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
' 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 do 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 people who closed their front doors when 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 the Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.
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 was unheard of.
We had 5 &10-cent stores where you co or 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.
A 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
Richard123, I agree, there are good and bad things about all periods of history. It's the duty of all of us to try to make a difference in the present for the benefit of the future.
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yep - I remember it :D !!
I found that script by googling - was on someone's blog they wrote at the end of it:
"That script totally belongs to the Python peeps. I'm just posting it here because I love to read it and I got tired of looking for it every time I wanted to read it again".
http://www.cmoore.com/funstuff/humor/mp.script.weweresopoor.php
well, I think it's a blog .....
If you put a request in to QBS for the late Tony Capstick's "Capstick comes home" I know they have it.
We requested it on a programme called "Your Choice" when we were featured on it in the 90's so I know they have it.
You will know the one. The Hovis Brown Bread advert tune and the opening lines " Me and me father walked home forty miles through t'snow"
to me. Society was not so great 59 years ago. The most terrible war in human history had just ended. Apartheid existed in the USA and widespread racism elsewhere. The world was also at the begining of a massive idealogical divide, capitalism versus communism that threatened to end the world at any moment.
I don't believe in any golden past. There was no ideal family life then. There was marital abuse, physical abuse hiden behind the drapes. Hidden homosexuality, illegal abortions.
Things are different now but not necessarily worse.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi
the heck did you get the script from?
The weekly bath night of course gave rise to the saying "don't throw the baby out with the bath water".
The water would be so "mucky" that the baby wouldn't be seen.
is this going to turn into a Monty Python sketch:
We Were So Poor (Script)
Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. "Farewell
to Thee" being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine,
ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin'
here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup
o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a
rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money
doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to
live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one
room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the
floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for
fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a
corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a
palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish
tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting
fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered
by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and
live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty
of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in
a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the
morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down
mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home,
out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in
the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to
work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad
would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we
were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox
at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues.
We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four
hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we
got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night,
half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump
of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill
owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home,
our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves
singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't
believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
hee hee
when I was a kid and bath night was Monday because the water had been heated for the weekly wash. The tin bath hung on a nail outside the back door.
The toilet was outside and if it was raining an umbrella was required to get to it. Candles were also compulsory as there was no electricity in there.
I also remember lighting the gas mantle before the house had electricity.
Times aint half changed
Sorry for being away. Soap did not work. Had to gargle
spluttering bubbles here
Ayyy! KH and J. Soap...mouth...wash.
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Wonder if it is a blow job or mind blowing or both
Ah, Gypsy, my Grandmother is a great role model for me. She balanced a cracking career with a large family, is multi-lingual and very well-travelled. She also managed to be a bit of an athlete and exhibit her artwork.
She is awesome and inspiring! If I am a fraction like her then I'll be a very happy young woman.
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To be honest, I have to print some nice recipes and keep them in a seperate file. Keeping my cooking skills in place.
blow job, KH
Saves on the use of crimpers and straighteners (see another thread) ;)
ut oh
*puts the vodka back in the freezer and slides quietly out of this post*
It was an example of gossip, I've got nothing against hairdressers organising their day, they probably use as much tech as the rest of us
Hair dresser thing is not supposed to be part of office automation
Thanks Ghina, shame more people don't have the same attitude
I didn't say that i would run away from any action or mistake i made, i always ALWAYS face my mistakes, even if it was to ruin my career!
Also, In any company that you might work for, there is ALWAYS one rat that wants to screw you or anyone just to get to your place in what cost!
Been there, expereinced that and THANK GOD, Moved on, and learnt from my mistakes!!
Most people really are Me , Me and Me only, i hope you won't experience that, but if you do, i hope you will remember that once you read about this somewhere..
There is a difference between effective record keeping and printing every piece of trash that comes through your mailbox, an effective filing system and back-up plan eliminates alot.
Yes I would keep a copy of an exit visa for expediency but do you need to print what your cousin said to her hair dresser last thursday
I had the opportunity this summer to sit with my 90 year old grandparents and talk to them about what it was like when they were 27. Neither of them were married (They didn't meet and marry till they were 33).
My grandfather:
-Was in Europe fighting a war
-Having flings with Irish nurses
My grandmother
-Was working in the city (something her mother disapproved of greatly)
-living with 4 other girls
-Having flings with boys going off to Europe to die.
My grandparents were not virgins at marriage, made their own wine and had a drink everyday, and believe that you shouldn't marry before the age of 30, and that my career should be the most important thing in my life right now.
THey are a million times more liberal then my parents.
"How come I can pick my ears but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How come you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, maybe you should decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say." Ani Difranco
Then you have to invite me when your birthday is due and I know what my gift would be
You don't have to be weak hearted, you can stand up for yourself and take responsibility for your own actions, isn't this part of me, me and me.
I think the current culture is "no matter what went wrong it wasn't me"
Jauntie if you have a piano I'd listen to you play.
One of the purposes of computer is to help establish a paperless operation. This means you can process everything without the need to paper, but it does not mean not having a hard copy of your transactions. This is among disaster recovery planning. Like the exit permits now. You do not have to present it to the immigration officer at the airport and they do not ask for it. BUT you have to keep it with you in case the system is down for any reason.
your back side, who will cover it for you?? No one!!
