I remember the roll cap cap guns used by the roll of caps and they were little dots of gunpowder and the cap guns would always Jam or they be like a bunch of Duds finally you got tired of using my gun and just relaxing it like you said but I also remember for the people in the Richer areas they came out with a more expensive 6 shot cap and it was like a six gun and it's spun like a revolver inside the cap gun it was a plastic thing I don't know what you call it but first poor people we still bought the paper capsFazby":et7rhdiv said:Are toy guns still made? With rolls of "caps"? And does anyone remember "greenie stick-m caps"?
The roll caps were great when baseball bat was stalled down (on end) on a roll. Like a firecracker...
I make a list for each day, alternating between cursive and a font that resembles Voi Vod Away's style (check their album liner notes). I've meant to make it a font so I could use it on the computer, but it's a lot of work without a writer screen. I definitely miss seeing some cursive, but I also don't miss trying to decipher the mess that is some people's writing.Ozark Wizard":od3uonqy said:Cursive writing. And the patience to wait for posted corresponding. For that matter, having to wait to call someone until they MIGHT be home.
They'd have to still offer them in order for anyone to take them. I don't know many schools budgeted for the trades...but I'll be goddamned if they made any cuts in their athletic programs. We always got our priorities spot-on.Brewdude":od3uonqy said:Boys took shop - wood or metal.
Which I would guess a fair amount contributes to men (especially older men with a strict idea of gender roles) not feeling planning, shopping, cooking, and cleaning up meals is real work. Which baffles me. And before dishwashers? Being tethered to a kitchen for a couple hours, 2-3 times a day during the week and 3 times a day on the weekend isn't labor? I like to cook. Would I think it all that enjoyable, and not a downright job, if I had to do it every day, hours per day? Reasonably considering, I doubt it. Add on all the complaints and whining on top of it? My goodness...what in the heck were men thinking when they didn't consider running a household a full-time job?Brewdude":od3uonqy said:Girls took home economics.
good health are you doin ok??Corncobcon":x47gdnud said:I miss a lot of what was said before me. Most of all, I miss my good health.
Yeah, I'm ok. Thanks for asking. It's just the aches and pains, arthritis, blood pressure problems, etc. My mind thinks I'm still in my 30's, but the body won't respond the way it used to.arkansaspiper":nzyao9zy said:good health are you doin ok??Corncobcon":nzyao9zy said:I miss a lot of what was said before me. Most of all, I miss my good health.
'Everyone hopes to reach old age, but when it comes, most of us complain about it.' -- Ciceroftrplt":ep0g61j0 said:Welcome to your "Senior" years As Betty Davis said on Johnny Carson one night many years ago..."Old age is no place for a sissy!" :cheers: FTRPLT (age 73!!)Yeah, I'm ok. Thanks for asking. It's just the aches and pains, arthritis, blood pressure problems, etc. My mind thinks I'm still in my 30's, but the body won't respond the way it used to.
Love me bicycles. I grew up in a farm town, on the very edge of the city proper. We would ride our bikes into downtown several times a day. Buy penny candies and baseball cards and trade them on the front stoop of the store. Bicycles were key to our existence. And then we had an old crabby eccentric codger who fixed bikes out of his garage. When I got older, I learned he wasn't really all that eccentric, but he was a Europhile. He and his wife were always riding bikes or riding their tandem, which was part of his thing for Europe. In berets. You don't see berets in a farm town. I then got hooked on touring and racing because the Tour de France was televised. I'm still bit by the bicycle bug. I don't ride as much as I once did, but I used to ride country roads and used the bicycle as my main form of transportation. Still prefer it over a car, but the way we design our cities doesn't make it very convenient to actually live via bicycle. Also makes it downright dangerous in bigger cities.Brewdude":ny60h2oc said:Bikes, as in bicycles.
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