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  1. HudsonHawk

    Straightening a baseball bat...?

    If it is from the 1970s, it is almost certainly made of white ash. It can be straightened by the same method that one can straighten or bend wood for anything else, which is lots of water, lots of heat, and lots of pressure. Given that it's probably at least 3/4-inch diameter at its thinnest...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "Havlicek stole the ball!!!" I once had an HR manager with that same voice. She kind of looked like Most too.
  3. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    A couple of random responses: Proper shoe stores, where a clerk sets you down, measures your foot, tells you all about the shoe, will return when people are willing to pay three times the price for the shoe. The reason for self service anything, be it shoes or gasoline, are that people don't...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Possibly even "select" traveling tag leagues with tournaments and team equipment bags.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I don't recall playing "cigarette tag", but we played similar games of "TV tag", "movie tag" etc. Makes me wonder how many kids today have ever played tag of any variety. Or just make up a game and played. I'd like to think kids still kill a few hours doing that, but I don't know.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    Smoking a pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to do with his hands Personally, I enjoy smoking premium cigars. I know that puts me on the outs with this crowd.
  8. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That is indeed my sister in the picture with me, but I can assure you that neither of us have anything resembling singing talent.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My self awareness was obviously lacking. Thanks for the brutal honesty. Lol I've found other photos of my more traditional style from the period. I didn't dress like that regularly, and I don't recall why I thought it was a good idea that time. Wait til you see the shorts I wore...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Since this simply won't go away, I guess I'll have to fess up. From 1986: Yes, that's me, and no I'm not proud of myself.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Plum silly with it.
  14. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Seriously, how many of you actually dressed like that in the 80s?
  15. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I wore a plain solid black business suit at my wedding, but it was a very small outdoor affair. In August. In Texas. My wife was crying coming down the aisle, but I don't know if it was because she was overcome with joy or because she looked to the end of the line and it was me standing there.
  16. HudsonHawk

    You know you are getting old when:

    Nothing brings back that old-time feeling like 9 year old digital photographs.
  17. HudsonHawk

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    Saying grace for the vittles, and hoping someday Jethro finally gets to shoot one of them elusive billiards (pronounced "billy-ards")
  19. HudsonHawk

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    I guess in the government definition sense my family were subsistence farmers. More accurately, they were probably "hunter-gatherers", living more on swamp cabbage and pokeweed than anything they actually cultivated.
  20. HudsonHawk

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    My grandmother once said about the Wall Street crash of '29..."Didn't much matter to us, we didn't have shoes before or after." She also told the story of one Christmas, when after many years of nothing, her parents scrimped and saved to buy her and her brother something at Christmas. It was a...
  21. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Let's just say there are a lot of tire swings for the kids to use.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I know you live in a rural area, but does anyone nearby sponsor a "household hazardous waste" day? We have several local businesses that do that at least once per year, and the county does it once per month.
  23. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I just think when you buy something, you're responsible for it's final disposition. Cradle to grave sort of thing. Perhaps I'm naïve.

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