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100 Years: What a difference (Vanity)
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Posted on 11/26/2002 1:40:09 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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How True!
What a Difference a Century does indeed make J
Enjoy J
(Happy Thanksgiving, All)
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posted on
11/26/2002 1:40:09 PM PST
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Fiddlstix
To: Fiddlstix
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posted on
11/26/2002 1:41:15 PM PST
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Fiddlstix
To: Fiddlstix
Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason. Now there's one for the ages . . .
It's amazing what 100 years of "progress" will do for a country, eh?
To: jdogbearhunter; da_toolman
ping
To: Fiddlstix
Funny bump
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:00:03 PM PST
by
ellery
To: Fiddlstix
Julius Simon Bump!
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100 Years: What a difference (Vanity)
On News/Activism I Posted this on Misc
What Happened?
Why is it on News/Activism ?
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:10:38 PM PST
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Fiddlstix
To: Fiddlstix
Well, the good news is that heroin was legal, no gun laws, and women couldn't vote. The bad news is that I'da been dead three years ago. You just can't win...
To: Fiddlstix
The five leading causes of death in the US were:1. Pneumonia and influenza
My grandfather was born in 1897. Sometime in the late 1910s or early 1920s they had some sort of influenza outbreak that killed 17 of the 22 people that lived on their little spread. He said those that lived would look around the dinner table at each other and silently wonder who was going to be next.
To: Billthedrill
Well, the good news is that heroin was legal, no gun laws, and women couldn't vote. The bad news is that I'da been dead three years ago. You just can't win... And Ain't it the Truth!
LOL
To: thatsnotnice
My grandfather was born in 1897. Sometime in the late 1910s or early 1920s they had some sort of influenza outbreak that killed 17 of the 22 people that lived on their little spread. He said those that lived would look around the dinner table at each other and silently wonder who was going to be next. The year was 1919
It was the year of the great influenza Pandemic, as it was called back then.
To: Fiddlstix
Makes me wonder how bad things'll be in 2102...
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:25:22 PM PST
by
Junior
To: Fiddlstix
Yes, remarkable. I think of James Joyce as the quintessential modernist novelist, yet in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," the Dublin streetcars are pulled by horses.
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:27:40 PM PST
by
Cicero
To: Fiddlstix
One in ten US adults couldn't read or writeThis means 9 out of ten, 90% were literate! Great list, but that fact was a little obscure. What % were home-educated?
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:32:30 PM PST
by
mamaduck
To: Junior
Maybe with information and awareness, now plentiful via the internet, we can make things *better* instead of ingnorantly allowing them to degrade!
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:37:23 PM PST
by
mamaduck
To: Fiddlstix
Check out these two facts alone:
The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour.
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
So an 8 hour day would have paid around $1.76. Stopping by the grocery store to pick up a pound of sugar, a dozen eggs, and a pound of coffee would have set you back $.33, or about an hour and a half of work.
Now days, an 8 hour day pays around $100 on average ($26,000 a year). Stopping by the grocery store to pick up a pound of sugar ($.50 a lb), a dozen eggs ($1.09 a dozen), and a pound of coffee ($2.39 a lb) would set you back $3.98, or about 15 minutes of work.
In terms of "Real Living Costs" when it comes to food, we have it much, much better than we did a hundred years ago. Most of the world, including the wealthy nations of Europe, have it about the same as the turn of the century.
What does this say about us? It says we know how to feed ourselves and keep costs down. That ability is one of the myriad reason why most of the world dislikes us. They view our hard work and ingenuity as being lucky.
Indeed, America has gone from being a wealthy nation in 1902 to having even our very poor be insanely wealthy compared to most of the world.
To: Fiddlstix
The five leading causes of death in the US were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke Hey, that can't be right! We've been told that illegal abortions were killing tens of thousands every year!
To: Fiddlstix
I love hearing my mother-in-law telling about a covered wagon leaving town (in Missouri) and only getting 5 miles
before stopping for the nite..........on the way West...!
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posted on
11/26/2002 2:59:39 PM PST
by
litehaus
To: Fiddlstix
There was no birth control Sure there was. Only they called it abstinance.Also:
* There was prayer in the schools
* Buring an American Flag would get you thrown in jail
* There was no such thing as "same-sex marriages"
* Those "substandard" physicians weren't performing a million or more abortions a year
* Nobody had ever heard of Bill Clinton, Barbara Steisand or Jacko
* Communism was an untested theory
Feel free to add to this list.
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