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Posted by Toby on 05-08-2002 01:36 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dick-richardson
See what happens when you one doesn't read the entire thread before posting? You had earned that hippie comment. Now I don't feel so bad.

LOL...would it make you feel worse or better to know that I don't consider hippie an insult? I just consider it inaccurate.

Posted by BudPritchard on 05-08-2002 03:18 PM:

Re: Oldest Member contest

quote:
Originally posted by bookrats
Well, I'm not gonna win the youngest member contest, but I bet I have a decent shot at the oldest. (Maybe not.)

April 1960.

You have to beat May 1946.

Remember core memory?

Stones not quite ready for walkers?

Posted by bookrats on 05-08-2002 04:45 PM:

Re: Re: Oldest Member contest

quote:
Originally posted by BudPritchard
Remember core memory?

Yup -- though I had more experience with more recent memory technology. 256K on a board the size of a pizza box.

(Yes, this could devolve into an old-timer's "in my day..." technology thread really quick...)

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Posted by K. Cannon on 05-08-2002 06:54 PM:

Re: Re: Re: Oldest Member contest

quote:
Originally posted by bookrats
"In my day, we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes we did."
-- Peg Sheeran

Funny!
We here in S.C. have had Strom (as U.S. Senator) since 16 years before I was born.

Posted by Yorick on 05-08-2002 09:39 PM:

Re: Re: Oldest Member contest

Originally posted by bookrats
Well, I'm not gonna win the youngest member contest, but I bet I have a decent shot at the oldest. (Maybe not.)

April 1960.
'beats' me by about, uh ... [counts on toes] 11 years.

Originally posted by dick-richardson
Now he is a pillar of the community
salt pillar?

and, after doing the white picket fence thing, has settled down
um ... not to be overly critical or anything (like I ever do that) but isn't "settling down" the same thing as "the white picket fence thing"? unless yer Tom Sawyer or something.

Originally posted by ernieba1
From this thread we learn that older people can't stay on topic like us youths .
y'all ain't trying to say we've got short attent ... hey look, a ladybug!

Originally posted by BudPritchard
You have to beat May 1946.

Ha! you're older than my mom!
(then again, my dad is also older than my mom. uhhh, never mind.)

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Posted by Toby on 05-08-2002 09:59 PM:

Re: Re: Re: Oldest Member contest

quote:
Originally posted by Yorick
salt pillar?

No, but I hear that a Lot.

quote:
um ... not to be overly critical or anything (like I ever do that) but isn't "settling down" the same thing as "the white picket fence thing"? unless yer Tom Sawyer or something.

You try and paint my fence white, and you will be on the run like Huckleberry.

quote:
Ha! you're older than my mom!
(then again, my dad is also older than my mom. uhhh, never mind.)

My dad was a '46er also (I'll withhold my comments on some of the baby boomer progeny), but bookrats is slightly less than 10 years my senior.

Posted by BobbyMike on 05-08-2002 10:31 PM:

How about most jobs?!

I can't win either youngest or oldest (1963), but I bet I can make a run for guy with the most jobs under his belt per years under the sun and moon. Let's see newspaper delivery boy, lawnmowing, snake wrangler, dishwasher, motherboard packer (don't ask), supermarket stockboy, movie theater concessionist, movie theater usher (diff. theater) USMC (one MOS, four different posts), piano/furniture moving, movie theater projectionist/maintainance, stone mason, carpenter, auto parts store, glassblower, property manager, cabinetmaker, bootmaker, leather worker, product designer, marketing, contractor, business owner (vintage feathers), car sales, and store owner. I think that is all (although my memory is going). That's 25 in 39 years or 1.56 a year since birth.
I still can't figure out how I had the time to sire three boys!
I didn't include anything that I didn't do for at least six months straight.

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Posted by MarkEagle on 05-08-2002 10:39 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by miradu
It's like Mark, where did he go?

I guess you could say I've turned into a lurker...

quote:
Originally posted by BobbyMike
make a run for guy with the most jobs under his belt

How about the least? I'm only on my 4th since leaving High School. Two of 'em were part-time at the same time. I'm currently in my 23rd year at my present job (that's longer than any from the "youngest" thread have been alive!). Boy, I feel old...

