07-24-2012, 12:23
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Age Test
Okay FOGs .... who remembers these ???
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07-24-2012, 12:28
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Those were easy
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07-24-2012, 12:32
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I remember all but the stamp/coupon hicky-doo's. As a younger lad (I'm only 30 now) while trying to dial in air waves via foil cloaked antennae, I had a radio that had a dead battery (I mixed batteries). I figured if the foil could attract power, I'd try some crumbled up foil for a battery. I got a few extra hours of cassette play out of it
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07-24-2012, 12:46
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Looks like a bright-dimmer switch to me. Not sure on the stamps.
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07-24-2012, 13:05
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six fer six
Right out of my childhood, still have some of that stuff. OK, nap time. 
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07-24-2012, 13:12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Destrier
Looks like a bright-dimmer switch to me. Not sure on the stamps.
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Correctimundo; high-beam switch. The S&H Green Stamps got me my first camera; Blue Chip stamps got given away at the grocery stores & gas stations too back in the day, but S&H had it cornered because they had alot more in-the-area actual places where you could redeem them.
Flip up the lid and put in a flashbulb; great camera. Then I had to haul the wagon full of pop bottles up to the deli to redeem those to pay for the developing. (This is pre-Polaroid shit folks.)
The Etch-a-Sketch amused me all the way from CA to Tejas & back each summer when I got tired of lookin' for Volkswagens to count or reading Stuckey's billboards...
We didn't do the freezer-pop thing 'cause popsicles were 2 cents and we had an ice-cream truck drivin' around the AO twice a day.
This is in the Comedy Zone because....?
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07-24-2012, 13:25
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Wire seat cushions, TV Trays , steering wheel knobs, curb finders, Shake a Puddin, Fizzy Pops, sonic booms, http://www.funkyfoodshop.com/space-f...f419b32af.html those black cannon balls that were used as road markers, black and white road posts and clean mountain air. Thanks for the memories!
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07-24-2012, 13:27
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And who could forget these?
icecube.jpg
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07-24-2012, 13:38
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Quote:
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...curb finders>>>
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AKA, Acoustic Early Warning Sensors (that someone was pullin' up out front).
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07-24-2012, 13:41
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Quote:
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Those were easy
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Agreed. The dimmer switch on my MGB would sometimes go from high beam to off. Try fixing that at night  .
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07-24-2012, 14:23
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Two for six and the ice cube tray. I'm still a FYG
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07-24-2012, 16:32
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I'm in my 60s so I know them all and played or used them all to include the tin foil reception enhancing gimmick.
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07-24-2012, 16:45
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Here I thought the tin foil was a no-no for use in a micro wave oven..........  Shows my age I guess.........
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07-24-2012, 17:25
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Didn't Know 36 = FOG
wow. no problem on those. I thought these were going to be some things I had no clue on.
I'm getting a little concerned
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07-24-2012, 17:30
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Quote:
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I'm getting a little concerned.
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Just wait until you find yourself looking for your keys  ...only to realize that they've been in your hand the whole time.  
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