Mine came on a stone tablet...
Dude named Moses brought it...
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Dude named Moses brought it...
...it was by carrier pigeon you blockhead.....
And everybody watched pretty much the same show on the same night.
And I grew up in a small town. 911 was active and well in many a big city before it came to us. Everybody knew everybody. One day shortly after it went into service, an elderly lady (whose son happens to own a good bit of the businesses and real estate in the town) called 911. She didn't have an emergency, just needed her friend Betsy's phone number. She was confusing it with 411 - information. So the 911 operator looked up Betsy's number and gave it to her!
Betty White hand delivered them.
....and Don Rickles kibitzed......
WLS in Chicago..didn't get it in the daylight,but at night when the atmosphere thinned out,it came in,and I used to listen to a show called John Landakers Boogie check..basically people calling in and saying stuff and he responded..One kid,sounded like about twelve,annoyingly calling him every night to tell him he sucked.. and Larry Lujack was another DJ on WLS,it was good stuff,received it all the way up in northern NY from Chicago..
Only one phone in the house and only calling long distance after a certain time as it was too expensive.
I can remember when TBS out of Atlanta started broadcasting in my home town. Up until then you had channel 4 (NBC), channel 7 (ABC), channel 11 (CBS), and channel 13 (PBS). Almost overnight the whole town became Atlanta Braves baseball fans....lol.
...and every commercial had the same 800 number to call. 1-800-257-1234....
OK woke up from nap because I had to pee so...
Saw where "soda bottles" being returned for deposit already been mentioned; we played backyard baseball with the cork filled caps and a tobacco stick. Those caps can be made to turn every which way depending on how you flip them. Needless to say my brother and I turned out to be pretty good country ballplayers.
When I was a junior in high school daddy installed an attic fan in house. Thought that was air conditioning until I went to college and didn't have to try and go to sleep without a whipoorwill screaming in tree outside window.
When I got my first BB gun, around 4 or 5, used to shoot ammo at stop sign and pick them up for reuse because they cost too much not to.
Momma made all our clothes, except jeans, until graduated HS. What??
Sam Walton was still in Texas then.
Speaking of jeans, got one new pair every Christmas. Dark blue, stiff as a board. Took half a year of washing and wearing to break them in.
Fast forward to about 1988/89. Bought my fairly newlywed wife an Apple computer for home. Cost me $2100 through the school system, she was a teacher. The thing weighed like 80 pounds. But it had a floppy disk drive!!
That's enough for a while...
Got to go pee again...
Saw where "soda bottles" being returned for deposit already been mentioned; we played backyard baseball with the cork filled caps and a tobacco stick. Those caps can be made to turn every which way depending on how you flip them. Needless to say my brother and I turned out to be pretty good country ballplayers.
When I was a junior in high school daddy installed an attic fan in house. Thought that was air conditioning until I went to college and didn't have to try and go to sleep without a whipoorwill screaming in tree outside window.
When I got my first BB gun, around 4 or 5, used to shoot ammo at stop sign and pick them up for reuse because they cost too much not to.
Momma made all our clothes, except jeans, until graduated HS. What??
Sam Walton was still in Texas then.
Speaking of jeans, got one new pair every Christmas. Dark blue, stiff as a board. Took half a year of washing and wearing to break them in.
Fast forward to about 1988/89. Bought my fairly newlywed wife an Apple computer for home. Cost me $2100 through the school system, she was a teacher. The thing weighed like 80 pounds. But it had a floppy disk drive!!
That's enough for a while...
Got to go pee again...
The smell of memographed blue on copies. Every kid got a contact high from the paper.
Many times in elementary school I was sent to teacher's lounge to deliver message...
Took forever to find right teacher...
Cigarette smoke was too thick to see through...
Took forever to find right teacher...
Cigarette smoke was too thick to see through...
LMAO..that was my elementary also, Kidd. I've mentioned this before, our Principal, Mr. Jackie Johnson, would roam the hallways with the ever present Marlboro Red tucked into the corner of his mouth. He'd sometimes stroll into the classroom, ask how we all were as he lit up then tell us all to behave ourselves and return to his patrol of the hallways. I didn't even think anything about it until much later on when I was older.
My MaMa used to never cook on Sundays...
That 75 pound woman would wring a chicken's neck in a minute on Saturday though...
Next day at lunch we young'uns would eat after adults got all the good parts...
Now they sell wings by the dozens...
Hated those things.
That 75 pound woman would wring a chicken's neck in a minute on Saturday though...
Next day at lunch we young'uns would eat after adults got all the good parts...
Now they sell wings by the dozens...
Hated those things.
Abusive gym teachers
I think when I was in middle school and high school, teachers who were too nasty for regular teaching and had a violent streak became gym teachers. One of the nastiest I had was in middle school. The guy was the coach of the JV high school basketball team but he wasn't at the high school because he got kicked out over complaint of violence against a student. So, what did they do? they sent him to the middle school and he still got to coach high school basketball. Even as horrible as middle school kids are, we knew not to mess with that guy. He didn't really speak, he just grunted and he always had a toothpick in his mouth. If any of us did anything wrong, we all ran laps all period. He actually liked to make us run laps all period because he would get to go inside and watch us out the window and not have to do anything.
I think when I was in middle school and high school, teachers who were too nasty for regular teaching and had a violent streak became gym teachers.
One of the nastiest I had was in middle school. The guy was the coach of the JV high school basketball team but he wasn't at the high school because he got kicked out over complaint of violence against a student. So, what did they do? they sent him to the middle school and he still got to coach high school basketball. Even as horrible as middle school kids are, we knew not to mess with that guy. He didn't really speak, he just grunted and he always had a toothpick in his mouth. If any of us did anything wrong, we all ran laps all period. He actually liked to make us run laps all period because he would get to go inside and watch us out the window and not have to do anything.
I've told this story here before, but will again because I'm old and that's what we do.Abusive gym teachers
I think when I was in middle school and high school, teachers who were too nasty for regular teaching and had a violent streak became gym teachers.
My husband played football and baseball. They had a coach that would randomly pop the guys in the nutz to check to see if they were wearing their cup. Just flat out hit them in the crotch with his hand. People's heads would explode in this day and age if that was happening now.
LMAO...that's messed up....wow.