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06 Aug 2015, 7:16 pm

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there is a WONDERFUL movie whose title escapes my aging memory :oops: about how 8-tracks are so bad they're good, it was narrated by the lady from star trek TNG baba yar I think.


I googled it and it's "So Wrong They're Right". It appears to be on youtube.

thank you! it TOTALLY escaped me! I have it on DVD somewhere.



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07 Aug 2015, 7:21 am

oil spigots, when motor oil was still in cans, the spogot would open the can and funnel the oil from there.



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07 Aug 2015, 4:30 pm

points, distributor caps and condenser coils. also the smell of tetra-ethyl lead.



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07 Aug 2015, 6:18 pm

Whuuut?!? Cars no longer have distributor caps? Guess I should look under a hood more often. :D



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07 Aug 2015, 6:32 pm

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Whuuut?!? Cars no longer have distributor caps? Guess I should look under a hood more often. :D

granted I am no mechanical maven, but it is my impression that they don't use distributors as they were known back in the points and rotor days. I referred to a distributor in front of a mechanic who said "those went out with button shoes."



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07 Aug 2015, 6:46 pm

...The vibrator-like (I guess :D ) things you'd put on top of a record player's turntable to play 45RPM big-holed records ! :D :)



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07 Aug 2015, 7:22 pm

12" phonographic transcription discs, 78 rpm.



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07 Aug 2015, 7:22 pm

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07 Aug 2015, 9:05 pm

sending in real soda caps to get shirts, caps, and other things through the mail.



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07 Aug 2015, 9:06 pm

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07 Aug 2015, 9:26 pm

ASS-P wrote:
...The vibrator-like (I guess :D ) things you'd put on top of a record player's turntable to play 45RPM big-holed records ! :D :)



Not sure what you're getting at but...the turntable adapters for the wide holed seven inch (ie 45 pm) vinyl discs were not phallic shaped ( if that's what you mean by "vibrator like"). Either the turntable had a built in disc shaped thingy you could twist to come up. Or you bought an adapter thing (two kinds - one looked like a little hat that sat on the record spindle, and the other was a flat plastic thing you had to insert into the record hole. Both hard to describe, but neither was very phallic like.



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07 Aug 2015, 9:30 pm

I remember a 45pm that may have been a Disney record for children that was bright yellow.


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07 Aug 2015, 9:39 pm

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08 Aug 2015, 12:03 pm

Penny candies.


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08 Aug 2015, 2:25 pm

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08 Aug 2015, 5:26 pm

Britte wrote:
I used to make gum wrapper chains, out of fruit stripe gum wrappers, and would hang them across my bedroom walls.


Thumbs up to this.

I used the edges of dot-matrix printer paper, folded round eachother in such a way that it made a sort of a paper spring, and I would poke those toothpicks with the colored plastic on one end that they put into fancy sandwiches through the holes in the paper spring.

Can anyone even picture what I'm talking about, because I'm not sure if what I'm describing makes sense . . .

I even drew a picture of one of these paper spring with toothpick collection thingies for my drawing class and got an A + + on the assignment. :nerdy:


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