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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
When it was okay for principals to paddle children at school?
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On 2013-10-18 16:24, Devious wrote: My PE coach in high school used a shaved baseball bat. I hated that .motherf*****.
~michael baker
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2013-10-18 01:09, mastermindreader wrote: Wow, you've seen them before they were there and after they were gone.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Bob1Dog Inner circle Wife: It's me or this houseful of 1159 Posts |
So have I Pakar, millions of New Yorkers have. It's not that big of a deal.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums. |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2013-10-18 23:42, Bob1Dog wrote: Well, in light of what has happened, Bob... I respectfully beg to differ. It is a big deal. Memories are important, sometimes they are all we have left.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On 2013-10-18 23:31, Pakar Ilusi wrote: I am missing something here. How can you see them before they were there? Or after they were gone for that matter?
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
There is such a thing as construction. That's gradual right?
Buildings don't just pop up in a day.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Bob1Dog Inner circle Wife: It's me or this houseful of 1159 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 00:19, Pakar Ilusi wrote: OK Pakar, let me restate the obvious. There are millions of big deal memories out there, including mine. Born and raised in Queens, NY; do the geography and you can see what I saw most of my life. And I remember the landscape before I graduated from high school in 1965, and when I returned to NYC after my my military service as well, in 1971. The towers were there all of a sudden, as it were. Then later, in 2001 I had the responsibility of cleanup for the mess that was made in our corporate headquarters across the street from the towers. I didn't want to go there Pakar but you forced my hand. Again, there are millions of memories. Many just don't wish to discuss them.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums. |
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Zombie Magic Inner circle I went out for a beer and now have 8733 Posts |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 01:08, Bob1Dog wrote: I actually agree with you. They are all big deals. Each and every one of them.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
I remember life before calculators, when there was no such thing as pocket calculators. Whe an. "E" tticket meant the good rides at Disneyland and not something that was ordered from the Internet.
"A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway" - Griffin
"Any future where you succeed, is one where you tell the truth." - Griffin (Griffin rocks!) |
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
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On 2013-10-17 23:48, Theodore Lawton wrote: My High School had a "Smoking Circle" a two foot high circular cinder block fence about 20 foot diameter, for students to smoke in. I'm sure you had to be 18 to go into the circle but I'm not sure. I smoked on the lawn in front of the school. Spanking "Swatting" was only done in Elementary and Jr. High School, not in high School. My third grade teacher called her paddle "The Board Of Education". Iven
Give the gift of Life, Be an Organ Donor.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 05:41, GlenD wrote: If you want to amuse yourself, ask someone under the age of 14 what grade you were in when you got your first calculator. Then ask them how old your father was when he got his first calculator. Ask the same about Facebook pages. Then ask whether s/he thinks Abe Lincoln had an iPhone or an Android. It'll keep you smiling for days.
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 06:14, irossall wrote: Yes, our high school had a smoking area too. Boy, I forgot about that. Teachers and students would all be puffing away on the back loading dock by the Caféteria every morning and at lunch. Our shop teachers were known for lifting unruly students out of their seat by the hair en route to the principal's office. It was just accepted- you messed up and you paid. Needless to say our shop classes were usually pretty orderly. haha!
Performing magic unprofessionally since 2008!
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 10:46, landmark wrote: Third most popular answer (11%): Android Second most popular answer (27%): iPhone Most popular answer (62%): Who's Abe Lincoln?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 05:41, GlenD wrote: In 1969 my father paid $150.00 for a 4 function LED pocket calculator. It did not do square roots or percentages and it depleted batteries very quickly. My father purchased it from Bentley's catalogue. An LED watch was the same price AND it only showed the time while you pressed the button, otherwise the screen was blank (black) and batteries died very quickly. Iven
Give the gift of Life, Be an Organ Donor.
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts |
Quote: My step Dad worked for RCA, installing the radar bombsite at a ferry command base. At the end of the war he was given an RCA television by General Sarnoff.
On 2013-10-17 21:31, Michael Baker wrote: Three years latter, we became one of the most popular families in town. Friend, neighbors, and relatives they never knew they had came over every night to watch the four inch screen for two months, while WMCT broadcast it's test pattern
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
The greatest magician in America was Mark Wilson.
