Quoted from DanQverymuch:What? Thanks to POTUS, cottonm4 is getting so old he needs his own bp monitor?
Comprehend? He can now get a bp monitor thanks to the POTUS
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South St Paul, MN
... when you can remember entertainment consisted of a board game or two followed by NBC Saturday Night at the Movies or perhaps the ABC Sunday Night Movie.
Quoted from tracelifter:I worked security for 20 Cent Fox back in the 80's out on the old Paramount Ranch in Malibu.
The security shack was actually The Swamp on The Mash set.
If you look on the wall behind my TAF you can see the helicopter sideboards you see in the opening credits.
As an aside I found out in January of this year I have a 36 year old daughter, the product of a one night stand.
She was conceived in The Swamp on Hawkeye's cot.
Here is a pic, she is a BATF licensed pyrotechnician.
She likes to blow shit up.
My great grandfather was a dynamiter, my grandfather built munitions in WWI, dad built munitions in WWII and as a kid I would make explosives and blow them up in the desert.
Funny she would be into this, fer sure it is a genetic thing. [quoted image][quoted image]
That is a cool story.
Quoted from LTG:You know what these are.
LTG : )
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I guess I must not be as old as I thought. 
Enlighten me.
Quoted from poppapin:Comprehend? He can now get a bp monitor thanks to the POTUS
No, I don't. Please enlighten me about how the POTUS is responsible for letting vets take home BP monitors like they have since 2002.
Quoted from cottonm4:I guess I must not be as old as I thought.
Enlighten me.
Dairy use, nose pliers.
Quoted from tracelifter:Dairy use, nose pliers.
I was wondering about that. I used to help my grandpa milk his cows but I never saw one of those, which I can see would be very effective for the task at hand. But I was taught that pinching a horse or cow in the nose like that renders immediate control.
Quoted from tracelifter:Dairy use, nose pliers.
Quoted from cottonm4:I was wondering about that. I used to help my grandpa milk his cows but I never saw one of those, which I can see would be very effective for the task at hand. But I was taught that pinching a horse or cow in the nose like that renders immediate control.
Works great with an ornery bull.
Just be somewhere safe when you let go.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:Just be somewhere safe when you let go.
Learned that the hard way, didja?
Quoted from cottonm4:Learned that the hard way, didja?
Pretty much. I was a kid at a farm auction. An old farmer showed me how to use it. Didn't say anything about after you let go.
Gets pretty exciting pretty fast.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:Pretty much. I was a kid at a farm auction. An old farmer showed me how to use it. Didn't say anything about after you let go.
Gets pretty exciting pretty fast.
LTG : )
He must have been getting senile in his old age. I did not picture you as a farm boy.
Quoted from cottonm4:He must have been getting senile in his old age. I did not picture you as a farm boy.
No, I think he spotted me for a city kid. It was at a farm auction. Asked me if I'd ever seen a bull pliers. Showed me how they work.
We used to buy the household stuff as a lot. Pull out the antiques, leave the rest. Later we hit them looking for DDT to hose the building down at the state fair so when we went in to work we didn't have to worry about brown spiders.
I'm sure the farmer got a kick out of a 1/4 ton of snort chasing that city kid.
Still makes me laugh, now. Wish I had a video of it.
LTG : )
You sell your twin rifle game because in a couple more years you wont be able to pull it out of the line up to repair it because it is so heavy.
Kind of off topic, but seeing those nose pliers reminds me of when my grandpa told me why he put nose rings on the hogs. (They were kind of free ranging.) The answer was to keep them from rooting and digging under the fence.
Ever since it became fashionable for people to wear nose rings I have visions of them trying to dig under a fence. I guess the rings are still effective, cause I've never seen one of them digging!
I'm waiting for notched ears to become fashionable, too.
Quoted from Billc479:Kind of off topic, but seeing those nose pliers reminds me of when my grandpa told me why he put nose rings on the hogs. (They were kind of free ranging.) The answer was to keep them from rooting and digging under the fence.
Ever since it became fashionable for people to wear nose rings I have visions of them trying to dig under a fence. I guess the rings are still effective, cause I've never seen one of them digging!
I'm waiting for notched ears to become fashionable, too.
Hogs can be tough on pasture ground. It is to keep them from digging up the pasture. With out the nose ring, they will tear up a pasture looking for goodies to eat.
Alcona, ON
Not 100% sure that because I am old I am this way, but most of the time anymore I enjoy goofing off on here more than playing the games I have.
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Wait u til you start wearing suspenders
When you have finally seen enough to know you live in a giant simulation because reality couldn't possibly be this fucked up! 
I would bet that when I was a kid, there were can goods as old as I was in the cupboard. No way to know in those days.
In that spirit, I often eat things first and check expiration after.
Quoted from LTG:You remember hunting wooly mammoths.
LTG : )
Do we need to talk about your misspent youth?
Quoted from cottonm4:Do we need to talk about your misspent youth?
After the hunt a big feast. Then have a go at the cave girls when they are done dressing the beast and roasting him and cleaning up the cave and fire pit. Hoo Chee mama !
