Happy New Year

[Waitress]

2024 sounds like some future age. Shouldn’t we all have flying cars by now?

[stevelee]

1984 was 40 years ago. It was used as a distant future in the book title. Then 2001 and 2010 were used for the far off future.

I am asked by pharmacies and medical folks for my date of birth as a way to check that they have the right person. It serves to remind me that I was born in the first half of the previous century.

February 24 will be the twentieth anniversary of when I closed on this house. Time flies when you are having fun.

[i77cat]

John Prine's song Living in the Future says we're driving rocket ships:

"We are living in the future
I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago
We're all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines"

[DC69Wildcat]

Ah, but I was so much older then.
I'm younger than that now.

[citycat]

2024 sounds like some future age. Shouldn’t we all have flying cars by now?

One in the series of books my parents bought us when we were learning to read was "You Will Go To the Moon". It was published in 1960, or so. It made traveling to the Moon as mundane as flying from Charlotte to Philadelphia.

If people can sue Reese's because their Halloween pumpkin shaped Reese's cups don't have faces cut into them like the picture on the wrapper, then hordes of disappointed baby boomer readers can sue the publisher of that book.

[stevelee]

I turned on the Rose Parade a few minutes ago. I was reminded that I was there 55 years ago. On the 31st we went to a warehouse to watch preparation of the floats.

I also went to the Rose Bowl. I was visiting a Davidson classmate over the Christmas break. On Christmas morning there was an envelope with my name on it under the tree. It contained our two tickets. It was OJ Simpson’s final college game. Bob Hope and President-elect Nixon were there. There was no novelty for me in seeing Hope at a football game, since he came to SMU games occasionally. (Having hope at an SMU football game in those days was a different matter.)

That classmate lives in Alexandria. I’ll fly up next week, and we will go to the women’s game at George Mason. Then on Saturday we will meet my old roommate at the Davidson pregame and go to the men’s game at GW.

[stevelee]

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[DC69Wildcat]

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Ouch!

[catnhat]

My maternal grandfather (born in 1910) told me that his mother rode her bicycle in the 1st Rose Parade back in 1890. She had roses wrapped around the bike and woven into the spokes. The family had moved out there when the girl’s mother developed TB and was told that the dry, desert like climate would help her condition. It didn’t help enough. My great-grandmother moved back to Illinois after her mother died.

[Waitress]

My maternal grandfather (born in 1910) told me that his mother rode her bicycle in the 1st Rose Parade back in 1890. She had roses wrapped around the bike and woven into the spokes. The family had moved out there when the girl’s mother developed TB and was told that the dry, desert like climate would help her condition. It didn’t help enough. My great-grandmother moved back to Illinois after her mother died.

This week's NYT history quiz asked what year the 1st Rose Bowl was played. The parade predates the bowl game and there was a sizable gap between the inaugural game and the second game.* (answers below if you want to test your knowledge of those years)

























*1902 & 1916

[MLC67]

Times indeed do really change, and not always for the better. The first ever Orange Bowl was a uncompetitive shut out in which the University of Miami was defeated 26 - 0 in 1935. This inaugural bowl champion was the Bison of Bucknell University.

[i77cat]

That's a lot more competitive than the 2023 Orange Bowl.

[DC69Wildcat]

Buh-bye Bama.

[wildforthecats]

Buh-bye Bama.

Hopefully the next buh-bye will be Michigan. Let’s go Huskies.

[Dr. Bliss]

2024 sounds like some future age. Shouldn’t we all have flying cars by now?

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
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