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Growing up they had the metal shoe sizer you stood on and the shoe salesman would measure your foot length and width. Do they still do that anywhere?
 
UConnDad said:
Growing up they had the metal shoe sizer you stood on and the shoe salesman would measure your foot length and width. Do they still do that anywhere?
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Ah, the good ol' Brannock Device...

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Chiefs give Brannock Devices their due

You may have never heard of the Brannock Device, but you've almost certainly used one. The Syracuse Chiefs suited up as the Devices on May 31st, in honor of the iconic foot-measuring tool. Invented in Syracuse by Dr. Charles Brannock in 1927, thie Brannock Device is an oblong, metallic object that
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Fishy said:
The Windows 10 upgrade tool still works on the Microsoft website.

Supposedly they stopped the free upgrades, but if you use the upgrade tool, it still installs a free, legal version of Windows 10.
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That is absolutely correct and what I was talking about. No one knows it.
 
Huskybass said:
My mom is 76. She asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her a cookbook of her dozen best recipes, many of which came over from Italy with my father's mother in the early 1900s.

That cookbook is worth more to me than anything that could have been bought at a store.
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Idea for you: take all those recipes, scan and upload to an album with family pictures and whatnot. I did that for my grandma a few years ago so she could get it in her ipad since some of the writing in her books was getting too small to read. She still thanks me for it when I see her
 
Yardigan said:
Ah, the good ol' Brannock Device...

www.milb.com

Chiefs give Brannock Devices their due

You may have never heard of the Brannock Device, but you've almost certainly used one. The Syracuse Chiefs suited up as the Devices on May 31st, in honor of the iconic foot-measuring tool. Invented in Syracuse by Dr. Charles Brannock in 1927, thie Brannock Device is an oblong, metallic object that
www.milb.com www.milb.com
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That's it. Guess they still have them.
 
Huskybass said:
My mom is 76. She asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her a cookbook of her dozen best recipes, many of which came over from Italy with my father's mother in the early 1900s.

That cookbook is worth more to me than anything that could have been bought at a store.
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I've given this advice before on the Yard: Get all your favorite recipes from your parents, grandparents, etc. now - don't wait. When they are gone, that institutional knowledge is gone. I've got quite a few of my mothers best, particularly her chicken soup and spaghetti sauce, but there are countless times since she died that I've wanted to pick up the phone and ask her about something she used to make. Same thing with my dad - he would take my mom's leftover spaghetti sauce and make an awesome Pasta Fazool and I never got the recipe from him before he got Alzheimer's. It's lost forever and I'm not able to recreate it.

And on the same topic, ask as much as you can about their ancestry - for many, there comes a time when you want to know more and they are best source for the previous generation.
 
August_West said:
What are the specs of your current laptop? I can put you on a free win10 upgrade if your laptop is fairly spec’d ( and it probably is if under 8 years old.)
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I thought that ship had sailed ?
 
Austin316 said:
Gampel Pavillon LEGO set...

UConn Huskies NCAA BRXLZ Basketball Arena - Harry A Gampel Pavilion
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That's not LEGO, but I'll throw you a like anyway because I want it. My sons got me Fenway Park (3,200+pieces) for Fathers' Day. It took my oldest and I a couple months only because we put it down for weeks at a time. He got the Titanic (1,800 pieces) as an early Christmas present from my sister last week and it took him about 4 days to complete it...He's 7.

CL82 said:
Somethings cannot be replicated with LEGO bricks.
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Sure it can, but the arena is the star. Not the roof.

Devland said:
??? I don't understand what you thought was angry about my post. "I have no real wishes for Christmas "? I did wish health for my family and friends in the next line.
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"I've always felt cars were like shoes. You need to break them in and they get more comfortable with time. I always hated when it was time to get a new car and give up the old one."

...feels like a, "you-kids-with-your-new-fangled-contraptions," Grampa Simpson-type sentiment.
 
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Husky25 said:
Sure it can, but the arena is the star. Not the roof.
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CL82 said:
Ha, I say to you sir, ha. The sheer grandeur that is the crown on Pantoni's temple's basketball cannot be replicated by tiny plastic bricks. You, sir, are a philistine.
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Then why do you want a LEGO knock off to even attempt a Patoni geodesic dome.

How about this?

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Husky25 said:
Then why do you want a LEGO knock off to even attempt a Patoni geodesic dome.

How about this?
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You are missing the point, sir. Great works of art simply cannot be replicated with tiny plastic bricks! Why it would be as if someone were to try to replicate the Mona Lisa with LEGOS. It is laughable sir! It simply cannot be done!
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Ah, well... carry on.
 
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CL82 said:
You are missing the point, sir. Great works of art simply cannot be replicated with tiny plastic bricks! Why it would be as if someone try to replicate the Mona Lisa with LEGOS. It is laughable sir! It simply cannot be done!
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Ah, well... carry on.
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you know that dude is beating off the chicks with a stick.
 
August_West said:
you know that dude is beating off the chicks with a stick.
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I'd imagine that "Hey you want to come back to my place and see the copy of the Mona Lisa that I made out of Legos? It's to scale!" isn't as effective a pick up line as he thought it would be.
 
CL82 said:
You are missing the point, sir. Great works of art simply cannot be replicated with tiny plastic bricks!
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That is very much THEE point.

**Tongue planted firmly in cheek**

If "...Great works of art simply cannot be replicated with tiny plastic bricks," then LEGO Master Builders cannot possibly be up to the task, let alone a LEGO knock off "Master Builders."
 

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