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WT Sharpe · 08-29-2011, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

I remember buying ... comic books for 12 cents.

I remember buying comics for 10¢, and they had around 40 pages. In those 40 pages, you would generally see three or four stories plus a two page short story with no graphics, and usually a one or two page humorous strip.

wannabee · 08-29-2011, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

...and party lines (the phrase "party lines" these days has entirely different connotations).

I know what a party line was. Shame they didn't party.......or did you?

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I remember buying comics for 10¢, and they had around 40 pages. In those 40 pages, you would generally see three or four stories plus a two page short story with no graphics, and usually a one or two page humorous strip.

I read all the way to the back cover and scratched my head. Some sort of advert for a breakfast cereal. Cherrios. Forty years later, you can buy that crap in Australia now.

WT Sharpe · 08-29-2011, 10:17 AM

I remember the day I fell in love with Rock & Roll.

Spoiler:

Dylrob · 08-29-2011, 10:19 AM

I remember when the power rangers were mighty.

I remember one day my mother woke me. From the look on her face I already knew what she was about to say: My grandfather had just passed away.

kindlekitten · 08-29-2011, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I remember the day I fell in love with Rock & Roll.

Spoiler:

whatever it was, it's broken

Dylrob · 08-29-2011, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

whatever it was, it's broken

It should work if you paste the URL into your address bar.

kindlekitten · 08-29-2011, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Dylrob

It should work if you paste the URL into your address bar.

that's too much effort for something that entertains me while doing other stuff

HarryT · 08-29-2011, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

That makes me think of H.R. Pufnstuf, whose character, Witchypoo, sang a song: "Oranges, poranges... who cares? There ain't no rhyme for oranges!"

As in:

In Sparkill buried lies that man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,
Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe,
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange."

crich70 · 08-29-2011, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by wannabee

I know what a party line was. Shame they didn't party.......or did you?

I did after a fashion. My paternal grandmother had a party line in the 1970's and I would often visit with her for a week or so in the summers. I had to be about 4-5 yrs old and I got hold of the phone. I guess a local busybody was on the line at the time and I joined the conversation. lol. I guess she kept on asking "Who is this?" and I kept on saying "it's me." or some such. My grandmother caught me at it and not long after I had my own toy phone. lol.

crich70 · 08-29-2011, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I remember my dad building all kinds of crazy things in his darkroom that he found the plans for in Mechanics Illustrated and Popular Science; including a theremin that I wish like all get-out was still around and a "big ear" capable of picking up conversations from neighbors down the block.

Is this what you're talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

HarryT · 08-29-2011, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by crich70

Is this what you're talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

Yes, that's it. Great fun - a friend of mine has one and can play it well.

WT Sharpe · 08-29-2011, 01:15 PM

I remember making my mom nervous every morning that I'd be late for school because I couldn't leave until I'd seen that day's "Tom Terrific" episode on Captain Kangaroo.

I remember Famous Monsters of Filmland and Forrest J. Ackerman.

Phogg · 08-29-2011, 01:23 PM

WT Sharpe · 08-29-2011, 01:26 PM

I remember segregation, and the word we used to describe the sections of town where people whose skin color locked them out of decent paying jobs lived in run-down shacks.

I remember going to a minstrel show held in a local high school school and seeing white men in blackface telling jokes. I remember my mother becoming offended over hearing the joke about "Why is the Statue of Liberty unhappy?" "Because she's been holding up her hand for all those years, and no one's let her go to the bathroom yet." She felt it was too naughty to be told at a show where impressionable young people were in attendance.

I remember how when school books became too old and worn to be of any more use to white students, they were given to the "colored" schools to use.

WT Sharpe · 08-29-2011, 01:29 PM

I remember my "Fanner Fifty" with the trick "swivel-action" holster.

(Yes, that's me!)

08-29-2011, 01:23 PM	#103
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08-29-2011, 01:26 PM	#104
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I remember segregation, and the word we used to describe the sections of town where people whose skin color locked them out of decent paying jobs lived in run-down shacks. I remember going to a minstrel show held in a local high school school and seeing white men in blackface telling jokes. I remember my mother becoming offended over hearing the joke about "Why is the Statue of Liberty unhappy?" "Because she's been holding up her hand for all those years, and no one's let her go to the bathroom yet." She felt it was too naughty to be told at a show where impressionable young people were in attendance. I remember how when school books became too old and worn to be of any more use to white students, they were given to the "colored" schools to use. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 08-29-2011 at 01:32 PM.

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WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I remember the day I fell in love with Rock & Roll. Spoiler:

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Dylrob Murderous Mustela Posts: 10,234 Karma: 48000000 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The other land of schnitzel and beer Device: iPad M1 Pro, Kindle Paperwhite	I remember when the power rangers were mighty. I remember one day my mother woke me. From the look on her face I already knew what she was about to say: My grandfather had just passed away.

08-29-2011, 01:15 PM	#102
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I remember making my mom nervous every morning that I'd be late for school because I couldn't leave until I'd seen that day's "Tom Terrific" episode on Captain Kangaroo. I remember Famous Monsters of Filmland and Forrest J. Ackerman.

08-29-2011, 01:29 PM	#105
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I remember my "Fanner Fifty" with the trick "swivel-action" holster. (Yes, that's me!)

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