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UR20Z said:
Seems I recall hearing/reading that the stuff originated in the Oklahoma panhandle region?
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Oh I have no idea where that magical elixir of the globs originated.

UR20Z said:
Isn't it supposed to be real similar to Faygo's "Redpop"? (more or less a standard creme soda, with strawberry flavor added, and colored "vampire-bait red")
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Never had that type of Faygo but it does sound very similar to Big Red. However, Big Red also makes (or made because I can't find it anywhere) a little something called Big Blue which primarily was just the same shit in a different dress. But the dress was a pretty blue color so no complaints here lol

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UR20Z said:
Anytime I encounter someone eating those, or black licorice, I have to beat down the urge to ask 'em "Why not just grab a dog turd to snack on? It'll smell and taste better!"
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Omg I am with you on black licorice AND the gum. I can barely tolerate red licorice honestly. But black licorice, or black jelly beans, ughhhh. If you haven't had it before, you would definitely hate Absinthe because to me it tastes like you're drinking the essence of black licorice.
 
And all this started because, apparently, you youngsters never heard of Fruit Leather....which was one more way of storing big harvests in the nonrefridgerated days. The commercial version of Fruit Leather was the Fruit Rollup, which of course, added extra sugar and other junk to what was basically an organic product, just to turn a dime.

There are easy recipes online, using seasonal fruits. The amount of sugar can be varied to taste.
 
Ted Danson Machine said:
Oh I have no idea where that magical elixir of the globs originated.


Never had that type of Faygo but it does sound very similar to Big Red. However, Big Red also makes (or made because I can't find it anywhere) a little something called Big Blue which primarily was just the same shit in a different dress. But the dress was a pretty blue color so no complaints here lol

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Omg I am with you on black licorice AND the gum. I can barely tolerate red licorice honestly. But black licorice, or black jelly beans, ughhhh. If you haven't had it before, you would definitely hate Absinthe because to me it tastes like you're drinking the essence of black licorice.
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UR20Z said:
Perhaps not, but I do know what AIN'T good for me, and that's anything that smells/tastes of anything more than the barest, most minuscule trace of Anise or Fennel. (Unless I'm TRYING to induce vomiting, in which case, yeah, it's definitely the bee's knees)
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Say what you like, Licorice has followed humans since humans discovered it has medicinal uses, culinary uses, has value in trade, and probably value in keeping people with defective tastebuds from raiding my candy jar. Wonderful world, ain't it ?
 
Hot stuff in 1964....But typically Expensive Gilbert mfr. Instead we got a Lionel mfr Pikes Peak hillclimb relay set from Sears1964.we got a Pikes Peak relay race set instea .jpge037770022b125568f6ff0c2b3f393a4.jpg....there was a dead track area with a colored flag....the first car down bumped the second car of the team
( Mercedes 300 or Corvette) onto the live track to continue.
The team colors are switched in the photo....Mercedes was blue, Corvette was yellow.
In the Bond Set The Aston is chasing a 64 Mustang
 
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I think they called the concept "Escalation" back in 65
 

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When the craze was growing virtual marijuana after school, and comparing screenshots of our plants on MSN.
 
UR20Z said:
ROTFLMAO! Guess I wasn't "cool enough" - I didn't screw around with growing "virtual" marijuana - I grew the real thing :)
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Haha I was 13 when everyone started playing this...and why grow your own when you can just sly off your parent's plants :p
 
FloofyNewfie said:
Growing up I had the poor person version of this. Remember these? Can you believe that they STILL make them? I figured they would have stopped when the MP3 Player fad died out in the early 2010s.

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I stuck out with Mini-disc and skipped the cheap MP3 players until these came, I absolutely loved this phone even if it had a stupid headphone connector. It was my first phone with a decent camera too, I think it was 2MP and had a flash.
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Labraguy5 said:
I stuck out with Mini-disc and skipped the cheap MP3 players until these came, I absolutely loved this phone even if it had a stupid headphone connector. It was my first phone with a decent camera too, I think it was 2MP and had a flash.
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I've had many of those old cheapie stick style MP3 players growing up. They were so cheap that you'd often see people giving them out for free. Heck, I even got a U.S. Army flavored one at one point. I think I had to do 15-20 pushups to get it. Lol. They'd usually last for a year and then break.

