Remembering

email from a friend | 12/28/2018 | unkown

[Red Badger]

You’d think the feel of burnt skin and the smell of burning flesh would be a person’s first clue that that’s not the handle..................

[SamAdams76]

We had the Zenith remote control that changed the channel. It activated a motor and you still got the thunk-thunk sound as the channels changed. Only 13 VHF channels and only 5 or 6 channels actually came in and only about three were clear signals. The mechanical remote was considered rather fancy at the time. We also had to constantly fuss with the v-hold setting to keep the picture from flipping. That was a knob in the back of the TV.

[Cold Heart]

I put a double in my 70 Dodge charger. Give me a couple days and I will remember the brand

[golux]

LOL Max. I remember doing the same thing with my first girlfriend. She was gorgeous. Later became a fashion model and did a lot of TV. Lovely woman today.

We found a bed (somewhere... I’m still not telling) and I met her there.

She had taken ALL her clothes off and something (maybe from a movie) prompted her to say to me: “come to mama.”

Well, I was utterly shocked...

And I told her to put her clothes back on.

We went for a walk.

One of my worst decisions... Or one of my best?

[Still Thinking]

You’d think the feel of burnt skin and the smell of burning flesh would be a person’s first clue that that’s not the handle..................

If it were plugged in, yeah. I can tell it's not plugged in by the fact that she's calmly sitting there misusing it rather than running screaming with one hand held in the other toward the break room to get some ice on it.

Unless....she's actually contemplating a crime and wants to remove prints.....

[combat_boots]

Um

[central_va]

What is this? A ray gun?

[Still Thinking]

Ah, I always wondered if that was an official product from the TV manufacturer or something he home-brewed himself. Thanks!

Yeah, I remember having to futz with the vertical hold, and occasionally even the horizontal. Today’s equivalent to needing adjust that is when the digital picture blocks up, except now there’s no knob to adjust to fix it.

[King Moonracer]

Timing is everything.

[central_va]

You answer shows how advanced you are.

[combat_boots]

Ah. Timing.

Those were the days...…..

[Still Thinking]

Arrrrr, arrrrrh, arrrrh

[central_va]

I think there is a knowledge gap here.

[eyedigress]

I remember working on a UPX-23 IFF/SIF interrogator in my Radar days.
Elaborate set-up working with an engineer. We were looking for a mode-4 issue.

The base paper came in to do a story on a young woman in our squadron newly assigned. They had me get my ass up and take her picture with equipment she had no clue about.

Looked impressive for the progs.

[Cold Heart]

But don’t dwell on it too long

[central_va]

Does this sequence of numbers mean anything to you:

1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2.

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

Thought I was the only one remaining who still remembered using a cloak room. Did your school have outhouses? We had coal-fired potbellied stoves to heat the classrooms. We had well water and had to use about 3 foot long slender well buckets to get our drinking water with. The classrooms had 15 foot ceilings so it took a while to heat the rooms. We had tall windows for our A/C. We walked to school maybe a mile, rain or shine. We had to cross a swinging bridge to get to the school grounds. The girls always tried to wait to be last to cross because, being boys, we delighted in rocking the bridge sideways and up and down. The girls would grab one of the cables and hang on for dear life and squeal in a very a entertaining way. As they filled out our bridge attacks gradually went away. We had 3 or 4 old ladies that cooked some of the best meals I have ever had with an old cast iron wood stove. Our milk delivery guy was me. I would walk, packing 2 gallon jar, to a neighbor's house who had a couple of cows, he would fill it up straight from the cow, I would pay him and I would take it back home. My other chores were working in the garden in the summer with my mother and getting in coal in the winter for heat. Yes, helped mom wash clothes with the Maytag washer that had the deadly wringer, said to taken the arm off several inattentive children. I passed that I.Q. test many times and still have both arms to prove it.
I am from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and my story is not uncommon, some of us are still walking around. I will bet ya that those were the best days of our lives for many of us.
I aint older than dirt but I am sure there is some dirt younger than me.

[Cold Heart]

Mallory dual point distributer. It never ran as good as the original.

[central_va]

This is a

1. A martini shaker
2. A sexual aid
3. An ignition coil
4. A coffee bean grinder

[eyedigress]

When I was 16 I put the distributor in my Pinto wagon backwards.

Car caught on fire after the impending back-fire released the fuel line from carb. Lame.