Things That Will Soon Disappear Forever

Kiplinger Magazine ^ | February 2017No date | By David Muhlbaum, Online Editor and John Miley, ReporterNo author

[tet68]

Three things that will disappear soon.
Jimmy Carter.
Bill Clinton.
and Hillary!

Maybe we could have a combined service and put
them in a deep pit.

[JayAr36]

Three things that will disappear soon.
Jimmy Carter.
Bill Clinton.
and Hillary!

Maybe we could have a combined service and put
them in a deep pit.

Anyone have an old septic tank that needs to be filled?

[TexasGator]

“Alas the island sunk beneath the waves, and there are no more deodorants.”

Hank Johnson warned us!

[yarddog]

At 199,000 miles just about all of my 97 Lumina is a ticking time bomb but the transmission has never had any problem.

[wally_bert]

The last couple of Toyotas that have been through here aren’t touched except for the routine service. My new one is the same.

I still like to turn a wrench on the old stuff if for no other reason that I can do other things than support technology. At least the oldies are mine so if I break something, no one else needs to be involved.

Yesterday I ordered a wheel/harmonic balancer puller kit and am going to try my hand at a Willys steering box. I have all the rest of the parts in.

Today I will go where my CJ7 project and the off and on again K5 live and see what I can do. They are in a fairly secure building a hop,skip, and jump away from the local PD. They ride by frequently. I’m glad they do.

The big job for K5 is the cooling system but I have been doing little things to suit me, mostly TLC stuff. I also plan to strip the dead AC system too.

[CodeToad]

There’s a whole lot of public school ignorance in that article.

[laplata]

Lol. Thanks.

[PrincessB]

There will always be a niche market for incandecents. I am happy with the ones I have bought lately.

[wally_bert]

I trust a metal key more than some cheap electronics for locking things.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I never liked the “curlie-cue” light bulbs but I’ve been checking out the LEDs and so far, I like what I see.

[Enterprise]

"Hank Johnson warned us!"

If only we had listened!

[TexasBarak]

Metal keys are not going away. That’s just silly.

[nopardons]

I was talking about the list, what was also talked about on this thread, and what you predicted.

Call me a Luddite, I don't care, reading a book, a REAL BOOK, is better than reading on a machine ( iPad and phone, or anything else that they may dream up ), because nobody can change a word of it, nor delete it on you. There's also a trail, of what you are reading and privacy, of any kind, is getting harder and harder to have now.

You think that I don't know how the KEY fob, for a car works, when I tell you that I have TWO of them, for two different cars? LOL

It's still a key...you can't open the doors without one on your person and neither will the car start. ;^)

[nopardons]

Sorry you missed out on it, but as all collectors of any say....”some day”! I truly hope that you manage to get one, very soon!

[nopardons]

Nobody predicted that plays would disappear,when movies began, went from the Nickelodeon to theatres, went to theatre palaces, became TALKIES, went into the "GOLDEN AGE", nor when T.V. came along.

Movie makers became nervous about losing out to T.V. back at the end of the 1940s, when T.V.s were still pretty rarely owned on a large scale. But what has killed off play/movie/and network T.V. has been unions and the garbage that all three things now produce/put on; self inflicted destruction; all!

[MSF BU]

Excellent vehicles. Sadly Bay State roads get salted in the snow, which eats frames away. You don’t have that problem in the Lone Star State, hence the term ‘Southern Car’.

[discostu]

Keys blackouts and clutches aren’t going away, at least not soon. Way too many of the things we lock don’t deserve the price of the hitech replacements, and nobody can remember more than 2 or 3 combos. As long as there is lightning it will strike the wrong places and kill the power. And there are enough die hard stick junkies that there will be a market for clutches all the way up until there’s no longer a market for driving yourself.

And privacy went away a long time ago, people are just finally noticing.

[nopardons]

I don't have gigantic screens, shan't ever have any, and I want to OWN what I want to see; NOT stream something once/keep having to pay for what I want to see, and know that I'll ALWAYS have what I have, with nobody deciding to get rid of any of it.

I get out plenty; just don't want extraneous, absolutely USELESS crap. A while back, we were given some stupid gadget to hook on the T.V., so that we could get something or other on one of the T.V.s. I said thanks, but please take it and use it yourself, we don't want this.

We don't have NETFLIX, don't watch Amazon programs, and am NEVER going to be interested in what you giddily find so wonderful.

We have T.V. with the whatever it's called so that the picture is supposedly better. My spouse and I can't see the difference and yes, our eyesight is good. ;^)

[nopardons]

I HAVE my own library ( a major one! ) in my house, as well as several smaller rooms that also contain books.

The person I replied to, said that he went to the library to use the machines to get books on his machine. I want REAL books, I can hold and read from. :-)

[nopardons]

I also have books that I bet people who use machines can NEVER get to read.

And I also collect first editions, some signed, that are my treasures. :-)