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nooshinjohn wrote: »I’m so old my grandfather was sending me to the liquor store to buy beer and cigarettes for him and they would let me… I was 7 at the time! Lucky Strikes and Grain Belt.
LOL, YEP, Only in my neck of the woods you needed a note from your parents to go buy them smokes or booze.HT SYSTEM-
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And they probably knew your parents, so you dare not forge it.LOL, YEP, Only in my neck of the woods you needed a note from your parents to go buy them smokes or booze.
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LMAO…. It happens so often, the they stopped asking.
LOL, YEP, Only in my neck of the woods you needed a note from your parents to go buy them smokes or booze.
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I remember buying items from mail order catalogs, and waiting 4-6 weeks for delivery."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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I remember buying items from mail order catalogs, and waiting 4-6 weeks for delivery.
Sounds about the same as ordering from Alibaba in modern times. -
Yeah, but back then? You got what you ordered without them checking jack chit for any payback method.....x2.
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Plus the Sears and JC Penney catalogues were very informative and educational 👍Sal Palooza
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mrbigbluelight wrote: »Plus the Sears and JC Penney catalogues were very informative and educational 👍
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The womans underwear section in those department store catalogues were a young mans playboy....at that time. Early training for the old perverts we've morphed into.
I had so many S&H green stamp books, boxes filled under my bed. My sister stole them for a doll she wanted. Starts early kids, this back and forth men play with women....aaaarg.HT SYSTEM-
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boston1450 wrote: »I remember back when teachers had paddles & some teachers would drill holes in it to make it go faster
All the teachers and coaches had their paddles made by the shop teacher and were all perforated. The shop teachers paddle was a deluxe model he made himself.
Remember the statement I made of distracting the kid while he was using the bandsaw?? The kids name was Wheezer (for real, his last name) and I'm, tap tap tap better not mess up Wheezer, tap tap tap better not mess up Wheezer when suddenly I hear my name above all the shop equipment.
I get called into his office which sported a huge bay window looking into the class. I'm standing in the prone position, staring ahead at everyone looking right at me and three right across the azz. Of course, everyone was Texas tough at age 14 and I did not flinch, got knocked forward three times, but didn't flinch. First one hurt like h3ll, second one turned your azz ice cold, third one just makes a loud noise because you were too numb to feel it.
You can bet I never got caught doing that again
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Those paddles with the holes in them, they were commonly known as a Texas flyswatter....but certainly worked as a rear end swatter and the holes created less wind resistence on the swing. Now old school Italians.....leather belts worked for livestock and kids.HT SYSTEM-
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All the teachers and coaches had their paddles made by the shop teacher and were all perforated. The shop teachers paddle was a deluxe model he made himself.
Remember the statement I made of distracting the kid while he was using the bandsaw?? The kids name was Wheezer (for real, his last name) and I'm, tap tap tap better not mess up Wheezer, tap tap tap better not mess up Wheezer when suddenly I hear my name above all the shop equipment.
I get called into his office which sported a huge bay window looking into the class. I'm standing in the prone position, staring ahead at everyone looking right at me and three right across the azz. Of course, everyone was Texas tough at age 14 and I did not flinch, got knocked forward three times, but didn't flinch. First one hurt like h3ll, second one turned your azz ice cold, third one just makes a loud noise because you were too numb to feel it.
You can bet I never got caught doing that again
I don’t remember exactly how it went, but I had a teacher in junior high that gave licks in front of the class at the end of the six weeks. Seems like he’d just go down the roll: Jones, you earned 2 licks this six weeks. Morrison, come and take your 5 licks, etc. It was kind of a ceremony. It was actually a fun day…proof that misery loves company.Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden -
I went to a boys camp a couple years for a couple weeks in the summer. Every morning we all had to do the flag raising ceremony, and in the evening take the flag down. Every camper and counsellor was present. If you did something major bad, like get caught swearing, or if you stole something, anything like that, they made you bend over in front of everyone at the flag raising, and an older counselor would whack your azz with a boat oar - the number of whack’s commensurate with the seriousness of the infraction. If the offending conduct was minor, you had to “run the gauntlet” where all the campers would line up across from each other in a long row and the offender had to run through the gauntlet while campers did whatever they saw fit to you, smash you in the shoulder, try to trip you, slap you in the head, etc. I can tell you that nobody who ever got whacked with the boat oar in front of everyone EVER re-offended.
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Days of “The fear of god”
Those were parents, friends parents, teachers, or whomever were points of authority
Days of discipline kept you from really f’ing up or made you smarter not to get caught
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Nuns at a Catholic school, too.
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Nuns at a Catholic school, too.
I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood and heard tales of some of the Sisters with the wooden ruler across the knuckles.
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mrbigbluelight wrote: »
I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood and heard tales of some of the Sisters with the wooden ruler across the knuckles.
I had that too, but it was only 1st-3rd grade, so I've repressed those memories. -
I had that too, but it was only 1st-3rd grade, so I've repressed those memories.
I imagine that those were some of the hardest 5 years of your childhood 🤔
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mrbigbluelight wrote: »
Nope, school was always easy. Graduated with honors at 17. I couldn't vote in the Presidential election during my Fresh year of college because my 18th birthday wasn't until a few weeks after the election. -
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Does double posting mean that to get up from the ground, one needs to lay down a double footing post, as well as a double hand post? (Us old farts already know the answer)....
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