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Subtitled: Don't let the marketing and sensationalism get to you.
It is said everything we need we already have - just it gets re-discovered.
I was born in 1955 and therefore a Baby Boomer.
Progress and Technology was picking up speed.
We got big contraption that went in the front room, called a TV.
It had rabbit ears, had 3 stations, and the picture was black and white.
I was sorta ticked off about the contraption, as it meant "re arranging the furniture" - again, and it took up room where I played, and my goldfish bowl had to be moved "over there".
The test pattern was a Indian, which did make a neat target for a kid with suction darts in his 1911 looking dart pistol, and his Model 94 looking rifle that shot corks, and his double barrel shotgun that shot corks too.
Sorta neat to play Cowboy & Indians in the house when it was raining...
not so neat at 11pm after sneaking out of bed after the adults had gone to bed.
"Young-Un! Did you sneak out of bed again?" - a voice would say.
<run to bedroom>
"Uh, oh no, I was fast asleep"
<give this a few minutes and then sneak back in to get my guns, hide the evidence>.
About 5:30 am the sound of folks cleaning circles off a TV screen while going "ooch" and "ouch" stepping on corks I missed would be heard.
We had a really good coffee pot, and one used one of the gas burners on the stove to make coffee.
It was pretty neat to listen to it, then see the "perk" in the little glass doo-hickey on top.
Then see the water get darker, then "its ready coffee color".
The man on TV said, "If a lady really cares about her husband and family, they had to have this new coffee maker", he was showing on TV.
Marketing & Sensationalism.
More like Guilt Trip and Conning folks if you ask me.
Still some folks had to have that coffee maker, because they had to show they cared about a husband and family and ...Mr. Jones's wife had one, and we can't have her caring for her husband and kids more than...
This coffee pot used electricity, and one day, the power went out during the night and did not come on in time for breakfast.
Folks had bacon and eggs and even toast they fixed in that gas stove.
No coffee, because they had gotten rid of that "old antiquated" Perk-o-later that worked on a stove top.
But....But, they really cared about their husbands, and family and were just like the Jones'...
Me and mine sorta grinned as grumpy folks shared about this horrific morning...
We had coffee perked on the stove that morning.
Had we been without gas, we would have just fired up the grill outside with wood or maybe even charcoal, and cooked breakfast, including coffee...
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It is said ninety percent of fishing equipment manufactured is designed to catch the wallets of fisher-persons - not fish.
I don't "have to have" a $25,000 bass boat, and a $40,000 SUV to pull it, and fish with a $300 rod and reel, using $25 space age fishing line, tossing out a $15 lure that looks like a mutant , alien, tadpole to catch a fish.
I have caught the limit of 50 crappie, many times, using a cane pole, using braided line, and white buck tail jigs, out of a 14 foot jonboat, we scuttled around using wooden paddles.
We did not even use a Wizard 9.9 motor, nor a Shakespeare trolling motor that had a forward and reverse speed.
We cleaned the 100 crappie total using Case and Rapela fillet knives we free hand sharpened on a Norton combo stone.
Mentor carried a Colt Woodman he had cleaned with Gulf leaded gasoline, blew out with a air hose and lubed with some light oil they used for instruments.
I had a Hi-Standard Sentinel , nine shot revolver I had cleaned using Coleman lantern fuel, blown out with air hose and lubed with some really light oil from a green container a mentor in the Army had.
I am not so sure sometimes if we are progressing backwards instead of progressing forward sometimes.
I never got into black-powder personally for some odd reason, still folks born before my mentors used hot water and soap, to clean guns.
Mentors cleaned black-powder guns this way, and folks still do today.
Humm...
Other thoughts to follow.
It is said everything we need we already have - just it gets re-discovered.
I was born in 1955 and therefore a Baby Boomer.
Progress and Technology was picking up speed.
We got big contraption that went in the front room, called a TV.
It had rabbit ears, had 3 stations, and the picture was black and white.
I was sorta ticked off about the contraption, as it meant "re arranging the furniture" - again, and it took up room where I played, and my goldfish bowl had to be moved "over there".
The test pattern was a Indian, which did make a neat target for a kid with suction darts in his 1911 looking dart pistol, and his Model 94 looking rifle that shot corks, and his double barrel shotgun that shot corks too.
Sorta neat to play Cowboy & Indians in the house when it was raining...
not so neat at 11pm after sneaking out of bed after the adults had gone to bed.
"Young-Un! Did you sneak out of bed again?" - a voice would say.
<run to bedroom>
"Uh, oh no, I was fast asleep"
<give this a few minutes and then sneak back in to get my guns, hide the evidence>.
About 5:30 am the sound of folks cleaning circles off a TV screen while going "ooch" and "ouch" stepping on corks I missed would be heard.
We had a really good coffee pot, and one used one of the gas burners on the stove to make coffee.
It was pretty neat to listen to it, then see the "perk" in the little glass doo-hickey on top.
Then see the water get darker, then "its ready coffee color".
The man on TV said, "If a lady really cares about her husband and family, they had to have this new coffee maker", he was showing on TV.
Marketing & Sensationalism.
More like Guilt Trip and Conning folks if you ask me.
Still some folks had to have that coffee maker, because they had to show they cared about a husband and family and ...Mr. Jones's wife had one, and we can't have her caring for her husband and kids more than...
This coffee pot used electricity, and one day, the power went out during the night and did not come on in time for breakfast.
Folks had bacon and eggs and even toast they fixed in that gas stove.
No coffee, because they had gotten rid of that "old antiquated" Perk-o-later that worked on a stove top.
But....But, they really cared about their husbands, and family and were just like the Jones'...
Me and mine sorta grinned as grumpy folks shared about this horrific morning...
We had coffee perked on the stove that morning.
Had we been without gas, we would have just fired up the grill outside with wood or maybe even charcoal, and cooked breakfast, including coffee...
--
It is said ninety percent of fishing equipment manufactured is designed to catch the wallets of fisher-persons - not fish.
I don't "have to have" a $25,000 bass boat, and a $40,000 SUV to pull it, and fish with a $300 rod and reel, using $25 space age fishing line, tossing out a $15 lure that looks like a mutant , alien, tadpole to catch a fish.
I have caught the limit of 50 crappie, many times, using a cane pole, using braided line, and white buck tail jigs, out of a 14 foot jonboat, we scuttled around using wooden paddles.
We did not even use a Wizard 9.9 motor, nor a Shakespeare trolling motor that had a forward and reverse speed.
We cleaned the 100 crappie total using Case and Rapela fillet knives we free hand sharpened on a Norton combo stone.
Mentor carried a Colt Woodman he had cleaned with Gulf leaded gasoline, blew out with a air hose and lubed with some light oil they used for instruments.
I had a Hi-Standard Sentinel , nine shot revolver I had cleaned using Coleman lantern fuel, blown out with air hose and lubed with some really light oil from a green container a mentor in the Army had.
I am not so sure sometimes if we are progressing backwards instead of progressing forward sometimes.
I never got into black-powder personally for some odd reason, still folks born before my mentors used hot water and soap, to clean guns.
Mentors cleaned black-powder guns this way, and folks still do today.
Humm...
Other thoughts to follow.
