On 11/23/2014 4:09 PM, gloria p wrote:
> On 11/23/2014 12:40 PM, Whirled Peas wrote:
>> On 11/23/2014 09:58 AM, George Shirley wrote:
>>
>>> What other "old timer" words are out there John? A grown grandson was
>>> smashing some cola cans with his hands the other day, putting them into
>>> the recycle bin. Asked if I had done that when I was young. Had to tell
>>> him that we drank our beer and cola out of steel cans or glass bottles
>>> back then. Another amazing look was given. Ain't it fun confusing
>>> youngsters.
>>>
>>> George
>> Regarding "old timer words" and beverages in steel cans -- "church key".
>> There was a certain ritual about tapping the can top x number of times
>> with the church key before actually puncturing it. 'twas supposed to
>> reduce foaming. BTDT
>
>
> Do you remember the first lift-tab cans where the entire tab separated
> from the lid? And people just threw them everywhere which meant a lot
> of cut feet from walking in park grass or beach sand that was thick with
> sharp-edged can tabs? (And cigarette butts which didn't cut but stank.)
>
> gloria p
Yup, threw a lot of pull tabs into the Gulf of Mexico along with the
stubs of three packs of cigarettes a day. Many years later I quit
smoking and was smoking five packs a day by then, the long cigs at that.
Don't miss them a bit nowadays, a couple of heart attacks the doctors
blamed on heavy smoking finally got thru to me.

Had been off the cigarettes about six months and my lovely wife
commented it was nice to kiss me and not feel like she was smooching a
full ash tray. <G> Poor soul never smoked in her life. I started at
fifteen and smoked to fifty-five. Both our children have finally quit
although the SIL still smokes but daughter makes him go outside. One
grandson still smokes but no other family members do. I show the SIL and
the grandson the big scar on my chest where they did the bypass just to
remind them of what can and probably will happen. I do thank the modern
medicine for my survival. My Dad died of a stroke at 71, granddad of
heart attack at 56, great grandad at 24. Takes a long time for the
Shirley males to figure things out.

Obligatory food preserving note: Dumped some two-year old pickled
cauliflower. They just don't taste right, may be me, may be how I
pickled them. At any rate they are out, all eight pints. So opened some
pickled carrot sticks, done on the same date, they were fine so I'm
eating those.

George