Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose ? Date: 11 Nov 2025 19:28:14 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <10eqid5$3du22$1@dont-email.me> <10esklj$3veh8$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net b8cK6W/K2ACThwq3IhRtOQCD7+wqPPGOG1F7VZM/QVsGSO2opV Cancel-Lock: sha1:0FSIWiL2iGPnpp6AzCfAp4C49Cs= sha256:+8qO0Y9OeC/kQkmBzI2aLIOH5H29Co8P0DgPZNMTX6k= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77333 On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:54:52 -0500, c186282 wrote: > I remember, late 60s and early 70s, when it seemed every housewife > was popping dexidrine by the handful. > Always hyped and shakey. "Diet Pills" so hubby would not run off with > a younger rival. I'm pretty sure the doctor I saw was prescribing for himself. He had office hours in the evening on a first come, first served basis. On summer evenings there would be people sitting on the front steps waiting their turn at 11 PM. In the morning he made his hospital rounds and in his spare time would make house calls. iirc an office visit was $4 and netted two weeks worth of black beauties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVCmrnOtzis Give me weed, whites, and wine and I'm willin'. My preferred wine was Gallo Hearty Burgundy in the gallon jug. 14% and the best buy based on pennies per proof gallon. When I talk to my ex we sometimes wonder how either of us got so old. She has had health problems since 12 and I was more or less crazy. When you're driving non-stop from upstate NY to St. Petersburg FL and a Volkswagen in front of you turns into a dragon with flaming red eyes it gets a bit strange.