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Whistles and Bells

  Appliances today
    replete with whistles and bells

  The only problem is ~
    they don’t work so well

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Ilene Bauer

March 31, 2024 at 12:03 PM

Ha! Guess you’re thinking about your old toaster, Gershon! My stove is original to my apartment (1951, although I moved in in 1976) and it still works great, although you do need a match to light the oven.

Gershon Wolf

March 31, 2024 at 7:49 PM

ha, ha, ha. 1951?! Amazing. But America used to believe in something called 'workmanship' or craftmanship, brought over from Europe, esp. Germany.. Now some immigrants believe in 'welfare-ship,' and the rest revel in tortilla stand start-ups. And the 'non-Hispanic' we can't trust past our noses: i.e., the Chinese, the Indians, and the Arabs. So, Goodbye 'workmanship.' I think we've had a fridge and an oven breakdown each of the last three years. C'est la vie..