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(3,181 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Explain, please?
What do you find unfunny?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)in the accompanying GIF? Seemed clear enough to me.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That remark Rump made about 2nd amendment people was NOT a joke. It was sick.
trof
(54,256 posts)Just wait till YOU get to be a geezer.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Because I have to say there are days when I wonder if I haven't passed into geezerdom.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Does that count for the women?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I prefer "cantankerous" over "geezer".
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)If you walk into a room and forgot why you went in there, so you leave the room and return again to remember, you might be a geezer.
If your AARP membership number is in single digits, you might be a geezer.
If you used to carry a condom in your wallet, but now you carry a Walmart bag in your pocket, you might be a geezer. (This is for us geezers in California, which requires plastic bags to be recycled.)
If you get honked at more than once a day because you're driving slower than the speed limit, you might be a geezer.
If the number of doctors you have is greater than the number of living friends, you might be a geezer.
If the first thing you check in the newspaper is the obituaries so you can see if your name is listed, you might be a geezer.
If you think Jay Leno is funnier than Michelle Wolf, you might be a geezer.
If Stephen Colbert has three guests and you've never heard of two of them, you might be a geezer.
If you wear a hat that looks like this, you might be a geezer:
If you forget the ages of your grandchildren, but know how many bottles of prescriptions you have in the medicine cabinet, you might be a geezer.
If you call it an icebox instead of a refrigerator, you might be a geezer.
If you can't remember whether you ate lunch today, you might be a geezer.
If you remember going onto an airplane to tell your grandmother goodbye and make sure she's comfortable, you might be a geezer.
If you remember flying on a TWA Constellation, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when drinking water came from the tap and not a bottle, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when having more than one television in the house was extravagant, you might be a geezer.
If you've ever seen this at the end of the broadcast day, you might be a geezer:
If you remember a time when there actually was an end to the broadcast day, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when you didn't own your telephone, it had an actual rotary dial, and it was only available in black, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when houses had one bathroom, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when an unmarried couple was called "living in sin," you might be a geezer.
If your remember calling them "The Beatles" and not "Paul's old band," you might be a geezer.
If you find your "headlights still on" buzzer sounds more often than not when you open your car door, you might be a geezer.
If you can't figure out the ending of "The Avengers: Infinity War," you're not a geezer, you're someone who paid $15 for a ticket.
If your first refrigerator used metal ice trays rather than an icemaker, you might be a geezer.
If people that are older than you begin calling you "sir" or "ma'm," you might be a geezer.
If a little old lady opens the door for you at the Post Office, you might be a geezer.
If your grandkids ask you to play music on YouTube, but tell you to append "clean" when you're searching for the title, you might be a geezer.
If you wear socks with sandals, you might be a geezer.
If you have more than one can of Ensure in your refrigerator, you might be a geezer.
If a student you taught in first grade is now a respected surgeon, you might be a geezer.
If you long for the good old days of George W. Bush, you might be a geezer (or insane).
If you remember staying up late to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing live, you might be a geezer.
If you have a flip phone instead of a smartphone, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when the person who holds the office of president respected that office, you might be a geezer.
If you care that the person who held the office of president respected the office, you might be a geezer.
I you remember when a policeman, fireman, airline pilot, astronaut, doctor, lawyer, engineer, television anchor or sports reporter, or fighter pilot was almost always a white male, you could be a geezer.
If you remember watching "Your Show of Shows," "The Ed Sullivan Show," and "Hit Parade," you might be a geezer.
If you remember your golf handicap but not your wedding anniversary, you might be a geezer. Also, you might be in the doghouse.
If you get a senior discount without asking for it when you go to a fast food restaurant, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when different makes of cars actually looked different, you might be a geezer.
(Remember tail fins?)
If you remember how cool white wall tires were, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when cars didn't have "Check Engine" lights, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when as a teenager you could buy a car for less than $1,000 and work on it yourself to turn it into a really cool machine, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when non-whites didn't appear in television ads, you might be a geezer.
If you remember "colored" and "white" water fountains, you might be a geezer. (I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama.)
If you belt your pants around your stomach and not your hips, you might be a geezer.
If you don't care what anyone thinks of how you dress so long as it's comfortable, you might be a geezer.
If you still have the first Grateful Dead t-shirt you bought at a concert, you might be a geezer.
