales thrown off TV?
Heeheehee! YEP!
>
>The Dick Cavett show (On ABC)
Uh-huh! I remember his PBS shows, too!
>
>Any of the Agena missions
Yes! Some worked, others . . . KA-BOOM!
WalksFar. . . .
Delete Me
wrote:
<snip>
>>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>
>Wanderer gets a dreamy look on his face ...
<snip>
Does anyone else here seem to remember soda bottled in glass tasting very
similar to the fountain versions?
--
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"You're the Babel Fish English-to-English translator bot, aren't you?"
(lilbluejoonbunni, in message <37c38376.42017@localhost>)
Doodles
Not sure. That was on KTLA, which is now WB, so I think Buffy drove a
stake through his heart. =};-3
Unca Spooge, still waiting for his coffee!
Baloo Ursidae
> Does anyone else here seem to remember soda bottled in glass tasting very
> similar to the fountain versions?
Glass has no flavor, so they line the cylinders with it, too.
--
Baloo
WalksFar
wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 05:36:46 -0500, "Wanderer" <wand...@ticnet.com>
>wrote:
>
><snip>
>>>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>>
>>Wanderer gets a dreamy look on his face ...
><snip>
>
>Does anyone else here seem to remember soda bottled in glass tasting very
>similar to the fountain versions?
Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
WalksFar. . . .
Foxpaws
Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
can't get them anymore.
Foxpaws
Zon 14
thus:
>> Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
>>drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
>>
>> WalksFar. . . .
>
>Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
>can't get them anymore.
>
>Foxpaws
>
Lets' see here. If I remember correctly, I do believe finer
convenience stores sell a soda called Green River. Don't know if its
the same thing though. That and Big Red as well.
--
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Remove the obvious to reply by email.
Jim Doolittle
zo...@REMOVETHIShotmail.com (Zon 14) wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:42:16 GMT, fox...@jps.net (Foxpaws) spake
> thus:
>
> >> Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
> >>drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
> >>
> >> WalksFar. . . .
> >
> >Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
> >can't get them anymore.
> >
> >Foxpaws
> >
> Lets' see here. If I remember correctly, I do believe finer
> convenience stores sell a soda called Green River. Don't know if its
> the same thing though. That and Big Red as well.
A small restaurant in Champaign, Illinois still sells phosphates. One of
their flavors is, in fact, Green River.
Good stuff.
-Jim
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Foxpaws
wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:42:16 GMT, fox...@jps.net (Foxpaws) spake
>thus:
>
>>> Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
>>>drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
>>>
>>> WalksFar. . . .
>>
>>Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
>>can't get them anymore.
>>
>>Foxpaws
>>
>Lets' see here. If I remember correctly, I do believe finer
>convenience stores sell a soda called Green River. Don't know if its
>the same thing though. That and Big Red as well.
Don't remember every seeing it in a bottle but could be wrong. Have
been a time or two.
Foxpaws
Foxpaws
Doolittle) wrote:
>In article <37c6b5c1...@news.aracnet.com>,
>zo...@REMOVETHIShotmail.com (Zon 14) wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:42:16 GMT, fox...@jps.net (Foxpaws) spake
>> thus:
>>
>> >> Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
>> >>drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
>> >>
>> >> WalksFar. . . .
>> >
>> >Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
>> >can't get them anymore.
>> >
>> >Foxpaws
>> >
>> Lets' see here. If I remember correctly, I do believe finer
>> convenience stores sell a soda called Green River. Don't know if its
>> the same thing though. That and Big Red as well.
>
>
>A small restaurant in Champaign, Illinois still sells phosphates. One of
>their flavors is, in fact, Green River.
>
>Good stuff.
>
>
>-Jim
And me stuck out on the left coast of Kalifornia. Oh well, I can
remember can't I.
Take care,
Foxpaws
WalksFar
>> Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
>>drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
>>
>> WalksFar. . . .
>
>Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
>can't get them anymore.
>
>Foxpaws
>
"Thou still can in Julian, California. There at the old
drugstore, they still make and serve them. Delicious!"
WalksFar, who loves to drink them. . . .
Delete Me
>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:18:33 GMT, walk...@psnw.com (WalksFar) wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 05:42:48 GMT, dele...@lart.com (Delete Me)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 05:36:46 -0500, "Wanderer" <wand...@ticnet.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>>>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>>>>
>>>>Wanderer gets a dreamy look on his face ...
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>Does anyone else here seem to remember soda bottled in glass tasting very
>>>similar to the fountain versions?
>>
>> Yes, I do. Does anyone remember getting a fountain drink in a
>>drugstore called a "Phosphate?" I do.
