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06-23-2008, 11:34 AM
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"It's getting better all the time"
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Originally Posted by Prinny
I also remember when I kept busy by writing mail to pen pals
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I have over 300,000 pen pals. Delusianne and Square Peg and AksarbeN and Poconoproud and so many more 
City Data has to be the modern day marraige of the Pen Pal and the Party Line!
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06-23-2008, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vermont / NEK
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300,000? No wonder you don't write me as often as you used to... 
Caloopin': It might be spelled with a k - I've never seen it in print. I borrowed this word from my better half. I never heard of it back in my caloopin' days but there's a certain ring to it that I like. It's kinda like carousing. without all the drunkenness. |
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06-23-2008, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by CMTAD
I have over 300,000 pen pals. Delusianne and Square Peg and AksarbeN and Poconoproud and so many more
City Data has to be the modern day marraige of the Pen Pal and the Party Line!
Charley |
What a great thought. I guess we're carrying on, after all.....
Speaking of "writing", I remember filling up a trash basket with "rough drafts" on inexpensive paper trying to write the REQUIRED thank you notes (sent by snail mail, of course) for gifts from relatives, going to a party at a friend's house (my Mom had me write a thank you note to the mother who "gave" the party, how nice is that) for a b'day, etc......and then when I got it right, I could copy my letter onto a sheet of "good" stationery.
Remember learning the "Palmer method" and how readable, even "beautiful" cursive was a goal to achieve through practice on that lined paper with the three lines so the capitals and "small" letters were sized correctly? |
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06-23-2008, 01:53 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Circle City, CA. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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Way before transitor and tube radios, I had a crystal radio.
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06-23-2008, 04:45 PM
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Finally... Queen of the Music Freaks!
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Close to Bruce Springsteen
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Does anyone remember those "CLICK CLACKS"? I remember my arm getting so bruised from them. LOL! Why the heck did we like them anyway?  |
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06-23-2008, 04:51 PM
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"When the people lead,the leaders will follow."
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Let this weather last!
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Shorthand-there were Greg and Pitman.
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06-23-2008, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by LaceyEx
Shorthand-there were Greg and Pitman.
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I know "Greg"....I learned it around 1971....I still use it sometimes when I talk on the phone....but I'm not always sure what I took down...... |
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06-23-2008, 06:04 PM
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Need a good session of people-watching
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Originally Posted by MusicFreak
Does anyone remember those "CLICK CLACKS"? I remember my arm getting so bruised from them. LOL! Why the heck did we like them anyway? |
because they were noisy and obnoxious just like us. |
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06-23-2008, 07:53 PM
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Finally... Queen of the Music Freaks!
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Close to Bruce Springsteen
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Originally Posted by delusianne
because they were noisy and obnoxious just like us.
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LOL... I suppose so! |
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06-24-2008, 12:09 AM
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OK, I'm trying to remember click clacks. Were they those small metal things that you held in your hand and they made a clicking sound when you squeezed them and a clack when released? If so... I remember them too! If not, please fill me in. And if so, what the heck were they all about? Didn't they carry some sort of advertising, like a radio station or grocery store?
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