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[Murf993]

I remember the way litho graph paper smelt when they made copies of tests for us in public school. Get off of my lawn kid.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Murf993

I remember the way litho graph paper smelt when they made copies of tests for us in public school. Get off of my lawn kid.

Never forget that smell. You were lucky if they were fresh off the presses and still slightly wet. The first thing I did was smell it.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Murf993

I remember the way litho graph paper smelt when they made copies of tests for us in public school. Get off of my lawn kid.

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Never forget that smell. You were lucky if they were fresh off the presses and still slightly wet. The first thing I did was smell it.

This explains a lot!

The smell of fresh dittos in the morning. Smells like...SURPRISE TEST!

I'm sure that spirit duplicator fluid is now known to the State of California to be.....

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

This explains a lot!

The smell of fresh dittos in the morning. Smells like...SURPRISE TEST!

I'm sure that spirit duplicator fluid is now known to the State of California to be.....

Are you suggesting I have brain damage from sniffing those papers? Lol?

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Are you suggesting I have brain damage from sniffing those papers? Lol?

No! I'm suggesting that we're all normal, because we sniffed ditto fluid, traveled in cars without seatbelts or child's seats, and rode our bikes without helmets or shin pads.

Kids these days are practically dressed in bubble wrap, need to be hospitalized for smelling peanut butter from across the lunch room, and don't even know how to ride a bicycle if it isn't in an Xbox game. I'm still baffled about how they even get on my lawn.....

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

No! I'm suggesting that we're all normal, because we sniffed ditto fluid, traveled in cars without seatbelts or child's seats, and rode our bikes without helmets or shin pads.

Kids these days are practically dressed in bubble wrap, need to be hospitalized for smelling peanut butter from across the lunch room, and don't even know how to ride a bicycle if it isn't in an Xbox game. I'm still baffled about how they even get on my lawn.....

I hope you're not degrubbing or using weed killer with them running all over your lawn.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

No! I'm suggesting that we're all normal, because we sniffed ditto fluid, traveled in cars without seatbelts or child's seats, and rode our bikes without helmets or shin pads.

Kids these days are practically dressed in bubble wrap, need to be hospitalized for smelling peanut butter from across the lunch room, and don't even know how to ride a bicycle if it isn't in an Xbox game. I'm still baffled about how they even get on my lawn.....

The hospitals used to give new parents a box to take their baby home in, complete with name, date of birth, weight and length. No car seats necessary. My grandmother kept the boxes under her bed and stored pots in them.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by MBM340

That kid is driving too fast through the neighborhood...

Turn down your music

Phones with 6 foot cords. No cell phones or Laptops. How about no microwaves when we were young. Frozen dinners got cooked in the oven. Popcorn was made an expanding aluminum foil pan on the stove.

TV's had three channels, we had to get up to change the channel, and some were color, some were black and white.

Cars all had V-8s and most of them were made in the USA.

Gas was 30 cents a gallon.

Johnny Rutherford won the Indy 500 in 1974 when I watched my first race. In an Offenhauser with team McLaren.

There was no such thing as the internet.

We read newspapers.

I remember when gas hit $1.00/gallon for the first time and the price on the pumps only went up to $0.99. The had to charge by 1/2 gallon.

We were our parents remote controls for the TV. Although I remember a few more stations; 2,4,5,7,9,11 and 13.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Get off my lawn - I was already married a handful of years when that crappy music came out.

How about the fax machines with the cylinders that you clipped the heat sensitive paper into? I think you could chose 2, 3 or 5 minutes per page? It smelled nasty. Or the telex machine? Damn I'm old.

Hi!!!

How about mimeograph machines!!

Get off my lawn!!

[MKSixer]

Here is one...playing with silver mercury in science class.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Here is one...playing with silver mercury in science class.

Science class was much later. I got a Chemistry Set for Christmas in about 4th grade and the first thing I did was bust out the little vial of mercury and dumped some out on the tile floor in the bathroom and pushing it around for 10-15 minutes.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Hi!!!

How about mimeograph machines!!

Get off my lawn!!

