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Liverache -> 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 4:33:12 PM)





























  Received this in an Email today and want to share with all,, laughable but true











 


 



 

 







Oh, for that simpler time!!!

 

 

SCHOOL -- 1967 vs. 2007

Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1967
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Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007
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School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to
jail and never sees his truck or gun again.. Counselors called in for
traumatized students and teachers.  

Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1967
- Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.



Scenario:
Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.


1967
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Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

 

Scenario:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse.  Billy removed to fost er care and joins a gang.  State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.  Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.


Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1967 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 -Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.  

Scenario:
Pedro fails high school English.
1967 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher.   English banned from core curriculum.  Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.  

Scenario:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1967 -Ants die.
2007- BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with  domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.


Scenario:
Johnny falls while r unning during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary.  Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1967 -In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.  Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy
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pghmarty -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 5:16:52 PM)

2008 is worse!




acmaul13 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 5:19:29 PM)

God ain't that the truth!




pghmarty -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 5:27:08 PM)

1967 priest takes boys to church camp

2008................ NEVER MIND-you know where this is going[:@]





DanesDad -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 5:37:57 PM)

1967-Bob pulls into gas station.  Employee fills up Bobs gas tank, checks his oil, and cleans his windshield.  Bob gives attendant a ten dollar bill for gas fillup and gets change back, including a five dollar bill.

2008-Bob pulls into a gas station.  Nobody puts gas into Bobs tank.  When Bob tries, the pump will not start unless Bob goes in and puts down a cash deposit or puts a credit card into the pump.  Bob pumps gas into his tank until the price runs up to 100 dollars.  The pump then automatically stops, whether Bobs tank is full or not.




mikeg -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 6:17:36 PM)

Bob decides to find some good steelhead spots to fish...

1967. Bob goes for long walks during the summer months when the water is low looking for new access.
He finds some and has a great year catching fish from new areas he discovers...

2008.. Bob gets on Fisherie.com and asked to be spoonfed by people and bitches about "his" spots being over crowded. So he expects PFC to provide him more spots to fish, but don't want to be charged more for this extra land. He then starts a discusion about how they should stalk brown trout to give him more "bang for his buck"..... 


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Over the Hill -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 7:08:58 PM)

1967 boy and girl get into "trouble". boy and girl's parents make the best of it and help out with the child.

2008 girl goes for a trip out of state (PA) and parents don't need to know a thing...




jonnyfishon -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 7:37:00 PM)

1967 jonny smokes a joint with his high school teacher

2008 what were we talking about?




spoonchucker -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 7:37:49 PM)

Yup, NOBODY took a "family vacation", out of state. Or made a midnight run to the Rusty Coathanger in the 6o's[;)]




pappy69 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 7:45:58 PM)

1967, I was teaching in a small, well recognized, college making less money than I was peviously making as a laborer in the steel mills. 2007, after years of hard work and advancement, I'm retired! Woo Hoo!




Over the Hill -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 8:35:41 PM)

Spoon, laws have changed and it MUCH MORE accepted today than in the past. The attitude around this neck of the woods is that it is just another "contraceptive". Plus, parents in some bordering states (NJ & NY) don't need to be notified.




pghmarty -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 9:14:36 PM)

1967 -Andy Griffith
2008-Hogan knows best





2dog -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 9:16:23 PM)

1967 Kids roamed and played all over town. Parents not worried.

2008 Kids seldom outside without a parent in sight. Parents worried to death about kidnapping or whatever.




jonnyfishon -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 9:19:48 PM)

1967 people snagging all over the salmon river

2008 people snagging all over the salmon river




Liverache -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 10:02:55 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: 2dog

1967 Kids roamed and played all over town. Parents not worried.

2008 Kids seldom outside without a parent in sight. Parents worried to death about kidnapping or whatever.


thats the one that just bugs the hell outta me,these kids have no idea what they missed, any field was Yankee Stadium,if it rained we went to the boys club, goin somewhere with Dad was special,doubleheaders  at cleve muni was a vacation, I ran everywhere I went, none of this hey mom take me here take me there crap.Only thing we worried about was the old lady 4 houses away who kept our balls, "Those were the days my friends"




jonnyfishon -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 10:06:58 PM)

We had our own sandlot. Fear killed the cat. Let the children play outside, not on the computer.




nightowl207 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/21/2008 10:37:52 PM)

A lot of these are differences just between 1999 vs 2008.




bingsbaits -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/22/2008 7:19:58 AM)

1967--Zebco 33, Chock full of nuts coffee can full of worms,1 pack eagle claw snelled hooks...----fish catching machine..

2008--12 rods,$3000 in tackle,$5000 boat..-----still catch a few..




rapala11 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/22/2008 10:08:14 AM)

thats the one that just bugs the hell outta me,these kids have no idea what they missed, any field was Yankee Stadium,if it rained we went to the boys club, goin somewhere with Dad was special,doubleheaders  at cleve muni was a vacation, I ran everywhere I went, none of this hey mom take me here take me there crap.Only thing we worried about was the old lady 4 houses away who kept our balls, "Those were the days my friends

man, i miss those days.

bing, same thing here sans boat. 




