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If we go in, do we meet our alter ego on the other side or maybe it's the upside down world. Ding! "Go right in, your overthinking".

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If we go in, do we meet our alter ego on the other side or maybe it's the upside down world. Ding! "Go right in, your overthinking".

I have no idea what's on the other side - maybe a giant meat grinder that is the source of hot dogs for inside corn dogs. or maybe demon that plays tic-tac-toe with your dismembered body, or a small quantum black hole that sucks you below the event horizon before your mind can even register somethings not quite right, or maybe it's hiring office for WH interns and they hand you a little schoolgirl outfit and tell you to get upstairs and get to work.

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If we go in, do we meet our alter ego on the other side or maybe it's the upside down world. Ding! "Go right in, your overthinking".

I have no idea what's on the other side - maybe a giant meat grinder that is the source of hot dogs for inside corn dogs. or maybe demon that plays tic-tac-toe with your dismembered body, or a small quantum black hole that sucks you below the event horizon before your mind can even register somethings not quite right, or maybe it's hiring office for WH interns and they hand you a little schoolgirl outfit and tell you to get upstairs and get to work.

Ahhhhhhh. Now we're back on an even keel. I was beginning to worry about more than thread drift. Thought we were drifting into the nothingness.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If we go in, do we meet our alter ego on the other side or maybe it's the upside down world. Ding! "Go right in, your overthinking".

I have no idea what's on the other side - maybe a giant meat grinder that is the source of hot dogs for inside corn dogs. or maybe demon that plays tic-tac-toe with your dismembered body, or a small quantum black hole that sucks you below the event horizon before your mind can even register somethings not quite right, or maybe it's hiring office for WH interns and they hand you a little schoolgirl outfit and tell you to get upstairs and get to work.

Ahhhhhhh. Now we're back on an even keel. I was beginning to worry about more than thread drift. Thought we were drifting into the nothingness.

We are drifting through nothingness, or a sort.....on an insignificant bit of rock about a dwarf yellow star in this Milky Way.

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Sent to me this afternoon:

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.

In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working, so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?


BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That's been passed around the internet so long that even the electrons are tired of it.

And were things really all that much better in the "good old days" that folks like to celebrate? I don't see to many of them giving up their current conveniences that they use and going back to those times -- I'd like to see everyone put their phone on the table and walk away from it for a full day - fat chance of that happening,

[Roy]

Sent to me this afternoon:

...our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day...But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day...But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then...We didn't have the "green thing" in our day...we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day...we didn't have the "green thing" back then...But we didn't have the "green thing" back then...we didn't have the "green thing" back then?


BH

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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That's been passed around the internet so long that even the electrons are tired of it.

And were things really all that much better in the "good old days" that folks like to celebrate? I don't see to many of them giving up their current conveniences that they use and going back to those times -- I'd like to see everyone put their phone on the table and walk away from it for a full day - fat chance of that happening,

I don't think it's meant to state things were better back in the day or celebrate anything, as life was obviously harder back then. I think it was just a response to younger people, that due to technology, we did recycled and were more "Green" in some ways back then, than we are today. It was an answer to a dumbass little twit (I've heard this from younger employees, so some do believe it) who is clueless as to what preceded her.

As for being passed around, it's the 1st time I've read it, so it's new to me. But until this forum, I really didn't spend much on the internet, except for business reasons.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That's been passed around the internet so long that even the electrons are tired of it.

And were things really all that much better in the "good old days" that folks like to celebrate? I don't see to many of them giving up their current conveniences that they use and going back to those times -- I'd like to see everyone put their phone on the table and walk away from it for a full day - fat chance of that happening,

I don't think it's meant to state things were better back in the day or celebrate anything, as life was obviously harder back then. I think it was just a response to younger people, that due to technology, we did recycled and were more "Green" in some ways back then, than we are today. It was an answer to a dumbass little twit (I've heard this from younger employees, so some do believe it) who is clueless as to what preceded her.

Oh no, there's a glowing aura of smug superiority permeating that from beginning to end belittling younger folks whose elders should have exercised far greater responsibility in teaching and mentoring their children instead of pouring their changed oil into the storm drain when they thought it would matter.....

As for being passed around, it's the 1st time I've read it, so it's new to me. But until this forum, I really didn't spend much on the internet, except for business reasons.

not quite as old as Al Gore, but getting there - it's impressive how stuff never goes away and just gets passed along forever.

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Oh no, there's a glowing aura of smug superiority permeating that from beginning to end belittling younger folks whose elders should have exercised far greater responsibility in teaching and mentoring their children instead of pouring their changed oil into the storm drain when they thought it would matter.....

There is some truth to that and I see it, but on the other hand, no family member instructed me on anything except honestly, golden rule and other very basic, but important life lessons. I learned to be self-sufficient, because I wanted to learn. From working on cars to home repair, I learned it myself by reading books. My dad could mow the lawn and wash the car, but had no mechanical inclination or ability at all and mom was clueless. I grew up around slacker friends, but that only made me try harder, because I paid attention to how the successful older people looked at them.

I see very little of that in the 20, 30 and even 40 years olds that work for us. We've taught them a work ethic, common sense and the ability to connect the dots or critical thinking, something their parents apparently never did. Most who don't make it for us, go to work for Tinker Air force Base, because it's government work and much less is expected of them. Plus, it's contract work, so they might only work for 6-9 months and then wait months for another contract to come along. That attitude it's almost impossible to overcome in truly lazy people.

So, not all young people are lazy, but I see a much higher percentage in the past 10-15 years in our applicants, than I did back in the 80's and 90's when I was hiring the same type people. The real difference is, todays young and dumb are way more vocal about what they don't know.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The real difference is, todays young and dumb are way more vocal about what they don't know.

[Tom Dempsey]

YEP, and unfortunately they vote, frequently for reality television "stars" and other assorted con artists.

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YEP, and unfortunately they vote, frequently for reality television "stars" and other assorted con artists.

Right, they know what's important in this world.....to them.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

YEP, and unfortunately they vote, frequently for reality television "stars" and other assorted con artists.

Right, they know what's important in this world.....to them.

Well, you might want to remember but TV and movie stars, and even sports figures end up in Congress, and some even make it into the WH.