If you remember watching "The Wizard of Oz" on black-and-white television and not understanding what the fuss was all about when Dorothy arrived in Oz (which you didn't find out until you watched it in color), you might be a geezer.
If you remember watching the first episode of "The Today Show" hosted by Dave Garroway, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when Harry Hausen's King Kong was scary, you might be a geezer.
If you remember actually having seen all the movies nominated for Oscars, you might be a geezer.
If Einstein was still alive when you were a kid, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when nearly everything was called "atomic," you might be a genius.
If you no longer appear on young girls' radar when they're scanning the room, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when being divorced was a bad thing, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when living together without being married was scandalous, you might be a geezer.
If you remembering when having a child without being married was condemned and not celebrated, you might be a geezer.
If you lived through the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, you might be a geezer -- and a little bit jaded.
If you remember when the flower girl at your and your fiances' wedding was your niece and not your three-year-old daughter, you might be a geezer.
If you remember the first jet airliner you saw, you might be a geezer.
If you remember when you didn't repeat the same stories over and over again, you might be a geezer.
If you ask yourself, "Am I a geezer?", you might be a geezer.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I definitely grew up with a single TV. Our house had a single, rotary phone that my teen sister constantly tied up. On trips to Moab, UT growing up, we always stayed at the Atomic Inn. I still prefer ice trays over ice makers.
Good grief, I'm a GenX geezer! How did that happen?
Tracyjo
(729 posts)We be old. Dammit.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)And, I'll take a '57 Chevy, please!
It's about my nap time!...... .........
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... the stop-motion guy was Ray Harryhausen. However, he didn't work on King Kong in 1933; that was Willis O'Brien. While the special effects of Kong were an inspiration for him, Harryhausen's big gorilla experience was working with O'Brien on Mighty Joe Young in 1949.
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)I saw the original model of King Kong during an exhibit of miniatures in the movies, and it was tiny -- maybe 14 inches tall.
Nevertheless, Kong produced one of the best "big ape dying" scenes I've ever seen.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)On exhibit years ago in Denver. I was amazed at how small it was.
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calimary
(81,323 posts)To watch Bonanza on their color TV. They were the first in the neighborhood to have one, and we gathered around to watch the map catch fire during the opening credits. That was a pretty big deal back then. I was a little kid but I still remember that living room crowded with people who were all there to watch Bonanza on their neighbors brand new color TV.
Btw - I now am the proud owner of my very own Medicare card.
FakeNoose
(32,651 posts)"Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
Not a joke, it was a subliminal suggestion. They only called it a "joke" later, after all the uproar.
I believe that anybody who was listening, got the reference.
I remember thinking, "Ho-lee shit did he really say that?!?"
barbtries
(28,799 posts)he was suborning the assassination of his opponent. everyone forgets what he followed up with: that will be a horrible day."
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That should have been a solid warning as to just what we were dealing with. Remember the man and his wife just behind Rump? Remember how they interviewed the man because of his reaction? But it was passed off as something silly, and the man still voted for the idiot.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)if she had won (the electoral college)
Trump would have been on Fox News almost every day insinuating that someone, maybe, I don't know... "exercise their 2nd amendment rights" on her.
And if it happened, it would be "It was just a joke. I had no idea someone would actually take me up on it"
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)Hekate
(90,717 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Whiners.
Mahalo, triron
peggysue2
(10,833 posts)Reminding people of the past will undoubtedly be considered 'unfair.' Sort of like indicating when the Trumpster is lying. Which is all of the time.
Good one on Samantha Bee!
Vote as if your lives depended on it. Because they do.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)The Cons just hate it when you toss their own words back at them. They are SO BAD at keeping things like blowback in mind. Or the fact that there are now futuristic devices that can record their images and sounds, or so I've heard. And seen.
peggysue2
(10,833 posts)Futuristic devices! Good one. Yes, the Republicans hate it when their own behavior and/or words are thrown back at them. It's particularly good for a Trumpster alert because he'll insist he never said something and then . . . there it is, image and sound.
mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)Neither do I.
red dog 1
(27,820 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)He seems like the kind of guy who would fire someone if they breathed in his direction wrong.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)See? He does have a sense of humor.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Absolutely brilliant!
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)I keep waiting for one of them to make these comparisons instead of just jumping to the defense of the Deplorable secretary.
I'm sick of the feigned outrage on behalf of the trump deplorables at the correspondent's dinner.