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572.1 | Is MOMCAT an 80's kinda system? | GWYNED::YUKONSEC | Cuddles Delight | Fri Dec 07 1990 11:57 | 7 |
| -d,
I think the timing of the system was delightful!
giggle (*8
E Grace
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572.2 | Oopsie to Upsie daisy | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Fri Dec 07 1990 12:23 | 8 |
| Readers,
Yes, -d was able to delete the original 572.0, even if he didn't
know it.
Then I replaced his replacement title.
Ann B.
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572.3 | and try to find _wool_ long-johns... | SA1794::CHARBONND | Fred was right - YABBADABBADOOO! | Fri Dec 07 1990 12:34 | 10 |
| I *want* to buy LP's and tape them to listen to in the car.
(Delete) CD's and phooey on buying casettes, I don't have a
dual cassete deck, so I can't make tapes the way I like them.
I don't want to buy more gear, I don't like walking into a
'record store' with no (unprintable) RECORDS!!
"Call me a relic call me what you will
Say I'm old-fashioned say I'm over the hill..."
Sigh. Now I'm quoting Seeger, and I don't even _like_ the guy...
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572.4 | ding-a-ling | BTOVT::THIGPEN_S | freedom: not a gift, but a choice | Fri Dec 07 1990 12:40 | 5 |
| I hate call-waiting. It's just a new way to be rude on the phone.
An alternate interpretation, it's just a way for AT&T to make more
money on long-distance calls. ("hold on, okay!"click! tick tick tick
goes the l-d $meter. Grrrrrr, go I.)
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572.5 | | NOATAK::BLAZEK | cross my heart with silver | Fri Dec 07 1990 12:46 | 20 |
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I agree, Dana. I refuse to be forced into purchasing CDs. I like
LPs better. I like the look of them and the feel of them and the
size of them. I like taping them.
My preference for grungy music is meant to be heard on albums. My
love of old bohemian record stores are precisely that -- *record*
stores. The sentimentality is irreplaceable. You just can't put
the Velvet Underground or Birthday Party on CD.
In addition to not owning, nor knowing how to operate, a CD player,
I also do not own a microwave, answering machine, or home computer,
and if there's anything else modern that everyone has that I don't,
I'm so removed that I'm not even aware of it.
Oh yeah, I also prefer old cars, such as old Chevy's and Fords from
the 50's.
Carla
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572.6 | | GWYNED::YUKONSEC | Cuddles Delight | Fri Dec 07 1990 12:57 | 4 |
| RE: .4
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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572.7 | out of it... | WRKSYS::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Fri Dec 07 1990 13:32 | 6 |
| I don't own a CD player, or an answering machine, or a home computer, I
also hate call waiting, I don't have cable TV, and my roommate owns a
microwave but I never use it because it seems like too much trouble.
Lorna
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572.8 | And I work in radio too | CAESAR::GASSAWAY | Insert clever personal name here | Fri Dec 07 1990 13:33 | 13 |
| VINYL FOREVER!!!!!!!
As one who grew up with vinyl, I love the way a piece of vinyl feels,
and I love cover art.
Nowadays, many of the independent label are issuing colored vinyl which
is way cool.
And I just shelled out $15 for an imported copy of an album that was
only released on CD domestically.
Lisa/about 300 of them maybe more
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572.9 | this is fun | BLUMON::GUGEL | Adrenaline: my drug of choice | Fri Dec 07 1990 13:39 | 26 |
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Oh, is this my kind of note!
First, I agree with Sara about call-waiting -- rude and tacky,
with *some* exceptions (for my parents, anyway (-: ). My parents
have recently weened the last teenage kids who would spend *hours*
on the phone with my Dad missing important business calls. Much
cheaper for them to get call-waiting than a second phone.
You know you're not a 90s kind of person when ...
You refuse to own a television set, let alone a VCR or big screen
(yup, no TV in my house!).
You refuse to buy, or even *look at*, neon yellow, pink, and
green ski suits - barf! (Grey/blue wool/pile is just fine with
me, thanks.)
You think 'Nintendo' is some kind of martial art.
You're not sure who the Nelson twins are or why some womannoters
act like they'd walk off the end of the earth for them. (I mean,
they're just a couple of guys, right?)
You think men, in general, look better with beards than without.
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572.11 | who me? | CSC32::M_EVANS | | Fri Dec 07 1990 13:59 | 12 |
| When your car still has a distributer and carborator.
When you haven't refilled your daytimer for 3 years.
When you still have pulse dialling on the phone and no bells or
whistles.
When your answering machine consists of the five-year-old answering the
phone with "hello? mommy doesn't talk to phone solicitors or pond
scum. Are you a friend?"
When your microwave has only a dial, no heat settings and no carosel.
