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New inventions in our lifetime........
Katie77:
Transistor Radios.......oh yes, I remember them well....they were on ever teenager's wish list for christmas or birthday presents.....
Here in australia we shortened the name to "Tranny"....and we never left home without our tranny........we sat it near the window on the train, and didnt care that everyone else had to put up with listening to the same music we wanted to....we had it beside us as we lay sunbaking on the beach....one radio staion used to tell us every half hour, "if you are sunbaking at the beach, roll over so you will get an even tan"....and when we got in the car, which didnt have an inbuilt radio then, we used to slide the strap of the tranny over the inside sun visor, and we would listen to the radio as it swung back and forward as we travelled along.
I couldt resist sharing all those happy memories, that came flooding back to me, when I saw the mention of transiistor radio.......
We could never have dreamed that in the future we would eventually have portable cassette players, cd players or i-pods.....
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on June 29, 2007, 08:20:07 am ---Transistor Radios.......oh yes, I remember them well....they were on ever teenager's wish list for christmas or birthday presents.....
Here in australia we shortened the name to "Tranny"....and we never left home without our tranny.
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OMG! :o That word has an entirely different connotation in the States today! :o :laugh:
(I'm sorry, Katie, I don't mean to make fun. It's just that I'm personally acquainted with a couple of transexuals, and so the first thing I thought of when I read, "We never left home without our tranny." ... :laugh:)
Katie77:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 29, 2007, 08:35:00 am ---OMG! :o That word has an entirely different connotation in the States today! :o :laugh:
(I'm sorry, Katie, I don't mean to make fun. It's just that I'm personally acquainted with a couple of transexuals, and so the first thing I thought of when I read, "We never left home without our tranny." ... :laugh:)
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Hahahaha.........Yes Jeff, I can see the humour in that.......remember, I was a teenager in the 60's...... i didnt even know then what a transexual was.....reminds me of the words of that song by Bon Jovi......"Thats when a smoke, was a smoke"........
It was also when a fag was a cigarette............gay meant you were cheerful......
Everything seemed so innocent then.....
2robots4u:
It was highly humorous to read Jeff's reply to Katie's post about "Tranny" because that's exactly what I was thinking..and laughing..about until I got to the end. Oh, how thick the dictionary has become over the last 40 years with the additions of alternate meanings to all those words!*/*-
I was in England many moons ago and my friend was smoking. A friend of his came up to us and said "can I take a drag of your fag, matie". I thought he was talking to me (and you must know what went through my mind), but everything became clear when he took the "fag" from Matt's lips....Doug
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: 2robots4u on July 09, 2007, 09:32:44 pm ---It was highly humorous to read Jeff's reply to Katie's post about "Tranny" because that's exactly what I was thinking..and laughing..about until I got to the end. Oh, how thick the dictionary has become over the last 40 years with the additions of alternate meanings to all those words!*/*-
I was in England many moons ago and my friend was smoking. A friend of his came up to us and said "can I take a drag of your fag, matie". I thought he was talking to me (and you must know what went through my mind), but everything became clear when he took the "fag" from Matt's lips....Doug
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Speaking of "drags from fags", does anyone remember those windless lighters they used to sell? They didn't have a flame and they wouldn't blow out no matter how windy it was outside. What ever happened to those?
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