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1. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:55:09 -0600; thats pretty darn sad, but real true. thanks for sending it; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00180.html (9,639 bytes)
2. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:49:09 GMT; "But I honestly believe it" No kiddin....I foresaw this with the origination of gas lines in the early 70's along with the origination of OPEC and the need for working wives to acquire/maintain a rea; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00184.html (8,488 bytes)
3. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:55:05 -0800; You were a little late. I saw it in 1967 when I visited an old Navy buddy living in Pittsburgh. He didn't even graduate from high school, but was bragging about getting a good union job "working" in; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00189.html (8,799 bytes)
4. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:21:12 -0800 (PST); Here in Oregon, 143 lumber mills closed. Over 42,000 jobs were lost. A lot of our timber is now being 'sized' off-shore or some where other than America...then shipped back to us. Go figure!!! -- Yah; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00190.html (8,334 bytes)
5. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:15:36 -0500; Relevant to this conversation: http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/102/open_snapper.html You can make and sell consumer products here if you refuse to join the race to the bottom. -- __________________; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00192.html (8,676 bytes)
6. RE: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:01:14 -0500; Great article! I sure hope Mr. Weir is proven right. But, I do see a flaw in the analogy which attempts to explain why BMW & Audi thrive, in the face of competition from Honda/Toyota/Nissan. Sadly, i; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00241.html (10,208 bytes)
7. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:10:41 -0800; I don't disagree with most of what you say here, but there isn't anything new about this. I learned the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" in the 1960s, from my parents, whose stock of phrases was; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00243.html (11,262 bytes)
8. RE: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:53:04 -0500; No, as you say, there's nothing new about the people's attempts to impress others. But, it was much less of an obsession, when I was a kid. When I was growing up, back in the 50s & 60s, I was always; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00246.html (9,138 bytes)
9. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:46:30 -0800; I think you're right about that, Bud. There were limits, and most people understood where those limits were. Today, there aren't any limits that I can see. But this wasn't true about cars! Go back an; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00248.html (9,160 bytes)
10. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:51:03 -0600; Which is why so many folks are in debt to their eyeballs...................... Material success was far more understated, in those days (at least, where I lived), than it is today ("if ya got it, FLA; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00250.html (9,624 bytes)
11. RE: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:07:11 -0500; I rarely (maybe a tool at Sears or a CD, cup of coffee) buy anything at the mall. I just accompany the wife and kids for the entertainment value. Ron Madurski Lockheed Martin Technology Services Sys; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00254.html (9,307 bytes)
12. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:49 -0800; A CD!? And a new needle for your phonograph?; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00255.html (8,871 bytes)
13. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:22:35 -0800; And big enough that you could hang a bugeye from the tail fins, as a kind of lifeboat.; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00257.html (8,856 bytes)
14. RE: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:44:59 -0500; That '59 Olds you mention is a good illustration of where our society was heading. While our open society has many benefits, one of the down side effects is that, when some folks accumulate a little; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00258.html (10,150 bytes)
15. RE: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:49:47 -0500; Precisely! Just think of the stress and unhappiness that goes along with it! All for the purpose of IMPRESSING someone else????? Saddest part is: they'll never learn. Bud Osbourne Which is why so man; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00259.html (9,291 bytes)
16. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:48:10 -0800; I was outside a restaurant recently, and a Caddy Escalade was parked in front. Another guy outside looks at it, turns to me, and says he's thinking of getting one. I don't know what to say, don't wan; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00261.html (9,500 bytes)
17. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:04:49 -0800; Same here. For example, I once got chastised by my parents for asking the neighbors how much their new car cost. I'm sure it had to do with being brought up by children of the Depression coupled with; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00262.html (9,384 bytes)
18. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:11:21 -0800; And, to keep this in perspective, I remember the first time I mentioned to someone that I wanted to buy a Midget. The year was 1976, and I was at lunch with my boss and some co-workers (law book publ; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00265.html (9,504 bytes)
19. RE: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:29:52 -0500; Hmmm. Well, in a society where 50% of the population waddles, when they ambulate, I suppose that might be what it takes! Seriously, though, a woman who would be drawn to a guy because he's driving a; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00267.html (9,941 bytes)
20. Re: Can't Make it Here Anymore (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:53:54 -0600; I am a big fan of Jame McMurtry in general, and "We can't Make It Anymore" in particular. I consider it a very pertinent anthem of our times. Like many here, I am also a fan of the old stuff. I mow m; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00274.html (10,708 bytes)

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