We can't have archaic and eat it too.

Thanks Spexx, I felt I did crack out the funny last night.
Long overdue.

We got twine.

Do they still have those Emergency Call Boxes on the interstates out west? I'm guessing not.

We have a wide variety of string. Some in huge quantities. I've got a roll of twine that's about half gone now, but it was something like a quarter mile long when it was new. But that reminds me, we're getting low on the general purpose kitchen string. Need to buy another spindle of that. String should be bought at general purpose hardware stores. You know, the little mom and pop places. They usually have a great selection.

Yes, but do you have a box of "pieces of string too short to save"?

I have string in my toolbox. Occasionally useful.

:lol2:

The Society for Creative Anachronism, but that's really kind of the whole point.

The other day, we were watching a show from 1981 hosted by the Smothers Brothers called "Young Comedians." Jerry Seinfeld was featured, with a bit about mugshots in post offices.

Do any post offices still have mugshots hanging up anymore? I only recall noticing them when I was a kid in the '70s, bored to death while waiting in line with my mother.

Lately it seems the USPS wants post offices to appear more like retail stores, and mugshots don't exactly fit in with that image...

Yeah. They do. I saw this one just recently.


http://rlv.zcache.com/usps_mug-p1683...22ln24_400.jpg

:biglaugha

That is one ugly mug though, I tell ya.

Equality

quoted for shits and grins. ya big baby.

This laptop I am trying to get working is archaic. But I can get to the cellar with it, so that is all that matters.

As asked by the NT Times.

Then there’s the record-scratch sound, still used frequently in ads and comic scenes to indicate someone’s train of thought going off the rails. Isn’t it weird that we still use that sound? For the most part, the last 20 years’ worth of viewers and listeners have never even heard that sound in real life! (In a 2008 NPR segment, the host asked some teenagers if they could identify the sound. They couldn’t. “I have no idea…. I know I saw it on TV.”)

I wonder if at some point it will be replaced by the pulse sound you get if your mobile is too close to speakers?

One of the things that made the needle slide work was that the sound itself - raw, scratchy - worked well with what it represented. I don't think the bleep, bleep of the mobile phone works in that regard.

But I bet that someone who comes up with a good substitute will do well off it.

How is it that kids don't know what that sound is, when so many djs and bands still scratch records in their music?

I would like this archaic looking table top radio.

I know. It's so archaic but I like it.

That looks a bit like the one my gran and grandad had when I was a kid. Cept theirs was set into a wooden cabinet.

That's a beautiful radio. You don't see too many that look like that. Simple, clean lines, attention to quality. Does it work as well as it looks?

I know. We all have probably seen one at one time or another unless a person was born in the 80 's. This one has a partial wooden cabinet. It's so nostalgic isn't it?

The reviews say so. I have not bought it. I don't really NEED it, having the pc and some sennheiser headphones. I WANT it though.

http://www.amazon.com/SANGEAN-WR-11-...ref=pd_sim_e_8

I love old radios. I have a standing Philco that looks pretty much like the one in the picture. It works. I also have a desktop wooden one that I can't find a similar picture of (it needs a cord, don't know if it works otherwise.) My dad gave me the big radio, I bought the little one at an auction.

I had a friend whose dad collected old radios. Rooms and rooms of them. I find them completely fascinating. I need more room, would be fun thing to collect.

Have someone fix it. I don't know about collecting them tho. Imagine yourself at 80 with a bunch of cats and old radios. Not unless you are going to set up an antique shop. imo
That would be very cool. The difference would be only in the presentation. I guess I am just a snob. sorry

Isn't it funny how we gravitate toward things as we get older? I keep telling myself not to buy that cheesy little apple teapot. Not yet.

There is not one funky little thing here. It would look so out of place. A midlife crisis purchase at any rate. I'll wait 20 years.

