How old is the Grandfather?

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
09/11/2009 10:41

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 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

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
09/11/2009 10:42

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, . . . 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.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
09/11/2009 10:42

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.



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.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
09/11/2009 10:43

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 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.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
09/11/2009 10:44

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...



This man would be only 60 years old

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
09/11/2009 10:51

Bill

Hate to contradict you but if memory services me correctly penicillin was attributed to Alexander Fleming in 1928.

Which would make your old man at least 81years

smithy


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Message Posted:
09/11/2009 11:14

I agree with Nurseawful he would be at least 81 or more

Is this a trick question ????

Oleander


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Posts: 302

Message Posted:
09/11/2009 11:28

Obviously refers to an American 60 yr old - they had TV in the US before he was born.



From the 75 yr history of TV:



"At the onset of World War-II, worldwide television broadcasting was curtailed or halted completely. The country most drastically affected was England, whose TV broadcasting was shut down from noon, September 1, 1939 until June 7, 1946. Approximately 19,000 TV sets were operating in the London area at that time."

Oleander


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Posts: 302

Message Posted:
09/11/2009 11:31

And frozen food:

"In 1923, with an investment of $7 for an electric fan, buckets of brine, and cakes of ice, Clarence Birdseye invented and later perfected a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing under high pressure, About.com reports. The Goldman-Sachs Trading Corporation and the Postum Company (later the General Foods Corporation) bought Clarence Birdseye's patents and trademarks in 1929 for $22m. The first quick-frozen vegetables, fruits, seafoods, and meat were sold to the public for the first time in 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts, under the tradename Birds Eye Frosted Foods."



Wot a load of old tosh!

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
10/11/2009 08:47

Have you gone into hiding over this one Bill!!!

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
10/11/2009 09:30

Chris, Thanks for bringing it back to the top - :(

jock1



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Message Posted:
10/11/2009 09:45

I thought this had something to do with the lodge...