Whatever Happened to the Milkman?

[SPKrazy]

not that one




you know, the real milkman

We had a metal box outside and the milkman delivered milk

I can't remember when that stopped, but probably in the 70's

Was it the amorous milkman that stopped the real milkman from coming? (to deliver milk you PEVs)

:hi:

[flvegan]

1. Now, what if you left the milk out there for a couple hours?

Wouldn't it go bad?

[SPKrazy]

3. he came early in the morning

and you knew when he came

so you got the milk quickly afterwards

leave your old bottles out (they re-used them)

and get the new bottles

[flvegan]

5. What if you worked 3rd shift?

[SPKrazy]

8. i don't know

you came home early in the morning and got your milk

second shift you got up early and got it

first shift you got it when you got up

it worked

prolly too expensive

[ghostsofgiants]

2. He's dead.

[SPKrazy]

4. now I'm sad... I never knew

:cry:

the milkman is dead...

[FloridaJudy]

16. That's the punchline

Of a very old dirty joke.

In reality, I expect the milkman and the iceman have awakened to their true natures, and have gone off together to raise free-range heirloom poultry on a ranch in New Mexico. They sell the eggs to organic restaurants for cruelty-free omelettes. On weekends they host meditation workshops, and are very, very happy.

Or at least I'd like to believe so.

[SPKrazy]

18. ...

:rofl:


:thumbsup:

[Ptah]

6. My dad ran him off. he was too flirtatious.

:blush:

[SPKrazy]

10. oh....

it's your fault

[Ptah]

17. If being born cute is wrong

I don't want to be right.

[SPKrazy]

19. he he

:rofl:

:pals:

[Ptah]

22. It was me that the milkman was flirting with.

:cry:

[Ptah]

29. I refuse to accept the blame for the actions of an adult when I was four.

It is NOT my fault.

[SPKrazy]

35. ok

then

it's

someone elses fault

:hi:

[Ptah]

37. is this funny to you?

[Ptah]

34. No.

[lost-in-nj]

7. hmmmm

everyone said I looked like the milkman


didn't look like ANYONE in my family......

:shrug: :shrug:

he was drunk

maybe thats where i get it



lost

[SPKrazy]

9. the milkman's daughter?

:shrug:

:hi:

[Inchworm]

11. I think granny has him in the basement

Not much fight left in 'im.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

12. that granny

:shrug:

she needs to let him go :grr:

[rug]

13. Went the way of the ice man.

[SPKrazy]

14. prolly right

big stores undersold the milkman

the ice man lost to technology

[mopinko]

15. if you don't mind buying your milk from a crazy republican nazi

you can still get dairy delivered in a big chunk of illinois. oberwies dairy. really good products, just unfortunately owned but a batshit crazy thug who is desperate to get elected to anything here in illinois. renning fro fat denny hastert's seat at the moment.
but mostly, women got jobs.

[SPKrazy]

20. hadn't thought of that being the issue

women got jobs

:thumbsup:

[mopinko]

24. yeah, you can't leave that shit out all day. although

our milkman when i was a kid used to just walk in and put it in the fridge. guess that is out these days, also. we didn't even HAVE a key to our house.

[AngryAmish]

21. I love Oberweiss milk and ice cream

I won't buy from that loon, tho. But real milk in real glass bottles and tons of milk fat in the ice cream....dammit, why does his politics suck so bad?

[mopinko]

23. breaks my heart. warm childhood memories, destroyed.

lived down the street from the original store. great, great sundaes. fresh juices. even the skin milk is good. just about the time they started really expanding into chicago, and i could get that stuff again, that asshole had to open his god damned mouth. sigh.

[RetroLounge]

25. We get oberweis delivered to our office here.

I never buy any, but the ice cream is pretty good.

RL

[SPKrazy]

30. rightwing creamery

:shrug:

[Critters2]

36. Yeah, Oberweis, the guy who owns it

(can't remember his first name) is running for Hastert's seat. He's always running for something as a Repug here. I think he has Hastert's endorsement.

[mopinko]

38. the really sad thing- it used to be a family business.

not sure if jim is the sole owner now, or if there are some mortified siblings out there. but they used to be a real asset to the city, soft hearted and decent people.
one time one of the kids found an orphaned deer. a tiny baby one with the spots and all. they raised the thing in a pen in the store. when it got too big, they donated the money to the city to build an enclosure in the little zoo we had. they endowed to take care of that one, i think it was called sammy, plus any others that found themselves in similar circumstances. last time i was there, which was years ago, they had a herd of about 20 or 30 of them.
now he is not only a thug, he is a batshit crazy thug.

[mopinko]

39. you get illinois dairy delivered in milwaukee?

hmmmmm.
yeah, it is sad. it is good stuff. they had the best hot fudge sundaes ever.

[RetroLounge]

44. Yeah, weird, huh?

Like we ain't got cows here?

RL

[RFKHumphreyObama]

26. He's just one in a long line of people whose professions have been made redundant

over the past few decades. Milkman, ice man, lighthouse keepers and the like. Modern technology and changing consumer needs have ensured the loss of many of these professions

While I welcome the modern technology -and even though I was born after most of these professions ceased -I still think it's sad that many of these professions are being phased out.

[SPKrazy]

31. It is sad I guess

I just remember the milkman

[blitzen]

27. Here's the modern-day milkman....I have one

Except mine doesn't wear a kilt

[SPKrazy]

32. uhm

that's water

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. The advent of the larger grocery store that could store enough milk for everyone

and consolidation of milk producers, which led to higher transportation costs and so it was cheaper to just deliver milk to the two or three grocery stores in town instead of to each house.

[SPKrazy]

33. I'm sure that is true

[Coyote_Bandit]

40. He

lost his job and because of his age he couldn't find another and was forced to become a Wal-Mart greeter.

[SacredCow]

41. One of the local dairies here just recently stopped....

They had been continuing the service, even though it really didn't make economic sense anymore. But finally it got to the point where they were losing enough money that they had to discontinue.

I was born in 1971, so I never got to experience such a thing.

[texas1928]

42. This...

One evening a man took his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. The doctor told them that he'd developed a new machine and asked if they'd like to try it. The machine would take some of the woman's pain away and give it to the father thereby easing the mother's burden.

The couple thought it was a good idea and agreed to give it a try. The doc set it on 10% to begin with, telling the man that 10% was still probably more pain than he had ever felt. The man was surprised at how little pain he was feeling and asked for it to be increased. The doctor turned it up to 20% with the same results. This trend continued until the machine was set at 100%.

After the delivery both mother and father felt fine. The wife was relieved at having an almost painless labour and the father was still amazed at how little pain was actually involved.

The next afternoon, when they took the baby home, they found the milkman dead on their doorstep.

[jakefrep]

43. He's stuck in a Delaware Tollbooth nt

[hippywife]

45. I'm old enough to remember him, too.

The Meadow Gold Milkman. I miss that, too. But I guess modern conveniences and cost being what they are, it really didn't make sense. There's always a trade-off, isn't there? :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

46. With milkmen like Dan, who would want them any more?

http://www.redmeat.com

[SPKrazy]

47. scary

:scared: