My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
cereal. We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. I remember diving
submarines that were powered by baking soda. We both have a vague
memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
tops.

My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. They were
intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. They
had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. Miracle of
miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
pantry contained Shrek markers. They were delighted. The prizes
aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
paper liner and the box.

Tara

"Tara" > wrote in message
...
> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> cereal. We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. I remember diving
> submarines that were powered by baking soda. We both have a vague
> memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
> tops.
>
> My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. They were
> intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
> trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. They
> had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
> brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. Miracle of
> miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
> pantry contained Shrek markers. They were delighted. The prizes
> aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
> paper liner and the box.
>
> Tara

>
When I was four years old my mother sent away box tops from some sort
cereal, I don't know if it was Corn Flakes or Wheaties or what. (Back then
there weren't store brands.) I wanted a Woody the Woodpecker knock on the
door door-knocker in the worst way! She collected box tops and got me one
and stuck it on my bedroom door. It was just a cheap piece of plastic that
snapped together. But when you grabbed the tail of the woodpecker you could
make it knock on the door with its beak! I thought it was so cool.

Some years later my mother sent away for a stuffed Jolly Green Giant doll.
I have no idea what she had to send in to get that thing. I may even still
have it in with all the stuffed animals I collected.

A couple of years ago I bought a box of Cheerios and imagine my surprise!
It had a toy inside! I thought toys in cereal had fallen by the wayside.
Inside was a weird little gorilla looking thing associated with some movie
I've never seen and probably never will see. You were supposed to submerge
it in water and when you squeezed it it would squirt water at you. It was
amusing.

Reminds me a lot of buying Cracker Jack just to get a tiny tin whistle.

Jill

On 11/09/2010 5:22 PM, Tara wrote:
> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> cereal. We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. I remember diving
> submarines that were powered by baking soda. We both have a vague
> memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
> tops.
>
> My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. They were
> intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
> trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. They
> had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
> brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. Miracle of
> miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
> pantry contained Shrek markers. They were delighted. The prizes
> aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
> paper liner and the box.
>



Up in the air, Junior Bird Man!

Up in the air, Bird Man true!

Up in the air, Junior Bird Man!

Keep your eyes up in the blue! (Up in the blue!)



And when you hear that grand announcement,

Then we will all have wings of tin.

And you can bet your Junior Bird Men

Will send their boxtops in!



It takes just 4 boxtops, 6 bottle bottoms,

3 wrappers, 2 coupons,

And one thin dime!



I don`t remember baking soda powered submarines but I do remember the
baking soda powered scuba divers.

The only thing I collect religiously was from Cadburys chocolate milk
powder. There was one small chocolate bar with a letter on the wrapper
and if you collected the wrappers to spell Cadburys you could send them
in and they sent you a box of chocolate bars.

On 9/11/2010 4:22 PM, Tara wrote:
> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> cereal. We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. I remember diving
> submarines that were powered by baking soda. We both have a vague
> memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
> tops.
>
> My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. They were
> intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
> trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. They
> had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
> brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. Miracle of
> miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
> pantry contained Shrek markers. They were delighted. The prizes
> aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
> paper liner and the box.
>
> Tara

My mother had an entire service for 12 set of silverware (probably
stainless) with the initial of our last name on the handles. She got the
whole set with General Mills coupons.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:51:23 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>Reminds me a lot of buying Cracker Jack just to get a tiny tin whistle.

Have you seen the price of Cracker Jack recently? It's like a buck
for a handful!

Lou

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
>> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
>Alpha Bits had the best prizes. They also had the terrariums.

You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
inside of the boxes in the 60's. I think it might have been honey
comb.

Lou

"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
news
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>>
>>> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>>
>>Alpha Bits had the best prizes. They also had the terrariums.
>
> You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> inside of the boxes in the 60's. I think it might have been honey
> comb.
>
> Lou


Sugar Smacks.....the 45 was the Archie's hit "Sugar, Sugar".
-ginny
who shouldn't be old enough to remember this.

