Struck by a philosophical streak, I was contemplating things that, like myself, used to be quite useful but have now become more or less completely useless.

The first thing that I came up with was phone books. Other suggestions?

Congress

Rotary dial telephones.

Yankees

The Mets

I'm not sure he meant the baseball team...

Oh, that again.

"And the beat goes on ..." (Sonny and Cher)

bottle openers

N.ggers......

I still use our local phone book.



//bottle openers\\
Still need them for good beer.

Hear hear!

(Some good ones are filling cans these days though.)

Optical or "Coincidence" rangefinders;



Ed

Road Atlas

Ed

You still have people who have land lines?!

Those can may not ruin a good craft brew, but the aesthetics and philosophy of that is wrong!

Pocket knives and bic lighters can be used to open beer bottles, but then they are doubling as bottle openers.

Ya betcha!

It comes with the innanet package from my ISP.

Just don't leave a message on the voice mail.

My local ISP is the phone company and they will not install internet unless you have a land line. They also have a monopoly on internet service unless we use satellite internet.

8 track players and tapes.

There is a technical advantage to cans: they are full protection against UV and light struck beer.

Oh, I don't know, Ed. Effective range of 20,000 yards, no batteries or electronics to fail, 60 years old and still going strong. I wouldn't call that useless. JMHO.

Fish skin rubbers and slide rules.

Encyclopedias.

The original intention mentioned things that at least once were useful.

[quote=APDDSN0864]Optical or "Coincidence" rangefinders;[quote]

If shooters realize laser emissions can bring fire on your position some of those old rangefinders may become valuable again.

true, also moot.

They should not last long enough to be affected!

Breakfast just became useless about 10 minutes ago.

^^ We have a winner

Hey a good dump is quite useful! And fullfilling!!!

.270

dwell meters, vacuum-tube testers, California

You need to drink better beer.

You missed the USEFUL part of the post.

These are still very useful.

Public schools.

Unions.

About 1/2 the beer I drink needs an opener....

My wife would say Me

My last high school project was a 5 tube superheterodyne.

I don't know about that, I like using Road Atlas and maps for my trips. I also help the scouts learn to read and use maps and compass. I will never fully trust a GPS and carry 2 compass's in my back pack.

I'd love to get ahold of white and yellow pages from the early 60's...Chicago

And most gubbmint employees

That's a winner..fo shuh

I knew there was a reason I have kept mine...

Ed

Maybe, but beer or any drink tastes better out of glass. In fact I damn near refuse to drink coffee out of a Styrofoam cup. On the other hand, the oldest Girl prefers it that way and we keep Styrofoam cups on hand for her. miles