IJMC - Back in the Day

Ok, I should know better. Installing new games, especially "Best of
Year" games, really screws with my schedule. The last few nights I have
gone to bed when exhaustion finally set in and I pulled myself away from
the computer. So no posts for the last few nights. Oops. Well, for the
Americans on the list, I hope you had a good Independance Day! For the
rest of you, I hope your day was good!                             -dave





THINGS THEY SAID IN 1959:


(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's
going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."

(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year?  It won't be long
before $5000 will only buy a used one."

(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a
pack is ridiculous."

(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just
to mail a letter?"

(5) "The Government is wanting to get its hands on everything. Pretty soon
it's going to be impossible to run a family business or farm."

(6) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire
outside help at the store."

(7) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would
someday cost 50 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car
in the garage."

(8) "Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it
impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing
their hair as long as the girls."

(9) "Also, their music drives me wild. This 'Rock Around The Clock' thing
is nothing but racket."

(10) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they
let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind', it
seems every movie has a 'hell' or a 'damn' in it."

(11) "Also, it won't be long until couples are sleeping in the same bed in
the movies. What is this world coming to?"

(12) "Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra and panties, so apparently
there are no standards anymore."

(13) "Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a good 10 cent cigar."

(14) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to
put a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even have
some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

(15) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for
$75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday
they'll be making more than the president."

(16) "Do you suppose television will ever reach our part of the country?"

(17) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

(18) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married
women are having to work to make ends meet."

(19) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire
someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

(20) "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem
to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."

(21) "I'll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back to me, they won't
be able to sit down for a week."

(22) "Did you know the new church in town is allowing women to wear slacks
to their service?"

(23) "Next thing you know, the government will start paying us not to grow
crops."

(24) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a
whole lot of foreign business.

(25) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes
half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best
people to congress."

(26) "Why in the world would you want to send your daughter to college?
Isn't she going to get married? It would be different if she could be a
doctor or a lawyer."

(27) "I just hate to see the young people smoking. As I tell my kids,
'Don't take a cigarette from ANYONE. You never know what might be in it.'"

(28) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I
seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

(29) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend.
It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."

(30) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35 a day in the hospital is
too rich for my blood."

(31) "If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying across the country
that's fine, but nothing will ever replace trains."

(32) "I don't know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15
cents a cup, I'll just have to drink mine at home."

(33) "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it. I'll have
my wife learn to cut hair."

(34) "We won't be going out much any more. Our baby sitter informed us she
wants 50 cents an hour. Kids think money grows on trees."

(35) "Cars which dim their lights by sensors, automatic transmissions, and
who knows what else? Pretty soon they will drive themselves."

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!* AND MANY OF US REMEMBER THEM FONDLY!(?)