In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> > I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> Alpha Bits had the best prizes. They also had the terrariums.
>
> -sw

Super sugar smacks had terrariums too. We ate many boxes of that cereal
to get all the different shapes. That was a fun prize.

marcella

On Sep 11, 7:45*pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> >> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> >Alpha Bits had the best prizes. *They also had the terrariums.
>
> You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> inside of the boxes in the 60's. *I think it might have been honey
> comb. *
>
> Lou *

I don't think it was the inside of the box. I think it was embedded in
the actual box. I remember cutting the record out of the back of the
box, leaving a giant hole in the back of the cereal box and getting
into a heap of trouble for that!!!!! The cardboard "record" did play
on my sister's panasonic portable record-player/am/fm radio, but you
needed to hold it down on the turntable with a quarter. You needed to
tape a nickle to the arm of the record player to begin with... and it
ruined her needle. I got into a heap of trouble for that, too!!! Not
for using her record player. I was allowed to use her record player. I
was probably 6 or 7 though, so I had no idea that a cardboard "record"
cut from the back of a cereal box would ruin a record player needle.

Don't remember if it was Honeycomb, Alphabits or Super Sugar Crisp. It
was one of the Post cereals....

On Sep 11, 7:55*pm, "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
> "Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
>
> news >
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > wrote:
>
> >>On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> >>> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> >>Alpha Bits had the best prizes. *They also had the terrariums.
>
> > You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> > inside of the boxes in the 60's. *I think it might have been honey
> > comb.
>
> > Lou
>
> Sugar Smacks.....the 45 was the Archie's hit "Sugar, Sugar".
> -ginny
> who shouldn't be old enough to remember this.

Super Sugar Crisp.... Sugar Smacks was Kelloggs. They had crappy
prizes. Post had the records.

On Sep 11, 11:51*pm, "Catmandy (Sheryl)" >
wrote:
> On Sep 11, 7:45*pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > wrote:
>
> > >On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> > >> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> > >Alpha Bits had the best prizes. *They also had the terrariums.
>
> > You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> > inside of the boxes in the 60's. *I think it might have been honey
> > comb. *
>
> > Lou *
>
> I don't think it was the inside of the box. I think it was embedded in
> the actual box. I remember cutting the record out of the back of the
> box, leaving a giant hole in the back of the cereal box and getting
> into a heap of trouble for that!!!!! *The cardboard "record" did play
> on my sister's panasonic portable record-player/am/fm radio, but you
> needed to hold it down on the turntable with a quarter. You needed to
> tape a nickle to the arm of the record player to begin with... and it
> ruined her needle. *I got into a heap of trouble for that, too!!! *Not
> for using her record player. I was allowed to use her record player. I
> was probably 6 or 7 though, so I had no idea that a cardboard "record"
> cut from the back of a cereal box would ruin a record player needle.
>
> Don't remember if it was Honeycomb, Alphabits or Super Sugar Crisp. It
> was one of the Post cereals....

I remember those records. I had one by The Archies and one that was a
condensed version of the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" I
remember having my mom buy Super Sugar Crisp just to get the record
off the back, and I hated Super Sugar Crisp. Never liked Froot Loops
either. But I liked Trix.
I still find prizes in cereal. I buy Corn Pops a lot and for a while
they were putting little toy cars in the boxes. They were the kind
where you roll the car backwards a little bit and then release it and
the car takes off. I would save them for my nephew. Another time
they had these big clunky plastic LCD wrist watches that actually
played games. I kept those.

On Sep 11, 5:22*pm, Tara > wrote:
> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> cereal. * We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. * I remember diving
> submarines that were powered by baking soda. *

I remember sending away for 3-d viewers that worked with the slides in
Shredded Wheat (3d dinosaurs! Bigger and brighter than a ViewMaster.)
I'd hit up neighbors and relatives for their boxtops.

But I *really* liked the things that came in Jello and Sheriff Pudding
(little disks with pictures such as classic cars, USAF aircraft,
hockey players, etc) in Canada, and the 1x3" cards that came in Red
Rose tea (Mammals, Flowers, etc.) Later they had 1" tall china
figurines of animals and such.

On Sep 11, 5:22*pm, Tara > wrote:
> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> cereal. * We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. * I remember diving
> submarines that were powered by baking soda. *We both have a vague
> memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
> tops. *
>
> My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. * They were
> intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
> trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. *They
> had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
> brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. * * Miracle of
> miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
> pantry contained Shrek markers. * *They were delighted. * The prizes
> aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
> paper liner and the box.
>
> Tara

While we're on the subject, does anyone remember the commercials for
Breeze laundry detergent with Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner? The
boxes actually came with bath towels inside them. This was before my
time but Oxydol used to put glassware inside their boxes. My mom
still has the glass plate she got out of a box of Oxydol.

