[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Descriptions and the old days
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:29:26 -0600
Cindy,
I think that is why a lot of us put an indicator that we are teasing.. If a
story is real wild like the csun stuff we enjoy, we know it is made up; but
I usually think people are kidding even without that if they say something
like what you are talking about.
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 8:28 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Descriptions and the old days
I did think you were just teasing, but I wasn't sure.
That's the troublewith writing rather than speaking --
one can't always tell, because there is no sound (at
least for me). smile
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy,
>
> You didn't sound like you were complaining. I just
> thought I'd take the
> opportunity to tease you a bit.
>
> I remember my grandmother had a ringer washer, but I
> don't remember much
> about it. It was just one of those oddities stuck
> back in a corner of the
> back porch. I'm not even sure why she still had it.
>
> No, Karen would not like having to use a washboard
> or ringer washer.
> Neither would I for that matter.
>
> Things sure are different now. I had a interview
> with GE's appliance
> division year before last to write softmware for
> their washers, dryers, and
> refrigerators.
>
> Gerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 8:39 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Descriptions and the
> old days
>
>
> Oh, dear. I didn't mean to sound as if I were
> complaining. I was reminiscing about life before all
> these technological changes. I am in awe every time
> I
> send a fax. It amazes me that that something on a
> piece of paper can go through the air and end up
> somewhere else on another piece of paper. Somehow I
> find that stranger than that a voice can travel
> across
> wires or, now with cell phones, air, and reach
> another
> person's ears.
>
> Just think, Gerald, if your wife had to do laundry
> with a washboard and sink (for those of you to young
> to have ever seen or felt a washboard, it was/is a
> rippled piece of metal, as I recall, bounded by
> wood,
> probably two feet by four or larger? I'm not very
> good
> at measurements. I googled and found pictures of
> them
> of various sizes; apparently there are washboard
> bands
> nowadays).
>
> Or a ringer washer? When I lived in a rented house
> in
> Minnesota in my single days all we had was a wringer
> washer. I didn't get my breasts caught between
> between
> the wringers, as in a Stephen King short story
> (something was caught --maybe breasts are an urban
> legend) but I did carelessly get my hand caught.
> Fortunately I wasn't hurt.
>
> For those of you who have never experienced a
> wringer
> washer, it's a washtub on the top of which, attached
> by metal standards, are two rollers, made of wood or
> perhaps something softer (I've been looking at
> pictures online to refresh my memory -- Ours were
> wood, I think). One fed the clothes through the
> wringers to squeeze out the water before hanging
> clothes on the clothes line. Originally the wringers
> were operated by turning a handle by hand; then they
> advanced to being operated by electricity, pushing a
> button. I seem to remember ours was the former, but
> it
> was a long time ago.
>
> I suspect the phrase, "I've feel as if I've been put
> through the wringer" originated from that.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
>
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