The government today announced that it is changing its symbol from an Eagle to a CONDOM, because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance.... A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of dicks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed!
ONE Flag, ONE Language, ONE Nation Under God!
ELECTION 2012 IS COMING
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!!
Let’s Take a Stand!!!
Obama: Gone!
Borders: Closed!
Language: English only!
Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!
Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!
NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!
We the people are coming! ! !
Only 86% will send this on…should be 100%! What will you do?
I Am the Democratic, Republican Liberal-Progressive's Worst Nightmare. I am a White, Conservative, Tax-Paying, American Veteran, Gun Owning Biker. I am a Master leatherworker. I work hard and long hours with my hands to earn a living.
I believe in God and the freedom of religion, but I don't push it on others. I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles, and drive American-made cars, and I believe in American products and buy them whenever I can.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and not some liberal governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican, that wants to share it with others who don't work!
I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac or any other item, you should do it in English.
I believe there should be no other language option.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are Malcolm Forbes, Bill Gates, John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I've never owned a slave, nor was I a slave. I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you!
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country!
This is AMERICA ...We like it the way it is and more so the way it was ..so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China , or some other socialist country!
If you were born here and don't like it... you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you. I believe it is time to really clean house, starting with the White House, the seat of our biggest problems.
I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution. Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are, but not just because you happen to ride a bike.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my driver's license. I think it's good.... And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause....Get a job and do your part to support yourself and your family!
I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents....
I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think!
I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA! If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.
If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know....
We want our country back! My Country.....I hope this offends all illegal aliens.
My great, great, great, great grandfather watched and bled as his friends died in the Revolution & the War of 1812. My great, great, great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Mexican American War. My great, great grandfather watched as his friends & brothers died in the Civil War. My great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Spanish-American War. My grandfather watched as his friends died in WW I. My father watched as his friends died in WW II.
I watched as my friends died in Vietnam, Panama & Desert Storm. My son watched & bled as his friends died in Afghanistan and Iraq. None of them died for the Mexican Flag. Everyone died for the American flag.
Texas high school students raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole, other students took it down. Guess who was expelled...the students who took it down.
California High School students were sent home on Cinco de Mayo, because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.
Enough is enough
This message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America .
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough. I'm taking a stand.
I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the American flag.
If you agree, stand up with me. If you disagree, please let me know. I will gladly remove you from my e-mail list.
And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.
AMERICANS, stop giving away Your RIGHTS!
Let me make this clear! THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
This statement DOES NOT mean I'm against immigration!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY, welcome to come legally:
1. Get a sponsor!
2. Learn the LANGUAGE, as immigrants have in the past!
3. Live by OUR rules!
4. Get a job!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
6. No Social Security until you have earned it and Paid for it!
7. NOW find a place to lay your head!
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone, then YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
We've gone so far the other way . . . bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
Only AMERICANS seems to care when American Citizens are being offended!
WAKE UP America! ! !
I fully support this. Let me state for the record, speaking as a subject matter expert, young men and women join the military and go to war because the adults (who don't go to war) glorify battle and encourage their young to "defend" this country and their way of life. Such honorable service should be a prerequisite for later service in any political position.
We went a long way to throwing all the politicians out of congress in 2010, and if we persevere, we should be able to get rid of another chunk in 2012, to include the current president and all his Czars. Then in 2014 we should be able to finish the job.
NOTE: America has not actually had to defend her shores and way of life from outside forces since 1945. Korea, Cuba,Vietnam, Grenada, Mogadishu, Iraq I and Iraq II, Afghanistan, and most recently Libya did not require American presence.
Conrad Boterweg
Colonel, US Army (Ret.)
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS!!!!!
No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term.
It just does not make any sense.
Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will copy and forward it on to 12 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."
