Quoted from vid1900:You Know You Are Old When. . . You know what's going on here.
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Thats not communion, it's just a satellite wafer. How high is that guy?
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Wichita, KS
Quoted from vid1900:You Know You Are Old When. . . You know what this is.
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I am old, but I have no clue of what this is.
Lou Gossett. 87 years old.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/entertainment/louis-gossett-jr-death/index.html
Quoted from cottonm4:Lou Gossett. 87 years old.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/entertainment/louis-gossett-jr-death/index.html
Aww man, great actor, my kids loved him in "Enemy Mine". RIP
Quoted from poppapin:Aww man, great actor, my kids loved him in "Enemy Mine". RIP
I liked him in an Officer and a Gentleman.
LTG : (
I know I am old. I used to do most of the work on my cars. I just had to have a radiator replaced in my Saturn wagon. It is BURIED inside under the hood. The flat rate labor was 4 hours at $100.00 per hour.
I said screw it and paid the shop to do the R&R. Once upon a time, there is no way I would pay $400.00 to change a radiator. But jacks and jack stands are not my cup of tea at age 71.
Alcona, ON
Quoted from LTG:I liked him in an Officer and a Gentleman.
LTG : (
Mayonnaise!!
Quoted from undrdog:My favorite car was my Saturn.
Quoted from DarthPaul:My Saturn was terrible in the snow.
I thought Saturns were supposed to run rings around other cars of that period.
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Quoted from littlecammi:I thought Saturns were supposed to run rings around other cars of that period.
My Saturn still runs rings around most cars of THIS period. Over 300 horsepower in my little two-seater...
Though I admit is isn't great in the snow - fortunately, we don't get much snow in Texas.
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Damm. I think I had that exact same tux!
Quoted from cottonm4:I know I am old. I used to do most of the work on my cars. I just had to have a radiator replaced in my Saturn wagon. It is BURIED inside under the hood. The flat rate labor was 4 hours at $100.00 per hour.
I said screw it and paid the shop to do the R&R. Once upon a time, there is no way I would pay $400.00 to change a radiator. But jacks and jack stands are not my cup of tea at age 71.
I haven't changed my own oil in 25 years. I've been lucky to have several friends and relatives that are mechanics. My best friend has a heated barn with a full size commercial hoist that makes it super easy to do brake jobs or anything underneath the car that would be damn near impossible at my own house, and all it costs is a case of beer and lunch, plus we have a few laughs and listen to some heavy metal.
Quoted from cottonm4:But jacks and jack stands are not my cup of tea at age 71.
A friend that passed away in the 1980's. Was detailing his Mustangs engine bay, he would of been in his late 70's. While he as bent over, his back locked up, called the ambulance, he was very sore for many days after that.
Quoted from undrdog:Also, Saturn Wagon.
I love my Saturn wagon. It is the LW-300 wagon with the V-6 engine. It brought home Big Game, Seawitch, Nine Ball, Catacomb, Game Plan Captain Hook, a blown out Dracula cab that became a Star Gazer. It took two pins to TPF.
Good highway car. It will get on the highway and cruise at 90mph all day long. At 65mph, it will get 27 miles per gallon.
But the engine is not the easiest to work on. And I miss the low end torque a V-8 engine provides.
Quoted from mbeardsley:My Saturn still runs rings around most cars of THIS period. Over 300 horsepower in my little two-seater...
Though I admit is isn't great in the snow - fortunately, we don't get much snow in Texas.
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The Saturn Sky is so much prettier then the Pontiac Solstice.
Quoted from o-din:Where do you get parts for a Saturn?
Uranus!
Sometimes it is like pulling them out of ...
All jest aside, from age 16 on I spent a lot of time in salvage yards. I feel right at home.
I don’t remember the model of my Saturn. It was midnight blue with leather seats and 5 speed manual. Loved that car.
Would like to make some soap. Really simple chemical process and so beneficial, especially if it's unavailable from the usual places.
Currently studying the process and there really isn't any major secrets.
Basic soap products do require a scent for the refined nose.
People expect soap and shampoo to smell like something fresh.
Have a collection of Old Spice, original Shulton produced, after shave, cologne, Original and Burly.
Once I get a good soap recipe these bottles are in danger of being dumped for fragrance.
We will see how it goes.
