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Thread ID: 102919	2009-09-06 22:41:00	Monday Laughs................Seniors	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

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807405	2009-09-10 13:23:00	Just saw this on Reddit: (e^x) is walking down the street, when he runs into (7), who has a crazed, fearful look in her eye. "(e^x)!" screams (7), "You have to run! All the numbers are running. A differential is coming... we'll all be turned to nothing!" (e^x) barely responds, "Pff, baby, I'm (e^x), differentials don't change me, I'm my own derivative." (7) keeps running. More numbers pass by urging (e^x) to flee. He pays no mind. Suddenly, the differential turns the corner. With a smirk on his face, (e^x) is ready for it. But No! His face turns to horror. Standing before him is (dy/dz). BRILLIANT! Hahaha I didn't think there was any way that joke was going to be funny, but it actually was.	roddy_boy (4115)
807406	2009-09-10 15:23:00	A mathematician walks into a bar and asks for ten times the normal number of drinks anyone else has. "Wow," says the barkeep, "That's an order of magnitude."	roddy_boy (4115)
807407	2009-09-10 16:30:00	How many do you remember? * Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. * Ignition switches on the dashboard. * Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. * Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. * Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1.Candy cigarettes 2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5.Newsreels before the movie 6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) 7.Peashooters 8. Howdy Doody 9. 45 RPM records 10.Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with lever 12. Blue flashbulb 13.Cork popguns 14. Studebakers 15. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.[/FONT] I remember ALL of them and more! 1) Making you own kites out of brown paper, mucilage and sticks 2) Two paper cups and string "telephones" 3) Grammar school paper with actual tree bark and holes in it that you had to write around. 4) Mr. Peanut standing on street corners advertising Planter's Peanuts 5) Waiting for the "New Models of 19xx" when the new cars came out in September every year. 6) Bucky Beaver for Ipana toothpaste 7) Wind up alarm clocks 8) The vegetable man and his cart 9) Helm's Truck (US only maybe) 10) Mr Clean 11) #2 pencils made of actual wood! 12) Ink wells and crow quills 13) Corduroy pants 14) Crinolines 15) Hoop or Poodle Skirts 16) LB Butch Wax 17) Aunt Jemima 18) Toni home permanents 19) Mr Machine 20) Liberace 21) Parker T-Ball Jotters 22) Mike Stokley's "Beat The Clock" 23) View Master 24) "Song Of The South" 25) Oilcloth on your grandma's kitchen table 26) The front stoop - or the rear stoop 27) Cellar doors, and sliding down them 28) 78 and 80 RPM records, 1/2" thick and single-sided 29) Coal furnaces in the basement 30) White margarine with a yellow dye packet to make it yellow colored 31) Underwood typewriters 32) Oaktag or Onion Skin 33) Chatty Cathy 34) Erector Sets 35) Moxie 36) Buster Brown 37) Attics 38) A&P or Grand Union or Piggly-Wiggly 39) "Sun Pictures" 40) Horne & Hardart's "The Automat" I remember all of these as I made this list from my memories. Anybody else have any such memories?	SurferJoe46 (51)
807408	2009-09-10 21:57:00	Hmmm . . . . . . Most of those are US items with no obvious equivalent here, but 1, 2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 20, 23, 31, & 34 ring bells . We don't know mucilage as such, we'd just call it glue or paste, and being a dairy nation, margarine was possibly available but butter was our cholesterol source of choice . You would rarely have found a house with a cellar or attic here, or a furnace of any description, and we didn't have oilcloth as such, but we did have a practical equivalent . Our pencils were "Black Beauty" large in diameter for small hands and with a thick lead as well so that it didn't break as often . Crow quills sound a bit Dickensian, but we did have "dip pens" with metal nibs but only for kids who didn't have a fountain pen . Ink colour was a great indicator of the social divide too, the 'haves' used their own Stephens Royal Blue ink while the 'have-nots' used school provided blue-black . Talk about social discrimination! To have Stephens red and green inks as well placed you squarely in the elite classes of society . Liberace made it in because we at least had access to US music on the steam powered radio . Apart from old TV programs or ads, which didn't start here until the early 60's, no doubt we have our equivalents for most of the list, if only we knew what they were . Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
807409	2009-09-10 22:42:00	I remember ALL of them and more! 1) Making you own kites out of brown paper, mucilage and sticks 2) Two paper cups and string "telephones" 3) Grammar school paper with actual tree bark and holes in it that you had to write around . 4) Mr . Peanut standing on street corners advertising Planter's Peanuts SEE BELOW 5) Waiting for the "New Models of 19xx" when the new cars came out in September every year . 6) Bucky Beaver for Ipana toothpaste SEE BELOW 7) Wind up alarm clocks 8) The vegetable man and his cart 9) Helm's Truck (US only maybe) SEE BELOW 10) Mr Clean SEE BELOW 11) #2 pencils made of actual wood! 12) Ink wells and crow quills 13) Corduroy pants 14) Crinolines THE STIFF GAUZY FABRIC UNDER SCHOOLGIRLS' DRESSES TO HOLD THEM OUT . 15) Hoop or Poodle Skirts 16) LB Butch Wax TO HOLD THE HAIR UPRIGHT AFTER A SHORT HAIR CUT 17) Aunt Jemima PANCAKE MIX - DEEMED RACIST FOR THE DEPICTION OF THE NEGRO 'MAMMY' ON THE FRONT OF THE PACKAGE . 