Jack...
Welcome back...you rascal! I had no clue of the tropical place you were...
CS58
wolfscreamer - thank you!
Rhet~ Thank you. I'm very happy. :-)
Rhet: Tee und WAS?! Rechtfertigen Sie sich bitte...
Sushi: Tea and bickies - tea and biscuits, cookies, etc. You know the English Tea-time snack! I certainly hope you didn't think I meant something less inviting.
I made scones for the first time last week - are they always that dry?
Rhetty
"The main reason Santa is so jolly is that he knows where all the bad girls live."
-- Phil Proctor
The year is 1903 -- one hundred years ago...
Only 14 Percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S. and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2,000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
The average life expectancy was forty-seven. Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. The five leading causes of death were pneumonia/influenza, tuberculosis, diarrhea, heart disease and stroke. More than 95 percent of all births took place at home.
Sugar cost four cents a pound, coffee, fifteen cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason. The American flag had 45 stars: Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada
was 30. There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school, and one in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
Just think what it will be like in another 100 years...if we can last that long.
Two families move from Saudi Arabia to America. When they arrive, the fathers make each other a bet -- in a year's time, whichever family has become "more American" will win.
A year later when they meet again, the first guy says, "My son's playing baseball, I had McDonald's for breakfast and I'm on my way to pick up a case of Bud for tonight. How about you?"
The second guy says, "Fuck you, rag-head!"
"I was always dreaming of very powerful people, dictators and things like that."
Arnold Schwarzenegger (in "Pumping Iron")
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~geoffo/humour/flattery.html
Favorite Porno Titles...
"There's A Black Man In My Wife's Ass"
and
"Whose Pussy IS That?"
Joe,
I just bought me a brand new bottle of non-dairy whipped topping. So grab the midgets and come on over, sailor.
Camel toe and so much more. It can be like bad porn, but with really hot stars.
Your Rhetty
OK Cheeseballs! I am so NOT into astrology. I don't believe that your personality can be predicted by what day you happened to be born.
Yet, let me wipe my smirk and offer a resounding YAWP.
http://www.virtualkiss.com/kissastrology/profile/
Read it on a whim and it has me pegged. It is like a Jedi mind trick - I am the textbook Aquarius. I plan to print it out and underline and bold as necessary and just refer all future dates to the pages. If they can hag...so be it.
Must sleep. Have lots of fantasies to entertain.
Rhet