Re: old school

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

"they" make garments out of CDs now, and my teenage daughter uses the can
tabs as pendant jewelery.

-Wendy

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> Long garlands of pop tops - it used to be the fashion
> among the "cosmic cowboy" set to make hat bands out of
> pop top chains, and keep in them the stubs from
> concerts you had been attended. My friends' hat bands
> had stubs from Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash shows -
> mine were from Alice Cooper and ZZ Top and
> Steppenwolf.
>
> I remember people used to make 'clothing' out of the
> dern things. Vests, skirts, even entire dresses. Try
> doing that with plastic bottles.
>
>
> --- "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
> wrote:
>
> > Susan W Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > > When my daughter was in Jr High (she's now the
> > mother of 3 great boys)
> > she
> > > came running into the kitchen all upset - she'd
> > bought a can of soda
> > and
> > > the
> > > pull tab broke. I proceeded to pull the old
> > "church key" out of the
> > drawer
> > > and started to punch holes in the top of the can.
> > Her eyes got wide,
> > and
> > > she
> > > asked incredulously, "can you *do* that???"
> >
> > Just the other day, I heard Jimmy Buffet's
> > "Margaritaville" on the
> > radio, and these lyrics struck me:
> >
> > "I blew out my flip flop,
> > Stepped on a pop top,
> > Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home."
> >
> > How many people hearing that today have no idea what
> > a pop top is or how
> > it could cut your heel? When was the last time you
> > saw a pop top?
> >
> > Or are you one of those who still decorates the
> > Christmas tree with long
> > silver garlands made from pop tops? ;-)
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > Richard G. Combs
> > Senior Technical Writer
> > Polycom, Inc.
> > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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