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I have received this email in various formats. Here’s the latest:
One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and things in general.
The Grandfather replied, ‘Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:
- television
- penicillin
- polio shots
- frozen foods
- Xerox
- contact lenses
- Frisbees and
- the pill
There were no:
- credit cards
- laser beams or
- ball-point pens
Man had not invented:
- pantyhose
- air conditioners
- dishwashers
- clothes dryers and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air
- and man hadn’t yet walked on the moon
Your Grandmother and I got married first, . . . then lived together.
Every family had a father and a mother.
Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, ‘Sir’.
And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, ‘Sir.’
We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.
Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.
We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege.
We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.
Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.
Draft dodgers were people who closed their front doors when the evening breeze started.
Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums.
We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
We listened to the Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President’s speeches on our radios.
And I don’t ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.
If you saw anything with ‘Made in Japan ‘ on it, it was junk
The term ‘making out’ referred to how you did on your school exam.
Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, and instant coffee was unheard of.
We had 5 & 10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents.
Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel
And if you didn’t want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, . . . but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.
In my day:
- ‘grass’ was mowed,
- ‘coke’ was a cold drink,
- ‘pot’ was something your mother cooked in and
- ‘rock music’ was your grandmother’s lullaby.
- ‘Aids’ were helpers in the Principal’s office,
- ‘chip’ meant a piece of wood,
- ‘hardware’ was found in a hardware store and
- ’software’ wasn’t even a word.
No wonder people call us ‘old and confused’ and say there is a generation gap… and how old do you think I am?
I bet you have this old man in mind…you are in for a shock!
Read on to see — pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.
Are you ready ?????
This man would be only 59 years old.
According to most news reports, Sally Field got an Emmy last night. In addition, she got to make a speech. In that speech, she decided to get political. When she got political, she decided she needed to hammer home her point with expletives. Not to be outdone by gutter talk, at least a couple of other awardees got edited for expletives as well. According to reports, one attempted censure was missed.
I have therefore come to the very real conclusion that since these television entertainers can not behave themselves on television, I can not allow my kids under the age of 17 to watch the Emmys any more.
Heh. Heh. That’s a joke!
No one watches the Emmys any more, much less kids.
It’s not like anyone’s GOING to watch the Emmys either since the only thing we can apparently hope for is a glimpse of profanity every now and then to spice things up. I mean, apparently even the awardees know how boring the Emmys are.
( Add Sally to the annoying list of people who can memorize printed material who think that endows them with a right to cram their personal politics down everyone’s throats. )
Now, I’m not a big fan of Britney Spears. However, it just gets a bit tiresome seeing all the media posse toot exactly the same horn in the form of big headlines when a lot of more important things are going on in the world. Whoring for attention isn’t news to me. That goes for media as well as their topics. Latest example:
Front page on Fox:
A college girl’s death, Bin Laden, a tropical storm hitting North Carolina, and a major earthquake merit small type. Who knows what else happened? Britney’s show will be forgotten tomorrow, the others stories will have some impact for some time to come. Think I’m picking only on Fox?
MTV Awards Flourish Despite Britney Bomb
That’s ABC.
VMAs bounce back after Britney bombs
Out-of-shape singer looks bleary, unprepared
That’s NBC.
CNN is the only one that seemed to word it as I would have:
Lackluster Britney Spears kicks off MTV awards
Bottom line, this was a lot of wasted media. At least CNN and NBC put the story where it belonged, buried somewhere. The MTV VMA’s are a complete waste of air-time. Any publicity they get is what they want. Anyone with any sense whatsoever would have known Britney’s not in the right frame of mind right now to be a headliner on a national show. Sticking her up there was just media whoring on the part of MTV, which is all they know any more. Justin Timberlake demanded during the show they play more videos. In other words, Music TeleVision needs to do what it was designed to do and quit competing with O Network and all the others. If they showed a sincere commitment to music instead of selling advertising any way possible, then maybe the VMA’s would actually mean something and they wouldn’t have to resort to media whoring by way of sticking an obviously not-ready-for-prime-time performer front and center to get anyone to pay attention. Britney may have been lackluster, she obviously wasn’t in to this performance. However, apparently the rest of the show hardly merited being mentioned. Last year it didn’t get mentioned at all. MTV hardly gets mentioned for music any more, why should anyone pay attention to their awards?
Next year, I’m gonna bet it doesn’t get mentioned at all. Again. Britney bombing has just gotten so over-used any more they can’t rely on that one again. And, the rest of the line-up they featured last night would never get anyone to turn off the Soap network.
