If you are not over 40, you won't understand this

[Jacklou59]

Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand)

You could hardly see for all the snow,

Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.



Pull a chair up to the TV set,

"Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet."

Depending on the channel you tuned,

You got Rob and Laura or Ward and June.

It felt so good. It felt so right.

Life looked better in black and white.



I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys,

Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys,

Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train,

Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane.

Father Knows Best, Patty Duke,

Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,

Donna Reed on Thursday night! --

Life looked better in black and white.



I wanna go back to black and white.

Everything always turned out right.

Simple people, simple lives...

Good guys always won the fights.

Now nothing is the way it seems,

In living color on the TV screen.

Too many murders, too many fights,

I wanna go back to black and white.



In God they trusted, alone in bed, they slept,

A promise made was a promise kept.

They never cussed or broke their vows.

They'd never make the network now.

But if I could, I'd rather be

In a TV town in '53.

It felt so good. It felt so right.

Life looked better in black and white.



I'd trade all the channels on the satellite,

If I could just turn back the clock tonight

To when everybody knew wrong from right.

Life was better in black and white!



Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best!

[Snowden]

The plots were planned; they made sense;
the characters were drawn intelligently.
A certain integrity was required, or the TV was turned off and we returned to books - we still read them.

I remember it very well, Mike. I even enjoyed TV then - now it seldom is on without a tape or DVD being the reason.

[sfga6970]

I remember those days. There was more innocence in the world then.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by sfga6970

I remember those days. There was more innocence in the world then.

More respect for decency - I miss that. Innocense and just plain consideration of the children growing up in the world. Strange that it should be so disregarded for purely commercial reasons and that parents seem so unconcerned by it.

Or maybe it's my age speaking. Old-fashioned? Is decency old-fashioned?

[BrianK]

Being old enough to remember those days makes it almost fun at times comparing the differances. At other times really depressing, especially when I talk with my grandkids.

At the time I didn't think that life was as good as it was then. I just accepted life as it was. I guess that is true for those under 40 now.

As the post indicated black & white was simpler times. Violence came in the form of a western that most often didn't show the effects of a gunshort dealt to the bad guy. Language that was easy to understand, everyday words that didn't belong in the gutter.

As a person ages they learn to adapt not necessarily accept but to adapt.

I won't be around to know how the under 40's adapt when they get to be my age or what they will have to adapt to. But if the violence, rage, disrespect, litigation, & doing away with any referance to religious teachings/morals is any indicator I'm glad I won't have to adapt to whatever that evolves into.

[sfga6970]

Originally Posted by BrianK

Being old enough to remember those days makes it almost fun at times comparing the differances. At other times really depressing, especially when I talk with my grandkids.

At the time I didn't think that life was as good as it was then. I just accepted life as it was. I guess that is true for those under 40 now.

As the post indicated black & white was simpler times. Violence came in the form of a western that most often didn't show the effects of a gunshort dealt to the bad guy. Language that was easy to understand, everyday words that didn't belong in the gutter.

As a person ages they learn to adapt not necessarily accept but to adapt.

I won't be around to know how the under 40's adapt when they get to be my age or what they will have to adapt to. But if the violence, rage, disrespect, litigation, & doing away with any referance to religious teachings/morals is any indicator I'm glad I won't have to adapt to whatever that evolves into.

Those days were great. We spent most of our free time outdoors playing physical games, baseball, football, stickball, stoopball, and any other games we could make up. Today the kids sit around the house like couch potatoes playing video games and are not as competitive. No wonder obesity is rising in the US. It's a shame.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by sfga6970

Those days were great. We spent most of our free time outdoors playing physical games, baseball, football, stickball, stoopball, and any other games we could make up. Today the kids sit around the house like couch potatoes playing video games and are not as competitive. No wonder obesity is rising in the US. It's a shame.

Between this, and the loud music, etc., it seems likely that they will be adjusting to shorter lives because of the lack of healthy pursuits you name here, Paul, inability to get around physically because they never use the muscles enough to develop properly.

No, I wouldn't want to have to adapt to whatever comes next, unless there is a complete about face in all this. We were so active; even my kids, ball teams being made up - new games such as described here. When we lived in the north, ice skating. Oh, I don't know what-all, but there was always some activity, and if they did watch TV, it was all the family doing so together and the shows reflected the life we lived.