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**chequita guevara** · July 29, 2003, 18:26

I was gonna say mostly this is FoS.

**Boris Godunov** · July 29, 2003, 18:27

Now ask a 58 year old black woman what her childhood was like, and we'll see if it was so rosy.

Ah, the selective memory of nostalgia...

**Japher** · July 29, 2003, 18:30

ah, nostalgia. I remember a time when it wasn't all it was cracked up to be... the good times...

**red_jon** · July 29, 2003, 18:33

Re: How Old Is Grandma ?

How Old Is Grandma?

The Grandma replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born, before
the wheel, the Romans, pyramids, irrigation, mining, roads,
and Queen Elizabeth II. There was no architecture, hills, or writing...

********************************** This Woman would be only 6 years old!

About as accurate.

**Mercator** · July 29, 2003, 18:39

TV is older as well, but note that the first sentence doesn't say "before the invention of". It's more like "before it got into public use".

The big problem is, take away the first three sentences and it suddenly isn't nearly as surprising. So it's rather misleading, to say the least.

**Immortal Wombat** · July 29, 2003, 18:43

That text is now available on tea towels, and I'm getting mighty fed up of seeing it everywhere.

**Joseph** · July 29, 2003, 19:29

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Now ask a 58 year old black woman what her childhood was like, and we'll see if it was so rosy.

Ah, the selective memory of nostalgia...

It would depend on where she was raised.

**mrmitchell** · July 29, 2003, 19:31

**Giancarlo** · July 29, 2003, 19:36

Originally posted by Hueij
I thought penicillin was older but I can be wrong. To think that I'm only ten years younger than your Grandma

Penicillin was around in WWII if I am correct.

The times are changing.

"You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 but who could afford one?"

Back in the 1960s, my dad bought this not bad car for $50. It wasn't bad until he rolled it into a ravine.

**Jon Miller** · July 29, 2003, 20:16

one of my great grandmothers died recently, she was 90 something

I think I still have 3 left

Jon Miller

**:) Smiley** · July 29, 2003, 21:58

If Grandma were Taiwanese she'd be just over 40. What would it be in other nations?

**GePap** · July 29, 2003, 22:22

One grandmother was born in 1918..she missed living through the Great War. But of course she lived in a poor rural village in Panama, so there were many things she never had long after they came out. I think she was over 40 when they got their first TV. Things work differently for those who's grandparents weren't middle class people in rich countries (spending 600 dollars on a car, are you nuts!) But she did have 7 kids and has seen all of them (OK, 6 of them) go to university and become professionals.. Thank God for free universities!

Oh, and the whole bit about "every family had a father and a mother?, bull. My Grandmothewr had 7 kids with 3 husbands, not all of which died. People divorce, people have affairs, people get abused, and the same was true back in grandma's time.

**jdd2007** · July 29, 2003, 22:27

Uhhh ... wasn't radar used in World War II?

**KrazyHorse** · July 29, 2003, 23:20

Originally posted by Jon Miller
one of my great grandmothers died recently, she was 90 something

I think I still have 3 left

Jon Miller

I have no grandparents left whatsoever.

**KrazyHorse** · July 29, 2003, 23:21

Originally posted by jdd2007
Uhhh ... wasn't radar used in World War II?

Yes it was.

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