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Old August 3rd 11, 12:49 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2011-08-02, Joy wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote in message
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On 8/1/2011 8:28 PM, Cheryl wrote:
On 8/1/2011 8:31 PM, CatNipped wrote:

I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;


I'm old enough to remember having to position a portable cassette
recorder next to the radio to record my favorite songs. I'd get mad when
the DJ talked over the song. Yes there were records, but no way to get
them to be portable.


45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position,
but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). I loved the
vinyl records (I still say "album" rather than CD), scratches and all! I
had a "box" phonograph and I had to put a large plastic center piece over
the middle stem for 45s. It had the latest innovation - it would
automatically click and let down a record onto the turn-table so you could
stack up to 5 or 6 records and kick back and enjoy the tinny sounding love
songs!

Gosh, now I'm thinking about all the great music back then. I keep up
with the current singers and songs and I like most of it (everything
except Rap). But it just seems to me that now-a-days most singers rely
on their looks and on the recording studio to "mix" their voices - it's
rare that a singer can even play an instrument.

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CatNipped


You're a youngster! I remember when all records were 78 RPM. I still had a
couple of albums of 78s until a few years ago, when I sold them.

Joy



Those record albums really were albums - the record sleeves were bound in
a book like a photo album.

Bud
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Old August 3rd 11, 12:58 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2011-08-02, Joy wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote in message
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On 8/1/2011 8:28 PM, Cheryl wrote:
On 8/1/2011 8:31 PM, CatNipped wrote:

I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;


I'm old enough to remember having to position a portable cassette
recorder next to the radio to record my favorite songs. I'd get mad
when
the DJ talked over the song. Yes there were records, but no way to get
them to be portable.


45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position,
but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). I loved the
vinyl records (I still say "album" rather than CD), scratches and all! I
had a "box" phonograph and I had to put a large plastic center piece
over
the middle stem for 45s. It had the latest innovation - it would
automatically click and let down a record onto the turn-table so you
could
stack up to 5 or 6 records and kick back and enjoy the tinny sounding
love
songs!

Gosh, now I'm thinking about all the great music back then. I keep up
with the current singers and songs and I like most of it (everything
except Rap). But it just seems to me that now-a-days most singers rely
on their looks and on the recording studio to "mix" their voices - it's
rare that a singer can even play an instrument.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped


You're a youngster! I remember when all records were 78 RPM. I still
had a
couple of albums of 78s until a few years ago, when I sold them.

Joy



Those record albums really were albums - the record sleeves were bound in
a book like a photo album.

Bud


Yup. You could buy an album of records by one performer, or with one theme,
or you could buy an empty one and store singles in it. I had both kinds.

Joy


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Old August 3rd 11, 04:39 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position,
but I never used it and can't remember what it was for).


The third is a 78 rpm. I had (have) a number of 78s. Used to have a
lot of 8-track tapes as well. How about 16 mm and 8 mm home movies or
Brownie cameras? What was the first toy you *really* remember
receiving? Mine was a Betsy Wetsy doll. -Julie
  #44  
Old August 3rd 11, 06:03 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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In ,
CatNipped typed:
I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;


You *shook* it??? Are you *mad*????

Back when I was a kid, Mum specifically ordered un-homoginised milk. Like
her two children (my sister & I) she thought it a great treat to poik your
thumb through the foil top and get the cream, her for her coffee and us two
kids just to drink. As we only got one bottle of milk delivered a day, there
was always a race to get the bottle when the Milko delivered it, and a
stuggle to be the first one with their thumb. Mum used to go ballistic at us
for opening another bottle before the last one was emptied, but eventually
we realised she did the very same thing herself, but just didn't tell on
herself :-)

Yowie


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Old August 3rd 11, 10:26 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 8/2/2011 10:39 PM, Julie_Snowshoe wrote:


45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position,
but I never used it and can't remember what it was for).


The third is a 78 rpm. I had (have) a number of 78s. Used to have a
lot of 8-track tapes as well. How about 16 mm and 8 mm home movies or
Brownie cameras? What was the first toy you *really* remember
receiving? Mine was a Betsy Wetsy doll. -Julie


What!!!?? So was mine!

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Old August 3rd 11, 04:44 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:21 -0500, CatNipped
wrote:

Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't
"homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.


Somewhat after the introduction of homogenized milk, I spent some time
with the cousins, who had a couple of shorthorn cattle. The cream come
to the top of the jar in the fridge, of course. I recall using a fork
to dig some out of the jar, for iced coffee.

There are cream separators that spin the stuff in a bowl at high
speed, with the cream slopping over the rim. At first they were
powered by a horse walking in a circle. A guy named DeLaval used the
first steam turbines to drive them. The nozzle design is used today in
rocket engines.

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Old August 3rd 11, 08:02 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:21 -0500, CatNipped
wrote:

Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't
"homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.


Somewhat after the introduction of homogenized milk, I spent some time
with the cousins, who had a couple of shorthorn cattle. The cream come
to the top of the jar in the fridge, of course. I recall using a fork
to dig some out of the jar, for iced coffee.

There are cream separators that spin the stuff in a bowl at high
speed, with the cream slopping over the rim. At first they were
powered by a horse walking in a circle. A guy named DeLaval used the
first steam turbines to drive them. The nozzle design is used today in
rocket engines.


My Dad worked on his father's dairy before it was closed, and came away with
a souvenir. Every year as long as he lived, the family Christmas tree was
"planted" in a separator bowl.

Joy


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Old August 4th 11, 04:04 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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CatNipped wrote:
On 8/2/2011 2:15 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


CatNipped wrote:
I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?


Actually, when milk required "shaking" (before homogenization became
standard) it came in glass BOTTLES, not "cartons"!


Right, but now-a-days I shake a carton because I can't find it in a
bottle any more.


But it's homogenized, so it doesn't NEED shaking! (Actually, some
health food stores DO carry unhomogenized milk, but it's in either glass
or plastic bottles.)

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Old August 4th 11, 04:17 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 8/3/2011 10:04 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


CatNipped wrote:
On 8/2/2011 2:15 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


CatNipped wrote:
I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

Actually, when milk required "shaking" (before homogenization became
standard) it came in glass BOTTLES, not "cartons"!


Right, but now-a-days I shake a carton because I can't find it in a
bottle any more.


But it's homogenized, so it doesn't NEED shaking! (Actually, some health
food stores DO carry unhomogenized milk, but it's in either glass or
plastic bottles.)


That's the point!

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Hugs,

CatNipped
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