54 issues and counting....

[Patler]

Picked up my 2013 Packer Yearbook over the weekend. I am happy to keep the collection in tact (I have every year since 1960), but, wow, is the advertising getting out of hand. Through a large part of it, every right hand page is an ad. Still it costs $10.

It's fun to pick up an old one every now and then to re-read the articles. I think the content has gone downhill the last 10 years or so. They haven't published the off season roster for a few years already. It was a handy reference.

[mraynrand]

I think the content has gone downhill the last 10 years or so. They haven't published the off season roster for a few years already. It was a handy reference.

there is this new-fangled thing called the internet that's affecting everything

[Patler]

there is this new-fangled thing called the internet that's affecting everything

How do I collect webpages?

[Zool]

Right click on a page and choose save as. Save as an HTML file. Print the HTML file whenever you'd like.

Interactive pages come out a little odd sometimes.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Here I thought you were doing an airing of your grievences about PackerRats. I was real interested in what your issues were here.

[MadtownPacker]

Picked up my 2013 Packer Yearbook over the weekend. I am happy to keep the collection in tact (I have every year since 1960), but, wow, is the advertising getting out of hand. Through a large part of it, every right hand page is an ad. Still it costs $10.

It's fun to pick up an old one every now and then to re-read the articles. I think the content has gone downhill the last 10 years or so. They haven't published the off season roster for a few years already. It was a handy reference.

So 1959 huh?

[mraynrand]

Here I thought you were doing an airing of your grievences about PackerRats. I was real interested in what your issues were here.

mad doesn't have enough server space for that

[Patler]

So 1959 huh?

1960 was the first issue.

[Fritz]

Patler in 1960. A hipster, to be sure.

[Patler]

Patler in 1960. A hipster, to be sure.

Where are the tight fitting jeans with rolled up cuffs, and the white t-shirt with a pack of smokes rolled into the sleeve?

[Fritz]

Apparently no one had the Kodak Brownie out when you were wearing that outfit.

[Patler]

Apparently no one had the Kodak Brownie out when you were wearing that outfit.

There were a few taken:

[pbmax]

There were a few taken:

That car is beautiful!

The kid has pretty long hair Patler!

[Patler]

That car is beautiful!

The kid has pretty long hair Patler!

In the '50s and early '60s many guys did wear their hair quite long and combed back. Brylcream did the trick. ("a little dab will do ya!") Then the crew-cut/flat-top took over and we had to switch to Butch Wax to get it to stand up.

(Just in case there is doubt, that isn't really me in the pic.)

[swede]

In the '50s and early '60s many guys did wear their hair quite long and combed back. Brylcream did the trick. ("a little dab will do ya!") Then the crew-cut/flat-top took over and we had to switch to Butch Wax to get it to stand up.

(Just in case there is doubt, that isn't really me in the pic.)

Before Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, "Butch" was a common catch-all nickname for the flat-top crowd. Now I know through experience that its casual use on a young male draws the ire of that person and snickers from his friends. Language piracy sucks.

There is no record of a "Butch" having played for the Green Bay Packers.

[Fritz]

Language piracy is the nature of language. I just looked up the origins of the word "cockeyed" this morning (yes, I did). First spotted in print in the 1820's, it meant "squint-eyed," with the "cock" being a kind of adjective, as in "the hammer was cocked." In the 1890's it took on the meaning of one who is off his feed, crazy, wrong, goofy. In the 1920's it came to mean "drunk," as in "F. Scott Fitzgerald is cockeyed again."

Language piracy - it's cockeyed!

[Patler]

Before Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, "Butch" was a common catch-all nickname for the flat-top crowd.

In our neck of the woods, a "butch" only referred to a buzz cut that more or less followed the contour of the head, same "length" everywhere, and looked very rounded. A flat-top, of course was perfectly flat on top. The goal was to have the crown of your head almost shaved to the skin, and to have the hair at the widest part of your head sufficiently long so that the ends would be in the same plane with the crown. We would never have used "butch" to refer to a flat-top.

[mraynrand]

In our neck of the woods, a "butch" only referred to a buzz cut that more or less followed the contour of the head, same "length" everywhere, and looked very rounded. A flat-top, of course was perfectly flat on top. The goal was to have the crown of your head almost shaved to the skin, and to have the hair at the widest part of your head sufficiently long so that the ends would be in the same plane with the crown. We would never have used "butch" to refer to a flat-top.

That's a 'Buzz cut,' military style

[Guiness]

Butch had a different meaning around here - female who dresses masculine, leaning towards punk, leather and denim, probably some piercings. Usually implied to be the dominant half of a she/she relationship.

[swede]

Butch had a different meaning around here - female who dresses masculine, leaning towards punk, leather and denim, probably some piercings. Usually implied to be the dominant half of a she/she relationship.

Which is understandably why today's young man prefers not to be called "Butch". Forty years ago it was just a way of saying "pal" or "buddy" or "kiddo" or "chief" or "sport". Now it is, "Hey, hand me that 5/8 socket, 'Female Who Dresses Masculine'."