What is something from your youth

[Hard_Rom]

Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42

 

[KingOrfeo]

Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42

Unfortunately, no one knows exactly what the question is.

 

[Hard_Rom]

The Goon Show!

 

[KingOrfeo]

The best part was when the fat man barfed.

But I want to know what's the meaning of life?

The Meaning of Life:

Life is a characteristic distinguishing physical entities having biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The best part was when the fat man barfed.

But I want to know what's the meaning of life?

Well, it's nothing very special. Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. And, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which it seems is the only way these days to get the jaded, video-sated public off their fucking arses and back in the sodding cinema. Family entertainment? Bollocks. What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats. Where's the fun in pictures? Oh, well, there we are. Here's the theme music. Goodnight.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Sadly KingO you are correct.


When we were young we didn't care what the meaning of life was. We planned on living forever.
We even walked down RR tracks, crossed RR bridges when trains were coming, only to jump in the river just in time.
We wore shoes with holes in the bottom and put cardboard in them to keep our feet clean.
We played spin the bottle with the neighborhood big girls and always lost. Each time we lost we had to remove an article of clothes. Down to our undies we had to go into the doghouse with girls in under panties.
We went skinny dipping in the local gravel pit.

 

[Christobal]

When the only place you could get a phone was from the phone company. I'm not talking about mobile phones. I also remember when a touch tone phone was considered a luxury and you had pay extra for that.

 

[rocket_surgery]

When the only place you could get a phone was from the phone company. I'm not talking about mobile phones. I also remember when a touch tone phone was considered a luxury and you had pay extra for that.

I remember going to the ATT store with my mom to get a new phone. I thought it was amazing because they had a Mickey Mouse phone and all kinds of odd phones I had never seen before.
We got a regular old phone tho.

Of course this was soon after the guys came to our house to install "jacks." I remember thinking some guy named Jack was going to come over.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Remember when there was only one phone company, and you could always get an operator to help you to place a local or long-distance call just by dialing zero?

 

[rocket_surgery]

Remember when there was only one phone company, and you could always get an operator to help you to place a local or long-distance call just by dialing zero?

We had a party line. That was fun.

 

[KingOrfeo]

John Wilkes Booth got into Lincoln's theater box by presenting his visiting card to the soldier on duty, who let him in without searching him for weapons.

The results were unfortunate, but the story still makes one pine for the days when security in general was much more relaxed.

 

[renard_ruse]

Walking to school.

 

[renard_ruse]

...When we were young we didn't care what the meaning of life was...

I did. I obsessed over it and even made up my own religion to explain it.

Now I don't even know what the point is anymore and have stopped worrying about it.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

John Wilkes Booth got into Lincoln's theater box by presenting his visiting card to the soldier on duty, who let him in without searching him for weapons.

The results were unfortunate, but the story still makes one pine for the days when security in general was much more relaxed.

Wrong again.

John Frederick Parker, Lincoln's lone bodyguard that evening, was not at his post just outside Lincoln's box at the moment of assassination. Booth may have gained access to Ford's theater by presenting credentials or merely upon recognition. He was an accomplished actor, after all. But he was most certainly NOT admitted to the President's box "by the soldier on duty."

Booth had bored a small spyhole into the door to the box earlier.

Parker was actually charged with neglect of duty and tried on May 3, 1865 but no transcripts of the case were kept. The complaint was dismissed on June 2, 1865.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Parker

 

[magicalmoments]

Television only arrived in NZ in the early 60's. We used to sit around the radio listening to the latest dramas and comedy shows, and music of course. Also reel to reel tape recorders.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

The day's lead news story on my 14th birthday.

http://stateofthenation2012.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lee-Harvey-Oswald-main-624x475.jpg

 

[Wrong Element]

Television only arrived in NZ in the early 60's. We used to sit around the radio listening to the latest dramas and comedy shows, and music of course. Also reel to reel tape recorders.

I was living on an overseas military base during my first couple of years of school. TV was pretty limited -- just a few hours at night and a little more on the weekends. So for at least a couple of years, I had the proverbial "use your imagination/play outside 12 hours a day" childhood that was already disappearing 50 years ago.

When my grandfather was born, man had yet to fly.

By the time he died, we put a man on the moon.

One small step...,

My grandfather was born as one of Queen Victoria's subjects. He was Irish.

 

[Wok]

A crystal radio. Those were a wonder to behold as a little kid.

 

[doowdniw]

Attaching baseball cards onto our bikes so they would flap n the spokes as the wheels turned. If I could have back all the cards I destroyed that way, they'd be worth a tidy sum.

Traveling transatlantic by ship as a regular means of transportation (not a cruise as we know them today).

Traveling transatlantic by plane and being invited to meet the flight officers in the cockpit during mid-flight. (B.O.A.C.) It may have helped that my grandfather was the original chief aeronautical engineer for Imperial Airways when it was formed in 1924.

 

[magicalmoments]

Interesting

We did not worry about that, but one of my earliest memories was of the JFK assassination.

And we can only hope that some of today's littlies will have Trump's assassination as one of their earliest memories.

 

[Hard_Rom]

When Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet was cutting edge with Supermarionation. Joe 90 was my favourite as it was the newest series. We had all the Thunderbird vehicles and Captain Scarlet's Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle.

GI Joe was 11" tall. In England he was Action Man and had no beard but the same facial scar.

None of our toys made it over as we only had three steamer trunks to pack family belongings.

Steamer trunks were practical things to own. Still have one of them.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wrong again.

John Frederick Parker, Lincoln's lone bodyguard that evening, was not at his post just outside Lincoln's box at the moment of assassination. Booth may have gained access to Ford's theater by presenting credentials or merely upon recognition. He was an accomplished actor, after all. But he was most certainly NOT admitted to the President's box "by the soldier on duty."

Booth had bored a small spyhole into the door to the box earlier.

Parker was actually charged with neglect of duty and tried on May 3, 1865 but no transcripts of the case were kept. The complaint was dismissed on June 2, 1865.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Parker

I knew you were old, but geeeeeze...



I don't even remember Ike.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The day's lead news story on my 140th birthday.

http://stateofthenation2012.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lee-Harvey-Oswald-main-624x475.jpg

I owed you that one!

 

[oggbashan]

A crystal radio. Those were a wonder to behold as a little kid.

At my boarding school we weren't allowed radios. We used to build our own crystal radio sets and run the aerial around the picture rail of the dormitory. We had ex-army signaller headphones which were the most difficult part to hide from the masters.

In 1960 my parents bought me a ten-transistor radio in Aden (Yemen). Aden was a duty-free port so it only cost six pounds - about a week's wages for a worker at that time.

My cousin had a 'portable' radio that she used to carry in the large front basket of her bicycle. It weighted about 20 pounds. I had to climb trees to sling the 100 foot long aerial so she could get Radio Luxembourg.

 

[oggbashan]

Attaching baseball cards onto our bikes so they would flap n the spokes as the wheels turned. If I could have back all the cards I destroyed that way, they'd be worth a tidy sum.

Traveling transatlantic by ship as a regular means of transportation (not a cruise as we know them today).

Traveling transatlantic by plane and being invited to meet the flight officers in the cockpit during mid-flight. (B.O.A.C.) It may have helped that my grandfather was the original chief aeronautical engineer for Imperial Airways when it was formed in 1924.

I travelled from England to Australia on a liner (First Class with a cabin to myself) and back (ditto) two years later. The cost of a one-way journey was about that of a new mid-range automobile.