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There is a survey going to find out what state we live in. Any thoughts on a survey to find out what our ages are?
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I am old :lol:
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I remember when dirt was a new hi-tech invention...........
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SA1911a1 wrote:I remember when dirt was a new hi-tech invention...........

I am older than dirt............. :toast:
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When I was a teenager, I sold Browning Auto 5 shotguns at the local hardware store for $169.95, and I thought that was a huge amount of money. My first gun at age 15 was a brand new Ruger 10/22. The gun design was so new, none of my friends and ever seen one. My shooting buddy's Dad bought him a M1 Carbine from the NRA for 20 bucks. I learned to drive in a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500; the car was four years old at the time. Does that give you any idea how old I am?
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tjtM38 wrote:When I was a teenager, I sold Browning Auto 5 shotguns at the local hardware store for $169.95, and I thought that was a huge amount of money. My first gun at age 15 was a brand new Ruger 10/22. The gun design was so new, none of my friends and ever seen one. My shooting buddy's Dad bought him a M1 Carbine from the NRA for 20 bucks. I learned to drive in a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500; the car was four years old at the time. Does that give you any idea how old I am?
Looks like you might just be eligible for membership the "Old Farts" forum. (I learned to drive in a '62 Ford Falcon.) I had a teacher that was in his 30s that was a Battle of the Buldge vet.... I am betting we are about the same age.
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To ****in' old !
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:To ****in' old !
Come on Jim, you can never be too old.
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You can in this damp weather when everything hurts, my dam cold is trying to come back. Yesterday was such a nice day, felt like early May, then I woke up to snow on the ground, it's 35 and a heavy, cold rain is falling. It's that kind of cold damp that gets right down into your bones. I got the heat all the way up, and hot tea .
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SA1911a1 wrote:
tjtM38 wrote:When I was a teenager, I sold Browning Auto 5 shotguns at the local hardware store for $169.95, and I thought that was a huge amount of money. My first gun at age 15 was a brand new Ruger 10/22. The gun design was so new, none of my friends and ever seen one. My shooting buddy's Dad bought him a M1 Carbine from the NRA for 20 bucks. I learned to drive in a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500; the car was four years old at the time. Does that give you any idea how old I am?
Looks like you might just be eligible for membership the "Old Farts" forum. (I learned to drive in a '62 Ford Falcon.) I had a teacher that was in his 30s that was a Battle of the Buldge vet.... I am betting we are about the same age.
I learned to drive in a 1956 Ford and my 1st car was a 1951 Ford, cost me $400. I bought a 1903-A3 Springfield in mid to late 50's for $20. And I was born very shortly after Pearl Harbor. That should get you close to this old guys age.
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tjtM38 wrote:I learned to drive in a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500; the car was four years old at the time. Does that give you any idea how old I am?
Very cool! I learned in a '64, 289, 3-speed on the column. I loved that car! It was 12 years old at the time.
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There seems to be alot of math going on here in this post and i am to old to remember the math. :lol: I swear there was not a math test to join this forum ....or was there? I may have forgotten that too :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Oh and by the way i learned on a john deere coffee can 2 cylinder tractor and a 56 ford pick up and i was way to young but i still had to buck those bails :lol:
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My last new car....
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I missed Nam but could have been in the Gulf War 1. And I used to bale hay on an old Farmall H. Film was in color. But the TV still had a clicker and we had a party line.
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Hell, we must have enough grey hair here to stuff a mattress. The Geritol gun forum. (do they still make Geritol, If not, Ted Mack is in big trouble.)

Some folks are ashamed of being old, I am just so surprised to have made it, I am overwhelmed with pride and joy. :D
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tjtM38 wrote:When I was a teenager, I sold Browning Auto 5 shotguns at the local hardware store for $169.95, and I thought that was a huge amount of money. My first gun at age 15 was a brand new Ruger 10/22. The gun design was so new, none of my friends and ever seen one. My shooting buddy's Dad bought him a M1 Carbine from the NRA for 20 bucks. I learned to drive in a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500; the car was four years old at the time. Does that give you any idea how old I am?



I have one of those my dad bought through the NRA also...............
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I could buy a candy bar when I was 8 in 1974 for .15 cents
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etprescottazusa91 wrote:I could buy a candy bar when I was 8 in 1974 for .15 cents
Some of us here bought them for a nickle.....and they were much bigger. I also remember a Coke machine that took a nickle and a penny to dispense a Coke. (8 oz cokes only) I also remember when they added the penny. :D I remember my dad swearing he would quit smoking when they went to thirty-five cents a pack. He didn't and croaked from smoking. When I was in the service I bought gasoline on a regular basis for 19.9 cents per gallon, and that was hi-test that went in the '67 Plymouth Fury III. When I was really small, there was a "juke joint" in the town that I lived in that had a sign painted on the wall that advertised " Cold Beer 5 cents" When I was growing up, there were a lot of men with only one arm or leg in the small town I lived in. Also a lot of alcoholics......I had no idea, at the time, how they got that way.
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