I could have been rich if I had thought to buy real estate just before the inflationary period of the Big Bang.
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I could have been rich if I had thought to buy real estate just before the inflationary period of the Big Bang.
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Mrs. Howell looks better than Mary Ann.
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URRRRR???!?!Originally Posted by Superluminal
Well; to be totally fair Ms. Schafer was an exceptionally elegant and delightful lady with a quick wit and boundless generosity; she had none of Dawn Wells' raw sex appeal but there are many kinds of beauty - now in my later years I can definitely see the attraction; so excellent point!
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"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there's no difference."
"Aikido: the art of hitting people with planets."
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When I was young, the Great Barrier Reef was only the Pretty Good Barrier Reef.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was still alive when I was born. Does that make me a pioneer?
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I remember when Fermat asked if I could give him a really wide piece of paper. I told him to use a book margin instead.
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That's wild (Wiles?)
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Bela Lugosi was still alive when I was born, or at least still walking around.
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I have the Windows 3.1 installation program on six floppy disks.
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gosh I remember the coronation, got a mug, but not the wedding, just celebrated as 70 years, I was one at the time, for the coronation many folks got their first TV, my parents did. Did you know the duke of E is said to have bought flowers for his wife, the Queen, that's what I am on about, every week? That makes me feel guilty, it's ages since I bought flowers. But then again, I'm not a duke.
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
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French first world war flying ace René Fonck was still alive when I was born.
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I've used printers that didn't have true descenders.
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My surfboard was 11’ and microwaves were terrible surf.
We know time flies, we just can't see its wings.
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That floppy disks where just beguinning to be mass consumed , where i was born(Chile) in 1989
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I have an America Online 2.5 installation floppy disk, but I think I put other data on it since I got it.
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I remember Churchill’s funeral being broadcast on US television, when Telstar was launched, and when TV sets didn’t have UHF channels.
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I remember driving from Bristol to London to walk past his coffin, we parked right outside the Abbey! you could not do that today. If I had that 30 GBP student car today (sunbeam Talbot 2 litre 1939) it would be worth more than me.
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
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I don't wish to insult you, but the Talbot 2 litre is not worth all that much actually. 20k pounds in very good condition. Which, granted, is quite a bit more than 30 quid.
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OK I accept it's not like a D type or Hispano butwas very nice at the time, aluminium head, I remember a spark plug jumping out and making a dent when "someone" had overtightened it and stripped the thread. After that I had two sunbeam talbot convertibles and for a while a mark 3 post war a bit like the early tiger. All gone now. It's sad that really quite minor MOT failures often finished off those cars, they had so little value. Thinking back there was also an MG y type, that was fun too.
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
Originally Posted by Ken G
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Churchill was chancellor of Bristol University and there is a Hall of Residence named after him. I remember two MG TDs , (or was it one and a Morris 8?) popular with wealthier students, crashing rather badly outside that Hall. No insult by the way, I'm sure I'm not worth that much in spare parts.
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
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suitable for a funeral?
(image of car)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=su...8Fh65IVe3PGTM:
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
Originally Posted by Ken G
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While watching Jeopardy, I recognized the tune That's My Baby though none of the contestants did.
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In some previous century my hobby was watching COMMAND.COM get bigger and bigger as new MS-DOS versions appeared.
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I am so old, long boot times are a sign of a high end computer to me. Taking their time to count aaaaall of that precious RAM...
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I am so old I was there when Nero set the town on fire.
From the wilderness to the cosmos.
You can not be afraid of the wind, Enterprise: Broken Bow.
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The board game Risk was invented in my lifetime, before Antarctica was discovered.
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The Dodgers were still in Brooklyn when I was born. The Braves were in Boston.
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I still call Methuselah "kid".
"I'm planning to live forever. So far, that's working perfectly." Steven Wright
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Each birthday when I was a kid, I got a rock, and I was DANG HAPPY with that rock.
That was the Old Stone Age, though, none of those dang NEW rocks that all the kids are losing their poop over. No, an OLD rock was what I wanted.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
— Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883)
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I remember when antique stores were filled with empty shelves because nothing was old yet.
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