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Title: How old is Grandpa?
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Published: Aug 3, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-08-03 11:57:08 by Jethro Tull
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How old is Grandpa? Stay with this -- the answer is at the end. It will blow you away One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general. The Grandfather replied, 'Well, let me think a minute, I was born before: ' television ' penicillin ' polio shots ' frozen foods ' Xerox ' contact lenses ' Frisbees and ' the pill There were no: ' credit cards ' laser beams or ' ball-point pens Man had not invented: ' pantyhose ' air conditioners ' dishwashers ' clothes dryers ' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and ' man hadn't yet walked on the moon Your Grandmother and I got married first, . . . and then lived together. Every family had a father and a mother. Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, 'Sir'. And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, 'Sir.' We were before gay-rights, computer- dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy. Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions. Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege. We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent. Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins. Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started. Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums. We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings. We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on ourradios. And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey. If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam. Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of. We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents. Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel. And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards. You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, . . . but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon. In my day: ' 'grass' was mowed, ' 'coke' was a cold drink, ' 'pot' was something your mother cooked in and ' 'rock music' was your grandmother's lullaby. ' 'Aids' were helpers in the Principal's office, ' 'chip' meant a piece of wood ' 'hardware' was found in a hardware store and ' 'software' wasn't even a word. And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby. No wonder people call us 'old and confused' and say there is a generation gap... and how old do you think I am? I bet you have this old man in mind... you are in for a shock! Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time. Are you ready? This man would be only 59 years old.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
You could have added: You could buy guns mail order Wetbacks got rounded up and deported (Opperations Wetback I and II) People were taught the Constitution in schools You could walk round nog neighborhoods and not get robbed I could go on and on
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
I was guessing about 65, my age. Gives me six years jump, because I can remember nearly all of these items occuring. It was a Good Time!
LOL!!! All true.
I hear you. I'm slightly past 59 y/o and I'm really happy to have experienced that era.
The best of it, and I miss it most, was being able to target practice in the back yard, with anything I owned. No More!
No More! You could always move to a slum in Chicago. The folks there shoot at anything that moves, despite the worlds strictest gun laws!
Throw in... If you were hungry..You tightened your belt one more notch (if you had one),smiled and pretended you were well fed. That will take you back a few.
I am glad that you are OK Cynicom.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Good Idea!!! But I think I might just Visit often. :-)
Welcome back, OM.
You get the respect you earn. In those days, the police returned the respect they were given by being respectful of the law and the population. That does not happen today. I'm no serf or slave to bow down to some government prick with a badge on a power trip. If this is an indication of the downfall of civilization or whatever else this thread is supposed to convey, then that's just too damned bad. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions. Then explain the New Deal. Explain Social Security. Explain the Great Society. Explain the entire Clinton-Bush-Obama era. Sorry. I don't buy into this crap. The so-called greatest generation and their baby boomer spawn played a direct role in decline of this country. So this whole "in my day" crap is bogus. In "his day," his generation helped set the stage for the things we see today.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
He'd have to be a bit older than 59 if he really predated the ballpoint pen. The first American manufacturer of ballpoints - the Remington Co. - started in 1945, and there were European manufacturers before that. And if he totally predated television he have to be older than that, since closed circuit and experimental television was in use by 1928, when it was used to convey pictures of the Republican Convention to NYC newspapers.
Hey - good to see you friend.
Correct you are. Some did look a tad off.
The bionic man returns!!!! In Catholic school they told us to offer hunger pangs up to the baby Jesus (who always looked well fed to me on those stained glass windows)
great to see my favorite OM.
Oh happy day!! Cyni, I'm so glad to see you posting. I hope you are feeling MUCH better. : )
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
John Logie Baird (August 13, 1888 - June 14, 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system in Hastings, England in 1923. An official blue plaque marks the house where this took place. Hastings Museum hold various pieces of related correspondence. A further demonstration subsequently took place in a department store, Selfridges, in London England, by Mr Baird himself. This took place in 1925. The system was successful enough to become commercialised, and the BBC began the world's first regular television broadcasts, using the Baird system, In 1927, Baird transmitted a long-distance television signal over 438 miles (705 km) of telephone line between London and Glasgow; Baird transmitted the world's first long-distance television pictures to the Central Hotel at Glasgow Central Station. He then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York. An all-electronic moving-image television system somewhat similar to that used today was invented and demonstrated in 1929 by Philo Farnsworth. Designs and patents for electro-mechanical television systems had been proposed as early as 1884 by German student Paul Gottlieb Nipkow but never built; and a workable version of a static image television system (what we would now call a "scanner") was demonstrated in 1909 by French scientists Fornier and Rignoux. Various scanner-quality devices were developed over the next 20 years, culminating in Farnsworth's 1929 triumph of moving-image television.
How are you feeling?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Man still hasn't walked on the moon and a television as we know it today was first made in 1929. Electrical air-conditioning was invented in 1902. I don't know how many of the other items are false, but I suspect most of them. Most of the foundations of our "Modern" technology has been around for quite some time. Just goes to show you, we aren't advancing technologically as fast as the people from the late 1800s to early 1900s did.
God is always good!
Grandpa so old he feel sad for poor Chinese baby who cannot eat Jello.
"Aba daba daba daba daba daba daba" said the chimp-y to the monk.
Gesundheit!
"Aba daba daba daba daba daba daba" said the chimp-y to the monk.
1957- "Chinese baby luv Jello!"
Grandpa would have to be older than 80 if he predated penicillin which was discovered in 1928 and used medically in 1929.
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"This man would be only 59 years old."
#3. To: Flintlock (#1)
#4. To: ndcorup (#2)
It was a Good Time!
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
#6. To: ndcorup (#5)
The best of it, and I miss it most, was being able to target practice in the back yard, with anything I owned.
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
"You could always move to a slum in Chicago. The folks there shoot at anything that moves, despite the worlds strictest gun laws! "
#10. To: Cynicom (#7)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, 'Sir.'
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
(Edited)
#13. To: Cynicom (#7)
#14. To: Shoonra (#12)
#15. To: Cynicom (#7)
You tightened your belt one more notch (if you had one),smiled and pretended you were well fed.
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#18. To: Shoonra, 4 (#12)
I had no clue about this, but I guessed Grandpa to be 70 -
#19. To: Cynicom (#7)
Lord Acton
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