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For us old gaffers, do any remember flashlight batteries that had the paper tube on them? School lunch milk in half pint glass bottles, with a paper cap?
Any more? Maybe the young bucks on the 'fire, will lean a few things about the ancient days?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I never saw paper straws for your milk shake.
I am MAGA.
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Chicks that looked like they had Buckwheat in a leg lock.
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I remember turning the car radio on....and waiting for it to "warm up"....
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I remember turning the car radio on....and waiting for it to "warm up".... Drives dad nuts when the radio comes right on in a movie.
I am MAGA.
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I remember turning the car radio on....and waiting for it to "warm up".... I remember the radio in dad's '50 Ford burning up! Filled up car with smoke! And we had a Plymouth that had one of them squirrel cage coolers you could roll up in the window! Poured water in em like a swamp cooler!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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My first can of soda pop.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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For us old gaffers, do any remember flashlight batteries that had the paper tube on them? School lunch milk in half pint glass bottles, with a paper cap?
Any more? Maybe the young bucks on the 'fire, will lean a few things about the ancient days? If those bottles were sealed with a thin waxed-cardboard crown and a stiff cardboard disk forced into the center, you could fold the crown and use it to propel the disk like a little flying saucer. Remember that?
National Rifle Association - Patron Member National Muzzleloading Rifle Association - Life Member and 1 of 1000 Illinois State Rifle Association - Life Member Carlinville Rifle & Pistol Club ~ Molɔ̀ːn Labé ~
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vacuum windshield wipers. the faster you went the faster the wipers went. our old willys had them
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Heck, I remember when dinosaur tracks were new.
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Manual choke and throttle pull knobs on the dash. Headlight "brights" switch on the floor. Starter button on the floor. Chevy's "steal me" ignition locks that didn't require a key. Glass oil bottles with screw-on metal spouts at every gas pump. Rayon-belted bias tires. A hole in the front bumper where you inserted the manual start crank. Nash Ramblers (?) with the "rolling bedroom" full recline seats.
That's just some of the car stuff!
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For us old gaffers, do any remember flashlight batteries that had the paper tube on them? School lunch milk in half pint glass bottles, with a paper cap?
Any more? Maybe the young bucks on the 'fire, will lean a few things about the ancient days? In first grade 1956 we had milk 3 cents in a glass bottle. We said grace before eating. Both of those were gone in 1957.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Holy Cow yous guys is old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Drive in theaters. Drive up places to eat. (Not Sonic. You could get a beer brought right to your window at some of those drive-ins.) Can't drink and drive today..
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Canvas water bag hanging in front of the car grill.
Ration books.
Green stamps with the filll-up that was pumped by the kid in the station, while he cleaned your windshield.
Polio, diptheria, cholera, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, giardia in the town water.
School cafeteria: sloppy joes for the kids whose parents bought meal tickets, peanut butter sandwitchs for the others.
Saturday night baths in the washtubs with the water heated on the coal stove. Parents first, then the kids.
Two holers.
High school boys driving the school bus.
Poppin' Johnny.
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Rick Bin best stick this thread in the basement before his advertisers get a sniff of the true age demographic around here.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
"Play Cinnamon Girl you Sonuvabitch!"
Biden didn't win the election.
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...with a 30-30 leaning up in the corner in case a bear decided to interrupt your morning constitutional..
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I remember Beemans Pepsin Gum that made you Fart like crazy in School and on the Playground . I remember those miniature Wax soda bottle shaped thingies filled with sweet syrup . I remember flipping Playing Cards with Baseball Players on them . I remember listening to Big John and Sparky every Saturday morning , and catching the latest Tarzan Movie with a buddy whose father ran the local Movie Theater ( we got in free , but I think kids paid 13 cents or maybe it was 26 cents Admission ) . I remember the weekend Dances where I stepped on all the little girls feet . I remember the first TV in the neighborhood ( my Aunt & Uncle owned it ) and all the neighbors would come over Saturday around 10 or 11 PM and watch Yukon Eric , Gorgeous George , Hans Schmidt , Vern Gagnea , Haystack Calhoon , etc . Wrestle . Those were the good ol days !
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For us old gaffers, do any remember flashlight batteries that had the paper tube on them? School lunch milk in half pint glass bottles, with a paper cap?
Any more? Maybe the young bucks on the 'fire, will lean a few things about the ancient days? I remember the school lunch bottles. Also remember when the small dairies would put a tin box by the front door where they would pick up and drop off the daily quart bottles of milk. If you wanted other dairy products, like cottage cheese and sour cream, you left a note and it showed up the next day. Remember when the grade schools allowed you to buy little cups of orange or raspberry sherbet for an after lunch treat for around $0.05?
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Four party phone lines, dads was one long and two shorts ringer. Gasoline engine powered washing machines
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