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I remember when phone numbers had names for prefixes. We moved out to the country the Summer before my 6th grade. 6th grade was in a wooden two room schoolhouse. Our phone number was one city, our address was another and the high school was yet in another town. Our road had a name but we had a rural route number for mail. Our telephone briefly was a party line. A nearby town - not one of the three above - their phone number only had four digits. The town the high school was in had no home delivery; everyone got their mail at the post office. There were only two tv channels. One was NBC and the other a combo ABC/CBS. Neither were local; we had an antenna.

I do indeed! My parents had one in their bedroom. I remember that's where I learned to call POPCORN for the time. The other day I had a phone call with a dear friend who is in a nursing home in another state. We met at work. She retired after I did. She was walking out to her car after work and collapsed with a stroke. She can't walk but her speech is fine.

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I will call a person by whatever name they want or use whatever pronoun they want.

One of England's greatest gifts to the world is the spread of the English language throughout the world. The entire Indian subcontinent was united for the first time in history by the British. That said I think the Partition was one of the greatest mistakes of the 20th century. I think it was wrong to turn Hong Kong over to Communist China. The treaty was made with Imperial China not Communist China.

RIP A GoFundMe page? She was in England. Would NHS take care of all her medical needs?

She had her problems; she became a diabetic a few years after I was born and that changed her personality.

I'm a dinosaur. My life took a dramatic change when my mother died.

Thank-you! The old saying goes "If it ain't broke don't fix it".

I am a product of "European/Western/white civilization" and by George am proud of it!!!

Cute little creatures! Thanks for sharing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Ai_of_Han China once had a gay Emperor

I never watched the original. And I don't watch tv at the appointed time; I watch later on Hulu to avoid the commercials. And I watch the show because of Avery.

I've been obsolete for 40 years. I still think of Beijing as Peking.

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/sex-with-neanderthals-helped-modern-humans-survive-says-study

I was surprised to see in Daddy's Reviews today that there was an escort from Beijing, Red China. I thought that both prostitution and homosexuality would be illegal there in that version of the workers paradise.

I remember years ago hearing on the radio a mother saying that her son was so tall and thin that for Halloween she made him a costume so he could go as a zipper.

EXCELLENT!!! :p:p:p

Ever meet, know, encounter someone who had been branded with a hot iron?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Life_(2018_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider I was not familiar with it.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/e60a6a843f6627389c684879437009d7/tumblr_nte4w5MwqF1qkvbwso1_r1_500.png Is this because he ate too much Halloween candy as a boy? :p:p:p

Someone ought to report him to Flo!

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/17-of-the-most-magical-pictures-of-gay-days-disneyland-2018/#gs.5ABxRck I find it interesting that red is the color to wear since it is now identified with the GOP.

That's done to weed out heavy people but I'm wondering if that ever affects people on the other end of the spectrum - too tall and too thin?