"Catmandy (Sheryl)" > wrote in message
...
On Sep 11, 7:45 pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> >> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> >Alpha Bits had the best prizes. They also had the terrariums.
>
> You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> inside of the boxes in the 60's. I think it might have been honey
> comb.
>
> Lou

I don't think it was the inside of the box. I think it was embedded in
the actual box. I remember cutting the record out of the back of the
box, leaving a giant hole in the back of the cereal box and getting
into a heap of trouble for that!!!!! The cardboard "record" did play
on my sister's panasonic portable record-player/am/fm radio, but you
needed to hold it down on the turntable with a quarter. You needed to
tape a nickle to the arm of the record player to begin with... and it
ruined her needle. I got into a heap of trouble for that, too!!! Not
for using her record player. I was allowed to use her record player. I
was probably 6 or 7 though, so I had no idea that a cardboard "record"
cut from the back of a cereal box would ruin a record player needle.

Don't remember if it was Honeycomb, Alphabits or Super Sugar Crisp. It
was one of the Post cereals....

It was Honeycomb. Could have been the others too, but I remember begging my
mom for the Honeycomb so that I could get the record. I remember cutting it
off of the box. The record itself was square.

I hated Honeycomb cereal and wouldn't eat the stuff. I actually didn't
really like any cereal. That's why I had to beg to get it. And I would
promise to eat it. Luckily my brother did eat it. It wasn't his favorite,
but he eventually ate it.

But after the second box? Nope. My mom wasn't going to fall for it any
more.

"Dave Smith" > ha scritto nel messaggio
news:W0Tio.70270

> Up in the air, Junior Bird Man!
>
> Up in the air, Bird Man true!
>
> Up in the air, Junior Bird Man!
>
> Keep your eyes up in the blue! (Up in the blue!)
> And when you hear that grand announcement,
>
> Then we will all have wings of tin.
>
> And you can bet your Junior Bird Men
>

I was once married to a military pilot and at a certain time in the evening,
raucous choruses of that song rang out over whatever gathering we attended.

Post had a cereal called Crispy Critters, but I was pretty young, I do
not remember if I tried it.

http://www.makli.com/wp-content/uplo...y_critters.jpg

Becca

"Omelet" > wrote in message
news
>
> I still remember the glass ware you could get at gas stations...
>
> and gas under $.25 per gallon. Mom and dad bitched when it hit $.27.

And the towels. I still have one. It's blue and green. The colors still
are bright after all these years. Must be close to 50 years old.

On 12/09/2010 6:02 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > wrote in message
> news >
>>
>> I still remember the glass ware you could get at gas stations...
>>
>> and gas under $.25 per gallon. Mom and dad bitched when it hit $.27.

I remember an incident back in about 1974 when I was used to paying 35
cents per gallon for gasoline and I had a motorcycle. I was so ****ed
off that the price had risen by 2 cents a gallon that I would not buy
gas there. Now we pay by the litre and it is close to a dollar per
litre, $4 per(US gallon).

On 9/12/2010 1:59 PM, Omelet wrote:
> In article
> >,
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sep 11, 5:22 pm, > wrote:
>>> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
>>> cereal. We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
>>> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. I remember diving
>>> submarines that were powered by baking soda. We both have a vague
>>> memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
>>> tops.
>>>
>>> My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. They were
>>> intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
>>> trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. They
>>> had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
>>> brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. Miracle of
>>> miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
>>> pantry contained Shrek markers. They were delighted. The prizes
>>> aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
>>> paper liner and the box.
>>>
>>> Tara
>>
>> While we're on the subject, does anyone remember the commercials for
>> Breeze laundry detergent with Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner? The
>> boxes actually came with bath towels inside them. This was before my
>> time but Oxydol used to put glassware inside their boxes. My mom
>> still has the glass plate she got out of a box of Oxydol.
>
> I still remember the glass ware you could get at gas stations...
>
> and gas under $.25 per gallon. Mom and dad bitched when it hit $.27.

I have some of those glasses. They were from the Bicentennial. My mom
had them. I also have a small collection of the tall, thin Dairy Queen
glasses. They are frosted with red and blue tear drops.

Are they worth anything?

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:32:14 -0500, Ema Nymton wrote:
>
>> http://www.makli.com/wp-content/uplo...y_critters.jpg
>
> Eating endangered animals. Yeah - that would go over really well
> these days.
>
> Aren't prizes in cereal boxes now illegal in some jurisdictions? That
> was part of the laws made when they outlawed happy meal toys.
>
> -sw

>
Just curious, why would they be illegal? Is some fool judge afraid a kid
might injest the toy rather than play with it?

