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keesan
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Sep 28 00:29 UTC 2000 |
What material objects have not changed significantly since you were born?
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keesan
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response 1 of 78:
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Sep 28 00:31 UTC 2000 |
Robertshaw Lux Minute Minder are still made the same as in the 1940s, but they
also have newer models. Pencils seem to be fairly constant (not counting the
disposable type with short leads). Incandescent light bulbs.
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ea
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response 2 of 78:
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Sep 28 00:45 UTC 2000 |
Pencils haven't changed much since I was born, and a plain round pen
doesn't change much. Paper, although more of it is recycled. Lumber.
Kleenex has been around for at least as long as I have. Band-Aids.
Scotch Tape and Paperclips. Lightbulbs. Fans. M&M's (except they
replaced the Tan with Blue). Vinyl Records. Lightbulbs. Mops/Brooms.
Milk Containers, Corrugated Cardboard Boxes.
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keesan
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response 3 of 78:
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Sep 28 01:01 UTC 2000 |
Lumber used to be 2"x4" and it keeps shrinking. 1 5/8", 1 1/2". Scotch tape
used to be only the type that yellowed. Paperclips were never pink when I
was little. People are always inventing a better mop. Milk containers for
school kinds used to be boxes with little tabs that you pulled up and put a
straw through the resulting hole. Vinyl records have changed a lot since they
were first made. Actually they were first made of wax or shellac, in tubes.
Then as 78s, 10", 5 minutes per side. The development of vinyl allowed the
tracks to be closer, as in LPs, and the vinyl got progressively thinner.
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ea
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response 4 of 78:
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Sep 28 01:52 UTC 2000 |
I've purchased 2"x4" lumber that was 2"x4". I still use plain old
silver colored paperclips. Milk containers for school kids still are
boxes with tabs that you pull open. And seeing as how I've never owned
a vinyl record, I don't know if it's changed or not.
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edina
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response 5 of 78:
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Sep 28 02:07 UTC 2000 |
The original Kraft Mac & Cheese and Campbell's tomato soup.
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keesan
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response 6 of 78:
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Sep 28 02:09 UTC 2000 |
our molk boxes were cubes, not the peaked type used now.
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goose
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response 7 of 78:
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Sep 28 02:12 UTC 2000 |
Coca-cola. first of all they now use that crap called corn syrup instead of
real sugar (except in Canada and Mexico, where they don't keep the price of
sugar artificially high) and they rarely use glass anymore. Plus they changed
the formula after that New Coke debacle. "Classic Coke" is not the same as
the original stuff.
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ea
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response 8 of 78:
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Sep 28 02:17 UTC 2000 |
they've been peaked as long as I can remember. Of course, my memory
can't possibly go back before 1982, so I don't know.
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gull
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response 9 of 78:
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Sep 28 03:51 UTC 2000 |
The tops of Coke cans used to also be the same diameter as the rest of the
can.
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senna
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response 10 of 78:
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Sep 28 05:06 UTC 2000 |
Unfortunate, since the can was smaller. Remember when cans were all you got
from vending machines?
We picked up a banged up Sony television that had a sample defect in the
corner on discount from Big George. It still sits and performs well in front
of me as we speak.
Everything has gotten smaller.
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gelinas
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response 11 of 78:
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Sep 28 05:13 UTC 2000 |
Actually, I remember when vending machines sold *bottles*, not cans.
I *knew* the taste of Coke had changed, but I've never been able to convince
anyone else.
Campbell's has changed their labels, so I don't think we can say it's "the
same."
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mdw
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response 12 of 78:
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Sep 28 06:50 UTC 2000 |
I remember beverage cans that had seams on the top & bottom, pull tabs
that came off, and rusted afterwards.
I also remember milk bottles that got delivered to a special compartment
in the house, which froze in the winter if not removed promptly, and
came with a paper cap, with a layer of a mysterious substance "cream"
underneath. In kindergarten, there was the traditional "here is how
butter is made" demonstration where everyone was handed a bottle and
told to shake it to separate out the butter. Strangely, it wasn't much
like margarine, which I never did understand.
