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Comments Made in the Year 1955!
That's only 53 years ago! '

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

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 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 $1.00, 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 duck tail 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 of 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 they'll 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.'

'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'

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

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

'There is no sense going for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

 

 

RAILROAD TRACKS

Simply fascinating!
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails)
is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.? That's an exceedingly odd
number.? Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and
English expatriates built the US railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people
who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the
gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same
jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which
used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon
wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads
in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe
(and England ) for their legions.? The roads have been used
ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?

Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone
else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon
wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome,
they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.?
Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4
feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original
specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.?
Bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a
Specification/Procedure/Process and wonder,? "What
horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly
right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide
enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses.
(Two horses' asses)

Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad,
there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of
the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or
SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their
factory in Utah.? The engineers who designed the SRB's
would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the
SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to
the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens
to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's
had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly
wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as
you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is
arguably the world's most advanced transportation
system was determined over two thousand years ago by the
width of a horse's ass.

And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important?

Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and
CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling most of what the
former isn't!


 

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