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OT - How Old Am I Game
On 8/1/2011 8:48 PM, wrote:
On 2011-08-02, wrote: wrote in message ... I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; -- Hugs, CatNipped I'm so old I still talk about 'dialing' a phone number. Not only that, I remember when phone numbers had letter prefixes. I used to have a 5 digit telephone number. Bud OK, that's pretty old... oh who are we kidding - you're like me, older than dirt!!! ; -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
"CatNipped" wrote in message
... On 8/1/2011 7:44 PM, Joy wrote: wrote in message ... I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; -- Hugs, CatNipped I'm so old I still talk about 'dialing' a phone number. Not only that, I remember when phone numbers had letter prefixes. Joy Oh gosh, me too - our exchange was "EdgeField" - I have no idea where or what "Edgefield" was, it certainly wasn't the suburb we were living in, "Chalmette". I love this game, it brings back some great memories. -- Hugs, CatNipped Yes, thanks for starting the game. Our prefix was ANgelus - not too surprising, since we were in East Los Angeles. Later it was changed to something that started with PA, but I can't remember what it was. Of course, this was before area codes. Joy |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
"CatNipped" wrote in message
... On 8/1/2011 8:28 PM, Cheryl wrote: On 8/1/2011 8:31 PM, CatNipped wrote: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; I'm old enough to remember having to position a portable cassette recorder next to the radio to record my favorite songs. I'd get mad when the DJ talked over the song. Yes there were records, but no way to get them to be portable. 45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position, but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). I loved the vinyl records (I still say "album" rather than CD), scratches and all! I had a "box" phonograph and I had to put a large plastic center piece over the middle stem for 45s. It had the latest innovation - it would automatically click and let down a record onto the turn-table so you could stack up to 5 or 6 records and kick back and enjoy the tinny sounding love songs! Gosh, now I'm thinking about all the great music back then. I keep up with the current singers and songs and I like most of it (everything except Rap). But it just seems to me that now-a-days most singers rely on their looks and on the recording studio to "mix" their voices - it's rare that a singer can even play an instrument. -- Hugs, CatNipped You're a youngster! I remember when all records were 78 RPM. I still had a couple of albums of 78s until a few years ago, when I sold them. Joy |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
Joy wrote:
You're a youngster! I remember when all records were 78 RPM. I still had a couple of albums of 78s until a few years ago, when I sold them. My mom kept her 78s, too. Unfortunately, she didn't store them very well and they weren't usable. She had tons of jazz music from the late 40s/early 50s, some of it pretty obscure. They might have been worth money if she'd taken better care of them. I'm from the 45 rpm generation. In the late 60s, I bought one 45 per week, for anywhere from 65 cents to a dollar for a single record. And now, after all the album-oriented rock, we've come full circle with downloadable songs for 99 cents each. Works for me. Oh, and I still say "album". Joyce -- The heck with top and bottom -- I want relationships with strangeness and charm. |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
Patok wrote:
CatNipped wrote: On 8/1/2011 7:31 PM, CatNipped wrote: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; BTW, are you young enough to need an explanation for that? ; I'm old enough that I remember when milk came in glass bottles, and was supposedly pasteurized, but we boiled it nevertheless. But that was in a different country, and I have no idea why you'd need to shake the carton in the States. Please explain. I remember glass bottles (delivered by the milkman, of course, and left in a rectangular box that sat right outside the door). We didn't boil it, though - commercial milk was already pasteurized and homogenized by the time I was growing up. I'm all for pasteurization, but I'm not sure why homogenization is so important. People routinely shake lots of drinks - pulpy juices, ciders with sediment at the bottom and so on. Why not milk? JOyce -- The heck with top and bottom -- I want relationships with strangeness and charm. |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
On Aug 2, 1:53*am, CatNipped wrote:
There was a thick layer of *cream at the top of each bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and chicory). *You had to shake the bottle to mix it up. we had silver and gold topped bottles- the gold ones contained milk from Jersey cows and the cream at the top was the cause of regular fights between me and my brothers as we all wanted it for our cereal! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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On Aug 2, 10:31*am, CatNipped wrote:
I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? *; -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: *http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", *maintained by Mark Edwards, at:http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: *L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net tee hee, I'm younger than you, but I'm old enough to remember "party lines" where a lady (never a man) at the telephone exchange would put calls through. The telephone exchange was also the post office, so the lady who ran it knew EVERYTHING about what was happening in the village. Tish |
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Also, it was delivered to our door, fresh from the dairy, every other day. *That was also back in the day hen even doctors made house called to "deliver"! *; We used to get our milk fresh from the dairy that was a quarter mile down the road. Fresh and still warm from the cow. We would bring it home and put it into the pasteurizer that we had at home. Later on the barn started pasteurizing it first, but not in the early days. Jane - owned and operated by the Princess Rita |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
On Aug 2, 2:56*am, CatNipped wrote:
45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position, but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). *I 78rpm- it was the records that were ancient even when I was born but not so ancient that a few of them still weren't around my dad had quite a few. You used to have to get styli with a needle for them and a needle for everything else and if you wanted to play them you had to flick the needle over (or else you would do serious damage to more modern records as the groove on them was thinner) Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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OT - How Old Am I Game
On 8/2/2011 7:27 AM, Lesley Madigan wrote:
78rpm- it was the records that were ancient even when I was born There was also a "half-speed" 16 2/3 RPM on some players. I don't think I ever saw an LP of that speed, but understand that they were used where fidelity wasn't urgent, such as "talking books" for the visually impaired. Let's not sadly recall the price of postage stamps over the years. How 'bout UHF televisions where the new UHF band was a dial tuner like a radio, making it extraordinarily difficult to accurately tune in a channel. Art |
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