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Originally Posted by Bay Kid
This country has really changed so much in my lifetime. Grandma is turning over in her grave.
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As to change-change is constant
I great grandmother died about 1968 and she had lived to be about 112-the date of her birth was not certain. She was sharp till the end. A dirty joke form a lady well over 100 is truly not to be missed.
She came to the US as kid on a sailing ship. Of course they traveled cheap as steerage. Imagine what that was like. Crossing the ocean took weeks. They did not have our ability to plot weather. Oh and if you are not aware the reason rooms in the bow of the ship are cheaper is that the boat pivots on it's center so the bow is a far rougher ride than at mid ships. By the end of her life men were walking on the moon.
For us, the computer has changed most of what used to be. You can in seconds find information that used to be so difficult to find that you most often decided it was not worth the effort.
Mark Twain said something like, we do not make any progress because as we move foreword we loose what was behind.
Another quote, I don't think it was Twain Do not look back, you are not going that way.
HAPPY DAYS