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  1. tonyb

    Missing Members

    Hats — vintage, custom or otherwise — off to the moderators whose efforts have kept this place from becoming yet another vector for misinformation.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    All four playoffs games this past weekend were great, but the KC/Buffalo contest was among the best I’ve ever seen. The on-field product has never been better. Whatever one’s views of the NFL aside from that, it’s the game itself that sells its actual product: all those millions of eyes...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Good to see that somebody stepped in and fixed that little problem.
  4. tonyb

    The Mandela Effect

    None of which is to say that computers have no place in the schools. Of course they do. But I’m hoping we’ve gotten past fetishizing the things. They make research a helluva lot more expedient, which ought leave educators with higher expectations of their students’ work product. But that ain’t...
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    The Mandela Effect

    ^^^^^ I, too, hope you’re wrong. I was covering local schools about the time personal computers were becoming ubiquitous. School districts were putting forth special “technology” levies, arguing that without the additional funding to put all those computers in schools, our kids would fall...
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    The Mandela Effect

    I’m a bit torn. Committing a lengthy text (the Bible, say, or the Koran) to memory is an impressive feat, much in the way that is sculpting in a manner so true to life that you half expect the statue to put on some clothes and drive to work. Technological advances (the printing press, the...
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    The bunch of fruit crate labels I alluded to a few posts up the thread arrived a couple-three days ago. There are a few duplicates. Cool graphics. Anyone looking to start a collection on the cheap is welcome to shoot me a message.
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    The Mandela Effect

    On using my trusty Buck 501 pocketknife a couple hours ago (I’ve had the thing for, like, 27 years), I did a double take to check that the tip wasn’t broken off. It jogged my memory of a dream I had at some point over the past few nights, in which I broke the tip off my knife.
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    The Mandela Effect

    ^^^^^ I’ve long maintained that for committing information to memory, paper and pencil (or pen) is a superior technology.
  11. tonyb

    The Mandela Effect

    Remembering anything from that early in life is remarkable indeed. I *think* I remember events from maybe age 3. I have dim recollections of living in public housing made from what had been military barracks. I’m still friends with a fellow I’ve known since that time and place. Jeff is his...
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    The Mandela Effect

    Yes, people who aren’t lying tell untruths nonetheless. And it’s generally best just to let it be, especially when the fantasist is elderly and takes comfort in the fiction. But let’s not confuse that with deliberately spinning an account of an event to the point that it scarcely resembles what...
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    The Mandela Effect

    It’s worth a stop if you’re in the neighborhood anyway (neighborhoods are quite large out that way, where four-wheel-drive pickups aren’t just fashion statements). It’s all the better if you happen to be there during the annual Crow Fair. Chances are slim you’d ever see a thousand teepees in one...
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    The Mandela Effect

    I have visited on a few occasions what used to be called the Custer Battlefield National Monument but has since been renamed the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. While the monument itself — the grounds, the museum, the cemetery, etc. — have changed little from what I remember of my...
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    And worth preserving for that reason alone.
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    My life would be all the richer if a vintage Ellensburg Rodeo poster were to find its way to me. I’ve been fond of Ellensburg from the first I saw it, 50-some years ago, and the rodeo there (and Kittitas County Fair) over Labor Day weekend is still very much the real deal. Friends and...
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    The Mandela Effect

    Okay, Pops. How ’bout a nice cup of tea?
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    It’s nice to have the space for storing the stuff you really don’t want for your own use but is still too precious to throw away. I have 50 old crate labels coming, (paid all of 50 cents apiece) and I certainly don’t plan on displaying more than a couple-three of them. I expect that someone on...
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    Taking inventory after the Holiday festivities.......

    Might it have actually been hagfish?
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    The Mandela Effect

    And Sarah Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house.” That was, of course, uttered by Tina Fey in that brilliant parody on SNL back in 2008. Yet some still attribute it to the former Alaska governor.
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    Taking inventory after the Holiday festivities.......

    My father (who died when I was all of four months old) hailed from a family of dairy farmers in Wisconsin. Some are still in that life. When I visited the farms, way back when, I couldn’t help but notice that even the kids openly drank beer. My wife was taken aback during a family reunion in a...

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