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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (64828)	3/8/2004 3:39:55 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Gee whiz, Laz, musta been cool to have been around for all that stuff. Being 24 years old, and some months, I, of course, don't remember any of it. You quote, " Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?" After Grandmother D told me of the Tylenol poisonings of the early 1980s, I have always wondered if the poisoner did not have a particular target in mind and did it the way it was done to make the killing seem random. That particular case was never solved, BTW. - Holly

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (64828)	3/8/2004 4:11:17 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I subscribe to Goldenseal wvculture.org a fascinating magazine I stumbled across- it's West Virginians writing about their culture and history. One old boy in his 80s wrote about growing up along the B&O mainline, near a stream where the train crews would stop to water their locomotives. When he was 5-10 yrs old he became pals with the train crews, and they'd ask him if he wanted to ride in the cab with them. He'd get a round trip to Philadelphia or Washington DC and get dropped back at his doorstep. Imagine something like that happening in today's litigious America.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (64828)	3/8/2004 6:26:51 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Yes to all.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (64828)	3/10/2004 7:22:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Some of those are fake. It was a nickle or, if you were lucky, a dime, not a quarter, that was a decent allowance when I was a kid. Only the rich kids got a quarter. The female teachers did NOT get their hair done every day. They couldn't afford it. Who got to vist a pool? Those were for rich folks. We swam in a wide place in the stream, which we shared with a nest of Copperheads until our parents finally came and cleared them out. The pink slab of bubble gum wasn't awful. It was pretty darn good. Not as good, of course, as the chunks about the size of a sugar cube (the real ones, not the dinky ones they have today) that came in a wrapper than had a comic strip printed on it. But still, the playing card bubblegum, from Fleet if i recall correctly, was fine bubblegum. Plenty good enough to blow a bubble into the hair of the girls sitting in front of you in class and send her crying to the girls room and you to the principal's office.