Jill

On Sep 12, 12:51*am, " > wrote:
> On Sep 11, 5:22*pm, Tara > wrote:
>
>
>
> > My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> > cereal. * We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> > cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. * I remember diving
> > submarines that were powered by baking soda. *We both have a vague
> > memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
> > tops. *
>
> > My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. * They were
> > intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
> > trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. *They
> > had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
> > brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. * * Miracle of
> > miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
> > pantry contained Shrek markers. * *They were delighted. * The prizes
> > aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
> > paper liner and the box.
>
> > Tara
>
> While we're on the subject, does anyone remember the commercials for
> Breeze laundry detergent with Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner? *The
> boxes actually came with bath towels inside them. *This was before my
> time but Oxydol used to put glassware inside their boxes. *My mom
> still has the glass plate she got out of a box of Oxydol.

I don't remember Breeze but I certainly remember getting towels in
boxes of Duz. The bigger the box, the bigger the towel. The smallest
boxes had wash-cloths in them. Medium sized boxes had hand towels, the
giant family sized boxes of detergent had bath towels.

I recall drinking glasses being packaged inside boxes of laundry
detergent. Was that Oxydol? I don't remember the brand. I was very
young. But I remember it was similar to the towels (Maybe it was Duz
that gave the dishes, too).... the smallest boxes had Juice Glasses.
The bigger the box of detergent, the bigger the drinking glass. The
giant family size boxes of detergent had footed iced tea goblets--i
recall the bases were square.

Wonder if cereal prizes began when Post Toasties printed the backs of
their boxes with cutouts. They were circus themed and the fronts and
backs of animals like tigers could be glued to the ends of empty spools.
It sure spurred me on to a hearty breakfast. (circa early '30s)

Then when my kids were young there were 'spoonmen' that could be clipped
to the handles of spoons - think they were little astronauts or space
critters? From bite size shredded wheat. I've often wished I'd saved
them for grandkids to enjoy. jan

(j h) wrote:
>
>Wonder if cereal prizes began when Post Toasties printed the backs of
>their boxes with cutouts. They were circus themed and the fronts and
>backs of animals like tigers could be glued to the ends of empty spools.
>It sure spurred me on to a hearty breakfast. (circa early '30s)
>
>Then when my kids were young there were 'spoonmen' that could be clipped
>to the handles of spoons - think they were little astronauts or space
>critters? From bite size shredded wheat. I've often wished I'd saved
>them for grandkids to enjoy. jan

I have eight big inches:
http://www.yukoninfo.com/klondikebiginch.htm

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:34:32 -0700, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:32:14 -0500, Ema Nymton >
> wrote:
>
>> Post had a cereal called Crispy Critters, but I was pretty young, I do
>>not remember if I tried it.
>>
>>http://www.makli.com/wp-content/uplo...y_critters.jpg
>>
>>Becca
>
> Crispy Critter is what us old goats call young gals.

senile old goats. 'crispy critters' makes no sense whatever.

blake

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:16:34 -0400, jmcquown wrote:

> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:32:14 -0500, Ema Nymton wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.makli.com/wp-content/uplo...y_critters.jpg
>>
>> Eating endangered animals. Yeah - that would go over really well
>> these days.
>>
>> Aren't prizes in cereal boxes now illegal in some jurisdictions? That
>> was part of the laws made when they outlawed happy meal toys.
>>
>> -sw
>
>>
> Just curious, why would they be illegal? Is some fool judge afraid a kid
> might injest the toy rather than play with it?
>
> Jill

really. so what if there are a few extra dead kids lying around?

blake

In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:42:41 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:51:23 -0400, "jmcquown" >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Reminds me a lot of buying Cracker Jack just to get a tiny tin whistle.
> >
> > Have you seen the price of Cracker Jack recently? It's like a buck
> > for a handful!
>
> Cracker Jack is so nasty. Stale, non-crispy, molasses-tasting popcorn
> - I shiver just remembering how bad it was.

I don't remember that at all! You don't think my memory could have
faded in fifty years? Nah!

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:22:56 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>>
>> Cracker Jack is so nasty. Stale, non-crispy, molasses-tasting popcorn
>> - I shiver just remembering how bad it was.
>
>I don't remember that at all! You don't think my memory could have
>faded in fifty years? Nah!

