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Quote: DRichI am one of those people that gets a new car every 3 years or so. I don't splurge on a lot but on cars and houses I do. I only drive about 7000 miles a year and I don't think that I have ever put more than 40,000 miles on any car that I have ever had. My current daily driver is leased and is almost 3 years old. I will most likely get a new one this year. For me, the $197 a month I spend for it is well worth it.
I love folks like you, gives me a supply to buy from. Everyone happy!
with quaint nostalgia. Back when I had
clunky landline telephones. Small screen
color TVs. I had to look things up on a
map before I left home. If I wanted to
know something I had to go to the library
or bookstore and look it up. No texting,
no camera phones, no Google. Do I want
any of that back? Hell no. Why would I
want to have to look for a payphone ever again.
It's like people in the 60s getting nostalgic
how about life on the farm with no electric.
It sounds quaint, but I guarantee nobody
wanted it back. I made butter once with a
hand-operated butter churn. Once was enough.
was at the top of all the charts in
1968. It won 3 Grammies. Can
you imagine if it was released
today? You'd never hear it.
Anywhere.
I ran across it watching the fantastic
chess movie on Nflix, Gueen's
Gambit.
Quote: EvenBobRemember the hit Classical Gas? It
was at the top of all the charts in
1968. It won 3 Grammies. Can
you imagine if it was released
today? You'd never hear it.
Anywhere.
I ran across it watching the fantastic
chess movie on Nflix, Gueen's
Gambit.
If I remember correctly, the guy who wrote it actually worked on the Smother’s Brothers TV show. So, that was a pretty high profile for any song writer to have at the time. Those were the days when most artists tried to talk a local disc jockey into giving them a few plays so maybe someone would notice them.
Quote: TumblingBonesI loved the Smothers Brothers. George Carlin as the Hippy Dippy Weatherman, Goldie the Hippie Chick, Pat Pausen's Presidential campaign. All brilliant.
I like the scene on the park bench where the old man asks Ruth Buzzey “ Do you believe in the hereafter?
Well good then you know what I’m here after”
Quote: EvenBobRemember the hit Classical Gas? It
was at the top of all the charts in
1968. It won 3 Grammies. Can
you imagine if it was released
today? You'd never hear it.
Anywhere.
I ran across it watching the fantastic
chess movie on Nflix, Gueen's
Gambit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFXqRYyAMGE
EvenBob, regarding the limited series The Queen's Gambit I agree with you that it was fantastic. Although I liked the song that you put up Classical Gas this one I liked much more but unfortunately they cut it out halfway through.
This site would not allow me to copy and paste the song , The title was "I can't remember love".
/watch?v=aFXqRYyAMGELast edited by: BoSox on Mar 9, 2021
This site would not allow me to copy and paste the song , The title was "I can't remember love".
/watch?v=aFXqRYyAMGE
I kind of remember a cassette tape we had was rewound so many times to play the song that either the teeth or the tape broke and a replacement was needed.
since K posted a jazz tune and I'm a jazz lover I thought I'd post this one
it is I'm pretty sure the only jazz instrumental to ever crack the Pop Charts
in May of 1961 it made no. 25 of the Billboard Hot 100 list
over 76 million views - incredible for a jazz tune with no vocals
it is also incredible because it features a very long drum solo - drum solos are not very popular and are never or almost never heard on pop tunes - actually to be 100% accurate it's not technically a solo because Brubeck backs it with piano chords
Chet Baker was a natural musician............................he couldn't read music
I can't imagine a jazz musician showing up at a session and telling the other players that he can't read
he couldn't beat the needle - he died young - he either jumped or fell out of a hotel window in Amsterdam
a pretty good movie was made about his life called "Born to be Blue"
when his horn comes in at 0:15 it gives me the chills..............the tone
hippyish slang from back in the day -
wow man, the dude's hash had me trippin......................................𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘯.......... 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵
everything about her is 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘷𝘺
let's drive over and get that new Stones album...........................𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘨 𝘪𝘵............................I heard it's 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
failed that math test dude.....................𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳
Soul Brother slang from back in the day
you a 𝘫𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘺
𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 ..................𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵
wow........dude................𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘶 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴
before we do that 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘔𝘈𝘕
and believe or not, my favorite of all - Valley Girl stuff
𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺....................................needs no explanation
𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘺.................................................................................................that 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘺 store wouldn't let me return my ra ra skirt
𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 I'm going to let that 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥 (instead of nerd) take my top off
𝘣𝘢𝘳f 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘯....................needs no explanation
don't talk about me like that..........................𝘣𝘢𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦
he's a 𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘣
don't talk to me like that......................𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭
she's got a 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯 bod
I've got to get to the spa...................look at my 𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 toenails
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Season 1 is so good because of Nina Myers. I will never forgive Jack for shooting her.
