Remember when?

[robb_k]

LOL. Tell us, robb_k, if you remember when your dinosaur went extinct.

We didn't have a garbage disposal, nobody had air conditioning in their houses, not even "swamp coolers". Not even offices did. If you wanted relief from the Midwestern heat, you had to sit all day in the picture show [[cinema), I had to shovel coal into the boiler for our "central heating". We had an "ice box" in our first house [[metal-lined, wood kitchen cabinet with heavy steel door [[like bank safe door). We had no dryer [[hung wash on outdoor clothes lines [[stretched from pole to pole). I flicked chickens, My father and grandfather cut off their heads[[the chickens, of course!). We had a moose in our back yard a few times.

I remember when we sang "God Save The King", and The Canadian Football League" was still called "The Canadian Rugby League". and I remember the old official [[pre WWII) word spellings in Dutch and Danish language, and when at least 20% of the US coins in regular circulation were Indian head pennies, V nickles [[Morgan), Barber dimes, Liberty Standing quarters, , Liberty Standing half Dollars and Morgan silver Dollars, many from the 1800s, We had The Union Jack in a corner of our Canadian flag. The Canadian Dollar was always worth between $1.06 - $1.09 US, Middle class people in USA actually used reasonably correct grammar and reasonable spelling in English [[now almost NO Americans do!)

[Jerry Oz]

Middle class people in USA actually used reasonably correct grammar and reasonable spelling in English [[now almost NO Americans do!)

Thas cuz we speak Mercan. You can keep that English on that side of the lake, Bruh!

BTW: If I ever consider a list of my top five SDF posters [[I won't), please know that you are easily one of them. I can't speak for others, but your posts are among the most interesting and educational that I read on these forums.

[soulster]

[ATTACH]Middle class people in USA actually used reasonably correct grammar and reasonable spelling in English [[now almost NO Americans do!)

Define "reasonable", because, as long as i've been around blue-collar types from the beginning of the 80s, i've never known them to speak correctly, or know how to spell.

[robb_k]

Define "reasonable", because, as long as i've been around blue-collar types from the beginning of the 80s, i've never known them to speak correctly, or know how to spell.

I was talking about the 1940s and early 1950s.