UncleBil1957

The following were some comments made in the year 1957:

"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy
a weeks' groceries for $20.00."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year ? It won't be long when $5,000 will only
buy a used one."

"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter ?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a
gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage,"

"Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed.
Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls,"

"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by
with saying damn in "Gone With The Wind," it seems every new movie has either Hell or
damn in it."

"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by
the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it
down in Texas."

"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 never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even
making electric typewriters now."

"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to
work to make ends meet."

"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids
so they can both work."

"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign
business."

"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in
taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress."

"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever
catch on."

"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly
$15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."

"No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my
blood."

From: Vita ... courtesy of Sabina

An engineer dies and reports to hell. Pretty soon, the engineer becomes
dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and
building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and
flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer:
"So, how's it going down there in hell ?"

Satan replies: "Hey things are going great. We've got air conditioning
and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer
is going to come up with next."

God replies: "What ??? You've got an engineer ? That's a mistake - he
should never have gotten down there; send him up here."

Satan says: "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm
keeping him."

God says: "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs and answers: "Yeah, right. And just where are you going
to get a lawyer ?"