Thursday, November 16, 2023

Things To Ponder

 Why do peanuts float in a regular coke and sink in a diet coke? Try it.

 

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

 

Can you cry under water?

 

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

 

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it’s only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going? (taxes)

 

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

 

What disease did cured ham actually have?

 

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

 

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

 

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

 

Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?

 

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

 

Why do doctors leave the room while you change?  They're going to see you naked anyway.

 

Why is “bra" singular but "panties" plural?

 

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

 

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

 

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?

 

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

 

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

 

Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

 

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

 

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

 

HOW DID THE MAN WHO MADE THE FIRST CLOCK, KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS? 

Monday, November 13, 2023

The Exennials.

 We are the Exennials,


 

We grew up in the 40s-50s-60s.

 

We studied in the 50s-60s-70s.

 

We dated in the 50s-60s-70s.

 

We got married and discovered the world in the 60s-70s-80s.

 

We ventured into the 70s-80s.

 

We stabilized in the 90s.

 

We got wiser in the 2000s.

 

And walked firmly through the 2010s.

 

 Turns out we've lived through NINE different decades..

 

TWO different centuries...

 

TWO different millennia...

 

We have gone from the party-line telephone with an operator for long-distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world. We have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and WhatsApp.

 

From programs on the radio, to black and white TV, and then to HDTV.

 

We went to Blockbuster and now we watch on Netflix.

 

We started with manual typewriters, learned electric, proportional spacing and S electric typewriters,  got to know the first computers, punch cards, diskettes, and now we have gigabytes and megabytes in hand on our cell phones or iPad's.

 

We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, H1N1 flu and now COVID-19.

 

We rode skates, tricycles, invented cars, bicycles, mopeds, gasoline or diesel cars and now we ride hybrids or 100% electric.

 

Yes, we've been through a lot but what a great life we've had!

 

They could describe us as "exennials"…people who were born in that world of the late 30s, 40's and 50's who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.

 

We're kind of—You've seen it all!

 

Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.

 

It is our generation that has literally adapted to CHANGE.

 

A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, who are UNIQUE. Here's a precious and very true message that I received from a friend:

 

TIME DOES NOT STOP

 

Life is a task that we do ourselves every day.

 

When you look... it's already six in the afternoon; when you look... it's already Friday; when you look... the month is over; when you look... the year is over; when you look... 50, 60, 70 and 80 years have passed!

 

When you look... we no longer know where our friends are.

 

When you look... we've lost the love of our life and now, it's too late to go back.

 

Do not stop doing something you like due to lack of time. Do not stop having someone by your side, because your children will soon not be yours, and you will have to do something with that remaining time, where the only thing that we are going to miss will be the space that can only be enjoyed with the usual friends. The time that, unfortunately, never returns.

 

The day is today!

 

WE ARE NO LONGER AT AN AGE TO POSTPONE ANYTHING.

 

Hopefully, you have time to read and then share this message... or else leave it for Later, and you will see that you will never share it!

 

Always together.

 

Always united.

 

Always brothers/sisters.

 

Always friends.