It would be cool if the old radios picked up old radio stations. Seems abhorrent to use a beautiful old radio like that antique to pick up the local shock jock's stupid banter and the sidekick's moronic and sycophantic laughter.

I haven't tried it in a while, but it gets shortwave.

I remember playing with it in my parent's basement, and getting old shows like "The Shadow Knows." So, somewhere, they were doing the old radio shows and we picked them up. Unless we really went back in time a la Twilight Zone.

My brother's satellite radio in his auto gets some classic radio shows, there's a station for them. You could hook that up, but it would sound too "clear" probably.

I don't put it past kids to have ultra remarkable experiences.




Reminds me of that movie. Frequency.

What's the frequency, Kenneth? :)

About twice a week, Louise.

Yeah, it would be cool if they were twilight zone-y and would only play vintage radio. I've often thought about finding an old carcass and fitting it with a bose machine or some such. Then I could play the Pennies From Heaven soundtrack on a continuous loop.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hRawUBouL.jpg

Deja vu

all over again

Together again, for the first time...it's Martin and Lewis!

No, that would not be cool. Ten points off Gryffindor.

Do not put you faith in supernatural phenomenon unless you can be sure what power is behind it and whether it has your best interests at heart.

Crikey people, didn't you learn anything from Christine?

Don't hold back, Glatt. Tell us how you feel.

Rabbit ears on TVs

Slide rules, 45 records, and 8 track tapes!

When is the last time you saw a caboose?

I have never seen a caboose.

They're a shy Canadian relative of the haggis, that's why.

bread and dripping.

True. I always waved at the guy, they always waved back. No more cabooseseses.

I want to live in a caboose.

We called those Pepere Sandwichs.

Coz our pepere would always eat 'em.

My friend's father had one moved onto his propeerty in the Pocono Mountains and used it as a summer cottage.

I remember seeing a campsite with some of them you could rent. Really cute.

Here're some:

http://www.cassrailroad.com/caboose_rental.html

Dad still has bread & dripping on the odd occasion we have roast beef.
Then again, he used to have cold Yorkshire puddings with jam.

Grandad always talked about kippers and jam, but I don't know that he ever ate it. Jam would seem like an expensive addition to something that didn't really need it.

Ashtrays in pubs/ workplaces.
Nothing dates a TV drama quite as much as people smoking inside.
It's because the ban is relatively new - in 10 years time it will all simply look "old" whereas now it's recent enough to jar.
(Watching The Green Wing the other day and was really quite shocked to see people smoking at work).

I've been watching Mad Men, though it's made now it's set in the late 60s early 70s, they smoked all over the damn place in those days. EVEN ON PLANES!

Roseanne did a bit about it on her show: Lucy smoked, Desi smoked, Bewitched smoked. I don't know about the second Darrin but the first Darrin smoked.

Gotta read that tonight.
Have you read Ellison's account of his brief tenure at Disney? (part 3)

http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

C Batteries.

A and B batteries also.

Cash registers that do NOT calculate the change

Typewriters that type on paper (and carbon paper and white out)

Slide rules - straight and circular

One-man Post Offices

Sears Roebuck Service Departments

Soon enough. They're closing over 100 stores.

Land navigation without a GPS device.

Land navigation without a GPS device.

But what happens when the Aliens take out ALL the GPS sats ???
What ya going to do then Mister Smarty Pants ????

Yep. Years ago. Its either in one of his forwards or was part of his Glass Teat essays.

I love freaking out checkers by having exact change ready before I'm rung up.

Have two. One electric, one manual.
Got one of them, too.

Limerick and Skippack, Pa. Both are one-man operations. Skippack wont deliver mail to any houses .... all PO boxes.

Now that I really miss. Cant remember the last time I considered Sears the place to buy electronics.

I just took an orienteering class.

Damn. I'm feeling old.

That is exactly what I'm saying. Map and a compass have become archaic.

Post offices in general, soon.

They're closing a huge one in Bowling Green, KY.