Chuckle 1135

Chuckle 1135
(Today's chuckle thanks go to Pat and Judy of Florence OR!)

~The Good Old Days, Part 1~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

TO ALL THE BRAVE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN 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 carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up 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 and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
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(Click Today in History and learn.)

• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Wednesday August 16, 2006

chary \CHAIR-ee\, adjective:1. Wary; cautious.2. Not giving or expending freely; sparing.

What do you suppose the Founding Fathers, so chary of overweening government power, would make of a prosecutor with virtually unlimited reach and a staff the size of a small town?--
"U.S. trampling rights at home and abroad", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 17, 1998

Investors should be chary, however, for the returns are far from sizzling.-- "The Stampede Into Variable Annuities", Fortune, October 13, 1986

Bankers, consulted as to whether or not they believed that the full force of the decline had spent its fury, were chary of predictions.-- "Leaders See Fear Waning", New York Times, October 30, 1929

When I visited Sissinghurst with my growing family she was always welcoming, eager for our news but chary of her own.-- Nigel Nicolson, Long Life
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