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David Goldfarb  
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 More options Nov 4 2009, 5:09 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: goldf...@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:09:57 GMT
Local: Wed, Nov 4 2009 5:09 pm
Subject: Re: Things we remember...
In article <739e7072-a019-43d9-8f9c-f0d953413...@v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Matt Hughes  <archon...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Which caused me to think, not for the first time, that we who are
>approaching our golden years remember a lot of things that the younger
>folk have never seen or heard of -- like the tv tube testers that used
>to be found in supermarkets and drug stores.  Years ago, I made a list
>of some of them, but of course now I can't find the list.

>But here are a few:

[list snipped]

I'm 41 and *I* can't remember any of the things on your list.  (Also
at least a few of them I don't think we've ever had anywhere that
I've lived.)

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   David Goldfarb          |"I suppose an idiot plot is better than
goldf...@ocf.berkeley.edu  | no plot at all."
goldf...@csua.berkeley.edu |             -- Katie Schwarz


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