However my first MP3 phone was the Nokia 6085. And for the time it was one hell of a device! This was back in the days when mobile companies made their own charger ends and there was absolutely no uniformity. To be able to use my own headphones you had to buy a special adapter that plugged into their proprietary charging port. I used it so much that one of the clips broke off of the headphone adapter, so I had to use a rubber band to keep the adapter from falling out of the charging port. I was sad when one day I went to plug it in and it did nothing. No power, no signs of life, nothing. It had a good 3-4 year run though.

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FloofyNewfie said:
However my first MP3 phone was the Nokia 6085. And for the time it was one hell of a device! This was back in the days when mobile companies made their own charger ends and there was absolutely no uniformity. To be able to use my own headphones you had to buy a special adapter that plugged into their proprietary charging port. I used it so much that one of the clips broke off of the headphone adapter, so I had to use a rubber band to keep the adapter from falling out of the charging port. I was sad when one day I went to plug it in and it did nothing. No power, no signs of life, nothing. It had a good 3-4 year run though.
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Nokia pretty much died out and never really came back here in the mid 2000s after Sony Ericsson launched and took over, I think my last Nokia was a 3310. I did hate those proprietary connectors, it was impossible to find a USB cable for them and the software to get them working with a PC. My first "camera" phone was a Sagem X7 and the only way I found to connect it to a PC was with an IR adaptor. And then once you'd messed about with all that, the photos were like 300x300 pixels. ....Actually no they weren't, I found some old photos I still have they were 120x160 pixels, like the size of a stamp :ROFLMAO:

That SE was actually the second phone I had that could play MP3, the one I had before was a Panasonic X700 which took a mini-SD card and could "play" MP3s on paper. But it ran on Symbian OS which crashed all the time and definitely didn't have a chance of playing music. I had to take the battery out so much to reboot it that the battery cover wore out and fell off all the time. Also it was impossible to find headphones for it, it did have bluetooth but the headsets cost a fortune back then....and probably wouldn't work anyway knowing that phone.

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Whyforhowcome there's a rubber ducky instead of the indian?!?!?

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Trivia: Prior to the "turn on" of color TV, *EVERYTHING* but the indian on that card (Except for the "Please Stand By" that somebody has supered onto it) had a specific purpose. It was used to align the image on the tube in several ways, and even served to test whether the modulation of the signal was correct (the black bars would cause ringing/buzzing/whining in the audio section if the modulation was off, as well as their primary purpose of being places to take measurements (with a pair of calipers held against the screen) that would indicate if the image was set to the correct width)

Any problems with the image due to poor alignment of the TV set would show up as measurable distortions in the various circles and lines, and which one was distorted which way would tell a good TV tech what sections of the circuitry driving the picture tube was out of adjustment, and even give an idea of "which way" (too high or low of a setting) it was off, and by how much.

Once color TV became a real thing, the indian, which previously had been little more than an afterthought (though it was sometimes used as a quick-n-dirty "looks OK, hand it back to the customer"/"looks like something's hosed, tag it for further evaluation" indicator) the indian's headdress tested the color-burst signal.

Even the grey background was part of the testing. When certain parts of the drive circuitry were on the fritz, the grey would flicker, become black (or as black as a TV screen can display), or just plain vanish entirely.

Which was why it came to be called "The Test Pattern".

And now you know...

The Rest of the Story!
 
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Spoon-sized Shredded Wheat around 1959....The character on the box was a spoonsitter. I had a red one. The Walking Robot was one of a number of walkers that were often cereal box premiumsFB_IMG_1689192188255.jpgFB_IMG_1689192182442.jpg
 
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