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Memories

2009-01-09T14:15:57Z

Cassandra sent this, in response to the posts here and her place the last couple of days. I admit it brought a smile to my face now and again, as those images drifted by.

Speaking of images... sigh - I remember how excited I was when I made my first million. Now it seems so passe.

And don't forget to vote for Us, Big Tobacco, and The Torch, too. Not that my exhortations or endorsements seem to be having much effect...

Comment from Maggie on 2009-01-10

2009-01-10T21:17:59Z

Barb, I forgot how to make gum wrapper chains too.

My Darling Chief, Don't worry about biong nekulturny.....I won't turn you out.

I love the Burma Shave ads.

Comment from Casey on 2009-01-10

2009-01-10T17:42:07Z

The Studebaker was over the top. And the editor forgot glass, returnable pop bottles.

A lot of that stuff is still around. Check out eBay, and you'll find all sorts of Lincoln Logs, erector sets, and even Etch-a-Sketch. Reel-to-reel tape decks are also still around, used by audiophiles.

There's a drive-in theatre about 10 miles north of where I live, and a couple miles south of that there's a new Sonic burger joint. They just tore down a genuine old-school drive-in joint in my down, and replaced it with a (Feh!) Taco Bell.

And I hated those bloody stupid aluminum ice trays! Heh.

Speaking of penny candy, I sometimes think it would be interesting to just divide all values by 10, so $10 would be a dollar, a dollar becomes ten cents, and so on. That way a penny gets a little value back, and we could buy a new car for $2,000 again. :)

Comment from BillT on 2009-01-10

2009-01-10T10:34:22Z

Velociraptors tasted like chicken -- why do you think they're *extinct* now? Great drumsticks...

Ice weasels were a bigger problem -- they evolved into crapweasels and then devolved into politicians and passed laws requiring us to get a license to knock off a velociraptor. Of course, they'd all been extinct for years by then, but they added the other megafauna, so it took longer to fill out the paperwork than to actually go hunting.

I tell ya, it set us back considerably. We had originally figured it'd take us 200 years to get a working hyperdrive, but it was over a thousand before we even got the bugs out of gravity repulsors.

Then the ~~crapweasels~~ politicians made it so hard to apply for a permit to put up a cold fusion plant, we just decided "ta hell widdit" and invented beer, instead.

Comment from BC on 2009-01-10

2009-01-10T08:05:06Z

Remember reel to reel! I've got one in the basement. It came back from Sasebo in a store room of a gray ship back in '69. Wonder if it still works.

Comment from bad cat robot on 2009-01-09

2009-01-10T03:07:22Z

And at night ... the ice weasels would come.

Comment from Toluca Nole on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T23:54:07Z

Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key

Comment from Heartless Libertarian on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T21:51:46Z

What really made it interesting for Bill were the velociraptors who would lie it wait by the glacier, knowing the humans would come up to get ice...

Comment from Josh on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T21:49:58Z

Chatty Cathy? Ugh, that always makes me think of that Twilight Zone episode...

Comment from BillT on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T21:07:28Z

Sandstorm? That's why we evolved nictating membranes for a couple hundred thousand years.

Wish I'd kept mine instead of letting that Brythunian sorceress convince me they were nekulturny...

Comment from RetRsvMike on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T20:47:07Z

heh. i remembered about half or so of them.

Speedy the AlkaSeltzer Boy was the Final Jeopardy question sometime last week, and my spousal unit looked at me like i had an appendage in the middle of my forehead for knowing it.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T19:09:29Z

What? No mention of the blinding sandstorm that flayed the skin from your face struggled up the doublehill?

Comment from XBradTC on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T19:00:42Z

Ah, flash bulbs. We used those in Hawaii in 86-87 to make expedient boobytrap training devices. A simple 9v battery, a clothespin, two thumbtacks, some WD-1 and an MRE spoon.

Comment from BillT on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T19:00:41Z

You kids had it *easy*.

We had to walk five miles just to carve an ice cube out of the glacier, and it was uphill both ways...

Comment from Barb on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T18:51:28Z

I not only remember virtually all of those - I actually had a reel-to-reel tape deck, a skate key for my skates, a Brownie camera, a Chatty Cathy, and Erector set and Lincoln Logs, and knew (although I've forgotten) how to make gum wrapper chains. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Comment from AFSister on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T18:35:17Z

I remember about 2/3rd of those things, but not all. I clearly remember getting my fingers pinched by those darn metal ice cube tray levers though!!

And whenever my kids help me do something in the kitchen, I'm the first to remind them that "It's not Shake n Bake, but you did ha-yulp!" (Remember that? "It's Shake n Bake! And Ah ha-yulped!", said by a small child with a southern accent)