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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 09, 2011, 09:59:28 PM
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This was too funny. :lmao:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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Umm...
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Gameboy rocked!
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"It's a camera."
"It's a bomb."
:rotf:
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:rotf: ohhhh boy
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I know a library that still rents out laserdiscs. I have no idea why. They have a player you can check out too.
My mom and I were in an antique store last night and found a rotary dial phone. Too funny.
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Oh wow. :rotf:
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I know a library that still rents out laserdiscs. I have no idea why. They have a player you can check out too.
My mom and I were in an antique store last night and found a rotary dial phone. Too funny.
Are you laughing at me? I still have one in the bedroom.
Press one for.......click....works every time.
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Are you laughing at me? I still have one in the bedroom.
Press one for.......click....works every time.
My parents would probably still have theirs if they hadn't sold it at a garage sale.
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Are you laughing at me? I still have one in the bedroom.
Press one for.......click....works every time.
That video should be shown to all students and teachers or Archeology as a lesson in what they find and how they interpret the findings.
Flea markets in the north east are an example of this. People clean out homes and barn of stuff that their GG grand parents stored and have no idea of the use of some things in its day.
Mother found an old box in the attic that had belonged to some sailor that visited China in the 1800's. Inside she came across 6 bone carvings that were like a cage. Beautiful intricate carvings and light as a feather.
What the heck were these used for in china, she marched around for 10 years asking everyone from the Curators of museums to those who specialised in Chinese artifacts. She even sent pictures of the things off to the Peabody Museum and no one had the slightest idea what they were, ornaments most said.
So she gave up and one day she visited her local liberty that was selling off all the old periodicals and found one from the 1950's on China and its traditions. Low and behold there was a picture of her ornaments.
Those so called ornaments were in fact implements to wear on ones clothing as FLEA Traps. One put a bit of honey in the trap and the fleas would run in and could not get out. Sort of like an ancient roach motel--or the Hotel California, one could check in but not check out.
Today my kids have no idea of what a button hook, a darning ball for socks, or the implements used to forge horse shoes were used for. They come across a round metal object with a grove in one side and don't connect it to the old wood fired stoves. The hook that removed the plate to add more wood is also a what the heck is that for.
How I ask can the learned folks that go on digs into the past even 500 years understand what they find, like the children in the video, one has to know and have lived in the past to understand what they find.
How does one do this when they cannot recognise or been anywhere near the culture they are exploring.
Put it this way, we find medical kits from the early 1900 and few have any idea what the implements inside were used for.
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Words I never, ever expected to say: Thanks, vesta, that was a great post.
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That was too funny :-)
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Wow, I remember it as a child! :-)
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I know a library that still rents out laserdiscs. I have no idea why. They have a player you can check out too.
Because laserdiscs are awesome. I have a ton of them that I watch.
However that was a CED is the video and not a laserdisc is I'm not mistaken.
My mom and I were in an antique store last night and found a rotary dial phone. Too funny.
The only phone is my house is rotary ::)
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Because laserdiscs are awesome. I have a ton of them that I watch.
However that was a CED is the video and not a laserdisc is I'm not mistaken.
The only phone is my house is rotary ::)
I have a princess rotary, but it is just for show. I have no land line.
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I have a princess rotary, but it is just for show. I have no land line.
I only have a land line now, I just canceled my cell phone. I'm out of date when it comes to most technology.
My radio still uses tubes......
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I only have a land line now, I just canceled my cell phone. I'm out of date when it comes to most technology.
My radio still uses tubes......
Wow.
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Wow.
Thats what most people say when they see it or hear about it and most other things I use in the house.
The radio I speak of.... (http://img209.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=014bzw.jpg)
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Remember that old cell phone from the 1987 movie Wall Street ?
(http://trendycellular.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/gordonl1.jpg)
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Thats what most people say when they see it or hear about it and most other things I use in the house.
The radio I speak of.... (http://img209.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=014bzw.jpg)
Well, I use a handheld can opener!
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Well, I use a handheld can opener!
Everyone should have one. What're you gonna do if the power goes out for a long time. I also keep an old push button phone in the closet so that if I loose power for a long time people can still call me on the land line.
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Everyone should have one. What're you gonna do if the power goes out for a long time. I also keep an old push button phone in the closet so that if I loose power for a long time people can still call me on the land line.
I don't have a land line, but I am researching walkie-talkies. Long distance ones. BF lives 5 miles away. I do have a battery-operated weather radio, from my hurricane days.
Don't have a generator, but I have a charcoal grill, and a fondue pot with sterno. :-)
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My mom and I were in an antique store last night and found a rotary dial phone. Too funny.
I don't like the electronic warbles and chirps newer phones use-- so I have an old rotary phone with a real pair of bells in it wired into the system.
All it's for is to ring-- though it is possible to answer incoming calls with it.
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Well no wonder those kids had trouble figuring thing out............they were French.