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wow I got behind in this thread

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EvenBob,

Hooterville is not far from Petticoat Junction, which has its own attractions, namely (from left to right) the Bradley sisters Betty Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Billie Jo:



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not safe for work

topless version .... yeah, pretty lame soft porn ... umm, I better just put the link here and you can click on it if you must, you sinner

https://lotus.paheal.net/_images/1363fd2bbc543c9ef24efb312137fc3d/1863714%20-%20Betty_Jo_Bradley%20Billie_Jo_Bradley%20Bobbie_Jo_Bradley%20fakes%20Linda_Kaye_Henning%20Lori_Saunders%20Meredith_MacRae%20petticoat_junction.jpg

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I imagine NSFW was the moment before they saw Uncle Joe coming their way.

Fortunately, for them, Uncle Joe was moving kind of slow, at the Junction.
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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe.

Remember how it was before Googlle

BG you had 5 or so main search engines. You had your favorite. Sometimes you switched or tried a different one to find what you wanted.

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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe.

Remember how it was before Googlle

BG you had 5 or so main search engines. You had your favorite. Sometimes you switched or tried a different one to find what you wanted.

I was a dedicated Yahoo man. I was probably one of the last to leave Yahoo for Google.

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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe.

Remember how it was before Googlle

BG you had 5 or so main search engines. You had your favorite. Sometimes you switched or tried a different one to find what you wanted.

I was a dedicated Yahoo man. I was probably one of the last to leave Yahoo for Google.
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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe. Remember how it was before Googlle?

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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe. Remember how it was before Googlle?

This makes me yearn for the good old days of DOS.
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I tried to explain it was not DOS, it was terminal emulation,
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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe. Remember how it was before Googlle?

This makes me yearn for the good old days of DOS.
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I remember training for a bank job in 2003. Really old software. Instructor and some students said it was DOS. I tried to explain it was not DOS, it was terminal emulation, older than DOS.
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Google has turned 25 years old. Hard to believe. Remember how it was before Googlle?

This makes me yearn for the good old days of DOS.
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I remember training for a bank job in 2003. Really old software. Instructor and some students said it was DOS. I tried to explain it was not DOS, it was terminal emulation, older than DOS.
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Sadly, a lot of people call all the native textmode displays "DOS". (They're not.)
Now you've got me thinking back to one of my first contract jobs, where I was installing serial lines to allow an office to get remodeled and keep actual serial terminals (not emulators) running... those stupid DEC-special 8P8C plugs with the off center retaining tab still tick me off.
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Terminal emulation is still used a lot to communicate to mainframes and minicomputers. A lot of hotel reservation systems are still run on minicomputers and the front desk clerks are on terminal emulators
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Terminal emulation is still used a lot to communicate to mainframes and minicomputers. A lot of hotel reservation systems are still run on minicomputers and the front desk clerks are on terminal emulators
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I remember getting a toy morse code tapper thing and also a crystal radio kit. I don't believe I ever made that radio kit operational.
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I remember getting a toy morse code tapper thing and also a crystal radio kit. I don't believe I ever made that radio kit operational.
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I remember getting a crystal radio kit about this time of year, several decades back.

I didn't quite have the knack for sanding the enamel insulation off the wires, nor the patience to neatly wind and glue the tuning coil.
I also never got it working right, although when Grandma turned on the big Sunbeam stand mixer, the motor brushes threw enough noise to make the earpiece come alive.

A few years later, I got handed a transistor radio kit that someone had hurriedly built (complete with solder bridges and cold joints), but not tuned as they went. Couldn't get that one working right either, but I wasn't motivated to disassemble and troubleshoot.
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I remember getting a toy morse code tapper thing and also a crystal radio kit. I don't believe I ever made that radio kit operational.
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I remember getting a crystal radio kit about this time of year, several decades back.

I didn't quite have the knack for sanding the enamel insulation off the wires, nor the patience to neatly wind and glue the tuning coil.
I also never got it working right, although when Grandma turned on the big Sunbeam stand mixer, the motor brushes threw enough noise to make the earpiece come alive.

A few years later, I got handed a transistor radio kit that someone had hurriedly built (complete with solder bridges and cold joints), but not tuned as they went. Couldn't get that one working right either, but I wasn't motivated to disassemble and troubleshoot.
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Hah, someone must have put one of those together successfully. T
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Hah, someone must have put one of those together successfully. T
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I did in 1960. After I got it working it was so touchy and it was so scratchy coming through the headphones that I got bored with it pretty quick.
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Remember when to send a text you had to use the keypad letter by letter, maybe hitting the key 3 times to get the letter?

Watching "The Departed" right now and amazing how old the phones look.
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Remember when to send a text you had to use the keypad letter by letter, maybe hitting the key 3 times to get the letter?

Watching "The Departed" right now and amazing how old the phones look.
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Remember when to send a text you had to use the keypad letter by letter, maybe hitting the key 3 times to get the letter?

Watching "The Departed" right now and amazing how old the phones look.
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I remember my 12 year old niece teaching me how to text on a flip phone. I said “ no one’s ever going to do this it takes too long, they need to invent something that you can talk into your phone and tell it what to say “
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Remember this on January 1st 1971? I grew up watching thousands of cigarette on TV just like everybody else. If you remember this I guess you're old.

