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Liza

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Date Posted: 00:14:58 07/20/01 Fri
In reply to: Relo from StL 's message, "One for the young in heart out there ..." on 19:20:41 07/18/01 Wed

>The following were some comments made in the year
>1957:
>
>(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the
>way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a
>weeks groceries for $20."
>
>(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year?
>It won't be long when $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) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will
>be able to hire outside help at the store."
>
>(6) "When I first started driving, who would have
>thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon.
>Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the
>garage."
>
>(7) "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."
>
>(8) "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
>new movie has either "hell" or "damn" in it.
>
>(9) "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."
>
>(10) "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."
>
>(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen
>appliances would be electric.. They're even making
>electric typewriters now."
>
>(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see
>where a few married women are having to work to make
>ends meet."
>
>(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going
>to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they
>can both work."
>
>(14) "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those
>Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the
>drop of a hat."
>
>(15) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to
>open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."
>
>(16) "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."
>
>(17) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice
>weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch
>on."
>
>(18) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha
>anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to
>stay in a hotel.
>
>(19) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35 a day
>in the hospital is too rich for my blood."
>
>(20) "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut,
>forget it."
>
>People will forget what you said. People will forget
>what you did. But people will never forget how you
>made them feel. This ought to jog the memory!!!!!!
>
>Have a great day.

My memory was jogged. Thanks, I think!

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