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In your youngster days, were cigarette etuis still used to smuggle any things? I read, that this was a real thing in the older days.
Don Johnson getting 75, this year?? WTH...
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I had to look up “etui.” We never heard that kinda fancy talkin’ around the trailer park.
In these parts, I have to very consciously avoid using “college words”, lest I give myself away. The problem is, even knowing this I still set the bar too high. My wife whacks me when I use the term “Honolulu Hillbillies“, even in jest.
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I had to look up “etui.” We never heard that kinda fancy talkin’ around the trailer park.
Now that I know what it is, the answer is no, I never knew of anyone smuggling small items in such things. And if I were a person charged with locating and seizing such contraband, little cases like that would be among the first items I’d examine.
You know you are old when the oxygen masks drop from the ceiling when your birthday candles are lit.^^^^^^^
You’re quite young by the standards of this joint, where 1987 was last week.
But it’s good to be reminded that it was indeed 37 years ago, if my feeble old brain is doing the arithmetic right.
My favorite childhood self-recorded Scotch cassette runs fine, after 37 years.
Purchase stamp Intershop Weimar 4.8.87.
But you needed foreign hard currency to get "DDR-Forum Schecks" at credit institute to buy West-stuff in an Intershop.
West stuff, which was partly "Made in GDR", so DDR must not reimport these goods. That's the story of the Intershops in GDR.
Did you experience paravents/dressing screens in your youngster days?
In "old worlds" like GDR, you could still find them, here and there.
I never thought of Don Johnson as being 'cool'. He certainly was fashionable in his Miami Vice tv days....but we know that being fashionable has a short shelf life......he is the acting equivalent of bell bottoms.No, no, no. That cannot be. He was the very DEFINITION of cool. His level of cool was so high that it would give other people nosebleeds. I thought that one of the attributes of coolness is that it does not age.
In these parts, I have to very consciously avoid using “college words”, lest I give myself away. The problem is, even knowing this I still set the bar too high. My wife whacks me when I use the term “Honolulu Hillbillies“, even in jest.
Christie Brinkley was born on February 2nd 1954. That makes her seventy. She looks better than many a 20 year old.… it occurs to you that those hot “young” women who catch your eye while going about your daily business are in their 50s and 60s.