AI6YR BenI don't think any of my class today was familiar with what a "Vulcan Mind Meld" is. 🤔
I'm going to have to work on more contemporary references. 🤔
Michael BuschI have lately had to explain to the undergraduate research students who Carl Sagan was.
MsMerope🤦
kinda like when we teach disaster prep and pull out the manual can opener and the younglings have no idea what it is.
[maybe we should also be teaching them how to use it 🤷♀️ ]
Desert Square Gardener@MsMerope
That's interesting. Where I live, I don't think most people, young or old, have ever used an electric can opener. My inlaws live in Santa Fe (where the economically privileged live) and have an electric one. I don't know what I did, but I broke it trying to open can of beans. Oops.
@michael_w_busch @ai6yr
That's interesting. Where I live, I don't think most people, young or old, have ever used an electric can opener. My inlaws live in Santa Fe (where the economically privileged live) and have an electric one. I don't know what I did, but I broke it trying to open can of beans. Oops.
@michael_w_busch @ai6yr
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr Cruel fate: a young person in an apocalyptic famine finds a lifetime's worth of canned goods...
... and a P38.
Muro deGrizecoAt the thrift store recently, I was so tempted to buy an old still-in-box can opener.
Just think, I could start opening the can food cans with it, and soon our cats would begin to respond to the rrr-rrr-rrr sound...
@murodegrizeco Wait hang on is that canned AVOCADO???
Where, where?
I see "Sacramento Tomato Juice", some "Flos/ed, a sterilized Melloream product, Chocolate", a smaller can of "...W, ...Fruit, ...syrup", and that big can of "...RN, ...RDART"
babblingi think it is just a sticker that was convenient to cover something else up.
@babblingaboutstuff @murodegrizeco Whew. As someone born and reared in California, I would have been upset if canned avocado had existed without me knowing.
well i wouldn't go that far.
it may very well exist.
just not displayed on that box (if i am correct)
edit:
i found some frozen avocado and i found some freeze dried and then canned avocado but i didn't wanna follow the links...
The appliance color is "avocado". It was a thing in the 1970s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_chartreuse#Avocado
You know, now I am going to have to go buy that can opener, if it's still there.
Or, alternately, I am going to have to print up stickers that say "As Seen On Mastodon!", and sneak one onto that box in the thrift store.
@murodegrizeco I'm sorry to say I have direct memories of avocado green and harvest gold appliances in the Seventies. Now I'm waiting for leisure suits to come back.