We live in a world that has one thing in mind
''Me, Me and then Me''
It sucks, and makes MOST of us sick, but in the end we live in a world where everything is rapidly moving faster and faster, and no one wants a weak hearted person..
Sad but true!
Keyboard bit my fingers.
Oh! But to me a keyboard is on a piano! Typewriters have keys. Now computers have keyboards. *sigh*
Give me a piano keyboard any day :D
Cloth and Garment industries then , for not making us wear micro skirts, otherwise, the poor poor men would have back pains in a very very early stage!
Remember take everything the positive side and way :P
Once I cam across an article talking about how bad the new generation is. Describing it the same way we do describe the current generation. That article was dated back to the 12th century.
Remember (am afaid you don't) when the mini skirts and later the micro skirts were introduced. That was back in early 1970s. If the trend continues like that we should have been nude now. But luckily cloth and garment factories need to stay in business.
This world is now obsessed with covering your own ass and litigation, it makes me sick
Which window are you implying to??? In Doha?? Are you sure of that!!
LOL, i prefer air freshner still!!
And about the print outs, well, I print everything for documentation wise, never know when a ''Loveable collegue'' might treat you well :P
You should believe that am a saint and blessed :D
Once you thought to say somethig bad about me, your computer froze. Next time and if you insist on this, the keyboard will bite your fingers. So re-consider your attitude towards me.
I Don't want to see the next generation!!
If my generation is a mess, what will the next generation be??
They will walk nude and ride a harley going WOHOOOOOOO Come catch me mommy if you can
LOL, Nope, i prefer not to see them, nope noe :D
I also prefer that they don't call me ''OLD'' LOL,
Hear hear J! My children only watch TV as a treat and no garbage at that either. They are always outdoors up to mischief in all weathers...I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Don't know if that's your personal point of view or a quote,
Computers where supposed to give us the paperless office, but people still print everything out, using more paper, energy and chemicals than ever before, and spraying air freshner, why not sit by an open window lol.
Your kids inshalla or grand kids will say the same thing about your generation.
You
rather than type an e-mail which will disappear into the ether eventually, unlike a letter which is kept for your Great Grandchildren to read.
ME
Print the email and save it for your great grand children
you
Fresh air and sport - instead of computer games and bullying each other from behind a monitor.
Me
Play any computer game, spray a little bit every once in a while of air freshner (comes with a variety of outdoor odor) at least no mosquitos LOL
you
I think lots still indulge in what you consider 'old' ways - and they are usually amongst the achievers in this life. ;P
Me
Old or new, every generation has its achievers :D and im one of them LOL
right on Jauntie. brings back nostalgic memories.
You don't know what you missed! Creativity as opposed to sit back and watch. Write a letter, rather than type an e-mail which will disappear into the ether eventually, unlike a letter which is kept for your Great Grandchildren to read.
Fresh air and sport - instead of computer games and bullying each other from behind a monitor.
That kind of stuff.
I think lots still indulge in what you consider 'old' ways - and they are usually amongst the achievers in this life. ;P
My internet and phone has been out for the last few hours, it's really odd when it dissapears. Then again if you go camping or something I can survive weeks without TV, internet, Phone. What do I do you ask. I talk to people, play cards and take my time cooking/eating my meals
I rather think TV is overated although it does have it's important place in imparting (usually biased) news and the arts. Give me a book any day.
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shurrup!
oops the webpage died on me as I was trying to post my verbal abuse at KH. My computer is DEFINITELY on the blink!
Whew!! Thank God i was not in that Generation ** No Offence to anyone!**
But really imagine yourself without QL and Facebook and MSN and etc..
No TV!!! NO Way!!!
LOL, thanks for the info
shurrup! lol
Sometimes I wonder whether you are pre-hisoric.
Do you remember those bubble cars?
What we consider fiction science today will become a reality soon. AT least most of it. Inventions start with imaginations.
As for certain terms, I am sure my granny never had to do a lot of hard work. They just had to lift their petticoats and remember 'Dilip Kumar' (Movie hero of yester years) while the work was done.
I remember it all only TOO well :D
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HEY KH - I certainly DO NOT remember phones from the 1930s !!! Jeez! :D
Yeah, KH, it really makes me wonder what we consider to be cutting edge now will be like in another 50 years time.
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I remember the "mill handle" phones, those with dialing ring were high-tech at that time. Usually you lift the handset and start rotating the "mill" handle to call the operator and get the service.
I used one at my nan's, less than 20 years ago
Considering my age, I was shocked as well. Remember in late 50s (think that was 1959) I was very young and we were living in the suburbs of Beirut. TV service was just introduced and all the neighbors were gathering at our place to watch TV. What was teasing me is that they insist on switching of the lights while watching TV, thinking it was something like a cinema theater.
TV was a very prestigeous item at that time. They used to have a special cloth cover for it, unlike today, it turned out to be a disposable appliance.
I have used the 'dial' phones where there were slots for every digit to put your finger and I particularly liked the sound it made when rebounding. I am not very old.
Wow KH. I had to check on the penicillin one as thought it had been around much longer. How much we have now in a relatively short space of time! Makes me wonder how we will live in another 50 years or so...
This is a shocker.
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