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« Reply #45 on: October 08, 2009, 07:34:29 pm » |
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Cigarette machines have pretty much gone the way of the 8 track tape in today's world. There's no way that people can monitor who buys the cigarettes. I see them on VERY rare occasion.
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« Reply #46 on: October 09, 2009, 02:54:29 pm » |
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There was one of those pull handle cigarette machines in the basement of my freshman dormitory.
Some of my fellow scholars got in trouble once for turning it on its head and shaking it in an effort
to get some free cigarettes. No cigarettes would come out. They could have broken the glass front
of the machine and taken cigarettes, but they were not common drunks, they were drunken scholars.
The machine held onto its cigarettes, but lots and lots of quarters cascaded out. The scholars
set the machine back on its feet, and used the quarters to buy its cigarettes, which at that time, I think,
were one quarter per pack. That seemed a more honorable transaction, anyway. The vendor disagreed,
and called campus police, which caused a lot of temporary trouble.
I suspect cigarette vending machines are rare in today's college dormitories. Instead, dorms have become
co-ed suburbs of Gomorrah. Given that choice, we would have given up the machines in a flash.
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
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« Reply #47 on: October 09, 2009, 03:11:19 pm » |
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Growing up in N.E. Arkansas on my family's farm, my Grandpa and Grandma would drive down from Poplar Bluff, MO. on Sundays after Church with Pop. Mind you, this was the 80's, but in Maynard, AR things were different. We would fish for catfish in the pond and make hand churned ice cream. We still have about 5,000 acres of land and raise Hereford cows. When I was 10 I rode a horse for the first time. When I was a kid fun time meant roaming the fields. This is a pic of my family home taken about 20 years ago from a surveyor. All the land you see plus thousands of acres are ours. Gotta find more pics.  |
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« Reply #48 on: October 09, 2009, 05:38:08 pm » |
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Growing up in Iowa and Northern part of Illinois...it was pop and pop bottles. Or it was specific...like Squirt (I loved that stuff), Pepsi, Orange-Grape or Strawberry Nehi, Creme soda or Root beer. There are a couple of A&W's in adjacent counties. One is a drive thru with Long John Silvers. The other one is up in Pigeon Forge and it's a drivein with carhops. I don't think either one has frozen glass mugs. We had A&W and Dog & Suds driveins when I was a kid....best hamburgers and floats....  My grandparents had a "store" in their house in Akron OH. They lived on the corner and what was originally the living room was the store. A cabinet full of penny candy, refrig units with beer, milk and eggs, two walls of canned goods, cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco, bread rack. A glass canister with pretzel sticks in it sat on the counter.....it now sits on my kitchen counter filled with M&M's. I loved to go visit there. Was up there 2 years ago, with my son, for my aunt's funeral, and I took my son by to see the house. What had seemed so big, when I was a child.....is just a little house. 5 rooms with a back porch that Grandad kept the beer and pop cases. So many memories..... |
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Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....
Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.
"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry
A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.
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« Reply #49 on: October 09, 2009, 08:43:44 pm » |
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Growing up in N.E. Arkansas on my family's farm, my Grandpa and Grandma would drive down from Poplar Bluff, MO. on Sundays after Church with Pop. Mind you, this was the 80's, but in Maynard, AR things were different. We would fish for catfish in the pond and make hand churned ice cream. We still have about 5,000 acres of land and raise Hereford cows. When I was 10 I rode a horse for the first time. When I was a kid fun time meant roaming the fields. This is a pic of my family home taken about 20 years ago from a surveyor. All the land you see plus thousands of acres are ours. Gotta find more pics. Great looking place! |
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« Reply #50 on: October 10, 2009, 03:05:02 am » |
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Barqs. Beats MUG everytime.
And Frosty beats them both, but I haven't seen it for decades. |
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« Reply #51 on: October 10, 2009, 03:17:02 am » |
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And Frosty beats them both, but I haven't seen it for decades.
Frostie? Sure, they are bottling that in Texas now. East coasters must be SOL, though. |
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« Reply #52 on: October 10, 2009, 03:21:02 am » |
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Frostie? Sure, they are bottling that in Texas now. East coasters must be SOL, though.
Really? Does it still have the picture of the little elf guy* on it? I tell you I loved that stuff and could only rarely find it. When I did get it it usually came from little country stores in the mountains. edit: *or maybe he was a dwarf |
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« Reply #53 on: October 10, 2009, 03:28:43 am » |
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Really? Does it still have the picture of the little elf guy* on it?
Yeah, they've got it all over here. Grocery stores, Wal-Mart, etc. |
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« Reply #54 on: October 10, 2009, 08:01:40 am » |
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When I lived in Masshole, getting a tonic and grinder was the thing to do when hungry.
I love Grinders. I lived in southern Mass AKA Rhode Island, Grinders ruled. |
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