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Apple, Mango, Tango. Does anyone remember some years back when something named sunny lemon or something dishwashing detergent, samples were mailed to people in the U.S.?? I think some of this labeling is dangerous especially if you have small kids running about. Why was there such a flap about "Joe" Camel?
 
OK--that you actually LIKED the Joe Camel Cigarette Ads!

Joe Camel, unfortunately was portrayed as making smoking look glamorous to kids...  He was claimed to have been as familiar to children as Fred Flintstone, and making him anthropomorphic did put him in a class with Tony the Tiger...

 

So the Camel mascot was then reduced back to the original nondescript drawing of the animal even with the promotional marketing projects made for adult markets in publications that wouldn't be visible to our young showing a whole lotta smokin' anthropomorphic camels, including ol' Smokin' Joe--& pullin' a Camel mask off of an unwanted Marlboro man--apparently invading their hangin' out & partying...

 

--And my "challenged on the Heavy Duty Wash-, Spin-Speed combination/Turned-Regular Wash-, Spin-Speed combination load" got dried on the "Regular" not "Heavy" temperature setting on the dryer; 'Med. High' as opposed to 'High', in other words...

 

 

-- Dave
 
. . . when it's been years since you've made pancake or waffle batter from a mix because after much experimentation and borrowing here and there from publicly available recipes you've just about perfectly recreated Sambo's pancakes.

Oh, all right:

Heat griddle to 375.

Melt and allow to cool while prepping remaining ingredients:
2 tbsp. butter.

Whisk together in 8-cup mixing bowl:
8 oz. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
4 tbsp. powdered buttermilk

Beat for 5 min. at high speed in 4-cup measuring cup:
2 eggs
2 tbsp. sugar

Add 1 1/4 cup water, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, beat 1 more minute on high.

Scrape foamy egg mixture into dry ingredients, add cooled melted butter. Blend on low speed 30 seconds max, let rest 10 minutes (a COLD oven is a perfect resting place).

Gently ladle 1/4 to 1/2 cup batter onto hot griddle, bake 2 to 3 minutes on a side.
 
. . . when you've successfully converted all of your favorite recipes so they can be prepared in either a slow-cooker or a pressure cooker but haven't got around to making an audition video for "Next Food Network Star" to pitch your proposed series "TIME-WARP KITCHEN: ONE Dish, TWO Speeds".
 
But practice Electrical Safety!

You've survived the jolts from bolts of volts:

 

Electrical shocks from the exposed prongs of cords you accidentally touched while disconnecting a plug from an outlet... And at least remember specifically one out of the couple of so times it had happened when you were unplugging (I was a kid who usually should know better!) and at least one thing that you were unplugging (a lamp) when you got "stunned" from it...

 

 

-- Dave
 
...When you arrive from Brazil and you spend 2 hours at Home (homo) Depot looking the washing machines and wanting to die when you realize there are only impeller top loaders or even worse, some agitators that look like a "male impeller".

I'd love to see some turquise agitators on new maytags or a super surgilator in a Whirlpool or a Frigidaire made by GM...

And the front loads... well, they all look sooooooo boring, except that huge LG with the pedestal washer (almost useless but cute).

Ok, who's going to sell me a Maytag A50? I need one ASAP!
 
You do the Daredevil Delicate Load:

(That's Right: HEAVY DUTY--Fast Agitation, Fast Spin; but at least Short Cycle on the Timer Dial...  Warm Wash/Cold Rinse; they're white garments...)

 

--Playing Squishy Material (Nylon, Polyester--'one particular item' is made from) Survival!

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

 

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Well, the stuff came out looking perfect (even the actual Delicate item) and I was nice to the laundry drying it on the next-to-lowest (not lowest) heat setting on the dryer, and think everything was still OK...

 

The load got followed by more of me & my wife's clothes (outer, not under) and switched the heat to highest temp (along with the actual TIMER) to do more good ol', old school BOL dryer drying!

 

But here is what happened when I had my Andy Williams' You've Got A Friend album play  during my sleep:

The Marvin Gaye "What's Going On?"-like version of "It's too Late" trying to endlessly climb to reach something on a high shelf... (It just got higher and higher, no matter how taller the step stool or ladder I used) until "I'll Be There" came on & I got it...

 

There's the used appliance store--or NEW if my dream were to actually take place in the era that this song was recorded: His cover of The Fortunes' "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" (a salesman in a suit played the guitar solo, as well)...

(Another time, before that, it also played as I walked with my tray in some fast food joint/cafeteria trying to find a place to sit at, as people gawked at me hoping I wouldn't sit by them... --Must have been taking place back in my high-school days, though we didn't exactly have some sort of "Arnold's" joint we'd hung out at after school, if that was what had been depicted...)

 

Along with a cook-top that had these lights which read "Maybe", "Try Again", "Not Now", etc. as it was a combined stove and executive decision maker's cube, while afterwards, his version of Bread's "If" played...

 

 

-- Dave
 
Ok, I think I'm now officially 'old':

The noise of NYC subways does not bother me in the least but I was able to tolerate that high-pitched whistle in the SWAT theme song for about 3 second!

