[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Another old dude thread (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/30/2013 11:43:01 PM EDT
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It wasn't that long ago that anyone had to keep a lot of phone numbers memorized.
Now? just add them to the phone, tap like two times to "dial". Hell, I struggle to remember my own number now. "shhhicckk.. click click click click click click... shhhhicckk.. click click click..." etc.. |
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Oh, and that freaking 30 ft. long, knotted up cord that would reach to every bedroom?.... lol Actually, I sort of have a use for those. Well, in that I have the long, gray, flat "twisted pair" line that I occassionally need to plug into the wall, carry with me, as I dial and listen around my place trying to find my cell. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ("Can you hear me now?"--the man with the glasses, (w,stte), some cell service commercial) |
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Oh, and that freaking 30 ft. long, knotted up cord that would reach to every bedroom?.... lol Actually, I sort of have a use for those. Well, in that I have the long, gray, flat "twisted pair" line that I occassionally need to plug into the wall, carry with me, as I dial and listen around my place trying to find my cell. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ("Can you hear me now?"--the man with the glasses, (w,stte), some cell service commercial) Yep, I've done that too. |
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Oh, and that freaking 30 ft. long, knotted up cord that would reach to every bedroom?.... lol Actually, I sort of have a use for those. Well, in that I have the long, gray, flat "twisted pair" line that I occassionally need to plug into the wall, carry with me, as I dial and listen around my place trying to find my cell. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ("Can you hear me now?"--the man with the glasses, (w,stte), some cell service commercial) Yep, I've done that too. http://www.wheresmycellphone.com/ Free. I've used it more times than I care to admit. |
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I still use a little black address book. Well, mine isn't quite a "little black book" but rather like 
Thing is, I haven't used it for years. I'm not that much into sending cards these days and when I need the address of someone to send a package (and I'm long behind on that!), I email someone and ask. At one time, I thought it would be a "neat" thing to have my address book easily located so if I bought it, those after me could use it to inform others. Saw it on a spy show once. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ("I don't even have a little red book."--Wai Lin, (w,stte), "Tomorrow Never Dies") |
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When I was a kid our phone (after we got one) number started with two letters. yep. PL4-7166 was our home phone. Had two great aunts with party lines, straight outta Mayberry. Crank the handle in some weird sequence to reach the operator. Lift that earpiece at any given time and listen in to old women gossiping.... lol |
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When I was a kid my parents would drop me off at the movie theater to catch a flick. I can remember that once the show was over I would drop a dime into the payphone in the lobby and dial my home number, shhhicckk.. click click click click click click... shhhhicckk.. click click click...I'd let the phone ring two times and then hang up, this was our secret code that I was ready to be picked up. My dad was pretty thrifty and would ask for the dime back when I got in the car.
Man, I miss those days! |
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When I was a kid my parents would drop me off at the movie theater to catch a flick. I can remember that once the show was over I would drop a dime into the payphone in the lobby and dial my home number, shhhicckk.. click click click click click click... shhhhicckk.. click click click...I'd let the phone ring two times and then hang up, this was our secret code that I was ready to be picked up. My dad was pretty thrifty and would ask for the dime back when I got in the car. Man, I miss those days! LMAO!! I'd forgotten that little trick. Used to do that to let my Mom or grandparents know that I'd gotten home safe & sound. And then when they busted up Ma Bell / deregulated, we switched to ClayDesta, Clayton Williams' phone service. Yeah, it saved a lot on long-distance, but you had to dial like a 15 digit prefix before the phone number. |
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Yep - remember the KI numbers, the party lines, the nuke-proof boat anchors we had for rotary-dial phones... Things are so convenient today and everyone takes it all for granted. Quoted: The 1960 yellow pages in Lincoln County, NV three years before I was born. http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp1_zps9f8d2200.jpg http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp_zpsceaf7247.jpg http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp2_zpse63a43a4.jpg Some things look the same. Beautiful area - I miss it.  |
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Yep - remember the KI numbers, the party lines, the nuke-proof boat anchors we had for rotary-dial phones... Things are so convenient today and everyone takes it all for granted. Quoted:
The 1960 yellow pages in Lincoln County, NV three years before I was born. http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp1_zps9f8d2200.jpg http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp_zpsceaf7247.jpg http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp2_zpse63a43a4.jpg Some things look the same. Beautiful area - I miss it.