Quote: AZDuffmanbut later seasons a 40 minute trip took just the commercial break.
It's why I quit watching the show. Jack got around
town faster than Superman. It was totally unrealistic.
And he liked to break the rules and torture people
too much. The whole show got very repetitive after .
a couple seasons
Quote: HunterhillI like the scene on the park bench where the old man asks Ruth Buzzey “ Do you believe in the hereafter?
Well good then you know what I’m here after”
That was Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - and if you have Amazon Prime, most, if not all, of the episodes are available for free.
And while I'm being pedantic, it's Ruth Buzzi (and Arte Johnson as the old man).
Speaking of the Smothers Brothers, here's some trivia: when Pete Seeger was on the show in 1967, CBS edited it to remove his song "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy." The song was about a WWII officer who ordered his troops to cross a river under the impression that it was much shallower that it actually was ("We're waist deep in the Big Muddy / The old fool says to push on"), and CBS surmised that "the Big Muddy" was Vietnam, "the old fool" was LBJ, and "push on" meant "send in more troops." After some negative publicity, Seeger was invited back to sing the song in 1968, which CBS aired.
Quote: EvenBobIt's why I quit watching the show. Jack got around
town faster than Superman. It was totally unrealistic.
And he liked to break the rules and torture people
too much. The whole show got very repetitive after .
a couple seasons
For me it was when Chloe quit then was at home and got called back in. Was in her nightgown. But after commercial there she was. People I worked with could not believe I quit watching. But I did the same with "House" when he hooked up with Cuddy. I decided to stop watching shows clearly in decline. Now I watch no network shows.
Quote: lilredroosterChet Baker was a natural musician............................he couldn't read music
I can't imagine a jazz musician showing up at a session and telling the other players that he can't read
Dave Brubeck couldn't read music either. He blamed it in part on his poor eyesight.
As to Baker, I agree he is one of the greats (get's steady rotation on my Spotify playlists). I don't however think much of his attempts at singing.
“Very interesting “Quote: ThatDonGuyThat was Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - and if you have Amazon Prime, most, if not all, of the episodes are available for free.
And while I'm being pedantic, it's Ruth Buzzi (and Arte Johnson as the old man.
remember the good ole days when you didn't get 10 scam emails and 5 scam phone calls every single day
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Quote: lilredrooster...............................
remember the good ole days when you didn't get 10 scam emails and 5 scam phone calls every single day
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I set my phone to go straight to voicemail unless the call is from someone in my contacts list.
If it’s important they will leave a message.
Quote: gamerfreakI set my phone to go straight to voicemail unless the call is from someone in my contacts list.
If it’s important they will leave a message.
I hope one day it becomes universally illegal to let bots do anything but answer lines. Never call you. Except maybe in a emergency.
Or maybe, "No bots" option.
Quote: lilredrooster...............................
remember the good ole days when you didn't get 10 scam emails and 5 scam phone calls every single day
I remember when I got my first answering machine about
1980 and thought holy crap, the future is here. I remember
thinking how futuristic Jim Rockford was to have one in
the mid-70s. The very first answering machine I ever heard
of was in a fiction novel by Robert Heinlein called Stranger
in a Strange Land. It was set in the future and the main
character had a telephone answering machine. This was in
1962 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
They say the Internet won't forget, but it's already forgotten some things, because some things did get completely deleted.
Quote: rxwineOne day, far far into the future, they may not remember how the Internet began. They'll wonder if it has always been here or was it a big bang.
They say the Internet won't forget, but it's already forgotten some things, because some things did get completely deleted.
The thing is it is weird to realize how few people were online before the early 2000s. Even in 2003 when I got into the mortgage industry customer contact via email was the exception not the rule. As late as 2005 we had a roomful of fax machines and 2 girls all day just sorted and delivered faxes. Today I fax by email and wonder when I sent my last real fax.
Rush Limbaugh was good for pointing out how primitive the 1990s were compared to the 2010s. He was tech savvy but did not bother putting up a site until a few years in, he saw what a waste those early dotcoms were and wanted to wait to make money on it. In 1997 Tom Leykis laughed at the idea of streaming his show, he said, "There is this invention called a radio......." Later he would be relegated to streaming only.
The kids entering college this fall were born in 2003 making their effective memory about 2008. By then everyone but intentional holdouts were online at home. They cannot comprehend not having it all at their fingertips and have never heard the term "information superhighway." Same as people born after about 1978 cannot comprehend how for a few hours a night "nothing on TV" was a literal statement.
