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On the other side of the coin.... Noticed the other night that the thermometer on my gas grill was broken. 40 years ago, I'd have to...

Don't know when they stopped being available in the US. In about 1972, our CAP cadet squadron loaded up in a bus and went to Winnipeg...

I don't think I had any of these "dangerous" toys from the '60s, but most of them are familiar. REALLY wanted the air cannon, though...

Two cyanide pills and a hotline to Jesus? What kind of upbringing did YOU have? :) Ron Wanttaja

Note that the Daily Mail was the same outfit that dubbed me, "Sky Savant." Shows you how believable they are.... Ron Wanttaja

A couple of months ago, I was shredding a bunch of old material. I found an annual summary of my expenses on my first airplane, a 1965...

I still remember a skit I saw on the old "Dean Martin" TV show in the '60s. Dean and another man (George Jessel?) were dressed as...

Certainly true. But the *Agencies* involved were dissolved...those specific Federal programs were dismantled, the bureaucracy broken...

Whole lot of depression-era stuff from the '30s. Civilian Conservation Corps, for one. Civil Works Administration, Works Progress...

Very true... just about the definition of capitalism. The question is whether such action is good for society as a whole. The...

Little wooden cars? Pfffftttt..... Similar to the Pinewood Derby, scouts would take a block of balsa and carve a "rocket," with a...

As long as long-term effects are understood. Cutting the budget by ~50% sounds good, but if it's only executing 33% of its needed...

Two landlines, one listed, the other not. Give the listed one out freely...don't answer it, just let it go to an answering machine...

I get calls all the time asking if I want to sell my property on West Street. I tell them I don't own property on West Street. It's...

Having worked at a company using a new-to-me technology where we started working remotely first and eventually got an office, I can say...