I seem to recall a couple of cases when I was a kid of people being beaten to death with the old phones, and strangling with the cord was a classic. Good luck braining anyone with a phone now. And what's a "cord"? ... lol |
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When I was a kid our phone (after we got one) number started with two letters. yep. PL4-7166 was our home phone. Had two great aunts with party lines, straight outta Mayberry. Crank the handle in some weird sequence to reach the operator. Lift that earpiece at any given time and listen in to old women gossiping.... lol WE had family with party lines....can you imagine how well that would work out in this time period?? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Yep - remember the KI numbers, the party lines, the nuke-proof boat anchors we had for rotary-dial phones... Things are so convenient today and everyone takes it all for granted. Quoted: The 1960 yellow pages in Lincoln County, NV three years before I was born. http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp1_zps9f8d2200.jpg http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp_zpsceaf7247.jpg http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb435/DamascusKnifemaker/Cars/1960yp2_zpse63a43a4.jpg Some things look the same. Beautiful area - I miss it. I seem to recall a couple of cases when I was a kid of people being beaten to death with the old phones, and strangling with the cord was a classic. Good luck braining anyone with a phone now. And what's a "cord"? ... lol Yeah - those things could dish out some blunt-force trauma.  |
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When I was a kid our phone (after we got one) number started with two letters. Yes, those first two letters were short for a whole word--IIRC that word was the "exchange". Ours was "TA" short for "Taylor"; when we got a new number, the first two letters of the exchange were "LA" for "Lafayette". |
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Last time I was in jail I couldn't call anyone to come get me because I don't know even my own wifes phone number. I remember my girlfriend's number from 1990... 
- Clint Yeah, it's funny. I can remember friends old numbers from when I was a kid, numbers to places I worked as a teenager / early 20's. But since cell phones / digital phones, enter the damn number once and never take note of it again. I'd be up shit creek too if I had to call someone from jail. |
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Yeah, it's funny. I can remember friends old numbers from when I was a kid, numbers to places I worked as a teenager / early 20's. But since cell phones / digital phones, enter the damn number once and never take note of it again. I'd be up shit creek too if I had to call someone from jail. Curious thing. There are some numbers on my cell that I have memorized because......I can never remember their quick dial codes. In fact, one of them is probably the number I would use for jail. But enough about phones, bondage, and murder. A friend on FB today asked why they didn't have toys like this when they were growing up.............................. Because, instead, we had toys like 
(the trolls of the 90's were reissues....we had them back in the 60's) 
AND, Of course...... 
______________________________________________________________________________________ ("So yesterday afternoon, I went to the prison and asked to see your handbag. While I was doing this, I managed to lift your latchkey. Highly irregular, of course, but my blood was up."--C.I. Hubbard, (w,stte), "Dial M For Murder") |
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Had that sub, if it's the one that came with the Alka-Seltzer type pills that "propelled" it... 
Had all those astronauts, though G.I. Joe with the Mercury capsule was much sweeter... Never had any trolls, but you're right, they were around in the 60's. Had the totally freakin' AWESOME Mattel M-16 (the toy, I wish a real Mattel M-16!!) Funny... back after our Mom passed in '06 I was at her house with my sister and her youngest son cleaning / sorting things. Deep in the back of a closet was my old G.I. Joe Jeep. Still in almost perfect condition. The full-sized real deal. I was ecstatic! Wanted to play with it and then find out how much it might be worth on ebay... lol Chris got one look at it and loved it.. He was 5 at the time. So he rolled it all over the house and yard. Time to head back home and it was "his". Made me feel nice that he was enjoying the thing. He REALLY liked it... So it was his. Of course it took his two older brothers a little over a day to smash it to fucking splinters. |
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HA!!! Had that sub, if it's the one that came with the Alka-Seltzer type pills that "propelled" it...
Had all those astronauts, though G.I. Joe with the Mercury capsule was much sweeter... Never had any trolls, but you're right, they were around in the 60's. Had the totally freakin' AWESOME Mattel M-16 (the toy, I wish a real Mattel M-16!!) Funny... back after our Mom passed in '06 I was at her house with my sister and her youngest son cleaning / sorting things. Deep in the back of a closet was my old G.I. Joe Jeep. Still in almost perfect condition. The full-sized real deal. I was ecstatic! Wanted to play with it and then find out how much it might be worth on ebay... lol Chris got one look at it and loved it.. He was 5 at the time. So he rolled it all over the house and yard. Time to head back home and it was "his". Made me feel nice that he was enjoying the thing. He REALLY liked it... So it was his. Of course it took his two older brothers a little over a day to smash it to fucking splinters. BUMMER There was another toy or two we had, decent size cars that had a guide wheel underneath in the center up front for running along a tube track that one built. The object was to ram the other car from behind and cause it to FLIP. I suppose they were battery powered but I don't recall if there was a way to control the cars on the "track". The other was a series of motorized boats, such as a fire boat, a PT boat, others. The top was fairly fixed though the little guns, hoses could swivel. The top came off the hull to have a little square electric motor powered by two AA batteries that were in racks. The boat had its own automatic pump that dumped over board astern and to turn it on, one turned the rudder centerlinish to turn on the motor......and full to one side or the other to turn it off. Anyone remember those? Played with those in the mid 60's.....and then I fell into a bad crowd who blew up plastic model tanks with cherry bombs. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (" Construction isn't exactly my speciality."--007 "Quite the opposite, in fact."--M, (w,stte), "The World is Not Enough") |
Had Major Matt Mason, the Uni-tred Lunar Transporter and Space Ball. That stuff was cool - throw some D-cells in the uni-tred and turn it on. Damn thing would even downshift when it encountered increased resistance, hills, etc... Bubble didn't last too long, it was a bit wimpier than the other stuff.  Oh yeah - had various subs over the years as well. |
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Had Major Matt Mason, the Uni-tred Lunar Transporter and Space Ball. That stuff was cool - throw some D-cells in the uni-tred and turn it on. Damn thing would even downshift when it encountered increased resistance, hills, etc... Bubble didn't last too long, it was a bit wimpier than the other stuff.
