We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:23:19 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:15:57 -0600
My Darling Chief, Don't worry about biong nekulturny.....I won't turn you out.

I love the Burma Shave ads.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82708 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82708 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:17:59 -0600
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. :)

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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.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82693 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82693 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:34:22 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82691 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82691 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:05:06 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82689 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82689 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:07:22 -0600 You got a brand new key
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82683 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82683 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:54:07 -0600 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... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82678 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82678 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:51:46 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82677 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82677 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:49:58 -0600
Wish I'd kept mine instead of letting that Brythunian sorceress convince me they were nekulturny...
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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.
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We had to walk five miles just to carve an ice cube out of the glacier, and it was uphill both ways... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82660 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82660 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:00:41 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82659 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82659 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:51:28 -0600
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)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82652 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/memories_1.html#comment-82652 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:35:17 -0600