Candy Cigarettes.
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
P.F. Fliers.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Howdy Doody.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Buying nearly everything out of the Sears Roebuck and Monkey Ward catalogs.
...as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!
Monday, October 14, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
HOW MANY OF THESE DO YOU REMEMBER?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took 5 minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in 2 pieces?
All your teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..."?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
It took 5 minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in 2 pieces?
All your teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..."?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s!! (My Favorite)
First, we survived being born to mothers who took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with 4 friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. WE WERE O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies, DVD's, surround-sound, CD's, cell phones, personal computers, internet, or chat rooms.........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones, teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
When we did something we were not supposed to, or got into trouble, we got spanked (by a hand, a hairbrush, or a belt) or even worse we got our legs "switched" with a branch from a special bush grown in the backyard and even had to go cut it ourselves before it was used on us. But we never thought of calling the police or Social Services to report our parents for child abuse!
These generations have produced some of the risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever!
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with 4 friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. WE WERE O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies, DVD's, surround-sound, CD's, cell phones, personal computers, internet, or chat rooms.........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones, teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
When we did something we were not supposed to, or got into trouble, we got spanked (by a hand, a hairbrush, or a belt) or even worse we got our legs "switched" with a branch from a special bush grown in the backyard and even had to go cut it ourselves before it was used on us. But we never thought of calling the police or Social Services to report our parents for child abuse!
These generations have produced some of the risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever!
Friday, October 11, 2013
Interesting Facts About Women II
-There are more women in the United States than men.
-Wyoming was the first U.S. state to grant a woman the right to vote.
-Cleopatra had 2 younger brothers and she married them both.
-Cleopatra first married at age 11.
-Approximately 2 of every 100 (2%) women in the world have a supernumerary nipple which is a 3rd nipple. Be proud of what ya got.
-Archeological researchers have made a recent claim to have found evidence that the Queen of Sheba did in fact rule over Southern Arabia which was then known as the capital of the Kingdom of Sheba.
-Although highly unlikely to succeed in a Sharia court, in Saudi Arabia an old law still in effect says that if a husband doesn't give his wife coffee that the woman can divorce him.
-The origin of the word "woman" is thought to be wyfman, a term from Middle English which means wife of man.
-There was a woman who was pregnant 17 months 11 days and is recorded as the longest human pregnancy ever.
-The female sex sign is represented by a small cross with a circle on top, the same one which represents planet Venus.
-There are many moons and stars which have female names, but from our solar system's planets only Venus is named after a female goddess.
-Human women's breasts are bigger from a proportional point of view than the other female mammals.
-Originally, the differentiation between women at different ages was done in the English language with the help of the terms maiden, mother and crone. The maiden was the young girl which wasn't married yet. The mother was the female in the years where she could bear children. The crone was the woman in the post-menopause period.
-Wyoming was the first U.S. state to grant a woman the right to vote.
-Cleopatra had 2 younger brothers and she married them both.
-Cleopatra first married at age 11.
-Approximately 2 of every 100 (2%) women in the world have a supernumerary nipple which is a 3rd nipple. Be proud of what ya got.
-Archeological researchers have made a recent claim to have found evidence that the Queen of Sheba did in fact rule over Southern Arabia which was then known as the capital of the Kingdom of Sheba.
-Although highly unlikely to succeed in a Sharia court, in Saudi Arabia an old law still in effect says that if a husband doesn't give his wife coffee that the woman can divorce him.
-The origin of the word "woman" is thought to be wyfman, a term from Middle English which means wife of man.
-There was a woman who was pregnant 17 months 11 days and is recorded as the longest human pregnancy ever.
-The female sex sign is represented by a small cross with a circle on top, the same one which represents planet Venus.
-There are many moons and stars which have female names, but from our solar system's planets only Venus is named after a female goddess.
-Human women's breasts are bigger from a proportional point of view than the other female mammals.
-Originally, the differentiation between women at different ages was done in the English language with the help of the terms maiden, mother and crone. The maiden was the young girl which wasn't married yet. The mother was the female in the years where she could bear children. The crone was the woman in the post-menopause period.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Monkey Facts (bestfunfacts.com)
Monkeys can become angry very easily.
Monkeys yawn when they are mad.
Monkey Size:
Baboon is the largest monkey (47 inches long, weighing 90 pounds).
The Pigmy Marmoset is the smallest monkey. It is about 5-10 inches tall, and weighs about 5 ounces.
Monkey Species:
There are about 125 species of monkeys.
Monkey species are divided into two main groups of primates, the New World Monkeys (Central and South America) and the Old World Monkeys (Africa, Asia, and a few from Europe). Most monkey species are part of the Old World Monkey grouping.
The main difference between New World Monkeys and Old World Monkeys is the nose. New World Monkeys have flatter and wider noses.
