Regarding Your Christmas Cards. . .

[Burrito]

. . . Or just completing the trip you're stuck on for holiday week?

Well, if you're the type who does Christmas cards, I'd personally love to send you something to keep 2021 somewhat positive. I'll try not to make it aviation themed, and try even harder not to make it some cheese like "Cheers from [City you just overnighted in]." If you don't trust a stranger on the internet, that's all well and dandy. I understand this industry's incredibly small, but with the world on her way back to normalcy, it's good to remember there's a "who" to go with the "where" and the waking up wondering "when" in some hotel 3 timezones away. Feel free to shoot me a PM with an address and I'll do my best.

Blue skies, all.

MODs if this is against some rule or rules, feel free to delete it.

 

[derg]

It’s all good in the hood.

 

[fholbert]

Not sure anyone under 30 knows:

What a Christmas Card is?​

A Cordless Phone?​

What’s a Paper Route?​

8 Track or Cassette player​

What’s a Manual Transmission?​

Red Avgas?​

The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing.​

What‘s a VCR?​

Getting up to turn the channel?​

Dad telling you to get out and open the Garage Door?​

What does CRT stand for?​

How to tell time on a Clock with Hands.​

What is a ice cube tray?​

Panty Hose?​

How to manually turn on the headlights?​

A 1st Place Award in school.​

What is AM Radio?​

How to wear Thongs on your Feet?​

Help me out with more.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

" What does CRT stand for? "


This is going to go bad.

 

[MikeD]

" What does CRT stand for? "


This is going to go bad.

Cathode Ray Tube? What’s wrong with those? They’re old school….

 

[mightynimbus]

Not sure anyone under 30 knows:

What a Christmas Card is?​

A Cordless Phone?​

What’s a Paper Route?​

8 Track or Cassette player​

What’s a Manual Transmission?​

Red Avgas?​

The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing.​

What‘s a VCR?​

Getting up to turn the channel?​

Dad telling you to get out and open the Garage Door?​

What does CRT stand for?​

How to tell time on a Clock with Hands.​

What is a ice cube tray?​

Panty Hose?​

How to manually turn on the headlights?​

A 1st Place Award in school.​

What is AM Radio?​

How to wear Thongs on your Feet?​

Help me out with more.

Crabs

 

[ASpilot2be]

Not sure anyone under 30 knows:

What a Christmas Card is?​

A Cordless Phone?​

What’s a Paper Route?​

8 Track or Cassette player​

What’s a Manual Transmission?​

Red Avgas?​

The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing.​

What‘s a VCR?​

Getting up to turn the channel?​

Dad telling you to get out and open the Garage Door?​

What does CRT stand for?​

How to tell time on a Clock with Hands.​

What is a ice cube tray?​

Panty Hose?​

How to manually turn on the headlights?​

A 1st Place Award in school.​

What is AM Radio?​

How to wear Thongs on your Feet?​

Help me out with more.

Why would somebody wear underwear on their feet?

 

[Burrito]

Not sure anyone under 30 knows:

What a Christmas Card is?​

A Cordless Phone?​

What’s a Paper Route?​

8 Track or Cassette player​

What’s a Manual Transmission?​

Red Avgas?​

The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing.​

What‘s a VCR?​

Getting up to turn the channel?​

Dad telling you to get out and open the Garage Door?​

What does CRT stand for?​

How to tell time on a Clock with Hands.​

What is a ice cube tray?​

Panty Hose?​

How to manually turn on the headlights?​

A 1st Place Award in school.​

What is AM Radio?​

How to wear Thongs on your Feet?​

Help me out with more.

What the red flags on the mailboxes even mean.

 

[Burrito]

Why would somebody wear underwear on their feet?

