I'm definitely a pre-boomer, and saw the telegram announcing the Boston Tea Party. Although the original Boston harbour is not too tidal.

Is that Tea Party coming over here, and should we welcome the Pale-one or show her the pitchforks?

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

You say that Vic, but stranger things have been elected over here, on both sides of the border.

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You say that Vic, but stranger things have been elected over here, on both sides of the border.

Yeah, look at what we have in office now! :-)

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What years are Baby Boomer years? Oh no!!! Given my work ethic, I think I am one!!!!! 1963 anyone?

Sorry Angela, you are an early Generation X.

Baby boom ended late 50's.. I was almost the very end of it.

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What years are Baby Boomer years? Oh no!!! Given my work ethic, I think I am one!!!!! 1963 anyone?

Sorry Angela, you are an early Generation X.

Baby boom ended late 50's.. I was almost the very end of it.

Actually Janice, their are several different time frames that define the Baby-Boomers, but most end with '63 or '64.

It is subject to debate among academics and pundits.
This link offers a fairly good description regarding the Boomers.

BABY BOOMER/WIKI

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I guess i was one of them too.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has unveiled a plan to save his state money by phasing out school textbooks in favour of learning over the internet.

No stranger than electing out of work actors !

Well He's the Former Governor now, Edmund Brown is our Governor now, He doesn't deal in gimmicks, Just the hard honest truth.

Having survived the first Jerry Brown administration, and watched his subsequent political career, I am not terribly excited about a second round. But any further comment may be more appropriate in the Politics forum.

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What years are Baby Boomer years? Oh no!!! Given my work ethic, I think I am one!!!!! 1963 anyone?

Sorry Angela, you are an early Generation X.

Baby boom ended late 50's.. I was almost the very end of it.

Actually Janice, their are several different time frames that define the Baby-Boomers, but most end with '63 or '64.

It is subject to debate among academics and pundits.
This link offers a fairly good description regarding the Boomers.

BABY BOOMER/WIKI

I'm comfortable with 46-64, which let's Angela in. Kind of like being on the cusp of two astrological signs, having characteristics of both.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Not even an early boomer, just a bored old crusty.

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What years are Baby Boomer years? Oh no!!! Given my work ethic, I think I am one!!!!! 1963 anyone?

Sorry Angela, you are an early Generation X.

Baby boom ended late 50's.. I was almost the very end of it.

Actually Janice, their are several different time frames that define the Baby-Boomers, but most end with '63 or '64.

It is subject to debate among academics and pundits.
This link offers a fairly good description regarding the Boomers.

BABY BOOMER/WIKI

I'm comfortable with 46-64, which let's Angela in. Kind of like being on the cusp of two astrological signs, having characteristics of both.

I agree sir. As a matter of fact, I would challenge the established base, and redefine the end date to ensure her inclusion.
And I believe that cusp would make her Boomer/GenX, but I'm not sure.

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LET'S WATCH SOME TV!!!

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I am a Boomer (1952). We had a Black & White TV capable of picking up one channel and our telephone line was connected to 2 other households and they called it a "party-line" LOL :)

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I am a Boomer (1952). We had a Black & White TV capable of picking up one channel and our telephone line was connected to 2 other households and they called it a "party-line" LOL :)

Party lines were quite the norm back then.
It was a pain in the booty when there was no emergency.
But, if you had a "gabby" person on the party line, it could be maddening.

We also had a party line. One night their was a tragedy in my family.
My mother's brother-in-law, (her sister's hubby) had been killed by a drunk driver.
My father was there when it happened. They weren't in a car together however.
My father had JUST dropped him off on the corner, then pulled away.
My uncle was crossing the road, legally, and a drunken a**hole didn't see him.
My dad heard the squeling and screeching of tires, stopped, and looked in his review mirror.

When he got home, he needed the phone to contact my aunt and family members.
My father was not a phone person, he may have been on it 4 - 5 times a year,
and Mom was too upset to call after hearing the news.
The person on the line thought my dad was lying, and would not get of.
My father became enraged and had a few nasty words for that person,
and I had never heard my father use such language.

I believe there was a way at that time to summon the operator, by clicking
the button on the cradle, but I can't be certain if my memory is accurate.
That is what I 'remember' my dad doing to get the party off the line.

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In 2011 The Baby Boomers Start To Turn 65:
16 Statistics About The Coming Retirement Crisis That Will Drop Your Jaw

#1 Beginning January 1st, 2011 every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65.
That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.

#2 According to one recent survey, 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything at all to retirement savings.

#3 Most Baby Boomers do not have a traditional pension plan because they have been going out of style over the past 30 years.
Just consider the following quote from Time Magazine: The traditional pension plan is disappearing. In 1980,
some 39 percent of private-sector workers had a pension that guaranteed a steady payout during retirement.
Today that number stands closer to 15 percent, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute in Washington, D.C.

#4 Over 30 percent of U.S. investors currently in their sixties have more than 80 percent of their 401k invested in equities.
So what happens if the stock market crashes again?

#5 35% of Americans already over the age of 65 rely almost entirely on Social Security payments alone.

#6 According to another recent survey, 24% of U.S. workers admit that they have postponed
their planned retirement age at least once during the past year.

#7 Approximately 3 out of 4 Americans start claiming Social Security benefits the moment they are eligible at age 62.
Most are doing this out of necessity. However, by claiming Social Security early they get locked in at a much lower amount
than if they would have waited.

#8 Pension consultant Girard Miller recently told California's Little Hoover Commission,
that state and local government bodies in the state of California have $325 billion in combined unfunded pension liabilities.
When you break that down, it comes to $22,000 for every single working adult in California.




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klc, needless tragedies like this can be a traumatic experience for the entire family and the people who shared the line with your family sounds as though they were a long way from courteous. As I remember, the way to contact the operator on a party-line was to continuously press the cradle button until the operator came on the line.

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@chromespringer; I thought that's how you got the operator. Thanks

@Scarecrow; Great Song! Also the sound track of our lives.

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For What it is(was)Worth

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Janice

Great pick S.S.! Love that song.

...it's obvious who the Boomers are. It's a Saturday night,
and we are content to sit home and watch T.V./listen music,
while enjoying the forums at seti.

but then again, maybe I'm just describing myself.

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Hey Boomers! It's Jules Verne's birthday.
...Arguable one of "our" generations most favortie Sci-Fi authors.

"Jules Gabriel Verne (French pronunciation: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905)
was a French author from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre.
He is best known for novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870),
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel
before air travel and practical submarines were invented,
and before practical means of space travel had been devised.

He is the third most translated individual author in the world, according to Index Translationum.
Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells,
is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction"."


Arguable one of "our generation's" most favortie Sci-Fi authors, and most certainly mine.
My favorite work by him is "From the Earth to the Moon"...errrr....
"Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"......errr....
...well it is so hard to chose. He was a visionary with gifted insight.

"Merci M. Vern et Joyeux anniversaire mon ami!"

Fiction

All Around the Moon
Around the World in Eighty Days
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Facing the Flag
Five Weeks in a Balloon
From the Earth to the Moon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Master of the World
Michael Strogoff
Robur the Conqueror
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
The Moon-Voyage
The Mysterious Island
The Survivors of the Chancellor
The Underground City
Ticket No. 9672
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas

Non-Fiction

Celebrated Travels and Travellers

JULES VERNE

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