You know your'e old when....

[EclipseFour20]

When the term "xerox this" was part of the everyday lexicon.

Back the "early days" the only office copy machine available was a Xerox monster (4-7 feet long) requiring a trained/certified "key operator" to unjam it, and each morning their primary task was to: clean the "corona wires", fill up the toner and load paper. Break one of those corona wires and no copy machine. It took a 7-10 days for Xerox to ship you one....lol.

And "fax machines" required special thermal "fax paper" that came on those tiny rolls. Run out of paper over the weekend...no fax (memory back in these days was super expensive).

Anyone but me remember programing/coding on 8088s? "Machine Programming" is what some of us called it....lol.

 

[Jahnice]

What other use for Silly putty?

aridbud, this one's for YOU!





i brought the egg along to icmag 420 so now you can say you were there in spirit

 

[Jahnice]

do you remember the smell of the fresh print from those old Gestatner or Gastetner
copy machines with the blue ink. i would sniff my freshly printed exam pages like crazy.
maybe that is why i was a solid C student.

 

[Ph-patrol]

Hey Jahnice
I love the cool container and that lovely frosty bud.Back in the day film containers were my container of choice.

Silly putty was invented during WW2 by accident in an a attempt to create a synthetic rubber. Factoid

 

[Betterhaff]

Here ya go Jahnice…for the old “Ditto” machines.

 

[gekolite]

what's wrong with carbon paper ?

 

[aridbud]

Ahhh, yes...Silly Putty container. Thanks for the memories! Altoid canisters seemed to have replaced as far as portable stash receptacle! ;o)

Mmmm....and the "mimeograph" paper, handed out for tests in grade school. Everyone (probably even the teacher) took a deep sniff as papers were passed out.

Anyone eat gobs of the peppermint paste in the arts & crafts cabinet?!!! Haaa!

Those were the days......

 

[Jahnice]

Hey Jahnice
I love the cool container and that lovely frosty bud.Back in the day film containers were my container of choice.

Silly putty was invented during WW2 by accident in an a attempt to create a synthetic rubber. Factoid

factoid, i always have a good laugh when i check in on this thread.


back in the day...
yes, i am also old enough to have had a film canister stash.
thankfully at one point in my life my stash container had to be much bigger.
i bet it is a big trend in art school right now.
totally retro pot style

'Ditto' and 'mimiograph' are 2 words i have not heard in a long time.
'carbon paper' is also a good one but i still have some in the desk drawer for a real typewriter.
yeah, that's right---- tick tick tick

 

[DickAnubis]

Ahh to be granted the glorious job of cranking the Mimo when Mrs. Beelzebub needed fresh pop quizes. Social Studies, 6th Grade and the paper moist with solvent and fuzzy blue words. It would be a few more years before I'd find the bliss of Panama Red but that blue exlixir was truly the gateway. Yes, I'm saying it.
Pop Quizes are a gateway drug!

As for typewriters, I recently bought a sweet 1956 Olympia portable. $10 off a vendor at the flea. Ribbons still available on Amazon.
Sure, I love my word processor and even this magic pencil box I tap on now, but the typwriter evokes Vonnegut, Chandler, Sayers, all those scribes banging the keys breaking nails (male and female alike), sipping scotch, smoking filterless cigarettes into the bleary morning hours.

So when I started toking, Warchild was a new release and I purchased it on 8-track!!

"Old? to a peach I am ancient, to a head of lettuce even more so, but to a mountain I have not yet begun in years. For a man I am just right." - Chiun, Master of Sinanju

DA

 

[noyd666]

when ya start putting your pajamas on at 5.30 pm.

 

[kaochiu]

You know you're old when you make noise standing up or sitting down.

 

[Jahnice]

'gateway drug'

that is the best. lmfao

good that we never had peppermint glue in our craft cabinet.
i would have been right into that too.

smoked all kinds of things as a young one, before finding weed.
oregano, catnip and of course that wonderful dizzy high you get
from tobacco when you are not a cigarette smoker. woohoo

 

[DickAnubis]

My best friend worked in an Italian deli and we had read that saffron is an hallucinogenic so he lifted ten packs. I think each pack was a tenth of a gram or there abouts.
We snorted the whole thing and sat around waiting to see water lions jump out of the Simon we were playing with.
After a hour or so my buddy's older brother walks into their room and says, "Why are your noses all red?"
we told him we snorted saffron. He shook his head and left the room.
We didn't get high, but to this day I have a fondness for saffron, just seeing a package makes me sniffle.
That Summer we would discover Columbian Gold.

Gateway drug #2 - Saffron

DA

 

[Boyd Crowder]

when it takes 3.5 months to reach your 500th post

 

[Ph-patrol]

We dried and smoked the stringy things that are on the inside of a Banana peel.Were this info came from I have no idea.But it was not good.

But I did collect roaches over the weeks and save all the resin from my bong. Kept safe and sound for the dry times.

Did a whippet or 2 in my day

 

[Boyd Crowder]

The Dead Milkmen - Smokin Banana Peels ... - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoO_hfhS4Qs

 

[Gry]

Even the plastic ones are not as common as they were just a little while a go.

 

[al70]

Yer farts are wet,,��

 

[al70]

I once mistook catnip with cat litter, ever try smokin cat litter lllol

 

[al70]

Try smoking �� cement llolll