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1. about 2 months ago on The Born Loser

   My first car was a 1976 Oldsmobile Starfire that was a cream color (the true color of “dirt” in the west), and it would just get a bit “darker”, until I got around to washing it. :-)

2. 2 months ago on Peanuts Begins

   I seem to remember it being September 8th in Denver and Albuquerque, when in grade school 1st to 12th. was born in 1957, so first grade 1963. And then I heard that they start making it earlier and earlier sometime after I got out of high school (I was in the last Junior High class 9th, before it changed to “middle school”). Pre-school (not everyone even did this), “play together”, “Kindergarten”, not much more than that. And now from what I gather Kindergarten is more like what would have been first grade, when I went to school. So, basically, now 13 years, plus longer school years. So, can someone tell me why the kids leaving high school don’t know more than we did when we left high school?

3. 3 months ago on Broom Hilda

   More likely China or Russia.

4. 3 months ago on Broom Hilda

   Recently I saw an article where a guy hacked the scammers, because his wife “Inadvertently gave them her credit card number.” This was by text. “USPS has a package for you, but we couldn’t deliver it, please contact us at this number: XXXX”. He found that they were sending out about 100,000 text a day, and their database had the information of hundreds of thousands of people, that this had worked on.

5. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   The opening of Disney World was “after my childhood” so I was curious of exactly when it opened (Oct. 1, 1971).

6. 3 months ago on B.C.

   I would be more impressed with the ant that only had a part of a bottle cap.

7. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   I think you have to specify which “city” you are talking about. They certainly aren’t all the same.

8. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   I agree. I remember a TV campaign (targeting kids), where there were 4 types of people. The ones that threw the trash on the ground, the ones that didn’t, but didn’t pick it up, then the ones that would pick it up if it was in their path, and finally the people that would go out of their way to pick it up. They were of course trying to get the kids to be in the last group. But it always hit me that if we could eliminate the first group, then none of the rest of the groups would have to pick up after anyone else. In the world we hear from the minority because they are the most vocal, and the same goes for this, I think.

9. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   I remember that, and they then put up the signs $1000 if they got caught, and the “adopt a highway” helped a lot. I still see those signs around from time to time. Interesting enough the $1000 has never changed, even after all these years.

10. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

    We decided to go to Eastridge yesterday. And I would say they are doing much better than OK. Was surprised to see they had a JC Penny, I thought those were gone around here long ago. Also has a Macy’s. nice and clean, and not “dated looking”. There was only one store front that was empty, and that one had “Coming Soon” sign for a popular drink place! Lots of people walking around. A pretty new movie theater, an arcades place seemed poplar, good food court and a couple of restraints. They had a sign up that their 50th anniversary was in 2021.