I helped with the ice cream as you say and will never forget the one time that my mother reached for the vanilla and got a bottle of camphorated oil (know what that was) and made a gallon of strange tasting ice cream. Nobody else would eat it so my brother and I ate the whole thing. Camphorated oil was always rubbed on our little chests when we had chest colds. I have a bottle of that stuff that I have had for nearly 60 years and my son really likes it for his colds.

Remember how we drank from garden hoses, ran wild till dark and didn't go to jail? Whoops I was doing those things before any of you around 63 were here, huh?

:thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol: I love you and your candor!! Family values established our society then and look what has happened to it in the progress and recessions we have lived...

World issues impact, but family traits and values should have sustained it all..For some reason we got greedy or had to have both parents working just to survive as thought competing with the Jones more important..I say hogwash!!! OR no, like you bulls**t..Bring back the strong foundation of family and society will once again adopt for the better!!

I helped with the ice cream as you say and will never forget the one time that my mother reached for the vanilla and got a bottle of camphorated oil (know what that was) and made a gallon of strange tasting ice cream. Nobody else would eat it so my brother and I ate the whole thing. Camphorated oil was always rubbed on our little chests when we had chest colds. I have a bottle of that stuff that I have had for nearly 60 years and my son really likes it for his colds.

Remember how we drank from garden hoses, ran wild till dark and didn't go to jail? Whoops I was doing those things before any of you around 63 were here, huh?

An Elwood special.



One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events.

The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute;

I was born before:
television
penicillin
polio shot
frozen foods
Xerox
contact lenses
Frisbees
and the pill

There were no:
credit cards
laser beams or
ball-point pens

Man had not yet 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

Grandfather and I got married first, and 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 computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centres, 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 those who closed front doors as 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, CD's, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.

We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.

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 were unheard of.

We had 5 &10-cent (5 and dime) 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.


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.

We were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.

We volunteered to protect our precious country.

No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap.

How old do you think I am?

Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.

Are you ready?????







This person would be only 63 years old.

They would have been born in late 1952.

GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

Along came TV, the bringing down of McCarthy by a socialist media icon, progressives, and The opening of the NWO and the UN. Funny how history is so deeply hidden from the people of this country today to keep them from realizing how their world came to be, and their Country is falling to ruination. Remember (Skeeter country inhabitants) when the spray truck went by and all of the kids got behind it in the DDT spray, most are still alive and well. Walking to town, to school, or to a movie theatre. a dollar date being a pretty good date, and 12 dollars a week being enough to keep the car full, and have some good dates too. Backseat romance, AH THE DAZE was gone in a flash.