Post by dun4u on Jan 4, 2008 22:37:58 GMT
We are Survivors - for those born before 1940
We were born before television, before penicillin, police video shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, videos, frisbees and the Pill. We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball point pens; before dishwashers, tumble-driers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes …….. And before men walked on the moon.
We got married first and then lived together (how quaint can you be?). We thought fast food was what you ate in Lent. A Big Mac was an oversize raincoat and ‘crumpet’ we had for tea. We existed before house-husbands, computer dating, dual careers, and when a ‘meaningful relationship’ meant getting along well with cousins, and ‘sheltered accommodation’ was where you waited for a bus.
We were before day-centres, group homes and disposable nappies. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, yoghurt and young men wearing ear-rings. For us, ‘time-sharing’ meant togetherness, a ‘chip’ was a piece of wood or fried potato. ‘Hardware’ meant nuts and bolts and software wasn’t a word.
Before 1940, ‘Made in Japan’ meant junk, the term ‘making out’ referred to you did in your exams. Stud was something that fastened a collar to a shirt and ‘going all the way’ meant staying on a double decker bus to the bus depot. Pizzas, Macdonalds and instant coffee were unheard of. In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, ‘grass’ was mown, ‘coke’ was kept in the coal-house, a ‘joint’ was a piece of meat you had on Sundays and ‘pot’ was something you cooked in.
‘Rock Music’ was a grand-mother’s lullaby, ‘Eldorado’ was an ice-cream, a ‘gay’ person was the life and soul of the party and nothing more, while ‘aids’ just meant beauty treatment or help for someone in trouble.
We who were born before 1940 must be a handy bunch when you think of the ways in which the world has changed and the adjustments we have had to make. No wonder we are confused and there is a generation gap today ………but, By the Grace of God ….. We have survived!
ANON
We were born before television, before penicillin, police video shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, videos, frisbees and the Pill. We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball point pens; before dishwashers, tumble-driers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes …….. And before men walked on the moon.
We got married first and then lived together (how quaint can you be?). We thought fast food was what you ate in Lent. A Big Mac was an oversize raincoat and ‘crumpet’ we had for tea. We existed before house-husbands, computer dating, dual careers, and when a ‘meaningful relationship’ meant getting along well with cousins, and ‘sheltered accommodation’ was where you waited for a bus.
We were before day-centres, group homes and disposable nappies. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, yoghurt and young men wearing ear-rings. For us, ‘time-sharing’ meant togetherness, a ‘chip’ was a piece of wood or fried potato. ‘Hardware’ meant nuts and bolts and software wasn’t a word.
Before 1940, ‘Made in Japan’ meant junk, the term ‘making out’ referred to you did in your exams. Stud was something that fastened a collar to a shirt and ‘going all the way’ meant staying on a double decker bus to the bus depot. Pizzas, Macdonalds and instant coffee were unheard of. In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, ‘grass’ was mown, ‘coke’ was kept in the coal-house, a ‘joint’ was a piece of meat you had on Sundays and ‘pot’ was something you cooked in.
‘Rock Music’ was a grand-mother’s lullaby, ‘Eldorado’ was an ice-cream, a ‘gay’ person was the life and soul of the party and nothing more, while ‘aids’ just meant beauty treatment or help for someone in trouble.
We who were born before 1940 must be a handy bunch when you think of the ways in which the world has changed and the adjustments we have had to make. No wonder we are confused and there is a generation gap today ………but, By the Grace of God ….. We have survived!
ANON