Prince is well read on the internet as is evident in his latest musings about '...shopping is not a sport' etc taken from a joke email sent round a couple of months back - have just received a new one for him to quote - made me chuckle
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 
 
 
1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! 


*****

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. 
 ***** 


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. 
 

***** 
 

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. 
***** 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. 

*****

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. 

***** 

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat. 
*****

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

*****

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster. 

***** 
 

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death! 

***** 

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. 

***** 

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with. 

*****

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because..... 
 

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!


***** 

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. 
 
***** 

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. 


***** 

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars. 
 
***** 
 
 

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms.....WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

***** 

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents. 
***** 

Only girls had pierced ears!

***** 

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. 
*****

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time.....no really!

***** 
 

We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

*****


We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956. 
 

*****

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

***** 

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

***** 

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! 
***** 

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school. 

*****
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

*****

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and "Blade" (Ed. Nothing wrong with Blade (named in honour of champion ruckman Brendan Lade)) 
 
***** 

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! 
 
***** 

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. 
***** 

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned… 

 



HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL! 
 

And YOU are one of them!



CONGRATULATIONS! 
 
 


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. 
 
 


And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were. 
 



Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?! 




Is this the single most cringe inducing and annoying fucking email that you've ever read? And hands up if you don't get it sent to you at least once every fucking couple of months?!

Sorry but this one really grips my s**t.

It's the email equivalant of whipping out a rib so you can blow your own horn.
[Edited 9/19/07 7:09am]

Oh i dont think this is the most annoying one you can get - this one and the one prince quote make me giggle.

the ones where your head falls off if you dont forward within 0.002 secs of reading to 6 million people whose name begins with the letter X annoy me! usually accompanied with sickly prose taken straight from a readers digest or one of those tapestries popular with the ladies in the 1800's!

My greatest problem with it is contained within the final comments. Our lawyers and government are those very same 'kids' that the whole piece is about. Thus rendering the whole piece utter bullshit and self-aprreciating. It annoys me. My dad sends it to me every now and then. I tell him that if he really thinks it's true then he can be the one to tell his granddaughter how shit she is at everything. And fat.

HA- true! At work so not really thought too deeply about it just scan read it and it made me smile cause me and my friends (70s and 80s kids) talk about similar things - OHHHHH those were the days etc etc