Hi MK. Miss you. Glad things are going well with the new gf. You’re my idol xoxo

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I remember when gas hit $1.00/gallon for the first time and the price on the pumps only went up to $0.99. The had to charge by 1/2 gallon.

We were our parents remote controls for the TV. Although I remember a few more stations; 2,4,5,7,9,11 and 13.

On a vacation into the West in our Chrysler Town & Country in about 3rd grade, I can remember my dad seeing gas at 45 cents a gallon somewhere in Wyoming and threatening to turn around and go home. Mom talked him down.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Hi!!!

How about mimeograph machines!!

Get off my lawn!!

Ooooo...all that purple toner/ink. It had an intoxicating chemical-y smell. And the machine was like a little miniature threshing machine - ka-Chunk, ka-Chunk, ka-Chunk...

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Science class was much later. I got a Chemistry Set for Christmas in about 4th grade and the first thing I did was bust out the little vial of mercury and dumped some out on the tile floor in the bathroom and pushing it around for 10-15 minutes.

I was a terror in the science class!!! Good times with home chemistry kits!!

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Hi MK. Miss you. Glad things are going well with the new gf. You’re my idol xoxo

Thanks! Been missing you too!!

How have you been doing?

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Ooooo...all that purple toner/ink. It had an intoxicating chemical-y smell. And the machine was like a little miniature threshing machine - ka-Chunk, ka-Chunk, ka-Chunk...

Yes!! I remember when they went from hand cranked to motorized! It was like a revelation for my parents!!

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Thanks! Been missing you too!!

How have you been doing?

Some how I feel like I’ve turned into that person no one wants to ask how are you. What a screwed up year! I need this to end. Spent 4 hours shoveling yesterday. My back hurts, legs hurt, wrists hurt and I cursed his ass all 4 hours. I have a snow blower I don’t know how to use. I’ll be fine. Almost done with chaos in the house. Freakin pandemic. Everything I order is 12 weeks out. I’m so glad I didn’t need basic furniture. Need to get past Christmas. On a good note, Monday we’ll start gaining some daylight so I’m closer to my evil twin going away when we spring forward in March. I hate that bitch. .

[MKSixer]

When you remember a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 only cost $19,995.

This would be a Ferrari Daytona.

When you remember that the 246 Dino which now cost $450K+ is the one you begged your parents and would have only cost $4995 in 1982.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Some how I feel like I’ve turned into that person no one wants to ask how are you. What a screwed up year! I need this to end. Spent 4 hours shoveling yesterday. My back hurts, legs hurt, wrists hurt and I cursed his ass all 4 hours. I have a snow blower I don’t know how to use. I’ll be fine. Almost done with chaos in the house. Freakin pandemic. Everything I order is 12 weeks out. I’m so glad I didn’t need basic furniture. Need to get past Christmas. On a good note, Monday we’ll start gaining some daylight so I’m closer to my evil twin going away when we spring forward in March. I hate that bitch. .

I know...it's been a helluva year.

Why are you shoveling snow?!?!! It's super dangerous!!

Glad the house is getting close to being done. Don't even talk about delayed orders. It's insane!!

I know how it is when my doppelgänger is around. It isn't pretty for anyone concerned!!

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Ooooo...all that purple toner/ink. It had an intoxicating chemical-y smell. And the machine was like a little miniature threshing machine - ka-Chunk, ka-Chunk, ka-Chunk...

In our school, they kept the ditto machine in the waiting area outside the principal's office. It was a treat to be sent to the principal's office!!!!!

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

When you remember a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 only cost $19,995.

This would be a Ferrari Daytona.

When you remember that the 246 Dino which now cost $450K+ is the one you begged your parents and would have only cost $4995 in 1982.

My buddy had a '67 206 FIat Dino, which had the same engine as the Ferrari and a pretty cool Bertone body. I think he paid about $6K for t. We had a fun summer in that thing, including driving it to a weekend at an IMSA road race where it got lots of attention. I was riding in it on the rainy night he spun it and hit a parked car. I had a lap belt on but it didn't keep me from putting a big bulge in the windshield with my noggin. I was picking glass out of my forehead and scalp for a month.

We tore down the motor, and marvelled at the level of craftsmanship. Neither of us had ever worked on anything except crude American V8s.