The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 21, 2024

Show Uncle Ted “Pawn Stars” next.

Many times there are stars on TV who haven’t been seen for decades.

Uncle Ted is the greatest antique in the Thornapple house.

P.S. ….or younger and completely unknown to the most.

I watch to see the faces when the items aren’t worth anything.

Speaking of watching antiques, I know what practically everyone in the world was watching on TV (a world record) exactly 55 years ago.

At 02:56 GMT on 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong took one small step, one giant leap, onto the surface of the Moon!

Uncle Ted doesn’t look to be over 100.

Watch “Antiques Roadshow” and realize, “I used to know someone that had one of those”.

sadly, I’m seeing stuff that I’ve seen when I was a kid in antique stores… I’m not that old yet. :(

whenever we come across it surfing we ending up watching…!

I will sometimes watch an episode of Antiques Roadshow, it is interesting to see some of the things people bring in.

I can relate to uncle Ted! When you’ve lived so many decades, there’s a lot of memorabilia involved which triggers memories of yesteryear! I’ve seen articles like toys, school supplies, home goods, etc. It’s fun to go down memory lane…to revive what once was!

Enjoy Uncle Ted…enjoy!

Antiques are just solidified memories. My favourite possession outside of Historical items l may temporarily possess, is a Lone Ranger and Tonto flashlight . I got one like it for my third Christmas was my favorite possession when l was little as l loved the Lone Ranger. He was MY super hero and still is.He had no Super Powers; he always caught the bad guy; he never killed anyone;and he required no reward or even a thank you. A good example for all of us today. My mother like many mothers at that time threw away many of my treasures including my baseball card collection. I found that light on ebay. It is my treasured item. Not worth that much actually, but to me it is priceless. Dream on Uncle Ted. Those memories are just waiting to be rekindled….

Spot on Uncle Ted. My late wife and I collected Antiques that we grew up with. And just like members of the family indeed. Our furniture is real solid wood made before 1950. One Iron bed from 1870’s. And Great Grandma’s cast iron frying pans. Tools real steel and iron not composite. Go for it Uncle Ted.

The Smithsonian American History museum had a “history of computing” exhibit. I walked through with my kid and said “I owned that” “I programmed that” “I remember when that was released” “that was the keypunch I used”. The only thing beyond my personal memory was a bit of the ENIAC, and I wrote a term paper on that machine for my college history of computing class and always wanted to see it.

The actual mainframe I programmed and operated in college is in the computer museum in Silicon Valley.

I don’t feel old!

Omg my wife won’t miss an episode and now she has me hooked on it! You learn a lot from that show. But I’m always amazed how they find those nerdy experts on even the most arcane subjects.

You’re my kind of antique, Uncle Ted.

Being an antique it’s something he can relate to

People , places and things huh Uncle Ted ? I get you .

I can relate, Uncle Ted. When my wife and I go browsing in antique stores, we’ve sometimes been nonplussed to find items from our childhoods (kind of gotten used to it by now, but for a while there . . . ).

Similar to our reactions when we were in our 30s, and Nick at Nite started showing “classic TV” programs that we had watched when we were in high school.

I have often felt the same as Uncle Ted when watching Antiques Roadshow.

I watch Antiques Roadshow from time to time. I like to compare their stuff to mine. At the back of my mind I want to see something worth millions or so to sell and set up a foundation.

For a three right angle triangle.

Pick a point on the equator of a globe. Drawer a straight line to one of the poles. Then from that line make a Right angle and draw a straight line to the equator. Then connect the two points on the Equator. At the equator you have one 90 degree right angle, one 90 degree left angle and at the pole you have another 90 degree angle. All three sides connected and 270 degrees.