Didg,
I was 14 years 11 months. This was in 1975 and the place Wolverhampton. (It was before the Dudley Ass Hall was built)
Thirdson
Firstson - 13
Secondson - 16
Fourthson - 18
Onlydaughter - 17
Fifthson - 15
Thirdson
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How old were you when you got baptised???
by digderidoo in.
i was 15, quite old compared to some.. a friends child has just got baptised at 13.....to think that she knows what she wants for the rest of her life at that age seems ludicrous.. so, who here got baptised at the youngest age?.
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Remember the slide rule?
by JH indid you ever work with this contraption?
when i was young, i used it in school.
did you ever use this, and do you still remember how it works?.
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Teejay,
I remember my two older brothers (Firstson and Secondson, would you believe) doing their homework with slide rules in hand and not just drawing lines with them. They also wrote Latin with fountain pens. By the time I was in secondary school, Latin was not a required subject, ballpoint pens were acceptable and calculators were just coming on the market.
In the 70s I read a short Sci-Fi story about a spaceship that lost its main and only computer. The crew was forced to calculate their course with banks of slide rule calculations. I guess the storyteller never envisioned the ubiquity of the microprocessor and computer. (Manned space flight is nowhere near as advanced as I thought it would be either though. It’s been nearly 35 years since men orbited the moon and we have not ventured beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo program.)
Craig,
I never did anything with FORTRAN. The first computer I worked on was an IBM system of early 70s technology (I can't remember what it was). It had a typewriter interactive interface. The computer was restarted everyday and "boot" pack was 6 inches thick. (Don't ever drop the cards on the floor and have to resort them)
Thirdson
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Tennis Fashion?
by simplesally in.
i saw this on msn and it had a bunch of pictures of tennis outfits gone wrong.......... here is one they said was inspired by either batman or a tick..
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SimplySally's picture is inspired by Munsingwear. (They made union suits in the 19th century) I worked for Munsingwear and their later company that was heavy in to sportswear but I don't think tried Longjohns for tennis.
Thirdson
PS I worked as a contractor for Jockey underwear as well...now they had some interesting poster art in their offices!
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Remember the slide rule?
by JH indid you ever work with this contraption?
when i was young, i used it in school.
did you ever use this, and do you still remember how it works?.
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I remember them but I don't think I could use one that well now. I took 2 math classes in high school and in the one final exam we were allowed to use electronic calculators. I borrowed my dad's big clunky one. At college I had an LED scientific calculator that ate 2 AA batteries every month and took 5 seconds to calculate 69! I only had that about 2 years when I bought an LCD scientific calculator. That must have been 1979 and I still have it today. I have replaced the battery several times and it still works despite a kid playing with it, full immersion in water, being dropped, and being covered in sawdust...I keep it in my tool box.
Thirdson
PS Recently I was in an art supply store (in St. Paul) that sold all sorts of junk items. I picked up a pack of 80 column computer punch cards for 50 cents and took them to work. The first program I ever wrote was 90 lines long and I hand punched the cards. There were a couple of us who remembered punch cards .
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Prayers in Restaurants....
by caspian inon bank holiday monday just gone, a dear kind older couple in the cong decided to take me and my good lady out for a slap up meal, to try to cheer us up after the recent upheaval in our life.
somehow i ended up with the bill.. anyway, this was the local italian trattoria were we often go, and are on first names terms with the staff and quite a few of the other regulars.
big mistake!!.
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Joanna,
:crappy hotdishes and lime jello with marshmellos in it
To think I moved all way to Minnesota for this, and thought I was most blessed to receive the abundant provision of hotdish and jello at the
propersame time. (That and bars too)Third
Why is it we have 20 different types of pasta in our kitchen cupboards but they are all "noodles"? OK way off topic...
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Witnesses Win door to door right in Blainville
by JH in.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=883d6a7c-3f77-42f9-b1de-17f190e6745a
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Blondie, Scully,
You are both right in your comments and I am aware of the failings of the local congregation system. I onced asked the FS Overseer in my congregation whether he did the annual visit on the do-not-calls and he said no. He said the brothers call on them enough times by mistake each year and the householders usually let them know their feelings.
That said, the vast majority of people are totally unaware that they can ask not to be called on. If enough people requested this it would have an effect on the door-to-door ministry. The ones who didn't request not to be called on would soon get fed up with the visits and follow the example of their neighbors. If JWs persisted in ignoring the requests then people would start letter writing and threatening legal action. That would work and would be much better than a city introduced oridnance.
Regards,
Thirdson
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Brummie Is Beautiful
by Thirdson inthis is an article about the regional dialect in england centered around the industrial city of birmingham (brumijem to the locals) and not about our own brummie poster.
(that's not to say he isn't beautiful in his own way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3187433.stm.
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This is an article about the regional dialect in England centered around the industrial city of Birmingham (Brumijem to the locals) and not about our own Brummie poster. (That's not to say he isn't beautiful in his own way.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3187433.stm
The Midland accent, often mocked and usually a 'Black-country" accent as opposed to true Brummie (can you say Dudd-lay) is looked down upon by many native Brits. I once met a radio DJ at the Minnesota state fair who spent some time in the Midlands of England. He could do a really good Brummie accent. Far better than me and I used to live in the region.
Thirdson
Watch and listen here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39456000/rm/_39456373_brumvid_vi.ram
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Idiosyncrasies Of Jehovah's Witnesses
by minimus injw's are a peculiar bunch.
certain things are characteristic of the witnesses.
jw's are known for some weird, unconventional things.
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Paranoia. Seeing bad and evil in virtually every new thing, fad, fashion or invention.
Thirdson
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Tortoise Reaches a Milestone - 1000 posts
by Thirdson ini finally reached the 1000 post milestone today.
at an average of 1.07 posts per day i am not a heavy contributor to this board but i am a regular reader.
for a jedi the "force" is pretty weak in me and i rarely rattle my light sabre.. you may notice (or, since i rarely comment, not notice me at all) that i avoid commenting on inflammatory posts, i don't care for loonies or the prophets and don't waste my time reading let alone challenging the obviously wacky.
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Witnesses Win door to door right in Blainville
by JH in.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=883d6a7c-3f77-42f9-b1de-17f190e6745a
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I wrote to Harvey Shepherd adding my comment on the case. I explained the unadvertised provision by Jehovah's Witnesses to not call on people who request to be put on the local congregation's do-not-calll list. Those who request not to be called on will be left alone. There is no need to enact ill-conceived ordinances to restrict the canvassing activities of Jehovah's Witnesses. Any or all of the citizens of Blainville can make a simple verbal request to not be called on and Jehovah's Witnesses will respect that wish.
Thirdson