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MaineWriter:
God, I love the Internet: An ad for the Polaroid Swinger.

You gotta love these lyrics: "Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger. It's more than a camera, it's almost alive, it's only 19 dollars and 95."

Catchy commercials were a trademark of the Polaroid corporation in the Sixties and Seventies, known for cutting edge advertising and clever re-inventions of their core product, a camera that delivered a picture within a minute.

The idea of the instant picture was hardly new in 1968, but the hip, swinging attitude was. The white casing and black plastic strap handle gave the Polaroid Swinger real pop-art appeal. And isn't that Ali McGraw romping on the beach?

You can see the ad at

http://www.tvparty.com/comjing.html

And yes, that is Ali MacGraw....

L

Katie77:
Washing machines

My first washing machine was the one where you had the wringer on the top, and the big barrell with the agitator in.....after the clothes were washed, you used to have to push them thru the wringer into a tub of fresh clean water to rinse, then push them back thru the wringer to squeeze out as much water as you could......was a half a day job to do two loads of washing......

At least it was an improvement on my mums....she used to have to turn the wringer with a lever while trying to push the clothes thru......

Jeff Wrangler:
While we're on the subject of laundry, how about home clothes dryers?

I don't know how far back machine clothes dryers actually go, but how about having one in your own home?

I can remember what a big deal it was when my mother got a clothes dryer. No more carrying a basket of damp laundry up the basement stairs and out the kitchen door to be hung on a line to dry in the backyard--unless she wanted to. (Some stuff just smells better line-dried in the fresh air.  ;D )

But, living as I do in a high-rise condominium, a home clothes dryer makes it possible for me to do my own laundry. No needing to plan a trip to a laundromat--even if there is a handsome but confused cowboy living above it.  ;D

Katie77:
Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity

?A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account

A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived



And if you had a 3 inch floppy . .

?

??. . . you just hoped nobody ever found out?

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David In Indy:
God Sue! You are a riot!  :)

That was really good.

Add to the list...

Windows were things people hung curtains in.

RAM was an animal with horns.

and...

A Monitor was an uppity kid who bossed us around in the hallway at school.

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