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This message forum is an ongoing discussion about anything and just about everything ... within reason.  One thing our class was good at was having opinions.  Almost 70 years of life experience certainly qualifies us as experts on most everything!   Ask a question ... give an opinion ... share some insights ... it's our web site, it's our forum.  That said, it's probably not a good idea to get into arguments about politics, religion, and the like.  While we're experts on everything, we also have a wide range of values and beliefs. This site belongs to all of us ... the whole range ... and we are not here to isolate, alienate, or subjugate anybody.  Of course insults, humiliation, sophomoric barraggadocio, and demented humor is expected behavior among some of us less mature people.
 

Kenneth Pallaske

Gar(r)y, Good thing the Proctologist was a female.. Otherwise I might have been in trouble.

As for your dancing, What was that move you were trying over and over? Something called the "Chicken Dance." Yes! That is what you looked like. A crippled, starving, plucked chicken. If yoyu were trying to impress the ladies, it didn't work.

Good old Custer stadium. I think I got my picture at one of the games put in the Warrior. I'll have to check. All kidding aside, those were the GOOD OLD DAYS.

Sandy Wachs (Oldham)

Nancy,

I've had my Hoofers dance to 'You Need an Older Woman' (a woman built for distance, not for speed), and we used walkers.  It was a hoot.  I'm sure we can do a pom pom routine with the walkers, if it is not politically incorrect.  We have to make fun of our aging, as our bodies fall apart.  It beats crying about it.  I look forward to all you gals joining me at the next reunion.  We just have to find sexier costumes!

Sandy O 

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Sandy, I'm okay with the walker pom-pom routine, but NOT YET. Maybe for the sixty-year reunion.

Sandy Wachs (Oldham)

I take that as a yes!  We just need a few more ladies.

Garry Sellers

Has anybody gotten the reunion video yet?   They apparently aren't talking to me so I have no information about it.

Jim Cejka

Talk about memories!

I just filled the car up with gas. During Custer, I worked at the Clark station on Hopkins and Silver Spring. I remember gas at 22.9 cents/gal. Even less during the "gas wars." Ah yes, the good old days.

Garry Sellers

Remember pulling into a gas station with a bunch of friends in the car and pooling all your pocket change to see how many gallons you could buy?  The magic number was $1's worth!  If you hit that you were in fat city!

I just paid $4.87/gallon today.

Jim Cejka

We used to have this old guy come into the station every Tuesday - double stamps on Tuesday - , pull up to the last pump in the place, and always only buy $1.00 worth of gas. We used to call him "old just a buck," because that's all he ever said. Any relation?

Karen Gerstl (LeDuke)

Garry,

I did not get the video yet, but they cashed my check last week.  I think I read somewhere 4-6 weeks for delivery.

Jim Cejka

GOOD NEWS

From the September edition of Reader's Digest (so it must be true):

"Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?

Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.

Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale."

It's NOT us folks, it's the door!

Alright!!!  Thank goodness :)

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

I believe this "doorway thing" must be true, Jim. I have been an absent-minded professor all my life. . even as far back as elementary school. So I have had to become an expert in trying to remember where I put things, as well as recalling what I had intended to do before 6 other things intervened. For almost any of these "retrieval" challenges, all I have to do is walk through the door, back into the room where it all started: i.e. where I had the thing last, or originally decided what to do. And voila - there it is.  It IS the doorway!

The good thing about my lifelong condition is that is has equipped me well for my senior years. Hmmm - maybe I could translate that into a seminar?

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Terri- YOU forget things? My continuously-renewed supply of Post It notes has probably kept the company afloat.

Garry Sellers

Nancy and Terri - I know exactly what you're talking about.  Ever stand on a basketball court with a ball in your hands, people screaming at you, and you couldn't remember what you were suppose to do?  Gordy Sauer and Ken Walter have!

But instead of doorways to blame, I point my finger at the music from our reunion.  How many of those songs did you remember instantly?  And you can add in classical music you know, jazz, show tunes, even foreign melodies.  It's all there folks ... getting in the way of why I'm standing at my work bench and not a clue as to what I came to get or why.  But that's not a lot different than sitting in a classroom 50 years ago and realizing you have no business being there at that period.  That would never happen to me!  But if it had, it's because of Johnny Mathis, Bobbie Darin,  Little Richard, et al! (Or because I was stalking Bev Barry!)  So now when it happens I can blame the doorway while humming Wake Up Little Suzie.  Thanks Terri!

