Heart of the City by Steenz for January 03, 2012
Transcript:
Heart: Aw, crud! The batteries fell out of the remote! Heart: Now I have to reprogram the Tv, the VCR, and the dvd player! It's a catastrophe! Mrs. Angelini: When I was a little girl, my sisters and I had to share one pair of shoes, so we had to take turns going to school... Heart: Never complain about technology within earshot of old people.... Mrs. Angelini: ...of course, the shoes didn't fit me, but I just smiled and....
artybee almost 13 years ago
That doesn’t mean DDT, Chlordane, Agent Orange, etc., etc., weren’t dangerous. “Better living through chemistry.” Uh-huh.
zero almost 13 years ago
You’d think going to school only part-time was a bad thing. . ..
pschearer Premium Member almost 13 years ago
…in the snow, uphill both ways, backwards, hopping on one foot, while doing her homework with a fingernail clipping on a shingle. Yep, been there, done that.
Plods with ...™ almost 13 years ago
That’s right Heart. We oldsters will let you know what trouble was. You’ve think you got it bad, why I remember when…..
Plods with ...™ almost 13 years ago
… the only remote for the TV was me. Dad’d slap me upside the head with the channel number. Which was ok until UHF came along. Had a bunch of concussions that year. At least I think it was concussions, the closest hospital was 50 miles away and the horse…
Jnite almost 13 years ago
I’m confused about the remote. Why would the batteries falling out cause it to need reprogramming? Whenever batteries die or fall out of my remotes, I just put new ones in and they work just like before.
cormo almost 13 years ago
Here’s more information on DDT and malaria that’s worth reading: http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/ddt-junk-science-malaria-and-the-attack-on-rachel-carson/
The Real Zarth Arn almost 13 years ago
That’s nothing. My family couldn’t afford shoes. I had to wear gloves and walk to school on my hands.
bobrsahlen almost 13 years ago
Jnite, the batteries falling out don’t effect anything other than operation of the remote. All those settings remain the same. The batteries simply power the remote.
magicwalnut Premium Member almost 13 years ago
As my grandfather used to say, “Things ain’t like they used to be but, then,they never was.”
Fan o’ Lio. almost 13 years ago
When I was a kid TV did not exist. We just had radio. My favorite program was “I Love a Mystery”. The mental images it invoked were more vivid than any TV could muster. My first TV remote didn’t need batteries, just a long wire.
WaitingMan almost 13 years ago
The first baseball game I saw in color was the first game I saw live.
cybergal29 almost 13 years ago
My parents did not get a color TV until the early 80s and only after the old black and white set had died.
Shikamoo Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Not so great. It would have been easier to walk through a blizzard without shoes…
JP Steve Premium Member almost 13 years ago
A universal remote (which you need to operate a TV, VCR and DVD with one remote) needs to have a three-digit number punched in for each appliance to “reprogram” it. Drama queenage explains the rest of the outburst!
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Those days were anything but “great” at our house. Yes, my mom was home with the kids (couldn’t even drive) but she was miserable (and so were we as a result). My dad worked long hours and came home so late at night that there are big chunks of time that I cannot even remember seeing him because we were already in bed when he got home at night. The glamorization of the 50’s is garbage.
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
rerun