I remember a news story about theft-of-service. One anecdote was a guy who had the basic cable service but not the premium movie channel “Z” (this was in the late seventies or early eighties). One of the neighbor kids came over and asked if he could watch a movie on Z - his TV set was broken or something. The guy said, sorry, I don’t have Z. The kid then climbs up a utility pole, opens an unlocked box, pulls out a metal filter, climbs down and says “You do now.”
Studded tires are still legal in six states; I’ve seen (well, heard) them in use in Colorado in recent years.
I have snow tires for my car and my wife’s car. In some areas of the country they don’t make sense, but here in SE Michigan, they’re really handy.
He was a timid, cool dude who struggled with English and was excited to be visiting friends in Florida. I wouldn’t have bought him a few drinks if I wasn’t comfortable with him.
ETA: another cool thing about that flight. The majority of the passengers were Puerto Rican. They burst into applause when the plane touched down.
Glad it worked out. In my time, I’ve known a few timid, shy people (including women) who turn obnoxious and physical when drunk.
Heh. Some/most of my besties are drunks. I am a pretty good judge of character when it comes to my fellow drunks. 
So was everybody else on the plane.
Also lucky he wasn’t the puking and/or pissing version.
The guy I bought my house from worked for the local cable company (I forget the name, it was one of the multitude which were assimilated into Comcast). Some time after the sale closed he informed me that the house had every channel the company offered and I’d never have to pay a dime. I got the impression that he was pissed at the realtor for refusing to make that a selling point.
It was a measure of how much I detested the company in question that I never availed myself of his petty thievery – I bought a satellite dish instead.
On both my pick up and the car, put them on after Thanksgiving, take them off end of March. They are nothing unusual around here. This year the graveled, mile-long one-lane road up the hill to our house was solid ice for about three months. The city plows and sprinkles gravel on it all winter but it is ice. You can barely walk on it without ice cleats (which are standard footwear in the country).
In NE Minnesota a lot of people use them. My husband has them for his car. Every fall and spring he takes his car and tires to Sam’s Club where they switch them out. Some places will even store the tires that you’re not using for you.
Colorado Mountains here. My Wife and I run good snow tires year round. We have very, very long winters and it’s pointless to change them out.
My Wife had to rent a car because hers is in the shop. It had ‘All’ season tires on it. Jeep Compass. Should do fine, but I winched it out twice in two days.
I don’t run studded snow tires anymore. The newer rubber compounds for snow tires are good enough, and I do quite a bit of highway driving. Studded snow tires are pretty noisy.
It depends on where you live of course. All seasons are fine for most folks.
All seasons aren’t the same thing as all weathers. The latter are relatively new. Still not as good as switching if you commonly drive in really heavy winter road conditions; and likely not necessary if you almost never do; but may be a good choice for people in the middle.
Thread is too long to read every one, but I immediately thought of sea monkeys.
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Even when LAUSD’s oldest extant school was established during the Johnson* administration, I doubt anyone said “cloak” outside of vampire stories and fables.
*Andrew, not Lyndon.
[First they were there, then they were gone, and now they’re back.]
Somebody has already mentioned the NBC Peacock, which reminds me of the NBC Chimes or “audio logo”. They used to use this way back in the days of scripted radio programs, often while proclaiming “Three Chimes Mean Good Times”. They must have dropped this before I was born because I never knew about them. In the Seinfeld finale Elaine imitates them at one point, but I had no idea what that meant.
And now the Chimes seem to be back. I often hear them when watching NBC news items on Roku.
So if you’re REALLY old or really young you probably grew up knowing about the NBC Chimes. But if you’re merely old like me then you didn’t.
I suspect 9/11 was the big break; fashion wise, music wise, and technology wise, those two years weren’t that far apart, at least for an adult. Now if you were to ask me how different say… 1985 and 1989 were, that’s a different story 
Trivia: The notes are G, E, C because the network was once owned, long, long ago by the General Electric Company.
According to Wikipedia, this is considered to be folklore.
How about curb feelers? I remember those were pretty standard on cars . . .until they weren’t.