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572.12 | never liked vinyl | DECWET::JWHITE | peace and love | Fri Dec 07 1990 14:02 | 5 |
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my dear carla, if you want to increase your classical collection,
you are welcome to any of my lps
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572.13 | | NOATAK::BLAZEK | cross my heart with silver | Fri Dec 07 1990 14:10 | 13 |
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REALLY?
Yowza!
You'll have to give me directions to your home again, the last time
I was there, it was dark, and it was our post-redneck tavern crawl.
Thank you, thank you, thank you in advance!
Lookin' for Dvorak in all the right places,
Carla
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572.14 | more to come ;^) | DECWET::JWHITE | peace and love | Fri Dec 07 1990 14:17 | 5 |
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don't get too excited...you'l have to wait as i replace them with
you-know-whats. but for starters, there's some haydn symphonies
and opera excerpts.....
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572.15 | I prefer women without beards ;-) | TLE::D_CARROLL | Hakuna Matata | Fri Dec 07 1990 15:49 | 8 |
| >You think men, in general, look better with beards than without.
No, no, no, Ellen, didn't you know? Beards are Back In. Clean-shaven
went out with the 80's...the 90's are the decade of very short,
neatly-trimmed Yuppie beards. All the boomer's have 'em. (The male
ones, anyway.)
D!
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572.16 | | DASXPS::HENDERSON | Son of a gun gonna have big fun | Fri Dec 07 1990 15:55 | 9 |
| I do have a CD player and VCR, but no answering machine, computer, call waiting
or other phone feature. No microwave either. And no close trimmed beard. Mine
is rather bushy.
Jim
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572.18 | 90's! | AIRPRT::VAILLAN_D | Don't touch that! | Sun Dec 09 1990 23:59 | 1 |
| I love CD'S!
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572.19 | (but that would be 80's I guess) | STAR::BECK | Paul Beck | Mon Dec 10 1990 07:00 | 3 |
| >>> I love CD'S!
... particularly if the interest rate is high enough ...
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572.20 | | MILKWY::JLUDGATE | It's cool to bump into things? | Mon Dec 10 1990 12:46 | 2 |
| are trendy comic books 80's or 90's?
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572.22 | Made from scratch! | NETMAN::BASTION | Fix the mistake, not the blame | Mon Dec 10 1990 14:55 | 9 |
| I still use a fork to stir ingredients when I cook, rather than using
any of the overabundant appliances that some consider critical to a
kitchen.
But that's my choice! (No problems if the power goes out either!)
Judi
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572.23 | No hi-tech gadgets | CSG002::PWHITE | Just lookin' for a home | Mon Dec 10 1990 15:29 | 21 |
| I dice vegetables with a knife and cutting board. Both
are hardware store standard issue, not Japanese or French
chef. I beat eggs with an eggbeater - one of those
mechanical devices with a little handle that you crank to
make the beaters go round. Your grandmother probably had
one.
I refer to the black hi-tech components in the living room
as my "radio", or my "record player", depending on which
function I intend to use. That's not even 80's!!
I push buttons on devices to make them go on and off. The
remote controls that came with the devices don't work, and I
don't get them fixed. I open the garage doors manually. I turn
the thermostat down every night and turn it up again when I get
up. My only burglar alarm is a 135 pound dog - and neighbors who
are around all day.
Pat
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572.24 | | CSCOAC::CONWAY_J | Schizophrenia beats dining alone | Tue Dec 11 1990 10:29 | 6 |
| When you refuse to use the word "relationship" in a nonmathmatical
context.
Don't possess a lifestyle.
have little or no lower back pain
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572.25 | Just close the garage door. Use *that* button. | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Dec 11 1990 12:32 | 5 |
| It bothers you to go out and leave the house running. (Washer,
dryer, diswasher, two VCRs programmed, plant lamp on a timer,
maybe a file printing...)
Ann B.
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572.27 | | WRKSYS::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Tue Dec 11 1990 13:14 | 5 |
| re .26, I'm sure you have some 20th century guns hanging about,
though...:-)
Lorna
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572.29 | | XCUSME::QUAYLE | i.e. Ann | Tue Dec 11 1990 15:00 | 10 |
| Re .28:
> maybe pharting in their general direction if some of
> them didn't have their heat-seeking missles and flame-throwers!
Is that because, since they do, eagles might truly be hoist with their own
petard?
aq, who just today found out the dictionary meaning of "petard" ;)
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572.32 | | AIAG::WRIGHT | Anarchy - a system that works for everyone.... | Tue Dec 11 1990 16:32 | 12 |
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When you know what "hoisted by his own petard" really means :-)
When you plan on keeping a car well past 2 years.