Or maybe he really did get the stale stuff and the rest of us didn't.
I make caramel popcorn that tastes just like Cracker Jacks did when I
was a kid.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On 9/12/2010 9:16 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:32:14 -0500, Ema Nymton wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.makli.com/wp-content/uplo...y_critters.jpg
>>
>> Eating endangered animals. Yeah - that would go over really well
>> these days.
>>
>> Aren't prizes in cereal boxes now illegal in some jurisdictions? That
>> was part of the laws made when they outlawed happy meal toys.
>>
>> -sw
>
>>
> Just curious, why would they be illegal? Is some fool judge afraid a kid
> might injest the toy rather than play with it?

Santa Clara County, California, decided that the toys contributed to
obesity. That's the only place I'm aware of where such a ban is in
force. We really should give California back to the Mexicans.

On 9/12/2010 8:14 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 6:02 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> news >>
>>>
>>> I still remember the glass ware you could get at gas stations...
>>>
>>> and gas under $.25 per gallon. Mom and dad bitched when it hit $.27.
>
> I remember an incident back in about 1974 when I was used to paying 35
> cents per gallon for gasoline and I had a motorcycle. I was so ****ed
> off that the price had risen by 2 cents a gallon that I would not buy
> gas there. Now we pay by the litre and it is close to a dollar per
> litre, $4 per(US gallon).

I remember when I could fill up a Lincoln for what it costs to fill up
my motorcycle now.

"J. Clarke" wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Omelet" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I still remember the glass ware you could get at gas stations...
>>>> and gas under $.25 per gallon. Mom and dad bitched when it hit $.27.
>>
>> I remember an incident back in about 1974 when I was used to paying 35
>> cents per gallon for gasoline and I had a motorcycle. I was so ****ed
>> off that the price had risen by 2 cents a gallon that I would not buy
>> gas there. Now we pay by the litre and it is close to a dollar per
>> litre, $4 per(US gallon).
>
>I remember when I could fill up a Lincoln for what it costs to fill up
>my motorcycle now.

I remember when I could pull up to a pump in LA in my '66 TR4A, hand
the attendant a buck and say fill it up and I got back change with my
double Plaid Stamps and a steak knife... also got my oil and tire
pressure tended to and got my windshield washed. Gas was 10¢/gal, if
I happened to be near Long Beach where all the refineries were located
gas was 9¢, even 8¢ a gallon. A full week's groceries for two and a
newborn cost under $15... back then Gerbers baby food cost 15 jars/$1.
There were no disposable diapers yet, cloth diaper service cost under
$20/month. In many ways life was better then, ordinary working folks
could live much better than in today's economy... folks had far fewer
bills, no cable, no cell phone, no internet... no leased car monthy
rent payments, my brand new TR4A cost $2,800.00 cash... a very good
restaurant meal for two and a child at a quality steak house ran under
$10... at the Golden Arches under a buck. Back then private industry
made sure all productive folks could well afford commodities, there
was far less grubbermint pickpocketing.

THE MODERN DAY LITTLE RED HEN (Obomanomics)

Once Upon A Time, there was a little red hen who scratched about
the barnyard until she uncovered some grains of wheat. She called her
neighbors and said, "If we plant this wheat we shall have bread to
eat. Who will help me plant it?" "Not I," said the cow, the duck,
the pig and the goose. "Then I will," said the little red hen; and
she did.

The wheat grew tall and ripened into golden grain. "Who will
help me reap the wheat?" asked the little red hen. "Not I," said the
duck, "Out of my classification," said the pig. "I'd lose my
seniority," said the cow. "I'd lose my unemployment compensation,"
said the goose. "Then I will," said the little red hen; and she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake
the bread?" asked the little red hen. "That would be overtime for me"
said the cow. "I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.
"Discrimination." screamed the goose. "Then I will." said the little
red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for her neighbors to see.
They all wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little
red hen said "No I can eat the five loaves myself." "Excess profits!"
cried the cow. "I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose. The pig
just grunted. And they painted "unfair" picket signs and marched
around and around the little red hen.

When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen,
"You must not be greedy." "But I earned the bread," said the little
red hen. "Exactly," said the agent. "That is the wonderful free
enterprise system. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he
wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive
workers must divide their product with the idle. So be grateful that
you're permitted to keep a small part of what you produced."

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red
hen, who smiled and clucked, "I am grateful. I am grateful." But her
neighbors wondered why she never again baked any more bread.

THE END!