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HERE ARE SOME OLD OLD PREDICTIONS -
HMM - LOOKS LIKE NOT TOO MANY CAME TRUE EH!
Enjoy....
Thought you might like to see these!!! Comments made in the
year 1957:
> >"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's >going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20." > >"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long >before $5000 will only buy a used one." > >"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a >pack is ridiculous.." > >"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to >mail a letter?" > >"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire >outside help at the store." > >"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday >cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in >the garage." > >"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it >impossible to ! stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be >wearing their hair >as long as the girls." > >"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more.. Ever since they >let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it >seems every new movie has either "hell" or "damn" in it. > >"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put >a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even have some >fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas." > >"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for >$75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday >they'll be making more than the president." > >"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be >electric.. They are even making electric typewriters now." > >"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married >women are having to work to make ends meet."! > >"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire >someone to watch their kids so they can both work." > >"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to >be getting divorced at the drop of a hat." > >"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a >whole lot of foreign business." > >"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes >half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the >best people to congress." > >"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously >doubt they will ever catch on." > >"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It >costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel." > >"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is >too rich for my blood." > >"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it." > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 24-07-02 |
