I was born on the 50's and i survived.
 

I got this E mail the other day.

No matter what our
kids and the new generation think about us,

WE
ARE AWESOME !!!!

OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!

To Those of Us Born 1930-1979

At the End of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read
Anything else, please
Read what he said.

Very well stated, Mr. Leno..

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's,
40's, 50's,

60's
and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who
smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They 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-base paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,

we
had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in
cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald
tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up 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 four friends, from
one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white
bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV- OR- AID made with real white sugar. And, we
weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always outside
playing....that's why!

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. And, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building our
go-carts out of scraps and
then ride them 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 Play stations,
Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
no video movies or DVD's, no
surround-sound or CD's, no
cell phones, no
personal computers, no
Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits
from these accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just
a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

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!
These generations have produced some of the
best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of
innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons..

We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.


If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who
have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government
regulated so much of our lives for
our own good.

While you are at it, forward
it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?









~

The quote of the month is by

Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornados,
fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up
the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and
terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the
Pledge of Allegiance?'

For those that prefer to think
that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us...pass this on.

RIGHT ON BRO :thumbsup:

You forgot to mention how we grew up going to schools with jungle gyms and swings sitting on top of asphalt paving instead of a rubber mat :laughing:

Dude, I was around 19 when the first pong game came out, and that was huge! As a kid I dreamed of getting a "Mister Machine" for Christmas... :rofl: A robot you wound up and it actually WALKED :eek:

Can you remember the 2 transistor radio ... far out man :D

Absolutely man. Yea Pong was huge. Really the start of all of this.

still have an old pong "console" in the garage :) Last time I had a tv I could hook it to it still worked even :D Took a lot of skill to master that game :rofl: Funny thing is, it actually did :Dizzy:

Its funny how all the old gaming systems still work and people cant get ps3 and XBox's to live more than a year or two

I was born in the 60's but I can relate

I was not even aloud in the house when i was a kids until dinner time ..... :laughing:

Good stuff. Describes my childhood and illustrates the problems of an overly litigious society.

I think most of today's problems could be fixed by enacting ONE law:

No new law may be passed without striking an existing one from the books.

Hey, shit used to be made to last back then :D

I am in the plumpbing and HVAC industry

The build specifications on new HVAC equipment is 12 years

sad state of affairs

A short list of things I remember as being "new".. Not necessarily in correct order.

- portable stereo, about the size of a huge boombox with 2 speakers, a AM/FM radio, and a turntable ( a turntable was used to play records on (45s, 33.3s, and 78s)

- transistors. The transistor of those days were about the size of the caps on you mobo today

- 2 transistor radio, followed by teh 10 transistor radio. On the ten transistors you could actuall tune in a station.

- Jiffypop

- Teflon coated cookware

- polyester (clothing before this was all from natural sources)

- Plastic! it if was made from plastic it was sure to break as the orginal plastic was very brittle and non-flexible.

- Made in Japan meant it was cheap and would quickly stop working, boy how that changed.

- the space program and men on the moon!! I watched it live in living black and white!!

- color television - at first the colors were just overlays on the screen so nothing was the correct color all the time. later versions improved.

- cell phones - about the size of a briefcase and they didn't work very well.

- personal computers - can you say 48K (my Vic20 had 6K!!!)

- 8 track tape players

- cassette tape players

- CDs for music

- who would win? Sony with the Betamax or the VHS format?

- Barbie Dolls

- GI Joe

- Slip and Slide

- Jarts

Oh well, prolly caught up with most of ya somewhere in there :D

Almost forgot maybe the best one of them all - ALUMINUM!! When it first came out it was considered the first man-made precious metal. It actually sold as bullion. Aluminum only came into the mainstream of American life after a more efficient production method was discovered