18) Toni home permanents 19) Mr Machine SEE BELOW 20) Liberace 21) Parker T-Ball Jotters A BALL POINT PEN, VERY EARLY 22) Mike Stokley's "Beat The Clock" A TV GAME SHOW 23) View Master THE AMBIENT LIGHT VIEWER THAT HELD ROUND PICTURES THAT YOU COULD VIEW IN STEREO 24) "Song Of The South" A DISNEY MOVIE, CALLED "RACIST" AND BANNED 25) Oilcloth on your grandma's kitchen table 26) The front stoop - or the rear stoop 27) Cellar doors, and sliding down them 28) 78 and 80 RPM records, 1/2" thick and single-sided 29) Coal furnaces in the basement 30) White margarine with a yellow dye packet to make it yellow colored 31) Underwood typewriters 32) Oaktag or Onion Skin VERY EXPENSIVE TYPEWRITER PAPER . 33) Chatty Cathy A VERY LARGE, TALKING DOLL 34) Erector Sets 35) Moxie A HEALTH DRINK 'WAY BEFORE HEALTH WAS A CONCERN 36) Buster Brown CHILDRENS' SHOES 37) Attics 38) A&P or Grand Union or Piggly-Wiggly SUPERMARKETS FROM THE 1940S 39) "Sun Pictures" THESE WERE PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER AND A FEW SILLY NEGATIVES THAT YOU "PRINTED" BY EXPOSING THEM TO THE SUN . UNFORTUNATELY THEY FADED IN BRIGHT LIGHT . 40) Horne & Hardart's "The Automat" A RESTAURANT IN NYC WHERE YOU PUT MONEY IN A SLOT AND COULD OPEN A DOOR FOR FOOD OF YOUR CHOICE . I remember all of these as I made this list from my memories . Anybody else have any such memories?	SurferJoe46 (51)
807410	2009-09-10 22:49:00	:2cents: 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles I can remember taking the billy out to the gate so that the milkman could fill it from the can on the back of his truck. (still warm from milking) Pasteurisation? whats that. Never heard of anyone getting sick. Getting a saveloy from "Podge" the butcher who sold meat from his butchers truck(weekly?) Opening the drain outside the dairy next door to get the coins dropped by people going to the dairy. Same with the cattle stop opposite the same dairy. Smashing the china cups on the telephone poles with home made shanghais(Made from bootlaces, Leather tongue from old boot, Strips of car inner tube and a forked stick. Smashing open lead acid batteries and melting the lead in a tin can over a fire to make our own fishing sinkers. scrounged lead nail heads for same. (Lead was not a safety risk in those days) Picking Tar off the road side to patch our canoes.(made from sheets of corrugated iron) They used tar in those days.	Colpol (444)
807411	2009-09-10 23:51:00	New-fangled foil caps on milk bottles. That warm School milk in summer. Halo shampoo. Which twin has the Toni? Car starter buttons on the floor. Cars with pneumatic seats. Accelerator (Gas) pedal between the brake and clutch. Spark adjust lever and hand throttle over the steering wheel. Pulling spark plugs apart to clean them. Doing the annual car valve-grind. Petrol for 1/ 6d a gallon (15c for about 4.5 L) Bread delivery man retrieving the bread from way down the horse-drawn wagon using a long pole with a nail in the end. (I wanted a nailed stick just like that.) New-fangled aluminium foil milk bottle caps. A monster school holiday for the polio epidemic. (But business as usual at the school dental clinic.) Talking to people through windows when visiting the TB sanatoriums. 2/6d. for a Warrant of Fitness. (25 c, but it it lasted a full 6 Imperial months.) Struggling to find anything to buy for a farthing. Proving by multiple tests that mud was not the perfect caulking for corrugated iron canoes; not even the real gooey orange-red clay sun hardened for twenty minutes. The joy of collecting sufficient rubbish from the zoo grounds to be allowed to help scrub the elephant (in a pond that would cause a riot in the health authorities now). The change from God Save The King to God Save The Queen before the movies started. The queues for the car ferry in the "rush" hour. Multi-brand petrol stations. Going up the road to see the neighbour's new refrigerator.	R2x1 (4628)
807412	2009-09-11 01:07:00	Watching the bread delivery man put his truck into first gear and allow it to run along the road with no driver while he delivered the bread on either side of the road. Paying extra to buy coca cola 'on the ice' rather than at room temperature - and having to drink it in the shop 'cos they wanted the bottle back. Being able to duck out from the cinema at interval time (they used to have an interval time just before the main feature) and buy your icecream from a shop outside the cinema.	user (1404)
807413	2009-09-11 04:11:00	Getting margarine on a doctor's prescription from the deli (previously you could only buy butter, so buying margarine at first was severely restricted in NZ) Having to get permission to be present at the birth of my children (you almost have to get permission not to be present nowadays, I understand !) Certain goods roped off because you could not buy them on a Sunday (you could buy a magazine for instance, but not a new toilet seat) Women being first allowed to wear trouser suits as a public service employee No petrol on sale at weekends because of the oil crisis (and, at another time, car less days once a week depending on your licence plate number) Paid for my naturalisation when it was $2. I thought "it will never be cheaper !!" ;) Misty :D	Misty (368)
807414	2009-09-11 04:20:00	13) Corduroy pants I remember all of these as I made this list from my memories. Anybody else have any such memories? Hi SJ I still have a pair of corduroy pants. One of the few items I have bought from Smith & Caughies ! (rather up-market). :illogical They look good on me :thumbs: Misty	Misty (368)
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