David Ab Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 You may no longer be a youngster if you know how to do anything without using a computer. you may not be a youngster if you remember the good old days when you could deal with crooked politicians by tarring and feathering them, tying them to an inner tube, and setting them adrift in the river. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old N Rusty Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 You remember working with large pieces of paper that were blue with white lines on them, and called blueprints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wshelley Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 You remember working with large pieces of paper that were blue with white lines on them, and called blueprints. How about the nice amonia smell of the developer when making blueprints from the velum originals. Mmmm, fresh blueprints Ward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I've made a heap of rotolight copies of drilling logs in my mudlogging unit using a leroi lettering set to write them too. I wasn't born out of my time---if it wasn't for modern medicine I'd have probably died several times by now! (first time at 2!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 If you know how to use a slide rule and used log books in math at school ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryM Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 You may no longer be a youngster if: You watch them tearing down school, and college buildings, that you watched being built when you were young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old N Rusty Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Ward was you the kid sniffing the mimeograff test papers in school? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Ward was you the kid sniffing the mimeograff test papers in school? It may have been me Danny, but sadly I can't remember. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urnesBeast Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 You attended a red, one room school house. One teacher, Kindergarten - 6th grade. But I am not that old, just lucky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old N Rusty Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 When the Grainger catalog is your preferred bathroom reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 When your dream car was a 1962 Studebaker Hawk with 289 c.i. engine with four barreled carb & Paxton supercharger, four speed transmission with overdrive! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 My best buddy had one of those we cruised in, around 1966......Hot Stuff.......B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference. Author unkown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old N Rusty Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 You remember "GREEN STAMPS". Mom saved books of them, lots of books, filled with stamps she got at the grocery. Traded them at the green stamp store for a ...toaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man? Heh heh heh. The Shadow does!" I tell people when I use my ol' post hole digger that I've earned my PhD. When you mention Gary Cooper or Cary Grant, you get vacuous stares from everyone. I have a chain hoist that I use. We call it a "chain fall." One childhood chore was to go down the basement and shake the clean-out grate of the big coal furnace; then, shovel the clinker and ash into a hod for disposal. Playing marbles after school till you almost missed supper. Using a two man saw with my dad. He would yell "Pull, don't push!" Having a "Victory Garden," using food and gasoline ration stamps, and contributing to an iron scrap pile for "The War Effort" during WW II. Snapped the chalk lines and squared up logs by scoring with a felling axe and finishing with a broad axe. When kerosene was called coal oil and a scriber, a scratch awl. In an antique mall, it takes an inordinate amount of time to find the antiques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakedanvil - Grant Sarver Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 You may no longer be a youngster if: The oldest thing at an antique mall is YOU! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 You may no longer be a youngster if: A stone anvil was cutting edge technology. Your wife asks for new tires and you go look at your scrap pile. Replacing your "powerhammer" means seeing which of the neighborhood kids wants to earn some money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten Hammers Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I could type more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yves Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Realy got older when a young lady offered her seat in the subway. That's not so bad. You could survive, you could argue, maybe. However, I thanked her and sat down. And then I worried... And this happened a few years back... And I rode on an Indian motorbike, when it was new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaalamosmithing Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 I know I'm young because I'm the one being quizzed on what IS hanging up in Cracker Barrel...... My Grandfather who just passed recently said a good one that aged him. "Man I haven't seen a blacksmith work since I was a boy." He remembered the town smith for Eden, NC.... Thats a great story but i just have to ask is your family from Eden i lived in Camden near Elizabeth city not long ago, anyways just satisfying my curiosity. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 If you sustain petty injuries in the course of the day and don't pay much attention.....Then someone gasps, OMG, you're bleeding! How did you do that? I often reply truthfully....I don't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 You may no longer be a youngster if: You know why there are two blades on a double bit ax, what they are used for, and used them, Know the difference between a spade and a shovel. Have ever dug a 1/8 acre garden with a spading fork. Helped can vegetables from the garden because if you didn't there would be none during the winter. Wound the starter spring on the lawnmower with a hand crank. Had to cut a 1/4 acre with a weed whip because you didn't get it mowed before it got to tall. I have also done most of the other things mentioned previously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Scythe is much more effective than a weed whip and can deal with bigger weeds too! Of course I last used one on the lawn about 2 years ago; don't need to be very old for that! (and boy did I hate that hand crank lawn mower starter we had in the 1960's!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Didn't have a scythe:-( I also had to crawl under the house and dig trenches so the plumber could get inti the crawl space to run the pipes when we finally got and indoor bathroom. I was the only one small enough to fit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkrankow Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Scythe is much more effective than a weed whip and can deal with bigger weeds too! Of course I last used one on the lawn about 2 years ago; don't need to be very old for that! (and boy did I hate that hand crank lawn mower starter we had in the 1960's!) No joy on the lawn mower, but I have hand cranked an engine before, a diesel BMW 1 lung 6hp auxiliary on a sailboat I used to race on. It was "temperamental" which is short for "not serviced regularly" and one year we got very good at docking under sail. "Its a diesel, there is NOTHING to go wrong with it!" Right skipper, you still need to do PM on it at least annually. I am ordering a new scythe for spring. I use one for around the house and landscaping because it is quicker and more efficient that the gas weed whip, and I don't need hearing protection. It also allows me to get under plants and shrubs without risk of damage to the good plants. I want to see if the Austrian pattern scythes (probably a "ditch blade" for me) are in fact more efficient than American pattern blades... Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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