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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 11:56 am
Actually: no, but I'm trying to post something more serious now! And here she is!
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Booman
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 12:05 pm
HEY!..HEY!...People are trying to think here. Stop shouting. You're blowing my... Cool
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BillW
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 12:14 pm
Walter, was it a successful POST, we are all waiting to hear the results!
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 12:44 pm
Christmas cards, Bill. Success will be seen later. Very Happy
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Piffka
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 02:48 pm
Booman... do PF Flyers mean anything to you? They make you run faster, jump higher and probably leap over tall buildings with a single bound. They were a brand of sneakers.

Here's a website: http://sneakers.pair.com/pfflyers/htm
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 02:50 pm
There is something rather odd about the contention that "sneakers" will make you run fast . . . seems that would negate the "sneakiness" of the shoes . . .
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Piffka
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 02:54 pm
Well, Setanta, I think it was just an advertising gimmick. As far as I know, they didn't make you do any of those things. I did notice on the website that there were army issue P.F. Flyers though, so maybe the government bought into it.
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Booman
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 03:08 pm
RI-I-GHT!.....The "Addidas" of my childhood. And if I got a really good report card, there was the "Air Jordan's of the day.... White Converses! Am I aging myself or what? Very Happy ...Here's a historical oddity. Nowadays when seakers get scuffed, it's time to trade them in. In my day, (God I sound like a geezer Embarrassed ) they weren't broken in, until they got all scruffy. And BTW, in the midwest, we called them "tennis shoes".
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 03:08 pm
You know, Boss, when i went into the army, they had you take a series of tests, one of which was quite a few (over 100) true/false questions. Scattered among the T/F questions were ones such as: "I am sure-footed in rough terrain." "I've always enjoyed hiking and camping." How hard was that? Anyone fool enough to answer "true" to such questions deserved to be in the infantry . . .
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 03:10 pm
Booman, i once worked for awhile in a chain shoe store, my particular store location being in a predominantly black neighborhood. The cheapy white "tennis shoes" for women which were always on sale, and quite popular in the summer were always referred to by the local high school girls, not as tennis shoes, but as "white girls" . . . hmmmmmm . . .
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Booman
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 03:43 pm
Setana, I'm in a gentle place, right now, I'm not touching that with a ten-foot pole! Rolling Eyes
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 04:11 pm
P.F. Flyers .... hmph! I was always a "Keds Kid" ... the clunky, black-uppered, off-white soled, high-topped lace-up kind. They were The Universal Sport Shoe, and I tattered many a pair.



timber
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 04:13 pm
Yeah, Timber, i know what you mean . . . for me, it was Converse All-Stars. Cost me EIGHT BUCKS ! ! ! Can you imagine? That was big time money in the mid-60's.
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pueo
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 04:54 pm
Oh yeah Converse All Stars, love those.
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Piffka
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 05:05 pm
I went from Keds to K-Swiss. Now I wear New-Balance. I wonder if K-Swiss is still around.
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 05:38 pm
I don't have any sneakers now. Confused I do, however, have several pairs of "Timberland Brand" boots ... good, comfortable, hard-wearin' stuff.



timber
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Dartagnan
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 05:44 pm
Just bought a pair of Chuck Taylor's the other day. They list for $39.95 now. Egad! But the store I went to was having a "Going Out of Business" sale, so I got 'em at a discount.
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 05:48 pm
Hmmmmm ... it seems my attempt to sneak up on you folks and boot this thread back on topic had an unintended effect! Laughing Laughing Laughing



timber
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 05:56 pm
is there where i come to talk about my favourite keds? high tops -
sylvester and an empty cage with yellow feathers on one, tweety on the other

i dooooooo love those keds
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 23 Dec, 2002 06:02 pm
You got new keds on the block?
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