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Things that are soon to be no more if they aren't gone already: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203187.html

I challenge you to guess which one makes me saddest.

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[delicatetbone.livejournal.com]

It's the Sanitary Pad Belt, isn't it :)

I really like the smell of carbon copy paper slips. When I was little we would play "office" all the time and use those for making receipts.

[rm.livejournal.com]

HA! Neither. The belt was in all those books I read about puberty when I was ten, but was excitingly no more by the time I got my period in the mid-80s

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Flicking lighters at a concert's end is totally not going out of fashion. It happened at a concert I went to less than a week ago.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Usually it's cell phones now.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that! Lighters are going out of fashion since when?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess "Choose Your Own Adventure books."

On the other tentacle, any list of this kind that suggests "Eight-tracks" and "Slide rules" are even still around anywhere in any form is whacko!

Cheers...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ha, no, although I did have many and am friends now with someone who wrote them, oddly enough.

[weirdquark]

I don't know about you, but I find the idea that you are too heavy to be a model if you weigh more than 110 pounds to be rather depressing.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I was a kid, all models were size 8 and I was depressed that I'd never be busty enough to be one. Now I'm a size 4 and too fat!

[monkeycurious.livejournal.com]

Can I guess more than one?

Fashion models weighing more than 110 pounds?
E-mails written with the formality of letters?
Good penmanship?
Getting dressed up for the airplane?
Handwritten letters?
Affordable theater tickets?

[rm.livejournal.com]

While I feel particularly strongly about penmanship, dressing for the airplane (Jesus, people won't even fucking dress for the theater anymore!) and handwritten letters, no the one that makes me saddest is more obscure, and I realize, most of you may not know what it is.

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Affordable theater tix or handwritten letters? :)


My first instinct was to say an article of clothing... but honestly, I can't imagine you waxing nostalgically for the days when girdles were in fashion!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope, none of the above, although theatre tickets were never that affordable -- we just forget about inflation. I do miss when Broadway was less tacky and less about singing cats, but nope, none of those. And I've only worn girdles for acting gigs set in the 1930s.

[splix.livejournal.com]

Press-on nails!

No, actually I'm going to guess emails written with the formality of letters.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope!

I may have to start giving hints soon.

[habiliments.livejournal.com]

Kozmo delivery? ;)

(I just remember once, when I couldn't remember the non-Urban Fetch option, you reminded me of the name...)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. But no.

[nickelchief.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but weren't most of the things on this list already on their way out ten or more years ago? ("MySpace" excepted.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I thought that about a lot of them, but I've used some pretty odd ones on that list pretty recently (Wite-out included).

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

For me, I miss the sound of a modem- which is odd, as by the time I was on the Net regularly, they were already silent.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

For you, it might be something like Press-Type. Wasn't there another company, starting with an "L," that made something similar?

For me, it's tie tacks, good penmanship, and handwritten letters.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup, see, I knew you would guess it.

I'm trying to remember the one with the L too! Was it Linotype or was that the brand name for the actual typefaces as opposed to the press type delivery?

[john-h-holliday.livejournal.com]

Press type, hm? I would have been close.
I was going to guess wax paste-up. 8^( I was a professional wax paste-up person once.

palm pilot grafitti alphabet?!!! All that playing 'giraffe' was for nothing?
lickable stamps?!!! noooooooo
suspenders (I say braces)? Not In My World!!!
good penmanship? All that training in copperplate was for nothing? No. It was not for nothing.
affordable train travel?!!! I took a whole train trip Last Year!!! It was quite affordable.
mercurochrome? but... it is so RED. and silvery at the same time...

What has saddened John most was the disappearance last year of the telegram. They do not even mention it in the article.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I remember that, the telegram. I remember people getting telegrams in my childhood. It is strange.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I'm ambivalent about "dressing for airplane rides."

It's an uncomfortable enough experience, why add to it with formal clothing? (Seriously, I try to travel in yoga pants and layers.)

A few years ago, mqy grandmother freaked out because she was wearing flat shoes to the airport. Everyone tried their best to soothe her fears. ::sigh::

[rm.livejournal.com]

OH yeah, I mean, I go for comfort too, but I remember when flying was an occasion. It's not anymore. And that's not the fault of people who fly. Of course, I also still call it the Pan Am building.

[christinenorris.livejournal.com]

Choose your own Adventure books.

The only books you can find actually written in second person. On purpose. They were so terrible they were good.

[nobodyreally.livejournal.com]

Then you will like this t-shirt, which is about the funniest thing I have seen this month.

[chite.livejournal.com]

I am going to guess Record Stores.

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

I can't guess yours, but I personally miss good penmanship.
And -do you remember those purple classroom 'ditto' sheets?
And putting them up to your face to smell them?
And carefully covering your hand in rubber cement, then trying to get it off in one piece?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Standing in line for tickets

I would have guessed dressing up for plane flights, but that was largely gone by the time either of us were old enough to remember flying.

[fragiletender.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about you but it's probably Mimeograph machines for me, man I used to adore the way that ink smelled, it almost made getting a spelling test worth it. Although I will also admit to be nostalgic about the dial-up modem sound - not dial-up itself, you understand, just the sound.