Remember Jiffy Pop Popcorn?
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Remember Jiffy Pop Popcorn?
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How appetizing does this look! I remember the Swanson chicken dinners from when I was a kid. I guess I thought they were pretty cool. I can't imagine what the hell I was thinking!
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I'm still not sure what that odd piece of chicken was that I used to get in mine. It wasn't a thigh or breast. Just a piece of... chicken. And the mashed potatoes were always gritty instant potatoes but the gravy made them taste batter. I used to like the fish dinners best.
I used to love Banquet's turkey pot pies. I ate them until about a decade ago when I realized that each of them had 19-23 grams of fat.
I'm stuck on Sheppard's pie now. Love them!
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,swanson dinners,we're all probably dead and our spirits are here writing this post,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Remember those little secret pockets that used to be on our pants? We could put some coins up in there,or a girl's phone number,hehe!
Who remembers these? Everybody's grandma used to have one and I used to hate to see it pulled out because it would take forever to find a dime for an ice cream sandwich and I'd think that the ice cream truck would be on the next block before ten pennies could be counted out.
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Hah! And I know you all remember these from the days before calculators were everywhere.
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I remember those, but I go back even further than that!
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How about these? They don't even have chalk boards in school anymore.
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One of my first books in school.....
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Good ole "Alice, Jerry and Jip"!
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LOL! I remember that book. And also, Sally, Dick and Jane.
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One of the most influential things in my life was the Weekly Reader program, which started for us in 2nd grade. It was always a special time when my teachers opened the boxes and called off my name when a book arrived. One of the first books I ever got was called "Funny Jokes and Foxy Riddles". I got it in the 3rd grade and believe it or not, I still tell some of those jokes.
The other thing was the fact that my mom used to take my brother, my sister and me to the library every couple of weeks. I love my mom so much more for encouraging us to read.
Edit: "Funny Jokes and Foxy Riddles" is still in print! I might have to order a copy from Amazon.
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The Weekly Reader [[we had to pay a dime a week something like that for it in school) and Highlights Magazine was serious stuff to me in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grades. I remember how serious I was when I read "Run Jip, Run, See Jip Run" for my father LOL!!!! Whoa...!
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Remember these? I remember using them in typing class....A LOT! LOL!
Did you guys have the book-[when martha toozel caught a nix] in elementary school?
I took 2 years of typing in high school. I filled up some space as I went to summer school and took chemistry and biology, so, got that out of the way.
Like you, Jerry...sure glad I did. I used it all through college typing up my papers and even made some $$ typing papers up for others. It was certainly a lifelong investment....very useful when computers/keyboarding came around.
Thank God for computers. Typing up a ten page double-spaced paper on a typewriter was such a pain in the ass. Especially when you finally finished, proof read it and then found a major mistake on page three that threw everything that followed off. It didn't help that I always procrastinated and was typically up all night trying to type something from notes instead of from a written draft. If I had a word processor in the '80s, I would have graduated every level of college [[junior college, college, graduate) with honors.
And if I didn't like partying so much.
HECK IT TOOK THE SCHOOLS SYSTEM TWO YEARS TO TYPE UP THE PAPERS SAYING THAT THERE WAS NO CURRICULUM IN THE SYSTEM THAT WOULD LEARN ME ANYTHING[i have the letter framed and hanging in my bathroom].
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I attended University during the 1960s, and 55 years later, I still, periodically, wake up in a cold sweat, after a nightmare that my term paper is due tomorrow, and I haven't started it yet [[not even the research!); or I have a final exam tomorrow morning for a class for which I have attended NONE of its lectures, all semester, AND I have not read its assigned books, AND/or have attended NONE of its lab sessions, AND I have done no studying whatsoever! It's amazing what pressure some of us were under, related to career preparation. I wonder if I will still have those nightmares after I die???
The funny thing is, that after all that studying and learning, I ended up as a cartoonist. But, at least, I can spout off scientific information at cocktail parties, and clear space around myself, by being a Monty Pythonesque "dreadfully dull and boring". :cool:
I don't have nightmares. But I have recollections of past stupidity that could have resulted in them. I remember one of my last classes before I got my bachelors required a four-page term paper [[2,000 words). I type ~40 words per minute, so I figured that's about an hour's worth of typing. Well, I went out that night and came home at 2:00 AM with the idea that I could be in bed by 3:00 am and up for work by 6:30 am. No problems, right?
As I said before, I hadn't even written the paper so I was typing from notes on an old IBM typewriter. And who could guess that after a day that I worked eight hours, had a four hour evening class and three hours of hanging at a nightclub, I wouldn't be in clear mind or able to type 40 words per minute? Or compose a cogent term paper on the spot? I didn't sleep that day. I wrote the paper, went to work and then fell asleep in class right after I turned the paper in. Thank God I didn't have to take notes that night! I got a B+ for the course, by the way.
I graduated with a 3.41 GPA and know that the only reason I didn't get out with honors [[3.5 and above) is because I had at least two classes where I lost half a grade thanks to going out with my dudes 4-5 times per week.
LOL. I got my masters in 2012 and found out three weeks before my last class that in order to get my degree, I had to take a 6-8 hour exam that would cover subjects from every class that I'd taken in the previous 16 months! Thank God, I kept every on-line syllabus and pre-class exam and of course, all of my research and homework. I studied like a mutha f**ker for three weeks.
The test was the hardest one that I'd ever taken. I took three hours for part 1, had a half hour break and spent nearly three hours on part 2. I got my results and found out that I'd gotten 67% of it right and damn near died on the spot. Then I saw that the test was curved for the overall participation and I somehow wound up in the top 10% of those who took it. I absolutely would have failed it if I didn't cram for those last three weeks. At home. On my lunch break. Every free minute that I had.
When I think about the shift in my emotions that day, I still dance.
But I wish I had known about that test before the end of everything, though. If I didn't get my paper, I would had to pay for my tuition instead of having it reimbursed. I would have been both embarrassed and broke if I failed.