Do you remember.....

On 3/13/2011 5:46 PM, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:


OMG! I had a '59 Fairlane. It had all those lights across the back.

I learned to drive on my parent's '57 Plymouth with 3 on the column.
That was the big car with the "fins" It had no power steering. I was
the first person in the neighborhood to buy bras with stretch straps
when they came out in the early 60's. I can't tell you how many bra
straps I broke trying to parallel park that Queen Mary sized car
--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:34:21 -0500, Andy wrote:


I tried Steak Tartar once and while the flavor was ok, the texture of
the raw meat wasn't. I love sushi, but raw beef made in that way was
too "slimy" for my liking. Perhaps because it wasn't fresh enough.

Kobe Beef as sushi is awesome though. Expensive, but truly awesome!
Tasted like the best rare steak I've ever eaten.

Here's a beautiful photo of some:
http://www.alifewortheating.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/urasawa-kobe-sushi.jpg
 
On 2011-03-13, Brooklyn1 wrote:


Yep.

We hadda '74 Lincoln Mk IV pimp-mobile. The front seats were
velveteen Barcaloungers and you could fit my old VW Rabbit in the
spare tire wheel well. Today's cars got less legroom than discount
airline coach seating. That Lincoln hadda 460 cid V8 and still got 20
mpg.

Today's cars cost more than a house and ain't worth the bathroom's
toilet seat.

nb
 
On 16/03/2011 12:52 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

My my, I seem to have touched a nerve!

My dear chap, I'd like to point out that I am in no way envious of you
or, for that matter, anything about you. I find you well and truly
embedded amongst the least likable personalities on usenet. My dog has
more manners than you! What's to be envious of?

Krypsis
 
On 3/11/2011 2:42 PM, Nancy2 wrote:


I remember most of them, too. I also remember gas wars on the Berlin
Tpke in Connecticut when gas got down to 16 cents a gallon.

Ice cream comes were a dime and hot fudge sundaes were a quarter.

Bath soap was a nickel, Wonder Bread was a dime a loaf, Campbell's Soup
started at 7 cents a can depending on the variety, Rice Krispies were 17
cents for the box. Ground round was 69cents/lb. My parents owned a
neighborhood grocery store from 1947-65 and I remember the prices well
because I often helped during the summer and marked the prices on things
with a black wax mechanical marker before they bought a price stamper.

There was a bad crop year for potatoes and they went from 5 cents a
pound to 7 or 8 cents and a young customer was heard to ask his mother
"Why don't we buy potatoes any more." She explained about the price
increase and he replied "Are we POOR?"

There were quite a few Scandinavian commercial fishermen in the
neighborhood and they occasionally traded lobster or scallops for a
reduction to their weekly grocery bill. (Many families kept a running
account that they paid weekly on Friday or Saturday.)

Of course hourly minimum wage was $1 or $1.25, can't remember which,
and the cotton and woolen weaving mills in town were the biggest
employers. There weren't many wealthy people around other than doctors
and lawyers.

Times were very different.

gloria p
 
On 2011-03-13, Brooklyn1 wrote:


Nonsense.

I hadda '87 Civic Hatchback Si. Most fun car I've ever owned and I'm
$'10" and 260lbs. When I first bought it, I drove from Denver to SFBA
non-stop. Never got tired, fatigued, or cramped. Then went on to
drive it for a 70 mi per day commute for next 5 yrs with a couple 2K
trips thrown in. When sold, it was jes worn out. Interior shot,
exhaust rotted, and a buncha small things to numerous to spend $$$ on.
Yet, the engine, with 240K on it, still purred and got 35mpg. I
actually hated to sell it.

I had a chance to buy a '93 Civic hatchback Si, but by then the
interiors were like getting into an overinflated liferaft. So tight,
made me see crosseyed. I didn't buy it, much to me regret. If I
could find a used 88-91 (the best years) Civic hatchback Si in good
shape, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Best car seats: VW Rabbit. They'd put chiropractors out of business.

Worst car seat: Any Toyota. They keep chiropractors in steady work.

nb
 
On 3/13/2011 5:56 PM, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

I worked for better firms, I guess. I had a secretary. I had to share
her with several other paras, but I did not type.

I was in estates, trust and taxation and I did some matrimonial work,
too. I wrote briefs and drafted litigation (matrimonial and probate) but
always either used the attorney's secretary or the one assigned to the
paras.

