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Campfire Ranger
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Not as long ago, but I drove a lot of real trucks with air wipers. Better than vacuum, but they still sucked. Manual steering, no a/c, no cruise, spring, rubber, or solid suspension, Sold mount bench seats, No heated or Moto-Mirrors, 300hp. 350hp was a big deal, shifting 13 gears to 55 mph, see a hill back to 6th. Repeat, repeat........ Tiny little sleepers my fat old ass wouldn't fit into anymore.
For the "experienced" truck drivers.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Latin class in Jr High (~ '61) often left me gasping for air. I found that a cylinder choked straw saved from lunch parlayed into a "shotgun" was quite affective half way across the classroom. A spit wad behind bits of #2 pencil lead would bring my buddy up out of s semi-consciousness stupor in a seizure-like jerk that one time resulted in all his books falling to the floor. Alas, this quickly became a short-term pass time.
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Campfire Ranger
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I recently showed my 10 and 14 year old daughters spit wads, and the short straw hidden in the cheek. They had never even heard of such a thing. What in the world are these kids learning. Years of schooling wasted.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Opening petcocks and spinning the flywheel to start JD tractors.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Kahuna
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Ink wells on the school desks. They went unused for us, ballpoints were just coming in.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Starter on the floorboard.. Dimmer on the floor.. When you had to remember to turn off the lights after you shut off the engine..otherwise click, click, click the next time hou tried to start the engine.. Vacuum operated wipers (we had a ‘53 (?) Chevy truck... Your first “king size” Coke.. All the hand signals when driving.. Flash bulbs.. Polio shots and later the three doses on the sugar cubes.. Chicken pox scars being considered a rite of passage.. Ding Dong school, Howdy Doody, Flash Gordon, Friday night fights.. Pee Wee, Diz and Falstaff beer.. Buying BB’s and/or .22’s at the hardware store and the clerk ringing them up without a second thought.. Wearing a Cub Scout knife on your belt at school and not getting arrested for it.. I’ll think of some others ...😄
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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Campfire Tracker
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Love the smell of asbestos clutches and brakes.
$$$ TRUMP AT THE PUMP 2024 $$$
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Campfire Tracker
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Mom, sending me to the corner gas station for a pack of smokes....when I was six.
Luck....is the residue of design...
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Campfire Kahuna
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Family going down to the creek for a swim. Bread man in a panel truck coming by the house selling breads and baked goods. Home delivery of milk in glass bottles.
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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Coke in a bottle for five cents. Fountain Cokes for 5 cents...cherry or chocolate...no extra charge..
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Campfire Regular
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Radio, Amos, and Andy. Saturday morning radio, Sky King, The Buster Brown Show, "Twang your major twanger froggy". Tugboat Annie!
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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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Wheelo's. Wham-O slingshot, 8 track tape players, VHS rewinders-don't you dare take that rental back unwound!
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Putting the yellow cardboard sign in the window so the driver from the cleaner's would stop to pick up your bag of cleaning left on the porch.
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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Looking for Coke bottles to turn in for the refund to get some "spending money". Always having to split a candy bar with my twin brother. One of us would cut it in half the other would get first choice. Picking up pecans all day Saturday and having the pecan buyer refuse them because they weren't the right variety. Sleeping under so many blankets you almost couldn't turn over and then running into the room with the coal fireplace to dress in the morning. Having one black and white TV in the house and only being able to watch it on weekends. Listening to rain a tin roof. Emptying the pot of rain water that was under the hole in the tin roof. Home made booster seats in the car so the kids could see out the window, not to strap them in to keep them safe.
Harry
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Looking for Coke bottles to turn in for the refund to get some "spending money". Always having to split a candy bar with my twin brother. One of us would cut it in half the other would get first choice. Picking up pecans all day Saturday and having the pecan buyer refuse them because they weren't the right variety. Sleeping under so many blankets you almost couldn't turn over and then running into the room with the coal fireplace to dress in the morning. Having one black and white TV in the house and only being able to watch it on weekends. Listening to rain a tin roof. Emptying the pot of rain water that was under the hole in the tin roof. Home made booster seats in the car so the kids could see out the window, not to strap them in to keep them safe. you are describing my current life! blackjack gum big hunk candy sugar daddy candy fibber magee and molley Lowell Thomas Edward R. Murrow
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I never did like Black Jack.
I am MAGA.
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Beverages in tin throwaway funnel top cans same as brake fluid was packaged in.
Potato Chips came in 5¢, 10¢ and 25¢ sizes only and each contained at least five times the chips the same size bags do nowadays at ten times the price.
Bare feet on cold-azz linoleum floors in the winter.
Sleeping on the same linoleum floors on hot, steamy summer nights because they were he coolest place in the house.
Coal grate fireplaces, Warm Morning cast iron heaters and wood burning cook stoves
Falling asleep up on the rear window shelf of dad's old one-seater 'business coupe.'
Just a little ways out of almost any town the night sky was so dark it was incredible the amount of stars that were plainly visible..
Hardly any businesses were open on Sundays and most Holidays and many closed early on Saturday.
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Remington rifles that the bolt handles didn't fall off of......
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Seeing blue stars in windows replaced with gold stars during WW II and Korea.
Inner tubes with so many patches you could barely see the original rubber tube.
Seeing the panic in my mother's eyes when she lost our ration books while walking home from the grocery store.
Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, and Hershey bars for 5¢.
Saturday afternoon Buck Rogers serials at the local picture show, 10¢ admission, 5¢ for a paper sack of fresh popcorn, a double feature with The Durango Kid in one feature and Bob Steele in the other.
.30-40 Krags for $5.00 at the hardware store.
Long, long ago.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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