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Posted by ToolkiT on 05-09-2002 01:58 AM:

Re: How about most jobs?!

quote:
Originally posted by BobbyMike
business owner (vintage feathers)

Mmmm interesting... care to tell more about that?

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Posted by ernieba1 on 05-09-2002 02:37 AM:

Re: Re: Re: Oldest Member contest

I meant no-

quote:
Originally posted by Yorick
y'all ain't trying to say we've got short attent ... hey look, a ladybug!

WHERE?

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Posted by miradu on 05-09-2002 03:59 AM:

I think I know where this thread is going.. ramblings.. largest thread on VC.. think we can beat it?

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Posted by dick-richardson on 05-09-2002 05:59 AM:

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quote:
Originally posted by Toby
No, but I hear that a Lot.

That was well placed. Very nice.

(Just quoting so the geezers catch it - what's that wheezing noise?)

quote:
miradu:
I think I know where this thread is going.. ramblings.. largest thread on VC.. think we can beat it?

Doubtful. The Ramble is a website unto itself. Some may get longer, but none shall get bigger. The only thing I don't thing the Ramble has dealt with is screen protection.

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Posted by yardie on 05-09-2002 03:42 PM:

SmartA**

quote:
Originally posted by GSR13

You should probably start the "Member Most responsible for Running other Members Off" Thread.

Or the "Most misunderstood Member Contest".

Hey, maybe I should start the "What is the best thread for Toby to Start" Thread.

Or the member with the most smart a** comments thread.. No Toby its not an insult..its a compliment..i actually enjoy reading your posts

Posted by yardie on 05-09-2002 03:46 PM:

Not Fair

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
While we are starting contests I might as well start one I can win...
How about who lives the most far away from NYC....

Acording to my PSION for me that would be 15988 Km/9934 Miles...

This wouldn't be a fair contest since Australia is all the way down "there" away from the rest of civilization

Posted by Toby on 05-09-2002 05:42 PM:

Re: SmartA**

quote:
Originally posted by yardie
Or the member with the most smart a** comments thread.. No Toby its not an insult..its a compliment..i actually enjoy reading your posts

Even if it were intended as an insult, I'd be hard-pressed to deny it. I fully admit to being a smart-@$$ at times.

Posted by SherylKing on 05-09-2002 10:34 PM:

Looks like I'm the oldest -- oh woe!

March 1942. Just turned 60. Oh, well, it beats the alternative!

Posted by MarkEagle on 05-09-2002 10:50 PM:

Re: Re: SmartA**

quote:
Originally posted by Toby
I fully admit to being a smart-@$$ at times.

Really? I've never noticed that...

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Posted by ToolkiT on 05-10-2002 01:05 AM:

Re: Not Fair

quote:
Originally posted by yardie

This wouldn't be a fair contest since Australia is all the way down "there" away from the rest of civilization

Nobody said it was going to be fair...
I make no chance in being either the youngest or oldest member either...

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Posted by BobbyMike on 05-10-2002 06:49 PM:

"Mmmm interesting... care to tell more about that?"

About seven years ago we bought 135+ acres withn old house and a barn (along with various other outbuildings). The barn was completely full of cr*p. That cr*p turned out to contain the entire stock of a defunct millinery (hat making) supply company. It had been stored in the barn for approx. 50 years. After we removed a lot of junk we uncovered boxes and boxes of pristine hat trimmings, most of them feather ornaments. The factories that made these no longer exist, or are no longer making them, so they are sought after.
We sell directly to most of the best custom hatmakers in the US and UK (Philip Treacy who does Chanels' hats (and his own) bought a huge lot from us). You can see our stuff at our website(which admittedly is in dire need of updating and revising) at Vintage Feathers . We currently come up as the number one site on Google searches for "vintage feathers".

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Posted by Yorick on 05-11-2002 04:12 AM:

Re: Looks like I'm the oldest -- oh woe!

quote:
Originally posted by SherylKing
March 1942. Just turned 60. Oh, well, it beats the alternative!

Retirement?

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