[BITList] Bring back memories?

Wed Jun 12 16:05:09 BST 2013

O Malcolm
You sure have stirred up old memories using your calculator I am in the
ancient category.
My my children never mind my grandchildren  have no conception of what my
early life was like. An outside toilet no hot water on tap how primitive
nearly stone age. We were happy nobody told us we were poor we were never
hungry and the house was always warm and clean.
Happy Days
Alisdair

On 12 June 2013 11:58, Malcolm <malcena2 at uwclub.net> wrote:

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> *Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when
> you were growing up?'
> 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
> 'All the food was slow.'
> 'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'** **
> 'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. !
> 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down
> together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my
> plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'*
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> By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
> suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I
> had to have permission to leave the table.
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> But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if
> I'd figured his system could have handled it:*
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> Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf
> course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.*
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> My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed
> probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed(slow)..
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> We didn't have a television until I was married with children. It was, of
> course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after
> playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about
> 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on,
> featuring local people...*
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> Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.*
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> All newspapers were delivered by local school boys. **--**My brother
> delivered a newspaper, *
> *Seven days a week. He had to get up at** **6 every morning.*
> *
> Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films.
> There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced
> for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost
> anything offensive.*
> *
> If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to
> share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just
> don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.*
> *
> Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?*
> *
> MEMORIES from a friend:**
> My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
> he brought me an old lemonade** **bottle.
> In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew
> immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea..
> She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew
> it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle'
> clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.*
> *
> How many do you remember?** **
> Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.**
> Ignition switches on the dashboard.**
> Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. **
> Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.**
> Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.*
> *
> Older Than Dirt Quiz:**
> Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
> Ratings at the bottom*
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> 1. Sweet cigarettes**
> 2. Coffee shops with 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 2 channels** [**if you were fortunate**]**)**
> 7. Peashooters
> 8. 33 rpm records**
> 9. 45 RPM records**
> 10. Hi-if's
> 11. Metal ice trays with levers
> **12. Blue flashbulb**
> 13. Cork popguns **
> 14. **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 11-14 = You're positively ancient!** *
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> I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best
> parts of my life
> (PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)*****
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