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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    12/01/09

    In reply to Phone Home
    I can only imagine how hilarious my kids (who are currently 3 and 1) will find the concept of a "pay phone booth" when they're in their teens. A smelly box on a sidewalk you close yourself off inside so you can put coins into a phone to make one phonecall. Ridiculous if you think about it :[]
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/01/09

    @lobstr: No more Superman remakes!
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    12/01/09

    @lobstr: I am so there. I am utterly FASCINATED by the enormity of technology's evolution over the last 20 years. Seems like yesterday that I remember someone we knew who had World Wide Interweb and could look up things that started with www.......Being able to talk, record, video, snapshot, memorize, send, search etc from a tiny hand held device is mind boggling to me. And I am only 40!!!!!
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    01:40 AM

    @jaxdesert: well, what really put it into perspective is how my kid expects not only specific shows to be on at any given time, but SPECIFIC EPISODES. DVRs have made the concept of what I grew up with (WAITING all week for a show to begin, and the particular episode is the luck of the draw).. and i'm only 35 :p
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    12/01/09

    In reply to Phone Home
    "So I told that British dude, if you don't have any drugs, you shouldn't call yourself 'The Doctor.' "
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/01/09

    @TedSez: Who else got this reference?
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    12/01/09

    In reply to Phone Home
    We should resurrect these for certain cellphone talkers.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/01/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: like a penalty box. Agreed.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12/01/09

    In reply to Phone Home
    Movie set? that looks like a craft services tent in the background.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/01/09

    @misslinda: good eye. It looks like it's sitting on top of a dolly with wheels.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/01/09

    In reply to Phone Home
    The Last Days of Clark Kent.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/01/09

    @AzureTexan: Hat tip to you.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/01/09

    In reply to Winter Wondering Land
    That Polanski asshole is building a minaret in his backyard as we speak.
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    Image of Ogiri W Surie Ogiri W Surie
    11/30/09

    In reply to Winter Wondering Land
    Forget it flake, it's Chinatown.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/26/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    "Smithers, I've designed a new plane, I call it the Spruce Moose, it will carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild to the Belgian Congo in 20 minutes!"

    Jetblue is pretty ok so far actually, though not sufficiently b/w like the above.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    So glad I decided to host in NYC this year. Come to ME, bitches! Hahahahaha.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    I dunno - I went thru SAN and ATL today, and they were pretty empty. if things don't pick up, JFK might just look like this
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    The interesting thing about this terminal (to me, at least) is that because it's got that retro-futuristic thing going on so heavily, people seem to talk about it like it's from some distant, better past. This terminal was open as late as something like 2004, and it's still there and will be part of the new JetBlue terminal once it's finished. It'd almost be like showing a photo of a guy in a suit in the Empire State Building, and talking wistfully about days gone by.

    I flew out of T5 on ANA before they moved over to the United/BA terminal (I think T2?), and it was really cool. It was a very small terminal with a relatively few gates, so even in rush hours it was never all that crowded. But that's also why it's been replaced; it really wasn't a major market terminal anymore. Just couldn't handle enough people or planes.
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    11/26/09


    @badasscat:
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    Image of crankypants crankypants
    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    This photo is boomer crack. Thanks. :)
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    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    Talk about Eero-dynamic! Simply gorgeous.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    Spent many happy hours as a 9 year old wandering and exploring that TWA terminal by myself. We had a lot of relatives coming and going then, and my father liked getting there a good 4 hours early to hit the bar as we waited their arrival. I wasn't interested in a table-top Pong in the plush shag-carpeted lounge, so I'd take off to watch the human parade. Father of the Year, he'd give me five bucks and told me to have fun. I did.

    Indian women in their beautiful saris, Iranian woman in spooky burkas, (this would be 1979/80) Hare Krishnas in their robes yes just like in Airplane! , the Europeans who smelled of sweat and cigarettes from ten feet. Watching the jets take off and arrive, the smell of jet fuel, roaming the halls of this amazing sci-fi hall of the jet age.. it was educational, and a thrill, and a memory I treasure. I love this building.

    (Then Daddy would drunk-drive us into Manhattan. They did things differently then, hm.)
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    Image of HaysiFantayzee HaysiFantayzee
    11/25/09

    @Baroness: Love the reminiscence, Baroness. Reminds me of my own dear father, except we wouldn't get the five bucks.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/25/09

    In reply to When Travel Was a Joy
    and many of you today will be traveling in sweatpants and cat t-shirts. Oh, yesteryear...
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    11/26/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: We really should institute a dress code for travel. We could have a TFP (Transportation Fashion Police) station before the TSA station.
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