Humor 3/15/24
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twodog max
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Number 3 today but I remember and have used all of number 1.
Beware the Ides of March!
Beware the Ides of March!
#3 for me.
I used or saw all of #1, I can add shooting marbles in ant lion patches, penny cinnamon chewing gum vending machines on the city transit buses we took home from school.
I rode many a streetcar too, with the big concrete, prism-shaped blocks with an oil derrick-looking light post on top, sitting in the middle of the street at the stops to protect passengers alighting from passing cars.
I used or saw all of #1, I can add shooting marbles in ant lion patches, penny cinnamon chewing gum vending machines on the city transit buses we took home from school.
I rode many a streetcar too, with the big concrete, prism-shaped blocks with an oil derrick-looking light post on top, sitting in the middle of the street at the stops to protect passengers alighting from passing cars.
Alk8944
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My first choice is #1 just for the nostalgia, I remember all of those things, very well. I remember riding on the trolleys before they were replaced by busses about 1954 in my town.
How many of you remember "cinnamon toothpicks", Before Lik-m-Aid and Pez? These were a home made item and back then my Mother had to buy the cinnamon oil from the pharmacy because it had alcohol in it so I couldn't buy it. That is really funny because just 3-4 years later I could buy Sulfur, Willow Charcoal and Potassium Nitrate to make Black Powder with, no problem, but still no cinnamon oil.
For just plain funny though it's #5.
How many of you remember "cinnamon toothpicks", Before Lik-m-Aid and Pez? These were a home made item and back then my Mother had to buy the cinnamon oil from the pharmacy because it had alcohol in it so I couldn't buy it. That is really funny because just 3-4 years later I could buy Sulfur, Willow Charcoal and Potassium Nitrate to make Black Powder with, no problem, but still no cinnamon oil.
For just plain funny though it's #5.
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All good ones today.
#3 is great and gets my vote.
#3 is great and gets my vote.
#5 for me but, sadly, #1 also…..scored 17 for 17…….
I could add a few to number 1, like:
Cigarette vending machines where a pack was $.23 and came with 2 pennies taped to the side.
Indian head pennies, Mercury dimes, Liberty quarters and half dollars, real silver dollars.
Henry J, Hudson’s, Rambler, Willis, Edsel and Duesies (Duesenberg’s)
$.05 Coke’s
$.25 Saturday Matinée that included two movies, a couple cartoons, a soda and a bag of popcorn
Riding in the bed of pick-up trucks
Taking guns to school to hunt afterwards
8” Black and white television
Vacuum tube radios and tv
Caroling at Christmas
2 mail deliveries a day the week before Christmas
Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny Hour, The Shadow and The Lone Ranger radio shows
Plastic seat covers for car seats
Water coolers that fit in the car window and used air/water to cool the interior
Gas station attendants that would pump your gas, check you oil and tires, clean your windshield and give you a free glass with every fill up
Rolling cigarettes for my dad
Making scooters/skate boards by nailing the ends of a skate to a board
Playing baseball and touch football in the street
Dogs and cats without licenses
Road maps
Cigarette vending machines where a pack was $.23 and came with 2 pennies taped to the side.
Indian head pennies, Mercury dimes, Liberty quarters and half dollars, real silver dollars.
Henry J, Hudson’s, Rambler, Willis, Edsel and Duesies (Duesenberg’s)
$.05 Coke’s
$.25 Saturday Matinée that included two movies, a couple cartoons, a soda and a bag of popcorn
Riding in the bed of pick-up trucks
Taking guns to school to hunt afterwards
8” Black and white television
Vacuum tube radios and tv
Caroling at Christmas
2 mail deliveries a day the week before Christmas
Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny Hour, The Shadow and The Lone Ranger radio shows
Plastic seat covers for car seats
Water coolers that fit in the car window and used air/water to cool the interior
Gas station attendants that would pump your gas, check you oil and tires, clean your windshield and give you a free glass with every fill up
Rolling cigarettes for my dad
Making scooters/skate boards by nailing the ends of a skate to a board
Playing baseball and touch football in the street
Dogs and cats without licenses
Road maps
Ivan the Butcher
Member
On #1 I too hit 17/17. I remember when nobody had a bike helmet! Bread and Milkman came to your door. McDonald's Hombergers were 15 cents (small fries 10 cents) White Castles were 8 cents. Cars didn't have seatbelts.
I believe today's inner is #5!
Ivan
I believe today's inner is #5!
Ivan
Number 3. 
A classic Larson that’s always worth a laugh.
A classic Larson that’s always worth a laugh. 
I also could add a lot to the list on number 1! For that reason I pick it today for my chioce!
Got em all in #1, but #3 is the one today
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#1and 5 for me. I vividly remember all of #1, miss those day. Will never forget the Biltmore dairy stand up driven milk truck bringing fresh milk and orange juice to my grandparents house. Driver had a galvanized box the milk and OJ sat in, leave it at back door around 6:00-6:30 every other day and pick up the emptys.
UncleEd
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All of them! But if I had to choose
just one or two---can't do it!
just one or two---can't do it!
no. five............
#1 for the win. I remember all of them plus all of Toms also and more that I could add. #5 for honorable mention.
I almost missed the 45rpm vinyl discs, or records as we called them back then. We used 78rpm thru my teens, although most of the country had pretty much shifted to 45rpm five years ago.
Also #1. I remember all of them, plus my first car was a 1952 Studebaker starlight coupe.
Number 1 as I had used or recalled everything on the list.
Yea, #1 I remember every one of them also......
MetalMan
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#5 for me today…
#1 made me feel ooollllddddd…..
#1 made me feel ooollllddddd…..
