How DID We Survive?- Page 99

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 8:50am

Bboobs!

How was DRS????

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 9:50am

heck remember when we only had corded phones? None of this walking around the house with a phone....you had to actually SIT and talk.......
It's amazing what we have now.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:14am

Yeah and you had to dial the phones. It took hours. It really sucked when you messed up a number and had to start over. And if the other person was already on the phone, their second line or call waiting line didn't ring. You got a busy signal and then had to start the manual dialing all over again. Could be minutes, could be hours. You had no way of knowing. Then once you finally got off the phone, you had to get up off the couch to turn on the tv and choose one of three channels.

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:19am

Did anyone ever get selected by your teacher to make the "ditto" copies on the memeograph machine?

Did anyone else get "high" on the fumes from the ditto ink while running those copies?

This is what comes from being laid up at home with a sprained foot, and unable to walk today. OUCH!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:20am

rath, you summed it up well. I can still hear the sound after you dialed, and the "dialer" moved back into the correct position........after each number........
Why does this remind me of my father telling me how many miles he walked to school in the snow? Of course what I didn't realize until years later was he walked on plowed streets...lol

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:22am

Anyone else have the mother who'd be screaming at you until the phone rang, at which point she turned back into Susie Sunshine? "Hellooooo?"

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:22am

Jose - I worked in the theatre box office in college and even then we used a "ditto" machine. Definitely a "sense memory" recollection moment recalling that distinct odor.

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:28am

Rolling the drum around

aaaaah.

The other day I had to describe to someone what it was like to type on a Royal manual typewriter (breaking fingers nails or having your fingers land between keys.) And throwing the carriage back instead of hitting return. I remember being so excited to use the IBM Selectrics in typing class with the autoreturn and the little ball that went back and forth.

The sound of typing class in full swing...

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:29am

oh God, and how bout when a key would keep sticking and you'd have 15 "t's" or 15 question marks.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:31am

Remember when the new electric typewriters came out with "auto-correct"? That was like a dream come true...

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:32am

Phones...

We had a party line for a while when I was growing up. You'd pick up the phone and hear another person's conversation.

Or, you'd be in the middle of talking to someone and hear another person click on and off indicating someone else wanted to use the line.

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:35am

Remember the envy created by your co-worker, you know, the one who could master "White-Out."

Every document s/he produced was free of globs of that white stuff, and corrections, if there were any, were invisible to the eye.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:35am

Beacon - I thought about party lines this morning. We did not have one, but our neighbors had one.

My nine year old daughter's friend has her own cell phone!!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 10:58am

I loved auto-correct...I'd make mistakes just to correct them.....

[ElTico68]

Posted: 3/11/05 at 2:44pm

he he... this reminds me of a now dated joke (sorry to all you blondes, natural and *natural*)

How do you know the blonde's been at the computer?


There's white out on the screen.


I'm not so sure kids these days would get it.

[mominator]

Posted: 3/12/05 at 8:36am

Morning folks! Do we all remember when phones came in only ONE color, and those fany trim line ones cost a bundle?
Saw Spamalot last night (so, so SO FUNNY!!) Met up with BB,bongoboy,iflit, popcultureboy, and one other personn whose name is escaping me at the moment. (Sorry!)
Ended up that our tickets were right in front of addy and Undi's!
Today it is Julius Ceasar (Denzel in a toga YUM!!)
Take care all and have a great Saturday!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/12/05 at 8:55am

phones were always black....then I think they added beige? And thise princess things? UGH......I hated my sister when she got a princess phone....HATED HER.......when I asked why she got her own phone, I got the stock answer....because she's a girl....ARRGH........ok, time to let it go.......heh heh

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 3/12/05 at 11:06am

'morning everyone! Where are the DRS and Spamalot reviews??

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/12/05 at 11:10am

Hi all, rehearsal this afternoon and then laundry and R E S T!

[shira467]

Posted: 3/12/05 at 1:50pm

El, I get it! I'm blonde, and considered "too young to get it" As for the typewriter....yeah, I don't remember them at all.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 3/12/05 at 9:28pm

Hmm. Boobs must still be recovering from last night. Haven't seen him around here today.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/13/05 at 9:49am

Hey all !!! Sorry I wasn't around yesterday, but was running around all day. Can't wait tonight for Andrea !!!!
DRS is hysterical !!! Norbert Leo Butz gave the most hysterical performance I've seen in a long time. They also do a song about OKLAHOMA that I think was one of the funniest songs I've seen performed on a stage. Bongo and me couldn't stop laughing..and that was after an exhausting day at work. The entire cast was very talentd. It was wonderful seeing Sherrie Rene Scott back on stage again..it's been awhile since seeing her in AIDA....just love her !!!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:21pm

You know mom doesn't love you anymore when she doesn't mention you at all...

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:23pm

Cookie - I wondered who it was -and now I know.

What a fun weekend for all in NYC.

[ElTico68]

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:31pm

I totally look forward to the day when I can go out with you all...