I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

Are home ec classes still taught? In seventh grade everyone had to take a semester of home ec and a semester of shop. We learned cooking, sewing, and woodworking.

The home ec classroom looked a lot like this. One of the first things we learned how to make was chocolate chip cookies. To discourage kids from eating the raw dough, the teacher told us a very nasty story about a spider who laid her eggs in flour. It was so traumatic I don't even remember the rest of the story but it was very effective.

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There a kitchen at the YMCA Healthy Living Center (you gotta be at least 55) in OKC just like that. I suppose it's possible one could reach that age never having learned to cook.

 

[jxp]

I remember the blue flower print pattern
unbreakable Corning ware

Yea right it was very much breakable

Tempered glass.

 

[jxp]

If you could get all the pieces.

Walk through the kitchen barefoot - you'll find 'em.

 

[jxp]

Speaking of dot matrix, the hospital lab I worked at until last summer still has one hooked up to the volatile gas chromatography machine. We'd check patient specimens for methanol, isopropanol, etc. there'd be a penned graph (like in this picture) showing the spikes of each compound and the concentration numbers would print dot matrix on the continuous fed paper.

 

[jxp]

I'm very biased. I've had 12 over the years and the first car I bought with my own money was a '67 bug. They have their pros and cons.

Pros:
* Classic styling, even the late models
* Incredibly easy to work on
* A great car to learn basic maintenance and more advanced mechanical skills on
* High "smiles per gallon" factor (fun to drive)
* Will run well in more or less any weather
* Cheap to insure
* Strong aftermarket for parts availability
* Reasonably priced parts
* Infinitely upgradeable
* Later models are still cheap and abundant
* You will be one of very few of your age group who knows how to drive a manual.

Cons:
* Lacks basically every modern safety feature depending on model year (70's models have crumple zones and disc brakes at least).
* No A/C
* Practically no Heater
* No modern tech (but you can add most of it as needed
* Easy to steal (there are simple tricks to stop this)
* Literally 4 dudes can pick it up and move it so screw with you.
* Small. Not a ton of room to haul big stuff.
* Not a lot of resale value so if you put a ton into it to get it drivable, you may not make that back.


Now, Many of the cons are fixable with aftermarket parts. Just depends on what you want to put into it. As basic reliable transportation that you can literally repair with some duct tape and bailing wire on the side of the road in a pinch, you can't beat them.

Another pro - the front seat was easily removable and the back seat was far enough forward that a tall person (cousin Gary was 201cm/ 6'7"+) could drive comfortably.

 

[BDutch]

Sounds fun.

Is poisonous.

 

[R2elk]

Walk through the kitchen barefoot - you'll find 'em.

I did. Months later.

 

[tripletfeb]

One of my least favorite of their patterns - they had/have some truly nice patterns but also some truly hideous ones. The taste of food is absolutely affected by the prettiness of the plate or bowl it is served on/in.

I was always fond of it. But my favorite is their Shadow Iris pattern. I have almost everything possible in this pattern

 

[MROO]

Aren't you about to enjoy your second childhood?

Wait. We're only allowed TWO?

 

[MROO]

I did. Months later.

My kids spilled my massive marble collection (two old, full-sized coffee cans) all over the first floor. That was over twenty years ago and we're STILL finding marbles in weird places!