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IHateMyTreo
Android Expert
Used to watch him every Saturday night in the Detroit area back in the 70s and 80's....
Notes_Norton
Android Expert
I got all 20. I guess I'm older than dirt.
When I was young, our band almost had a contract with Motown records. We were opening concerts for Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Supremes, 4 Tops and others. Our manager and Motown couldn't come to terms over money, so they dropped us. They wanted to pay 2 cents a record, and out of our royalties deduct exorbitant recording, distribution, and promotional fees. We probably would have been another one-hit-wonder like most of the others that signed that kind of a deal.
I got disgusted and decided to quit the music biz full-time and just gig on weekends.
I got a job with the Phone company in Coral Gables (a suburb of Miami).
20 or so miles west of Miami, in the Everglades, was a little town of Seminole Indians was called Frog City. For phone service, they had one pair of wires strung from pole to pole, on the side of the highway, mile after mile, and that gave them a 16 party line. Since the ringing current can be sent over either side of the pair of wires, each home had 8 different rings. They came like one short, two shorts, a short and a long, and so forth.
Unlike the more modern cables, the two lines were strung on the poles, about a foot apart. Fortunately, that made it easy to see where breaks were (I was in repair at the time). I actually liked the occasional visit to fix their phones. The ride out was long and in the 'glades, and the people were extremely nice. They used to offer me food and drinks, too. They had a little frog leg restaurant there.
The day job made me realize I wasn't cut out to have a normal job. I eventually gave my notice and went back to playing music full-time. I never got close to the big time again, but it's OK, I make a living doing what I would do for free if I didn't need the money.
Notes_Norton
Android Expert
This one took me a couple of seconds
I got all 20.
Y'all know what that means.
IHateMyTreo
Android Expert
But did you eat the frog legs?
IHateMyTreo
Android Expert
Yep. You're a candidate for the cataract thread 😆
I resemble that remark.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
I usually brought my comics with me in the toilet and had my cd player playing hahahaa..
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
"The invisible marker strikes again.. I thought there was a bookstore or a bathroom around here..Damn it!"
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Meanwhile Energineers students get stoned..
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Not my grandmother, she would of course gives us tastey pastries every time we visited her down in Florida, and just a few drinks with her friends down there as well. such a sad feeling that she was far away though..
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
2nd was an odd childhood treat for me and my sister, too bad I never tasted the sugar.Finally, a quiz I can easily ace. 🤣😏
4th one yes.
Fifth one they sell Spanish pepsi's still at the store down here.
Restraunts with the small jute boxes with the music selection yes.
My ex friend was the home milk delievery guy around here, I have not seen him a spell.
11, yeah, we still have the brown music box down stairs in pretty great condition, it was my grandmother's.
17 yeah real syrup at Steak 'n' shake.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Yeah. I think my Microsoft edge counts as a lunatic asylum.
BrickHouse
Android Expert
I got 17, had access to a "party line" but never used it.