Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
Here are just a few things that I have used in my lifetime that are now obsolete - I know, cloth diapers are still around, but definitely obsolete at my house!
- Cloth diapers - 48 pure cotton hanging on the line softened by the breeze bleached by the sun
- Typewriters - pica or elite pick your type, hunt and peck, wait for the ding!
- Vinyl records - classics scratches hisses, grooves worn down on the good parts
- Film - mail order developing, no light allowed, expiration date
- Party lines - listen for your ring - one long or two short - but don't listen in
- Rotary phones - round and round, don't slip and mess up, curlicue cord all tangled up
- Pong - hypnotizing back and forth cause of couch taters
- Busy signal - what is that funny beep beep - prelude to voice mail
- Carbon paper - blue fingers smudges blurry copies, origin of cc:
- Rabbit ears - TV looks like My Favorite Martian - adjust a little to left or right, hold your mouth right, stand on one leg
- Card catalog - paper trail of books all lined up in little drawers stacked in rows
- Church key - original pop a top, no litter left behind
- Mimeograph smell - the only good part of test day
obsolete {Websters: no longer in use or no longer useful} = been there done that
more lists here at Thursday 13
