Community Events Committee Meeting: Thursday 03.03.2011

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Community Events Committee Meeting: Thursday 03.03.2011

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Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
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Originally posted by Darling Jen
Actually, I learned a crazy thing while trying to write something on Eden once. Let me find the link for it again...

What do you call the part of a sink where the water comes out? Or maybe the thing on the side of a house where a hose ... more
Ah, JSTOR. What a life-saver. I remember the days before that, when we had to use the index cards. [Grumble]
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
I really hate when I have this awesome thread idea and then the song changes or I refresh the page so I can go make my thread and POOF idea gone.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
sherbert.

like it's meant to be pronounced.

*eyeroll*
Hillbilly.
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Ah, JSTOR. What a life-saver. I remember the days before that, when we had to use the index cards. [Grumble]
Most people I know don't remember life without the internet.

Bless.
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Hillbilly.
Who you callin Hillbilly, Yankee?
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
Who you callin Hillbilly, Yankee?
I'm from Ohio, home of William Tecumseh Sherman. We'll march all over your Southern asses again if you aren't careful.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Ah, JSTOR. What a life-saver. I remember the days before that, when we had to use the index cards. [Grumble]
Hehe don't worry. You're not showing your age too badly. I remember growing up and using a rotary phone:
Rotary Phone
And using the card catalog at libraries before computers logged the books. But then, I grew up poor and in a poor area.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
I'm from Ohio, home of William Tecumseh Sherman. We'll march all over your Southern asses again if you aren't careful.
Thems fightin' words.
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
I'm from Ohio, home of William Tecumseh Sherman. We'll march all over your Southern asses again if you aren't careful.
The only part of me that's southern is the kind that lies in the shade.

NYC for life.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Hehe don't worry. You're not showing your age too badly. I remember growing up and using a rotary phone:

And using the card catalog at libraries before computers logged the books. But then, I grew up poor and in a poor area. ... more
Hell yeah we had rotary phones...that we had to rent from the Bell companies because you - get this - weren't allowed to buy them.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Thems fightin' words.
Fight all you want, you'll lose.

Again.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Gary Gary
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Do you pronounce it "sherbet" or "sherbert" [ha!, spell-check flagged the latter]
I try to say it neutral and fast. There is no second 'R', but Sher-Bet sounds weird.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Well, time to go. Dinner's on, and my wife just got home. It's been fun.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
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Originally posted by Vaccinium
Hell yeah we had rotary phones...that we had to rent from the Bell companies because you - get this - weren't allowed to buy them.
Uh... wow. I'm not sure about us. I'll have to ask my folks.

Oh! Another southernism, I think! Folks = parents/family
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Well, time to go. Dinner's on, and my wife just got home. It's been fun.
Goodnight! Enjoy the chili!
03/03/2011
Contributor: Alys Alys
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Originally posted by Vaccinium
Well, time to go. Dinner's on, and my wife just got home. It's been fun.
G'night!
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Well, time to go. Dinner's on, and my wife just got home. It's been fun.
Have a good dinner!
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Hehe don't worry. You're not showing your age too badly. I remember growing up and using a rotary phone:

And using the card catalog at libraries before computers logged the books. But then, I grew up poor and in a poor area. ... more
I still have/use one of those. It is in the garage, it rings loud enough to hear when I am grinding or welding. The kids think it is just weird.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Gary Gary
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
Most people I know don't remember life without the internet.

Bless.
I am in the middle. I was about 22 when I started using the internet.
03/03/2011
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Hehe don't worry. You're not showing your age too badly. I remember growing up and using a rotary phone:

And using the card catalog at libraries before computers logged the books. But then, I grew up poor and in a poor area. ... more
omg I'm feeling really old. I had that phone and yes card catalogs were all I knew in libraries. Was lucky enough to have a comodore 64 and atari as a teenager. Remember beta tapes? lol
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Well, time to go. Dinner's on, and my wife just got home. It's been fun.
Lates, yous have a great one.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Kindred Kindred
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Uh... wow. I'm not sure about us. I'll have to ask my folks.

Oh! Another southernism, I think! Folks = parents/family
I call them the Rents
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
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Originally posted by Gary
I am in the middle. I was about 22 when I started using the internet.
they started teaching us how to use computers when i was in PRESCHOOL.

madness.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Kindred Kindred
Quote:
Originally posted by SexyTabby
omg I'm feeling really old. I had that phone and yes card catalogs were all I knew in libraries. Was lucky enough to have a comodore 64 and atari as a teenager. Remember beta tapes? lol
Remember 8 track tapes?
03/03/2011
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Well, time to go. Dinner's on, and my wife just got home. It's been fun.
Bye enjoy dinner
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by SexyTabby
omg I'm feeling really old. I had that phone and yes card catalogs were all I knew in libraries. Was lucky enough to have a comodore 64 and atari as a teenager. Remember beta tapes? lol
I got Pong when it was new, anybody remember that game?
03/03/2011
Contributor: BBW Talks Toys BBW Talks Toys
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Originally posted by Darling Jen
Oh yeah! And get me around the right crowd or family members and some lovely phrases find their way out too.

"I'll take a gander." (Not a goose!)

"It's over yonder."

"That's a big ol' {insert noun here}!"
I say "reckon" all the time.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
they started teaching us how to use computers when i was in PRESCHOOL.

madness.
WOAH! Yeah, I'm a bit older than you.

I know that the internet was "born" in '85 and so was I.
03/03/2011
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
Quote:
Originally posted by Kindred
Remember 8 track tapes?
Yup, still have a bunch of them! Once cassettes came out I had a boom box lol great big one A walkman and an ipod aren't all that alike lol
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by Kindred
Remember 8 track tapes?
I have a reel to reel laying around somewhere, still works too.
03/03/2011