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Cash or Card ? Why should we pay cash everywhere with banknotes instead of a card ? - I have a $50 banknote in my pocket. Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry. The laundry owner then uses the bill to pay the barber...

Power issues

1968 - TV The casts of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, PETTIOCOAT JUNCTION & GREEN ACRES (all created and produced by Paul Henning) posing at Thanksgiving dinner, 1968. (In an episode where the Clampetts go to Hooterville for Thanksgiving). I think that's Jethro on the left in the gladiator outfit...

Go Fund Me, back in the day When your finished, use the tommy axe and cut the edges

LEST WE FORGET Remembrance Day tradition Why is this day special to Australians? At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them...

Tupperware - remember making ice poles for the kids?

Lesser Known Knights

End of an era

old style Hokey Pokey

Number 24 is good PUNS FOR EDUCATED MINDS 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye-doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian . 3. She was only a whisky-maker, but...

Geneology / Family Trees / Facebook Groups Since I retired 2 years ago I have been at first dabbling in creating my family tree, now building momentum as a few things start to fall together. A prompt in Ancestry showed me that my Aunt had passed away 6 years ago. I remember attending her...

Paypackets Wow, this image in todays newsletter brought back a lot of memories. Back in the day 1970's I was a bank teller for the CBC, over the years I made up thousands of these pay-packets. One set that comes vividly to mind was when a large concrete pour was going on and we had over 200...

1970’s

Pesky phone calls

Always read the brochure

Lefty or Righty My brother ( now passed ) was a lefty......many of his tools were specific for left handed use, but a screwdriver, well I must call bull$$it on this. Just crazy marketing for dummies. The tool would work in either hand. Have you seen other examples of marketing that is just...

No Instruction Book ++ "When a hobo told Andy he should just let Opie "decide for himself" how he wanted to live… Andy had these words of wisdom. "No, I'm afraid it don't work that way. You can't let a young’n decide for himself. He'll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it...

Kids in cars The cars were tanks, the speed limit was 50 mph and every other driver wasn't playing with their phone while driving. Cars back then were heavier and didn't fold up like a tin can. Still amazed we survived!

McDonald’s drive-through I know I shouldn’t have done this, but I am 66 years old and I was in the McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the young lady behind me leaned on her horn and started mouthing something because I was taking too long to place my order. So when I got to the first...