Quote: rxwine
They say the Internet won't forget, but it's already forgotten some things, because some things did get completely deleted.
you probably already know this but maybe some others don't
the "Wayback Machine" according to Wiki started in 1996 and has captured over 531 billion web pages
but yeah, I'm sure it has even come remotely close to capturing everything
https://archive.org/web/
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Quote: AZDuffman
The kids entering college this fall were born in 2003 making their effective memory about 2008. By then everyone but intentional holdouts were online at home. They cannot comprehend not having it all at their fingertips and have never heard the term "information superhighway." Same as people born after about 1978 cannot comprehend how for a few hours a night "nothing on TV" was a literal statement.
Remember having to go to the library just to look up facts in books? With the ease of the internet today it almost seems unbelievable to have to leave your house just to look something up.
I guess we were the fortunate ones, we had an encyclopedia at home!Quote: DRichRemember having to go to the library just to look up facts in books? With the ease of the internet today it almost seems unbelievable to have to leave your house just to look something up.
I remember as a kid, our family acquired a Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia set. The local grocery store sold them -- one volume per week for 25 or so weeks for a couple bucks each. In 6 months, we had the whole set!
It was always a fun name to say: "Funk & Wagnalls." Rowan & Martin thought so as well!
By the time I could walk we had a PC and internet in the house.
I had my first cell phone by 8th grade and my first smartphone by 12th grade.
By the time I started driving, GPS was common and I could absolutely never navigate the roads without one.
I was into technology and posting on forums at a very early age. I miss the tech culture of the early 2000’s the most but that is probably just nostalgia.
Quote: gamerfreak
I was into technology and posting on forums at a very early age. I miss the tech culture of the early 2000’s the most but that is probably just nostalgia.
I miss the tech culture of the late 1970's. We had to build our own technology by soldering parts together using wire. We started by phreaking phone systems to get free calls. By 1984 we had cheap computers and I was able to find some forums that I connected too via 300 baud modems. Those were the days.
This was my first modem:
Quote: lilredrooster...............................
remember the good ole days when you didn't get 10 scam emails and 5 scam phone calls every single day
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I have my cell phone number from a state different than the one I live in.
So when I see a call from that states area code I know it’s spam.
Quote: AZDuffmanThe thing is it is weird to realize how few people were online before the early 2000s.
This is why I made a killing selling on eBay in 1998 1999 2000. I mean a killing, it was embarrassing the amount of money I was making all because my competitors didn't even have computers let alone know about the internet. By 2003 things started to change and by 2004 that was it. All I heard at antique shows was what I dubbed the eBay Echo. Everywhere I went the antique dealers were talking about eBay.
As far as people not seeing the potential of the internet early on even Bill Gates said in 1997 that if you had told him in 1992 that we would be seeing a web address on McDonald's TV commercials he would have said you were nuts. Bill Gates had the money to get into the internet business in a huge way and yet totally refused until it was too late. He could have been Google, and Amazon.
Quote: EvenBobBill Gates had the money to get into the internet business in a huge way and yet totally refused until it was too late. He could have been Google, and Amazon.
It might have been a blessing in disguise as the amount of additional antitrust issues he might have had to deal with could be crippling. Somehow he managed to do alright..
Quote: EvenBobThis is why I made a killing selling on eBay in 1998 1999 2000. I mean a killing, it was embarrassing the amount of money I was making all because my competitors didn't even have computers let alone know about the internet. By 2003 things started to change and by 2004 that was it. All I heard at antique shows was what I dubbed the eBay Echo. Everywhere I went the antique dealers were talking about eBay.
As far as people not seeing the potential of the internet early on even Bill Gates said in 1997 that if you had told him in 1992 that we would be seeing a web address on McDonald's TV commercials he would have said you were nuts. Bill Gates had the money to get into the internet business in a huge way and yet totally refused until it was too late. He could have been Google, and Amazon.
The thing was that so few people knew what "internet business" was. I had a salesman worked for me and we somehow were talking about seasonality of businesses and I said all businesses had it. He said, "Well, not the internet!"
I tried to explain that "the internet" was not a business and still is not. It is a computer network that you use for business. But so many people thought "the internet" made business different. So many people that got that it would be big still did not get it. Of course some new things developed. At first TV shows and sports leagues did not get that by getting fans more involved via sites meant more and longer term fans because this had never happened before.
All those dotcoms that wasted all that VC money on things that even then a rational adult could see were silly. And all those insane stock valuations because it was "tech." Even today we see some of this. Amazon is just a retailer but the stock is so much higher P/E than WMT but why?
