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Someone's '62 Chevy is missing its cigarette lighter.
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Someone's '62 Chevy is missing its cigarette lighter.
These were in my mom's silverware drawer since I can remember. I used to play with these a lot, but the connotations went way over my 5 year old brain. No big deal was ever made about my using them to crack nuts with.
I don't know how my parents wound up with these. They look home made, but they are made from a casting as you can see casting marks on her heels ( the cast marks do not photograph well).
The only thing I can think of is that my mom worked in an airplane parts factory during WW II and perhaps an aluminum/casting mechanic made them on the side.
Quoted from Mr68:Oh my god. Do you guys remember getting unwanted erections in class? We must of looked stupid carrying our books in the front as cover.
It sure peeked the girls curiosity.
LTG : )
Quoted from mof:what are they?
The slang term is "paper assholes". They are reinforcement rings for 3-ring binder paper hole blow outs.
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In the 60's I worked at a fast food joint for 18 months. During that period of time, I worked for 9 or 10 different managers. One new boss came in and brought all of the ashtrays off the tables and started breaking off a corner each ash tray by hammering it against the terra cotta floor.
I asked him what he was doing. He said people will not steal a broken ash tray. And we never lost another ash tray after that.
Quoted from LTG:A friend of mine had a jumbo box of those. He had it open and was staring at it.
I smacked the bottom of his hand as hard as I could. It looked like it was snowing in the class room.
LTG : )
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Lloyd, was this your version of pick up sticks.
Quoted from LTG:It sure peeked the girls curiosity.
LTG : )
Ah, that's "piqued" Lloyd. And if she asked for your shoe size you can figure she is interested
Quoted from cottonm4:When I was in third grade, we went on a school field trip. We came to the big city where I have been living for 50 years and toured the Borden milk plant where Elsie the Cow lived.
I remember that Elmer the Bull on Elmer’s Glue was the fictional cartoon boyfriend of Elsie the Cow on Borden milk cartons.
2348C755-4FED-4F04-A802-DA4AF68F0C2B (resized).jpegQuoted from mooch:I remember that Elmer the Bull on Elmer’s Glue was the fictional cartoon boyfriend of Elsie the Cow on Borden milk cartons.
I guess that's how they made those baby cartons.
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I think they used Elmer’s Glue to seal the cartons because I always had a hell of a time opening those as a kid.
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Our grade school expected you to eat all of your lunch. To think of all the asparagus and other (to a kid) inedibles that I smuggled into the trash inside those little milk cartons...
Quoted from bssbllr:When the shit was thick.
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"It slices! It dices! It makes Julienne fries!"
Quoted from girloveswaffles:"It slices! It dices! It makes Julienne fries!"
I remember being wildly curious about a new toothpaste in the 60s called Stripe that had colored stripes in it, years before Aquafresh. I persuaded my loyal Crest-buying parents to buy me some Stripe just so I could figure out how the heck stripes came out of it.
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Quoted from mooch:I remember being wildly curious about a new toothpaste in the 60s called Stripe that had colored stripes in it, years before Aquafresh. I persuaded my loyal Crest-buying parents to buy me some Stripe just so I could figure out how the heck stripes came out of it.
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Beginning around age 10 or so, I'll bet I had 50 questions a day, every day, about everything in my world. Stripe toothpaste was also one of my curiosities. And because my questions were so obscure, and pre-internet, 99.9% of them went unanswered.
For decades now I've told friends how I wished I had grown up with Google. I'm still asking questions and I thank you for reminding me about that one.
Stripe toothpaste solved:
https://www.quora.com/Package-Design-How-does-striped-toothpaste-retain-its-stripes-after-being-bottled-and-squeezed
And if you want a more scientific explantion:
https://patch.com/california/pleasanthill/how-do-they-get-stripes-toothpaste
BTW. I was that pain in the ass kid that always had questions and adult answers only caused more questions. I hate those kids.
Quoted from Mr68:BTW. I was that pain in the ass kid that always had questions and adult answers to them only caused more questions. I hate those kids.
They must have loved you at Sunday School!
I am like that, and still get kicked out!
Quoted from Mr68:BTW. I was that pain in the ass kid that always had questions and adult answers only caused more questions. I hate those kids.
Frankly I love those kids. The engineers, scientist and thinkers of the future. You can learn as much from them as they can from you. And it keeps you young.
///Rich
Quoted from Mr68:Beginning around age 10 or so, I'll bet I had 50 questions a day, every day, about everything in my world.
Here’s you and me the first day with a Rubik’s Cube.
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Agreed and afterward I'd be saying, Hey Mooch, you still got those firecracker?
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Repackaged and renamed for the 21st Century.
Quoted from Mr68:BTW. I was that pain in the ass kid that always had questions and adult answers only caused more questions. I hate those kids.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:They must have loved you at Sunday School!
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This behavior is not appreciated by instructors and supervisors in the corporate world. But I didn't care
I had a super tell me that I should not be "doing that". I asked him why. He knew he got caught with his pants down. He pawed the floor like a bull looking at the matador. And then gave me some horse shit of an answer, left the hanger, and I got back to work.
Quoted from mooch:Speaking of toothpaste, who remembers the girl licking her teeth in this mid-70s Pearl Drops commercial?
Ah, what was that, again?
I have not seen PD on the shelves for years. I got these off of Ebay and they shipped in from the UK.
You can now buy them from Amazon and Walmart.com. But Walmart does not stock it on the shelves.
IMG_5357 (resized).JPGDid you ever mail away for some item you wanted from the back of a cereal box, or some similar offer? The first thing I ever got this way was a Dennis the Menace cereal spoon. I was so excited to get this in the mail! This offer was from the year 1961, so I was only 4 years old.
BA89B675-B852-4A93-965F-211FCFB55DD0 (resized).jpegBABBDCB6-2A52-4DDC-B75A-406648952689 (resized).jpegThe cool wood GI Joe foot locker..yup I forgot bout that too. Damn we had some cool stuff back then. I (we?) just didn’t know it at the time. Makes me wonder what the next generation of pinsiders will be posting in 20-30 years.
The pinbar?
Quoted from mooch:Didn’t everyone’s Mom have one of these?
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Was my mom the only one that had these creepy face mugs around.
Quoted from bssbllr:Was my mom the only one that had these creepy face mugs around.
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My grandmother had a whole curio cabinet filled with that kind of stuff. But I guess they’re not any creepier than all my ugly-ass tiki mugs.
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