# This still exists?? Your moments right out of the past. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565 "2018-12-04T21:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/61 "2018-12-07T22:17:31Z")
There is a used bookstore in my town with a resident cat. I love it. There used to be a quilt store here as well, with resident cat, but the owner did not clean the litterbox often enough and sadly the fabrics picked up an odor. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/62 "2018-12-07T22:36:54Z")
> [@BenedictusXIV](#): > > I used to fly from North Platte, NE to Denver every Sunday evening and more often than not I was the only passenger on the flight. > > What gave me greater joy was the boarding procedure in North Platte. Apparently when it comes to these, one size fits all. So I would sit there by myself, less than 10 ft from the lady as she would broadcast over the PA system that ALL passengers for flight blabla had to go to gate number ONE and commence boarding. > > No stewardess on the puddle jumper though, so in case of sudden loss of pressure I would have been clueless what to do. I’ve taken that flight. Thanks to a crappy job emergency I took a flight from Minneapolis to Denver on a 5 stop puddle jumping the whole way. But don’t worry I didn’t have to sit on the plane the whole way, I got to get off and grab a coke and a piss for a 2 hour long stop in Exciting Grand Island Nebraska Airport.Must have been rush hour though , there were 3 people when we started and 4 (the other two originals exchanged along the way) when we hit Denver. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/63 "2018-12-07T22:39:50Z")
> [@BenedictusXIV](#): > > My wife can be seen 5 times on StreetView (that we know of) in different locations. My guess is that she is the most streetviewed person in the world, but I have no numbers to back that up. > > What are the odds of that? I would doubt it. I know guys who will race and leapfrog the google van to get in as many pictures in one stretch as they can. ---
**Author:** ![BenedictusXIV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b19c9b/32.png) [@BenedictusXIV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenedictusXIV)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/64 "2018-12-08T10:07:32Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > … I got to get off and grab a coke and a piss for a 2 hour long stop in Exciting Grand Island Nebraska Airport.Must have been rush hour though , there were 3 people when we started and 4 (the other two originals exchanged along the way) when we hit Denver. Once or twice over the course of a year or so I’ve seen the plain full (or nearly full), which meant…17 passengers. It would have been better to have your overlay in North Platte, because there they had…a PINBALL MACHINE! Which brings us right back on topic. I still love those things. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/65 "2018-12-08T10:55:24Z")
> [@BenedictusXIV](#): > > Once or twice over the course of a year or so I’ve seen the plain full (or nearly full), which meant…17 passengers. It would have been better to have your overlay in North Platte, because there they had…a PINBALL MACHINE! > > Which brings us right back on topic. I still love those things. I found this slice of heaven…………[https://www.gameroomguys.com/](https://www.gameroomguys.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/66 "2018-12-08T15:27:02Z")
> [@BenedictusXIV](#): > > My wife can be seen 5 times on StreetView (that we know of) in different locations. My guess is that she is the most streetviewed person in the world, but I have no numbers to back that up. > > What are the odds of that? > > My late father often stated that he used to know a statistician who drowned in water that was 1’ deep on average. > > Drifting off-topic. The odds of being the most street-viewed person on the planet are about 1 in 7 billion. But it remains to be proven that this individual is your wife. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/67 "2018-12-08T15:52:49Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > I’m at risk of hijacking a thread I started.\* Well.\* > \*\* > Parde\*\*l: not sure if you saw posts 27 and 31. No, I had not, but my calculation is more accurate 😉 PS: Nice nick you have chosen. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/68 "2018-12-10T10:47:54Z")
Back in the summer of 2000, I visited my girlfriend in South Carolina, and one of the most memorable experiences of our summer was going to the drive-in movie theater in her hometown of Monetta, South Carolina, to see the first _X-Men_ movie. Even back in 2000, a drive-in movie theater was pretty rare, and 18 and a half years later, “The Big Mo” is still there. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/69 "2018-12-11T15:30:48Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Back in the summer of 2000, I visited my girlfriend in South Carolina, and one of the most memorable experiences of our summer was going to the drive-in movie theater in her hometown of Monetta, South Carolina, to see the first _X-Men_ movie. > > Even back in 2000, a drive-in movie theater was pretty rare, and 18 and a half years later, “The Big Mo” is still there. Good thing the town isn’t name Honetta. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/70 "2018-12-11T15:38:53Z")
> [@lingyi](#): > > I would love the return of pull top tabs on sodas. The joy of putting it back in the can and forgetting about it until it ends up on your mouth on the last gulp! :smack: PRICELESS! The best had two little notches in the ring where the tab joined. You’d pull off the tab, flatten it out and hold it horizontally, but thin side vertical. You’d then slip the notch over the side of the tab pull back gently, and release. The ring would go sailing off like a Frisbee. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/71 "2018-12-11T15:47:04Z")
> [@lingyi](#): > > I would love the return of pull top tabs on sodas. The joy of putting it back in the can and forgetting about it until it ends up on your mouth on the last gulp! :smack: PRICELESS! But the litter. The dam things where everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/72 "2018-12-13T00:38:54Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Or drop it on the ground. Step on it barefoot and gash your foot open. Yikes!! You have a fencepost and a 20ga and live in Arkansas. I thought the next step was obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/73 "2018-12-13T01:38:46Z")
Nothing’s ever obvious in Arkansas. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/74 "2018-12-13T12:57:01Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Nothing’s ever obvious in Arkansas. Just saying. A few years ago my son called me at work. He said he was in Little Rock at the airport. I laughed. He eventually convinced me he wasn’t joking. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/75 "2018-12-13T13:23:51Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Gave a friend a fun birthday present: a vintage typewriter. > > His (grown) daughter was stunned by the odd hoops she had to jump through to make simple characters… an exclamation mark was made by typing a period, then backspace, then typing a single quotation mark. How convenient, this would certainly help people keep within the bounds of the guideline that a document can have one single exclamation point. Just one. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/76 "2018-12-13T19:56:13Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > How convenient, this would certainly help people keep within the bounds of the guideline that a document can have one single exclamation point. Just one. What BS guideline is that? ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/77 "2018-12-13T20:28:39Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > What BS guideline is that? I don’t exactly remember where I read it. It certainly wasn’t the Chicago Manual of Style. Perhaps it was in an essay by Isaac Asimov or something like that. I like it though, and I try to follow it. I suppose that by avoiding overuse of exclamation points I am leaving more for others to use, so it’s a win all around. ---
**Author:** ![KMS94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@KMS94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KMS94)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/78 "2018-12-13T20:37:59Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > This is a thing in Maine, USA too! I recently saw a story about it on the [national news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKuDht-byA). It’s not for a railroad, though, it’s for a river lock. [The Barters Island Bridge.](https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/barters-island-bridge/93178) It’s slated to be replaced in “fall of 2018” but I don’t know if they finished it yet. I worked for the Maine DOT on bridge maintenance, and as soon as I read the OP, I couldn’t wait to mention the Barters Island Bridge. Then I see it’s the very first reply!!! :smack: It’s surprisingly easy to open. Kind of fun, too. Technically, she’s supposed to be wearing a hard hat…😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/79 "2018-12-13T21:32:16Z")
The are still plenty of [paternosters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoCQ6tq5wJE) in Europe. None in America though, which isn’t terribly surprising. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/80 "2018-12-13T22:28:38Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > The are still plenty of [paternosters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoCQ6tq5wJE) in Europe. None in America though, which isn’t terribly surprising. There is a man lift in one of the Reno Casinos. Basically the open air, and much more dangerous looking version. A quick google looks like it is the Silver Legacy. [https://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/889926.html](https://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/889926.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565.md?page=5)