1st and 9.144 meters for a first down

[Red_Alert]

Also, if Viet Nam fell, the rest of SE Asia would topple like dominoes

And if you got caught shooting spit wads, you had to stay after school and bang out the chalkboard erasers.

 

[Jon Deaux]

Whippersnapper.

Ain't that the truth?

 

[Jon Deaux]

we were also warned of the coming ice age that would plunge the world into mass starvation by the year 2000.

We weren't taught that. Just the opposite.
Duck and cover
Da nukes are coming, da nukes are coming

 

[Red_Alert]

We weren't taught that. Just the opposite.
Duck and cover
Da nukes are coming, da nukes are coming

You must be a bit older than I. Duck and Cover was pretty much over by the late 60's early 70's.

I do recall it being mentioned, but more related to the same thing we'd do in a tornado warning.
i.e. We never had the duck and cover nuclear drills like the kids in the 50's and early 60's did.

 

[TigerBait1971]

European fhegits

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I was in grade 3 and got my face washed by a highschool kid at lunch, went back to class and we were told to go home because somebody had shot JFK.

We weren't even Yanks.

But we never had to duck and cover.

I also recall my Dad holding me in his arms one clear night when I was a wee bairn pointing to a flashing light up in the stars. Sputnik. We weren't ducking and covering from it either.

 

[Kburjr]

I was in grade 3 and got my face washed by a highschool kid at lunch, went back to class and we were told to go home because somebody had shot JFK.

We weren't even Yanks.

But we never had to duck and cover.

I also recall my Dad holding me in his arms one clear night when I was a wee bairn pointing to a flashing light up in the stars. Sputnik. We weren't ducking and covering from it either.

7th grade for me with JFK. That duck and cover was weekly shit especially in61-62. The Cuban Missile Crisis had the teachers shitting their pants.

 

[Jon Deaux]

You must be a bit older than I. Duck and Cover was pretty much over by the late 60's early 70's.

Started high school in 69 and the duck and cover bs was long gone, here anyway.

We never had the duck and cover nuclear drills like the kids in the 50's and early 60's did.

I was in the 3rd or 4th grade when the sirens were installed in Lake Charles. I was in the 3rd grade when JFK was killed, but don't remember if the sirens were in before or after. As kids, we didn't know when they were going to test the frickin things, so when they went off, scared the fucking shit out of us.

 

[Deep Creek]

You must be a bit older than I. Duck and Cover was pretty much over by the late 60's early 70's.

I do recall it being mentioned, but more related to the same thing we'd do in a tornado warning.
i.e. We never had the duck and cover nuclear drills like the kids in the 50's and early 60's did.

A bit? JD and kbur predate dirt!

 

[Deep Creek]

I was in grade 3 and got my face washed by a highschool kid at lunch, went back to class and we were told to go home because somebody had shot JFK.

We weren't even Yanks.

But we never had to duck and cover.

I also recall my Dad holding me in his arms one clear night when I was a wee bairn pointing to a flashing light up in the stars. Sputnik. We weren't ducking and covering from it either.

7th grade for me with JFK. That duck and cover was weekly shit especially in61-62. The Cuban Missile Crisis had the teachers shitting their pants.

Started high school in 69 and the duck and cover bs was long gone, here anyway.


I was in the 3rd or 4th grade when the sirens were installed in Lake Charles. I was in the 3rd grade when JFK was killed, but don't remember if the sirens were in before or after. As kids, we didn't know when they were going to test the frickin things, so when they went off, scared the fucking shit out of us.

Looks like JD, Hank and I are the same age. kbur's a little younger.

But we had incense, beads, tie died t-shirts, bell bottoms, long hair, peace/love and some of the best damn music in the history of the music.

 

[outofyourmind]

Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings. SI units were used for arguably the most critical part of the missions – the calculations that were carried out by the Lunar Module’s onboard Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) during the computer-controlled phases of the spacecraft’s descent to the surface of the Moon, and for the journey of the Ascent stage of the craft during its return to lunar orbit, where it would rendezvous with the Command and Service Module (CSM).

The computer display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts, who had mostly trained as jet pilots, would have been accustomed to using. Internally, however, the computer’s software used SI units for all powered-flight navigation and guidance calculations, and values such as altitude and altitude rate were only converted to imperial units when they needed to be shown on the computer’s display.

FYI, SI Units are International System of Units, i.e Metric.

 

[Collegefbfan]

When I was in elementary school in the late 60's/early 70's we were routinely told that the US would be permanently changing over to the metric system in the next 10 years. That it was what the rest of the world used was the justification for it being part of the curriculum.
Every math class I've taken since has had a combination of both and I've used a lot of both.
I've bought a lot of lumber over the last 4 months, $20,000 worth minimum.
While you're creating scrap, knowing your 16ths saves on the pocketbook.

Yeah what this guy said. I was in 4th grade around 1983. I was told all the road signs were gonna be changed to kilometers. Teacher made it sound like a foreign, communist takeover. Here we are, this old guy is 47 years old. Still in miles.

 

[Huskers4me]

Anybody seen my 10mm socket?

No but I have two 5mm sockets, will that work for you….

when I was in high school my dad (a machinist) and I worked a cars together. I bought a Kawasaki motorcycle and when I worked on it my dad would ask me if I had my Mickey Mouse wrenches and sockets.

 

[Jon Deaux]

Looks like JD, Hank and I are the same age. kbur's a little younger.

But we had incense, beads, tie died t-shirts, bell bottoms, long hair, peace/love and some of the best damn music in the history of the music.

I was surprised about kbur. Thought he was older than us.
Damn straight on the music. You can still hear some in todays commercials. Still using it. The best will never die.

 

[Airraidtech]

European fhegits

Thank you. Someone beat this Marxist fuck to death for starting this thread.

 

[Kburjr]

I was surprised about kbur. Thought he was older than us.
Damn straight on the music. You can still hear some in todays commercials. Still using it. The best will never die.

You and Deep Creek must have skipped math class. If I was in 7th grade and you were in 3rd grade when JFK was killed, I am older than you.

 

[Jon Deaux]

You and Deep Creek must have skipped math class. If I was in 7th grade and you were in 3rd grade when JFK was killed, I am older than you.

Yeah, they don't teach math down here. I thought you were older, but when I read DC's post, it was still too early for me to think guud.

 

[Kburjr]

Yeah, they don't teach math down here. I thought you were older, but when I read DC's post, it was still too early for me to think guud.

I did try to allow for the possibility that they don't start 3rd grade down there until you are a teenager.

 

[Red_Alert]

I was surprised about kbur. Thought he was older than us.
Damn straight on the music. You can still hear some in todays commercials. Still using it. The best will never die.

I hear a lot of the old riffs from that era in today's modern music.

Growing up, my breakfast and dinner table always had 50's music playing in the background.

I remember being down in my basement listening to 'Houses Of The Holy'.
My dad passed through on his way to the utility room...

Dad: "What is that?"
Me: "It's Led Zeppelin"
Dad: "No, I mean what is that?"
Me: "Well, it's music".
Dad: Shakes his head and mumbles "That's not music" and walked away.

Mere days later I'm coming home from a buddy's and he's in the garage with the hood up on his '67 Mustang convertible. "Love Her Madly" (The Doors) is blaring on the car radio and he's singing along.

Me: "What is that?"
Dad: "I'm replacing the spark plugs"
Me: "No, on the radio?"
Dad: "Don't you got something to do?"

LOL

 

[Jon Deaux]

I did try to allow for the possibility that they don't start 3rd grade down there until you are a teenager.

We had a couple of kids in the 3rd grade that made we wonder how they got there, so you might be right.