And, for what it’s worth, Britney’s performance was about what I expected. Nothing even close to great, but not nearly the train wreck Fox describes. However, how long can people expect Britney to keep being a precocious teenager? She’s grown up. I think that’s what hurts so many people and why she will never meet their expectations again. She’s morphing now into what she will be after the twelve year old tease. Hopefully, she’ll morph again into something a lot more appealing to most people than a twenty-five year old stripper with two kids. Not everyone can pull off being Madonna, I know Britney can’t, just the wrong personality. However, she can be the next insert favorite lasting performer here who didn’t rely on sex exclusively to sell their music. There are more of those than there are Madonna’s.
Until then, please media, just focus on the people that truly merit attention. I prefer those that are on top of their game as it sets the bar a little higher in life.
We got Moxi/Tivo last night. I didn’t like the way the installer set it up so I moved it and made it look a lot more esoterically pleasing. Then, the step-daughter, the boy, and the wife got home. I really didn’t get to see it again.
From what I have seen so far. It’s cool. I hear it has all kinds of cool gadgets on it. I can’t wait to check them out.
You know it’s a slow news day when you have headlines like this:
2 NYC Firefighters Hurt in Scaffolding Collapse at Ground Zero Site: Watch Live
Now, I really don’t think I want to watch it LIVE. In fact, I’ll just wish them well and not watch it at all. That’s the end of that one.
But wait, there’s more!
That’s right, Beyonce has breasts.
We can’t stop there now can we? Lindsay Lohan, in the legal move of the century by claiming the coke she was carrying was in someone ELSE’S pants won. She’s just a seven-time misdemeanor convict, but not felon. Felons are just people who are too stupid to think of an alibi like that apparently. Someone else’s pants. HAH! HAH! HAH! Gotta love a prosecutor with a sense of humor. If it were me, she’d probably be in prison.
Maria Sharapova, the tennis star made most famous for what’s under her dress, is now advising other up and coming tennis stars on what to wear what people want to see under as well.
And all of that was made even more trivial than it already was by the announcement that Jenna Jameson is retiring again. And to celebrate, she ditched her boobs. The truly shocking part of that to me is she is only 33. OK, let’s get this in perspective here. Everyone who’s made an “honest” living the last fourteen years and are ready to legally and financially retire raise your hands. She’s made millions doing what we all do for free. To me, that’s the the biggest headline so far. The money she made, not the boobs she ditched.
Well, I take that back. the pigeon dung being bad for bridges story was pretty captivating. But that would go on the spacedream I would think.
Three stories about boobs, two stories about breasts, one story about poop. There’s more, but that’s all I have to say about that right now
I was recently made aware of this skit on SNL. It’s called “The H is O”. It’s so horrible I couldn’t stop laughing all the way through it. It starts bad, gets worse, then digs an all time low for television. It’s a classic!
However, for me, the greatest moment of SNL came the very first broadcast. When John Belushi took on Joe Cocker, you KNEW this show was going to be great.
In both cases, what made it great was famous musicians not taking themselves the least bit serious. My vote is on John doing Joe. There are other great scenes out there as well. I might go back and look at some of them later….
My wife sent me this. We used to watch Who’s Line is it Anyway a lot when it was on. However, I had never seen this skit. Be sure to watch it ALL!
You know what makes it extra funny to me? Check what channel it’s on.
Britain is where the only real talent is this year apparently. Watch this:
This is actually the first exchange I’ve ever seen on The View:
I think Elisabeth wins this one because her boobs look fabulous and Rosie is, as normal, disgusting and ignorant. However, I could be wrong. Let’s take a poll? Shall we?
( Yeah, I know, they’re arguing over a political issue, but who wins this poll is purely based on a Pavlov reason. I was going to change the one question to people expecting a catfight breaking out into lesbian pregnant sex. However, this IS Rosie we’re talking about. )
When I was born, a long time ago, my mom probably laid in the hospital watching Bob Barker on Truth or Consequences. I feel this is very likely because from 1962 until 1975 or so, we watched it every single chance we could. In 1975 we did what almost every family in the US did in 1975. We watched The Price is Right. When I left my mother and went to college, I joined the Sigma Nu fraternity. Nevermind that James Dean and Harrison Ford were alumni, you HAD to know that Bob Barker was as well. And if you got a autographed picture of Bob Barker, as I did, your initiation went a lot smoother. We probably had fifty autographed pictures of Bob Barker on a small wall in our small house. I graduated college and started working, and Bob was right there with me. I am now a father, heavily in debt, doing what all fathers do in their mid 40’s. Only one thing remained absolutely the same during all the trials, tribulations, and challenges of my entire life. Bob Barker was always there. Not in a fatherly kind of way, but more like some cosmic force guiding those who sought a certain amount of serenity in their lives. People were always happy when Bob Barker was with them. Always. For fifty years, they were always happy. What religious figure can make that claim? There was no hell with Bob Barker. Just happiness dashed with a little disappointment that they couldn’t spend more time with Bob Barker.
As of last night, that constant cosmic serenity left the building for the last time.
Life’s gonna be kinda weird from now on.