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The Official "Showing Your Age" Thread
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"Hey Mabel, Black Label!"
Pea shooters, slingshots, BB guns, model cars, hula hoops, yo-yos, beehive hairdos, saddle shoes, poodle skirts, and if you were paying attention, seamed stockings and pointy bras. (Even as a wee lad I tried to be conscious of my surroundings.)
Pea shooters, slingshots, BB guns, model cars, hula hoops, yo-yos, beehive hairdos, saddle shoes, poodle skirts, and if you were paying attention, seamed stockings and pointy bras. (Even as a wee lad I tried to be conscious of my surroundings.)
I still appreciate the effect produced by nice, seamed stockings an a well formed leggy lady.
I thought I was the cat's meow when I got mine. Isn't it crazy how that was pretty much state of the art in computing?
My employer bought it for me! My next computer was a Compaq. It was a "portable" IBM 8088(?) (first gen) with a 10 meg hard drive, a 5 1/4" floppy, and a built-in thermal printer. It weighed 38 lbs!!! It had a 5" CRT monochrome screen built in.
shavefan
I’m not a fan
-Lawn darts at picnics/outdoor get togethers
-The tail end of "duck and cover drills" in school
-Priceless memories of roaming around, unsupervised, all day outdoors on my dirtbike, or with a fishing pole, or my trusty .22 when I was not even yet a teen
-The tail end of "duck and cover drills" in school
-Priceless memories of roaming around, unsupervised, all day outdoors on my dirtbike, or with a fishing pole, or my trusty .22 when I was not even yet a teen
I received notice today that The Cult are playing a localish casino June 2, the good tickets $400 per pop. In the 80's i won tickets to go see them play a secret concert that turned out to be in a bowling alley. Couldn't go because i was working but my wife went with a friend, she couldn't get over how bad the unknown opening band was, Guns n' Roses.
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Priceless!
Yesterday one of the offspring saw me look up something in my CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, circa 1960s that I purchased second hand, and was baffled by the number of tables. "Why so many? Are they all the same thing?" Had to explain logarithm tables, and that's how we did things when we wanted greater precision than with a slide rule. When I told of having to use them some in high school and college, that earned me a perplexed look. "Why?"
"Because that's how we had to do things."
My offspring know that affordable handheld scientific calculators only showed up toward the end of my school days, and have shown them how my slide rules work, but they haven't grasped how the world was before handheld scientific calculators.
Guess I should have introduced them to interpolating from table values.
"Because that's how we had to do things."
My offspring know that affordable handheld scientific calculators only showed up toward the end of my school days, and have shown them how my slide rules work, but they haven't grasped how the world was before handheld scientific calculators.
Guess I should have introduced them to interpolating from table values.
Yep. I still have my trusty CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics in my reference library at work. I'm also still using the Hewlett-Packard 10C scientific calculator I bought when I was in high school.
The secret club of guys who post in this thread needs a symbol.
That's perfect!
Anyone else remember the freebee ice scrapers for windshields? These little things used to be as common as funeral home fans, and had advertisement on them.
Lately, I haven't even seen ice scrapers in stores. A check online shows that they still exist. But when I needed one for my vehicle, I ended up getting a wide plastic paint scraper.
Lately, I haven't even seen ice scrapers in stores. A check online shows that they still exist. But when I needed one for my vehicle, I ended up getting a wide plastic paint scraper.
Thinking about freebee ice scrapers reminded me of freebee pencils. Not the full-sized ones with advertisement on the side, but the shorter wooden ones with metal caps on both ends. The ones I remember were put out by fertilizer or seed companies. Haven't seen one of those since the 1960s.
Hot Dr. Pepper. With lemon.
Drink a bit to eat at 10, 2, and 4.
Drink a bit to eat at 10, 2, and 4.
That stuff will keep you regular they used to say back in the day! The original Dr Pepper musta been a Gastroenterologist.
Had a long discussion about old Saturday morning cartoons with a co-worker today. Most of the ones discussed would probably be lost on some today. Made me feel a bit old lol.
I totally remember the free ice scrapers and pencils.
I totally remember the free ice scrapers and pencils.
"Tennessee Tuxedo"
He was a pharmacist.
Years ago I use to get one every year in a DUI road checkpoint a few days before Christmas or New Years. I've seen and been through one DUI checkpoint in the last 10 years. I said to the cop "Wheres my ice scraper?" His reply "The arent doing that anymore." I replied "What a gyp!" He had a chuckle over that.
Now that I have a garage, I dont need an ice scraper anyway.
Incidentally, that checkpoint wasnt just for drunk driving, but also, being in Canada in the modern free age, cannabis, which involves surrendering a DNA sample.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...ring-lots-of-litigation-lawyer-says-1.4802612
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