Jim

P.S. Worse, I was listening to it through the speakers of a ThinkPad x200s!
 
There're a few impeller TL's that let you adjust the water level yourself.
There're also a few that allow you to do the same with wash and rinse temps (including rinse)
There're also a few that have a 'water fall' flow during the cycle.

Anyone know if any machine has all three features?

Burning Question of the Day:

Does anyone have any idea how Home Depot got the moniker Homo Depot? You couldn't tell by ANY of the Home Depots I've ever been to. IMO they all should be called Breeder Building Supplies!

Jim
 
Washin', Dryin' Linens @ Smart Style Salon!

The dryer most-likely was electric, a start button, timer (maybe an auto-dry) and three temperatures--couldn't get close enough--and a start button...

 

Easy to figure the washer there was a three water load, three wash temp all w/ cold rinse & probably one-speed...

 

Are they "colored"? Yes: --White!

 

 

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<h1 class="hide_mobile">Kawalek Kawality:</h1>
 

You remember the Kawalek (did I spell that right?) Boiler from the boiler/mechanical room in your elementary school--maybe the more than one you've attended--and saw the same thing in the movie, THE BLUES BROTHERS, when Jake & Elwood were w/ Cab Calloway in the furnace room at the orphanage they were later on their mission to save...

 

 

-- Dave

 
 
I remember the old Cleaver-Brooks boiler logo of the flame coming out of a burly mans hand!This was on the old boilers at work.Would have liked to take the logo platew off when the boilers were scrapped.The new ones don't have that cool logo.
 
Returning to the original topic . . .

. . . you try to cook entire meals (like microwave Turkey Meatball Stroganoff with extra wide egg noodles) entirely in Corning Ware Pyroceram (meatballs in 2 pie plates), Visions (the noodles on the stove in the 6-liter, the gravy in the microwave in the 2.5l) and/or Pyrex (meatball kneading bowl and nonfat Greek yogurt [sour cream substitute] tempering bowl).[this post was last edited: 1/30/2016-15:39]
 
. . . you're old enough to remember when the appliance department at Sears was so big it took at least two days to see everything.

If you didn't have two days, you could always see the much smaller selection at Montgomery Ward at the other end of the mall.[this post was last edited: 1/30/2016-15:37]
 
re: Post 861585, Reply 126: also Blender Plug Prong!

Forgot about FRANKLIN MINT--when you love their Automobile Replicas & settle for one of those in place of a REAL Classic Ride...

 

When someone in your neighborhood gets a new appliance and the next best thing to it is the box it came in that you get to make your own club house/play house out of...

 

And you're disappointed in weak the cardboard is because of what it carried & that the appliance had to come out of it, but have the many fond memories, with it as well...

 

 

-- Dave

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You fought with your sister over who got the most sprinkles on Grandma's homemade cookies (and somehow that sister was swinging the door to the cold front hallway open and closed letting the cold from the outside in--the door to the house was weather-proofed, but the hall just had no duct to warm it, and there was a dashund dog insulting blanket right at the bottom of that door to keep the heat in)...

Somehow an "I'm mad at you!" came from mom (after I think sis asked "Why?") over those two incidents on our way home that late night...

You had a playhouse at the floor of a linen closet, complete with GE appliances cut from a newspaper ad taped to the wall... Yes, a top-freezer fridge, washer, dryer, built-in dishwasher, and electric stove...

You were fascinated with dishwashers that you had a few taped along the wall beside your bed (my one favorite brand was Hotpoint), probably reflecting our Bradford's declining condition...

-- Dave
 
When you find yourself saying "I gotta go to the Laundry Area..." or "I gotta go to the Laundry Room...", which I do, frequently...

 

And this is mostly during the little (quality) time I have with (daughter) Laura...

 

Think it might make, or maybe might have made, a great monologue for Bill Cosby...  Material for his '8:15, 12:15' album originally on Tetragrammaton, later released on Warner Bros. Records, perhaps...

 

 

-- Dave
 
. . . you're old enough to remember when Hotpoint was sold exclusively at upscale department stores and at downtown Hotpoint showrooms in middle- to upper-middle-class towns. And if you lived in a town too small for a Sears, there was always the Sears Catalog store.
 
Lots of fun, funny and anecdotal stuff here, some of which I saw myself reflected in. :D

Adding to it, I find myself rearranging items in the dishwasher if anyone but me loaded it. Certain things belong in certain places, which I am convinced of after surveying and contemplating angles of spray and angles of dish placement.

How about getting totally mesmerized by a vintage Kenmore 90 Series because it allows me to completely customize my washing, just like my wringer washer does!
 
I remember (and miss!) the "chevy van 30"--with the lettering in all-small letters on the front fenders of the brown van-front panel truck--an early one w/ the slat-grill running around town most-likely delivering furniture for some antique/home furnishings store in Flat Rock, MI that I called "The Furniture Truck"--a newer, white one (also Chevy Van 30) comes in from 1:08 to 1:09 in Madonna's video for "Live To Tell"...

 

And that you "Lived To Tell" for certain things & events in your life, as well...

 

 

-- Dave

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