primitives betray they're no spring chickens

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11832046

Oh my.

trof (48,491 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:58 PM

Who was president when you were born?

FDR for me.

I was born about 3 months before Pearl Harbor.

I remember hearing about his death on the radio.

elleng (71,464 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:01 PM

1. FDR, for only about 2 months.

Dad served at Pearl Harbor after, as a legal officer in the Navy.

^^^the husband-hating primitive, even though he's been dead for a while now; however, unlike most primitives, she does have a touch of class, grace, and manners.

planetc (1,760 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:01 PM

2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I was about 2-1/2 when he died. Not sure if I remember Mr. Truman, but I remember Eisenhower.

Wounded Bear (11,531 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:08 PM

3. Hmmm, trick question...

Harry Truman, I guess. But supposedly there is a picture of me as an infant with an "I like Ike" button on my swaddling clothes. That would have been the election of '52.

TexasProgresive (8,620 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:11 PM

4. The buck stops here, Harry S Truman

CaliforniaPeggy (120,692 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:18 PM

5. I was born in '43, so FDR.

I don't remember any of the Presidents until Eisenhower.

Yeah.

Contrary to popular perception, CaliforniaPeggy isn't the most ancient primitive, although she's surely in the top 10% of them, chronologically.

The oldest primitive's Cleita, currently hanging on Manny's jackass message board; she was born when William Howard Taft was president.

trof (48,491 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:27 PM

7. I remember Harry's morning walks around D.C.

He liked to take a walk after breakfast.

Drove the secret service nuts, but it was a calmer time back then.

There was always a gaggle of news folks.

Yeah, it used to be easy to do that, take early-morning strolls, but then too many left-wing weirdos got the idea they'd like to do some damage, so it wasn't safe any more.

Liberal Jesus Freak (867 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:27 PM

6. Eisenhower.

LBJ is the first president I remember, although I was well aware of Kennedy's assassination.

trof (48,491 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:35 PM

8. I was in USAF pilot training when Kennedy was killed.

The base went on full alert and complete lockdown.

We thought it was either Cuba or the Russians.

Liberal Jesus Freak (867 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:37 PM

9. My dad was also in the AF.

We were stationed in Duluth Minnesota when Kennedy was killed. Yes...it was a scary time.

Yonnie3 (322 posts)      Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:39 PM

10. Truman

Wow.  Not even a summer chicken in the batch, much less a spring chicken.

[Carl]

A bunch of old,white commies.

[Karin]

Those people are older than dirt, and about as smart. 

[SVPete]

Wounded Bear (11,531 posts)     Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:08 PM

3. Hmmm, trick question...

Harry Truman, I guess. But supposedly there is a picture of me as an infant with an "I like Ike" button on my swaddling clothes. That would have been the election of '52.

Ummmmm ... does WB not realize that Truman was President during all of 1952? Nothing tricky about that. Or did embarrassment about the "I like Ike" button cloud his memory?

[SVPete]

Those people are older than dirt, and about as smart.

Come a little closer, so I can whack you with my walker!

I was born during Ike's first term.

[BadCat]

A bunch of old,white commies.

A bunch of dried up hippies, failures in life, that haven't been laid since the "love ins" in 1968.