THUNDERWEAR!
(stomps around the room)

 

[F9DXER]

What a Christmas Card is? - An over-rated post card
A Cordless Phone? - I would have asked about a corded phone
What’s a Paper Route? - The route between the in basket and out basket on ones desk - or - the route between the paper tray and finished document tray on the printer.
8 Track or Cassette player - What about a reel to reel?
What’s a Manual Transmission? - Helps the uncoordinated to become coordinated
Red Avgas? - Is that still available?
The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing. - The price you will pay at the store
What‘s a VCR? - The stock symbol for Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF.
Getting up to turn the channel? Exercise
Dad telling you to get out and open the Garage Door? More exercise
What does CRT stand for? - Dodge Charger R/T
How to tell time on a Clock with Hands. - Used to help whether to choose answer A,B,C or D on a test
What is a ice cube tray? - Something to do with the Rapper Ice Cube
Panty Hose? - A temporary fan belt if needed
How to manually turn on the headlights? - To easy, how about high beams.
A 1st Place Award in school. - The only award that needs to be given (if any)
What is AM Radio? - Awful Music, FM was Fine Music
How to wear Thongs on your Feet? - I must have missed this fashion statement

 

[MikeD]

What the red flags on the mailboxes even mean.

Or, what those weird mailboxes are/were that you’d see around towns/cities that weren’t blue, but were olive drab green colored, and had no openings to drop mail into.

 

[Burrito]

Or, what those weird mailboxes are/were that you’d see around towns/cities that weren’t blue, but were olive drab green colored, and had no openings to drop mail into.

OOOoo, good one!

(Well, this went sideways awful quick. Thanks, Obama.)

Let's add:

- Car phones.
- Just needing the quarter before going to the neighborhood local swim club
- totally not the mall, since that'd take you to around '85 or so (I think ours was still being built)
- And making it home before the streetlights went on
- Travel Agencies (though some may still be in business)
- Juuuust how bad traffic could get, in order to stop and pay the toll on the highway.

 

[fholbert]

Or, what those weird mailboxes are/were that you’d see around towns/cities that weren’t blue, but were olive drab green colored, and had no openings to drop mail into.

That's a good one!

For others, maybe you need to explain.

 

[Wardogg]

Not sure anyone under 30 knows:

What a Christmas Card is?​

A Cordless Phone?​

What’s a Paper Route?​

8 Track or Cassette player​

What’s a Manual Transmission?​

Red Avgas?​

The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing.​

What‘s a VCR?​

Getting up to turn the channel?​

Dad telling you to get out and open the Garage Door?​

What does CRT stand for?​

How to tell time on a Clock with Hands.​

What is a ice cube tray?​

Panty Hose?​

How to manually turn on the headlights?​

A 1st Place Award in school.​

What is AM Radio?​

How to wear Thongs on your Feet?​

Help me out with more.

You got me with these:

Red Avgas?
The numbers 8088, 80286 means nothing.

I know the numbers 5606 and 83282?

Also you can add:
Turning on your higbeams without a lever on the steering column.

Shifting via a lever on your steering column.

 

[mightynimbus]

Calling the newspaper and placing an ad to sell your boat, and the person tells you how many lines you are up to
then they send you a bill and your phone rings.

And corded answering machines. Come home after being gone all day and the red number is "0"
you think, man, I'm a loser today.
Come home other days, and it's flashing "14" and your first thought is, "uh-oh she's mad about something"

 

[MQAAord]

Sitting reserve with a pager. And being damn happy about that, because a few years prior, sitting reserve meant staying within earshot of a phone at all times while on reserve and newhires couldn't afford pagers.

 

[Burrito]

Sitting reserve with a pager. And being damn happy about that, because a few years prior, sitting reserve meant staying within earshot of a phone at all times while on reserve and newhires couldn't afford pagers.

A watched phone never rang.

 

[fholbert]

Sitting reserve with a pager.

What's a pager?

 

[fholbert]

You got me with these:

Red Avgas?

80/87 Octane. All the <120 knot aircraft ran it. When it dried it coagulated, kinda like blood. Little did we know it sealed small leaks in the fuel tanks/bladders. When 80/87 was no longer available, the shops were full of aircraft leaking fuel.

Turning on your higbeams without a lever on the steering column.

Early model cars has a starter switch on the floor too.

 

[knot4u]

What's a pager?

My current cell phone number is still the same number I had for my pager almost 30 years ago.