Hello to all,
Just a list of underrated and unappreciated things in no real order. I started thinking about it when a member used a quote to the effect that "we often replace what works with what sounds good and call it progress." Please join in and add your own choices and comments.
1. DE Shaving
2. V8 engines
3. Coke in the old, little glass bottles
4. Rear Wheel drive
5. Hershey bars made with real sugar
6. Cup shaving soap
7. Aviator Sunglasses
8. A good leather jacket
9. A water tight foot locker
10. Leather Work Gloves
11. Breakfast Tea
12. Swiss Army Knife
13. Liquid fuel Coleman lantern
14. Old School HD Jumper Cables (we will start it or tow it in with them)
15. Vintage Airplanes
16. Veterans
17. Grandfather and how he did it
18. Manual Transmissions
19. Good set of field glasses (binoculars)
20. Home cured bacon and sausage
21. Sorghum Molasses
22. Stick Welding in the right hands
23. Shoe shine stand
24. Old school barber
25. Corn popped on an open fire
26. Corn ears roasted right from the stalk
27. Brasso
28. Straight razors
29. Hand written letters
30. Fountain Pens
31. 22 cal. Rifle
32. 38 revolver
33. Hand choke on a carburator
34. Good campfire
35. Campfire beans
36. Sugar Cubes
37. Homemade biscuits
38. Country Churches
39. The American Flag
40. Marvel Mystery Oil
41. Paratrooper boots
42. Steel Wool
43. WWII Army Nurses
44. Medics
45. Firing line G.I.s
46. Paste Shoe polish
47. Blocked Hats
48. Records-the kind you play
49. Army Chaplins (Daughter is in the Chaplin Corp, you should hear . . .)
50. Old Time Radio (I am a collector)
51. Stick type belt dressing
52. Good Drinking water (I have been without)
53. Army Cot (beats sleeping on the ground with the varmints)
54. Tent that don't leak!
55. Old Dodge powerhouse truck
56. Three roses hair tonic
57. Antimalarial pills (the rest of them got it)
58. Cast Iron skillet
59. Homemade cornbread
60. Army Surplus store
61. Army hot cocoa in the green packs
62. The Civil Defense
63. A father that never took off his wedding ring, never
64. A mother that didn't open the door for door to door salesmen
65. A good mechanic
66. A flight instructor that has seen combat
67. Eggbeater style hand drill (no power around, batteries are dead, what are YOU going to do??)
68. A banker that knew your grandfather
your turn, how many can you add?
have a great shave,
mrscottishman
Just a list of underrated and unappreciated things in no real order. I started thinking about it when a member used a quote to the effect that "we often replace what works with what sounds good and call it progress." Please join in and add your own choices and comments.
1. DE Shaving
2. V8 engines
3. Coke in the old, little glass bottles
4. Rear Wheel drive
5. Hershey bars made with real sugar
6. Cup shaving soap
7. Aviator Sunglasses
8. A good leather jacket
9. A water tight foot locker
10. Leather Work Gloves
11. Breakfast Tea
12. Swiss Army Knife
13. Liquid fuel Coleman lantern
14. Old School HD Jumper Cables (we will start it or tow it in with them)
15. Vintage Airplanes
16. Veterans
17. Grandfather and how he did it
18. Manual Transmissions
19. Good set of field glasses (binoculars)
20. Home cured bacon and sausage
21. Sorghum Molasses
22. Stick Welding in the right hands
23. Shoe shine stand
24. Old school barber
25. Corn popped on an open fire
26. Corn ears roasted right from the stalk
27. Brasso
28. Straight razors
29. Hand written letters
30. Fountain Pens
31. 22 cal. Rifle
32. 38 revolver
33. Hand choke on a carburator
34. Good campfire
35. Campfire beans
36. Sugar Cubes
37. Homemade biscuits
38. Country Churches
39. The American Flag
40. Marvel Mystery Oil
41. Paratrooper boots
42. Steel Wool
43. WWII Army Nurses
44. Medics
45. Firing line G.I.s
46. Paste Shoe polish
47. Blocked Hats
48. Records-the kind you play
49. Army Chaplins (Daughter is in the Chaplin Corp, you should hear . . .)
50. Old Time Radio (I am a collector)
51. Stick type belt dressing
52. Good Drinking water (I have been without)
53. Army Cot (beats sleeping on the ground with the varmints)
54. Tent that don't leak!
55. Old Dodge powerhouse truck
56. Three roses hair tonic
57. Antimalarial pills (the rest of them got it)
58. Cast Iron skillet
59. Homemade cornbread
60. Army Surplus store
61. Army hot cocoa in the green packs
62. The Civil Defense
63. A father that never took off his wedding ring, never
64. A mother that didn't open the door for door to door salesmen
65. A good mechanic
66. A flight instructor that has seen combat
67. Eggbeater style hand drill (no power around, batteries are dead, what are YOU going to do??)
68. A banker that knew your grandfather
your turn, how many can you add?
have a great shave,
mrscottishman
