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[APO-L] Humor: In our day...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Fri Feb 16 13:28:05 2007
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:27:33 -0500
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@MOTOROLA.COM>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@MOTOROLA.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
From a Washington Post challenge, in which readers were asked to tell=20
Gen-Xers how much harder they had it in the old days:=20
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Second Runner-Up:=20
In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot. In=20
the winter we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for
traction.=20
(Bill Flavin, Alexandria)=20
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First Runner-Up:=20
In my day we didn't have MTV or in-line skates, or any of that=20
stuff. No, it was 45s and regular old metal-wheeled roller=20
skates, and the 45s always skipped, so to get them to play right
you'd weigh the needle down with something like quarters, which=20
we never had because our allowances were too small, so we'd use=20
our skate keys instead and end up forgetting they were taped to=20
the record player arm so that we couldn't adjust our skates,=20
which didn't really matter because those crummy metal wheels
would kill=20
you if you hit a pebble anyway, and in those days roads had real
pebbles on them, not like today. (Russell Beland, Springfield)=20
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And the Winner of the velour bicentennial poster:=20
In my day, we didn't have no rocks. We had to go down to the=20
creek and wash our clothes by beating them with our heads.=20
(Barry Blyveis, Columbia)=20
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Honorable Mentions:=20
In my day, we didn't have dogs or cats. All I had was Silver=20
Beauty, my beloved paper clip. (Jennifer Hart, Arlington)=20
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Back in the 1970s we didn't have the space shuttle to get all=20
excited about. We had to settle for men walking on the crummy=20
moon. (Russell Beland, Springfield)=20
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In my day, we didn't have days. There was only time for work,=20
time for prayer and time for sleep. The sheriff would go around=20
and tell everyone when to change. (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)=20
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In my day, people could only dream of hitchhiking a ride on a=20
comet. (David Ronka, Charlottesville)=20
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In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every=20
day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with=20
potatoes drenched in melted fat from those animals. And we're
all=20
as strong as=20
GKK-GAAK=20
Urrgh.=20
Thud.=20
(Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)=20
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In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do=20
addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some
fingers=20
amputated. (Jon Patrick Smith, Washington)=20
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In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together our=20
own hydrogen and oxygen atoms. (Diana Hugue, Bowie)=20
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In my day, we didn't have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes we did.=20
(Peg Sheeran, Vienna)=20
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Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my day, the=20
sun revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the=20
back of a giant tortoise. (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park)=20
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In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed=20
razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just
had to=20
hope you could outrun him. (Sarah M. Wolford, Hanover)
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YiLFS & humor
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Michael R. Brown
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