Whatever Happened To…

My refrigerator, which I bought 5 years ago, is on small wheels

there are still funeral fares, but airlines made them pretty much the same price as a regular fare

Real gay bars, print media, proper movie theaters, non-torturous airline travel, and Wendy’s salad bar.

Clean them? They would prefer you buy a new one please.

Funeral fares are hard to get because too many customers would lie.

Fare wars are gone because there are so few airlines that can collude on prices.

Gay men being cool

There are still a few airline fare wars in some saturated markets, but not like it used to be.

Whatever happened to ...Baby Jane?

R5 A woman in my office got time off with pay to attend her grandmother's funeral in Virginia. Several months later, a co-worker who she thought was her friend, revealed the Obit she showed management was cut out of a newspaper for someone she didn't know. Went to visit boyfriend on leave from the Navy. She was fired.

R9 how did showing the newspaper the obituary was cut out of prove your coworker wasn’t related? I never had to show an obituary to get bereavement at my corporate job…

Refrigerator manufacturers realized it did indeed make it easier for people to roll the fridge away and clean behind it - including the coils and filters. So no more were breaking down, and no one was buying replacements. They realized they needed to make it harder once again - so the wheels came off.

As for airlines, the internet happened - and the price wars started on the internet. No more funeral fees or competitive fees - Find a great deal on one of the zillions of sites and book it.

R9 What a horrid bitch. If there is any justice in the world, that co-worker will never get laid again.

Interestingly, new refrigerators don't even have accessible coils in the back anymore. They are enclosed and unreachable.

^Due to environmental laws. That is why they have a much shorter lifespan per my appliance repairman

Whatever happened to…Robot Jones?

R10: Then boss is a fool. Because for every courtesy and kindness extended there any number of people who will take advantage and misuse it if there are not guidelines.

Things change, eldergay.

R10, The company didn't ask for proof. Knowing she used the death as an excuse, thought it was a good idea to bring an Obit. Her mistake was telling a co-worker the reason for visit to Virginia.

Big dicks ? back in the 90's when I was cruising parks, and bathouses,I would often come across shortish dark hairy guys with the hugest dicks, like apple-sized helmets on a beer can dick.. taking them was an exploit in itself. Not anymore. WHET them ?

R19=Sleezy whore.

[quote] R9] how did showing the newspaper the obituary was cut out of prove your coworker wasn’t related? I never had to show an obituary to get bereavement at my corporate job…

Exactly, what kind of rinky dinky bullshit place did she work at. And fuck her cunt coworker for pulling that shit.

My fridge has wheels but it also has guards around them that can be easily removed so the fridge can be moved. It's a 3 year old LG.

[quote]Things change

Because?

R23 Progression, evolution. Keep up or die.

Refrigerator wheels and airline funeral fees. This is the content I come to DataLounge for.

So enclosing the back of the fridge is done for the sake of the environment, which shortens the lifespan of the fridge, which leads to more fridges in landfills or wherever old appliances end up.

[quote]Progression, evolution. Keep up or die.

How is the removal of wheels on refrigerators, the end of airline funeral fares and airline price wars a sign of progress?

Whatever happened to..."staying on topic?"

Yeah the airfare thing was mostly caused by the internet, as well as the erstwhile McKinseyfying of the industry. Thanks to the internet, the airlines have such huge amounts of real-time data about demand that they are able to fluctuate pricing automatically to help maximize profits. No more need for sales or promotions or collusion.

Vacuum cleaners with automatic electric cord retrieval?

Pepperidge Farm croissant pizzas.

Q-dent toothpaste.

Upscale Costco that used charge cards, not credit/EBT cards. Merchandise was the shit and quality!

Costco deluxe pizza, Costco sandwiches in the take-out.

Everything that went obsolete due to COVID excuse.

