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    Old gas stations

    For some reason unknown from this time and distance when I was a small child my mother used a 1 gallon glass vinegar jug for lawn mower gas. My father bought her a proper metal gas can and the glass jug disappeared but according to her it just didn't work as handily as the glass jug. And she...
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    Old gas stations

    I wonder what his plan is for getting that barrel down off the island and moved somewhere after he fills it.
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    Out your front door.

    Nice. I'd post a picture of my front yard but there's nothing to see but dirty snow along the road and refrozen snow and ice in the yard.
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    Deco Deliveries

    Not a delivery, but I'm not sure where this one fits. May have been done by that famous coach builder Rube Goldberg.
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    Vintage Shot Glasses

    I'm not quite sure why but that is absolutely fabulous.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    My grandmother died in 2001 at the age of 93. She was one of the older siblings in her family, but she outlived all of them. She was a widow for over 20 years and also had to watch my father be buried. She didn't understand it but accepted it as her lot in life and God's will for her. She is...
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    Deco Deliveries

    ^^^ Neat, but as a delivery vehicle about as useful as the wienermobile.
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    Vintage neon signs

    They built a new Dunkies here a couple of years ago. I'll just say modernity hasn't been an improvement in their architecture.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Could well be. I would also think that especially in our internet and social media world that popularity of new slang words would be affected by the popularity of the speaker of the word in question. Just as it probably was in the past in radio programs, movies and magazines.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My grandmother lived in a large enough community to actually go to a 4 year high school in the late teens and early 1920s. I remember finding a couple of her high school yearbooks in the attic and reading the inscriptions fellow students had written inside. Ridiculous teenage slang was well...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As annoying as the overuse of awesome is it is still preferable to the original early 1980s use which was "totally awesome". As I recall this went along with "gross me out the door" and "gag me with a spoon" as expressions of disgust among teenaged girls.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Based on your review I watched Cash On Demand this evening. It's on YouTube if anyone is interested in catching it. Definitely worthwhile, and like you I will watch it again to see details I missed this time.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Fishing accident.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Tis nearly as reliable as gravity, you usually do indeed get what you pay for. A fellow like your uncle is mighty good to have in your corner.
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    Old gas stations

    They may bring back the name, but unless there's a roll towel and a borax dispenser and a glass bottle soda machine involved, it's still just another convenience store.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There may be some reduction in discontent but in my experience, any penetration through a roof is going to cause problems sooner or later.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    As a public employee I've heard or been accosted with various ridiculous things people believe. Like every profession, there are always a few that cause difficulty for the rest. I can say though, if I had known to be doing what the some of the public believes me to be doing I would have stolen...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Now see, you've completely ruined my mental image of you in a green visor, sleeve garters and slightly beady eyed. :D :p
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    An attorney acquaintance of mine has always been greatly offended by this type of thing even though he admits that certain elements in his profession have contributed to the ongoing popularity of these jokes.
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    Let’s see your vintage calendars!

    I only have a couple and they aren't all that old. One from a relative of my wife's general store from the early 1960s I believe and one from the grocery store in our little village here from sometime in that time frame. What I do have is calendar plates given by local businesses in the early...

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