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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,452
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    Oh, I remember the stench of cigarette smoke on airplanes. I grew up in the era of almost everyone smoking, so I was used to the smell, but the airplanes were particularly bad IMO.

    Tom

    I remember going to professional baseball and basketball games as a kid and hoping our seats weren’t next to someone who was smoking.
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  • nooshinjohn
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    I remember my stepdad knocking somebody out over a cigar at Perkins when I was a kid. My mom could not handle any sort of smoke after her second round of cancer treatments around her neck...
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    You know you are old when you remember:

    "The amount of smoking everywhere was unreal. In the '60s and '70s, and into the 80's

    Yeah, it was bad. I started with the post office in 85. Half the break room was smoking. And crazy as it sounds, there were clip on ash trays for the manual case workers. They could smoke while they sorted mail into a case. Me on the other hand, I always had a paper cup with a paper towel in it for my copenhagen :D
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  • skipshot12
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    Both parents smoked.
    As a kid I remember hating to go out to eat and having to inhale cigarette smoke while eating.
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  • Jetmaker737
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    My dad's after dinner dessert consisted of two consecutive cigarettes stabbed out onto his dinner plate when done. When I started working at the lazy B there were ashtrays on the desks.
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  • agingboomer
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    . . . when you've stayed up to 11:30 and it's only 7:00 p.m.
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,366
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    agingboomer wrote: »
    . . . when you've stayed up to 11:30 and it's only 7:00 p.m.

    Now dammit.....I don't like what you wrote here. It's not like I ever......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz at 5:00 in the PZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.

    Yet, folks wonder why old folks wake up so early...

    Not that I am old or anything...

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  • muncybob
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    The changing of the clocks and the winter nights make me feel like it's 11pm when it's only 7 every time I go to the cu[board for some munchies.

    Feeling sore after all the snow removal def reminds me of being a man of a certain age.
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • ken brydson
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  • maxward
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    …when you head down the hall with a book (or tablet) to the little reading (or Wordle) room, and your wife says, “Good luck.” Then, once there, you set the exhaust fan for 20 minutes or so and discover that you need to add more time.
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  • Willow
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    maxward wrote: »
    …when you head down the hall with a book (or tablet) to the little reading (or Wordle) room, and your wife says, “Good luck.” Then, once there, you set the exhaust fan for 20 minutes or so and discover that you need to add more time.

    You need more water and fibre not more time.
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  • motorstereo
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    maxward wrote: »
    …when you head down the hall with a book (or tablet) to the little reading (or Wordle) room, and your wife says, “Good luck.” Then, once there, you set the exhaust fan for 20 minutes or so and discover that you need to add more time.

    No time for that during the scramble. I'm happy to arrive safely and not unload during the dash. :D
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  • mhardy6647
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    maxward wrote: »
    …when you head down the hall with a book (or tablet) to the little reading (or Wordle) room, and your wife says, “Good luck.” Then, once there, you set the exhaust fan for 20 minutes or so and discover that you need to add more time.

    I've reached the point in the arc of life that I now generally say to Mrs. H, "I'll be back... I hope" -- when I make that trek.
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  • maxward
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    It’s good to have hope.
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 4,396
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    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,404
    edited January 30
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    You know you're getting old when.... doing a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency sweep on an R2R, monitoring it with speakers, and the dB meter shows +- 2dB for both channels but you no longer hear the high frequency tones very well or at all.

    I had a good run, 72 now. Everything else still works. :D

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  • Geoff4rfc
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.

    My high school had a smoking ring for the students

    Yes sir, we did too.....shouldn't this go into the "You know you're old" thread lol
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    Oh dang, it is...^^^^^

    Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old :D
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    Oh dang, it is...^^^^^

    Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old :D

    OR you smoked TOO much latin lettuce .....

    :D
    That's the PC version of what we used to call it in high school!!
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  • mhardy6647
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    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
    Same at mine -- smokier than even the boy's bathroom. :#
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    Pretty sure Calvin was smelling smoke.
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  • Viking64
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
    Same at mine -- smokier than even the boy's bathroom. :#
    Pretty sure Calvin was smelling smoke.

    Either that or chili was served in the cafeteria for lunch.

    Chili that can untarnish a penny as good as new.

    A penny that can wreak havoc in the giant Hobart food disposal Sarlacc pit much to the chagrin of blue-haired women in tight white dresses.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    ^^^ When five or more people agree people with one of these items, it's an old indication.
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  • geoffr
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    People in their 50s call you sir.
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  • motorhead43026
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    When you sit around the table in the clubhouse and complain about package delivery.
    Since we don’t know where we are going we have to stick together in case someone gets there….Ken Kesey.

    Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper REALLY likes you.

    And the boots you lick will stomp you too.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    ken brydson wrote: »
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    This has to be the funniest picture in this thread.

    Ken, it came at a very opportune time for me to use. You always are out there with your pics.

    Today February 6, my best friend is 87 years old. He got the picture in an email with a birthday wish.

    (Sent it to my best friend of 53 years. His name is Orville Madison "last name" Jr. )

    Told him, I ordered one for both of us.

    His reply:
    I really appreciate it but I already have one. Brand new in original box. My damn shoulders are so bad that if I got it over my head I'd have to wear it all day.
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  • skipshot12
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    Genius.
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