Yep. Enlisted at the outset in 1939. Unfortunately taken prisoner by the Germans on the island of Crete in 1941 and was a POW in Germany until 1945. He was treated badly which aged him a lot. Before he enlisted he was a heavyweight boxer, so he didn’t take crap from the guards.
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If cut and polished, coprolites are actually pretty, and you can tell the difference between herbivorous poo and carniverous poo.
I have some.
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Rommel wanted some aussies to fight with him in the dessert. greatly respected them.
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George Carlin had a skit about watching artificial poo in the window while walking to school. Also someone is selling artificial cow patties for your model railroad, I sh*t you not.
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- The Jewel Tea man
- Orange Crush and soda bottles in a cooler outside the Hardware store - payment on honor system
- Glass thermos in your lunchbox (Roy Rodgers, Red Ryder)
- Movie theater talent contests at intermission
…and I remember playing in the dirt on a vacant lot
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And we LIKED IT!
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18 of 20.
#3 used it in 3rd grade.
$5 remember when Coke added a second coin box for pennies on the front when price went from 5 to 6 cents.
#6 watched it in COLOR because neighbor girl’s dad had first RCA color tv in the neighborhood.
#9 got in trouble for listening to other folks’ calls.
#15 we were in the MOhawk exchange, and downtown stores in the FRanklin exchange.
#16 Saw the pilot for the show which was a two-part episode of the Danny Thomas show (Sheriff Taylor arrested Danny for speeding through Mayberry).
#17 we had three drugstores within walking distance with soda fountains. Cherry Coke was the favorite choice at B&G Drug; Grapette Float at Country Club Drug.
#19 We had S&H, but mainly collected competitor Top Value stamps, used to buy my first tennis racket.
No on #1, #10.
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I must be a whippersnapper. I can’t remember what I did yesterday.
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Given some of the stuff we did “back in the day” it’s a miracle I lived to make it to 6th grade.
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#25 Ice boxes not refrigerators.
#26 DC electricity. Had to put quarters in the meter.
#27 Washboards.
#28 Formations of B17 bombers.
#29 Rationing.
#30 Dad was in the South Pacific.
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#31 Rexall Drug Store
#32 Sprouse-Reitz
#33 Filler er up and check the oil?
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I still get BlackJack when we go to Cracker Barrel. I remember all of them, but we used Brylcreem instead of Butch Wax.
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“A Little Dab Will Do Ya”
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#34 The Wheel
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