You are one of my 12+
We as Americans need to stand up be better stewards of this great nation that was entrusted to us by GOD. Obama is not the problem. We and I mean this country voted him in. If you did not vote for him fine I understand that but how much time did we spend helping someone worthy of the Presidential Office get a campaign started on the local level to one day run for the oval office. Folks it is not the governments fault it is OURS we vote these officials in office. If you are a man or woman of good moral standing and will not be swayed by the rotten money grabbers in Washington dc then I say run for local government then state government and then US government. I WILL VOTE FOR YOU and so many more will to. My friends it all starts with us at the bottom of the food chain the backbone of this great nation of thinkers and doers. In a time of turmoil that this country of the greatest men and women on earth we all need to ask yourself a question. CAN I HELP RESHAPE THIS LAND? I believe that answer is yes. I know that there are people out there worthy of holding public offices at each level and we all know at least one. Lets come together convince these people to run for offices and give them the support they need to lead our country back to the greatness that it once had.
People always say, "It's Obamas fault" or "It's Bushes fault". Your wrong on both counts. I say it's Clintons fault. He is the one that put through NAFTA and that is where all the jobs and money went. We need to get our American owned companies back into America and get back to a manufacturing based economy and not a service based economy. Obama is talking about all the new jobs that are in America now and that we are on the road to recovery. I say B.S. All these jobs are low paying service jobs. Where the hell are the manufacturing jobs that made this country great and powerful and respected? They are all over seas now. Buy American is the way to go. Too bad they don't have a label on the American products to tell you if it is truly American Made. The product may be American owned but odds are it is manufactured outside the US. We have become a nation of lazy consumers that manufacture nothing for ourselves. We need to get the government off our backs and out of our pockets and make it easier for a person to start their own business without having to jump through all the hoops and government red tape that is needed to do business in this country. We also need term limits on ALL elected offices. DC is nothing but a good ol' boys club and the only thing they are interested in is re-election. The government was never meant to be a career. The founding fathers saw it as a term of service and then they returned to the private sector. I refuse to vote for any incumbent politician and I urge ALL Americans to do the same. If the incumbent is running for re-election then vote for the other guy.
Quit this partisan arguing amongst ourselves. You must realize that once these guys get elected they are no longer Republicans or Democrats. They all become Republicrats and are now members of the DC Good ol' Boys Club. Stop blaming the President no matter who he is. The only power the president has is the veto. The House and the Senate are the ones spending all your hard earned tax dollars. If you want to see real change, quit returning these morons and get some fresh faces and ideas into those bodies of government
YOU CAN LEAVE THE MILITARY, BUT IT NEVER REALLY LEAVES YOU.
This article by Ken Burger in The Charleston Post and Courier sums it
up quite well. The article appeared on Thursday, March 4, 2010.
Occasionally, I venture back to Naval Air Station, Meridian,
Mississippi, where I'm greeted by an imposing security guard who looks carefully at my identification card, hands it back and says, "Have a good day, Chief." Every time I go back to any Navy Base it feels good to be called by my previous rank, but odd to be in civilian clothes, walking among the servicemen and servicewomen going about their duties as I once did, many years ago. The military is a comfort zone for anyone who has ever worn the uniform. It's a place where you know the rules and know they are enforced, a place where everybody is busy, but not too busy to take care of business.
There exists behind the gates of every military facility an
institutional understanding of respect, order, uniformity,
accountability and dedication that becomes part of your marrow and
never, ever leaves you. Personally, I miss the fact that you always
knew where you stood in the military, and who you were dealing with.
That's because you could read somebody's uniform from 20 feet away and know the score. Service personnel wear their careers on their sleeves, so to speak. When you approach each other, you can read their name tag, examine their rank and, if they are in dress uniform, read their ribbons and know where they've served.
I miss all those little things you take for granted when you're in the
ranks, like breaking starch on a set of fatigues fresh from the
laundry and standing in a perfectly straight line military formation
that looks like a mirror as it stretches to the endless horizon. I
miss the sight of troops marching in the early morning mist, the sound of boot heels thumping in unison on the tarmac, the bark of drill instructors and the sing-song answers from the squads as they pass by in review.
To romanticize military service is to be far removed from its reality,
because it's very serious business, especially in times of war. But I
miss the salutes I'd throw at officers and the crisp returns as we
criss-crossed with a "by your leave sir".
