On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 14:57:16 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>"GM" wrote in message
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>notbob wrote:
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>> We're all old geezers!
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>> BTW, "geezer" is anyone old enough to have seen a live Edsel, in the wild,
>> or even knows what that means!
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>> I did not know Ed was that old. I am too, and with what everyone
>> seems to say, we all are. Perhaps that's why we still hang. Nothing
>> better to do. 8|
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>"Geezer" is a state of mind, I know peeps in their 20's that are
>"geezers"...Ed and some others here are very vital and active, others,
>w-e-e-e-l-l...
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>I was recently trying to explain to some young 'uns what "phone service" was
>in the "old days", e.g. that Bell had a monopoly, you rented your phone from
>Bell, and phone service was very expensive, that many waited until Sunday
>night to make long - distance calls, etc....some of them looked pretty
>incredulous.

Waiting til Sunday was the least of it. To call my parents in Hong
Kong from the UK I had to call the operator and ask for a call. She
would phone me back later and give me a time when they would put the
call through. Might be 2am my time, but that was it, take or leave it
and answer the phone promptly. In the meantime my mother would have
had a call telling her I would be calling at such and such a time. So
it wasn't something you did very often.
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>Then I mentioned about listening to my grandfather describing the wonders of
>the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, about seeing electric light for the first
>time, the Ferris Wheel, etc., and that this was the first time he traveled
>(from downstate Illinois) more than a very few miles from his isolated
>Buffalo Prairie IL farmstead....
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>I closed by saying that in a few decades *they* will be telling incredulous
>younger folk about life back in the 2010's...back in the mists of memory and
>time...
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>ANYWAYS, this gets back a bit to that "nostalgia" thing a bit that we
>discussed in an earlier thread...
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>Best
>Greg
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>My first car was a Morris Minor Traveller I learned to drive in that! I
>have had many cars since them and I have forgotten many of them, but I will
>never forget that one)
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>https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mo...LkAm4hOl0QCKM:
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