Model kits cost 98 cents and were usually painted badly. Pre-sweetened Kool-Aid and "Fizzies" soft drink tablets. Racist stereotypes were taken for granted. Kid's show and horror movie hosts were the norm for local TV. "Neediest Kids of All" backyard fundraising carnivals. Ben Cooper Halloween costumes and pressed-paper masks. 12 cent comic books and 25 cent "giant annuals." Trading cards with stale bubble gum for 5 cents. Batmania. Men's 'adventure' magazines with lurid covers and topless cheesecake layouts among the 'rugged adventure' stories. The popularity of western shows on TV.
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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gaffed Inner circle So far I've managed to gimmick 1817 Posts |
Ma & Pa grocery stores and penny candy. If you were lucky enough to have a quarter (very rare) you would end up walking out with a large bag packed with candy.
Some of the local corner grocery stores also sold fresh meat which was cut in a back room that had a large window so you could watch the butcher, who was also the owner, get your order. If you ordered a pound of ground beef he went in back, cut a section of meat and then proceeded to ground it up. Everything was added up by the owner with a pencil on the back of the paper bag that he was going to place your items in… that was your receipt. If your TV went out (which was about the size of a Volkswagen) you would then open up the back of your TV, start pulling out a handful of vacuum tubes, carefully place them in a bag and then go to one of the corner drug stores that had a machine that would test the tubes to see which one was bad. When someone got a color TV the entire neighborhood would know about it and consider that person as being rich. Each year one of the networks would broadcast “The Wizard of Oz” close to Thanksgiving and it wasn’t until years later, when we finally got a color TV that I found out it was in color! When my mother took me to get shoes they had a large machine (Shoe-fitting fluoroscope, or ‘Foot-o-scope’) that you would stand on, place your feet in the opening and see a live X-ray image of them. Of course they have since been banned for years for obvious reasons. Then again, as kids we had a ball playing with Mercury when we could obtain it! In the early 50’s I attended a Catholic parochial school which was taught by nuns that frightened the living hell out me. I believe they were called ‘Sisters of Perpetual Torture’! If by chance I came home crying to my mother because one of the nuns smacked me my mother would simply say; “So, what did you do wrong”? So much for a mother’s sympathy! Strange thing though is that we learned, had respect for adults, and something that is sorely missing these days. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad way of getting an early education after all.
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
~Yogi Berra~ "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." ~St. Thomas Aquinas~ Twitter – "A means of proving how pathetic and lonely you are in 140 characters or less." ~Anonymous~ |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2013-10-19 18:02, Steve_Mollett wrote: He's still in my top five! Quote:
Model kits cost 98 cents and were usually painted badly. I had a lot of them. 98 cents and a two percent sales tax for $1.00. I miss those. Quote:
Pre-sweetened Kool-Aid and "Fizzies" soft drink tablets. Hated "Fizzies." Quote:
Racist stereotypes were taken for granted. Sadly. "Frito Bandito" anybody? Quote:
Kid's show and horror movie hosts were the norm for local TV. I have a memory of a kid's show character who was a hobo clown with a five foot necktie. Quote:
"Neediest Kids of All" backyard fundraising carnivals. Don't know this one. Quote:
Ben Cooper Halloween costumes and pressed-paper masks. Oh God yes! I had Batman one year and The Green Hornet the other! Funny story; I was working in the Marvel Comics Mailroom when, on a day off, I found a Ben Cooper costume of Doctor Strange. The mask was odd in that it almost made him look satanic and evil. When I went to work on Monday, I went to Nelson Yomtov, who was in charge of licensing and told him Ben Cooper was screwing up Doctor Strange. He looked at me funny and went through his big book of contracts finally saying to me; "Ben Cooper doesn't have a 'Dr. Strange' costume contract with us!" He got on the phone and I'm not totally certain what happened after that! Quote:
12 cent comic books and 25 cent "giant annuals." I had a lot of those too. Quote:
Trading cards with stale bubble gum for 5 cents. I had most of the Batman trading cards. Quote:
Men's 'adventure' magazines with lurid covers and topless cheesecake layouts among the 'rugged adventure' stories. Saw them, never got interested. Quote:
The popularity of western shows on TV. My wife still watches a lot of those on MeTV.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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