I miss the smell of jet fuel hanging heavily on the night air and the
sound of engines roaring down runways and disappearing into the
clouds. The same while on carrier duty. I even miss the
hurry-up-and-wait mentality that enlisted men gripe about constantly, a masterful invention that bonded people more than they'll ever know or admit. I miss people taking off their hats when they enter a building, speaking directly and clearly to others and never showing disrespect for rank, race, religion or gender. Mostly, I miss being a small cog in a machine so complex it constantly circumnavigates the Earth and so simple it feeds everyone on time, three times a day, on the ground, in the air or at sea.
I don't know anyone who has served who regrets it, and doesn't feel a
sense of pride when they pass through those gates and re-enter the
world they left behind with their youth.
* Any man or woman who may be asked in this century what they did to make life worthwhile in their lifetime....can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served a career in the United States Navy."
Bankruptcy 101...why Arizona did the right thing!!
It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data.
Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find.
A Real Eye Opener ...
WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?
Informative, and mind Boggling!
You think the war in Iraq was costing us too much? Read this:
We have been hammered with the propaganda that the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have also included the URL's for verification of all the following facts...
1.11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify At: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
2. 22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps,WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify At: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
3. 2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
4.12 Billion a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML
5.17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify At http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
6.3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
7.30% percent of all Federal Prison Inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify At: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
8.90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify At: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
9.200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
10.The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML
11. During the year of 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border, also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, crystal meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the US from the southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report:
12.The National Policy Institute estimated the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
Verify At: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportation.PDF
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www/.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:
Nearly One million sex crimes committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .....
Verify at: http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping
338.3 BILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,
HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING
THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS
$338,300,000,000.00
WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
Are we THAT Stupid?
YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING
THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!
If this doesn't bother you, then just ignore the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you copy and forward it to every legal resident in the United States .
I was eating lunch today with my 10 year old grandson when his mom asked him "What is tomorrow?" He said "It's President's Day"
She asked "What does that mean?" ... I was waiting for something
profound...
He said, "President's Day is when Obama steps out of the White House and if he sees his shadow, we have 2 more years of unemployment."
I almost choked on my iced tea...
Barrack Hussein Obama:
ARE WE REALLY FOOLS, OR WERE WE FOOLED? I BELIEVE THE LATTER, AND THE SAYING "FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME"!
QUOTE OF THE CENTURY, MAYBE EVEN THE MILLENIUM
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone over there has it figured out.
We have a lot of work to do.
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
Please enjoy and understand the following:
1. DON'T SWEAT THE PETTY THINGS AND DON'T PET THE
SWEATY THINGS.
2. ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA, FLOOR.
3. ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION.
4. IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES?
5. THE MAIN REASON THAT SANTA IS SO JOLLY IS BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BAD GIRLS LIVE.
6. I WENT TO A BOOKSTORE AND ASKED THE SALESWOMAN,
"WHERE'S THE SELF-HELP SECTION?" SHE SAID IF SHE TOLD ME,
IT WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.
7. WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?
8. IF A DEAF CHILD SIGNS SWEAR WORDS, DOES HIS MOTHER WASH HIS HANDS WITH SOAP?
9. IF SOMEONE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES THREATENS TO KILL HIMSELF, IS IT CONSIDERED A HOSTAGE SITUATION?
10. IS THERE ANOTHER WORD FOR SYNONYM?
11. WHERE DO FOREST RANGERS GO TO "GET AWAY FROM
IT ALL?"
12. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE AN ENDANGERED ANIMAL EATING AN ENDANGERED PLANT?
13. IF A PARSLEY FARMER IS SUED, CAN THEY GARNISH HIS WAGES?
14. WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?
15. WHY DO THEY LOCK GAS STATION BATHROOMS? ARE THEY AFRAID SOMEONE WILL CLEAN THEM?
16. IF A TURTLE DOESN'T HAVE A SHELL, IS HE HOMELESS OR NAKED?
17. CAN VEGETARIANS EAT ANIMAL CRACKERS?
18. IF THE POLICE ARREST A MIME, DO THEY TELL HIM HE HAS THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT?
19. WHY DO THEY PUT BRAILLE ON THE DRIVE-THROUGH BANK MACHINES?
20. HOW DO THEY GET DEER TO CROSS THE ROAD ONLY AT THOSE YELLOW ROAD SIGNS?
21. WHAT WAS THE BEST THING BEFORE SLICED BREAD?
22. ONE NICE THING ABOUT EGOTISTS: THEY DON'T TALK
ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.
