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Jimi

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May be an image of text that says 'Are your panties uptodate? up to date? It's the rage you know 一a different date on each pair, pairs in separate pastel shades for each day of the week, all for the little price of $3.98. Made of fine Rayon Tricot. A pleasure to wear and sporty enough to share. Will not shrink. DATED PANTIES Box of 7 for only $3.98. $3. Come in Small, Medium and Large. Enclose check OT money order We will pTepay postage, or sent C.O.D. plus postal charges. DILO SALES cO.. Dept. P-124 125 East 46h Street, New York 17, N. Y.'
 
Lannie

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Jimi said:
May be an image of phone and text that says 'COLOR Way back TELEPHONES Machine! Finally, colors for our phones! Lol! Own your own tra.colortelephoneg with no charge all. These ATE rebuilt refinished with dard beautifuldecorator cord and for forinstantusein instant ny Your choice, blue, ivory, eige. pink, black, yellow and gold. (Shpg. chge. 1.50 ea.) SEND FOR FREE CATALOG $1695 Grand Com Inc Dept. BH-3 324 Sth AVE.. N.Y. 10001''COLOR Way back TELEPHONES Machine! Finally, colors for our phones! Lol! Own your own tra.colortelephoneg with no charge all. These ATE rebuilt refinished with dard beautifuldecorator cord and for forinstantusein instant ny Your choice, blue, ivory, eige. pink, black, yellow and gold. (Shpg. chge. 1.50 ea.) SEND FOR FREE CATALOG $1695 Grand Com Inc Dept. BH-3 324 Sth AVE.. N.Y. 10001'
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I remember how fun it was whenever I moved to a new apartment or rental house, to go to the GE Phone Store and pick out a new phone. We didn't have to buy them, they just let you use them, and I guess the cost of rental was included in your monthly bill. Of course, you had to take your old phone back to trade. But all the different styles and colors! It was so much fun picking out a new phone! (It has never taken all that much to amuse me, I guess.)
 
Lannie

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And speaking of phones, is anyone else really irritated at the high pitched electronic chirping that's considered "ringing" on phones these days? Wait, maybe not, because probably everyone has a cell phone now. Well, we don't. No cell service out here in the boonies. I miss the RING of the old phone. You could hear it wherever you were in the house, or even if you were outside! And people who are hard of hearing (like Rich) can't even hear these new phones ringing if the TV is on.

We still actually have an old desk style phone that was in the shop here when we bought this place. But alas, the phone company finally came out a couple years ago and changed the lines to fiber optics and (I guess?) that makes that old phone not work anymore, so now it's just a collector's item. Or a paperweight. Man those old desk phones carried some weight, didn't they?
 
Lannie

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Cigarette lighter, pull tab, 8-track tape, drive-in speaker, Instamatic 126 film cartridge, car window roller-upper, flash cubes for that Instamatic, cloth measuring tapes, credit card imprinter, View Master cartridges, lighted magnifying makeup mirror, TV remote, nut cracker and picks, electric frypan... and I don't recognize that last one.

Seriously, people don't use electric fry pans or nut crackers anymore? How do they eat walnuts? Buy them already shelled in a bag, right? Those are the people that also buy their cheese already grated in a bag, their potatoes already peeled and diced in a bag, their salad already cut up and mixed in a bag... I can't help but feel sorry for those people.
 
Lannie

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On the same note as the nutcracker, you should have seen me trying to open a coconut with a hammer when I was 11 years old. I did it, but by the time I hit it hard enough to crack it, it shattered all over the back deck (mom wouldn't let me do this in the kitchen, LOL!). But I picked up all those pieces of coconut shell and chewed the meat off every one of 'em. Man, that was a good coconut. Better because I had to work for it!
 
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SirKadly said:
Chalk holder, the kind that you put a piece of chalk in each of the holders and use it to draw straight lines on the chalkboard. Here is a better pic, but that's what it is.

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Pretty sure that example would be used in a music class as each of the staffs had 5 lines.
 
Lannie

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gopher_byrd said:
Pretty sure that example would be used in a music class as each of the staffs had 5 lines.
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NOW, I do remember that. Our music teacher used one to draw the lines on the chalkboard with one just like that when she was going to teach us about notes. I don't remember much about that "music class," except we learned the "Do re mi" song (we were little kids) but now that I see the whole thing, I do remember that neat little chalk holder.
 
snake94115

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Lannie said:
On the same note as the nutcracker, you should have seen me trying to open a coconut with a hammer when I was 11 years old. I did it, but by the time I hit it hard enough to crack it, it shattered all over the back deck (mom wouldn't let me do this in the kitchen, LOL!). But I picked up all those pieces of coconut shell and chewed the meat off every one of 'em. Man, that was a good coconut. Better because I had to work for it!
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too open a coconut you just need a machete and awesome hand eye coordination.
proof of concept below...Cheers!

 
snake94115

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first time when we (the whole lot of us) visited my grandma in Connecticut when i was very young...later on when i visited my brother in North Carolina mostly to apologize for stealing his car when i was a teenager....even later when me and my wife were on vacation in the Sierra mountains. BTW it was July and there was still 10 foot walls of snow up there...Brr!
 
Jimi

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OK a few days ago I posted about Thanksgivin startin this thread well this is the part of Thanksgivin that did it

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All my life I had always seen Wizard of Oz come on on Thanksgivin day and just a few years ago they quit and havin my soapbox handy I thought I would start this thread in protest :rolleyes: Yes I know:facepalm::giggle:
 
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