Some New World Monkey species are the following: Marmosets, Squirrel Monkey, Lion Tamarin, Red Howler Monkey, Owl Monkey, Spider Monkey, and Saki Monkey.
Some Old World Monkeys species are the following: Rhesus Macaque, Japanese Macaque, Red Colobus Monkey, Black Colobus Monkey, Patas Monkey, Hamadryas Baboon, and Savanna Baboon.
The Ape grouping includes the following: Chimpanzee, Bonobo, Gorilla, and Gibbon.
General Monkey Facts:
There are about 15,000 pet monkeys in the U.S.
Monkeys don't eat banana peels.
The male howler monkey can produce sounds that can be heard 10 miles away. This breed is found in South America.
Monkeys have tails not gorillas ( which are part of the Ape family).
Monkeys yawn when they are mad.
Monkey Size:
Baboon is the largest monkey (47 inches long, weighing 90 pounds).
The Pigmy Marmoset is the smallest monkey. It is about 5-10 inches tall, and weighs about 5 ounces.
Monkey Species:
There are about 125 species of monkeys.
Monkey species are divided into two main groups of primates, the New World Monkeys (Central and South America) and the Old World Monkeys (Africa, Asia, and a few from Europe). Most monkey species are part of the Old World Monkey grouping.
The main difference between New World Monkeys and Old World Monkeys is the nose. New World Monkeys have flatter and wider noses.
Some New World Monkey species are the following: Marmosets, Squirrel Monkey, Lion Tamarin, Red Howler Monkey, Owl Monkey, Spider Monkey, and Saki Monkey.
Some Old World Monkeys species are the following: Rhesus Macaque, Japanese Macaque, Red Colobus Monkey, Black Colobus Monkey, Patas Monkey, Hamadryas Baboon, and Savanna Baboon.
The Ape grouping includes the following: Chimpanzee, Bonobo, Gorilla, and Gibbon.
General Monkey Facts:
There are about 15,000 pet monkeys in the U.S.
Monkeys don't eat banana peels.
The male howler monkey can produce sounds that can be heard 10 miles away. This breed is found in South America.
Monkeys have tails not gorillas ( which are part of the Ape family).
Funny and Fresh Takes on the Bible
111. The Gothic Bible did not contain the books of l Kings or 2 Kings. The reason was that Ulfilas, the missionary who brought the Gospel to the Goths of northern Europe in the mid-300s, didn't think the war-loving Gothic people should be reading about all the wars perpetrated by the Jewish kings. It's important to note, however, that the Goths had no written language at the time. In translating the Bible into the Gothic language, Ulfilas invented a Gothic alphabet so that the people could read the Good News for themselves.
112. The Bug Bible was published in 1535 and known more by its real name, the Coverdale Bible. It was dubbed the "Bug Bible" because of its rendering of Psalm 91:5 "Thou shalt not need to be afrayd for eny bugges by night."
Famous Words and Phrases
129. "Raising Cain" means to act with abandonment or wildly. As a phrase, it is most likely descended from the Genesis character Cain who killed his brother, Abel, and was forever marked as a violent man.
130. "Jezebel" or "Delilah" is the name often given to a woman of cunning and deceit. Both Bible characters were beautiful, though calculating in nature. Delilah was a seductress; Jezebel was a queen.
131. "Judas" can only refer to one personality trait: betrayal. Judas Iscariot betrayed his relationship to the Lord for thirty pieces of silver.
132. "Doubting Thomas" didn't believe Jesus had truly risen from the dead. He insisted on touching the nail marks in the Lord's hands and side before he would believe. Today we call a person with doubts a doubting Thomas.
133. "Jonah" is considered an unlucky name. The prophet Jonah tried unsuccessfully to run from God's calling. He took refuge on a boat and brought nothing but trouble to the other passengers, because God would not forget Jonah. Someone who brings bad luck or misfortune is considered a Jonah.
134. The word beautiful was first used in the English language by William Tyndale when he produced his English translation of the New Testament in 1526. Some scholars considered it an outrage that a translator would use a new, fashionable word in his interpretation of Scripture.
135. "The salt of the earth." Many of the words we use in our culture come from the Lord Jesus. In describing his disciples with these words in Mathew 5:13, Christ was saying that they were valuable-salt being the preferred method of payment in those days. The phrase is still used to describe people we find valuable or important.
112. The Bug Bible was published in 1535 and known more by its real name, the Coverdale Bible. It was dubbed the "Bug Bible" because of its rendering of Psalm 91:5 "Thou shalt not need to be afrayd for eny bugges by night."
Famous Words and Phrases
129. "Raising Cain" means to act with abandonment or wildly. As a phrase, it is most likely descended from the Genesis character Cain who killed his brother, Abel, and was forever marked as a violent man.