Glamour Shots

Shitting in public

R33 hasn’t been to San Francisco lately

Free COVID testing at pharmacies? You know…Xi Jing Ping’s (Chinese President) and his fierce COVID lock-downs. Maybe he knows something about this COVID biological warfare from Wuhan that the West doesn’t know about! You know COVID IS BIOLOGICAL WARFARE created in the lab at Wuhan and perhaps unintentedly released in that wet market.

CDC has recently released that the new variants of COVID is NOT responding to our new COVID vaccines. None of them. If this is true, the West is fucked! Think about it…Why would China cripple their economy for absolutely no reason? Think about it please….

Does anyone still wear…a hat?

Hungry obedient bottoms !!?

FRANCO-AMERICAN canned/frozen meals? Think they got bought out by Chef Boyardee which is pure crap.

It is well understood how airline pricing changed in the era of deregulation and advanced computing.

Bench seats - this FAT WHORE is never comfortable in bucket 🪣 seats.

Yes r40. Remember seeing young couples out on a date and the girl would be all snuggled up next to the boy driving. Seems dangerous and annoying to the driver (if it were me) in retrospect.

Good customer service.

CC credit card customer service reps that actually have English as their first language!

Pre-1990, non-China made shit merchandise!

American manufacturing.

The Security and Exchange Committee(SEC)

The Federal Election Security Committee (FEC).

The Ethics Committee? (EC)

A trustworthy Moody’s Credit rating service?

Elizabeth Warren finance warnings/big bank rip offs?

Presidential Ethics Committee obliterated by Shitler and the GQP?

Viannetta(sp?) ice cream cake.

Baker’s Square L.A. chain restaurant?

Hughes L.A. supermarket?

Rite Aid ice cream.

Woolworth’s?…and their dine in restaurant and their take out roast beef sandwiches and ice cream shop? The best mint chocolate chip cones.

Yes r44. I miss Woolworth’s too. If you never experienced Woolworth’s, it’s difficult to explain. It was a middle class store that had good merchandise. As a kid, I loved going in there and looking at everything.

R45- A number of years ago my father said ( and he was right) that if Woolworths had started opening pharmacy counters in their stores back in the 1970's or 1980's they would still be in business now - they would be what CVS is now.

I’m kind of glad Woolworth’s didn’t make it. It stands in my memory as something very nostalgic, a very warm and fuzzy memory, and I’d hate to see what it might have become. It’s like when people try to resurrect the Automat. It’s impossible trying to recreate the magic.

Getting discovered at Schwab's

Shut up, R48! A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker.

That is Lana Turner

The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV?

I just spent an hour rolling my 2019 fridge back & forth. What a party! I’m feeling like a million bucks.

R13: [quote] They are enclosed and unreachable.

Like my heart.

^^ Damn it. I messed up my formatting. You get the (lame) gist.

Rite Aid ice cream? Jeezus

Though, in L.A.: Thrifty kept an ice cream counter in its stores for the longest time. It was pretty good.

"Funeral fares are hard to get because too many customers would lie."

You mean submitting a photo of me beside the casket of my girlfriend's aunt does not qualify for a funeral fare? WTF?

Respectability in American politics

Liaisons

r36 I wear hats year round, and yes, I'm bald. Had to wear them when I was in the military, and actually learned to like them. We are coming into hat weather-HURRAY!

Class?

HIV and AIDS being terrifying

Liza knows

Sexual energy from an in-person cruise. The serendipitous arousal and satisfaction that comes from being attracted to whoever crosses your way and running with it.

These days its robotic and monotonous with the nanosecond swipe left or right based on very specific preferences, almost always resulting in delayed gratification if any gratification at all.

Gay men today cruise and fuck like robots. That's not a complement.

It's WHET, OP!

Duh...

WHET owning your music. I hate how versions change in streaming and they remaster shit and it doesn't sound the same. I'm beginning to smell several rats and am trying to buy old versions on DVD and CD that I can then rip (music).

