Going Back in Time
Nov 8, 2018 13:57:04 #
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
Nov 8, 2018 14:14:19 #
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center heating (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. (In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
There are things from the past such as live music it might have been great to have experienced, so I'll have to enjoy Benny Goodman or John Coltrane by recorded music only. I've seen John Lee Hooker live a couple times. I was born in 1954. The house I grew up with was built in 1925 in California with no A/C. But as far as technology goes, today is great. Other things not so much. But I'm glad to have missed my parents' experiences with the Great Depression and World War Two!
Nov 8, 2018 14:36:29 #
My life has been and is enjoyable beyond any reasonable expectations. I was born in 1943 while my dad was off fighting WW II. He came home alive and all in one piece. I was raised in central California when the State was still great. We were number one in education, tolerance, and quality of life. Everyone wanted to come here, and too many did.
I would very much like to live my life over again with no changes except that dad didn't die at 61.
I would very much like to live my life over again with no changes except that dad didn't die at 61.
Nov 8, 2018 14:41:33 #
Nov 8, 2018 14:50:20 #
The only place I'd go is to the National Parks before they got so blasted crowded.
Nov 8, 2018 15:22:08 #
Right! The "Good Old Days" never existed. "They don't make 'em like that anymore." Good!
On a related topic, it is not now, and never will be, possible to travel through time. There is no past, and there is no future.
DOB for me is 1944.
On a related topic, it is not now, and never will be, possible to travel through time. There is no past, and there is no future.
DOB for me is 1944.
Nov 8, 2018 21:53:52 #
Nov 8, 2018 22:03:07 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! The "Good Old Days" never existed. "They don't make 'em like that anymore." Good!
On a related topic, it is not now, and never will be, possible to travel through time. There is no past, and there is no future.
DOB for me is 1944.
On a related topic, it is not now, and never will be, possible to travel through time. There is no past, and there is no future.
DOB for me is 1944.
You travel in time up to millions of years every time you look up at a clear night sky. With the best of today’s telescopes you can see back up to 13.8 billion years. Every object you look at in the night sky is looking back in time a differing amount. Even when you look at the sun you are seeing it eight minutes ago.
But we don’t yet know how to look forward in time.
Many things were more difficult for a large fraction of the population in the past. But I often think about being in some of the world’s most beautiful places before they were destroyed by today’s cities.
Nov 8, 2018 22:11:36 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
BlueMorel wrote:
The only place I'd go is to the National Parks before they got so blasted crowded.
I started going to Yellowstone and Grand Teton in 1970. Yellowstone was founded in 1872, so I’ve been going there 1/3 of it’s total time. Grand Teton in 1929, so I have been going to it over 1/2 its total existance.
They were much nicer to visit in 1970.
And people didn’t have cell phones then. A much nicer time.
Nov 9, 2018 06:42:51 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! The "Good Old Days" never existed. "They don't make 'em like that anymore." Good!
On a related topic, it is not now, and never will be, possible to travel through time. There is no past, and there is no future.
DOB for me is 1944.
On a related topic, it is not now, and never will be, possible to travel through time. There is no past, and there is no future.
DOB for me is 1944.
1945, born and raised in the rural South, through good and bad, it's been a blessing to experience life, wouldn't change a thing!
Nov 9, 2018 06:51:03 #
I was born I '36 - I remember climbing the tree which was my play - whatever I wanted it to be at that moment - and zooming thru all of the Jap Zero's and shooting them down.
Nov 9, 2018 07:04:06 #
1Feathercrest
Loc: NEPA
Quinn 4 wrote:
I have people asking me if I would like to go back in time. As for in my life time hell no. I just make more mistakes which in turn would making live today a lot more harder to deal with. How about going back to the time of Civil War, no way. I was born in 1945, the house had center hearting (coal ) indoor plumping. My mother or father could get in the car go to the story to get food. As for food we had a refrigerator. We had radios. ( In 1950 we got our first tv.) What do you think?
I think that your grammar is atrocious.
Nov 9, 2018 07:18:02 #
We’re all living in the “good old days”...just have to wait 20 or 30 years to see it that way.
Nov 9, 2018 07:48:19 #
DOB 1941
so we were also considered CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S...
Here are some Lost Words from our childhood
Mergatroyd!...Do you remember that word? Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd! The other day a not so elderly (I say 77) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is a Jalopy?"
He never heard of the word jalopy!! She knew she was old..... but not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle. About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry."
Back in the olden days we had a lot of 'moxie.' We'd put on our best 'bib and tucker' to' straighten up and fly right'. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! Geez-oh-man!
We were 'in like Flynn' and 'living the life of Riley'', and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China! Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? One cool word has lived on to today....COOL, That's Cool!! That originated in the 1950's. Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, White Bucks, Engineer Boots, Brogans (which we still wear without that I.D. today), and pedal pushers...AND DON'T FORGET.... Saddle Stitched Pants, and Bermuda Shorts. Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, Well, I'll be 'a monkey's uncle!' Or, This is a 'fine kettle of fish'!
We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone? Let's all go to the beach Saturday"... Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses. It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! ("Carter's Little Liver Pills" are gone too!) We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age.
We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging. Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...or where anyone can find a Public Mail Box for mailing letters. Does anyone write letters any longer or how many still pay bills thru the Postal Service? The Post office is near Bankruptcy. See ya later, alligator!
! Okidoki
so we were also considered CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S...
Here are some Lost Words from our childhood
Mergatroyd!...Do you remember that word? Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd! The other day a not so elderly (I say 77) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is a Jalopy?"
He never heard of the word jalopy!! She knew she was old..... but not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle. About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry."
Back in the olden days we had a lot of 'moxie.' We'd put on our best 'bib and tucker' to' straighten up and fly right'. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! Geez-oh-man!
We were 'in like Flynn' and 'living the life of Riley'', and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China! Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? One cool word has lived on to today....COOL, That's Cool!! That originated in the 1950's. Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, White Bucks, Engineer Boots, Brogans (which we still wear without that I.D. today), and pedal pushers...AND DON'T FORGET.... Saddle Stitched Pants, and Bermuda Shorts. Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, Well, I'll be 'a monkey's uncle!' Or, This is a 'fine kettle of fish'!
We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone? Let's all go to the beach Saturday"... Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses. It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! ("Carter's Little Liver Pills" are gone too!) We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age.
We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging. Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...or where anyone can find a Public Mail Box for mailing letters. Does anyone write letters any longer or how many still pay bills thru the Postal Service? The Post office is near Bankruptcy. See ya later, alligator!
! Okidoki
Nov 9, 2018 08:01:10 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
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