Is this where you put mundane pointless stuff I must share?
Then I must share that I was born March 31st 1944 today is the big seven zero
Happy day to you! It’s so nice to see so many other geezers here! OK, so at 60, I’m more of a junior geezer, but I’m getting there!
How are you going to celebrate?
You might want to put a comma or dash between the one and the seven. I thought, “He’s 170? What? Are they talking about dog years or something?”
Happy Birthday anyway! And twenty more at least
FairyChatMom:
Happy day to you! It’s so nice to see so many other geezers here! OK, so at 60, I’m more of a junior geezer, but I’m getting there!
How are you going to celebrate?
Just a good cup of coffee so far, but I think some chicken fries and ice cream comes next, plus I so grateful I have nothing wrong with me to report to the ACA or the VA lol
Glad my birthday is today instead of tomorrow April 1st is fool’s day :eek:
Damn dude, well done! Did you ever think you’d make it?
Happy birthday, Mr Quatro , and many happy returns!
I was thinking the same thing. Do we have some kind of tortoise registered?
Happy birthday, Q!
Hope you have 170 more!
Happy Birthday, Mr Quatro ! And many more.
It’s my birthday too, yeah. We were lucky to miss April Fool’s Day, I suppose.
Downside: I received a letter from my insurance company last week saying my accidental death policy would depreciate by $25,000 on this date.
It’s funny - I still feel worth the same amount I did yesterday. . .
Kenm
March 31, 2014, 11:14pm
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Happy birthday, Mr. Quatro!
Friedrich Nietsche was born in 1844, too!
D18
March 31, 2014, 11:15pm
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Congratulations!
Leads me to ask - any idea who the oldest active Doper is?
170 is nothing, let me know when you hit the big 185.
I think it’s Klondike Geoff, who, I believe, is 84.
Happy Birthday! I hope you get everything you want today.
Happy Birthday Mr Quatro!
I’m only 56, so I’m just a cub geezer. But I’m already a full fledged curmudgeon!
Tethered_Kite:
Happy Birthday, Mr Quatro ! And many more.
It’s my birthday too, yeah. We were lucky to miss April Fool’s Day, I suppose.
Downside: I received a letter from my insurance company last week saying my accidental death policy would depreciate by $25,000 on this date.
It’s funny - I still feel worth the same amount I did yesterday. . .
Happy birthday to you too Tethered Kite … sorry your insurance went down, don’t have any accidents.
Did anyone in your family ever tell you that March 31st use to be New Years eve in heck I don’t know what year, but whatever year it was they say that’s where April Fool came from when they changed the year change over to January.
I already asked Cecil, but he’s busy
Grrr
April 1, 2014, 1:46am
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This is the decade Mr Quatro was introduced to this world:
1940
Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941
Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan.
Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.
1942
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
Mueller designs a turboprop engine.
1943
Synthetic rubber invented.
Richard James invents the slinky.
James Wright invent silly putty.
Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
**1944
The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.**
1945
Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext.
The atomic bomb invented.
1946
The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947
British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983.
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
1948
The Frisbee ® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
1949
Cake mix invented.
Happy B-day!
Note: cake mix invented just in time for Mr Quatro ’'s 5th birthday.
Grrr
April 1, 2014, 2:03am
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More fun stuff about the 40’s:
Population 132,122,000
Unemployed in 1940 - 8,120,000
National Debt $43 Billion
Average Salary $1,299. Teacher's salary $1,441
Minimum Wage $0.40 per hour
55% of U.S. homes have indoor plumbing
Antarctica is discovered to be a continent
Life expectancy 68.2 female, 60.8 male
Auto deaths 34,500
Supreme Court decides blacks do have a right to vote
World War II changed the order of world power; the United States and the USSR become super powers
Cold War begins.
