The Official Status Update Thread #226 Tis the Season

[SEIndSAM]

 

[Expat]

bought deli chicken breast this week for lunch sandwiches. The king is once again unimpressed. I looked at the roast beef sunday... $14,99 a pound now... that is ****ing crazy

 

[Expat]

went out and got the mail and paper. it looks nice out but that wind is pretty biting

 

[ancjr]

I remember when brisket used to be $0.99/lb and we'd cook one on a whim. Now, it's best to check with the bank first.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Batesville is 41* and sunny.

 

[GregD]

Every thing is done . . . .

 

[GregD]

ancjr, I remember gas at 80cents . . . . . those days are long ago.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Howdy Expat, Sam, ancjr and Greg.

You're right about the wind Expat! Just went out and got our mail and it's brisk despite it looking nice.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

ancjr, I remember gas at 80cents . . . . . those days are long ago.

Heck, I remember it down around 27 cents. It was before I started driving, but I remember giving a buddy a quarter to ride my bike up to the corner gas station and he could get almost a whole gallon for us to "play" with (we were pyromaniacs as kids).

 

[GregD]

Howdy DD

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Gotta go meet my sister after work. She has some pictures and things for me from Mom.

 

[Chewie]

ancjr, I remember gas at 80cents . . . . . those days are long ago.

I remember gas at 39 cents. Jeez even you make me feel old!
Oh, wait, I am old!

 

[OneBadV8]

 

[OneBadV8]

 

[rkwhyte2]

Heck, I remember it down around 27 cents. It was before I started driving, but I remember giving a buddy a quarter to ride my bike up to the corner gas station and he could get almost a whole gallon for us to "play" with (we were pyromaniacs as kids).

I remember those prices also. They pumped it for you, often times you scored a drinking glass. We weren't pyro's but we did make up some serious explosives.

 

[ancjr]

ancjr, I remember gas at 80cents . . . . . those days are long ago.

First gas I bought was 84 cents.

Way too many people at Walmart today.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I remember those prices also. They pumped it for you, often times you scored a drinking glass. We weren't pyro's but we did make up some serious explosives.

We had a Marathon station (actually they built a new one there now in the same spot) and they used to give away those red, white and blue ABA basketballs. But they were made of some kind of cheap plastic, so as they aged, they stretched out and kept getting bigger to where eventually they wouldn't fit through the hoop.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

And speaking of explosives, we used to go to Haag Drug and buy sulphur, potassium nitrate and powdered charcoal and make gunpowder. Never got it to explode but we made some hellacious smoke bombs!

 

[ancjr]

When I was a kid all I needed for an afternoon of fun was a can of carbide, a box of matches, and a field full of crawdad holes

 

[rkwhyte2]

And speaking of explosives, we used to go to Haag Drug and buy sulphur, potassium nitrate and powdered charcoal and make gunpowder. Never got it to explode but we made some hellacious smoke bombs!

Don't remember the ingredients but they definitely went BOOM. We used empty testors paint bottles, drill a hole in the top for cannon fuse then hot glue around the fuse, fill up the bottle and you have a depth charge. Another friend used empty CO2 bottles the little ones. The were extra powerful he stopped making them when he left one at a friends house and said friend decided it would be cool to detonate it in his mailbox. It destroyed the box and made a fist sized hole in the bottom wood. We had a lot of fun growing up.