Doohickie

What the heck is he sayin'???


Nope. Never did.


"Again?"

"Nothin' up my sleeve.... PRESTO!" *SNARL*

"Oops, musta used the wrong hat!"

Rocky and Bullwinkle are etched into my mind... what can I say?

I took Advance Placement Chemistry in high school. Ours was the first class where they didn't teach slide rules because we all had TI-30s by then.

ciocc_cat

My number was 049 and they were calling up the first 50. I figured that I was headed for Viet Nam for sure, then Nixon put the brakes on the draft (presumably to get re-elected).

rydabent

1944------telephone number -------17f22--farm line 17 ring two longs and two shorts.

Powerglide chevvys Dynaflow Buicks split manifolds on Chevvy 6's

1981 single sided 5.25 floppys

outside sun visors on 50 era cars

air conditioners in the back windows of cars

Moon hub caps

Don Garlis big daddy glass pack mufflers

Huge IBM computers with frige sized disc drives 5 gig--------and that was only back in 1990

IBM PC with first hard drives 10 meg

IBM selectric with golf ball type head

1973 IBM correcting Selectric

toobusi

I haven't used this expression in a very long time:

"Do those come in a 32"

Jamesw2

I drew 352 in the last draft

Artkansas 

"Make a carbon copy."

I think I was the last person using a manual typewriter at the university I attended. Everyone else had Apple IIs, Osbornes, and Trash 80s.

I did have an equalizer though, unlimited use of the Xerox copier at work. If I made a typo, I'd just retype the paragraph and cut and paste the page together.

B. Carfree

There has been some really fun stuff on this thread that has tickled my memory. However, in many respects our culture has really advanced and there are some things I never want to relive. Just like we outgrew legal wife-beating and much of segregation, we are outgrowing the legal beating of children in schools. We're not there yet; most southern states still allow this practice. Where it is allowed, the school officials are immune from criminal prosecution and almost never lose in civil court. Read this for a lovely little tale: https://nospank.net/shelly3.htm I just cannot understand how anyone can defend the notion of a grown man beating a teen-age female to the point of damage to her reproductive system. Had her parents inflicted such wounds, they would have been hauled into criminal court for child abuse; the school official was immune from such prosecution.

I'm sorry if my rant offends some of you. You're wonderful people and we just disagree. It's just that I have seen good kids go into depressions from which there may well have been no escape because of the cruel beatings they received by school officials, and all because they had trouble sitting still when they didn't understand their lessons. I guess I've always been a supporter of the underdog. Speaking of which:

Digital Gee

Tough act to follow, but here's one that came to me tonight:

"Give it to Mikey! He'll eat anything! Hey Mikey! He likes it!"

JanMM

+1. Not everything about the good old days was good. Good old violence=Not so good.

Red Baron

Eeeuuuuuu ... you have a 'outhouse' (with)in your home - Nasty. fellow classmates 2nd grade 1954 or 1955

No animimals allowed in the house young man Mother, and baby racoon 1954

Don't feed the cats - they will stop hunting and mice will be all over the barn G'pa...1953?

Don't pet the dogs, they won't hunt but come in for attention.. uncle leo 1955 Raccoon hunting.

DnvrFox

Hi RB, haven't seen your posts for a long time. How are things in the PI's - or are you still there?

Artkansas 

I think your first paragraph tells it all about the true effectiveness of paddling. Zip! I got paddled 20 times in the second half of 4th grade. Can't remember what any of the infractions were. Didn't get paddled ever in any other grade or by any other teachers including the first two teachers I had in 4th grade. All that teacher taught me by paddling was to hate her.

I did get a week's detention in Jr. High. I remember why I got that. I was involved in an impromptu contest to see who could throw a paper airplane into the the principal's open window on the third floor. What made it a real challenge was that there was a fan in the window, blowing outwards. One boy succeeded and promptly quit trying. He won the contest and avoided punishment.

So, not only is paddling abuse in my book, it's especially so because the pain removes the focus from the act, and the lesson is lost.

However, I have to note, that years later I entered the 2nd Great International Paper Airplane Contest and took home a bronze medal in Aerobatics.

XR2

Sir/Ma'am.

JanMM

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kennytb

Yes, sir. Thank you ma'am - I haven't heard them without sarcasm in years.

Artkansas 

I don't know, they are still alive and well around here. I certainly talk that way although I picked it up at Hughes Aircraft not in Arkansas. Though some younger women tell me that it creeps them out being called Ma'am. Makes them feel old.

Artkansas 

Don't tell that to my last boss. He's making millions saying just that on TV.

Phil85207

Wheres the BEEF???

sknhgy 

Do they still call the 9v batteries that you put in your smoke alarm "transistor radio" batteries?

Red Baron

Thanks Dnvr Fox, I'm back in the US. Hard to adjust. Lost my personal Driver (SAG wagon) and cold weather is tought, But I,m @ 230 miles for the year. Only 21 of them Outdoors. ! BTW headed back for a business trip EOM, Taking my bike !!!!!! Gald to talk to ya!

RonH

I hear "Yes Ma'am" and "Yes Sir" a lot too. Must be a Southern thing.

Spiduhman

Thanks OP and you all, enjoyed them 10 pages!

"Kitchen Magician"
"Pocket Fisherman"
...Popeil...

Grandma had the first gas powered washing machine in town; later she had the first electric, which she still had when I knew her. It had powered wringer on top, and yes, she did once get her tit in it.

When we moved back to the East from CA, I was horrified to see the spankin' paddles displayed in each classroom... and brandished by some - certain - teachers. I swore to myself right then and there one would n e v e r be used on me. I'd be expelled first, taken off campus in cuffs first. Bastards.

Heh, I was almost as horrified, several years later, when we moved back to CA, and the freshman class was at least three years behind... the "advanced" class was just starting algebra, what a joke.

But I digress.

"...wiggle the tuner."
"Answer the phone."
"Change the record."
"Turn the antenna"

overthehillmedi

Dad's remote control: Son,change the channel.

Spiduhman

"...gag a maggot" (somewhat that smell bad)

"Kindling roof" (The shingle blocks with a crooked grain where sent back to town, where the people used them for kindling, then the shingle makers discovered that the "flatlanders" would pay MORE for thicksplit crookedy shingles, hence, such were named "kindling roofs" - not on account of flammability, for all roofs were once't wood shake, else slate, boyo)

"Crooked'r than a dog's hind leg"

"Needs a trip down the stairs"

trackhub

Good one!

-Tube testers, just inside the door of Radio Shack stores.
-Being able to buy batteries one at a time. They were sold from those plastic chutes, usually located near cash registers.

If no one has mentioned it: TV repair men. Remember these guys? Always showing up in their vans, in spiffy uniforms, and equipped with all kinds of cool looking tools and gadgets.