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[Article forwarded by Bruce Kent, 7-7-06.]

The Good Wife’s Guide
In actual fact the source for this article (Housekeeping Monthly) and much of the text is a fabrication. The text comes mostly from a 1950s home economics textbook for high school girls teaching them how to prepare for married life (hey, Bruce, don’t you recall this […]

[Original post by webmaster, 3-26-06, from p. 4 of the Bedford Bugle, class of 1950.]
Text reposted to Milestones page.

[Original post by Rick Beck, 2-3-06]
My mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach. But we didn’t seem to get food poisoning.
My mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too! Our school […]

[Original post by Rick Beck, 2-3-06]
(Under age 40? You won’t understand.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
“Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.”
Depending on the channel you tuned,
You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June.
It felt so good. […]

[Original post by Bruce Kent, 11-5-05]
To all the kids who survived the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s… How did we do it?
First, we were born to mothers who smoked and drank while they carried us around in their bellies. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested […]