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The long slow walk out to the tree to pick your own switch you were about be get beat with. And it being OK for your parents tell others about it because that was how everyone rolled back then.

Themed metal lunchboxes.

Tube tester and Vacuum Tubes. . Having to go down to Thrifty the day after your TV died to use their tube tester after you’d numbered and pulling all the tubes.

Christensen Arms MPR 338 Lapua accu Tac bipod $2000 maryville area meet

figure this one out, sonny.

My step brother and I got into a scuffle one day and my step dad sent us out to get 2 short peach tree limbs and one long one. He said, "y'all wanna fight, get after it until I say stop." The long one was for him when we just stood there not wanting to hit each other, he used it for motivation.

I've lost track,,,did this already come up?

Mexican Jumping Beans.

That makes me think of this

I will be 71 in a few weeks on my birthday I am going to bench press 300 pounds and pull a 350-pound deadlift. My 60th birthday ... third set of 8 reps with 300 pounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpmfl4rkI-s Picture taken on my 70th birthday. Have lifted weights since the 1970's.

I bet no one born in the last 40 years knows how to get into this deliciousness.

Paper ticket stubs from concerts and sports to show you were there.

Take a look at Belt Mountain basepins. Most likely, your crosspin n pin notch has been battered a bit, causing the base pin to back out. I've used a bunch of the belt mountain pins in my hard kicking Blackhawks. They are inexpensive and work like a charm. They use a set screw to hold the pin in. Ya simply can't beat em... leroy...

This happened even at church.

Lightly used Sig MPX Competition. Probably the most fun gun to shoot that I have. I need to fund another project though. Includes the following; - 2 factory 30rd mags with Springer Precision +10 extensions - 3 factory 30rd mag, 2 new in the box - 2 factory 20rd mags - 1 factory 30rd with Taylor Freelance +20 extension, also have original base pad/spring - 1 THRIL 35rd mag with Taran Tactical +9 extension - Taran Tactical magwell - Taran Tactical stock adapter to run standard AR stock - 2 Comp—Tac mag pouches $1950.00 Nashville area

I just got in my crawlspace today and did some work. Which reminds me, I should thank the TGO'ers who gave me some ideas on how to fix it... more in another thread

You fellas talking about getting your ticket has motivated me to get my HF rig set up again. I've been in this house for about four years now, and haven't been on the air except a little 2-meter. I've had an antenna in the box for a couple of years, but today I ordered some brackets and coax and will get it up. Thanks, guys!

FYI since starting this post I have been studying for the HAM radio license. There are plenty of online practice tests, that uses the actual test questions. I’m now consistently getting 85 to 95%, only need 75% to pass. So I should be good to go. I’m going to find a test in a couple of weeks (busy next week). So not hard, not hard at all. Just a few hours of practice and you should be good to go.

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More challenging without the reels!

Can't sleep

we had one of these as well. Highfalutin!

Ordering chit from the back of a magazine, mailing a check, and waiting 6-8 weeks for delivery. Sea monkeys, x-ray vision glasses, and switchblade combs.

In the Air Fryer thread, we were talking about the Fry Daddy, which made me think of a fun topic. What are some things that kids these days simply wouldn't understand? Doesn't have to be 'a thing' it could be a common courtesy like shaking hands or an act like Sunday drives. A few examples:

When it was more than just the Save icon

I can almost hear the faxtones.

Spout for a oil can, I still have one of those somewhere.

It ain't the years, its the mileage. My odometer has done rolled over at least twice and I got the scars to prove it. I'm 69 and feel every day of it.

If you take a road trip to Nashville anytime soon you let me know I'd like to have it

Keeping with the TV theme. When your console TV (which was a piece of furniture nobody wanted to do away with) died, so you put a TV on your TV.

SG is the best there is and their service is unbeatable. Sam ate that one and moved on.

When I was growing up, my Grandparents still had a pipe well with a rope and bucket and used an outhouse. Kids today wouldn't even know what the Sears catalog was for. a And you had these for night use. A millennial would absolutely freak out if they had to use these!

We had Green Stamps when I was a kid. I remember the IGA Foods near my house always had a display set up w/ empty books and a big catalog tied down on a cord to look at to see what you'd buy.

Really, not kidding, there was no Google or internet. Libraries and Britannica

RE: the OP's question . . . Being on the phone and someone else picking up another phone in the house and listening in. Being chained to a cord while on the phone. Not knowing who was calling when the phone rang. Riding in the back window ledge of a car and waving at the cops. Sleeping in the rear floorboard with the warm transmission tunnel as a pillow. Having to call MOVIE PHONE or get a newspaper to know what the theater was showing. A bookshelf full of Encyclopedias . . . and learning about the important stuff in the "S" book 1940s and 50s cars and trucks had them. I know the Chevy 3100 Advanced Design trucks had them.

it's missing the dimmer switch on the left of the floorboard

Fixed it a bit, best idea I have heard in a good damn bit!