The Eagles knew.
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True!
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but they sure got that one right.😀😪 Bob
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The warm smell of colitas rising up through the air...
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you can check in any time you like but Never leave
great band and old memories of good times come to mind when I think of there songs
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Smitty500mag that is so true... here we kick ourselves for being tethered to the electronic beastie, but back in the day of printed news, was it any different? Apparently not!
You people living in massive cities trying to find solitude in the grip of something "newsy" need to make a trip to Alaska. When there are thousands of square miles with no cell signal, sometimes it's easier just to look your neighbor in the eye and say "How's it going?"
......and then LISTEN to his reply.
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We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969...
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It really was different Nanuq907. When you got to the office the newspaper went in the trash. It did not rule your life. Now, these young people are controlled by their phones.
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It is completely different today with the Iphone, compared to the old days of newspapers. Night and day difference.
I can remember in the old "newspaper days" just 10 years ago, at the TA Truck Stop in Laredo, I would be sitting around at one of the outdoor tables, eight of us truck drivers sitting there and we would be talking to one another. Eight guys sitting around talking about the weather, or the scale cop on I 35, or problems with the air brakes etc. Everybody had a cell phone in their pocket but it was a flip phone. Maybe one guy was reading a newspaper.
At the same truck stop three years ago, eight drivers sitting at that same table, and every one of them [except me] is engrossed in his Iphone. Sending text messages or something.
For tens of thousands of years, human being have been together and looked one another in the eyes and talked to one another. It is a critical part of our society. And that has been lost in just the last ten years because of the Iphone.
Iphones are a curse.
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Youngest granddaughter had a field trip from Richmond to DC- school needed a couple of chaperones- simple day trip. A scarred (or maybe that was scared) veteran of many a band and field trip, I nonetheless agreed to go. Memories of tinnitus resulting from high noise levels on a bus filled with teenagers.
Except this time. Spookier than midnight in a graveyard. Northbound on I-95, and I could converse in quiet tones with the teacher seated across from me. The ONLY sound in that bus other than our 2 voices was click click clickety click clackety. EVERY kid on that bus was texting away. Probably to the kid 3 rows behind them. Lasted for the entire trip- both ways.
The field trip for that day was the Lincoln Memorial- and the Vietnam, Korea and WW2 memorials. While out of the bus, kids were polite, respectful and put the phones away. Back on the bus? Click clackety clickety click. Was like someone had taken the teenagers and replaced them with pod people.
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We have a rule in my Scout Troop ... no electronics on campouts. The adults will have minimum one phone for safety, otherwise if I see it, it's mine. And I might give it back after the campout is over.
This leads to some spirited card games and good fun around the campfire, with actual interaction and play.
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It really was different Nanuq907. When you got to the office the newspaper went in the trash. It did not rule your life. Now, these young people are controlled by their phones.
We'll, the morning paper went in the trash or left in the break room and then the 2nd edition would be on the stands by noon and then the evening news would out by the time it was quiting time at work.
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Hah, remember this is Alaska and our biggest city had maybe 95,000 people back then. We had the Anchorage Daily Times and that was about it. Three versions in a day? 🤣
Those were the days of the "Mukluk Telegraph" on KENI radio. There was no road going north past Montana Creek and no phones, so everything went by train. Someone would call the station and say "This goes out to Moosh in Trapper Creek, Jimbo will be on the 3:45 today" then his buddy would go out and flag down the train and Jimbo would jump off. We used to sit and listen to the show, there was even a marriage proposal once over the Mukluk.
Y'know I prefer those days to today and social media.
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as a kid I would turn to the last page and look at the cars for sale and maybe the front page head lines
oh and the 2nd page to see if I or some friends made the police or sheriff log ( car related like speeding , loud exhaust , squealing tires racing and the occasional crash )
skip ahead 40 some years I still look at the headlines then flip to the obits to see how many old buddies ( or me 😮) are listed sad to see so many old buddies and friends have departed and I have a moment of reality and sadness for the loss
but so far my name has not shown up 😁
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Nanuq- remember the "Caribou Clatter" broadcast on the Fairbanks radio. Telling Joe Akea in Dot Lake that he has an appointment for treatment, to catch the Wein Consolidated flight Tues afternoon, and telling Freida in Wise Man that her daughter had a boy on Sunday, mom and daughter doing fine.
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Yeah!! Now yer talkin! Those were the days when we made do with what we had. It's nice to talk to a good old Sourdough. Were you here for Statehood or the Big One? Remember when they'd push a box of produce into the store with a forklift and you grabbed what veggies and greens you could get? Powdered Milkman?
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Out in Kachemak Bay we often heard one side of a ship to shore phone call. It was interesting listening to one side of a conversation about cousin Sally having a baby in Homer Hospital and all was well with both mom and child. There were conversations on what to have for dinner, Halibut, moose or caribou. Those were good times.
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On the bus the other day, waiting for the high schoolers, three or four 1st graders were huddled in the aisle. I walked back to see what they were doing. Watching YouTube videos on a cell phone.
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