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New inventions in our lifetime........
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David925 on November 02, 2006, 08:03:58 pm ---I don't remember those color screens Sue, but your comment made me think of something else. Do you remember those aluminum Christmas trees? They were silver, and a spinning color wheel was placed in front of the tree so it would "change colors". The color wheel had a light in it. Everybody had those aluminum trees when I was a kid. People wouldn't be caught dead with one these days.
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They're b-a-a-a-c-k! Tinsel Christmas trees, I mean. Check this out:
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/jump.jsp?itemID=0&itemType=HOME_PAGE
(When I just now checked the web site, the tinsel Christmas tree was on the front page.)
My grandparents had one of those, a floor model, complete with a revolving color wheel, when I was a small boy in the Sixties (that's 1960s, not 1860s ;D ). I hated it--because you couldn't put lights on the tree, unless you wanted to electrocute yourself. To me, the very essence of a Christmas tree was the lights. A Christmas tree without lights is just an evergreen--real or manmade--with a bunch of stuff hanging on it.
But now, God help me, I'm actually thinking of getting a table-top model of those tinsel varmints. ...
Brokeback_Dev:
Viagra! I hope no one mentioned it before.
What did those 60 somethings do without viagra? I got to chatting with one of my yahoo board friends, so i mentioned that I'm reading the sequel to ALBFS and that Ennis and Jack are in there sixties and still hot as ever...He mentioned Viagra and i though of it being one of the new inventions of our time! I dashed over here to post. Yay!
Ellemeno:
Polarfleece. I have always been allergic to wool, and that was always a miserable aspect of my childhood winters. I love Polarfleece.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: brokeback_dev on November 09, 2006, 03:32:40 am ---What did those 60 somethings do without viagra?
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They were probably more inventive and discovered that there are lots of pleasurable and joyful and satisfying ways to make love and express love and affection that aren't centered on. ... And in "some sectors of society," Viagra is now a "party drug" and is being sold on street corners just like other substances. ... >:(
Sorry, feeling an abnormal amount of crankiness this morning. The roof leaked during yesterday's rain, and this morning the bus was late and crowded. :-\
LauraGigs:
Ditto on the polarfleece! So lightweight, compact & easy to pack. And no itchies!
" . . . honey, you seen my blue polarfleece?"
;D
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