Quote of the Day!

For those of You Born

between 1930 - 1979

This Email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. Please Read what he Said.

Very well stated, Mr. Leno.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!

First, we survived being born to mothers

Who smoked and/or drank while they were

Pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,

Tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs

covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,

Locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode

Our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children,

We would ride in cars with no car seats,

No booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day

Was always a special treat.

We drank water

From the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends,

From one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon.

We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.

And, we weren't overweight.

WHY?

Because we were

Always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day,

As long as we were back when the

Streetlights came on.

No one was able

To reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps

And then ride them down the hill, only to find out

We forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes

a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes.

There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,

No video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,

No cell phones, No personal computers, no Internet and

no chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS

And we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth

And there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt,

And the worms did not live in us

Forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and,

Although we were told it would happen,

We did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and

Knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just

Walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn't had to learn to deal

With disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law

Was unheard of..

They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best

Risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years

Have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility,

and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them?

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others

who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the

lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives

for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know

how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house

with scissors, doesn't it ?

The quote of the

month is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,

mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms

tearing up the country from one end to another,

and with the threat of swine flu

and terrorist attacks.

Are we sure this is a good time

to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.

Peace and good day!

Thanks for sharing that !

"We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth "

We sure did =) I used to play with a stick for hours and have fun ! lol.


What has happened to us ? Almost seems like our souls are becoming digitized if you will. Lights are on but nobody is home

You didn't leave the link... But I looked it up and FYI, it seems it was incorrectly attributed to Jay Leno.

Originally posted by mileslong54
This Email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno..

Snopes

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of swine flu and terrorist attacks. Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

I think the question should be, with all the terrible things that have happened, how good has it been to have God IN the Pledge?

reply to post by Benevolent Heretic


It was emailed to me with no link or I would have just thought I would share.

And yet...look at the state the world is in today! If those times were as "great" as they say they were...why is the world so full of lies, selfishness, corruption, greed etc?

S&F for one of my fave quotes. I posted it on a thread just last week lol

It's not attributed to Jay Leno, although I can't remember whose quote it was.

Originally posted by MissConstrood
S&F for one of my fave quotes. I posted it on a thread just last week lol

It's not attributed to Jay Leno, although I can't remember whose quote it was.

Yea, I just had it emailed to me this morning and thought it was great and thought to share it. I have no idea who said it but in the email it said Jay Leno, nevertheless I thought it was worth sharing the message. Something a little fun instead of OMG THE WORLD ENDING!