Quoted from phil-lee:Would like to make some soap. Really simple chemical process and so beneficial, especially if it's unavailable from the usual places.
Currently studying the process and there really isn't any major secrets.
Basic soap products do require a scent for the refined nose.
People expect soap and shampoo to smell like something fresh.
Have a collection of Old Spice, original Shulton produced, after shave, cologne, Original and Burly.
Once I get a good soap recipe these bottles are in danger of being dumped for fragrance.
We will see how it goes.
Its a rewarding process. We made it from pig lard, in school, when I was fifteen or so.
Quoted from o-din:Where do you get parts for a Saturn
Uranus!
no, send it to Mallet Cars, they will swap out the 4-banger with a Corvette LS engine. 
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On the other hand, have you seen Spicoli lately?
(OK, so he's still git hair and muscle)
Superpower_(2023)-60523_(cropped) (resized).jpgQuoted from swampfire:Shirley Jones is 90 today. C’mon, get happy!
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90 and no wrinkles. 
Quoted from poppapin:90 and no wrinkles.
Botox.
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My Favorite Martian!
If you really want to feel old, think about the last time you bought a stack of blank VHS tapes. Think back to setting the VCR to record that spicy NC-17 movie at 3am on Skinamax. And how pissed off you got when the VCR would miss the first or last 10 minutes of a blockbuster movie.
... you've gone back to driving without wearing your seat belt because now that annoying warning chime is beyond your range of hearing.
Sana'a
Quoted from undrdog:Too bad vhs won the day.
They always said that Sony didn't want porn on Betamax, but VHS welcomed it with open legs.
In bulk, VHS blanks were a lot cheaper, so the Adult Industry probably would have chosen it anyway.
classic
Quoted from cottonm4:"why worry about it today if it can wait until tomorrow."
Or next year if God willing, I live that long.
Quoted from vid1900:They always said that Sony didn't want porn on Betamax, but VHS welcomed it with open legs.
In bulk, VHS blanks were a lot cheaper, so the Adult Industry probably would have chosen it anyway.
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Considering that in the early days of internet surfing and the software people were trying to figure out what worked, E.G. cascading pages, the software people tried out their software with the porn site people. The logic: People hunting for their porn were a lot more determined and more forgiving if there were page loading problems.
In short, the porn sites and the people who went there were internet software beta testers. Porn has that "sticky" quality that keeps people from leaving.
VHS: An amazing industry that lasted for 50-60 years. In the early days it was mom-n-pop who opened up video stores. We have come a long way from renting both the VHS tape as well player needed to watch the VHS, to owning our own VHS player to Blockbuster, to DVD, to online viewing postage stamp sized videos, to Netflix and YouTube and streaming on an 85" TV screen.
I read something a long time ago. Sort of one of those Confucius sayings. If you don't know who Confucius is/was then you are a young pup.
It goes like this.
1) A man is a young man when a woman can make him happy or sad.
2) A man is middle age when a woman can make him happy but not sad.
and
3) A man is an old man when a woman cannot make him happy and cannot make him sad.
I have lived through all three scenes. And I am of the opinion that living with the #3 scene is about as close to Nirvana as one can get.
To really appreciate #3 one has to have experienced living with the sad side of #1.
" Nirvana is a place of perfect peace and happiness, like heaven. In Buddhism, nirvana is the highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person's individual desires and suffering go away."
Quoted from cottonm4:I read something a long time ago. Sort of one of those Confucius sayings. If you don't know who Confucius is/was then you are a young pup.
It goes like this.
1) A man is a young man when a woman can make him happy or sad.
2) A man is middle age when a woman can make him happy but not sad.
and
3) A man is an old man when a woman cannot make him happy and cannot make him sad.
Well I hope I never become #3 though at 59 I'm not sure I'm still middle aged.
Divorce was final last year and I smile every day when I get home and see my new girlfriend.
Quoted from pinzrfun:Well I hope I never become #3 though at 59 I'm not sure I'm still middle aged.
Divorce was final last year and I smile every day when I get home and see my new girlfriend.
You will know when you have reached the #3 stage. At 59 I was still in the #2 phase. I am 71. I did not reach this #3 stage until a year or so ago.
You are 59. Enjoy the time with your girlfriend.
Quoted from bob_e:You bought gas for this price, and no unleaded fuels
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And by the end of the decade it was $.40 a gallon. Now, that's inflation!
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