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Originally Posted by FIXX (Post 4038635)

life was good,,more peaceful,,did not have everyone crawling up your ass,,wish they would go back to dos..its now a police nation and it will be soon be ilegal to say the word pig..

bingo, that's why i moved out of the states, i drive all of my vehicles like i stole them, get a ticket, a 10 buck tip fixes it right there on the side of the road... weeds is not an issue, and when you go to the strip club you can bang the strippers in the back room for 20- 50 bucks depending on the club... ah life is good down here...

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Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation (Post 4038674)

I had an employee that was great from 7-11am.......then the texting would start (from his girlfriend, she got up around 11 everyday). Nonsense texts, like What R U Doin?, Im sooooo hungover, etc......Finally I told the kid if he couldn't leave the phone in his car then don't come to work......he never came back!

lmao, the cel phone generation...

Hot boat magazine was the highlight every month
No bag phone but you could make a call using your ship to shore radio and marine operator it was a collect call at around 1.40 a min (are you guys coming out to the beach today ,,,over) (bring more beer ...over)
Yep feeling pretty old here lol

I have beer but its a little cold for the beach. It may be snowmoboat time soon.

Yep ..............yo Dave get Rob's boat out of there so we can get KEELHAULIN ready for the ice regatta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elY_PfkYmQA

There was less of this...:D:D

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Originally Posted by ratman (Post 4039256)

Do we need to start a thread for rat an pics?

I have a road atlas in the door of my truck always!!! GPS dont always get reception or it can die at any time lol

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Originally Posted by glassdave (Post 4038488)

lol, I hafta laugh. I remember when I had a pager not a cell phone and I could remember phone numbers. now forget it, I barely remember my own. gps I dont use much on the boat, grew up on lake Erie here and dont need it but for getting around on the road thats another thing like the phone numbers. Use to be able to drive to any place in the country with the vaguest of directions and road atlas (anyone still even have one of those?) I could memorize nearly an entire trip, all the route changes everything. nowadays? . . . . . recalculating . . . recalculating . . . . recalculating lol

in the 90's I swore I would never have a computer. I grew up in the 70's/80's and my brother was the Bill Gates Steve Jobs type and always had these nerdy things lol. Still not sure if they are the best thing or the worst :D I will say one thing I have met a lot of great people through this thing.

I have fought cell phones and computers from day one. I do like the internet ,but, could easily live without it. I finally got a cell phone a couple of years back and with the exception of portability I could live without that also.
Now my gripe about the cell phones. The last three women from 18 to 43 years of age (I'm 46) all coveted their phones so much that they wanted to take them to bed. That's where I draw the line. If your (woman or man) are so dependant on your phone you need counsuling (most do these days). Cell phones have made dating easier and more dificult at the same time. If you can't dedicate an hour or two of your precious cell time to me (sans phone) then your not the woman for me.

I think I still have a atlas from a 4 month motorcycle trip I took in 1990.

Used color highlighters as a way to mark Fun roads down to boring roads. Back then it was cool that you had a "card" you could put in a machine and get cash!
Lol