I've saved most of the CDs I purchased, r63. I started buying them in 1986, and have held on to some remastered versions, some originals (whichever sounds better). I ripped everything to hard drives twelve years ago, and was listening to everything on iTunes shuffle.

This spring, I decided I wanted to play my CDs again, and bought new speakers. So I alternate between the two. My collection is half classical, half pop and rock, nearly all purchased last century.

I can't remember the last time I saw a wedding procession of cars all decked out with streamers, tin cans, and bows honking their horns.

Fill er up?

Can I check your oil?

8 Track Tapes

A lot of fridges still have wheels. Are you talking about bigger, wheels that would raise the entire refrigerator off the ground a couple inches and you could see underneath it? If so, I don't remember those wheels.

The Dining Plan and Fast Pass.

R21, the "rinky dink" company was AT&T.

People who are slim

because nowadays everyone is either

FAT OR MUSCULAR

Incandescent light bulbs

I miss them, they emitted a much warmer more pleasant light than LEDs

The market by my house sells “Thrifty’s” ice-cream. Not at a counter, but pre-packed.

[quote] Incandescent light bulbs

They're still available and I use them. They're hot, though, during the summer. Also, probably expensive, electricity-wise.

The special shape of ice cream scooped at a Thrifty counter.

Those metal-pressing machines where you could write whatever you wanted and it would be pressed into a metal coin.

Combination weight and fortune telling scales; step on the scale, see your weight, and a paper strip with your fortune pops out.

Melissa Leo

... those massive television sets they used to wheel into classrooms when the teacher wanted to show the class a VHS film.

I mentioned sex.

Focus is on cheap ice cream and refrigerators.

Welcome to DL.

Read the original post r79. You’re the one off topic.

TV movies of the week

Conversation pits

Blue toilet water. I haven’t seen that in decades.

Things that aren't here anymore...

R75

Thank you for that picture…that’s the Thrifty I remember!

Thrifty ice cream sold inside Rite Aid stores too.

Ralph Story was genius!

Huell Howser was a worthy “successor.”

R85 ..much later, though. Rite Aid came to L.A. very late in the game

Rite Aid is Thrifty, r87...or rather *was*.

Yes, as I said and pointed out above…much later. Anyone growing up in L.A. knew Thrifty, and not as Rite Aid.

Baby Jane?

[quote]Blue toilet water. I haven’t seen that in decades.

Blue TyDBol? It's still around, usually in public toilets.

R41 my grandmother would always say "oh look ! It takes two people to drive that car " !!!

I know, r59. I lived in Santa Barbara and LA in the '80s and well remember Thrifty.

Soda fountains that made fresh lemonade.

The old cars with the bench seats were easier to sleep in.

For those nostalgic for Woolworth.

The original was made with Milnot evaporated milk (available on amazon for $42) but regular evaporated milk apparently also works.

Blade Thompson? I miss him.

A season of a tv series having more than 20 episodes.

People wearing their "Sunday best" to church rather than shorts and flip flops.

Rona Barrett

Miyoshi Umeki

Mass for Shut-Ins

Good nighttime dramas about nuclear families like the Lawrences.

Fay Wray

r96 I fondly remember Milnot™ brand evaporated milk. Whenever my husband and I would go visit his folks in Indiana, we'd get a case or two to take home. It makes a great white sauce for sausage gravy or SOS. We also stocked up on RedGold™ tomato products, another Indiana staple.

Whatever happened to being able to buy butter that wasn't individually wrapped as quarter-pound sticks? For years you could get the pound package as a solid block, and always side by side in the dairy case.

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Good n' Fruity. I loved that candy.

What are we, r105, chopped liver?

R9/R10, I managed someone who took bereavement for the funeral of her Grandma Becky. Grandma Becky was delighted to hear of her own demise when she called the office in search of my employee shortly thereafter

I’d like to thank the sponsor of this thread, AARP.

Don't forget Buzzi Memorials, r108!

