Remembering Paperboys
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12/04/18 03:48 PM
12/04/18 03:48 PM
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A while back, Mixed Bag had a thread about jobs that didn't exist anymore. This morning I was thinking back to the time when paperboys used to ride their bikes through the neighborhood delivering the news. Once a month they'd come around to collect what was owed and recorded it on a punch card. They'd punch the card to remove the weeks we'd paid for and gave us change with a coin changer that hung from their belt. It had stacks of coins that the paperboy would dispense from the changer. It's like a virtual trip back to Mayberry.
We're going to use our own coin changer. Start with the word "COIN". Change one letter and anagram to find the answers to these clues.
-1. Italian adios -2. Dominos character, with "the" -3. a desired destination in "The Matrix" -4. the sound Hermey made on "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to make the abominable snowman come out of the cave -5. he rules over Valhalla -6. slang for "steal" -7. prefix for one trillionth -8. Zn -9. used for describing films or books that show the world as being unpleasant, strange, or cruel -10. die, with "out"
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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Re: Remembering Paperboys
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12/06/18 08:32 AM
12/06/18 08:32 AM
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Good solves! That just leaves the one. I guess you're not as big of a fan of the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" as I am. Anyway, Hermey has to make the abominable snowman think that there's food for it outside the cave. He makes this sound to lure him out so Yukon Cornelius can drop a boulder on his head. Apparently there's a big stink about having the show on TV because of "all of the bigotry" and "that's not something we should be teaching our children". Funny, I thought the opposite was true with the show.
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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