How old is Grandpa???

[Bullitt]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!

[Jantar]

Didn't John Logie Baird invent television in 1954?

John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first color transmission on July 3, 1928. (from Wikipedia)

[MarkDv]

" Grandad got badlly burned the other day"

" Oh shit, How Badly Burned?"

"Well,...they don't fuck around at the crematorium"

Cheers Bro, best laugh i had today ............... lol

[Laava]

I remember the good old days. They were shit.

Bloody funny, may put in my sig!

[paturoa]

Grandpa is actually a great-grandpa now, cos some of those things were around about 80 years ago.

eidt - when that was written mankind had not invented the internet.

[JMemonic]

For those of you who want to take this as more than a nostelga trip and a dam good reference to the changes in the past 70-80 years

1936 - The BBC starts a regular high-definition (over 200 lines) television service in the UK, the first of its kind in the world. Ref wikipedia, also Hills antenna installation manual.

Thus if Grandpa was British he would be 71

National broadcasting in the US came in the 1940's from what I can see on wikipedia

Synthetic penicillin which is the one we must credit for much of the modern antibiotics was apparently in the 1950's but with limited success, even then natural penicillin was not in common use as a drug avaliable to the public until after 1945 and the first country to allow this was Australia, so if Grandpa was Australian he must have been born around that era and television did not take off there until 1956.

God if folks are going to use Wikipedi as a reference read the whole info first.

[deanohit]

Who's to say the joke isn't 10-15 years old and still doin the rounds without been altered. That would make Grandpa a more realistic 69 to 74 years old.

[eliot-ness]

Every generation will eventually have it's "good old days". Selective memory will ensure that. A little research will show that everything is far cheaper now relative to wages than it was 50 years ago and despite rules and regulations we have more freedom than we ever had. My good old days started in the 1950s when I got my first bike. They will end when I sell my last one, and I'll spend the remainder of my life annoying young bikers with tales of the golden years. How else will they learn how good life used to be?

[Nasty]

How old is Grandpa???

Stay with this -- the answer is at the end. It will blow you away.

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.
The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:

' television

' penicillin

' polio shots

' frozen foods

' Xerox

' contact lenses

' Frisbees and

' the pill

There were no:

' credit cards

' laser beams or

' ball-point pens

Man had not 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


Your Grandmother 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 gay-rights, 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 people who closed their front doors when 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, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.

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

And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.

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 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.

You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, . . . but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

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.

And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby. No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap... and how old do you think I am?

I bet you have this old man in mind...you are in for a shock!

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

Are you ready ?????





keep going down ....




This man would be only 59 years old

[slofox]

This man would be only 59 years old

He's just a young whippersnapper then huh?

[Nasty]

He's just a young whippersnapper then huh?

Totally!!!!!

[Blue Babe]

An awful lot happened in 15yrs then I was born 15yrs earlier than the 59yr old. I remember the 1st black & white tv we got when we lived in Africa, Programs started at 5pm with the kids stuff, then the news at 6pm where all the kids had to sit quiet, or go to bed. The programs finished at 10pm.
I also remember our first telephone, big old cumbersome thing that sat on a round table by the door. You had to dial the numbers.

[mdnzz]

but grandpa would have to be somewhat older than 59 now.
The first ball point pen was patented 30/10/1888 and the common biro patented 15/06/1938.
Also penicillin was found in 1928 with the first instances of cures around the start of the 30's

[Bonez]

but grandpa would have to be somewhat older than 59 now.
The first ball point pen was patented 30/10/1888 and the common biro patented 15/06/1938.
Also penicillin was found in 1928 with the first instances of cures around the start of the 30's

Yeah and there's always been dishashers-kids and clothes are still hung out on the line. Just gotta keep an eye on it though to make sure no one steals grannys bras n knickers.

[Hitcher]

This man would be only 59 years old

Not true. The first working "television" was built in 1929. Television commercials were introduced in the USA in 1940.

The first ball-point pen was patented in 1888. Laslo Biro, the Hungarian whose name has been largely associated with these devices, took out his UK patent in 1938.

Taking a bit of poetic license for market penetration, "Grandpa" would be at least 75 years old.