> > It was also be a good time for a soda/beer run if you live in CT, 
> > back when. Rhode Island bottles have the CT deposit code on them 
but 
> > Rhode Island never had a bottle deposit in the past. 
> 
> People used to do that from Mass. as well.
> 
It was never a pile of money, but it's still probably done.  There's 
a decent bottle bounty up in Canada, which makes me wonder if some 
don't cart bottles and cans across.  

> > > I'm guessing we haven't missed all that much,
> > > and whatever good was undoubtedly balanced by
> > > bunches of tsouris.
> > I've heard a lot about dating from those who did it.  We probably 
> > didn't miss much.
> 
> It really is a game for which I was not well suited.

The only games I've ever been much good at are Trivial Pursuit and 
some card games.  The rest ... pffft.
 
> > > I'm not sure. Never drove one, and the last time I saw 
> > > any there was a big procession of them down past the
> > > Berlin Cathedral. Maybe it was a belated funeral for 
> > > the East.
> > Or for the factory. 
> 
> The factory was even longer gone I believe.

Someone probably poured cement into the factory.  As I recall you had 
to do something similar to a Trabbie if you wanted to import it into 
the US with the engine inside. 
 
> > > Let's face it - in most matchups there's a certain go
> > > figure component.
> > Some of them I never could understand.
> 
> Most of them perhaps. But rationality is not a
> paramoumt human characteristic.

Some days, I'm not sure it's even a human characteristic.  

> > > > Or at least pull to death.  Christmas sweaters done in by 
Santa 
> > > > Claws.
> > > A manifestation of feline good taste.
> > Or at least the need to sharpen claws and stretch a bit.
> 
> I thought that's what furniture was for.

That too, but cats are flexible that way.
 
> > > course, it might have been played by someone 
> > > with a tin ear.
> > And lead hands. 
> 
> Just acidy sweat, perhaps. We have members here
> with acidy sweat.

My late dad used to kill battery-operated watches, possibly for that 
reason. 
 
> > Too true, at least when it comes to manufactured items.  Gold 
bullion 
> > is even better, but not nearly as much fun.
> 
> Gold doesn't really appreciate that much over
> time and in the short run it's volatile.

OTOH it's fairly safe in the long run.  Money in banks actually loses 
value over time with current interest rates.
 
> > > > > I always liked the name lucite.
> > > > Dupont got one right then.
> > > It got a number of things right. Silverstone is one of
> > > the great inventions.
> > Ick. Not for me thanks.  
> 
> Whyever not?

Nonstick is nastiness.  
 
> > > > Back 250 years ago, nobody could. They probably knew a bunch 
of 
> > > > Taylors and such. 
> > > Pork roll burgers
> > I haven't had pork roll in 30 years. 
> 
> Me either, as I like pork but not rolls in general.

Especially not rock hard rolls, or rock'n'rolls?