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MOPAR! I had a '63 | |||
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And use a pair of pliers when the TV knob broke. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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Roll down a car window with a pair of vise grips. Have a car that uses two keys. Floor switch for high beams Watch a tv that showed everything in black and white Slide a switch on a silver box to play a video game Use a computer screen with only one color | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Yeah, I did that. too. And on days when the buses couldn't run we walked. Also, had an evening paper route that was 6 miles long. Delivered papers through snow, sometimes up to 2 feet deep. Paid room and board to live at home, since age 14. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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The high school class just graduating is the last one born in the 1900's. Let that sink in. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
I did all that, too. And did a lot of repairs to the equipment as well. Spent several years as an IBM customer engineer (aka repairman) Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Three on the tree (63 Dart) Determine which ride to use the E ticket on. Rebuild a carburetor Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Compulsory military service | |||
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You beat me to it!! | |||
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posting without pants |
Being poked with a cane by your grandfather to get off your duff and change the channel from "2" to "4" (or too "5" or "11" or "30") and that was it... And getting up off your duff eagerly because your grandfather has been in and out of the hospital and you miss your long walks around the rail road tracks picking up junk lawnmowers he will never, ever fix up, yet has 7 more in the garage he won't ever actaully fix... come to think of it, I carried about 25 tons worth of scrap metal, junked power tools, or building materials home as a young boy from along those railroad tracks for my grandfather... Maybe 0.01% of it was ever useful.... But hearing him brag about his 5 year old grandson being able to fetch whatever tool was in teh shed to his brother (while they were in the middle of an "grumpier old men" argument) was TOTALLY worth it. I wish I had known him when I was older too. He had great stories. When you screwed up, being given your grandfather's pocketknife... and told to go to the tree in the backyard to "cut a switch" knowing that "switch" (a tree branch for those of us that don't know) was gonna be used to tan your hide.... That didn't happen very often. Being called a "smart ass" for bring back the tiniest twig you could find as a "switch" and forced to go back and get a bigger one, and getting twice the whoopin' you would have gotten for being a "smart ass." Ah, it builds character, or so I'm told. Getting parked on a hill, having 12 hours to learn how to driver a stick shift... Then having to take it on a 4 hour drive back to school. and getting yelled at the whole time as if you're an idiot. Getting shit faced in high school, and then having your father decide that today was the day to cut down the biggest damn tree you have ever seen. Guess who is dragging the chain through the woods? Guess who is chopping down all the little trees so the tractor can get through. Guess who is going to crank the "come-a-long" to put tension on the tree? Guess who is gonna push 5' diameter logs uphill to the splitter? Guess who is not gonna be able to bitch about it? Sadly, guess who's parents I wish would have been HARDER on him..... Yep, me. Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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Use a matchbook to set the gap on your points when your car starts runnig rough! ___________________________ "I Get It Now" Beth Greene | |||
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Unhyphenated American |
Get up early to watch TV and wait for the station to sign on. __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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delicately calloused |
Steel or clay wheels on a skateboard/roller skates. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Stopping at a gas station to ask for directions. | |||
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Mmmmmmm, the wonderful smell of a mimeograph...  | |||
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Get almost all of their cartoon watching for the week in on Saturday morning. | |||
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Building forts on vacant lots (original GoT) | |||
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Use a slide rule. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Adjust valves on an engine. Adjust a clutch cable. Change the oil in an oil bath air cleaner. | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Run a trapline in the winter time to make gas money for the boat.  41 | |||
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