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oldskool posted:there's a physical lock on the driver's door under a fascia of some sort Yeah, but no one is going to be prying off the fascia of their door handle purely for the convenience of leaving the fob inside.
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wesleywillis posted:No.
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# ? Sep 18, 2020 15:31 |
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Not disputing your personal experiences but mine are 'round' key door and trunk, 'square' key ignition. These were Ford's and gm if that makes a difference.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 00:13 |
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Almost all GM-built vehicles up to the mid-Nineties-ish used a round key for trunk/doors and a square key for the ignition. Source: I’m a mechanic and have had to deal with approximately three zillion car keys, plus I owned several mid-Nineties GM products, God help me.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 03:03 |
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JnnyThndrs posted:Almost all GM-built vehicles up to the mid-Nineties-ish used a round key for trunk/doors and a square key for the ignition. I will be dogged. Thanks for the info. Wow, I bet that was annoying on a winter's day.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I will be dogged. Thanks for the info. Wow, I bet that was annoying on a winter's day. You just kinda get used to it, even half-asleep with gloves on, muscle memory grabs the correct key 90% of the time. I’m kind of ambivalent about the proliferation of gadgetry in cars(mostly because I have to fix them), but power locks/remote key fobs are a wonderful thing.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 15:26 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I will be dogged. Thanks for the info. Wow, I bet that was annoying on a winter's day. Or when you're being chased by an axe-wielding undead maniac The Ford keys IIRC were the "round" key was more oval shaped cause Ford blue oval while the "square" key was more of a six sided, type shape. GM products were more rectangular and slightly oblong circle. I forget what my grandad's Chrysler Lebaron's (the car that talked to you!!) keys looked like. I think the the Ignition key was Pentagram shaped. Don't remember the door key though.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 15:56 |
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wesleywillis posted:the Ignition key was Pentagram shaped Either you meant "pentagon" or that poo poo was loving wild.
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 00:14 |
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Hell on Wheels.
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 00:50 |
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Aw gently caress. Yeah pentagon. He had enough crosses in his car though, Italian Catholic and all that
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 03:13 |
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O no, word up. The image of this rocking heavy metal pentagram key that would totally rip your pockets apart amused me a lot. Typos happen to everyone and that one was just really funny.
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 03:17 |
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Necro-ing this thread because I was just so chagrined about figuring this out, and feeling old. We have 2 new hires at the restaurant I work at. One is a really good, hard worker. The other spends way too much time gabbing, lazing about, constantly asking for cigarette breaks. The shift lead (who is 20) mentioned that he was gonna cut* them both around 1:00 pm, so around 12:50 I (who am 46) asked, "Hey, can I get a smoke in real quick before we cut Goofus and Gallant?" "What did you call them?" "Goofus and Gallant." [blank stare] "Y'know, from Highlights For Children?" [more blank stare] *"cut" means they're getting off the clock because our labor costs are too high, so we need to get people off the clock and out of there
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# ? Nov 18, 2020 23:33 |
If it's any consolation, I'm 32 and know exactly what you're talking about! But Highlights was definitely a niche thing, I dunno how many of my age peers got it.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 02:09 |
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I think you'll find that Goofus and Gallant were also in Boy's Life, which every Boy Scout got. So what I'm saying is that all the coolest kids know about them.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 02:13 |
Highlights For Children, including Goofus and Gallant, is still going. Magazines in general just aren't as common as they once were.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 02:20 |
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Gnoman posted:Highlights For Children, including Goofus and Gallant, is still going. Magazines in general just aren't as common as they once were. I am older than Olduvai dirt, but I saw Highlights for Children only at dentists' and doctors' offices. Maybe doctors and dentists have wised up?
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 03:50 |
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We got the same sample issue every single year in elementary school
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 04:06 |
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I went to pick up my friend's guitar from a luthier. When I went to pay for it, the luthier asked his apprentice to take my money and do the receipt because he had to attend to someone else and handed him a carbon duplicate receipt book and pen. This kid opens the book up grabs the carbon copy sheet and goes "woah, what the hell is this?". I had to coach him through the whole process. "Hey buddy, don't rip the receipt out, keep it in the book when you write on it and it'll transfer onto another copy" "Wait, you have to put the thicker cardboard bit behind the yellow receipt" "That's it, but put the coloured flap between the white and yellow receipts as well, that's what makes it transfer" "No, no, no, wait. Write on the white receipt not the yellow one". "No you don't have to write another one, it'll be copied onto the yellow receipt". When he sees that writing copied onto the duplicate receipt he goes "oh, I GET IT NOW!'
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Pocket Billiards posted:I went to pick up my friend's guitar from a luthier. When I went to pay for it, the luthier asked his apprentice to take my money and do the receipt because he had to attend to someone else and handed him a carbon duplicate receipt book and pen. It's like CTRL-A CTRL-C CTRL-V in one step!
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Ynglaur posted:It's like CTRL-A CTRL-C CTRL-V in one step! You mean that thing where you drag your finger over some text, then hold your finger down for the popup with the "copy" option, then paste it somewhere else by pushing the appropriate thingies on the touch screen? (Seriously I've seen threads on these forums from school teachers about high school kids literally "typing" essays on their phones because that's the only computer they have.)
