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To: gpapa
...Typical portrayals of elderly people included showing them as toothless, hunched, and with cracking voices. Many were depicted with "saggy breasts,"...

LOL. Like all stereotypes, there's not a single shred of truth to it.

5 posted on 06/01/2007 6:19:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I can't think of saggy breasts without conjuring up a cartoon, though it isn't Cinderella's mom.


7 posted on 06/01/2007 6:24:32 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LORD POLONIUS

I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

HAMLET

Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here
that old men have grey beards, that their faces are
wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and
plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of
wit, together with most weak hams


8 posted on 06/01/2007 6:26:12 PM PDT by dr_lew
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