Read this and it kind of makes the point.
Transport Canada issues recall on time-travelling Delorean car | Toronto Star
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Read this and it kind of makes the point.
Transport Canada issues recall on time-travelling Delorean car | Toronto Star
I heard about this for the first time on the radio today (never was a fan of Back to the Future - sorry! 
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The 19th century steam train leaves the Jim Thorpe station around noon today, but I won’t be on it (re: Back To The Future III). I took a ride on the train around this time the other year to experience the thrill of riding in a historic train with smoke billowing out of the engine, in an open passenger car, through the beautiful Lehigh Gorge and seeing the magnificent colors of the leaves. In reality, I was blinded for most of the trip from the constant coal dust in my eyes, lost my voice having to yell over the deafening sound of the engine, and left with singed clothing by the little bits of hot coals that found its way into the open car. "Doc" Brown can keep his past!
Ah, yes . . . the good old days.
I suspect we remember them as such because we were younger, not because they were better.
In the house where I grew up there was this strange plastic box attached to the wall that would often annoy you with this shrill, insistent ringing. And -- if you can believe it -- the people who would cause this annoyance actually expected you to pick the thing up, and be polite to them on it.
Can you imagine such foolishness?
The $20 can of Pepsi made me think of how all those 12-ounce cans of Pepsi everybody buys all day only have 11.5 ounces in them now . . . and also to wonder how many people have yet to even notice that.
Geez, you guys, I'm still trying to get over my bitterness at not having flying cars by now.
Marty forgot to put something right and this is where we ended up.
OH the missing "T", I wonder where it went? LOL...which one was Mary?.....
Yeah.
And, sometimes, you could pick up the handle thingy, place it to your ear and listen in on neighbor's conversation. A party line they called it.
Growing up, we had a party line. Do you think kids today could even figure out how to use a rotary phone?
There was a recent Tv documentary in which several HS and grade school students were shown various retro devices. It was sad, yet funny watching them trying to understand there use. Rotary phone was one of them.
We had a Back to the Future moment not that long ago. Alison, who is 9, was digging through the junk drawer. (Everyone has one of those, right? ) She found a roll of film. Turned it round and round in her hands, then held it up and said, "What is film?"
) She found a roll of film. Turned it round and round in her hands, then held it up and said, "What is film?"Heck, back in the '70s, I remember watching some game show where a youngster was given a manual can opener and a can and told to go to town. She look at it like it was an alien probe.
I can't say for sure, but is that a device that's had its heyday? We've never had an electric can opener, and I'm not sure if any of our friends do.
Can you imagine asking even adults to handle the P-38? (I keep one in the car
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We do have an electric can opener, but a manual on as well. My 13 year old prefers to use the manual one. I confess to never using the manual one except on camping trips...but come to think of it, most canned goods have pop top style lids now, and I don't think I used the can opener once on our last camping trip.
A most handy thing. Beats the heck out of trying to open a can with a KA-BAR™.Can you imagine asking even adults to handle the P-38? (I keep one in the car
(By the way, I had to look it up. The only P-38 I was familiar with was the Lockheed Lightning. In the Corps, we called that a "John Wayne." Like Billy Joel, don't ask me why.)
It takes 38 turns to open a can. Don't get why they were called "John Wayne."
Don't ask for strict rationality out the Marines.
From The P-38 Pocket Can Opener Was an Army and Marine Icon | Defense Media Network
"The P-38 was first issued in 1943 as part of a ration item known as the Hospital Five-in-One. It became the standard issue item with the G-ration in June 1944. Subsequently, it was issued along with the more widely used C-Ration, which remained in inventory in the postwar era. Finally, the opener was issued in all Army field rations. The Marines picked it up and dubbed it the “John Wayne,” apparently because of its toughness or because the actor demonstrated it in a training film."
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"Although “Opener, Can, Hand, Folding” is its official Army nomenclature, it soon acquired the popular name P-38. Historians disagree as to which of three theories explains the moniker. One is that soldiers called it the P-38 because it could open a can faster than the P-38 Lightning fighter plane could fly. A more likely explanation is that the “38” comes from the length of the can opener, which is 38 millimeters (or 1 1/2 inches). It also is possible that “38” was the number of punches (a “P” word) it took to open a ration can. All experts agree that P-38 did not derive its name from the Walther P-38 pistol used by the German military in World War II."
My dad was insistent that we all learn to use one of those, just in case
We have had a normal Swing-A-Way can opener for as long as I can remember. My mom still has the Harvest Gold-handled one she got soon after marriage--lol--and I have a blue-handled one we got as a part of a wedding present (25 years now). They go forever. Never saw a need for an automatic one.
When I introduced Poltergeist to LilMan last year, I had to explain 'snow' on the TV screen to my three youngest. None of them have lived in a time when television ever went off the air.We had a Back to the Future moment not that long ago. Alison, who is 9, was digging through the junk drawer. (Everyone has one of those, right?