Maybe it should be Telefilterfunken.Me seeing the word "Telefunken":
Me finding out it has nothing to do with funk:
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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Now we're talkin'!Maybe it should be Telefilterfunken.
Hard to acquire when annual salary was $968.
Or(at one time), “high school with ashtrays”.
I have one of these on my desk right now (well, it's in my hand, but you know what I mean):
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Well, I guess these are still made. Saw some on Amazon but I've not seen one in many decades.
I used to be a paper boy back in the mid 60s and some of my fellow carriers used them.
In today's world, who uses money anymore? It's the plastic card.
I used to be a paper boy back in the mid 60s and some of my fellow carriers used them.
In today's world, who uses money anymore? It's the plastic card.
Jr. High was 6-8 for us growing up, and HS was 9-12, but agreed. I didn't hear the term "middle school" until I taught at one. One of those districts was configured K-4 elementary, 5-8 MS with a 5/6 wing and a 7/8 wing, and 9-12 HS. My last district was K-6 elementary, 7/8 MS, separate 9th grade "annex," and a 10-12 HS. I think they've reconfigured, just to give themselves something to do, at least twice since I blessfully retired from that insanity.
And still not an ounce of maple syrup in there.
Sorry for the long read, but just in case another pandemic shortage occurs, some of will be glad those old Sears catalogs Grandma saved in the basement are still there. They even inspired Farmers Almanac.
In Western culture, toilet paper is pretty ubiquitous. If you went into a bathroom anywhere in America and there was no toilet paper, you’d probably panic a little. But toilet paper as we know it didn’t exist until about 1857 and research shows pooping was invented quite a few years earlier. That means, before TP became the norm, something else was common. That something was, for a time, the Sears catalog.
If you’re too young, you may not know that Sears used to be a big deal department store. Every year they produced massive catalogs to show off what they had for sale and sent them to people’s homes. Usually a couple of catalogs per year, in fact, just hundreds of pages of stuff you could buy. Crazy, right? So every home had these huge books of paper sitting around, often for no reason.
Before the advent of glossy paper, Sears catalogs were printed on flat, soft newsprint paper and the rest of the story writes itself here. People kept the catalogs in their bathrooms or the outhouse.
It wasn’t just a thing some people did; it was so commonplace that the Farmer’s Almanac, another choice toilet paper publication, used to send out copies with a hole pre-drilled in the corner so you could hang it up in the outhouse and tear off sheets as needed.
**One more tidbit. Sears got complaints from customers when they switched from the softer butt friendly paper to the glossy stuff .
In Western culture, toilet paper is pretty ubiquitous. If you went into a bathroom anywhere in America and there was no toilet paper, you’d probably panic a little. But toilet paper as we know it didn’t exist until about 1857 and research shows pooping was invented quite a few years earlier. That means, before TP became the norm, something else was common. That something was, for a time, the Sears catalog.
If you’re too young, you may not know that Sears used to be a big deal department store. Every year they produced massive catalogs to show off what they had for sale and sent them to people’s homes. Usually a couple of catalogs per year, in fact, just hundreds of pages of stuff you could buy. Crazy, right? So every home had these huge books of paper sitting around, often for no reason.
Before the advent of glossy paper, Sears catalogs were printed on flat, soft newsprint paper and the rest of the story writes itself here. People kept the catalogs in their bathrooms or the outhouse.
It wasn’t just a thing some people did; it was so commonplace that the Farmer’s Almanac, another choice toilet paper publication, used to send out copies with a hole pre-drilled in the corner so you could hang it up in the outhouse and tear off sheets as needed.
**One more tidbit. Sears got complaints from customers when they switched from the softer butt friendly paper to the glossy stuff .
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If you are low on toilet tissue, or bog roll, get one of those bidet bottles. You will actually be cleaner than with just paper.
