Middle Aged Memories
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Have a Good One everyone! Keep those memories coming!
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Merry christmas to all...
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did anyone mention ditto machines and that yummy purple ink? or if you were a cool hiipie chick, we took the big bell bottom pants that the "soc" girls wore, cut the side seams open ,tye dyed (those werent polyester!) and sewed them back up as skirts when i was in jr high we wene not yet allowed to wear pants, and the skirts had to be no more than 2" ABOVE OUR KNEES/ how did they tell? if the teachers was suspicious, or just plain mean, we had to go to the girls vice principla stand with one leg bend and placed on a chair. if it was not acceptable, then they called our moms CUZ MOMS DIDNT WORK
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Yes, we've mentioned the "Ditto Masters" but reliving it again isn't a problem Have you ever noticed that whenever you even read about them you can smell it?0
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They called my mom at work ONCE over the length of a pair of culottes (remember that word?) Mom told them that if they ever felt that they had to interupt her day at work again, it better be because I was hurt or there was a REAL problem.
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Good Morning, Elimar!
I never had any issues with the dress code at school. At my former job I got called on having a hood on my lace sweater and capris that were too short.
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Seeing as how most capris are longer than a skirt, I don't get that dress code at all. And a hood, geez!
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With a 32" inseam, most capris are shorter on me than others. I just stopped wearing them. The skirts could be 2 inches above the knee. Go figure! One of many reasons I left that job.
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yup...we all thought we could get high from that purple ink! what about rotary phones, party lines and phone numbers that started with a word not numbers ex trianlge (tr) state (st) knodike (that imfamous 555)""latchkey key kids
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Ours was "Roger" (RO). Our rotary phone actually had the word Roger on the middle of the dial. My parents still have the rotary from their bedroom in their first home. The handset weighs at least two pounds. Guess it was to discourage long phone calls.
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There's a great scene in the movie "Fast times at Ridgemont High" where the students are handed exam papers and every one of them smells the paper! We watched the movie with our kids a couple of years ago, and DH and I laughed at that scene, but the kids had no idea why.
Our phone number started with GE8, if we had to tell someone our number, we told them that it was general8. My aunt, until she moved into a care facility two years ago, still had her black rotary phone attached to the wall! I remember that whenever we wanted to make a call to family in Europe, we had to contact the long distance operator two days ahead of time so that she could clear a transatlantic line then we were given a time that we could make the call, and we couldn't direct dial, we had to go through the operator.
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Wow. I have yet to make an overseas call, so I don't remember that. I haven't seen fast TImes in Years. I am sure my kids wouldn't appreciate it either.
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overdeas? those were phone numbers HERE i lived in the san frnando vally in sounther ca. i think we probly had 5 area codes....there are like 25 now!
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as a kid, in Montreal our exchange was Hunter....HU4....I still remember my 1st phone number which is going back a looong time, but not one from 20 years ago!!!! Heck I can't remember my folks phone number that they've had for 9 years....but thats maybe because I hardly ever "dial" it, but just go to cell phone and go to their contact!!!
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aint that the trurh....passswords as well when i was a kid there was not a phone in every home? either i am that old or we were that poor? so a grown-up would one the kids go tell someone to call, or the orther way around....yes we no longer cgisled on stone tablets
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THE MONKEES!!
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thats what i get for not looking in the "active topics" i totally missed this thread!! you ladies have brought me down memory lane to nite.. except, i think im stuck somewhere in the past.. i STILL drink tang, in my green tea.. and, istill wear skorts!! remember sonny and Chher? they toured New England one summer, AND I GOT TO CHAT THEM UP FOR TWO OR THREE VISITS. LOVED IT.sorry bout hitting the key. my hands are wicked tonite.0
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I remember the phone number from my childhood, and maybe one other of my adulthood but the others, gone with the wind. Oh, I do know my current home number, and DH and my cell numbers luckily.
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remember before panyhose? getting dressed in after gym class and seeing who or whether fancy garter belts? we were allowed to wear stocings in the 6th grade, until one girl ruined the idea: she played the clarinet in our orchestra and well..........
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No, Pantyhose we common when I got to the age to wear them. My grandma bought me some when I was about 6th grade, maybe even younger. They were made for "young ladies".
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Yes, I remember garter belts in middle school....and gang showers in pe!!! I won't say how long ago that was....I guess I am getting older than I thought....
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also for "young ladies" "training bras" i always wondered what they were training?
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no school gang showers in NZ - in fact no showers after PE. We just had to stink until we got home and had a bath - showers were not common in NZ when I was young. We used something like this to get a shower in the home later on.
We had a weekly uniform inspection at school and we all had to kneel on the ground and the teachers checked our skirt length. A note went home if it was not correct.
We called them Suspender belts and stockings - ugh. We were not very well off and I had a home made one made of a strip of cloth and safety pins! I was terrified it was going to come apart at school. Once I was old enough I mowed lawns to get some money and managed to get enough money to buy a real one after about a year.
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Jandals anyone???? Here is the original ripple sole rubber 'Jandal' manufactured in NZ when I was a kid.
Jandal was a brand name and no one else made the same thing for a long time so it became the generic name for them here. Aussies call them thongs and you call them flip flops which are both quite descriptive names but we are stuck with Jandals.
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Sigh, Mighty Mouse was my FAVORITE cartoon on Satruday and then I would watch Sky King with Penny (the guy flew a small plane and i think he saved people each week from some terrble trauma...
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TV didn't start in NZ until 1960 with only about 3 hours a day. Our area got coverage late 1961 but we didn't get a set until about 1966 and by then the broadcast was about 9 hours a day - 2pm til 11pm. We didn't spend a lot of time watching tv as kids mainly because there were not many kids programmes but I liked the Thunderbirds and Stingray and Road runner and Wylie Coyote the best. Was tv a big part of your lives growing up?
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Rea, your Jandals reminded me that we used to call them "thongs". As far as I knew, there wasn't any other wearable by that name until I was a young adult. I had a friend who call the footwear Zories, which I assume was the brand name which became the generic name in her family.
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I loved Mighty Mouse too, and Felix the Cat (liked his laugh!)
The sandals...does Jandal stand for "Japanese sandal?" I do remember when we would get a new pair of thongs each summer, everyone would get a blister between their toes and then a callous, because that toe portion was a thick piece of rubber. The Zories, I always thought, were the kind with the woven grass or plant fiber on the bottom.
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Mighty Mouse is on his way...........
I don't remember watching Felix, although I knew who he was. I also watch Rocky and Bullwinkle.
I don't know what Zories were, other than my friend and her family called the thongs we wore by that name. Sort of like a facial tissue is a kleenex.
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I watched Mighty Mouse, Felix, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Road Runner. My Dad was and still is an electronic junkie so we always had the most up to date TV and then as the electronic age exploded he'd buy the newest gadget. I can't even turn on the TV and other stuff he has now!
We also called flip flops "Thongs" and got a new rubber pair every year. Sometimes I still slip up and call them thongs and then sometimes I slip up and call thongs "butt floss".
I don't know if my DDs think that's very funny but I sure do!0
Jandal was a brand name and no one else made the same thing for a long time so it became the generic name for them here. Aussies call them thongs and you call them flip flops which are both quite descriptive names but we are stuck with Jandals.