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did I pass?
no you have not passed yet
test is done and complete figured out the problem and fixed it
you forgot,
If it were an actual emergency...
In the unlikely event of a water landing your seat cushion can be used as a pfd
the sandbox is great for stuff like this BTW
Can you hold the laser level while I shave?
This is ONLY a test. Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been directed to the nearest exit.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Answer your damn pager and think of a better subject to post. LOL
That's not a pager! That was a test of the Emergency broadcast system. So ah...
What do ya want to talk about... Insert infinite silence here.
Ahhhh, musta been a UFO
Unidentified Forum Object)
Go it, it's OK now.
10-4
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Man, I must be old. This whole thread reminded me of the Indian head test pattern they would put on TV at the end of the "broadcast day". Remember anyone? And of course , for those of us here in the States, our national anthem.
Yes youngsters, Most TV stations went off the air around midnight each night. Not the 24 hour deal we have now. Ya Ya and a major mode of travel at one time was the horse and buggy...I told you, I'm OLD!!!
I'm misting up.
Brian
Brian,
Horse and Buggy! You were lucky!!
In my day there were no 'osses tuh pull t' buggy. We had to round up local starvling-children from t' gutter then mek them pull by danglin' a wormy carrot on a stick. (They would do owt for carrot gruel).
And the buggies didn't 'ave them new-fangled wheels, tha knows. No, no - they has nowt but sleds made o' [that's enough Yorkshire Boasting for one post - The Taunton Yorky-catcher].
Lataxe, who has graduated to a bicycle.
Kids today just don't know how good they have it I say!!!
Yeah, well, I had to walk to school barefoot in snow up to a tall Indian's ####... and it was uphill both ways...
Funny how we remember "the old days". My folks, who are in their 80's are bound and determined that NOTHING invented or manufactured after WWII is worth a hoot.
I once turned down a job because I found out the company was Japanese owned. I knew my mother would never speak to me again...
Now, get off the computer and get out to the shop before I get my razor strop...
Done and done Sir.
Jeeesh, you and Brian had it made with a TV! We didn't have a TV till I was 12, B4 that it was listening to the radio. Tarzan, Bomba, Gene Autry, Amos and Andy.
When my folks finally got a TV (most folks thought it was just a fad) it was so snowy you could hardly see the picture. The test pattern came in the best!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
I was 12 too when we got our first tv. Listened to the radio before that. Remember private eye "Johnny Dollar" at nite, or "Don Mac Neil's Breakfast Club" in the morning?
Ray
Ray,
Ya mean that guy with all the expenses!?
I couldn't stay up that late, had to do homework by candlelight; folks couldn't afford kerosene. Dad used to get the fallow for the candles from the rabbits he raised for food which were quite lean. Took 43 rabbits to make a candle!?
:>)
As to that mornin show I had to get up at 3AM to walk the 67.3 miles to school barefoot (thank God is was downhill both ways). Sloggin thru the leaves in the fall, snow in winter; all the while anticipating mud season.
Seriously though, I do remember Johnny Dollar. Do you member who played him?
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
Don't remember. I was at an age where the "star" 's name wouldn't have meant a thing to me. Just a young sprout.
Ray
Bob Bailey and Charles Russell played Johnny Dollar
You young punks! The first time I saw a TV was when I was in college and didn't have one in the house till I had finished college and a spent two years in the army. Suppose I'm admitting to my age.
And to think you had horses back then. We've never had anything better than a wheel barrow. My wife always exclaims how nice it to carry the groceries from town in just one trip. Uh, yah. I just had to add that.
Tinker,
Wheelbarrow!! You guys had a wheelbarrow? My brother would put the groceries on my back, and then pick up my legs. I had to walk on my hands until dad could get a wheel for me to hold onto.
Groceries! You were lucky to have groceries. We ate road kill til I was oldenough to throw rocks at the possums we lived with.
Possums! You had possums? We lived with...
Ray
Times are hard aren't they. And things will be bad for a long, long time and then they will get much worse.
tink,
Ah, not so bad yet, I don't think. I remember a conversation with a fellow who'd gone thru the depression, the big one back in the thirties. He said once that his mom told 'em they'd be having meat that nite for dinner for a change. His dad had brought home a box of animal crackers!
Ray
I forgot to mention, we did have a wheel barrow. It had a steel wheel that eventually wore out or got broken and we had to replace it with a wooden block that had to be replaced quite often. It couldn't be pushed like that so we wired some rings onto the handle ends and pulled it.
One year, my dad told me that our total family expenses were less that one hundred dollars. This last sentence is authentic.
Ray,
Thee aren't originally from Heckmondwike; or mebbes Giggleswick, art thou? Tha goes on just like a Yorky bloke!
Lataxe, who has eaten roast hedgepig only once (which is enough).
Lataxe,
Bit of a sticky hedgehog, that, wot?
Although I've never been to Yorkshire, I am a devotee of their pudding, alongside a nice rib roast, on the dining table. Also of the old books, and series "All Creatures Great and Small", by Herriott
Ray
... and finally, when you turned the set off (that's right, it was called a 'set') you had to wait a minute or two and watch that little dot in the center of the screen fade away.
Crap, does this officially make me an old guy?
I remember when record players used cactus needles."There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster
And of course as the set is turned of you pass your hand over the screen to feel the static electricity...and yes, you too my friend are getting there. Kinda cool though huh? OK...false bravado. Sucks getting old.
Brian
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