[quote] Refrigerator wheels and airline funeral fees. This is the content I come to DataLounge for.

Yup, if nothing else, DL is at least consistent and predictable.

Thrifty ice cream looks like it is nothing but colored fat. Please defend if I'm wrong.

Carmelita Pope

Was she related to Carmelita Geraghty?

Third cousins or something, r113.

For 111

It is a happy LOS ANGELES childhood memory. That’s good enough for me.

But you can see what others say

Going to the bank on Friday to cash a check to have money for the weekend. Is $20 too much?

In Santa Barbara, we would get Thrifty's ice cream cones. It was a real treat to get a triple scoop! The scoops were round, but flat on the top and bottom. Not sure how they did that.

Where was It, r117?

Well, Santa Barbara area - actually in downtown Carpinteria.

Oh, I thought you meant SB proper.

We had Thrifty’s all over the Bay Area as well.

For some time now most refrigerators sold in USA have moved to fan condenser systems with those devices either at bottom or on top of appliance. This as opposed to natural condenser systems with those familiar grilles on back of fridges. You only find latter today largely on budget, BOL or units offered for builders, landlords, etc.

Besides being more energy efficient fridges with bottom or top condenser systems don't need to be moved to clean condenser coils, hence no need for wheels.

Manufacturers of fridges like GE have come up with "never clean" condenser meaning one need not bother cleaning coils.

Good ol' GE...

The big motor thing on top of fridges disappeared too.

Yugoslavia

Hostess aprons

You still want to clean the area where the refrigerator is. Dust and dirt collects there.

R126 I love aprons! Don't care if frilly or practical!

Did somebody say...hostess aprons?

Not to mention...

Cha-cha heels optional...

The Ice Capades

Stir 'n Frost cakes.

I don't understand why you didn't have to add an egg. Maybe the egg was already in the mix?

I loved the Ice Capades and remember it selling out at the Garden. I thought people still loved ice skating and spectacle. I guess they don't.

the Fuller Brush Man

Meg Ryan

Those "Whatever Happened To..." books?

I had two, r137.

High waisted slacks.

The Sears catalogue.

They started cutting them lower when hip huggers came it, r139. We don't wear our pants at our waist anymore.

R134 reminds me of Ringling Brothers, Barnum Bailey Circus. They would sell little flashlights and tell everyone to point them towards the circus ring. We thought we were creating that huge spotlight.

Sparklers Water—home delivery

Jeez: SPARKLETTS

The Alta Dena milkman

If DataLounge were a thread….

We also had a Home Pride Bread man, r145.

Coal chutes in old houses, also milk chutes

We had a box, not a chute, r148.

...Class?

Subway tokens.

Green stamps.

Steel pennies.

Steel pennies, r151?

If you look around many old homes or buildings you'll still find where coal chutes once were located.

Here in NYC at least in Manhattan those steel doors in pavement in front of row houses or apartment buildings often lead to cellar and were used for coal deliveries as well.

In fact if you look around basements of older buildings and homes you can still find traces of apparatus used for when coal was used in boiler or furnace. In small number of places you still have coal left in bins or storage rooms long since closed off or whatever. When building switched over to oil or gas the coal wasn't needed, but there wasn't an easy (or particularly clean) way to get it out of basements so it was just left alone.

AM Radio...

Hand signals for turning while driving...

Bag boys at supermarkets...

Department store lunch counters or restaurants....

Fish on Friday for dinner....

Hula hoops.

Chemistry sets.

Flubber (a real mystery, actually).

R153 Walking around NYC you see lots of old coal chutes, on anything pre-War.

Nickelodeon Gak.

Floppy discs.

IBM cards.

PDP-4s.

Sizzler (the toy, not the restaurant).

My brothers, sisters and I were toy testers…our mom worked for Mattel!

A&P.

Pan Am.

The Pennsylvania Railroad.

