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Re: remember when
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2011, 10:42:14 PM »
All this furren currancy is makins mah head hurd

aren't you used to different currencies as you errant around on your quests, sir knight?
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Re: remember when
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2011, 10:51:18 PM »
All this furren currancy is makins mah head hurd

aren't you used to different currencies as you errant around on your quests, sir knight?

There's an App for that :)

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Re: remember when
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2011, 12:53:43 AM »
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

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Re: remember when
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2011, 01:11:01 AM »
aww...Flo :heart:

That's what I was thinking too. Awww.... Flo
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Re: remember when
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2011, 01:15:19 AM »
When bread was 25 cts a loaf, and an egg had the same price.

Now a simple bread is around 2 euro, more than 17 times as expensive, and an egg costs 20 cents at the most. Not even twice as expensive.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2011, 04:46:06 AM »
Beer was under $2 for a six pack
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Re: remember when
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2011, 11:37:54 AM »
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

when I started driving in 1998 it was under a dollar a gallon I remember .... It's $3.49 a gallon right now :(

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Re: remember when
« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2011, 11:41:55 AM »
Remember when cans of food were 16 ounces, not 14.5 ounces and tuna was 6 and 1/2 ounces, then 6 ounces, now 5 ounces.  Oh wait that was 2 years ago.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2011, 11:43:28 AM »
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

when I started driving in 1998 it was under a dollar a gallon I remember .... It's $3.49 a gallon right now :(

When I moved cross-country from Florida to Idaho in 1999 I filled up my gas tank for $0.99 a gallon, when I arrived it was $1.10 and hasn't dropped back below since.  I'm paying $3.39 a gallon now at the cheapest place in town :(

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Re: remember when
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2011, 12:12:17 PM »
Gas was $.589 a gal

Gas was $.399 for my 1964 Studebaker.

$.399/gallon must have been around 1920 or so here in Sweden. It's almost $10/US gallon here now.  :thumbdn:

when I started driving in 1998 it was under a dollar a gallon I remember .... It's $3.49 a gallon right now :(

I started driving (or got my license; I could drive when I was 13) in 1989. Then it costed a little less than a dollar a litre here. One US gallon is 3.8 litres.  :thumbdn:

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Re: remember when
« Reply #25 on: March 29, 2011, 12:14:21 PM »
that sucks, :( If that happened here "all of a sudden" , the economy would collapse.

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Re: remember when
« Reply #26 on: March 29, 2011, 12:59:03 PM »
TVs and radios had tubes in them you could take out and check at the drug store

Here is a box of them I picked up at a tag sale for reference for you younger folk :P
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Re: remember when
« Reply #27 on: March 29, 2011, 03:07:09 PM »
We didn't have Velcro?
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Re: remember when
« Reply #28 on: March 29, 2011, 03:09:24 PM »
Smoking was allowed in hospitals.

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Re: remember when
« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2011, 03:11:52 PM »
Smoking was allowed in hospitals.

The parish (county) run hospital actually allowed drinking if you were a patient and the doctor prescribed it. This was in the 1980's.
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