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"Louie Louie", a cover by the Kingsmen, almost 9 million views on YT, was the first rock song that I liked a lot
the singer's voice was scratchy and the words were unclear
all the kids were saying the lyrics were "dirty" which added greatly to its popularity
that wasn't true - the actual lyrics from the song is at the 3rd link
except for the Beatles "Yesterday" it's been covered more than any other pop song - more than 5,000 times

incredibly, the FBI investigated the song because of all of the complaints about the dirty lyrics and found nothing - see link

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-fbi-laboratory-weighs-in-on-the-dirty-lyrics-of-louie-louie


https://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+to+louie+louie&oq=lyrics+to+louie+&aqs=chrome.0.0i512l2j69i57j0i512l2j0i22i30l3j0i10i22i30l2.4016j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Lost Arts -

Tearing a phone book in half.

Plate spinning. If there are still plate spinners anywhere, might be some back-alley casino that still has low ball entertainment. Branson? Circus?

edit - oh, plate spinners probably on "U got no talent"' shows every other week.
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Lost Arts -

Tearing a phone book in half.

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Remember when if you used a credit card the cashier checked a paper list of hot card numbers and if the purchase was over like $50 they had to call in?
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Remember when if you used a credit card the cashier checked a paper list of hot card numbers and if the purchase was over like $50 they had to call in?
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When I lived in California in the late seventies if I wrote a check at the grocery store for over $25 they had to call the manager to approve it and he had to know you personally or they wouldn't take it. This is almost 50 years ago and that's how rampant bad check writing was in California. I never saw anybody using a credit card everybody wrote checks in those days. In 1979 $25 was a big check because groceries weren't that expensive.
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When I worked at the grocery store about 1989 they got the first system that gave them the ability to check on checks.
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When I worked at the grocery store about 1989 they got the first system that gave them the ability to check on checks.
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Remember when you could float checks for days in between banks if you're short on money but you knew you had money coming in. I did this several times 30 years ago when I was in the antique business. I used to go to Indiana every Wednesday so I had a bank account there and I used to float checks between my Michigan Bank and my Indiana bank and I never got caught. Those days are long gone. Now when I see people write a check the merchant gives it right back to them because it's already cleared and been taken out of your bank account just like a debit card.
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When I worked at the grocery store about 1989 they got the first system that gave them the ability to check on checks. link to original post

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People who were not around before credit cards got big don't realize what a huge headache bad check writing was. It was rampant and it was everywhere, but specially in places like California where there were lots of transients. People who would move there for a few months and look like solid citizens and then they were gone. But even in normal places like where I live now bad check writing was a huge criminal activity. I remember a big story in the '80s where a guy stole a bunch company checks from a large company and he went on a check writing spree with a fake ID. He cashed thousands of dollars worth of checks around here and then he stopped for a while. Of course he was greedy so when he started again they caught him almost immediately but if he hadn't done that they probably never would have got him. That would be impossible to do now. When I had the bar in California we only took cash because bad check writing was out of control even among good customers. Some of the bars who were stupid enough to take checks had a bounced check wall that had stapled bad checks on them that they would never be able to collect.
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In the early 1990's dumpster diving was all the rage for some sick reasons and especially stores and malls would have their trash sifted through and have carbon copies of credit cards stolen and those numbers were reused somehow, maybe over the phone to rack up bogus charges for the thief. Gone was the civility of trash is trash, it was now public property.
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When I worked at the grocery store about 1989 they got the first system that gave them the ability to check on checks. link to original post

People who were not around before credit cards got big don't realize what a huge headache bad check writing was. It was rampant and it was everywhere, but specially in places like California where there were lots of transients. People who would move there for a few months and look like solid citizens and then they were gone. But even in normal places like where I live now bad check writing was a huge criminal activity. I remember a big story in the '80s where a guy stole a bunch company checks from a large company and he went on a check writing spree with a fake ID. He cashed thousands of dollars worth of checks around here and then he stopped for a while. Of course he was greedy so when he started again they caught him almost immediately but if he hadn't done that they probably never would have got him. That would be impossible to do now. When I had the bar in California we only took cash because bad check writing was out of control even among good customers. Some of the bars who were stupid enough to take checks had a bounced check wall that had stapled bad checks on them that they would never be able to collect.
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At the grocery store they had a paper list of people never to issue a check cashing card to. About a dozen names, but just names hand written out. There was one guy they had a memo out on, he got them for lots of checks with lots of cards. Heck, once our former night manager wrote bad checks to the store.
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I believe that change was concurrent with the next generation of the family taking over operations, and food stamps being replaced with payment cards.
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I believe that change was concurrent with the next generation of the family taking over operations, and food stamps being replaced with payment cards.
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Back in the '80s when I had the cab company I would take food stamps whenever they were offered because I always got a deal and it was better than no money at all. So if the ride was $5 the guy would give me $10 in food stamps and I would accumulate them and take them to my local grocery store and buy groceries. You were supposed to have a special ID but they knew me for years so they never asked me. This kind of thing was done everywhere by merchants who took food stamps for cigarettes, liquor, lottery tickets. Food stamps looked like money and they were money.


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