LANDESVERBAND
NEWSLETTER AND MAGAZINE
LIFE
AND LEISURE
02/24/13
January February March
2010 Volume 5 Number 1
Forwarded
by Magdalena Metzger
Yura and Karina! Ukraine kids
Click
on Picture for Video
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Karina:
6 years old from Berdichev City
Yura:
7 years old from Berdichev City
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The
most talented kids 7 years old Yurii Kuzinskii (Юрій
Кузинський)
and
6 years old Karina Rudnicka (Каріна
Рудницька)
participate
in
tv show “Ukraine has the talent” (Україна
має
талант).
Talentingi vaikai Jurijus Kuzinskis ir Karina Rudnicka
dalyvauja
Ukrainos tv laidoje “Ukraina turi talentą”.
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VISITING
AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
JANUARY
2010
A
Miracle ?
Forwarded
By Sgt. James S. Thornton
Read
the Caption for the First
Photo
....Then
Look at the Second Photo
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Look at the
picture above, and
you can see where
this driver broke
through the
guardrail, on the
right side of the
culvert, where
people are standing
on the road,
pointing.
The pick-up
was traveling about
75 mph, from
right to left, when
it crashed through
the guardrail.
It flipped
end-over-end,
bounced off and
across the culvert
outlet, and landed
right-side-up on the
left side of the
culvert, facing the
opposite direction
from which the
driver was
traveling.
The
22-year-old driver
and his 18-year-old
passenger were
unhurt, except for
minor cuts and
bruises.
Just
outside Flagstaff ,
AZ on U.S. Hwy
100.
Now, look at the
second picture below
. . .
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If
This Guy
Did
Not Believe in God
Before,
Do
You Suppose
He
Does Now?
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VISITING
AUTHOR-ARTICLE
JANUARY
2010
It's Official
I May Be Older Than
Dirt
By
Joseph Stein
President,
American Aid Society, Chicago
Forwarded
by American Aid Society, Chicago
WHAT A NOSTALGIC TRIP! I hope that you enjoy this,
and, if you're too young to remember, ask someone
who is in their 60s to explain. Who knows? You might
develop a whole new friendship.
Someone asked the other day, "What was your
favorite fast food when you were growing up?"
"We
didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I
informed him.
"All
the food was slow."
"C'mon,
seriously. Where did you eat?"
"It
was a place called 'at home,' I explained!"
"Mom
cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we
sat down together at the dining room table, and if I
didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed
to sit there until I did like it."
By
this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid
he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I
didn't tell him the part about how I had to have
permission to leave the table.
But
here are some other things I would have told him
about my childhood if I figured his system could
have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore
Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of
the country or had a credit card.
In
their later years they had something called a
revolving charge card. The card was good only at
Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either
way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This
was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
I
had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and
only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was
19.
It
was, of course, black and white, and the station
went off the air at midnight, after playing the
national anthem and a poem about God; it came back
on the air at about 6AM and there was usually a
locally produced news and farm show on, featuring
local people.
I
was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called
'pizza, pie.'
When
I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the
cheese slid off, swung
down, plastered itself against my chin and burned
that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I
never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in
the house was in the living room and it was on a
party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen
and make sure some people you didn't know weren't
already using the line.
Pizzas
were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All
newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys
delivered newspapers —my brother delivered a
newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper,
of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at
6AM every morning.
On
Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his
customers. His favorite customers were the ones who
gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change.
His least favorite customers were the ones who
seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie
stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they
did in the movies. There were no movie ratings
because all movies were responsibly produced for
everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or
violence or most anything offensive.
If
you grew up in a generation before there was fast
food, you may want to share some of these memories
with your children or grandchildren. Just don't
blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up
isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES
From A Friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's
house (she died in December) and he
brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle.
In the bottle top was a stopper with a
bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately
what it was, but my daughter had no idea.
She thought they had tried to make it a
salt shaker or something. I knew it as the
bottle that sat on the end of the ironing
board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because
we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head
lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition
switches on the dashboard.
Heaters
mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real
ice boxes.
Pant
leg clips for bicycles without chain OA
guards.
Soldering
irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using
hand signals for cars without turn signals
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Older
Than Dirt Quiz:
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Count
all the ones that you remember not the
ones you were told about.
Ratings
at the bottom.
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Blackjack
chewing gum
Wax
Coke-shaped bottles with colored
sugar
water
Candy
cigarettes
Soda
pop machines that dispensed
glass
bottles
Coffee
shops or diners with tableside
juke boxes
Home
milk delivery in glass bottles
with
cardboard stoppers
Party
lines on the telephone
Newsreels
before the movie
P.F.
Flyers
Butch
wax
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
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45 RPM records
S&H
Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal
ice trays with lever
Mimeograph
paper
Blue
flashbulb
Packards
Roller
skate keys
Cork
popguns
Drive-ins
Studebakers
Wash
tub wringers
TV
test patterns that came on at
night
after the last show and were
there until
TV shows started again in the
morning,
(there
were only 3 channels, if you
were fortunate)
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If
you remembered 0-5
= You're still young; 6-10 = You are
getting older; 11-15 = Don't tell your
age; 16-25
= You're older than dirt!
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I
might be older than dirt but those
memories are some of the best parts of my
life.
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VISITING
AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
JANUARY
2010
Incredible
ice
sculptures
submitted at the
Fairbanks
Ice Festival
Fairbanks
, Alaska
!
There
are definitely some "Wows" in
these shots!
Submitted
By Sgt. James S. Thornton
"We
are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a
habit."
-Aristotle
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VISITING
AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
JANUARY
2010
Chalk
Guy is Back...Amazing
Hard
to believe that these are drawn on a
FLAT sidewalk surface
Street
Artist's.....newest creations
Edgar Mueller
Super Artist
Forwarded
By Sgt. James S. Thornton
Great
Crevase Edgar Mueller.
Hard
work:
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Together with up to
five assistants, Mueller
painted all day long from
sunrise to sunset.
The picture appeared on
the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire
, Ireland, as part of the
town's Festival of World
Cultures.
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He spent five days,
working 12 hours a day, to
create the 250 square metre
image of the crevasse, which,
viewed from the correct angle,
appears to be 3D. He then
persuaded passers-by to
complete the illusion by
pretending the gaping hole was
real.
'I wanted to play with
positives and negatives to
encourage people to think
twice about everything they
see,' he said. 'It was a
very scary scene, but when
people saw it they had great
fun playing on it and
pretending to fall into the
earth. 'I like to think
that later, when they returned
home, they might reflect more
on what a frightening scenario
it was and say, "Wow,
that was actually pretty
scary."
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Mueller, who has
previously painted a giant
waterfall in Canada , said he
was inspired by the British
'Pavement Picasso'
Julian Beever, whose dramatic
but more gentle 3D street
images have featured in the
Daily Mail.
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This
guy is amazing no matter how you look at
it!
Edgar
Mueller
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VISITING
AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
JANUARY
2010
First
Woman on the Moon
Forwarded
By Sgt. James S. Thornton
You
have to be old enough to
appreciate this.
If you don't understand it,
you are too young.
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Everyone
has at least one friend who
will get it!
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