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1. What’s your favorite pastime?
It depends on the time of day. In the morning I write. In the afternoon, I'm more likely to do video games. In the evening read.
2. In 1959, the Mars confectionary bar was advertised with the slogan, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play”. (I don't remember "the Mars a day" part of this. The rest is familiar. Maybe in the U.S. It was advertising a different candy bar made by Mars?) Do you remember any old advertising slogans/jingles? Do you think they would be used today?
A lot of the old jingles and slogans in the old days were for cigarette ads. Let's not dig those up. One of the coffee ads claimed it was "good to the last drop." Maxwell House or Folger's maybe? It didn't convince me, I don't drink coffee or like coffee flavored things. Some of the local ads were fun if not technically great. There was a minimal cartoon with a little boy dressed as a knight, a little girl dressed as a princess, and a large dragon. The boy asks the dragon, "Do you drink Aero Milk?" The dragon replies, "No, I don't drink Aero Milk. The girl pipes up and says, "No wonder he's so ugly!"
3. When was the last time you rode a bike?
Pretty sure I was in junior high. There was a quite long hill on the road along one side of our property, and it was fun to whizz down it. It was a real challenge to pedal back up. By the time I was in high school the road got busy and it was too dangerous to go up or down it on a bike.
4. In 1882, Britain’s first electric trams ran in East London. Do trams still operate in your area? If not, have you ever been on one somewhere else?
No trams ('street cars' for us) where I've lived for many decades. I rode on one a time or two when I was four or five when my mother took me downtown in St. Louis. All the street car lines shut down in St. Louis by the time I was nine or ten. I barely remembered riding one till I rode one at a train museum in Illinois when I was around 40. What jogged my memory? The driver ringing the bell by tromping on a pedal on the floor. I remember the tromp, tromp, tromp and the bell.
5. The piano company Steinway & Sons was founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City in 1853. Can you play the piano?
A few pieces, very marginally. My mother loved playing. She taught me how to read music. She offered to let me take lessons, but I remembered my sister hating her lessons. So I taught myself as an adult. I inherited my mother's piano, but had to let it go when I was down-sizing. I still own an electronic keyboard which I play very infrequently.
6. How often do you write a cheque (check) to pay for something these days?
Maybe once every other month. All my frequent bills are paid through the Internet.
8. When you are at work (or were at work if you no longer do so) is/was there a dress code?
I worked at our family machine shop, so our dress code (unofficial, but rigorously adhered to) was no jewelry or floppy clothes that would catch on anything. When I was a grad student teaching, obviously I wore clothes appropriate for college students.
shadowkat1. What’s your favorite pastime?
It depends on the time of day. In the morning I write. In the afternoon, I'm more likely to do video games. In the evening read.
2. In 1959, the Mars confectionary bar was advertised with the slogan, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play”. (I don't remember "the Mars a day" part of this. The rest is familiar. Maybe in the U.S. It was advertising a different candy bar made by Mars?) Do you remember any old advertising slogans/jingles? Do you think they would be used today?
A lot of the old jingles and slogans in the old days were for cigarette ads. Let's not dig those up. One of the coffee ads claimed it was "good to the last drop." Maxwell House or Folger's maybe? It didn't convince me, I don't drink coffee or like coffee flavored things. Some of the local ads were fun if not technically great. There was a minimal cartoon with a little boy dressed as a knight, a little girl dressed as a princess, and a large dragon. The boy asks the dragon, "Do you drink Aero Milk?" The dragon replies, "No, I don't drink Aero Milk. The girl pipes up and says, "No wonder he's so ugly!"
3. When was the last time you rode a bike?
Pretty sure I was in junior high. There was a quite long hill on the road along one side of our property, and it was fun to whizz down it. It was a real challenge to pedal back up. By the time I was in high school the road got busy and it was too dangerous to go up or down it on a bike.
4. In 1882, Britain’s first electric trams ran in East London. Do trams still operate in your area? If not, have you ever been on one somewhere else?
No trams ('street cars' for us) where I've lived for many decades. I rode on one a time or two when I was four or five when my mother took me downtown in St. Louis. All the street car lines shut down in St. Louis by the time I was nine or ten. I barely remembered riding one till I rode one at a train museum in Illinois when I was around 40. What jogged my memory? The driver ringing the bell by tromping on a pedal on the floor. I remember the tromp, tromp, tromp and the bell.
5. The piano company Steinway & Sons was founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City in 1853. Can you play the piano?
A few pieces, very marginally. My mother loved playing. She taught me how to read music. She offered to let me take lessons, but I remembered my sister hating her lessons. So I taught myself as an adult. I inherited my mother's piano, but had to let it go when I was down-sizing. I still own an electronic keyboard which I play very infrequently.
6. How often do you write a cheque (check) to pay for something these days?
Maybe once every other month. All my frequent bills are paid through the Internet.
8. When you are at work (or were at work if you no longer do so) is/was there a dress code?
I worked at our family machine shop, so our dress code (unofficial, but rigorously adhered to) was no jewelry or floppy clothes that would catch on anything. When I was a grad student teaching, obviously I wore clothes appropriate for college students.
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Ding, ding, ding! Yes, the drivers rang the bell three times, just like in the movie.