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Offline dentin

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« Reply #75 on: November 14, 2007, 05:26:11 PM »
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Wow...most of you are old enough to be my father. Enjoy my Social Security!

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« Reply #76 on: November 14, 2007, 05:33:42 PM »
Couple years back as I was tossing some 20 sumtin's out the door of a bar I was bouncing at - the other bouncers would yell at the dearly departing former patrons

"Have some respect for your elders"

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« Reply #77 on: November 14, 2007, 05:58:39 PM »
that sounds like fun newbie :lol

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« Reply #78 on: November 14, 2007, 08:39:52 PM »
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12/07/1941..
Most of my Uncles and a few Aunts served in various capacities while in the service of our Country...most now departed. :(


heheh ok you ment start of WWII for America then :)  My dad was at Iwo Jima, and I had uncles at almost very famous WWII battle except D-Day.

One Uncle at the Battle of the Bulge, one at Anzio, one at Guada Canal and my wifes' aunt was an Army nurse in London.
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« Reply #79 on: November 14, 2007, 10:52:59 PM »
to you all or figuring out how to turn the computer on!  My grandparents can barely manage that, much less post on a BBS, fly cartoon planes et.c.

Here's a question;  Who had to walk the farthest, climb the biggest hill (and in how many directions), traverse the deepest snowdrifts and with what kind of footwear to get to school, assuming school had been invented when you were younger?

p.s. any of you have an autographed picture of Jesus?

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« Reply #80 on: November 15, 2007, 05:39:55 AM »
well clerick, I had to walk barefoot 100 miles to get to school up some very steep hills.  during the winter the snowdrifts were so high that we would walk on the fence post.  oh and it was up hill both ways.  yes that was during the last ice age when miami florida was both mountainous and cold.

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« Reply #81 on: November 15, 2007, 05:57:52 AM »
I'll tellya one thing I remember vividly is a time when everyone owning a PC wasnt even a concept. And when the Internet, before the great Al Gore invented it, wasnt even an idea. I never even saw a PC until the early 80s when my buddy first bought one and had some pathetic golf game on it, the playing of which, felt like walking on the moon. We used to stay up for hours playing that game and guzzling beer.

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« Reply #82 on: November 15, 2007, 07:27:01 AM »
does 59 qualify.....lol
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« Reply #83 on: November 15, 2007, 10:28:32 AM »
55 , I may be old but I'm in bad shape and senile.

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« Reply #84 on: November 15, 2007, 10:41:32 AM »
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to you all or figuring out how to turn the computer on!  My grandparents can barely manage that, much less post on a BBS, fly cartoon planes et.c.

Here's a question;  Who had to walk the farthest, climb the biggest hill (and in how many directions), traverse the deepest snowdrifts and with what kind of footwear to get to school, assuming school had been invented when you were younger?

p.s. any of you have an autographed picture of Jesus?


No BS.  This is true.

I grew up in northern MN, near the Canadian border.  Growing up we didn't have running water in our house.  We had a hand pump in the kitchen, an outhouse, an out-building sauna (good Finns that we are/were) and a crank phone on a party line.

We took baths once a week when the sauna got heated (my dad and bothers only made enough wood in the fall for weekly saunas through the year).  Trips to the outhouse at -30F were a winter norm.

By the time I was about 10 we got indoor running water in the kitchen so as a teen I was able to wash my hair daily and after I moved away my mother finally got an indoor shower.

I had to walk 1/4 mile to the highway and stand there waiting for the bus in the winter at anywhere from +10 to -40F, often through a foot of snow or more.

My how things have changed.
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« Reply #85 on: November 15, 2007, 11:32:24 AM »
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No BS.  This is true.

I grew up in northern MN, near the Canadian border.  Growing up we didn't have running water in our house.  We had a hand pump in the kitchen, an outhouse, an out-building sauna (good Finns that we are/were) and a crank phone on a party line.

We took baths once a week when the sauna got heated (my dad and bothers only made enough wood in the fall for weekly saunas through the year).  Trips to the outhouse at -30F were a winter norm.

By the time I was about 10 we got indoor running water in the kitchen so as a teen I was able to wash my hair daily and after I moved away my mother finally got an indoor shower.

I had to walk 1/4 mile to the highway and stand there waiting for the bus in the winter at anywhere from +10 to -40F, often through a foot of snow or more.

My how things have changed.


Almost the same for me, 'cept I was in rural Missouri so it was a little warmer, and no Sauna, dang. We walked 1/4 mile down the muddy lane to a gravel road for the bus.

Two longs and short - for the phone, hehe.
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« Reply #86 on: November 15, 2007, 12:02:32 PM »
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10/12/57

Just made it.

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What are the odds of this? Same day myself 10/12/57!

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« Reply #87 on: November 15, 2007, 12:22:48 PM »
Didn't have a crank phone, but phone numbers were assigned to "regions"

The town I grew up in was Watertown, CT. It's telephone region was "CRestwood" so all number began with 27 (CR).

The next town over, Thomaston, was "ATwood" so all numbers began with 28 (AT).

So if someone asked you what your phone number was you would say ... "Crestwood 4-5555".

Also, if you were in the "Crestwood" region and wanted to dial another number in the "Crestwood" region you only had to dial 4-xxxx.

Most of us withing this age spread could probably relate to this ...

During the summer, I would get up and out the door at 7 am in the morning. Take off on my bike with my buds, and not have to be home until 5 pm. During that time, my mom never knew where I was and it was never a concern. Can't do that nowadays.

You just had to make sure that your arse was in the dinner chair for 5 pm tho ... else all hell broke loose ... go figure.
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« Reply #88 on: November 15, 2007, 12:26:03 PM »
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Didn't have a crank phone, but phone numbers were assigned to "regions"

The town I grew up in was Watertown, CT. It's telephone region was "CRestwood" so all number began with 27 (CR).

The next town over, Thomaston, was "ATwood" so all numbers began with 28 (AT).

So if someone asked you what your phone number was you would say ... "Crestwood 4-5555".

Also, if you were in the "Crestwood" region and wanted to dial another number in the "Crestwood" region you only had to dial 4-xxxx.

Most of us withing this age spread could probably relate to this ...

During the summer, I would get up and out the door at 7 am in the morning. Take off on my bike with my buds, and not have to be home until 5 pm. During that time, my mom never knew where I was and it was never a concern. Can't do that nowadays.

You just had to make sure that your arse was in the dinner chair for 5 pm tho ... else all hell broke loose ... go figure.


Mine was PRescot, and we had a party line:)

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« Reply #89 on: November 15, 2007, 12:39:50 PM »
LOL,
I remember having a party line and waiting a couple years after color tv came out to get one because there weren't many color shows available.  Now I have 3 HDTV's with surround sound.:)
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