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Best Response Ever To How Kids Survived Without Computers. This Is Gold.
tickld ^ | Apr. 21, 2015

Posted on 04/22/2015 11:57:14 AM PDT by Duke C.

[snip]My mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e. Coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

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To: PeteyBoy; Bloody Sam Roberts

I laughed at your post.

Usually it was straight alcohol at our house or the purple stuff we put on the horses and cows.

We had these steel cups for pole vaulting that had torch cut edge on them. Somehow I slipped on one of these things bare foot and peeled the ball off of my foot at school. Alcohol and a bandage was all it got. Still got the foot. Ball and all more than 50 years later.


61 posted on 04/22/2015 5:08:29 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: CrazyIvan
Iodine is for sissies. We had Mercurochrome

Merthiolate was the bad stuff. Felt like you were being cauterized. My dad would say "If it hurts it's killing germs so it's a good thing".

62 posted on 04/22/2015 6:04:11 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Duke C.

Enjoyed the article and the thread Thanks!


63 posted on 04/22/2015 6:12:30 PM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: TBP

I’m now into gas station sushi.


64 posted on 04/22/2015 6:15:01 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Duke C.

65 posted on 04/22/2015 6:17:28 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

I read once where a pharmaceutical company spent a fortune making an effective sting free antibiotic. Because it didn’t hurt no one thought it was any good. They put a little alcohol in it just to make it sting and sales picked up.


66 posted on 04/22/2015 7:20:35 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: CrazyIvan

I still remember that foul orange stuff. Just mom grabbing the red bottle made me wince....


67 posted on 04/22/2015 7:25:06 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mugwump

Yup nasty stuff. but it did leave your skin a cool pink orange color


68 posted on 04/22/2015 7:26:13 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
My dad would say "If it hurts it's killing germs so it's a good thing".

He must have been in the same infantry company as my dad. That's the exact admonishment I received.

69 posted on 04/22/2015 7:27:24 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: Sequoyah101
That's an owwie.

Well, you and Steven Tyler have something in common. He lost the ball of his foot by not keeping it off the pavement while riding a motorcycle. But I'm sure his injury had more to do with alcohol and pharmaceuticals than yours did.

70 posted on 04/22/2015 7:29:47 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: Duke C.

I drank water from the garden hose and didn’t get sick, ... and actually rode in back of a pick-up truck with a group of friends a couple of times. No one fell out of the truck.


71 posted on 04/22/2015 8:23:35 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“Must not be from the Cleveland area! Every newscast gave the E.Coli count, and told which beaches were “safe!””

They did that 70 years ago?????


72 posted on 04/22/2015 8:37:48 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Duke C.

Good posting and good memories from my boyhood in the ‘40s-’50s!


73 posted on 04/22/2015 8:39:26 PM PDT by octex
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Must have come from a Navy Corpsman. My Dad got the same thing.


74 posted on 04/22/2015 8:56:39 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: C19fan
Oh yeah baby! Also doing Jack Knives. I used to go to a swim club with a small fake lake and they had a

You weren't one of those kids that hit your head on the bottom and wound up a little hinky... like starting to say something and suddenly wandering off without finishing the story, or something, were you?

75 posted on 04/22/2015 9:21:56 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Sergio

Shooting off firecrackers at the police station just to get them to chase you.


76 posted on 04/22/2015 9:52:18 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: dalereed

50+ years ago


77 posted on 04/22/2015 10:31:18 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Duke C.

“We had 40 kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do math and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter.”

...but apparently not a grammatically correct post about how they survived before computers. There are plenty of places where they don’t even get the punctuation right.

Time for the paddle again!


78 posted on 04/23/2015 6:33:47 PM PDT by bolobaby
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