How old is Grandad?

Dave Angel · Post by **Dave Angel** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:44 pm

55 years old & yet born before...

...penicillin? (discovered bby Flemming in 1928)

...born before TV? (invented by Logie Baird in 1925 & commercially available since the late 1930s. Even colour TV in the UK is 41 years old!)

...born before frozen food? (Birdseye has been selling frozen food in the US since 1925!)

...before ball point pens? (The first ball point pen was patented in 1888 & even Lazlo Biro filed his first UK patent as far back as 1938!)

Grandad may have been born before they all became commonplace, but certainly not before they all existed!

Grandad was also very well travelled as he knows the price of Holden cars (Australian) and also listened to the President on the radio, watched Jack Benny on TV (both US) & knew the US price of petrol but referred to it by the UK name (rather the US word gasoline).

He was certainly better travelled than many people of his era!

Sherpa2 · Post by **Sherpa2** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:40 am

Dave Angel, get over to the pedant thread and stand in the corner

Bad Wolf · Post by **Bad Wolf** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:58 am

If the man is 55 years old, he was born in 1952/3.

Television - 1925
Penicillin - 1928
Polio shots - 1952
Frozen foods - 1922
Xerox - founded 1906
Contact lenses - 1887
Credit cards - early 1920s
Ballpoint pens - 1888
Pantyhose - early 1940s
Air conditioners - 1906
Dishwashers - 1886
FM radios - 1946
Tape decks - 1935
Electric typewriters - 1902
Youghurt - 2nd century AD
Men wearing earrings - pirates?
McDonald's - 1940
Instant coffee - 1901

However, the rest of it might be true and it might have read more easily if it was edited better. It's amazing how much :censored: there is out there.

Kinoulton · Post by **Kinoulton** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:21 am

I am that man!

Although not a grandad yet.

It's true about not blowing our brains out to Tommy Dorsey.

Des O'Connor, maybe.

Trout 63 · Post by **Trout 63** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:00 pm

And he would have been about 20 when Deep Purple released 'Made in Japan'

Ben the Tiger · Post by **Ben the Tiger** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:37 pm

Pam do you mean an English grandad because thta could clear it up a bit.

Dave Angel · Post by **Dave Angel** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:14 am

Ben the Tiger wrote:Pam do you mean an English grandad because thta could clear it up a bit.

I'd still want to know how & why an English grandad was able to buy an Australian car and was listening to the US president on the radio.

Rizzo · Post by **Rizzo** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:42 am

I gave up when one of my daughter's primary schoolmates was convinced I was my daughter's grandma.

I was 35 at the time.

Kinoulton · Post by **Kinoulton** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:34 pm

A lot of people in Norfolk ARE their daughter's grandma.

Dave Angel · Post by **Dave Angel** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:02 pm

Kinoulton wrote:A lot of people in Norfolk ARE their daughter's grandma.

Before you posted this I was going to make a comemnt about a certain Austrian cellar owner but decided against it.

Trout 63 · Post by **Trout 63** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:34 pm

Kinoulton wrote:A lot of people in Norfolk ARE their daughter's grandma.

You don't have to go as far as Norfolk.

Over half the people at Melton market are boss-eyed!

Ben the Tiger · Post by **Ben the Tiger** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:20 pm

So how old is Grandad?

Rizzo · Post by **Rizzo** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:56 pm

Ben the Tiger wrote:So how old is Grandad?

It's at the bottom of the original post

"This man would be only 55 years old !! "

Dave Angel · Post by **Dave Angel** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:30 pm

The story might say that grandad was only 55 years old but evidence proves that many of the things grandad claims to have been born before suggests otherwise.

It's another one of these email circulars that looks good at face value but if you begin to question any of the "facts" in it it soon unravels and shows a completely contradictory story.