ROCKHARD -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/22/2008 11:49:09 AM)

those are the days when we were living the amarican dream,, wish we could go back,,,yea,baseball from morning til night in a field with wood for bases, kids today are lucky to even go outside let alone a baseball game




2dog -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/22/2008 10:10:53 PM)

Mom would send me down town to pay the bills when I was 12. She give me about $500 cash and I was more worried about losing it then being robbed.




pghmarty -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 12:54:40 AM)

quote:

kids today are lucky to even go outside let alone a baseball game


2008[:@]
2009 Wilson A2K 1799 Baseball Glove $300
DeMarini CF3 Black Baseball Bat $400
1 Dozen Rawlings Official Major League Baseballs $125
Baseball spikes $50
Baseball cap $25
Sunglasses $90

Rider on insurance policy
to allow your son and 18 of his friends  to play ball in your vacant lot $3000







indsguiz -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 7:44:51 AM)

1967 - Standing beside a small PA moutain stream with a bamboo rod that I had repaired, catching beautiful native brookies.

2008 -  Standing beside a small PA moutain stream with a bamboo rod that I had repaired, catching beautiful stocked rainbows.

The only real difference is now I can't get to the places of old.




S-10 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 8:11:27 AM)

1967---The young hippies and Calif liberals protesting the war and the liberal media glorfying their efforts   and doing all they could to turn the public against the military and war. Eventually snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.----------------------------------2008--- The young hippies and Calif liberals (now in their 60's) protesting the war and the liberal media glorfying their efforts and doing all they could to turn the public against the military and war are one step away from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.




rapala11 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 9:38:25 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: S-10

1967---The young hippies and Calif liberals protesting the war and the liberal media glorfying their efforts   and doing all they could to turn the public against the military and war. Eventually snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.----------------------------------2008--- The young hippies and Calif liberals (now in their 60's) protesting the war and the liberal media glorfying their efforts and doing all they could to turn the public against the military and war are one step away from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.



we were never told why we were in viet nam then.
we were never told why we are in iraq now.

not sure how old you were during the nam era, but it was anything but a conventional war.  kind of like today.  the peasant you passed on the street today may be the same peasant to lob a grenade into your bunker tomorrow.  they didn't wear uniforms (always).  there was a growing dissent against the corrupt s. vietnamese government which spawned an insurgency.  we bombed the heck out of the north, but yet they kept fighting, the same way they kept coming at the french.

hippie or not, liberal or conservative....there has just got to be another way to solve problems other than war and killing.  as someone said here once, it keeps the population down.  true.

i loved colin powell for his statement regarding war.  he said that war should be the very last act after all diplomacy completely fails.

with both nam and iraq, one thing for sure.   american military personnel stand bravely before their orders and do what is expected.  they are to be revered.  other countries do not fear our lame government who bungle through issue after issue.  they do fear the strength and fortitude of the american soldier.

bless the hippies and bless the soldiers......dc dems and repubs should have to do a tour overseas before they are ever again allowed to vote on a war.




rapala11 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 9:42:58 AM)

1967...my ball glove was on the handlebars of my bike during the day, every day.  at night it was my most prized possession.  (ted abernathy model later replaced by a fred whitfield model).  as i got older, it went into the trunk of my car.  finally hung it up in the early 90s.  still rub it down once a year with shaving cream.  never know?

1967...mitchell 304, garcia conolon glass rod, box full of cp swings, shysters, and maribou jigs and a stringer full of craps and gills in the basket on my bike.  seems as though we fished everyday and played ball everyday.  slept out in back yards at night to get an early start the next morning. 

what a time.




S-10 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 10:31:02 AM)

The only thing worse than being in war is losing or quitting the war. It gives all your enemies the realization that you don't have the will power to finish what you start when the going gets a little tough. ------------1967--newly married ex Marine making many trips to the just completed Kinzua dam catching 5-10# browns in the tailwaters. Life was good.------------2008-- Still married ex Marine making many trips to the Erie tribs catching 5-10# steelhead. Life is still good[:)]




rapala11 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 10:59:46 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: S-10

The only thing worse than being in war is losing or quitting the war. It gives all your enemies the realization that you don't have the will power to finish what you start when the going gets a little tough. ------------1967--newly married ex Marine making many trips to the just completed Kinzua dam catching 5-10# browns in the tailwaters. Life was good.------------2008-- Still married ex Marine making many trips to the Erie tribs catching 5-10# steelhead. Life is still good[:)]


i think i understand you better.  thank you for being a former (not ex) marine.  we differ on some things, but i have respect for what you have done to protect our freedoms.  and.....life is still good. 




Deadbolt401 -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 5:04:19 PM)

I believe the life expectancy is now 10 years longer than in 67.






Liverache -> RE: 1967 vs 2008 (7/23/2008 9:50:06 PM)

1967,,, going to college and getting a deferment form the war, and fighting the establishment

2008.., running companys that feed  off the war,Are the establishment


I really think the deferments were a major reason for all our problems today,,, talk about ethnic cleansing, that war  made sure we had an upper class




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