>>
>> WalksFar. . . .
>
>Yea, a "Green River" was a kind of Phosphate. Loved them. Too bad you
>can't get them anymore.
Waitaminute... Don't some root beers (Mug or A&W?) have phosphate in them?
Wanderer
>On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:13:40 -0400, rune....@worldnet.att.mil wrote:
>
>>Mike and Carole Curtis wrote:
>>>
(snip)
>>> Local TV, dammit!
>>
>>Was on some of it.
>
> So was I in the 70's out of Fresno -- part of PM Magazine, a
>half-hour magazine format show of the San Joaquin Valley.
>>
If anyone was watching the PM Magazine show that went to Scarborough Faire
in 1989, you probably saw me ... I was the gent in burgundy and black that
"wandered" into the scene, stopped, looked around, then walked on.
This is because, wthout my glasses on, all I could see were the two chairs
they had set up fur the hosts. The camera, which they had left running to
provide footage fur cuts to and from commercials, was a vauge blur off in
the distance. I had no idea I'd been caught on-camera until the next
weekend, when *everyone* that worked at the Faire was talking about it ...
I, in the meantime, had missed that episode, and I've always wondered how it
looked ...
Yours as a Scarborough Fur,
The wolfish,
Wanderer
Dr. Skorzy MacFarlaighn wrote in message ...
(snip)
>I also remember...
>
(snip)
>SkyLab missions and its plummet to earth...
Ah, yes ... <nostalgic smile>
>Voyager's flyby of Jupiter...
Oh, I *loved* that! Especially when it showed the rings on that one great
angle.:)
>The Iranian Hostages...
Reagan becoming the president ... :>
>John Lennon's assassination...
Phoo.:(
>Seeing the original Star Wars for $1.50 matinee prices..FOUR times in one
>day. :)
Once, and it took two days' worth of waiting!:)
>The *ORIGINAL* Dungeons and Dragons Rulebooks...
Remember them? I *have* them!:) (It's amazing what you can find in some
used book stores ... )
>Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom...
<smirk> And the immortal jokes:
"While Jim wrestles the alligator, let me tell you a little about our Mutual
of Omaha life insurance ... "
"And now, Jim will move in closer for a shot of the two baby bear cubs ...
uh-oh, looks like Mama's not too happy. Ouch! Well, Jim will be out for a
while ... "
>Leaded Gasoline...
Gasoline rationing ... no, not WWII ... :)
(snip)
>Full-serve gas stations that checked your oil, tire pressure and coolant...
We still have some here in Texas.:)
>Jimmy and Tammy Faye-Bakker...
<pained look> To quote Phil Harris, "Oh, brother". You *had* to bring up
Miss "Waterproof Mascara? What's that?", didn't you?
>Captain Kangaroo (Keesham)
Keeshan, actually, Bob Keeshan. And yes. Vividly.:)
"Hey, Captain."
"Yes, Mister Moose?"
"Wanna hear a knock-knock joke?"
"Well, I don't see why not ... "
"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?"
"Lotta."
"Lotta who?"
"Lotta ping-pong balls!"
<shower of ping-pong balls>
"Mister Moose ... !"
(snip)
>The Electric Company
Ah, yes ... you know, they showed up elsewhere in this thread?:)
(snip)
>Walter Cronkite
"And that's the way it is ... " I think he did well in, "We're Back!: A
Dinosaur Story". But then, Julia Child did well, too ... :)
>The Apple ][ Computer
Apple ][ e, myself ... pity the teacher, who quickly found out that I had no
talent for AppleBasic (he refuses to deal with any members of my family,
ever since).
Oddly, he was a cracker, in the electronic sense ... :)
Mind you, my first computer was a Commodore 64 ... just shortly after
Commodore Business Machines extinguished the line ...
I never said I had good timing ... :>
Yours truly,
The always-late,
Wanderer
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>
>Elf Sternberg wrote:
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>> I also know exactly where I was when
>> Challenger exploded.
>
<snip>
I was in high school, in the middle of ... let me think ... oh, yes. French
class, my first year of it. I didn't even know the Challenger had exploded
until my next period, Choir, when I walked in and Mr. Council (the choir
instructor) had it showing on the television. All I knew in French was that
I suddenly became extremely depressed and began concocting bad ripoffs of
Beatles songs ...
Imagine yourself in a lonely old graveyard
With one mausoleum a thousand feet high.
It's all decorated with gemstones, the plaque reads,
"The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes".
<shudder> Yeesh, was *that* a depression ...
Yours with a long memory,
The lupine,