130. "Jezebel" or "Delilah" is the name often given to a woman of cunning and deceit. Both Bible characters were beautiful, though calculating in nature. Delilah was a seductress; Jezebel was a queen.
131. "Judas" can only refer to one personality trait: betrayal. Judas Iscariot betrayed his relationship to the Lord for thirty pieces of silver.
132. "Doubting Thomas" didn't believe Jesus had truly risen from the dead. He insisted on touching the nail marks in the Lord's hands and side before he would believe. Today we call a person with doubts a doubting Thomas.
133. "Jonah" is considered an unlucky name. The prophet Jonah tried unsuccessfully to run from God's calling. He took refuge on a boat and brought nothing but trouble to the other passengers, because God would not forget Jonah. Someone who brings bad luck or misfortune is considered a Jonah.
134. The word beautiful was first used in the English language by William Tyndale when he produced his English translation of the New Testament in 1526. Some scholars considered it an outrage that a translator would use a new, fashionable word in his interpretation of Scripture.
135. "The salt of the earth." Many of the words we use in our culture come from the Lord Jesus. In describing his disciples with these words in Mathew 5:13, Christ was saying that they were valuable-salt being the preferred method of payment in those days. The phrase is still used to describe people we find valuable or important.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Interesting Facts about Women I
(1) Adam and Eve? An August 2013 Journal of Science DNA analysis reports the origin of the first woman and man can be traced back to 1 woman and 1 man that lived on earth about 135,000 years ago.
(2) On average, women blink nearly twice as much as men.
(3) On average, women get hiccups less than men.
(4) The average woman is nearly a full 5 inches shorter than an average sized man.
(5) On average, women's hearts beat slower than mens.
(6) On August 25th 1932 Amelia Earhart became the 1st woman to fly non-stop across North America solo at a record breaking pace of 19 Hours 5 Minutes.
(7) Over 50 years ago Valentina Tereshkova was the 1st woman to enter outer space on June 16th 1963.
(8) On June 18 1983 scientist and astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to enter into outer space.
(9) Woman swallows $5000 diamond! 400 glasses filled with champagne during an April 2013 charity event in Florida each contained a diamond but only 1 diamond was real, at 1st it came up missing. An 80 year old woman accidentally swallowed it and although embarrassed she told the event makers she had swallowed it while talking and laughing with other women at the table. The diamond was recovered by colonoscopy 2 days later.
(10) According to recent census data in March 2013, about 6% of U.S. families in 1976 had a woman as the sole income provider. That same census shows that 23% of U.S. households today have a woman as the sole income provider.
(11) A Duke University study says that women wake up far more grumpier than men. It also says that women need much more sleep than men and can have problems such as heart disease and psychological issues from not getting the adequate amount of sleep needed.
(12) International Women's Day is recognized on March 8th each year. Some countries recognize it as an official holiday.
(13) For the first time in the history of the Olympics, the 2012 U.S. Olympic team had more women than men. 269 women and 261 men.
(14) As of July 2012, Marissa Ann Mayer (age 37) is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Yahoo appointed her as their new Chief Executive Officer on July 16th 2012 which took affect the following day on July 17th 2012.
(2) On average, women blink nearly twice as much as men.
(3) On average, women get hiccups less than men.
(4) The average woman is nearly a full 5 inches shorter than an average sized man.
(5) On average, women's hearts beat slower than mens.
(6) On August 25th 1932 Amelia Earhart became the 1st woman to fly non-stop across North America solo at a record breaking pace of 19 Hours 5 Minutes.
(7) Over 50 years ago Valentina Tereshkova was the 1st woman to enter outer space on June 16th 1963.
(8) On June 18 1983 scientist and astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to enter into outer space.
(9) Woman swallows $5000 diamond! 400 glasses filled with champagne during an April 2013 charity event in Florida each contained a diamond but only 1 diamond was real, at 1st it came up missing. An 80 year old woman accidentally swallowed it and although embarrassed she told the event makers she had swallowed it while talking and laughing with other women at the table. The diamond was recovered by colonoscopy 2 days later.
(10) According to recent census data in March 2013, about 6% of U.S. families in 1976 had a woman as the sole income provider. That same census shows that 23% of U.S. households today have a woman as the sole income provider.
(11) A Duke University study says that women wake up far more grumpier than men. It also says that women need much more sleep than men and can have problems such as heart disease and psychological issues from not getting the adequate amount of sleep needed.
(12) International Women's Day is recognized on March 8th each year. Some countries recognize it as an official holiday.
(13) For the first time in the history of the Olympics, the 2012 U.S. Olympic team had more women than men. 269 women and 261 men.
(14) As of July 2012, Marissa Ann Mayer (age 37) is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Yahoo appointed her as their new Chief Executive Officer on July 16th 2012 which took affect the following day on July 17th 2012.
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