Nervous breakdowns...

Quaaludes

Seconal

Nembutal

Benzedrine

Miltown.

Darvon

Ripley's Believe It or Not books.

Guiness Book of World Records.

[quote] For some time now most refrigerators sold in USA have moved to fan condenser systems with those devices either at bottom or on top of appliance. This as opposed to natural condenser systems with those familiar grilles on back of fridges. You only find latter today largely on budget, BOL or units offered for builders, landlords, etc.

An appliance repairman did tell me that you don't need to clean the back of the fridge. But ... you can remove the grill from the bottom (front) of the fridge and clean the coils or whatever's down there.

Daisy chains

R153 R156 my walk-up has the spot for the coal chute still, but long since bricked-up.

Cherry bombs.

Snakes.

Fire crackers.

Banana Splits

These

Pedal pushers.

Cherry phosphates.

Sock hops.

R172- What about these?

All those sets of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Ship 'n Shore

Sony Mini-Disc players and albums.

Every respectable home having a decent bar. Or at least stocked with good booze and mixers for cocktails.

Mail chutes in apartment and office buildings.

Wing-wings.

Small-scale carnival rides(carousels, whips, Ferris wheels, etc) that were on flatbed trucks, and would drive into various neighborhoods, then wait for the kids to show up.

Vacuuming the house in heels and pearls.

I miss this

The evening paper.

Coets

The British Empire

Superball!

top loading portable dishwashers ,

Downtown movie palaces with resident orchestras to accompany silent movies.

Dannon Boysenberry Yogurt and Prune Whip Yogurt.

Haagen Dasz Vanilla Fudge Ice Cream.

Lime scent Mennen Speed Stick

Hope.

When you walk through a storm, r189...

McDonald’s signage updates: 500 million served…over 1 billion served…billions served, etc.

But McRibs is back now!

Randolph Scott?

The class of ‘65?

Rain bonnets

High heel drizzle boots

R92, grandma sounds cute af.

R180, you miss toilet paper?

You know that’s still around, right? I’m afraid to ask what you’ve been doing all this time.

God, I hope you’re not a bottom.

Ration Stamps.

r199 At the rate things are going we might be seeing those again soon.

Spats.

mood rings

Oh wow r196! Growing up, I went to a church with several old ladies. All of them wore those.

Swimming nude at the YMCA.

Torrid, hot-and-heavy public makeout sessions.

When I was a kid (70's), I used to see couples making out all over the place, and I would get so turned on. I couldn't wait to grow up and start making out myself.

The last time I saw couples making out in public was in Sao Paulo in the mid-00's, and it stood out to me because it'd been so long since I'd seen such a thing in the U.S., I'd forgotten it used to be a common thing.

1970s Kliban cat.

macrame

Knott’s Berry Farm boysenberry jam & other KBF jams in general.

Kliban was more than cats, r206...

Dressing children like little sailors and sailorettes.

Elevator operators.

Subway tokens.

Schraffts.

Resin grapes

General Foods International Coffees

Poncie Ponce

Grocery stores that load your groceries in your car.

R213, they still make those. They're now a Maxwell House product.

I was going to mention Shake n Bake, but they still make that. It’s like the International Coffees in that they used to be heavily advertised but you don’t see them much anymore unless you’re looking for them. Who uses Shake n Bake or powdered coffee these days? They seem like legacy products they make for senior citizens.

Shake n Bake is still around. Walmart, Amazon and many other places sell it.

Stuff isn't so much used my many today because it's just mostly bread crumbs and seasonings, something many housewives and others knew already then and still do today.

There are many ways to make a breaded coating for use in any sort of baking; microwave, regular or convection oven. Best of all using one's own recipe allows leaving out certain things one rather not have.

Home made "shake n bake".

Powdered coffee? You girls need to get out more, as the stuff still has a pretty decent following.

