Challenge ~ How old is Grandpa?
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Fly_On_Wall
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well my pepe is 90 and all this applys to him, but he was born just after world war one started, in WW1 very few people dodged the draft as compared to WW2. so if he remebers it being an honer to fight for his country he had to of been born a few years before this.
so If he is in Canada or the US i'd say he is 100. Same goes for a few european countrys.
but if your looking at some place in else, a more poorer country where they have none of what this person mentioned.
my mom and dad were grand parents at 38. so if the guy could be around that age too.
lets pick a country in the middle east where girls are usualy married by 13-16. if the guy have a child at 18 years old, then his son at 18, he could be a grandfather of 36 years old.
so Bratcat without a country to narrow down my answer I'm going to say that the man mentioned abouve is 36-100 years old.
yep that's my final answer
so If he is in Canada or the US i'd say he is 100. Same goes for a few european countrys.
but if your looking at some place in else, a more poorer country where they have none of what this person mentioned.
my mom and dad were grand parents at 38. so if the guy could be around that age too.
lets pick a country in the middle east where girls are usualy married by 13-16. if the guy have a child at 18 years old, then his son at 18, he could be a grandfather of 36 years old.
so Bratcat without a country to narrow down my answer I'm going to say that the man mentioned abouve is 36-100 years old.
yep that's my final answer
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Okay then i'm going with the answer of 100. 
then again I was thinking Canada originaly and the US had way more wars then us. oh well 100
then again I was thinking Canada originaly and the US had way more wars then us. oh well 100 submissive
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not quite as old as his tongue, but older than his teeth.
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New Chevy for $600 puts it at mid-30s, gas 11¢/gal., check. About the same time Reefer Madness was made, so just because gramps wasn't one of the hep cats, doesn't mean it wasn't there. Coke? Where the fuck does he think the name came from? Listening to the Dorsey Brothers (Tommy & Jimmy had a big fallin' out, that's why they had their own bands, couldn't stand each other--brother love, right?), check. "A lady needed a husband to have a baby." lmao! It never stopped a woman from getting knocked up--I don't know how many times I've seen where the old folks die, and when the kids (now full grown themselves go to find the marriage cert., it's only a few months before the oldest was born.
This guy was born in 1925. He's my dad.
New Chevy for $600 puts it at mid-30s, gas 11¢/gal., check. About the same time Reefer Madness was made, so just because gramps wasn't one of the hep cats, doesn't mean it wasn't there. Coke? Where the fuck does he think the name came from? Listening to the Dorsey Brothers (Tommy & Jimmy had a big fallin' out, that's why they had their own bands, couldn't stand each other--brother love, right?), check. "A lady needed a husband to have a baby." lmao! It never stopped a woman from getting knocked up--I don't know how many times I've seen where the old folks die, and when the kids (now full grown themselves go to find the marriage cert., it's only a few months before the oldest was born.
This guy was born in 1925. He's my dad.
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*bratcat*, How Old?
Hey, I'm 70 and most of that applies to me. My earliest recollection of the cost of a Chevy was $800 and as best as I can recall, the first gasoline I bought was .25/gal. Yes, on occasion a single woman did get 'knocked up' but I don't recall anyone shouting the good news from rooftops. Actually, there was but one flat roof in town-all the rest had pitched roofs too steep to stand on. Steep so the snow could slide off. So, my guess is that grandpa dates from the mid-twenties and is 80 ore so.
Hey, I'm 70 and most of that applies to me. My earliest recollection of the cost of a Chevy was $800 and as best as I can recall, the first gasoline I bought was .25/gal. Yes, on occasion a single woman did get 'knocked up' but I don't recall anyone shouting the good news from rooftops. Actually, there was but one flat roof in town-all the rest had pitched roofs too steep to stand on. Steep so the snow could slide off. So, my guess is that grandpa dates from the mid-twenties and is 80 ore so.
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I would say around 70 too.
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The definitive date for me . . .
is the inception of radar. Depending on the point in its development and whether that development can date back to the description of RF energy propagation behaviors, it could put his DOB somewhere between 1864 (Maxwell defines RF wave behavior) and 1924 where the first practical demonstration occurred to 1935 where the first practical radar arrived.
But considering that TV goes back to 1927, that elimiates the 1935 date.
So his DOB is somewhere between 1864 and 1924.
With the info, that's the best I can do.
is the inception of radar. Depending on the point in its development and whether that development can date back to the description of RF energy propagation behaviors, it could put his DOB somewhere between 1864 (Maxwell defines RF wave behavior) and 1924 where the first practical demonstration occurred to 1935 where the first practical radar arrived.
But considering that TV goes back to 1927, that elimiates the 1935 date.
So his DOB is somewhere between 1864 and 1924.
With the info, that's the best I can do.
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Re: The definitive date for me . . .
You so confuse me sometimes Anyhow, I came back cause I didn't put my reasoning with my answer. I said around 70 just because I've heard my Grandma tell us she remembers when some of that stuff came out, and she's 70.
So when are we going to know the answer???
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You so confuse me sometimes
Anyhow, I came back cause I didn't put my reasoning with my answer. I said around 70 just because I've heard my Grandma tell us she remembers when some of that stuff came out, and she's 70. So when are we going to know the answer???
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Re: Re: Re: The definitive date for me . . .
He was born in 1944 or 1945, more than halfway thru WW II and the U. S. Navy used radar throughout that war.
So the parameters given were flawed. GIGO!
Based on the parameters given, he has to be older. Given his age as 58 (same as mine, BTW), radar was around as was TV for more than a decade.
He was born in 1944 or 1945, more than halfway thru WW II and the U. S. Navy used radar throughout that war.
So the parameters given were flawed. GIGO!
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Re: Re: Re: The definitive date for me . . .
Gramps is lying
How is he only 58??? My SO's parents are right around that age and they had tv and some of that other stuff too. Do we get an explaination on that one???
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Gramps is lying
How is he only 58??? My SO's parents are right around that age and they had tv and some of that other stuff too. Do we get an explaination on that one??? Brat
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Some of the hints in there definately don't add up to 58. My mother was raised on an Island in the middle of the Puget Sound, and she was treated with Penicillin when she was a young girl. She's 58, turning 59 this November. Also, the most famous Presidential speeches on the radio were by FDR during the Depression, and draft dodging refrence would have been probably WWII in that case. Considering that you generally don't recall memories much before 5 or 6, and he's talking about those, I'd say Grandpa grew up during the 1930s. Born, at latest, the very early 30s.
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Cheyenne said:Maybe "gramps" is only a nickname for a current lover and not literal?
LMAO
I wish you ppl would stop that!!! That or I'll have to stop drinking my pop when on Lit
I swear my computer is gonna be gooey for a week!!! Brat
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I got that joke about 2 days ago. When I first read it I was thinking that he would be older than that. But the way kids grow up these days I should have know better. I mean I am 25. The music I grew up listening to is now classic rock. My kids constantly tell me I am old. lol
