<p>OMG bunsenburner - I’d have laughed too. Especially if i saw someone eating out of an old potty. Ewww. Just picturing my kids faces following the explanation if they had been there makes me laugh.</p>
<p>The potties were brand new, with cute little flowers painted on them, but the shape was unmistakingly familiar - LOL! The kids all went “Ewww!!!” when I caught my breath and explained my sudden burst of laughter. It must have been an unsold inventory from the old days, resurrected and marketed for a new purpose :)</p>
<p>Oh gawd!! this thread is priceless!!! shows how old I am, cause every post made me laugh!</p>
<p>Yes, it is a great thread! I shall say I still have a stack of old punch cards around - it was one of my college programming mistakes that I turned into my recipe collection.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen a USB turntable? You can turn your old scratchy vinyls into mp3s!</p>
<p>I got one for H this past Christmas, based on a suggestion thread here on CC.
He was stunned and delighted, but due to a variety of pressing issues, it remains boxed.</p>
<p>My aunt still has a black, dial phone on her kitchen wall. She gets frustrated by all those answering things that say “Press one for…” She says she always has to listen to the whole list twice before it sends her on to an operator–or voice mail.</p>
<p>How about slide rules? I still have one of those in a drawer. I don’t think I remember how to use it any more.</p>
<p>I was going to mention slide rules, too, Susantm! I had a wonderful one in college (physics major). I wish I still had it.</p>
<p>I Remember The “e” Ticket!!!</p>
<p>why did they un-capitalize my letters?</p>
<p>Did you capitalize them all? If you do that they change them all to lower case. At least one has to be lower case. I think.</p>
<p>Testing All Caps</p>
<p>TESTING WITH ONE LOWER CASE k</p>
<p>EDIT:YES THAT IS WHY</p>
<p>OK, here’s another one from the dark ages – until my Sr. year in HS, girls had to wear dresses or skirts to school. It was such a huge deal to be able to wear pants – but not jeans. (Boys couldn’t wear jeans, either.) Blew my mind when I got to college and could wear whatever I wanted to class.</p>
<p>Do you remember Night Train? Or Blue Nun?</p>
<p>CBBB- yes! we never were allowed to wear pants!</p>
<p>Only Blue Nun I remember is the german wine :)</p>
<p>I mean, to school.</p>
<p>And thanks for the CAPS explanation…thought I was having hallucinations…</p>
<p>Liefraumilch…don’t recall how to spell it.</p>
<p>Liebfraumilch? It is the German version of our “Two-Buck Chuck” 
I think my H told me that it means something like “milk of my beloved woman”. Any real German speakers here?</p>
<p>Added: checked my H’s desk - his slide ruler is still there, in the same drawer as his 5-inch floppies.</p>
<p>boone’s farm strawberry hill… (never drank it, but it was around back in the day!)</p>
<p>oh- how about going to Europe with NO CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD! traveler’s checks and cash, and when you ran out, you RAN OUT.</p>
<p>How about the kitchen phones with the loooooong curly wire? you could walk around the whole house.</p>
<p>Pong.</p>