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TGIFfunnies 2/23/24 EDITION: The After Know.

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 months, 3 weeks ago to Humor
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Just sharing a few things I found out after I Knew it all . . .


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  • Posted by JohnRandALL 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    I agree with the first comment. The last meme is the best one! (Although they are all great!)
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I learned to use a sewing machine in 9th grade high school. It was called textile & fabrication shop and was one of 9 exploratory shops where the student can learn a little bit of various trades and industries. Others were machine shop, electrical, foundry, drafting, gas engine mechanics, welding, and a few others. The student was expected to select a "shop" or field of study to be explored in more depth in 10th - 12th grade. I made my denim shop apron in that exploratory class, which I still have and use today.

    I also have used my grandmother's treadle machine (Singer) when I was a teenager, RIP grandma and the sewing machine wherever it is. Yeah she is using it from the back side!
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  • Posted by $ katrinam41 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    That last meme could have been taken near my Aunt Irene's farm in West Virginia. Wonderful memories. Great chuckles with this batch, ouc, and also a large wave of nostalgia. That trash bin had me going :)
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  • Posted by kddr22 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    all great, my wife and mother-in-law all loved these thanks
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    See? You're too young to know about sewing machines! The secret of youth? Don't learn about sewing machines. Or darn sox neither.

    According to someone on an internet somewhere, both Elias Howe and Isaac Singer were left handed, and sewing machines are inherently left handed. I'd never noticed that, and have my (right-handed) doubts. The machine shown is standard configuration and the lady behind it has an artistic license.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, Maricopa County probably contacted them, gave them some letterhead, and charged a percentage. LOL
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  • Posted by bobsprinkle 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I also have evolved into paying my bills on the computer. I tried to write a check the other day and had to stop and try to remember how to do it.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Those were lower lowdown scumbags than the ones who called me. Way sneakier too.
    Me dino just plain could not do that to someone else.
    But them I'm not a sociopath without a conscience or a soul.
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  • Posted by AmericanWoman 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    Yep you know you are ok when you are dreaming about using the bathroom and all of sudden you jump up and can still get to the real bathroom in time.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    Why is the nice lady using her sewing machine from the back side? They don't work that way. Or else she knows something we don't know about them.

    Old-fart note -- I've used one of those treadle machines, my grandmother's White, and the main difficulty is that there is no reverse. You have to sink the needle, lift the pressure foot, and swing the fabric all the way around.

    Do any young folks at all have any idea how to use a sewing machine? Or how to darn socks?
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I almost got sucked into a scam when I got a call saying my grandson got himself in jail in Phoenix and needed bail without his dad knowing. Uh-oh, at that time my son lived in Phoenix and had three sons and I guessed which one it was and thought, "Oh no, what did ----- get into now?" While trying to get more info things started to sound not quite right, but anyway he told me the DA Mr. So-and-so would call me back about transferring the bail money and ended the call. I looked up Mr. So-and-so and he was a real DA in Maricopa County, which is Phoenix and called his office myself. I was promptly informed none of my grandsons were in jail and this was a sophisticated scam being run from offshore. When they called back I started to ask them questions and they realized I was messing with them and hung up. Don't know what, if anything, the Maricopa County DA did.
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  • Posted by $ 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    "He cares not whether it is read or heeded, but he must hear himself say the things he has been made to believe."

    Oh but I, do hope my words are read because I do care about my readers that I might share what I have learned.
    . . . OlduglyCarl, (for this moment for I am sure someone somewhere already said such a thing.)

    Thanks for the comment and the link, Sekeres.
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  • Posted by $ sekeres 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    "Henry and the Great Society" https://www.milestonebooks.com/item/2... is a thought-provoking story of "old ways" versus the perils of debt and societal expectations. It's told from a Christian perspective, but the contentment of simple things with a few friends and family reminded me of Galt's Gulch.
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  • Posted by $ 2 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Old roads are the most free and you'll meet the most hospitable traffic in both directions.
    Grew up in a small town, 99% of the roads were Old roads. It took kindness, responsibility, ability and forethought to negotiate them and it was a BLAST!
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