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#129006 06/03/04 10:19 AM
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I had a banner ad today that made me wonder what my ten year younger self would have thought it referred to. So everybody put your heads back into the early '90s:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hands Free Cellular Car Kits


#129007 06/03/04 12:31 PM
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*tossing Faldage a couple-three hyphens*

Yeah! Car phones were around in the 90s, sure, but.


#129008 06/03/04 01:29 PM
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labor strike by baseball players results in the premature termination of the season, and the cancellation of the World Series for the first time since 1904.



#129009 06/03/04 02:59 PM
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Thanks for the hyphens, lovely AnnaS. I had used my stock up in this post in wordorigins:

http://p066.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm1.showMessage?topicID=10319.topic

Now, where do you want me to put them?


#129010 06/03/04 05:54 PM
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where do you want me to put them?

And temptation rears its ugly head...



#129011 06/03/04 07:26 PM
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A hands free car - very Jetsonian. But where does the cellular part fit in??

I shocked a teen the other day by saying that I went to school before cell phones, before e-mail and before the PC. (personal computer or politically correct, take your choice.) Amazing what we have learned to take for granted in so short a time.


#129012 06/03/04 09:26 PM
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But where does the cellular part fit in??

It must be an electric car! (WOW! Doesn't that *sound futuristic? e.g.)


#129013 06/04/04 01:31 AM
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For the young, "history" means "stuff that happened before my sophomore year."



#129014 06/04/04 01:45 AM
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ADSL (broadband)

MP3

CDMA

President George Bush jnr

Governor Schwarzeneger

No Ayrton Senna

England beats Australia in Rugby World Cup final



Would've all been a big case of, "Huh??"

stales


#129015 06/04/04 10:39 AM
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must be an electric car!

And it's a kit! So simple even an adult can build one.


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