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.
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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:

Very cool car. Not exactly minor either My first car was a Vauxhall
Viva.