Do any windshields read: "PRE-1974! NO ANTI-POLLUTION CRAP!" and maybe in smaller print: "runs if you keep after it"
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I got this book and it dawned on me that today's generation would not understand the humor because they wouldn't have a clue as to what was going on.
"Julie Nixon Eisenhower"?
Some examples of why I got the book - won't be keeping it. It was a yard sale find and I was easily amused.
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That sounds like quite a recipe! But I love the cover photo
That Harvey Wallbanger pie reads, well, interesting. And Ms. Anderson lives on Mount Zion, so . . . um, most of the bottle of Cointreau and some orange juice will be available to wash it down. You first, Ladylocust.
You must have been at an A&W. The same thing happened to me at one.
So, LadyLocust, would you consider selling it to me at your cost + shipping? Kinda think my eldest nephew's wife would find it either interesting, amusing, or both.
PM me - it’s yours.
Um, don't know how to do that.
Click on my name then start a conversation.
They have already taken over the planet!
I think this phenomenon is probably not due to diminishing intelligence (though it may get to be that way over the generations to come). I'm putting my bet on 'sloppy thinking'. Humans are a kind of animal; we have to be taught - by training or experience - the process of thinking - and thus acting - rationally; 'putting 2 and 2 together and getting 4'.
But, that is only half of it. We have to recognize the value of the practice. If we can get by being mentally sloppy conclusion-jumpers, hey, yay.
True story, in the late nineties I was going to drive home to Alabama and visit the folks for Christmas. I was shopping for presents and bought my dad a set of Mag-Lites. He always bought crappy flashlights and could use an upgrade. The set I bought happened to be painted camo.
The girl at the register commented “You must be stocking up on flashlights”.
Me: “Even better, these are camo, you can use them in the woods at night and no one can see you!”
I said it with a straight face. The checkout girl actually thought I was serious. The look she gave me was priceless! I laughed all the way to Bama!
Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older man, that he should bring his own grocery bags because Plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The man apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”
The young cashier responded, “That’s our problem today – your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
She was right — our generation didn’t have the ‘green thing’ in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.
Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn’t do the “green thing” back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn’t climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.
But she was right. We didn’t have the “green thing” in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s Terry Towel diapers because we didn’t have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day
Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house – not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland in the kitchen. We blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she’s right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
We drank from a tap or fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family’s $50,000 People Carrier which cost the same as a whole house did before the “green thing.” We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest restaurant!
But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the “green thing” back then?
The man apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”
The young cashier responded, “That’s our problem today – your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
She was right — our generation didn’t have the ‘green thing’ in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.
Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn’t do the “green thing” back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn’t climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.
But she was right. We didn’t have the “green thing” in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s Terry Towel diapers because we didn’t have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day
Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house – not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland in the kitchen. We blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she’s right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
We drank from a tap or fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family’s $50,000 People Carrier which cost the same as a whole house did before the “green thing.” We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest restaurant!
But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the “green thing” back then?
Hobby Lobby, We may close
Young people today do not have to see the past/history for what actually took place. They are not educated to do so. The teaching or should I say lack there of is a disgrace.
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My niece has worked at Hobby Lobby corporate for many years, and loves it there. Says they are a great company to work for.
It wasn't the girl who referred to 'the green thing".
Throw-away plastic has been around for several decades now. The man is "much older" fer shure.
There was a lengthy period of coated paper milk cartons between the glass and plastic ones.
Where I live, the beer bottles are still glass - or aluminum. And grocery stores use paper bags, not plastic, when the customer hasn't enough room in the cloth bag (s)he brought.
The screed gets a little hysterical after that.
There is plenty of evidence that throwaway plastic is an environmental abomination. Blaming us plebeians for throwaway plastic, instead of the manufacturers of it, is . . . cause for suspicion.
