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Dollar matinees on Saturday mornings.
Penny candy and the stores that sold them.
Pristine forests and meadows that don't really belong to anyone.

Also, Neon Noir reminded me of my going-back to get a certain pair of pants ("trousers", to Brits) that I love so much, and they don't carry them, anymore----I was BEYOND bummed!! I didn't think of looking for them, on the Internet----I'm gonna have to do that, when I can afford them, again.....

Also, I've been buying about 5 regular lightbulb packages every time I go to Wal-Mart (a dollar and some change, for 4), cuz I just don't like those CFLs (or, whatever they're called), cuz they emit some kind of gas, or something----they smell real chemical-like when they're getting ready to burn-out----plus, I heard somewhere that they emit a "gas"----THEN, I read somewhere that they let-off a gas----and that concerns me.....

quadraphonic sound. the original redbook spec for audio CDs specified an optional 4-channel encoding. so like many other things that were not given a proper ironing out period, quad CDs were stillborn.

You might want to watch this German documentary:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0x3rbHFwQU
I like to point out to the receptionists at work that though their computer monitor is restricted by law to the amount of dirty electricity it radiates, the CFL light bulb sitting the same distance from their head radiates 70 times more than computer monitor.

So I bought boxes of the old light bulbs on e-Bay, more than I will ever need, maybe they will be worth something soon and I can make a profit.

Back to the topic, best trousers, (pants) I ever had were "Levi's Sta-press" back around 1970, in petrol blue, they were a perfect fit and looked good, never found trousers since that looked like they fit.

But hey!, looking for images to show you, looks like they are being made again! (though rather expensive now) http://www.triads.co.uk/triads-mens-c1/trousers-c174/levis-sta-prest-tapered-trousers-navy-p66471

Regarding the mobile phones, I think USA people have a far wider range to choose from. Whenever I see a nice handset online, it's limited to contracts with some USA carrier. A few years ago when I was looking for a sliding-physical-qwerty-keyboard touch-screen phone, there was absolutely none available here in W Australia. A year or two before that, there had been a few but they also gradually disappeared from the market.

Unscented liquid hand soap sounds fantastic. For some reason, most hand soaps tend to have sickeningly strong artificial fruit/floral smell. It's hard to find a decent one. The one I use now has a grapefruit smell. It's one of the few that I like. I always worry that it will become unavailable soon. I'm sure it will because it doesn't seem to be very popular.

Lawn darts, damn it! I used to have hours of fun with the neighborhood kids throwing them in the air, and then trying desperately not to get one imbedded in my skull!

analog NTSC television broadcasting [north and south America]. our present ATSC system doesn't cut it in terms of signal propagation, too many rural areas are not served compared with NTSC. they should have stuck with ACTV [Advanced Compatible TV] I & II, IMHO. ACTV I is a substantially more robust NTSC-channel-compatible [6MHz bandwidth], receiver-compatible system using many different techniques to add widescreen panels and increase horizontal and vertical resolution. Among the techniques are the filling of a Fukinuki hole, time compression, seam-elimination, spatio-temporal filtering, and quadrature modulation of the picture carrier. ACTV II is ACTV I plus a 6 MHz bandwidth augmentation channel to improve ACTV I's resolution and sound, to be usually assigned to the UHF band.

A cap with a built-in solar-powered fan.

Oreo Cakesters. Goddammit, Nabisco.

jones turkey and gravy/dressing-flavored soda.

^I gotta tell ya, I almost projectile vomited on my flat-screen just thinking about how horrible that sounds!

I never got to try it, daggone it! I was DEPRIVED!

Transistor Radios

More than the item is the the music listened to on that device and an attitude long gone, expressed in this song


Nowadays for summer and weekends are going from one air conditioned (or heated in the winter) place to another seeing the world through a device. For kids it's every minute programmed by their helicopter parents and fear permeates. Cameras were not recording my every move in public and my parents did not have the technologies to check what I was doing every minute. I credit that with surviving the nightmare of undiagnosed, unrecognized autism.

- Over the air TV service; in Canada, you used to be able to watch TV from almost anywhere, free and legally! Ever since the stupid f*****g digital transition though, they decided not to bother with updating most of the transmitters, since most people just use cable or satellite. I liked the idea of OTA TV, since it was good for people like me who only watch TV occasionally, and don't want to pay for service or get someone to come in and set up a reciever.

- Analog cellular phone service; I remember my parents used to keep a bag phone in their truck, and it was THE perfect solution for contacting people on the go. In Northern Alberta, at least, there are still wide areas where digital cellular reception is poor, but this wasn't the case with the reliable old analog service.

- The old formulation for NOS Energy Drink; it used to have 250mg of caffeine in a 473ml can, but idiotic Health Canada regulations, and ignorant people who'd chug 5 of them at a time or whatever, killed this.

- Incandescent light bulbs; they're technically not dead here yet, but they are being phased out. I say they're still more environmentally friendly than flourescent bulbs, as they aren't filled with mercury and all that other crap, and they last just as long anyway. Plus, their lack of energy efficiency, which would really be a non-issue if we were to switch to renewable forms of energy, was actually an unintentional feature, since a few of them could help warm up a room.

- VHS tapes and audiocassettes; home recording of almost ANY available audio/video signal, on portable, ubiquitous, formats that could easily be copied, exchanged among people, and archived? Yes!

- The old buffalo chicken strips from Dairy Queen; soaking them in hot sauce after they came straight out of the fryer made all the difference. These used to be soooooo good, but now they're just not the same.

apple-flavored diet slice [a pepsi product they discontinued a while back]

I remember years ago when they brought out different flavours of Big M (flavoured milk) they had blue heaven big m but sadly it was taken off the market.