Growing Old

[Popeye]

 

[AngliaGT]

WOW! - those things have to be worth something like 50 cents nowadays.
What was I thinking,when I got rid of mine years ago?

 

[BobHaskell]

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My first summer job was working at our Woolworths. The soda fountain had a set of ballons - pick one and pop it. Inside was a piece of paper with your price for a milkshake.

 

[Gliderman8]

My first summer job was working at our Woolworths. The soda fountain had a set of ballons - pick one and pop it. Inside was a piece of paper with your price for a milkshake.

Now that’s what I call good inflation.

 

[LarryK]

Have a few and the bottles Doc mentioned.

 

[Basil]

 

[Basil]

 

[Popeye]

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Reminds me of: “I only ever had one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it”

Obituary: Jeanne Calment

She was born a year before the Battle of the Little Bighorn and lived to be a star (perhaps unwittingly) of rap music and the Internet. The death yesterday in Arles of Jeanne Calment, at the age of 122, deprived humanity of its oldest known member.

www.independent.co.uk

Until she was 120, she smoked, and enjoyed a Sunday glass of port.

 

[maynard]

 

[John Turney]

 

[maynard]

 

[waltesefalcon]

Who remembers this?

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I have one in the shed.

 

[bobhustead]

My dad used to do his own oil changes on his pest control service cars. Florida Pest Control License #84. Quaker State only. Case of oil in our garage and one of those spouts in attachment 87694.
Bob

 

[DrEntropy]

If there IS one of those spouts around here it will be a surprise. But I do have tools going back three generations. Dad even "modified" one of his dad's wood planes:

I got a wood shift knob for the MGB, left the original in his garage. That had to have been 1969 or '70.

 

[Basil]

“I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.”
— George Burns

 

[mikephillips]

Saw him interviewed years ago on tv. He had his burial niche placed under Gracie's in the wall so she could have top billing for the rest of time.

 

[John Turney]

If there IS one of those spouts around here it will be a surprise. But I do have tools going back three generations. Dad even "modified" one of his dad's wood planes:
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I got a wood shift knob for the MGB, left the original in his garage. That had to have been 1969 or '70.

Shift knobs can be very handy. I use this one to keep track of which knob I'm using by feel.

 

[John Turney]

 

[John Turney]

 

[JPSmit]