I started out in 1978 when there were hardly any paralegals in NJ. One
lawyer wanted me to be a legal secretary and also a paralegal. I
demanded pay for both jobs. He didn't bite. I had chutzpah even then

Hated litigation. Got stuck with some civil lit work a couple of times.
All that digesting deps and cataloging evidence. Too much grunt work
for me.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
My grandma went to work and wasn't home to cook
dinner. My husband's one grandma (older than my dad) didn't like to
cook
so she took the kids out to dinner. In her later years she didn't even
have
to do that! The local restaurants used to send people out to bring her
food."Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ...""




--
afaqanjum28
 
"Leonard Blaisdell" wrote

Even with a top of the line supplement it will be a bargain by comparison.
Pretty soon you'll be getting all sorts of advertising in the mail trying to
see you supplements. Be sure to check out AARP for rates.
 
Janet Wilder wrote:



Janet,

Yes, of course.

What I can't remember is if he used plain ground beef or finely chopped
up steak of some sort. It looked like ground beef when it was done.

The occasion also marked the first and last time anyone but Mom took
over the kitchen.

Best,

Andy
 
In article ,
Janet Wilder wrote:


There's good news for me Janet. Because of Ed Pawlowski downthread, I
skimmed a bit of my AARP "Approaching Medicare" brochure for the first
time. I was born in August of '46, and I assumed I would start coverage
in September. I was wrong. The year was great. Our month was special ;-)
Thanks Ed!

leo
 
On 12/03/2011 2:18 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
Well, for starters, the girls all looked good in their gym uniforms...

I never received an allowance nor did any of my friends. Any money we
had was earned at after school jobs or paper rounds.

Purebred dogs were as common as the mutts. We had Cocker Spaniels.

Didn't get trading stamped when we fueled up the car.
Vaguely recall one place trying it out but it didn't catch on.

No baseball games here, just Aussie rules football and cricket.

The only ones doing any bowling were the oldies at the lawn bowls. We
never wanted to get that old! Still don't play lawn bowls even though I
am now that age! ;-)

Never had the wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Nor did we have Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum. Do remember
Spearmint though!

Milk wasn't delivered in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. It was
ladled out of a churn into containers we had left out on our porch. That
happened every day! The milk always had a layer of cream on top.

Don't recall telephone numbers with a word prefix. They might have been
there but no one I knew ever used them. We didn't have a phone with
letters on the dialler.

The first drive-in came to Australia in 1954. We still have three
operating drive-ins here in this state. We can still live the experience!
http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/australian/vic1.htm

No idea what a Lincoln Log is.

15 cent McDonald hamburgers weren't an issue for me as the first
McDonalds opened in Sydney, Australia in 1971. Can't recall when the
first opened here in Melbourne but, by then, I was in my mid thirties
and spending way too much time overseas.

"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Not to me it doesn't.

We paid for fuel in Australian Pounds, Shillings and Pence. Decimal
currency didn't arrive in this country until 14 February, 1966.

Never heard of the term "double-dog-dare". Double dare, yes, had that!




krypsis
 
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:09:49 -0500, "BigBadBubbas"
wrote:


Nope, DON'T remember most of those.

I'm OLD ENOUGH to have such memories, IF those events were accurate.

They aren't.





I don't know quite how old you profess to be, but, I am 72 soon, and live in
Australia, and those memories are the same that I have, even here in
Oz!..... Quite accurate enough for my memories!...

BB
 
Brooklyn1 wrote in
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Ummmmmmmm, shelldum, you *did* say that with no rear doors "she couldn't
escape".

That's 'entraping' someone. And also giving a hint that if there *were*
doors, any female unfortunate to find themselves on your back seat *would*
do a runner.

You really should think before you type.







http://www.recfoodcooking.com/mug/shot/Sheldon.jpg



That was taken, what, 20-25 years ago? High School reunion?

And believe me sheldon, you 'ain't no oil painting'. You got some wog in
you? It certainly looks like it.






Too true.



--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

"As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends
and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who
we are.

We are Queenslanders.

We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border.

We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again."
 
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:32 GMT, "I'm back."
wrote:


You fucking down under the cesspool imbecile... I couldn't escape
either. LOL
 
On 16/03/2011 11:14 AM, I'm back. wrote:
Thinking, it would seem, is not a pre-requisite nor even a possibility
for Sheldon.
One would have to ask why he "needs" to post a picture that is so far
divorced from current reality. One can only assume that he is ashamed of
his present appearance and, looking at the above image, I can see why.
Sad really.
Sheldon has displayed only the manners of a pig on most of his usenet
rants. I have absolutely no doubt that his online persona matches his
attitude and appearance IRL.

Krypsis
 
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