And waiting by the phone for a call back. I know know about other people, but we didn’t have an answering machine in the old days. And staying off your phone so you could get a call, no call waiting.
Dorm rooms festooned with chains made from pop tops that came off of aluminum beer cans in those days.
Doormats made with beer bottle caps (the ones you need a church key to take off) - great for scraping off mud.
Pop tops from soda and beer cans littering parking lots. They where everywhere.
But…do you remember the ill-fated Coors experiment, with two punchholes on top of the can?
Wow! That’s just an invitation for binge drinking. I remember a custom from my youth, when I was 18 or 19 (16 is the legal drinking age for beer and wine in Germany), when we punched holes close to the bottom of a beer can with some tool (a screwdriver, a pen knife or even an ordinary key all worked), put the hole to our mouth and pulled the pop top. Instant gratification, and usually a long burp afterwards. We called it “Dosenschießen”, “can shooting”. What is the English/American expression for this technique?
“Shotgunning”.
Yeah, that’s an appropriate term 
. Thanks!
ETA: and of course there’s a wiki about it. There’s a wiki about everything!
ETA2: that led me to the German wiki, which files under “Dosenstechen”, but also mentions “Dosenschießen”. I now remember that both terms were used back then when I dabbled with that questionable custom.
AFAIK, those Coors cans weren’t really made for shotgunning. You pressed in the little hole first, which relieved the pressure, and then pressed in the bigger hole. Actually worked just fine, as I recall.
But you could have gulped down the whole can in one go, with the under pressure relieved by the second hole, like when shotgunning, couldn’t you?
Now that weed is legal in more than a couple of states, this post hopefully won’t violate board guidelines.
A crumpled pop/beer can with a couple of holes poked in the dent.
An empty toilet paper tube with a hole cut in the side, and a piece of foil pushed into it and punctured with pinholes
Taking faucets apart for the screens
Two spoons made red hot on a gas range, smoking product put into one and the other spoon pressed into it while you inhaled
A cool shop teacher who warned you jerks not to make pipes in class because copper fumes are poisonous
Not just beer cans. I remember Orange Crush and Hires Root Beer had the two punchholes for a while.
A friend of mine always fishes out the paper rolls from my trash when he’s hanging out with me and I like to have a few joints with him. He’s just not into wasting good weed by spoiling it with tobacco. The smoking device built that way is called a Kawumm here, a rather onomatopoetic expression. I have to ask once again in this thread: what’s it called in English?
We just called them toilet paper bongs. They smelled like scented toilet paper.
Here’s something from way back, though I’m a living witness:
Newspaper scandal section: men and women arrested for adultery. Men arrested for lewd behavior in public restrooms, or “loitering with intent” for cruising. Everyone’s name and address listed, and noted if “negro.”
To the defense of my friend, he always builds them with kitchen roll tubes, never toilet rolls. And interestingly, what I know for bongs always have to do with water. I’m really no expert though, because I’ve never been into smoking pure or with other devices than rolling paper and tobacco.
Ball point pens, ink tube removed from the center, pushed into an apple; dig out a scoop from the top of the apple down to the pen, put a screen in there.
Bongs for us also always involved water. And we never mixed with tobacco; though much of the time there was no knowing what we were actually smoking. We’d have noticed tobacco, though, because we knew what that smelled like.
And the individual platters were stored in their sleeves that were assembled into an album, just like a photograph album. Which is why, when LPs came out, they were called “albums” (and why pissant little pedants who insisted that it was improper to call CDs “albums” were wrong, Wrong, WRONG).
You’re right. If you read any old newspapers, the women were always identified by their husbands name. “Mrs. John Doe and Mrs. William Jones attended the charity gala.”
The old newspapers?
My parents 50th wedding anniversary celebration just a few years ago had the table cards written that way. My mother, who was nominally not involved in organizing the event, insisted upon it. People of her generation and mine were generally confused by it and the next generation were offended. I took the heat for it as the organizer. Of course my mother couldn’t be the organizer because you can’t throw a party for yourself.
I just want to make sure I’m understanding you correctly - you’re not talking about the card for a married couple saying “Mr. & Mrs. William Jones”, correct? You’re talking about the card for a woman attending alone saying " Mrs. William Jones", right? How old is your mother - because my 81 year old mother and her friends probably would have been offended.