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    Moustaches-Yes or No

    I have not been without a moustache for 30 years. It has changed a few times in how far down toward my chin it goes, but the basic moustache has remained unchanged. I have muttered around about shaving it off a few times, but my wife and kids object. In the words of my oldest son, "no dad, it...
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    BATTER UP!

    I can see that. One of my nieces was a really good high school volleyball player. She got involved in traveling volleyball and played in college. She gave up the traveling team after a couple of years because she had no desire to try to play professionally and it was burning her out (along with...
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    BATTER UP!

    We are the same age. I played peewee and little league in my hometown and can still remember the 2 or 3 parents who would get bent out of shape from time to time because they were such a tiny minority. I'm not sure when the change really came, and it's still not the majority who cause problems...
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    BATTER UP!

    When I worked for the YMCA they had gotten into youth soccer in a big way. They started with kindergarten and 1st grade and continued through high school. It was unbelievable how nasty some of the parents were, yelling at their children, other people's children, the coaches, the refs and each...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have run onto a few of those too. There are a fair number items from the Crane foundry here in America from the early 20th century up until the nazi's came along that included a swastika cast or stamped into the piece. It originally was supposed to be for good luck. Obviously that went by the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm sure you remember the popularity of naugahyde in the '70s. Apparently there wasn't a large enough population of Naugas to support the demand since it became extremely rare pretty quickly.
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    Clean Jokes

    Jane and Arlene are outside their nursing home, having a drink and a smoke, when it starts to rain. Jane pulls out a condom, cuts off the end, puts it over her cigarette, and continues smoking. Arlene: What in the hell is that? Jane: A condom. This way my cigarette doesn't get wet. Arlene: Where...
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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    My youngest son started using that a few years ago, drawing a reaction similar to yours from dad. I was also able to verbally beat him into choosing a different term.
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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I have been through multiple management changes and sat through far too many meetings and trainings where buzzwords flew thick and fast. My entirely unscientific observation is simply this. The lower on the competence scale you are and the higher that you have climbed on the Peter principle...
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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Well we have to do something until "at the end of the day" so I guess we might as well be "going forward". :D
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    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Indeed. I have been on a recently started Facebook group of memories of my hometown. The days and weeks drag on forever sometimes but the decades have just evaporated like mist. So many gone, so much unrealized potential.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Trenchfriend my youngest son was born when I was 38. You're still in your prime.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    There was one of those on the back wall in the barbershop of my youth. Never saw it open so no idea what he kept in it. This was the same barber who had a skull and crossbones, poison, nitroglycerin, etc. stickers on all of his glass tonic bottles.
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    Ghost signs

    ^^^ Somewhere in the archives here I believe there is a cloth seed sack from there.
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    Vintage neon signs

    I'm always in search of a good chicken fried steak. They are hard to find around these parts. I've had a lot of sorry ones that my waitress assured me were good when I ordered it. A frozen disc of pressed beef is not a chicken fried steak.
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    Old gas stations

    I was Marryin' Sam in our high school production of Li'l Abner. Them's all kinfolk of mine. :D
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    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Along with "living my truth". Apparently what I thought truth meant is open to interpretation. I'm not sure but we'll "circle back" after we "drill down" to "break through the clutter".
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    Clean Jokes

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    Clean Jokes

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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Only loosely related, but this brought up the memory of people of the tribe you describe being outraged when they came into the YMCA to do their exercise routine of choice being unable to park in the spots closest to the entrance. The large lot across the street required a walk of no more than...

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