"Never sell your stock in US Steel"
Many took this advice and lost fortunes.
I was stunned when General Motors (GM) declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009. Chapter 11 isn't as severe as Chapter 7 but it was still a shock. Like US Steel, it was a bluest of blue chips, a "buy and hold forever" stock.
shareThey should have listened to Hyman Roth.
shareWhen you stop for gas, be friendly to the attendant as he's fueling up your car; he'll do a better job cleaning your windshield.
sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2w2-CAKgM&t=0m30s
share1955 is before my time, but I do remember gas station attendants and 29 cent per gallon gas. As I recall, they'd usually gas up the car, clean the windshield, check the oil level, and give the tires a quick look. Now? You stick your credit card into the pump, it can't read the data because someone installed a skimmer and now your information is on the dark web, and when you walk inside to pay at the counter the cashier is in back making out with her boyfriend.
shareYou can cure someone from acting crazy and hearing voices in their head by drilling a hole in it and letting the demons out.
shareOtherwise known as "trepanning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning
shareHere's some good advice from circa 1970:
Calculators don't do logarithms yet. Someday they will. But if you don't have a table of logarithms or a slide rule handy but do have a calculator with a square root function -- yes, I know, calculators with square root functions are much more expensive but they are getting affordable, I saw one the other day on sale for $99 which had the four basic arithmetic functions plus a square root key -- you can get a good approximation of a base 10 logarithm by doing this. Enter the number. Hit square root eleven times. Subtract one from the result. Then multiply what's left by 889.
I remember my first calculator. My dad bought me one for 6th grade, the 1970-71 school year. It only did basic arithmetic, add, subtract multiply, divide. That's it. And it was quite expensive (though I don't recall how much). It looked very close to this:
http://www.oaktreevintage.com/web_photos/Calculators/Texas_Instruments_TI-2500B_Electric_Calculator_web.jpg
More vintage calculators: http://www.oaktreevintage.com/Vintage_Calculators.htm
$99.00 in 1970 is equivalent to $671.09 in current dollars. Today you can get a calculator that performs more functions for under ten dollars ($1.48 in 1970).
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
I don't remember the specific prices, that was a long time ago, but I do remember it was something you wouldn't buy just for convenience, only if you had a real need for it. It's staggering to think how much technology has advanced. The PC I'm using right now probably has about a hundred times the computing power that all of NASA combined did in 1969.
Slide rules were cheap, and I still have a couple. When Y2K was approaching I brought one into a meeting at work and told the people there that I wasn't worried, I was prepared. The reactions of some of the younger folks in the room were interesting; they had never seen one and were curious how to use it.
If you get a burn, rub butter on it to prevent the loss of phlogiston.
shareWhen doing laundry, do light colored and dark colored clothing separately.
shareReally???
shareReally. At least back in the old days. If you put a red shirt, for example, in a load with white tee shirts and socks you were likely to end up with pink tee shirts and socks.
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yeah really , and it still applies.
I pinkified a plaid work shirt and some socks the other day by washing red leather welding gloves in with them.
"Just be yourself".
Putting on airs is obviously unsustainable even if one can pull it off in some situations, but the "be yourself" bit was always uttered as a pat, mindless platitude by clueless parents as a way of bucking up their offspring in the face of challenges.
But it is important when battling the English!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL5h-ViCbR0&t=5s