# Forget the Roman Empire: surviving in the world of 50 yrs ago

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 6, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-roman-empire-surviving-in-the-world-of-50-yrs-ago/421743 "2007-10-06T11:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-roman-empire-surviving-in-the-world-of-50-yrs-ago/421743/101 "2007-10-10T13:25:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Walloon]  
Employers often asked to see your discharge papers. Veterans not having those papers were a big problem after WW1 and WW2.  
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Hell, [F.W. Demara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demara) faked up several identities in the 40s and 50s, as did [Frank Abagnale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale) in the 60s. With modern knowhow I believe I could get over.

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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-roman-empire-surviving-in-the-world-of-50-yrs-ago/421743/102 "2007-10-10T13:28:00Z")

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More in the spirit of the OP, if I just wanted to have a quiet, normal life, I guess I’d try to find some kind of boring clerical work like I do now, only without computers. Then I’d find a girl and see what common modern sexual practices are considered positively degenerate in 1957.

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