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Fifties Quotes
Ol'WDB

AMAZING! Here are some quotes from people in the US during the 1950's.

1. "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its' going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20."
2. "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5000 will only buy a used one."
3. "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."
4. "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging dime just to mail a letter?"
5. "The Government is wanting to get its hands on everything. Pretty soon it's going to be impossible to run a family business or farm."
6. "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
7. "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 50 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."
8. "Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."
9. "Also, their music drives me wild. This `Rock Around The Clock` thing is nothing but racket."
10. "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying `damn` in `Gone With The Wind,it seems every movie has a `hell` or`damn in it."
11. "Also, it won't be long until couples are sleeping in the same bed in the movies. What is this world coming to?"
12. "Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra and panties, so apparently there are no standards anymore."
13. "Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a good 10 cent cigar."
14. "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."
15. "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the president."
16. "Do you suppose television will ever reach our part of the country?"
17. "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."
18. "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."
19. "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."
20. "Marriage doesn't mean a thing anymore, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."
21. "I'll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back to me, they won't be able to sit down for a week."
22. "Did you know the new church in town is allowing women to wear slacks to their service?"
23. "Next thing you know is, the government will start paying us not to grow crops."
24. "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."
25. "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress."
26. "Why in the world would you want to send your daughter to college? Isn't she going to get married? It would be different if she could be a doctor or a lawyer."
27. "I just hate to see the young people smoking. As I tell my kids, "Don't take a cigarette from ANYONE. You never know what might be in it."
28. "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
29. "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."
30. "Anymore no one can afford to be sick, $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."
31. "If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying across the country that's fine, but nothing will ever replace trains."
32. "I don't know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15 cents, I'll just have to drink mine at home."
33. "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it. I'll have my wife learn to cut hair."
34. "We won't be going out much anymore. Our baby sitter informed us she wants 50 cents an hour. Kids think money grows on trees."
35. "Cars which dim their lights by sensors, automatic transmissions, and who knows what else? Pretty soon they will drive themselves."

No it wasn't so long ago!!!

This Weeks Web Page
by Frank Vest
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Got an E-Mail pointing out this web page to me. Thought it was great to get a suggestion of a page to add to the links on my page and decided to feature the suggested page this week. It was nice to find a BBS related web page without having to go search. :)

What: TheLitterBox
Where: http://www.thelitterbox.org/

Here it is:

This page will fool you. At first glance, it looks like another Internet BBS. Of course, that is part of the site. Directly below the cartoon picture (drawing) of a cat behind a computer screen is a "Login" option. This will take you to a new page to log onto the BBS via HTML with options for how you want to participate in the BBS. I tried the log in and it didn't work for me. I read on down and found that there is a problem with the HTML log in and new users. The solution is to login via Telnet and then the HTML will work the next time you try it. It did work and I logged in via HTML. The BBS is run on BBBS and seems to work well via Telnet and HTML. I didn't get into the message areas much, but there are plenty of them from what I saw.

Ok, back to the page itself. I said the page would fool you... Under the "Login" option is a couple of links about cats. Being that this is a page for the "Litterbox", that would seem right. :) Check out "Toby's Memorial". It will touch you in many ways if you are an animal lover or sentimental.

I'll say again. you will be fooled if you don't look this page over. Going on down, you find a section marked "Supporting Memberships and Affliliations". At first glance, you might think this is sponsors and move on. !STOP! Look at the spinning word "Fidonet". Click on it. Look the page that comes up over. What a wealth of information! From the top, which has both the ASCII and a graphic of the Fidonet dog, to the bottom are archives and information about BBSing and Fidonet.

Now, if you ever wade through all the information on the "Fidonet" page, go back and try the other links. :)

On a side note... I'd like to thank the person that pointed me to this page and got me to take another look. I had found this page before and never got past the assumption that it was "Just a page about cats" that had a HTML BBS. I'll not mention a name since it was an E-Mail, but... Thank you very much!

Drop in on this page when you have some time to kill or even if you don't. Get past the first impression and look into the page. It's worth it!

With kind regards,

Frank,
flv@texoma.net