Vintage Newspaper in Attic

[Mike Lamb]

Atop the vermiculite insulation were several 1956 newspapers. "15 years after Pearl Harbor." If I were not working I would have hung around the attic and read them.

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[John Kogel]

Happy Holidays, Mike.

I found some funnies about a month ago.

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[Mike Lamb]

Happy Holidays, Mike.

Back at you, John.

[John Kogel]

Happy Holidays, Mike.

Back at you, John.

Mike I have a link to your Gallery here on my blog site.

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And you will recognize the Chicago skyline, too. []

Time again for some SEO magic.

[Mike Lamb]

That's great. No wondering the site is getting visitors.

[hausdok]

Speaking of newspapers, is everyone still reading them?

My wife pointed out to me the other day that we spend nearly $400 a year to get the newspaper. I was flabbergasted. Guess I didn't realize the price had gone up so much.

I stack them in the throne room for reading. Front page stories, then the funnies and then the jumble. Once I finish the jumble, that, along with the two pounds of ad inserts, the finance section, sports section, jobs section, advertising and entertainment sections all get tossed into the recycling unread.

Think I'm going to start doing my front page, funnies and jumble online and save myself that $400 plus the irritation of hearing that nitwit who delivers the paper squeal rubber every morning around 4:30 a.m. as he pulls out of the drive.

ONE GROUCH ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[kurt]

Not me. I went paperless several years ago....all digital all the time.

Better yet, avoid daily news in general. The racket is deafening.

[Jim Morrison]

Keep this thread going about not reading newspapers and I'm going to write an article about how cranky-ass home inspectors are obsolete.

Heh, heh, heh.

Happy Xmas y'all,

Jimmy

[kurt]

Actually, I do read a single paper. It's the local Evanston Roundtable. It's real news from the neighborhood around me.

That's different than daily double doses of the NYT, USN&WR, Fox, or whatever.

[hausdok]

Cousin Jimmy!

Sorry. You need to take over the BG's electronic version. Tell 'em you're a computer geek in disguise and then throw a bunch of computereze at them. The pointy-haired bosses won't know what the hell you are talking about and then they'll automatically make you the Editor of the electronic version and you can find a geeky Dilbert type to do the technical stuff for you and get your hair pointed up as the new boss.

Win, win all around.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Mike Lamb]

Chicago Trib is $256/yr for everyday. I think online it's $1/wk. We will go digital in Feb. Sigh.

That said, I like real newspapers and real books. I love my library as small as it is and newspaper also comes in handy as utility scrap, etc.

[kurt]

I said the same thing until about a year ago when I went Kindle. I fell hard and fast. Any book, anytime, anywhere. Highlighting options allow one to create, literally, their own little Cliff's Notes, available online.

I still buy a few paper books, but only a few.

[Marc]

Does big city newspaper come through Kindle too?

Marc

[Tom Raymond]

Keep this thread going about not reading newspapers and I'm going to write an article about how cranky-ass home inspectors are obsolete.

Heh, heh, heh.

Happy Xmas y'all,

Jimmy

Sez the reporter who was scooped by an HI... How was the movie, Jimmy?

We get the Sunday paper, primarily for the coupons. $15 every other month. Most of it gets recycled untouched.

[kurt]

Does big city newspaper come through Kindle too?

Marc

Nope. The trib is soooo bad. Unreadable.

[Tom Raymond]

Most online readers suck. I don't need to see a virtual page flip, I need a font size and page layout that fits my screen. You would think publishers would have figured that out by now.