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Offline jennifer

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2002, 04:12:01 PM »
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In no particular order . . .

--Electricity
--Central Heating (we went without the above two for four days this winter after an ice storm, and there is nothing romantic about freezing and candles let me tell you)
--The right to vote
--Indoor plumbing
--21st century medicine (we have a history of medicine collection in the library where I work, and frankly, I think you would have been better off trying to cure yourself)
--A career
--Buffy (just kidding :D)
--Being able to legally own property
--The education I've had
--Being able to travel great distances for comparatively little money and little time
--Preston Sturges' films and the fiction of E.F. Benson, Edith Wharton, and Lemony Snicket.

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You are so right Luciaphil
i don't think I would have survived well in 1795 without the rights that women didn't have i quess we take for granted  what the women then didn't have! Ican't imagine not being able to vote or own one's own property!

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2002, 04:17:02 PM »
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Jennifer: you had to mention the Rex Sox. You know Barnabas showed up at Collinwood in the summer of 1967. The year Yaz won the Triple Crown and the Red Sox lost the World Seris in seven games to ST. Louis.
Now I wonder if maybe Angelique might of had something to do with that? ?!?


She sure was mean enough!
Well maybe she also ruined it in 1986 with the famous ball through Bill B. legs!LoL
wonder if anyone will ever get the Triple Crown again?

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #17 on: April 07, 2002, 03:18:48 AM »
I am so addicted to technology. I have an electric heater that I program to heat the bathroom in the morning so I always have a warm, toasty bathroom to go to.
AS much as I am disapointed with television, I am addicted to it. I know how much more satisfieing it is to read a good book, but still, I turn on that stupid TV even when there is nothing good on. I often feel life would be so much richer (except I wouldn't have my DS) if I was born in a time before TV. BUt, I am a hopeless addict who only manages brief periods away from TV on my camping trips.
Running water, toilets? What would I do without them?
Automobiles? love the freedom they give. Hate the conjestion, suburban sprawl, and rude (downright evil) drivers the create. I might not mind living in a period before cars.
Rapp and Hip-hop music? I might be worth doing without running water to get away from this stuff. What would Abigail and Rev. Trask think of such evil sounds?
Positives of the eighteenth century. Clean air, clean water, undeveloped land.
Negatives: dirtier people, more uneducated people, rapidly disapearing unspioled land.
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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #18 on: April 07, 2002, 05:21:17 AM »
Clean air perhaps, SonofBarnabas, but not necessarily clean water.  There were certainly no industrial polutants in the water, but no one understood microbes and viruses back then....people routinely died of dysentery...especially the very young and elderly.   :P

People knew the water was suspect, but not WHY it made them ill.  Nevertheless, it gave them all the excuse they needed to drink beer, ale, cider and wine!
(Not to mention Hot Toddies!)   ;)

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2002, 09:56:40 AM »
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People knew the water was suspect, but not WHY it made them ill.  Nevertheless, it gave them all the excuse they needed to drink beer, ale, cider and wine!
(Not to mention Hot Toddies!)

I could live with this.

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2002, 10:02:19 AM »
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I could live with this.


Heheh.  But I'm guessing Bob would rather die than give up his blender. ;D

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2002, 06:39:43 PM »
9.V's secret(unmentionables but they were pretty bad back then no pretty colors!)

Jen...if victoria's secret AND bathing suits :( :P :'(
are some of the things you'd miss most about 1795, I dunno man...you must be
a) young
b) pretty
c) let's say not addicted to chocolate (or chips) ;)
But I lol about the Sox

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #22 on: April 07, 2002, 06:48:15 PM »
Luciaphil....I was thinking along your lines:
As women, we probably would not have been allowed to own property >:(

No particular order:
Aleve
Dishwasher
Washer/Dryer (hello....going down to the crick to beat your laundry against rocks!!! :o
Chapstick
Lo Mein
Diet Pepsi Twist
Department stores (discount, naturally!)
uh.....unmentionable femine hygienic products (think of what they had to deal with) :o
disposable tissues/toilet tissues/napkins and paper towels
epilady
bic lighters
remote control

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2002, 10:37:49 PM »
Things I would miss,
Bruce Springsteen and Starbucks Carmel Machioto.  
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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2002, 03:26:22 PM »
This message board and all the nice people, who share their thoughts on it! :D
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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #25 on: April 08, 2002, 08:17:09 PM »
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9.V's secret(unmentionables but they were pretty bad back then no pretty colors!)

Jen...if victoria's secret AND bathing suits :( :P :'(
are some of the things you'd miss most about 1795, I dunno man...you must be
a) young
b) pretty
c) let's say not addicted to chocolate (or chips) ;)
But I lol about the Sox

Patti

LOL
actually Patti I'm in my forties and just lost about 25 lbs
of pregnancy weight(It was hard!) My son is 41/2 so it took me a while Heehee! so i love going to look at clothes and Victoria"s S again the harder part is keeping it off because I  love chocolate and hate diet soda
but the new Pepsi twist isn't bad!

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2002, 08:19:16 PM »
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This message board and all the nice people, who share their thoughts on it! :D
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That's so sweet Vam! i love your polls they are a loota fun on a stressful day :o

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #27 on: April 08, 2002, 09:44:56 PM »
I agree with RobinV - Medical Science as it is today would be a big factor  ;) - without it many of we "original fans" (nice way to say 40/50 something isn't it? LOL!) would either be gone or well on our way by now. I think I just hit the life expectancy ceiling for 1795 on my last B'day!

Aside from that I would say that though I love to look at the styles of the day the idea of being trapped in long dresses and all the superfluous undergarments all the time just seems like a hideous nightmare [sick]!  

As for technology, the following list depending on various circumstances would sometimes be titled most missed and other days least missed [pain] ~

Cars
Cell Phones
Any Phone
Fast Food
Television
Fax Machines
Films
Computers

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Re: Things not in 1795 i would miss most!
« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2002, 04:02:16 AM »
I'm totally with Robin on that indoor toilet thing. I don't even want to think about it!!!

I don't think they had too much trouble during the summer without a/c since it's fairly mild in Maine on the coast. Their winters, however, would be a real b!tch! I don't  care how many fireplaces they had - once they walked two feet away from them they'd freeze.

Hot water - how did people live without it? Did anyone watch that four-part "1900 House" series on PBS? That seemed to be their biggest hardship. Without a decent way to heat water, bathing was next to impossible.

I'd be bored out of my skull without radio or television and would probably have to take to the sherry like Naomi.

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I forgot to mention...
« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2002, 04:44:27 AM »
Medical care! I'm very thankful to have been able to have surgeries that life may not have ended without, but I might wish it had!

And ibuprofen. I am a wimp, do not like to suffer.
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