#296451 - 06/28/09 09:16 PM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
[Re: REODayton]
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I made a deal with my wife years ago, she wanted a house, I wanted a condo. So she mows the lawn I take care of the floors inside. It works for us. Years ago, I tried the same concept. She wanted a pet......I didn't.......we came to an agreement.....I can pick out the pet and she'll clean up after it........sooooooooo, I bought her a cow......after the first month of cleaning up after her new pet, she decided she needed a shovel. I thought I spoiled her when I threw in a pitch fork on day one.....could never seem to keep her happy....lol.
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#296460 - 06/28/09 11:44 PM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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For those of you under 35 we had no computers, cell phones, email, texting and the best video game we had was PONG. The only way we could play it was at a pizza place. We even had to be able to tell time as there were no digital read outs. We had to be able to work out our math problems with a pencil and not a calculator. We could not screen calls, you had to take a chance that the person calling was someone you wanted to speak with. We actually rented our home phones from AT&T and had to pick them up from a local AT&T office or provider. We wore short shorts that will come back in style, beleive me. Hairy chests were IN and will be again. There was no MTV and we bought albums, not CD's. there were no DVD's not even VHS or Betamax. The wealthiest had an 8MM camera, a polaroid, a push mower and one black and white TV that had no stations available after 10PM and would not show a man and a woman in bed together unless their feet were touching the floor. Of course you would not see that, but it is true. I will admit that some parents have exagerrated things because not many of us walked uphill to school both ways, with no shoes in the snow.
Im just a bit over 35. I remember though when we had to get a push button phone via ATT. It cost more to have push button. Mom refused to pay the fee to we had to use the pulse mode on the phone. I was just thinking the other other day about when I was a kid most channels cut off at 1am; the National Anthem would play then it would go to scribble. Just like Polergeist.
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#296469 - 06/29/09 05:18 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
[Re: REODayton]
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Remember party line phones and all calls needed an operator?
Some other services though, have gone down in price.
Cell calls used to be $1.00 per minute. The first generation color TV's were about $500 back in the late 60's.
Even internet service via dial up was expensive (and slow) when the internet craze started.
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#296482 - 06/29/09 08:42 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
[Re: REODayton]
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For those of you under 35 we had no computers, cell phones, email, texting and the best video game we had was PONG. The only way we could play it was at a pizza place. We even had to be able to tell time as there were no digital read outs. We had to be able to work out our math problems with a pencil and not a calculator. We could not screen calls, you had to take a chance that the person calling was someone you wanted to speak with. We actually rented our home phones from AT&T and had to pick them up from a local AT&T office or provider. We wore short shorts that will come back in style, beleive me. Hairy chests were IN and will be again. There was no MTV and we bought albums, not CD's. there were no DVD's not even VHS or Betamax. The wealthiest had an 8MM camera, a polaroid, a push mower and one black and white TV that had no stations available after 10PM and would not show a man and a woman in bed together unless their feet were touching the floor. Of course you would not see that, but it is true. I will admit that some parents have exagerrated things because not many of us walked uphill to school both ways, with no shoes in the snow.
Im just a bit over 35. I remember though when we had to get a push button phone via ATT. It cost more to have push button. Mom refused to pay the fee to we had to use the pulse mode on the phone. I was just thinking the other other day about when I was a kid most channels cut off at 1am; the National Anthem would play then it would go to scribble. Just like Polergeist. I am over 35 by a few and I remember the ATT rental phones, I remember pong and asteroids. Our TV was black and white until I was 10 or 11. My friends hated spending the night, but I did not seem to mind. Food was prepared from ingredients and not processed. Fast food was a rarety. I guess the idea is that we are part of what, in 10 years, will be obsolete. Who knows? My first BPO (early 2000) I used a regular camera and film, 1 hr photo proccessing, glue sticks, type writer, and overnight mail. The pay was about 75 on average for a DB. Think about the extra expenses of film, developing, time, overnight charges. It's about a wash. I am still completing orders. We still use phones, we just don't rent them from ATT.
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#296496 - 06/29/09 11:10 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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Do you remember how we would all be upset because the president was on TV. To all you babies there was only like 3 channels-ABC,
CBS, and NBC. If the president was on, he was on all 3 at the same time. Okay, I admit it...I AM over 35.
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#296498 - 06/29/09 11:30 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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Do you remember how we would all be upset because the president was on TV. To all you babies there was only like 3 channels-ABC,
CBS, and NBC. If the president was on, he was on all 3 at the same time. Okay, I admit it...I AM over 35. That used to just make me angry HAHA!!! I remember when President Reagan was shot. I was home sick from school, laying in bed and all networks broke in. Mom was very upset, not for the shooting, but General Hospital was interupted.
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#296502 - 06/29/09 11:44 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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I can remember huddlin' around the transistor and crackin up to Amos and Andy.
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#296503 - 06/29/09 11:46 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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I remember when the signs at McDonalds stated -
"Over 100 served"
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#296517 - 06/29/09 03:55 PM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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I remember when the signs at McDonalds stated -
"Over 100 served" You are old! What a strange turn this thread had taken. I like it!
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#296540 - 06/29/09 09:11 PM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
[Re: REODayton]
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I remember when the signs at McDonalds stated -
"Over 100 served" You are old! What a strange turn this thread had taken. I like it! GOING FOR OLDEST PUP IN THE PACK>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can remember listening to "The Shadow" on my dad's car radio (sponsered by Signal Oil Company).....we lived in the desert and had no electricity.... also had no indoor plumbing.....If ya had to go potty, ya went before sunset......rattle snakes.......I also remember seeing a big mushroom cloud in the sky, miles from our house........government was testing the "A Bomb".......I think that's where I got my "glowing personality".......lol
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#296544 - 06/29/09 10:17 PM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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Sounds like some freaky boring desert town between Tucson and Phx...
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#296548 - 06/29/09 10:29 PM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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Do any of you ole timers remember the first TV remote controls that really made loud clicks instead of infrared used today.
If I spelled infrared wrong..........sorry.
infared?
In for fred?
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#296556 - 06/30/09 12:04 AM
Re: FARVV, So Called "New Product", $5 FEE
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Do any of you ole timers remember the first TV remote controls that really made loud clicks instead of infrared used today.
If I spelled infrared wrong..........sorry.
infared?
In for fred? Sure do remember that.........now, that clicking sound is my back when I get up off the couch.........lol
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