Hard to believe it has been almost 25 years since it came out (Released Dec 13, 1996). Lots of star power and many scenes of Las Vegas throughout the film. Pretty cheesy overall and not particularly good imo. But it was still fun to see again and catch little things like this scene (warning salty language):
Danny Devito's character made me laugh in the sequence. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!
Quote: AZDuffmanI tried to explain that "the internet" was not a business and still is not. It is a computer network that you use for business.
I tried to explain to people in the late 90s that shopping on the internet was just like shopping in a catalog, except everything is instantaneous. They still didn't get it. A lot of it was, computers were really high priced and people were afraid of them. My wife is one of the smartest people I know, and she was terrified of computers. She had a antique mall and I had to drag her, moaning and crying, sobbing, into Best Buy so she could buy her first computer in 1998. She was so convinced that she could not do it; that it would be beyond her ability. In a week she was better at it than I was. In 2 weeks she was running her whole business through the computer. Inventory, sales, spreadsheets, banking, she even had a program that figured out her payroll and printed out checks for her employees.
There were lots of people like her in the late 90s. Didn't want to spend the money, and were terrified of it anyway. She hates it when I remind her with that story that she was ever like that.
Captain Kirk opens up his flip phone in the original series - 1966
at the time he was touring planet Zebula and he needed to call Spock back at the Starship Enterprise
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" - back in the day stuff - some of them were pretty good
this one is set in Vegas - Steve McQueen is offered a weird bet
Peter Lorre is really creepy
the girl is McQueen's real life first wife Neile
both vids combined are about 23 minutes long - pretty good IMO
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Quote: lilredrooster.........................
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" - back in the day stuff - some of them were pretty good
this one is set in Vegas - Steve McQueen is offered a weird bet
Peter Lorre is really creepy
the girl is McQueen's real life first wife Neile
both vids combined are about 23 minutes long - pretty good IMO
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Thanks for that link! I 'remember when' my mother told me the plot of that show. It might have been January 4, 1960, which was the morning after the show first aired.
Love the atmosphere and quiet sophistication of the times.
Did anyone else notice a couple things? The lighter twice doesn't ignite before the wager begins. Steve McQueen refers to Neile, but at no point do they introduce themselves by name.
Quote: smoothgrh
Love the atmosphere and quiet sophistication of the times.
part of the appeal of this back in the day stuff is the charming, and expressive way that they handle their cigarettes
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Quote: EvenBobRemember when we paid every bill with a check. There were no debit cards, there was no direct deposit, there was no electronic payments. If you paid a bill, you wrote a check, stuck it in an envelope and put a stamp on it. I haven't mailed a letter in over 10 years. I have no idea what postage is now. I suspect .60 or $0.65. If you're under the age of 25 chances are you've never written a check in your life and probably never will.
My inlaws refuse to use any type of online banking because they are afraid of fraud.
Turns out you are much more susceptible to fraud doing things the old way. Their mail was stolen and someone forged the checks they sent out for CC payments.
Quote: EvenBobRemember when we paid every bill with a check. There were no debit cards, there was no direct deposit, there was no electronic payments. If you paid a bill, you wrote a check, stuck it in an envelope and put a stamp on it. I haven't mailed a letter in over 10 years. I have no idea what postage is now. I suspect .60 or $0.65. If you're under the age of 25 chances are you've never written a check in your life and probably never will.
A few weeks ago a woman in the store in front of me wrote a check. I realized I hadn't seen this in years. She gave the check to the cashier, the cashier scanned it, and gave it back to the woman. What the heck. So I asked the cashier and she said when she scanned the check it automatically debited your bank account just like you were using a debit card and they don't need the check anymore. So what's the point of going through all that trouble when she could have just used her debit card. Long gone are the days of kiting checks, young people don't even know what that is probably.
Quote: EvenBobA few weeks ago a woman in the store in front of me wrote a check. I realized I hadn't seen this in years. She gave the check to the cashier, the cashier scanned it, and gave it back to the woman. What the heck. So I asked the cashier and she said when she scanned the check it automatically debited your bank account just like you were using a debit card and they don't need the check anymore. So what's the point of going through all that trouble when she could have just used her debit card. Long gone are the days of kiting checks, young people don't even know what that is probably.
My parents have never used a debit card or online banking. They still write checks for all of their bills and if they need cash money they go to the bank and stand in line.
"Thriller" was another good one from back in the day - hosted by Boris Karloff who got famous playing Frankenstein
this one features a hot 60s style babe as the cheating wife
the other link is to "Chiller" - yet another one that I used to waste time with as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWtht7XjvFE
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