### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/29 "2010-02-26T05:06:06Z")
> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Or the clutch?
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> \
Today. My only vehicle is manual.
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### Author:  [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/30 "2010-02-26T12:55:28Z")
Multiplied large numbers with paper and pencil.
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/31 "2010-02-26T13:34:19Z")
> [@figure9](#):
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> Multiplied large numbers with paper and pencil.
The other day I multiplied 35 by 14 on paper (but with pen, not pencil). Are those numbers large enough?
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### Author:  [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/32 "2010-02-27T01:09:50Z")
Large enough that I’d use my calculator if I could.
When is the last time you scored your bowling game on paper?
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### Author:  [@Coalcracker0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coalcracker0)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/33 "2010-02-27T02:31:13Z")
Did ‘The Hustle’?
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### Author:  [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/34 "2010-02-27T21:34:15Z")
> [@AskNott](#):
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> Last October, I used hand turn signals, when I wasn’t sure the trailer lights were working.
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> **About 6 years ago my friend’s first car was piece of crap with no signal lights. She used a hand signal and a semi driver made fun of her. ☹**
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> There’s a station here in town that will pump your gas for you for a penny more a gallon.
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> **Some cities here have more full serve stations than others, but you can always find one. Incidentally, they don’t cost any more than self serve.**
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> When’s the last time you had to use a scraper for the frost on the **inside** of your windshield?
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> **Lucky enough to be able to let the car run long enough not to deal with that.**
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> …burned trash in the backyard?
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> **When I moved off the farm 6 years ago.**
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> …touched a live cow?
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> **Couple of years?**
I’m 23, by the way.
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/35 "2010-02-28T02:18:33Z")
Too bad I can’t remember all of them, but I recall when phone numbers consisted of **three** letters and four numbers (until a year or so after WWII) and then they were two letters and five numbers, probably until the 60s or 70s.
I drove a stick shift until three years ago, when the stop sign forests here finally defeated me. And I have walked four miles to my office regularly from 1973 to 2004 when I slipped on ice and broke an ankle and I still do when the ground is clear.
When I drive to NY, I try to stop for gas in NJ which is always cheaper and, by law, never self-service.
I try to always visit my son in Seattle in August and then I pick gobs and gobs of blackberries. And why not?
Not only do I occasionally multiply three digit numbers with paper and pencil, but I also sometimes do it in my head, just to prove I still can. I do use various tricks, though.
Not only are there still milk deliveries in my neighborhood, but between 1964 and 1968, I got milk delivered by a horse-drawn truck.
But the last time I used a typewriter was around 1980 and the last time I used a manual one was in typing my thesis in 1962. I use wite-out every year when I do my taxes. Which reminds me, ugh.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/36 "2010-02-28T02:24:35Z")
…used a rotary phone?
…watched a Slinky go down the stairs?
… made a wish on a firefly or a shooting star?
… nibbled on a blade of tall grass?
…scraped your knee?
…crossed your fingers in earnest?
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### Author:  [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since/530281/37 "2010-02-28T02:39:06Z")
> [@figure9](#):
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> When is the last time you scored your bowling game on paper?
When I went and played duckpin, which was in the last year. I don’t think any duckpin ally has automatic scoring. I also drive a manual car, and my motorcycle still has a choke on it.
…popped your own popcorn on a stove or over a fire? (I did last night)
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