Meribeth Hodges (Engelfried)

....It is not a good thing (or maybe it is) to forget what it is you are forgetting!!

Patricia McCarthy (McCarthy)

I cut out a cartoon and posted it on the fridge.

It's a mom saying "What was I looking for?"  and her little child says, "Here it is" holding up what looks like a garlic press. She says, "That's not I!" and he says,
How do you know?"

It's not the door.  It's information overload. (It can happen to a  computer, soooo.

Has anyone read  the 1970s book, "Future Shock"?  I was too chicken to finish itback then, but now, sonce it's history....He Was RIGHT!!!

Garry Sellers

I beg to differ with you Meribeth.  Forgetting what you forgot can be a good thing.  Just the other day Angie was pulled over by a cop for speeding.  She told him that she was in a hurry to get to where she was going before she forgot where she was going.  Scratching his head he couldn't deny the logic in it so decided to give her an escort instead of a ticket!

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Wow Garry - I haven't had a speeding ticket in ten years, but I'm going to remember that one just in case.

Rule of thumb: If you forget where you put your keys, you're still okay. If you have your keys in your hand and you don't know what they're for, then you're in trouble.

Gordon Sauer

Garry, is MEMORTY WALL the same as MEMORY WALL???  Where is spell checker when you need it or for that matter, our beloved English grammer teachers??

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Gordy - Are you kidding? Our class is full of retired English teachers!

If you're ever in doubt about your text, just run it past Terri.

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

That may not be such a good idea, Nancy. I tried to join "Linked In" yesterday, and on the line where it says "Skills and Talents", I put "Reading Teache". I was SO hoping I could get it edited before anyone saw it! However I did e-mail Garry about the Memorty Wall. I wasn't sure if he was trying to be funny. But if you haven't checked it out yet, it's great. Many of those comments were written after I checked out. I like Darrell's the best, especially in the light of our recent discussion!

Sandy - you couldn't possibly find sexier costumes (for people our age, that is!) But I'm in for the next Chorus Line. 

Garry Sellers

Ahhhh,  GS The Lesser - What would I do without you?  I'd probably run out of material about which to write (nothing dangling there but I was tempted).  Terri had it partially figured out ... partially a joke and partially a tidbit for you to point out and let you feel superior in at least one thing over me!

(Gordy - change your photo from your Edison JH photo to something within this century!)

((I have hassled Class Creators often enough about the spell checker issue that they no longer even acknowledge my comments.  There is in fact a spell checker here (third last icon on the bottom row).  Only problem is that it checks the HTML code behind what you've written!))

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Just trying to catch up on all the postings I have missed.  We have been relocating back from Eagle River to New Berlin for the year.  Last time we were up there, we had snow.  Our version of "heading south for the winter".

I found the spell check button and it works!!  But it's not our spelling that's the problem, it's our typing skills at least in the Forum!  Typing was probably one of the classes I was super glad I was able to squeeze into my full schedule.  I have used that skill the most, but still not to perfection!  (Garry, "Edison" ends with an "n")  (Terri, "Teacher" ends with an "r")  Thus proves my point.  We all can spell, just not type!!

Jim, the only gas station that we went to were the WISCO stations because they away free gifts with cheap gas.  I collected all those brown dishes with white trim.  They were our everyday dishes for years after Rog and I were married.  I had a good laugh the first time I saw them in an "antique" store.  Paying good money for free dishes-NOT!

Time to read more postings.

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Part II

Garry, (never thought I'd say this) but I agree with you about keeping this sight politically neutral!  Besides, like many of you, Rog and I cancel out each others vote.  Can't wait until this election is over.

Still not ready to change or update my picture.  Maybe for the next reunion.

Marilyn Griffith (Bauer)

Reunion? What reunion? Did you guys have a reunion? Speaking of memory and the lack of, I've used Bill Cosby's (you may remember him) solution for some time now. Whenever I find myself wandering around the house wondering what I'm looking for, I go and sit down. According to Bill, all those memories go right to our butt, so when we sit down we remember what we were going to do. Try it! It works just about every time. 

Garry Sellers

Carol - It's okay.  Roger will probably forgive you in a few years.