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Comments Made in the Year 1955
(Makes You wonder about 50 Years in the Future)
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Posted on 01/24/2008 2:03:41 PM PST by o_zarkman44
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1955 was the year I was born. We have seen much progress, but has it come with a heavy cost?
To: o_zarkman44
To: o_zarkman44
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:06:52 PM PST
by
JamesP81
("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
To: o_zarkman44
"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a yearjust to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President." The year was 1929, and a reporter remarked, "Babe, you make more money than the president."
"I had a better year.", quipped the Babe.
To: o_zarkman44
I’d have to see a citation for the sources of these “quotes”.
They sound fake but accurate.
And I agree that our postage hikes have been too high. 10% up to 25% (for some package classes) vs. a penny for DECADES.
Gas taxes and cigarette taxes account for those products’ prices (at least at some times in the market, gas not so much today but they want to double it).
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:12:51 PM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: o_zarkman44
A lot of those sound ex post facto manufactured ‘quotes’. The word ‘Damn’ was used in various film before ‘Gone with the Wind’.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:14:45 PM PST
by
Borges
To: o_zarkman44; SpinnerWebb
"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a yearjust to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President." Babe Ruth did this in the '20s. When he was asked why he was paid more than the president he said
"I had a better year than he did."
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:16:02 PM PST
by
tx_eggman
("they want to be judged on their intentions, not their results" - libtards official motto)
To: o_zarkman44
They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas." This one sounds like a fabrication.
1955 was two years before Sputnik.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:16:57 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: o_zarkman44
Hello fellow 55'er. It was a great year to be born. You forgot one quote I currently find myself using:
"If things keep going the way they are, this country's going to go to h3ll in a handbasket."
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:17:54 PM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(What a sad state of GOP affairs it has come to, picking a candidate as the lesser evil.)
To: o_zarkman44
All those quotes are manufactured.
Cute, but not historical and rather off-base.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:18:34 PM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: Borges
People from the 50’s would faint dead away if they heard Rap Music lyrics.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:19:05 PM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Not to discount the sexual prowess of the rabbit, BUT, there's a reason it's not called BUNNY STYLE.)
To: o_zarkman44
I bet the folks who started investing in 1955 are pretty happy these days.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:20:17 PM PST
by
elizabetty
("Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." .Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To: wideawake
Of course they are manufactured.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:20:54 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(Whichever Way the Wind Blows Willard 2008)
To: o_zarkman44
"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."That didn't happen in 1955. The astronaut program didn't crank up for at least another 4 or 5 years.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:21:53 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: wideawake
Indeed. I was reading through those and wondering when they would get to “The way these politicans are going we’re going to have a Presidential Sex Scandal soon!” or “Next thing you know we’ll be listening to music that glorifies gansters!”
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:21:57 PM PST
by
Borges
To: o_zarkman44
I remember telling my best friends sister that someday I’d be making $10,000 a year and then we could get married....
Bwhahahahah.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:22:19 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: CholeraJoe
Rap Music? An oxymoron if ever I heard one! :)
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:23:41 PM PST
by
awakened
(Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
To: weegee
Id have to see a citation for the sources of these quotes. They sound fake but accurate.
Agreed. These are the sorts of urban legends people get started when the boss's back is turned.
And I agree that our postage hikes have been too high.
Here's a graph that's real, but not quite accurate:
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:24:08 PM PST
by
x
To: o_zarkman44
Not to make a lighthearted post into a political one, but it proves Ron Paul right about the “inflation tax”. The Federal Reserve created this problem called massive inflation because money is no longer backed by anything except mathematical trial and error.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:25:03 PM PST
by
MichiganWoodsman
(A life without Christ is a life that's never fixed.)
To: weegee
All the price stuff is silly. The US had a GDP per capita of $2,500 in 1955.
Now it is 44,200.
If gas was 29c a gallon in 1955, then it should be $5.12 now to have the same impact.
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posted on
01/24/2008 2:26:08 PM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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