Don't normally consume "instant coffee" as a beverage, but use it for making all sorts of baked goods. Stuff does come in handy when traveling and want a decent quick hot cup of coffee. With right product and done properly some instant coffee is streets better than that K-Cup dreck hotels and motels offer as in room beverage.

Piano Bars

Cocktail Lounges

Floor Shows

Nightclubs

Lounge Singers

Cigarette Girls

After work cocktail/drinks parties

R221, I love it. I watch “I Love Lucy” and she was always wanting to go have supper and dancing at a club or even watch the floor show at Ricky’s club. That’s a world gone with the wind.

R221- Afton Cooper on Dallas was a Lounge Singer.

Pocketbooks

Floor shows looked like fun.

Koogle

Speaking of nightclubs, don't forget the camera girl...

Nightclub headliners...

Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer Tea

Sugar Jets

The gay lisp?

It used to be the go-to gay speech pattern for femmes, but at some point it gave way to "gay voice" or "the gay accent".

The first openly gay man I ever met was a co-worker of mine at a restaurant (he was a waiter, I was a busboy), he couldn't have been swishier, and he had a full-on lisp. I remember one time he invited all the waitresses to his house for lunch, and behind his back those bitches were making so much fun of him, saying things like "he thinks he's one of the girls!" And nobody showed up to his girls lunch, and he was crushed!

It was tho thad!!!!

'

One can have a gay voice without a lisp, r231.

T/hey have floor shows at Disney World like the Hoop Dee Doo review but a flame thrower couldn't get me into that.

Serutan...

^^^^ and the usually mentioned in the same TV ad breath GERITOL.

Fletcher's Castoria: Are two enough, is six too many?

Lydia Pinkham's herbal/alcohol tonic, designed for female use.

Killer bees and murder hornets?

That fucking killer hornet is no joke. So far, we’ve been able to eradicate them here, but it is scary.

Jujubes

Jo Morrow

Chocolate Babies (casualty of the woke crowd)

The Avon Lady

Tupperware parties

Fondue pots

Noxzema skin cream

Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo

Prell shampoo

Pearl Drops tooth polish

Topol, the smoker’s toothpaste.

Gleem, Pepsodent, Aquafresh and Close-Up being semi-major toothpaste brands. Now they’re out of business or relegated to a single slot on the bottom shelf. Meanwhile there are 4000 varieties of Crest and Colgate.

Noxzema is still around

Cars with opera windows?

Certs?

They were two (clack)! Two (clack)! Two mints in one!!!

Retsyn!

The Pepsi Challenge

Coke Classic

Gleem toothpaste got me to thinking of all those “customer on the street” tv commercials.

Gleem had one where the woman was supposed to read the product name on the box and she said, “Meegle? Oh, Gleem!” I always wondered if the woman was undiagnosed dyslexic or on drugs and why the Gleem people even continued to broadcast that ad.

the Toni Twins

On-Cor Swedish meatballs

Prell shampoo once had more than an 80% share of the American shampoo market...wow.

I had a worker call and claim his grandmother’s death and couldn’t come in, for the third time.

I said, “Oh, I am so sorry, my condolences! Which funeral home can I send flowers?”

“Oh, no, you really don’t have to do that.” He said.

I replied, “Yes, I really have to do that or I’ll see you here 11am.”

The Doublemint Twins. They were from my hometown of Louisville so they were local celebrities, though I think they lived in California at the time. They’d come back for the Kentucky Derby and parades and stuff and were treated like royalty. A pair of chewing gum models, you’d think they were heiresses to the Wrigley fortune.

I loved Chocolate Babies. What a great candy. They could have called them something like Chocolate Dolls.

I didn't even realize that Certs had disappeared. They seemed like a staple food!

Ulcers and heartburn. Seems like, in the old days, people complained of ulcers (stomach area) a lot more. Also, you never hear about heartburn anymore. I'm thinking "acid reflux" is the new term for heartburn.

