Older than Dirt!

[KvHagedorn]

Re: Older than Dirt!

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.

If that's true, it's one of the saddest things I've ever heard.. and the writer doesn't even seem to realize it!

[xortam]

Originally posted by degrub
23/25 .

....still shakin the dirt off my boots

Ditto ... missed #1 and #8. Blackjack chewing gum sounds familiar but I don't quite recall it. Perhaps it was regional.

[Brian Ellis]

Originally posted by Fat Tone
Only 7 and I'm 36. I think more are USA specific than Brian thinks.

It was nearly 8, but our glass milk bottles always had foil tops.

Foil tops came in during the 1950s in the UK. Before that, they were waxed cardboard tops with a perforated circle in the middle that you were supposed to be able to press down to get a finger-grip to pull the top off. As often as not, the whole cardboard top would splooch into the milk, which would splash over a radius of 1 m. The only thing that could penetrate the circle with precision was the beak of a blue tit, which would such up the cream (this, of course, was when milk was milk, unhomogenised and unpasteurised, but delicious, not like the rubbish sold in cartons and plastic bottles today). I also remember when cheese was cheese and not the plasticised, tasteless, factory-made garbage that passes for cheese today (exception: some Swiss cheeses are still made with unprocessed milk. If you can find it, try some Etivaz. This is a Gruyère-style cheese, made in Alpine chalets by the traditional method; a thin sliver releases an explosion of Alpine meadow flavours).

[Umfriend]

One is as young as he does not remember.

[VJ]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
I wouldn't use the word evolve. Things change, but not necessarily for the better.

Just to brush up on my English: Do you mean that the word evolve is only used for improvements? I thought it was neutral (in the sense that it doesn't imply positive or negative changes)...


Jörg

[KvHagedorn]

Well, it has a more positive connotation. Such as "humans evolved from the apes" (as though humans really are any better..) Seems to me to connote something that moves toward a more perfect state.

[VJ]

Well, we learn something everyday... In Dutch the word can be used for both positive and negative changes (most commonly for positive changes though).


Jörg

[Sasq]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=evolve

VJ the meaning is neutral(ish) basic meaning is just to change to suit ones environment better

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
Foil tops came in during the 1950s in the UK. Before that, they were waxed cardboard tops with a perforated circle in the middle that you were supposed to be able to press down to get a finger-grip to pull the top off. As often as not, the whole cardboard top would splooch into the milk, which would splash over a radius of 1 m. The only thing that could penetrate the circle with precision was the beak of a blue tit, which would such up the cream (this, of course, was when milk was milk, unhomogenised and unpasteurised, but delicious, not like the rubbish sold in cartons and plastic bottles today). I also remember when cheese was cheese and not the plasticised, tasteless, factory-made garbage that passes for cheese today (exception: some Swiss cheeses are still made with unprocessed milk. If you can find it, try some Etivaz. This is a Gruyère-style cheese, made in Alpine chalets by the traditional method; a thin sliver releases an explosion of Alpine meadow flavours).

unhomogenised and unpasteurised products sometimes kill people

[Brian Ellis]

Originally posted by Technoid
unhomogenised and unpasteurised products sometimes kill people

Pasteurisation may kill some naughty microorganisms, but homogenisation never saved a life since it was invented, All it does is to break up the fat globules into a suspension. However, whenever I can, I'll eat/drink dairy products as God intended us to enjoy the taste. and not rubbishy factory-made apologies of them. I'll take the infinitismally tiny risk of dying from listeria: the risk of being crushed by a satellite falling from the sky is much greater. May God preserve us from politicians who try to dictate what we are supposed to eat!