Posted by: brian williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sorry...I forgot to write something on my last
post...we just finished with disection and the
flamaldyhde isn't all the way out of my system.LOL
Those were hilarious...although it's old...and used
alot my dad loves to tell me..."When I was young...I
had to walk where ever I wanted to go... bare
footed...uphill...both ways...in the snow...and
hail...pouring rain...to buy 5 cents worth of lettuse
at the local market...then I had to cut wood when I
got home." I tend to believe that as much as I
believed that a fat little elf named Santa could get
through our chimney...LOL.
The barb-wire one was the best...LOL
Brian Williams
> > >How Bad We Had it in the Old Days - Part I
> > >
> > >>From The Washington Post, a contest in which
> folks were asked to
> > >tell Gen Xers how much harder they had it in the
> old days:
> > >
> > >Second Runner-Up: In my day, we couldn't afford
> shoes, so we
> > >went barefoot. In the winter we had to wrap our
> feet with barbed wire
> > >for traction. (Bill Flavin, Alexandria)
> > >
> > >First Runner-Up: In my day we didn't have MTV or
> in-line skates,
> > >or any of that stuff. No, it was 45s and regular
> old metal-wheeled
> > >roller skates, and the 45s always skipped, so to
> get them to play right
> > >you'd weigh the needle down with something like
> quarters, which
> > >we never had because our allowances were way too
> small, so we'd use
> > >our skate keys instead and end up forgetting they
> were taped to
> > >the record player arm so that we couldn't adjust
> our skates, which
> > >didn't really matter because those crummy metal
> wheels would kill you
> > >if you hit a pebble anyway, and in those days
> roads had real
> > >pebbles on them, not like today. (Russell Beland,
> Springfield)
> > >
> > >And the winner of the velour bicentennial poster:
> > >In my day, we didn't have no rocks. We had to go
> down to the
> > >creek and wash our clothes by beating them with
> our heads. (Barry
> > >Blyveis, Columbia)
> > >
> > >Honorable Mentions:
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have dogs or cats. All I had
> was Silver
> > >Beauty, my beloved paper clip. (Jennifer Hart,
> Arlington)
> > >
> > >When I was your age, we didn't have fake
> doggie-do. We only had
> > >real doggie-do, and no one thought it was one bit
> funny. (Brendan
> > >Bassett, Columbia)
> > >
> > >Back in the 1970s we didn't have the space
> shuttle to get all
> > >excited about. We had to settle for men walking
> on the crummy moon.
> > >(Russell Beland, Springfield)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have days. There was only
> "time for work,"
> > >"time for prayer" and "time for sleep." The
> sheriff would go around
> > >and tell everyone when to change. (Elden
> Carnahan, Laurel)
> > >
> > >(To Be Continued...)
> > >
> > >How Bad We Had it in the Old Days - Part II
> > >
> > >>From The Washington Post, a contest in which
> folks were asked to
> > >tell Gen Xers how much harder they had it in the
> old days:
> > >
> > >More Honorable Mentions:
> > >
> > >In my day, people could only dream of hitchhiking
> a ride on a
> > >comet. (David Ronka, Charlottesville)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators.
> We had to do
> > >addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to
> have some
> > >fingers amputated. (Jon Patrick Smith,
> Washington)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have mouses to move the
> cursor around. We
> > >only had the arrows, and if the up arrow was
> broken and you
> > >needed to get to the top of the screen, well, you
> just hit the left
> > >arrow a thousand times, dadgummit. (Kevin
> Cuddihy, Fairfax)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't get that disembodied,
> slightly ticked-off
> > >voice saying 'Doors closing.' We got on the
> train, the doors closed,
> > >and if your hand was sticking out it scraped
> along the tunnel all the
> > >way to the Silver Spring station and it was a
> bloody stump at
> > >the end. But the base fare was only a dollar.
> (Russell Beland,
> > >Springfield)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash
> together our
> > >own hydrogen and oxygen atoms. (Diana Hugue,
> Bowie)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh,
> wait. Yes we did
> > >... (Peg Sheeran, Vienna)
> > >
> > >Kids today think the world revolves around them.
> In my day, the
> > >sun revolved around the world, and the world was
> perched on the back
> > >of a giant tortoise. (Jonathan Paul, Garrett
> Park)
> > >
> > >In my day, we wore our pants up around our
> armpits. Monstrous
> > >wedgies, but we looked snappy. (Bruce Evans,
> Washington)
> > >
> > >In the old days, nobody asked you to sign
> petitions. The sheriff
> > >just came to your house and told you you was part
> of a posse.
> > >(Barry Blyveis, Columbia)
> > >
> > >Back in my day, "60 Minutes" wasn't just a bunch
> of gray-haired
> > >liberal 80-year-old guys. It was a bunch of
> gray-haired liberal
> > >60-year- old guys. (Russell Beland, Springfield,
> and Jerry Pannullo,
> > >Kensington)
> > >
> > >In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a
> one-eyed
> > >razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with
> an ax,
> > >you just had to hope you could outrun him. (Sarah
> M. Wolford, Hanover)
> >
>
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