For Old Guys Only

[fasteddy]

We used to use them when we went camping to give the water some flavour and to kill the flavour of the water.
It was discussed a few times about putting one on our tongue but no one in our crowd was that brave.

Steve.

 

[2door]

Rest in , Professor. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/showbiz/russell-johnson-obit/index.html

And another one from our younger days says 'goodby'.

I could never figure out why the professor could build anything from a coconut shell , radios, microphones, and compases, he could design and build anything, but he couldn't fix a hole in a wooden boat.

Just sit right back
and you'll here a tail
a tail of a fateful trip
that stated from this
tropic port
aboard this tiny ship..........

Tom

 

[Wild Bill]

Rip Professor. Actually he could fix a hole in a wooden boat but chose not to because he was stranded on an island with two hot chicks! (But he never scored)

 

[Wild Bill]

A few old timer things....

Tube testing machines at the drug store, can you imagine todays "men" removing tubes from a television and repairing their own television?

Space Food Sticks, I loved those things!!!!

Mattels "Strange Change Machine", Todays children would get 1st degree burns with what to us was a fun toy!

Black and white TV, and watching Man walk on the Moon live. That's right youngsters, we used to be able to go to the Moon! They even drove a moon buggy up there.

 

[2door]

And we didn't use a 'remote' to change channels.
And we had to dial numbers on a phone by sticking your finger in a hole and rotating the whole thing.

There were also things called 'Service Stations' where when you drove in, a little bell would ring and at least one guy, sometimes more, would run out to fill your gas tank, wash your windshield, check your oil and they wore uniforms and probably knew your name. "Can I check your tire pressure today, Mr. Smith?"

Compare that with what we have today.

Tom

 

[Wild Bill]

I was Mom and Dads TV remote, they would smack me in the head and say "Go change the channel". Come to think of it we had a phone answering machine back then too.

 

[Mike B]

I remember fizzies, I remember they sucked. Not nearly as good as kool-aid. Now that was pretty good. But not as good as lemonaid from frozen concentrate, that was the best of the mix it yourself stuff.

Remote controls. Who needed them? Ya only got 5 channels, no need to surf.

 

[Wild Bill]

Yep, 5 channels was about all we got too. TV was pretty good back then, Laugh-in, Smothers Brothers, Batman, Sonny and Cher, Flip Wilson, The Monkees, Gilligans Island, My Favorite Martian, Etc.

 

[Dan]

Driving home from NYC, This song came on the radio. Made me think of this thread and the first time I heard it. This also was the first time I heard a song on an "oldies" station, from my well spent youth. LOL, freaked me out. I must be old. That was 9 yrs ago

As a kid, thought it was the coolest song ever.

First time I heard this song, I was ridding shotgun with my dad. We stopped for mixer and he sent me in to the packie. The laws had just changed and they would not sell soda to a 7 yr old.

I got lumped up for that.
So just my humble opinion but vote against corporal punishment and for non-lumped up children.



JMHO

 

[Mike B]

Yeah Baby! Got whacked 'cause the law changed eh?

This one's for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEY7UQgd-8

 

[Wild Bill]

Rest in , Professor. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/showbiz/russell-johnson-obit/index.html

And another one from our younger days says 'goodby'.

I could never figure out why the professor could build anything from a coconut shell , radios, microphones, and compases, he could design and build anything, but he couldn't fix a hole in a wooden boat.

Just sit right back
and you'll here a tail
a tail of a fateful trip
that stated from this
tropic port
aboard this tiny ship..........

Tom

Dave Madden who played Reuben Kincaid in The Partridge Family died also.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/a...-of-the-partridge-family-dies-at-82.html?_r=0

 

[Allen_Wrench]

I watched that show. I can't believe it was that long ago, and that he was as old as he was when he died. What a wake-up call. Missin' the Professor.

 

[CTripps]

Wasn't the real problem with fixing the boat more a lack of decent materials? Sure, you can make shelter and furniture out of bamboo poles and fronds, but making planks for a wooden hull would be trickier. Not to mention nails. I'm pretty sure they came up with a good glue once, but was it water soluable?

R.I.P. Professor

 

[Dan]

I am so sad to report that Mr. Pete Seeger passed yesterday.

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267462861/pete-seeger-troubadour-and-activist-dies-at-94

A great, great loss.

He dropped out of Harvard to bicycle across America in 1938 ( ?) Was stoned in his car by the KKK. Was black listed and so, so much more....

I had the good fortune to work with his Clearwater program yrs back. Sadly, I did not get to meet him at a festival they held that year. I was told he was around but had gone to help clean up the grounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

 

[Otero]

He'll be missed, but he had a good run. At 94 he was just a few
months older than my mom is now. Sounds like he still had a decent
quality of life right up to the end. We should all be that lucky.

 

[Dan]

Your so right, Otero.

Reading the comments in that article, I was struck by the last;

"
Alan Stewart • 11 hours ago −
In 2010 I wrote to Pete to say that I was passing by and could we meet? He responded, hand written, "I am interested to meet you Alan. Let me know what time your train arrives and I will collect you at the station." Which he did, drove me to his home where I met Toshi, his wife.

En route back he sang the verse which he had written and sung - with her permission - as an older person's perspective to Joni Mitchell's poignant 'Both sides now', viz "...It's worth it anyway." He dropped me at the entrance to the Beacon station, went to park his car and came back to say "Cheerio." How's that for a person filled with a generous, caring and fun spirit at age 91?"

Mr. Seeger is said to have quoted the line from "The grapes of wrath" often.

" Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."

Great thing about this great man. He did that and more. At a time when he would pay a very high price for it.

The world really is a better place for him having lived.

 

[Tinsmith]

Quite a legend and a wonderful storyteller. Got to see and meet him at the National Storytelling Festival many years ago. Spent the weekend listening to his music and stories of his life. He made a difference in this world.
Dan

 

[fasteddy]

One of those rare people who stayed true to what he believed in without wavering.

Steve.

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

One of those rare people who stayed true to what he believed in without wavering.

Steve.

Amen to that. He's going to be very much missed.

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

Yea, he's a great Legend! I read he was chopping wood a few weeks back. I guess he was alright, they did not mention cause of death, but into the 90's is quite good.

They gave tribute on the local radio stations, which was nice!

MT