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 12:24 |
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I haven't seen a receipt like that in probably 10+ years, so I sympathise with the apprentice.
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 13:12 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am older than Olduvai dirt, but I saw Highlights for Children only at dentists' and doctors' offices. Same.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am older than Olduvai dirt, but I saw Highlights for Children only at dentists' and doctors' offices. Maybe doctors and dentists have wised up? I had a subscription for a few years. Goofus and Gallant were by far the best part of it.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 05:37 |
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I always felt sorry for Goofus and hated Gallant's stinking guts.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 06:17 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am older than Olduvai dirt, but I saw Highlights for Children only at dentists' and doctors' offices. Maybe doctors and dentists have wised up? Yeah, that's where I mostly encountered them too. In fact, when I asked my boss (who's 60-ish), "YOU know who Goofus and Gallant are, right?" she said "Yeah! They were in that magazine in every doctor's office!" My first job was shelving children's books at the public library, and they carried it, too. Anytime I had to put an issue back on the shelf I couldn't resist sneaking a peek at what those two were up to this month. Jeza posted:I haven't seen a receipt like that in probably 10+ years, so I sympathise with the apprentice. I owned a shop in a flea market just a few years ago, and a lot of the vendors still used them. Even if you had an inside booth like I did, with electricity, it was safer than having a laptop/iPad sitting around --- which might get stolen --- to keep track of your transactions. Even when I got a Square reader for my phone so I wasn't cash-only, that doesn't really keep track of what they bought, so I rocked the old school carbon receipt pads.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am older than Olduvai dirt, but I saw Highlights for Children only at dentists' and doctors' offices. Maybe doctors and dentists have wised up? if you know any people with young kids, subscribe them to highlights. kids love it for the dual reasons of "activity book with coloring" and "something came in the mail, for me?!?" we get highlights as a gift from now-deceased grandma and it's popular with the child. a good diversion for an hour or so that's not youtube
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:38 |
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Why has Disney Adventures not gotten lots of nostalgia attention??
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 05:21 |
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Good question. I had subscriptions to both it and Highlights for Children for much of my childhood.
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 13:56 |
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Back when I was a kid, Highlights was printed on such cheap paper stock that you could 'erase' print using a pencil eraser. Fast forward to all us erasing everyone's eyeballs so they looked like zombies. I must have spent all my time doing that and not reading the magazine because I have no memory of Goofus and Gallant.
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 15:02 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I owned a shop in a flea market just a few years ago, and a lot of the vendors still used them. Even if you had an inside booth like I did, with electricity, it was safer than having a laptop/iPad sitting around --- which might get stolen --- to keep track of your transactions. Even when I got a Square reader for my phone so I wasn't cash-only, that doesn't really keep track of what they bought, so I rocked the old school carbon receipt pads. Sporting organisations too. You have volunteers taking cash money for uniforms, memberships, donations, entrance fees, etc and you need to maintain fully audited financial records as a condition of the grants/subsidies you receive from state government.
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Jeza posted:The "I could buy this shop and everyone in it" vibe will be lost to history.
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# ? Dec 21, 2020 10:34 |
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Here's a reference lost in modern viewers in modern media - but I didn't realize that Eyewitness News refers to a difference in news broadcasting. It refers to how there's a focus on footage from the scene rather than having someone in the studio just read the news to you. Growing up, it literally meant nothing to me. It was just the name of the news on channel 7, but nope, it's an actual format that came from the rise of portable video recorders.
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# ? Dec 25, 2020 00:42 |
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See also "Film at 11", meaning that right now we're telling you about it, but we'll have actual footage after we've had time to print and edit it.
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# ? Dec 25, 2020 03:11 |
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poo poo. I always thought that meant the movie running at 11. Like it was some joke about tv movies. My mind is being blown, and I love it.
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# ? Dec 25, 2020 04:03 |
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television news being anything other than putting facebook comments, tweets, and viral youtubes on screen they used to do journalism!
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# ? Dec 25, 2020 17:18 |
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I just watched Broken Flowers where Bill Murray travels all around the USA, navigating with a big stack of Mapquest printouts. It's only from 2005!
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# ? Dec 27, 2020 23:30 |
Quite a few of the lesfic roadtrip books I've been reading lately have the characters using maps instead of GPS. Then again, books might be lost on modern audiences.
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# ? Dec 28, 2020 15:28 |
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I went on a roadtrip this summer and we used a map a bunch. Partly because the gps gets very confused about Icelandic backroads and if it notices them at all it thinks they're a few meters in my away from where they are. Not sure why this is.
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# ? Dec 28, 2020 15:33 |
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My father used to have those roadmap books made for specific cities that were an inch thick and mapped everything down to the neighborhood level. Those were awesome. To which my kid would probably ask, "don't all maps zoom to the neighborhood level?"
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Krispy Wafer posted:My father used to have those roadmap books made for specific cities that were an inch thick and mapped everything down to the neighborhood level. Those were awesome. Hagstrom?
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