More Cosmic Clods

You may think I meant "Cosmic Clouds," but you ain't read as many of these UFO books as I have!

This 1963 book by Robert Charroux explains everything in history as the result of outer-space guys who bred us into sentience.

Andrew Tomas's Beyond the Time Barrier, from 1974, is only one of the books in which he listed old-time monuments or discoveries which imply (to him) that either ancient Man was smarter than we are now, or had help from friendly Space Teachers.

This one by Sachs and Jahn, is from 1977.

If you're a good scholar (as I try to be), you know that the more you learn, the less you know.  But that's pretty fun when learning about weird stuff like this.

(Of course, after a lot of learning, you develop some well-founded opinions as to the sources of some of your learning.)

Thanks for this trip into Celestial Mystery, brought on by the death of an old friend -- PARD the HP laptop, which held most of my blog grist.  We'll have to scrape along for a week or two until PARD's replacement may be found.  Pray for my quest!

  

Poppin’ Off

How many of you fine folks remember returnable pop bottles?  Yep, pop came in glass bottles.  When you bought ’em at the grocery store, you paid a deposit (2 cents in our 1960s town) on each bottle.  When you went back to the store, you took back your empties for the money back, or a one-for-one swap if you got more pop.

That’s because these glass bottles were returned to a regional bottler, washed, sanitized, refilled, and re-capped.  See my memories of working one summer at our local Coke plant here.

But what if you didn’t drink it all at once?

            Why, you used an after-market cap to try and hold in the fizz!  Above are the ones we still have from the storied times of refillable bottles.  Sometimes you’d have ads for grocery stores or filling stations printed on top of the caps.

                                

            And here’s the underside of the same toppers.  The loops apparent on the top row of cappers was to loop over the bottles neck, then curl over to snap the cap onto the lip of the bottle.  These were so fumble-finger types wouldn’t lose the cap after flipping it off!

            In the top left of the group pictures, are rendered in super-high contrast, is one from Tupperware.  The stamped words are:

TUPPERWARE ®

MADE IN U.S.A.

TUPPERWARE

ORLANDO, FLORIDA

198-22

 

See you Thursday, fellow consumers!