“I do have to say, online shopping is so convenient now, I even get my groceries delivered now.”
“Yeah Dad, that’s way better than having to send a telegram to order a new divan from the Sears Roebuck Company catalog you were reading in the outhouse!”
“Wha… Again son I was born in the 60s.”
“Then they deliver the divan in a big wooden crate with you name painted on the side.”
“We had cardboard in the 60s.”
“And then grandpa was like ‘23 Skidoo! I also ordered us one of them new radio contraptions! It’s 200lbs and made with asbestos! We can listen to Benny Biggs and the Blue Jays now!’”
“Hey, we… well grandpa got all the asbestos out of the house by the time I was 10. Also that’s not a real band.”
I sometimes tell my grandma “I don’t know how you survived the Great Depression.” when she was born during the 40’s.
My great grandmother actually did survive the Great Depression as a young kid (I’m pretty sure her parents were first gen immigrants too, egg on their face lol, shouldn’t have moved to the US in the early 1900s for economic opportunity) and some of her stories were pretty off the wall.
It definitely made her value feeding people, every time I visited she’d try to get me to eat like a half a watermelon.
EDIT: I know this doesn’t really fit the vibe of the thread but Grannie was great.
When we were clearing out my sister’s grandma’s house after she passed away, we kept finding cans and dried food stored in weird places. In the basement underneath a table. Shoved in the back of cupboards behind pots and pans. Hidden in boxes beneath clothes.
People who grew up in that time period really had a number done on them that led to lifelong trauma.
ask him what he thought about president coolidge
“Coolidge? Son I was born AFTER Kennedy was shot!”
Looks like his defenses were pretty sharp.
Especially for someone his age…
My parents had me pretty young, so they’re a bit less far long than a lot of boomer parents.
hey, this is not the kind of dad fucking that we built this website on
WE BUILT THIS CITY
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON COCK AND HOLE
23 skidoo
The first meme of the 20th century? The first known usage is 1906.
23 skidoo (sometimes 23 skiddoo) is an American slang phrase generally referring to leaving quickly, being forced to leave quickly by someone else, or taking advantage of a propitious opportunity to leave. Popularized during the early 20th century, the exact origin of the phrase is uncertain.
23 skidoo has been described as “perhaps the first truly national fad expression and one of the most popular fad expressions to appear in the U.S”, to the extent that “Pennants and arm-bands at shore resorts, parks, and county fairs bore either [23] or the word ‘Skiddoo’.”
“23 skidoo” combines two earlier expressions, “twenty-three” (1899) and “skidoo” (1901), both of which, independently and separately, referred to leaving, being kicked out, or the end of something. “23 skidoo” quickly became a popular catchphrase after its appearance in early 1906.
skidoobity toiler
the other day my 70s born dad got pissy when i asked him if movie theaters had color when he was a teenager
People thought I was making an extremely mean joke about my Highschool Algebra teacher’s age, because I said in front of the whole class she didn’t have calculators when she went to school, but she backed me up, and said the first pocket calculator came out when she was in her senior year, and it only did 4 functions and cost $300.
my parents used abacus’
Mine used beans
abacuses sound cool when in use
Ask him how he feels about all this new music the kids are listening to, like that lead Zeppelin and the beetles.
