I'm so old I Remember when:

[troyer]

Once you hit it the first time, thereafter you are watching your thumb to make sure you don't hit it again which in turn makes it become the target.

Spot on!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How do you know?

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Took a lot of years but I finally started using needle nose pliers to hold the nails that went into awkward places.

Those little 'U' shaped tacks are the worst. Hold the wire with one hand, the nail with the second and swing the hammer with the third.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I remember when news was reported as an event and the reporter didn't try to make the news. I remember the way Chet Huntley and David Brinkley reported. Sure miss those guys.

They used to hold the politicians feet to the fire.
Now they are their PR teams.

 

[R2elk]

Those little 'U' shaped tacks are the worst. Hold the wire with one hand, the nail with the second and swing the hammer with the third.

That's what staple guns are for.

 

[pertnear09]

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I suppose if you slam the hammer down on your reproductive organ? That could cause reproductive harm. This is your sign.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I suppose if you slam the hammer down on your reproductive organ? That could cause reproductive harm. This is your sign.

It would get you a 'Darwin Award' for sure.

 

[Nomadicus]

I don't know if it is still done or not. I haven't seen them in years but every year at Easter the feed stores got all these colored chicks in for the kids as pets. If memory serves me correctly all I ever saw of them when the feathered out and matured were white leghorn roosters.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I don't know if it is still done or not. I haven't seen them in years but every year at Easter the feed stores got all these colored chicks in for the kids as pets. If memory serves me correctly all I ever saw of them when the feathered out and matured were white leghorn roosters.

Ya that's really frowned upon now days and banned in a lot of places.
When I was a kid they did it by injecting food coloring into the egg. They seemed to use white leghorns or white rocks exclusively. Of course with that technique you'd get males or females.
Later it became standard to just dye the chicks. That's when it also went to using leghorn males. Videos became available of the dyeing process and animal activists made it a mission to shut it down.
I haven't seen them in years myself. Now if we want brightly colored chicks for Easter it's Peeps or nothing.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I don't know if it is still done or not. I haven't seen them in years but every year at Easter the feed stores got all these colored chicks in for the kids as pets. If memory serves me correctly all I ever saw of them when the feathered out and matured were white leghorn roosters.

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