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Comments: You know, I feel really out of touch since I can't remember what color our "Princess" phone was OR if we even had a Princess phone. I assume that this is a really important topic, but I just don't remember.And, please don't tell anyone, but most of my shorts are pleated, but unlike the "shorts" web site that I referred JS to, I do not wear black socks when I wear them. Thanks to all of you who have asked about Joan since JS mentioned on 2 occasions that she broke her wrist last week. Being a teacher, this will just about take care of the summer she had been looking forward to. Wait! I was mistaken. No one has asked anything about Joan. I'll ask her if she remembers what color her Princess phone was.
Comments: Can we please get back to discussing JS's capri pants? er, shorts?
Comments: Martha, you know that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Silverdust twins? The 50's? Lynell, I thought you got off crack and had been clean for a while!
Comments: By Silverdust Twins, I was referring to a laundry soap from the 1950's. Googled it and discovered it's a porn site now. Sorry, fellows. I think the soap was packed with a dish towel inside, which probably cost the maker less than a box of soap would have. 
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Comments: I don't know about white or turquoise but a pink vintage princess phone sold on Ruby Lane (an on-line antique dealer) for $195.00. I think mine was yellow but I didn't have it untlil 1966. I really waited a long time before becoming a princess.
Comments: I had the White Princess Phone when I was 16.. I also got grounded for 2 weeks because I couldn't stay off the phone.. I told my mother they were calling me.. She told me I had to learn to say "Goodbye"... I was not happy....
Comments: OOPS! Franklin 4- 3206
Comments: Franklin 4-3209....I can't remember the others we had but this is the last one we had before they changed. We always had one black phone until my uncle gave me a turquoise, Princess phone for my room! That was really something for me........same phone line tho...Ha!. I sure wish I still had that phone!
Comments: Barry, I said I was up to nonsense today, which means I do not want to work hard for an answer. If you know, spit it out. Jud, I am wondering why you have the perfect shoes and bag for John's micro-mini. Lynell, you better get bacl to the store and get one for John and one for Jud.
Comments: I rember having Whitehall, Franklin, and Federal at different times. John, I think you'd be adorable in one of Lynell's denim micro-minis! And I've got the perfect shoes and bag to go with it.
Comments: For a history of phone prefixes: http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory3A/numbers.html FWIW, Wichita Falls was the first city to drop the named prefixes.
Comments: Since the advent of cellphones I can't remember any phone numbers. Some guy asked me what my son's number was the other day and I told him, "4". It's four on my speed dial. I'm gonna be in trouble at the jail when I have to make my one call. I won't know the number unless they give me my phone back!
Comments: DRexell 4-3337 here. That was for the one black phone that sat on the little table in the hall. The table had a chair attached, and a place for phone books and a note pad. Funny how much easier phone numbers were to remember back then.
Comments: Lynell, I had Emerson, didn't get it on my list but I had not thought of Fleetwood. Katleen it must have been in the 60's but I am not sure when. Our house on Opal was originally DRexell 4-3862 but it was changed to FRanklin 4-3862 in the 1950's.
Comments: Hey Martha do you remember what year the prefixes were dropped and why? They seem so cool. I remember the movie "BUtterfield 8."
Comments: Hi, Martha. Glad you're putting your recovery time to good use. How 'bout EMerson and FLeetwood?
Comments: Glad we are talking nonsense again. With too much time on my hands I have been trying to remember the old telephone exchanges in Dallas. So far I have AXtel, BElmont, BRoadway, DIamond, Drexell, FEderal, FRanklin, HAmilton, LAkewood, MElrose, RIverside, TAylor and WHitehall. Any more?
Comments: If I may also ring in (DING!) on the shorts length issue, recently I went shopping for a denim skirt. I asked a lady at Stein Mart where they were. She directed me to a rack of micro-mini Daisy Duke-length skirts. Y'all will be happy to know that I kept on looking and will not show up in at a SOC event wearing a teeny denim skirt.
Comments: Cynthia, I agree. I seldom do self-checkout. Maybe for one or two items, but anything more is too complicated. My grocery store peeve is having to unload my own basket onto a belt. With my goofy wrists, I have trouble putting heavy things into the basket in the first place. It's hard to watch the checker, which I always do, if I'm unloading. Then there are the checkers/sackers who have never bought groceries so they put the bananas in the bag underneath the milk. Albertson's also has the bell for happy customers. DING DING DING.
Comments: Barry, there are NO appropriate shorts for me at our local retail outlets. All are way too long. Plus, I take exception to your formula for determining the correct length [length equals waist measurement minus 12 inches]. As an example let's say we have two good lookin' guys who each stand 5'7" tall. Guy "A" we will call "Tom Cruise" and Guy "B" we will call Johnny-J. Let us suppose that Tom has a 36" waistline and J-J has a 44" waistline, even though both are the same height. Using the Gibbs Shorts Length Formula, Tom's shorts will be 24" long, while J-J's shorts will be 32" long. If the two are standing side-by-side on the red carpet which of them will look the dorkiest? Guy B will - as his shorts will nearly touch his ankles. Seems to me the formula should be based more on the distance from the individual's waistline to the ground; as opposed to some function of the distance around his middle. ps - I hope Joan's wrist is not giving her too much discomfort.
Comments: Could it be yet another...rendition of....Pavlov's Dog...? I'm going to look for the Bell at our Memphis' Kroger's.... 
Comments: That is funny John. They really need a bell for the self check out to show how poorly it works instead. Maybe if they heard that bell enough they could get things working bettter - you think? I try to avoid the self check but since they insist on taking away jobs and making us check ourselves out or stand in a long line for the few people they have on duty. Ugh - lose either way.
Comments: My local Kroger's grocery store has instituted an irritating new concept. At each cash register there is a bell like you'd see at a hotel counter. The idea is that if the customer feels he/she has received "excellent service", they are encouraged to ring the bell. To my surprise some folks actually do ring that bell. I find it annoying and ridiculous. Should we not expect and be entitled to excellent service without having to perform like a circus seal? Perhaps it is a management tool of some sort? Does someone stand around with a clicker and keep count of the number of rings each cashier receives? Is there a bonus in place for whichever register keeps the bell a-ringin'? I'll be glad when Dru is back on her feet and able to make the grocery runs.
Comments: Everybody loves these kind of Posts. It keeps them entertained...! They are probably saying...Read SOC63, they are on another....wild and crazy discussion... Namaste all you people...out there.. Have a wonderful,( and as we use to say in the public schools), a wacky Wednesday...! Betty Gibbs has posted some good old Deb pictures with lots of comments on FB..
Comments: If you hit the 'enter' button too soon...It posts nothing...!  Barry...I'm wa-a-a-ay beyond your help....Too much left brain...thinking...  Whole Brain thinking is what we want....! 
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Comments: Ginger: Even with my keen perception of the universe, I think you are beyond help.
Comments: Charlotte, cruise over to whadamson63.com.. There's this guy named Billy Jack Barrett that leased/owned a ranch in Colo... He had all those characters visiting on his ranch, plus Pat Brady..in the 70's... I'm sorry the museum is closing.. Maybe some filthy- rich person will step up to the plate and ....buy them...! Barry, we don't all possess your perception of the Universe... Thank you very much.. I like Pelosi....! You just don't like her because she's a woman and she doesn't know her place...! Get over it...!
Comments: Before I make all the un-like-minded SOC graduates mad, I will get off my political soapbox. I just hope the subject does not revert to hospitals, undergarments, illnesses and Hands Across the Sand. We need more JS humor and serious questions such as proper mens' shorts length. John, you did find some appropriate shorts? |
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