But that means these are both things that *changed*. Hm.. Ok, junk mail
disguised as real mail.
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jerryr
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response 13 of 78:
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Sep 28 12:51 UTC 2000 |
i remember soda in cans that had no tabs.
i remember milk in bottles with cardboard "plugs" and paper caps as well as
in cartons coated with a waxy substance that could be scrapped off with a
finger nail.
i remember margerine that was an off-white color that came with a color packet
that had to be mixed in to make it yellow.
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bru
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response 14 of 78:
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Sep 28 13:54 UTC 2000 |
jerryr remembers when they had to have a can opener with a pointed end to open
the pop cans, and a different rounded end to open bottles?
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mooncat
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response 15 of 78:
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Sep 28 15:23 UTC 2000 |
(My parents house has one of those milk bottle boxes... when I was real
little and somehow got locked out I managed to crawl through it to get
inside the house. I think we actually got milk delivered when I was
really really little.)
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ashke
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response 16 of 78:
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Sep 28 15:46 UTC 2000 |
Well, money has changed, and gotten uglier. the prices of books keep going
up, I remember when a new hardcover was 15-20, and a new one i had to put back
was $35. <sighs> I remember pop in bottle, glass ones, and the only ones
you can get now, are the mini bottles for more than you'd pay for the plastic.
pop prices have changed too, and not for the better. sunkist in a 2L was .89
a year ago, and they've raised the prices to 1.89 now.
comic books have changed. now they have the "ultra glossy variant covers with
collectibl chrome" or some such. so a comic that I used to get that cost .50,
now costs 2.99-3.99.
computers, of course, have changed a lot. our first computer was a TRS 80
Model III, with a tape deck instead of floppy drive, because my dad didn't
want to pay for it. So all our games and programs were on tape.
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md
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response 17 of 78:
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Sep 28 16:13 UTC 2000 |
Hardware store stuff hasn't changed much. Nuts, bolts, washers,
screws, nails, brads, hinges, faucets, etc. Hammers, screwdrivers,
wrenches, pliers, band saws, circular saws, chain saws, routers, etc.
You can buy fancier versions of some things, such as some of the new
cordless drills, PVC pipe and joints, decorative plumbing and electric
fixtures, etc. but much of the basic stuff has changed remarkably
little in my lifetime.
Books haven't changed much underneath their dust-jackets. Some haven't
changed at all, such as the big-time Oxford University Press books, and
the Borzoi editions of John Updike's books. Those little Golden Nature
Guides and the Berlitz French [or whaever] for Travelers don't seem to
have changed much, either.
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jazz
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response 18 of 78:
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Sep 28 16:19 UTC 2000 |
I have a couple of Oxford University Press books in trade paperback
format, which, to my understanding, is a fairly recent trend. Was this
something OUP has been doing for a while now?
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keesan
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response 19 of 78:
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Sep 28 18:08 UTC 2000 |
Scissors have been around for centuries. Sheep shears even longer.
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tod
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response 20 of 78:
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Sep 28 18:09 UTC 2000 |
If anyone can help me find
"Spotlight on Britain(2nd Edition)"
Authors: Susan Sheerin, Gillian WHite, Jonathan Seath
from OUP, please email me to let me know. Thanks.
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jerryr
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response 21 of 78:
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Sep 28 18:18 UTC 2000 |
re: #14 yup. it was called a "church key"
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mooncat
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response 22 of 78:
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Sep 28 18:50 UTC 2000 |
Why?
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brighn
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response 23 of 78:
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Sep 28 19:44 UTC 2000 |
why does Tod want that book, or why was it called a church key? ;}
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brighn
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response 24 of 78:
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Sep 28 19:45 UTC 2000 |
John: I don't recall about OUP, I'll have to check my home library.
Cambridge's linguistics book have been trade forever. I have wonder if their
covers aren't trademarked (crimson with three black stripes).
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whatever
you know what I mean
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