23. DOES THE LITTLE MERMAID WEAR AN ALGEBRA?
24. DO INFANTS ENJOY INFANCY AS MUCH AS ADULTS ENJOY ADULTERY?
25. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR?
26. IF ONE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMER DROWNS, DO THE REST DROWN TOO?
27. IF YOU ATE BOTH PASTA AND ANTIPASTO, WOULD YOU STILL BE HUNGRY?
28. IF YOU TRY TO FAIL, AND SUCCEED, WHICH HAVE YOU DONE?
29. WHOSE CRUEL IDEA WAS IT FOR THE WORD 'LISP' TO HAVE 'S' IN IT?
30. WHY ARE HEMORRHOIDS CALLED "HEMORRHOIDS" INSTEAD OF
"ASSTEROIDS"?
31. WHY IS IT CALLED TOURIST SEASON IF WE CAN'T SHOOT AT THEM?
32. WHY IS THERE AN EXPIRATION DATE ON SOUR CREAM?
33. IF YOU SPIN AN ORIENTAL PERSON IN A CIRCLE THREE TIMES, DO THEY BECOME DISORIENTED?
34. CAN AN ATHEIST GET INSURANCE AGAINST ACTS OF GOD?
A real woman is a man's best friend.
She will Never stand him up and never let him down.
She will reassure him when he feels insecure and comfort him after a bad day.
She will inspire him to do things he never
Thought he could do; to live without fear
And forget regret. She will enable him to
Express his deepest emotions and give in to his most intimate desires.
She will make sure he always feels as though he's the most
handsome man in the room and will enable him to be the most confident, sexy,
Seductive and invincible...
No wait... Sorry.
I'm thinking of whiskey.
It’s whiskey that does all that stuff.
Never mind.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/13/herman.cain/index.html?hpt=C2
Herman Cain is a Georgia businessman who is thinking outside the box. I read the article to learn who Herman Cain was. Can’t say I know a lot now but I am intrigued by the man. But what gets me is this comment from a professor in GA about the GOP:
"It's hard to see him as a likely nominee of the Republican Party since, generally speaking, Republican nominees have come from establishment orientation," Grant said. "And even beyond that, almost all Republican nominees have significant office-holding experience before being nominated."
Well maybe if this is the truth within the GOP maybe it’s time to start thinking and working out of the box and work to elect someone who isn’t from the establishment. What do you think?
Take a good look around you. What do you as a person see? I see a world of billions of people who have lost their frick’n minds!! What’s next? This weekend we had a young man who has slipped into a reality well beyond our own and shot 19 people, killing 6. We have a congresswoman in a hospital bed in Tucson fighting for her life and we have people badgering her because of what she stands for. A President who was doing his duty in speaking for these people, who actually did a good job of doing it without going all political and here we go with the comments that it was all a publicity stunt. Not what I saw. Don’t take that I am a supporter of the O’Grand Obama because I am not. Didn’t vote for him or anyone of his cronies. Don’t support their ideas either. He did what he should have done as the President, just as I have witnessed before by Presidents Clinton, Reagan and Bush just to name a few. Moving on. The Middle East is collapsing. Governments falling apart. People blowing each other up. Why? Because they are led by people who are clueless. They think their beliefs override every one else’s. Are you a Christian, a Muslim , an atheist, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc. you get the point. We are a world of people who need to get along with each other and worry about what this world will be like for our children. We need to stop acting like a bunch a idiots and start thinking about helping one another. We have flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, volcano’s erupting all over this world with thousands dying daily and you are worried about what religious book and figure you believe in. STUPID. I believe in GOD. Whether you call him God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, or Jim Bob. It’s the same. Get a grip and start worrying about you fellow man and what we can do to each other survive and make a better world for our children.
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice.. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 16.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 AM. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- It cost 7 cents a paper, and they got to keep 2 cents. They had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, they had to collect the 42 cents from their customers. Their favorite customers were the ones who gave them 50 cents and told them to keep the change. Their least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H Greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends......
Hope everyone has a Happy New Year and has a great 2011! May this year bring prosperity and happiness to you and yours.
