Common Comments In The USA In The 1950s

The U.S. Post Office is now charging 7 cents just to mail a letter.         

   

If the minimum wage is raised to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.      

  

Who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon?  Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.          

Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball?   It wouldn't surprise me if some will make more than the President someday.

I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric.   They're even making electric typewriters now. 

  

It's too bad things are so tough nowadays.  I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.  

It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.

  

I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.  

   

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 government.    

 

The fast-food restaurant is convenient for a quick meal but I seriously doubt that they will ever catch on.   

 

There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend.   It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.  

 

No one can afford to be sick anymore.  At $15.00 a day in the hospital,  it’s too rich for my blood.          

If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a haircut, forget it. 

-Contributed by Ralph

It Snowed Last Night … So . . .

 8:00 a.m.:   I made a snowman.

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 8:10:    A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

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 8:15:    So, I made a snow woman.

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 8:17:    My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

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 8:20:   The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.

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 8:22:   The transgender male-turned-female person living next to the gay couple asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.

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 8:25:   Some vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose,  as veggies are food,  it is not proper to decorate snow figures with.

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 8:28:   Someone called me  a racist because the snow couple is white.

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 8:31:   The Muslim gent across the road demanded that the snow woman wear a burqa.

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 8:40:  The Police arrived saying someone called and had been offended.

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 8:42:  The feminist neighbor also complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

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 8:43:  The City Council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

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 8:45:   The TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women?   I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.

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 9:00:   I was on the TV News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

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 9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices.   My children were taken by Social Services.

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 9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be beheaded.

 

 MORAL OF THE STORY:

 There is NO moral to the story.    It is what today's society has become.

-Contribution by Ralphm

Life Explained

Author Unknown

  

A large portion of the world accept and believe the fact that the universe was created in a span of 7 literal days, and on the 6th day of the creation week,  land animals and humans were created.

What the authorities and experts have never bothered to tell the general public --  therefore, most people are totally unaware is. . . when the first male and female dog were created, they were given a life span of 25 years to sit all day, watch everyone who approaches or walks by, and bark at anyone they desire.    But the first dog couple said, “. . .25 years are way too long to just sit all day, watch and bark at anyone/everyone who approaches or walks by.  We want 15 years only. . ."    And so, the dogs' life span was shortened by 10 years.  That is why dogs generally live to 15 years more or less.

The same is true with the first male and female monkeys, they were also given a 25-year life span to do tricks to entertain and make humans laugh but  the first monkey couple said,  ". . .25 years are way too long to do tricks to entertain humans and make them laugh.   We want 15 years only. . ."

And so, 10 years were taken from the monkeys' life original life span.

And the first male and female cows were given a 65-year life span to work the fields, produce calves and milk as food for humans, but the first cow couple also said, “. . .65 years are way too long to work, produce calves and milk as food for humans.   We want 30 years only.”   And so, 35 years were taken off from the cows' original life span.

Finally,  when the first male and female humans were created, they were told:  “Enjoy life and everything on Earth -- eat, play, sleep and do whatever you desire.   For this, you will have 15 years of life.”

The first human couple said, “. . .15 years are way too short to enjoy all the wonderful things created and made for us.   We need at least 70 years. . .so why not add to the human life span the cows' 35 years, the monkey's 10 years, and the dogs' 10 years which were taken from them?"

And surprisingly, the first human couple's request was granted.     And that is why. . . 

• for the first 15 years of life, humans generally just eat, sleep, play and enjoy themselves;  and
• for the next 35 or so years, they produce kids and work hard to feed and support the family.  

Then. . .

• for the next 10 years or so, when the grandkids start coming, humans make a fool of themselves by doing monkey tricks to entertain and spoil their grandkids;   and finally
• for the last 10 years or so of life, most humans generally just sit around, watch life pass by and other people pass away,  and "bark" if they are still able to do so. . .until they themselves finally die.

-Contribution by Ralph

Some Of The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold (So Far)

Paintings by renowned artists which hang in famous museums are considered valuable and "priceless". However, from time to time some of them are sold in an auction to the highest bidder. Below are some of the most expensive paintings ever sold (so far).

If you were a multi-billionaire, would you have bid on [and bought] any of the pieces for the price someone paid?

Pablo Picasso
Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), 1902.
Sold for $55 million in 2000

Vincent van Gogh
A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889
Sold for $57 million in 1993

 Paul Cézanne
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier, 1894
Sold for $60.5 million in 1999

 

 Willem de Kooning
Police Gazette, 1955
Sold for $63.5 in 2006

 

 Vincent van Gogh
Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe (Self-portrait without beard), 1889
Sold for $71.5 million in 1998

 

 Andy Warhol
Green Car Crash, 1963
Sold for $71.7 million in 2007

Mark Rothko
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950
Sold for $72.8 million in 2007

Peter Paul Rubens
Massacre of the Innocents, 1611
Sold for $76.7 million in 2002
 

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette), 1876
Sold for $78.1 million in 1990

Jasper Johns
False Start, 1959
Sold for $80 million in 2006

Claude Monet
Le Bassin aux Nymphéas (Water Lily Pond), 1919
Sold for $80.5 million in 2008

Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890
Sold for $82.5 million in 1990

Francis Bacon
Triptych, 1976
Sold for $86.3 million in 2008

Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat), 1941
Sold for $95.2 in 2006

Pablo Picasso
Nude, Green Leaves And Bust
Sold for $106 million in New York in 2012

Edvard Munch
The Scream
Sold for $119.9 million Sotheby's in New York in 2012

Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Sold for $135 million in 2006

Paul Cézanne
The Card Players, 1892
Sold for $272 million in 2011

~ Contributed by Ralph ~

Shadow Dance

A truly amazing and breath-taking performance by a Hungarian dance troupe at the Britain Got Talent Show which left the audience and judges speechless, spellbound, and even teary-eyed. Simon Cowell, one of the judges, said that it was one of the best performances he has ever seen.

~Contributed by Ralph~

Ai-Petri In Crimea, Russia

~Contributed by Ralph

Miniature Wonderland—Largest Model Railway / Railroad Of The World

~ Contributed by Ralph ~