30 days until the Arkansas football game!!!!! Season opener for LA TECH!!
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30 days until the Arkansas football game!!!!! Season opener for LA TECH!!
I just accepted a PhD position at Arkansas. So I'll see y'all in Fayetteville!
WTG Prof!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
Congratulations Dr. Blue Dawg!!
Well, doctor in a few years, if all goes well! Should have said PhD program position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russdawg
Four weeks from today, my brother, my friend,Barkly, and I will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas by now. :)
QB: It will be my pleasure, dear coach, to be incarcerated in your field house.*
COACH: What was that you said about being a prisoner?*
QB: Oh, I said I'm a prisoner in this field house and I expect to be treated like one.
COACH: Well, if you're a prisoner, I'm responsible for you, and that makes me the warden.
QB: Oh, coach, don't holler so much, please. I got a head that feels like it was in a drawer all night. Now, will you go away?
COACH: [dumps a vase of water over QB's head] Get up, prisoner, and get to work!
QB: Work?
COACH: That's right, and you can start with your room! Clean it up!
*
QB: Clean? OH! AD! Where's our AD? I'm a prisoner!*
QB: Mr. AD, you GOTTA get me outta this. Coach is about to work me to death.
AD: you mean Coach?*
QB: Coach? Bloody Mary.*
QB: Mr. AD, can we go now? I don't ever wanna see The Rock again.*
Darn, I'm older than dirt!!
Someone asked the other day,,,,,,,,,,,,,
'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?''We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,
I informed him, 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?''It was a place called 'at home,' I explained!
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work,
We sat down together at the dining room table, & if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was & so was bread.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at5AMevery morning.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust their gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.Ignition switches on the dashboard.Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, NOT the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
1. Candy cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephones 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TVtest patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 2 channels!! If you had a TV!!
7. Pea-shooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10. 78 rpm records 11. Hi-fi records 33 1/3 rpm 12. Metal ice trays with lever 13. Blue flashbulb 14. Cork popguns
15. Studebakers
16. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, & If you remembered 11-16=You're older than dirt!!! THAT'S ME!!! I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
yes, 1,3,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14
10 pts
How about having to change the TV channel with a wrench cause the knob tore off?
Never locking your car door? My dad ALWAYS left his keys under the driver side floor mat. Why? He didn't want to lose them.
Unfortunately I remember them all, although the Studebaker is a little fuzzy. Got my hand and arm pulled through a wringer when I was about 10. Scared me more than hurt.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJDAWG
I remember all but 5. On Saturdays at the movies we had a. local advertisements which were mostly slides; b a short (cartoon) c. Serial and d. feature. I also don't remember newsreels in the evening showings.
We lived in a small town with no milk delivery, but I do remember it from my cousins in Shreveport.
[QUOTE=DJDAWG;1598412]yes, 1,3,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14
10 pts
How about having to change the TV channel with a wrench cause the knob tore off?
Never locking your car door? My dad ALWAYS left his keys under the driver side floor mat. Why? He didn't want to lose them.[/QUOTE]
100% (old as the dirt), and that includes DJ's add-ons. Let me give you a few more:
- Ice Truck
- Ice box (really- like a refrigerator without electricity)
- Aluminum foil on the rabbit-ears.
- "clickers" - these were made in occupied Japan from Prince Albert Tobacco cans.
- Blueing (for laundering whites)
- Wallgreen's lunch counter
- Kress 5& dime store
- a choke (on the car dash board)
- A cotton sack (for picking cotton)
- diaper pins
- cap pistol
- coon-skin hat
- plastic man comic books
- coal fired freight train engines
- Rail road water towers (for the above "steam engines)
- plow-wheel
- sling-blade
- stop and go lights (red-light with only red & green lights -weren't around long, except in Dover, Arkansas)
- "Bobbie socks"
- saddle loafers
anyone else?
smoking in hospitals
no seat belts
orphanages
polio
patriarchy
racism
Um, this one is alive and well according to the Democratic Party...comes with code words... *wink* *wink* ... so that like-minded people know what you are really sayingQuote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
My father was one of those guys that delivered the milk in bottles. He worked for my grandfather who owned the dairy. They delivered milk, cream, eggs, and lord knows what else. Starter in the floorboard? Geritol? Carters' little liver pills? Watching Lawrence Welk and Mitch Miller? Gary Moore show? What's my Line? Truth or Consequences? Have Gun Will Travel with Richard Boone as Paladin?
Everybody had a crew cut except that kid down the block who got a Mohawk.