LTG : )
2000+ posts! 
We must keep posting the same thing or more of us must be getting older. 
I went into Home Depot today for some lumber for my garage project. I won't go way back and say "I remember when a 2X4 actually measured two by four inches!" but I will say I remember when they were about $2.00 a piece. I had two piles to choose from today -- the pile at $5+ each that had more knots than a sailor's rope and were in the shape of a dogs leg. . . or the pile at $6+ each that were still strapped down and looked straight -- likely to turn into bananas when the straps holding the bundle together were released.
I did use my negotiating experience to get them to knock $20 off an exterior door because it had a small ding/scratch on it. . . enough to get me four "free" 2X4s. 
Quoted from TractorDoc:I won't go way back and say "I remember when a 2X4 actually measured two by four inches!" but I will say I remember when they were about $2.00 a piece.
One of the few things that's great about living in West Virginia is that we have 2 sawmills within 10 miles of here that sell rough-sawn lumber. I bought some 2x6's to fix some roof rafters, and they are 2.0" by 6.0" and weigh a ton. And cheap, like $4 for a 10-footer. I had to wait a few minutes while they bandsawed 2x6s out of a stack of 4x6 posts.
You know you're old if you like machinery like this! Meet the "Wood Mizer"...it spit out 2x6s as fast as we could pull them off and load them in the truck.
Quoted from DCP:One of the few things that's great about living in West Virginia is that we have 2 sawmills within 10 miles of here that sell rough-sawn lumber. I bought some 2x6's to fix some roof rafters, and they are 2.0" by 6.0" and weigh a ton. And cheap, like $4 for a 10-footer. I had to wait a few minutes while they bandsawed 2x6s out of a stack of 4x6 posts.
You know you're old if you like machinery like this! Meet the "Wood Mizer"...it spit out 2x6s as fast as we could pull them off and load them in the truck.
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I love the old school lumber yards. There’s only one near me still that will actually cut some wood for me
Quoted from cottonm4:When you remember you opened any food product and there is no security packaging.
When you opened a container of pills and all you saw was wad of cotton.
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Thanks to the "Tylenol Murders". That's when it all started.
Quoted from Playdium:Thanks to the "Tylenol Murders". That's when it all started.
Killed Halloween too. Really wiped out trick or treating in many areas.
LTG : )
Quoted from Playdium:Thanks to the "Tylenol Murders". That's when it all started.
I remember it so well. And I don't know why. The first person to go down was a Chicago airline stewardess. Her name was Paula Prince. It think 7 people in total were killed with the tainted pills, but I am not positive on that number.
And the boss of the company that made Tylenol made the decision to recall every last container, new or opened, and gave refunds. Grocers and distributors were directed to clean the shelves. There was big publicity on those moves and recalls. The goal was to recall and refund every last pill. Once that was done, Tylenol customers were 100% assured that they would not be the victim of some errant pill lying around somewhere. The gel caps disappeared and the hard pills were the replacement. The consumers got the confidence they needed and Tylenol still lives today.
I don't think they ever caught the murderer.
Quoted from LTG:Killed Halloween too. Really wiped out trick or treating in many areas.
LTG : )
Razorblades in the apples kind of stuff?
Quoted from cottonm4:Razorblades in the apples kind of stuff?
No. Right after the Tylenol scare, Halloween was coming up. Nation wide panic that kids could be getting poisoned candy. Ann Landers, Dear Abbey, Oprah, everybody was advising taking children to shopping malls rather than trick or treating door to door in their own neighborhood.
I never understood that. The Tylenol poisoning was at a Walgreens in shopping center.
Anyway I went from handing out 500 hundred or more candy bars at my business to none. Hospitals were X-Raying candy. All kinds of crap going on.
Halloween in my area never recovered. I don't even decorate or give out candy anymore.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:Halloween in my area never recovered. I don't even decorate or give out candy anymore.
It suffered around here, too. Some time in the early 90s, my friend and I took his kids trick or treating at the zoo. There were kiosks set up all around the walkways. It was controlled environment. I thought it was rather sad, but the kids did not seem to mind.
Quoted from JayDee:Not sure the exact vid you’re looking for but here’s how you do it. Hit the arrow on top of screen. Then copy link. Then paste on here.
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Yeah that's the one! Thanks!!
I don’t know where to find it but I read that the razerblade shit was one episode and it was a man trying to kill his own kid because he had a big life insurance policy on him. Anyone doing uthis or hitting a kid in any way should be put to death in the town square.
Quoted from zr11990:Anyone ... hitting a kid in any way should be put to death in the town square.
Sounds excessive. How about littering, 20 years hard labor or what?
Quoted from zr11990:Stupid iPhone. It was supposed to be hurting a kid like that.
I’m talking about pedos and cruelty to kids not something like a spanking. And I’m not going there
A little better, but the death penalty for anything is barbaric. And in the town square? Sounds like you might have been happier in the middle ages. But there was no pinball then, hmmm, tough call.
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