Oh yeah - had various subs over the years as well. Oh man, my neighbor had one of those!! Pretty cool! We'd set up little ramps to try and make it jump over army men. Poor army men always got crushed... Remember that Evel Knievel bike, with Evel action figure, that was powered by yanking a toothed plastic strip through the base? Man, that bike would BLAST! |
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Anybody else have one of these? The last part of the video is how I remember it working too.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPEB7B-wf8LMAO!!! I was typing when you posted that I guess... The one I had didn't have that crank-up base, had the plastic strip that you yanked as hard as possible to get that back wheel going. Though trying to make it jump anything, the results were pretty much like that vid!! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Had Major Matt Mason, the Uni-tred Lunar Transporter and Space Ball. That stuff was cool - throw some D-cells in the uni-tred and turn it on. Damn thing would even downshift when it encountered increased resistance, hills, etc... Bubble didn't last too long, it was a bit wimpier than the other stuff. Oh yeah - had various subs over the years as well. Oh man, my neighbor had one of those!! Pretty cool! We'd set up little ramps to try and make it jump over army men. Poor army men always got crushed... Remember that Evel Knievel bike, with Evel action figure, that was powered by yanking a toothed plastic strip through the base? Man, that bike would BLAST! Never had the Knievel bike, but one of the cars. Found the one of the commercials - LOL at the announcer.  |
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Anybody else have one of these? The last part of the video is how I remember it working too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPEB7B-wf8LMAO!!! I was typing when you posted that I guess... The one I had didn't have that crank-up base, had the plastic strip that you yanked as hard as possible to get that back wheel going. Though trying to make it jump anything, the results were pretty much like that vid!! I remember that style you're talking about too. I think they actually worked better. |
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Quoted: Anybody else have one of these? The last part of the video is how I remember it working too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPEB7B-wf8 Never saw that one - cool beans. |
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Had Major Matt Mason, the Uni-tred Lunar Transporter and Space Ball. That stuff was cool - throw some D-cells in the uni-tred and turn it on. Damn thing would even downshift when it encountered increased resistance, hills, etc... Bubble didn't last too long, it was a bit wimpier than the other stuff.
Oh yeah - had various subs over the years as well. Oh man, my neighbor had one of those!! Pretty cool! We'd set up little ramps to try and make it jump over army men. Poor army men always got crushed... Remember that Evel Knievel bike, with Evel action figure, that was powered by yanking a toothed plastic strip through the base? Man, that bike would BLAST! Never had the Knievel bike, but one of the cars. Found the one of the commercials - LOL at the announcer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ComzuZfkWDY
I don't remember that one at all. Maybe I'm not as old as I think I am.
My friends and I all had the giant G.I.Joe when we were kids. We would spend so much time building forts for them that we never really played with the G.I. Joe. Besides, they were usually missing a boot or something anyway. lol |
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Okay, so who remembers their first color TV?
Ours was a Curtis-Mathis, giant freaking console / piece of furniture. Was '69, I think. Before I started 1st grade anyway, as I remember very well the guys unloading it from the truck, wheeling it in and plugging the cord into the wall. |
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Quoted: Okay, so who remembers their first color TV? Ours was a Curtis-Mathis, giant freaking console / piece of furniture. Was '69, I think. Before I started 1st grade anyway, as I remember very well the guys unloading it from the truck, wheeling it in and plugging the cord into the wall. Ours was a "portable" Curtis Mathis in '72 or '73. And the 20" antenna we put on the roof. And we still only pulled in 4 channels - ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS from the local college. Anyone remember TVs with push buttons instead of knobs... or wired remote controls?  |