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[rm]

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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.

Comments

[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.

[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.

[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! 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

[rm.livejournal.com]

Usually it's cell phones now.

[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.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Bizarre.

Of course this was a Blind Melon concert, so, large contingent of pot smokers with lighters to wave.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Seriously, yeah. I've seen it a few times, although I tend to avoid a lot of live music events because I'm old and it's crowded and ticks me off.

[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.

[delicatetbone.livejournal.com]

yeah, there was an awesome skit about sanitary belts on SNL a few weeks ago the "Kotex Classic" which they sadly do not have on their website right now

[splix.livejournal.com]

Press-on nails!

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

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm guessing shorthand, white type on black screens, or saying goodbye at the airport gate.

[delicatetbone.livejournal.com]

Blind Melon without Shannon Hoon? Blasphemy!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope!

I may have to start giving hints soon.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope. But the airport thing does tick me the fuck off.

[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...)

[zarq.livejournal.com]

I must be remembering a time when I had more free cash. :)

Then I would guess crows feet / laugh lines. Women (and men) used to be able to grow old gracefully....)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. But no.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I do miss that (Nicole Kidman, WTF?), but nope.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Actually, the new lead singer guy they have is quite good. Everyone seems really excited to be back together.

(I got tickets for my boyfriend, the Blind Melon fan, so I cannot be a judge of teh authenticity. But I enjoyed the concert a lot.)