Certs no longer exists? That's like saying Lifesavers is no more.

pHisoderm skin cleanser.

pHisoderm skin cleanser is still around...

As is pHisohex, but you need a prescription.

After carbolic was banned from personal care and other products hexachlorophene was everywhere in 1970's or so. Next to Noxzema phisoHex was one of the most commonly seen products in bathrooms where teens made up part of household.

Stand corrected, pHisoHex ceased production in September 2013

Speaking of anti-bacterial and deodorant soap we must also mention as a "WEHT" Lifebuoy carbolic soap.

Nasty stuff....

For record same phenol compounds once were found in Lysol, but long since have been removed. If you look carefully at those brown bottles of Lysol sold today they don't have an EPA registration number, that's because phenol was either removed or is in such low concentration product no longer meets standards for registered disinfectant.

Wash Your Hands!

Mother was right, and it was the invention and widespread adoption of carbolic soap that helped push frequent handwashing. This in turn helped reduce spread of infections and diseases.

Other use of carbolic soap was one of first deodorant bars for personal hygiene.

It was advertisers for Lifebouy who came up with "B.O" (short for body odor) that began to appear in adverts by 1930's.

After carbolic was banned products moved onto hexachlorophene (Dial soap was one), and when that substance was banned in came triclosan. The last one is now banned in consumer products as well, so it remains to be seen what if anything will emerge next in the antibacterial craze.

More...

"Airline price wars. The last one I remember was in the late 1980s. A major airline would announce that for a limited time, there would be a huge discount and suddenly the other airlines would follow to grab the business."

Airline price wars ended because carriers left standing realized how badly it hurt overall business.

There are only a handful of major carriers left in USA, and even less when it comes to legacy airlines. You've got American, Delta, United , Alaska and maybe few more. Southwest, Jet Blue and Spirit were all born as lower cost carriers to shake up the industry.

Carriers like People's Express and Tower Air who pioneered cheap flights (especially to Europe) didn't last.

Price wars made perhaps some sense after airline industry was deregulated. Previously carriers had to compete in other areas such as service, attractiveness of flight crew, etc... because rates were set by federal government. Once that cat was let out of bag it was race to bottom, and we've all seen the results.

Airlines largely no longer compete based upon service. Rather fitting as many passengers as possible onto a plane paying much as an airline can get seems norm. Hence flying coach for years is like taking a bus. You have to go business or first class to get any sort of decent flying experience where you're not treated like cattle.

Bonnie Bell astringent. It was part of my weekly facial: Clean out my pores and then a generous amount of Oil of Olay.

Basic manners

Minding your own business

Keeping thought bubbles to yourself

10-0-6

Jell-O 1-2-3

R270 Thanks for the memory! I wish I could find it now....

You must not be familiar with online shopping. Just google it hun.

Campfire Marshmallows in a box. Tasted completely different than the ones in the plastic bags.

Tagging onto R267 consider also in many markets there isn't same sort of competition there was years ago.

For many routes (especially international) out of certain airports you may have only a choice of one or two airlines. Even if there are a few or several not all may offer non-stop direct flights.

The FedEx “paper blob” tv commercial from the mid-80’s.

The “extra e is for extra pee” 970-PEEE phone sex line commercial from NYC cable access in the 90’s.

My patience with anything

The "extra pee" belonged to Robin Byrd. Until now, I never realized that she was in fact a movie star: *Debbie Does Dallas* !!

Lawn darts

Robin Byrd made small fortune from those telephone sex chat or hook-up lines. Many were advertised during her show on public access television. They were also heavily advertised in gay media like HX, Next and other print. .

Sadly for Ms. Byrd and others arrival of personal computers, the internet and online chat rooms began to cut into telephone sex chat/hook-up line business. Soon the latter were all pretty much made redundant.

Who’s the nutjob going on about carbolic soap?

Who gives a fuck? Just STFU already and learn about the articles “the” and “a.”