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Originally posted by PackRat:
My mom sent me this email.
REMEMBER 1957?
The following were some comments made in the year 1957:
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(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"
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1957??? I'm not that old, but I remember when stamps went from 6 cents to 8 cents - I think it was around 1970.
I checked. Actually, it was 1971.
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Originally posted by PackRat:
My mom sent me this email.
REMEMBER 1957?
(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for
$75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they
will be making more than the President."
I don't think anyone said this in 1957.
In 1938, it was well publicized that Babe Ruth earned $80,000.00, which was substantially more than President Hoover. Reportedly when questioned as to how he could justify earning more than the President, Ruth replied "I had a better year".
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Gee, why don't you [censored] piss on my thread some more. 
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Originally posted by PackRat:
Gee, why don't you [censored] piss on my thread some more.
OK
(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire
outside help at the store."
Nobody in 1957 was worried that the government was going to raise the federal minimum wage to $1.00/hour. They had already done so the year before.
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Originally posted by Matt R:
Insane.  Neat post!
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Originally posted by PackRat:
[censored].
you have to admit, you asked for it!!!
lmao!
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Originally posted by MxRacerCam:
Originally posted by PackRat:
[censored].
you have to admit, you asked for it!!!
lmao!
Kiss my rear end. 
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Originally posted by PackRat:
My mom sent me this email.
REMEMBER 1957?
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(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
electric. They are even making electric typewriters now"
Someone who lived in a closet theoretically could have said this in 1957, but electric typewriters had been invented about a half century earlier and had been available since the early 1920's.
That would be roughly the equivalent of someone in the year 2012 saying, "Someone is actually making a computer that a person can purchase and use right in his own home".
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Originally posted by 96RedSE5Sp:
Originally posted by PackRat:
My mom sent me this email.
REMEMBER 1957?
* * *
(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
electric. They are even making electric typewriters now"
Someone who lived in a closet theoretically could have said this in 1957, but electric typewriters had been invented about a half century earlier and had been available since the early 1920's.
That would be roughly the equivalent of someone in the year 2012 saying, "Someone is actually making a computer that a person can purchase and use right in his own home".
Alright, you made your [censored] point, now shut the [censored] up. I only posted the email because I wanted it as a lead in for my grandmothers email, it wasn't posted for some snot nosed know it all to point out the inaccuracies.
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