You don't have, nor really want, a terminal at home.
and books and radio is prefered over tv.
grins,
clark.
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572.34 | | WMOIS::B_REINKE | bread&roses | Tue Dec 11 1990 17:39 | 5 |
| Cheyenne
We only bought a color tv about 3 years ago!
Bonnie
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572.37 | won't play telephone tag ... | NOVA::FISHER | Rdb/VMS Dinosaur | Fri Dec 14 1990 13:39 | 3 |
| I'm the last holdout for "no voicemail," at least around here.
ed
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572.38 | You are an Old Folkie | COLBIN::EVANS | One-wheel drivin' | Fri Dec 14 1990 14:12 | 5 |
| Your favorite groups are the Chad Mitchell Trio and Ian and Sylvia.
Thank god Joan Baez is still around...
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572.39 | Irene goodnite Irene, Iiiireen goooodniiiight | VMSSG::NICHOLS | It ain't easy being green | Fri Dec 14 1990 14:18 | 1 |
| my favorite group is the Weavers
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572.40 | I suppose this could go in here... | HOO78C::VISSERS | Dutch Comfort | Fri Dec 14 1990 14:28 | 3 |
| What is voicemail? :-}
Ad
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572.41 | | BTOVT::THIGPEN_S | freedom: not a gift, but a choice | Fri Dec 14 1990 14:33 | 10 |
| you've never seen "the Simpsons", and you don't care
you hate the one episode you've ever seen of "thirtysomething"
You think you're getting a busy signal instead of a dial tone when you
pick up your phone to make a call and Voicemail signals that you have a
message (actually this was my sister-in-law, but could easily have been
me in the same circumstances)
Sara
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572.42 | impervious to fashion? | SOLANA::BROWN_RO | metaphysically challenged | Fri Dec 14 1990 18:03 | 13 |
| I'll never be a person of the nineties because of a high resistance
to trendiness.... I like what I like.
Many famous T.V. shows and movies have come and gone, and I've never
seen them. And, don't care. I do like call-waiting, it is extremely
practical, not rude. Answering machines have been a way of life out
here for years and years; I get angry when people don't have them.
I love music, though, and I will soon be forced into that C.D. purchase
as the vinyl disappears......
-roger
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572.44 | | WMOIS::B_REINKE | bread&roses | Sat Dec 15 1990 20:06 | 4 |
| in re .38
thanks D
and I thought I was alone!
BJ
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572.45 | I thought the phone went dead :-) | WMOIS::M_KOWALEWICZ | Y'never know where y'goin til y'get there | Mon Dec 17 1990 09:05 | 3 |
|
You hang up the phone when the other end has call waiting
and you have no idea what happened. Kb
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572.46 | | AUKLET::MEIER | Collector of Glass Insulators | Tue Dec 18 1990 13:20 | 11 |
| * No call waiting (just three separate lines :-))
* No cable TV, one TV set, Beta VCR (and laserdisc player :-))
* No TV Guide (just GBH (PBS) magazine)
* Never saw the Simpsons, 30-something, Married with Children, LA Law, etc...
* Don't care :-) (as was previously said...)
Jill
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572.48 | | RUBY::BOYAJIAN | One of the Happy Generations | Wed Dec 19 1990 00:34 | 3 |
| Me, too, and damn proud of it!
--- jerry
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572.49 | | CADSE::KHER | | Wed Dec 19 1990 10:02 | 3 |
| you think typed/printed letters are impersonal
manisha
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572.50 | | SA1794::CHARBONND | Fred was right - YABBADABBADOOO! | Wed Dec 19 1990 10:20 | 4 |
| -< in spite of my best efforts :-) >-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
re .49 sorry! but my handwriting is illlegible due to mostly
using a keyboard. Hmm, maybe I _am_ a 90's person...
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572.51 | | BRABAM::PHILPOTT | Col I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' Philpott | Wed Dec 19 1990 10:27 | 6 |
| re .49:
you could say that of any generation since the twenties (prior to that
typed letters were too rare to count).
/. Ian .\
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572.52 | | YUPPY::DAVIESA | She is the Alpha... | Wed Dec 19 1990 11:21 | 5 |
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Re .50
I have the same problem!
My handwriting gets worse by the year....
'gail
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572.53 | | NOATAK::BLAZEK | hold up silently my hands | Thu Dec 20 1990 11:06 | 6 |
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Abigail, I think your handwriting is lovely. Just wish I saw more
of it!
Carla
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572.54 | Aw shucks | YUPPY::DAVIESA | She is the Alpha... | Fri Dec 21 1990 05:15 | 10 |
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Carla dear,
I consider my wrist firmly slapped....
I love your writing too - and I can *read* yours! ;-)
'gail
x
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