Todays funny
Apr 24, 2013 10:44:34 #
today'sFUNNY===========================
When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes
about how hard things were when they were growing up.
What with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways
through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to
their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite
their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for
35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way I was going
to lay that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But ...
Now that I've reached the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around
and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox
and it would take like a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to go
to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or, we had to wait around all day
to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and
mess it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called, they got a busy signal!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no
idea who it was, it could be your boss, your Mom, a collections agent, you
didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution
3-D graphics!
We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids"! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you
died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater, there was no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you, you
watched his hairstyle!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels
and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide
to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!
We had to wait ALL WEEK!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled!
You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes
about how hard things were when they were growing up.
What with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways
through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to
their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite
their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for
35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way I was going
to lay that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But ...
Now that I've reached the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around
and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox
and it would take like a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to go
to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or, we had to wait around all day
to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and
mess it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called, they got a busy signal!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no
idea who it was, it could be your boss, your Mom, a collections agent, you
didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution
3-D graphics!
We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids"! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you
died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater, there was no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you, you
watched his hairstyle!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels
and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide
to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?!
We had to wait ALL WEEK!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled!
You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
Apr 24, 2013 11:04:31 #
Apr 25, 2013 10:35:30 #
And you wouldn't have lasted 20 minutes in 1954. 3 channels black and white and Video What ???
MagicFad wrote:
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Apr 25, 2013 12:40:44 #
And don't forget that the three channels didn't start broadcasting until about 4PM. And if you didn't like Lawrence Welk, Andy Williams or Kate Smith best not to turn it on.
Apr 25, 2013 17:24:54 #
Apr 25, 2013 20:38:24 #
SWINDELL wrote:
How about back in the 30s & 40s like me?
Was there TV back then?
Apr 26, 2013 07:28:32 #
Apr 26, 2013 09:21:21 #
There's always been a bit of the "We had it worse" mentality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
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