hwly cow Mel i'm a year older then you. Orson Wells scared the heck out
out of everyone over the radio. If i'm wrong sorry.. hugs Sue
I'm thinking but J. will jump out any monent and answer it...

1951 are you speaking in German?? J or C. speak up,well off to bed Sue

The film was The Day The Earth Stood Still, starring Michael Rennie, as Klaatu, a visitor from another world. His Giant Robot was Gort (Played by a guy who used to be the doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theatre), I'm a sci fi trivia expert by the way).

So Patricia Neal says to the giant robot "Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto", she says it a few times.

Those were the most famous words to come out of a film (sci fi that is), in 50 years.

So now you have the answer.

And you remember Orson Welles scaring people?? My mother was listening to the radio that day (in 1938)and said everybody came running out of their houses thinking the martians were invading earth. Gee, I wish I was there.

mel

If my husband was alive he would shoot me i'll explaine when I get back
from the Dr. Hugs Sue

I am a bit slow on the trigger today....ugh. I am not going to complain, as every one knows what days like this feel like.

Mel, I would have said those were the foreign words spoken by the 'alien'.....

I remember when the whole neighborhood would be empty, back in the early 60's I believe, when the movie was on TV. We would all be glued to our TV sets.

I think we got our first color set around 1966 maybe 1967.

I remember Friday night Sci-fi movies...(I didn't have much of a social life in middle school unlike the mini-teenagers of today....they are 12 year olds going on 17..and the 17 year olds are not all that bright either.)

I had to ask to use the one wall mounted phone in the house, and I had to use the word, 'please'. I was not allowed to spend much time yakking on it, nor giving a play by play of exactly what I was doing when....unlike people now. I heard some lady in the big box store giving some one her play by play on her cell phone. I couldn't help but think....get a life----no one really cares if you are 'checking out now--using my credit card now----pushing my cart to the door blah blah blah!!!!

I wonder when they will just start imbedding chips into folks and they just need to think of the person they want to call and it is all done automatically....that said, some of this technology will help many people who do not have full functions such as speech....on the other hand maybe we will just evolve to have a 'cell' phone in our head.

I am never at a loss for words, but really, I can not fathom what these people talk about---constantly.

Oh I was explaining to my daughter what a 'party line' was back in the early days. We still had them here in the late 70's. "Party" didn't mean the same thing to her as to me....LOL. She was flabbergasted that we had 'party lines or private lines' for our phones. Until the early 90's we could get away with only dialing the last four digits of our numbers provided we called in the same exchange...

ET phone home.

How things have changed.

You want to have a good laugh. You know how young people (and old people too) use text messaging?? I guess there's a good reason for this, but I haven't found one yet.

Well, over the summer I was on my friend's porch and two neighbors were sitting right in front of us. They both had something called a Sidekick and they were as quiet as mice.

I looked at them and I said 'what are you two up to?" and I was given a look as if to say "are you serious?" and I said: "no really, what are you doing? and they said "text messaging" and I said "why on earth would you do that when you are standing right in front of each other??"

I got that look again!!!

Puleeeezze.

Today, I went to T Mobile to look at pre-paid phones. Mine is an old piece of $20 junk and it doesn't flip so I keep using it like a walkie talkie and I want a phone that acts like a phone. So there are a bunch of phones right in front of me that SLIDE UP. I ask the man "how do you use this as a phone?" and again, I get this look. I said 'well, it obviously doesn't flip open like a phone, so what happens when it slides? does that make it into a phone". I get this look like "are you for real? and the guy says; ''well it's a phone, you use it like a phone". I quietly enunciate to him (he must have been all of 21 years old), I say: "pick this up and show me how you would make a phone call, where would you speak into and where would you listen from?" and the guy (like a light bulb went off in his head), looks at me and says "Oh, you want to know how it works as a phone?"

He pointed to a teeny tiny hole on the bottom and said 'here's the microphone, you just hold the other end to your ear, that's the receiver", "and you talk into the microphone". then he gets all excited, and says "But this is the neat part about this, and the whole thing slid up and turned from 3 inches into 6 inches and he is showing me a keyboard and saying "oh, you can go on the internet and do email and text, etc.etc."

I just looked at him and deadpanned: 'all I want is a flip phone, no text, no internet, no e-mail, no keyboard". He looked deflated.

I went home and picked up my landline and make a phone call.

But I do see the day when Melody will be buying a blue tooth and tapping my ear. I can barely wait for that day. lol

I hate to say this about bluetooth....but at times, I have crossed the street or gotten in a different check out lane thinking 'that person is talking to themselves'.

I know, eventually we will all have a bluetooth surgically implanted, including in our dog's ears....'my little putsy wootsy, did you pee on the paper?"

I lived in the era of eye contact and body language. With all it's implications. and last but not least.

You know they had some article in AARP or some mag for us over the half century crowd...it was that older people just do not want to waste time learning all this techno stuff.

Now I am pretty patient with stuff. I have built websites, bought online, mastered a few chatrooms including the very nasty political ones they had going in the last presidential election.....But when I get the 'Old Testament' to use a phone....I have not got that much time left on earth to waste learning all the nuances of that device. I know eventually I will but for now, I am waiting for planned obsolesence to save me money and time.

My fingers are getting too stiff to use those teeny tiny keys...I hit 3 numbers at once...ever try to renew your prescription by cell phone?

I am sitting looking at one of the original pacemakers ever made by GE. My dad had prototypes, and he had an xray tube (which I accidentally broke---my Lord, I thought we would both die--either from what was in it....or by the loss of the valuable object...he never forgave me, bless his soul).....and I have the pacemaker...it is safely in a frame.

It is a good thing that some folks are not intimidated by new technology.

Curiosity, learning and resilience are definitely in the recipe for longevity.

One of these days, I will pull out the thick books that came with my camera, my phone, and all the other stuff and find out what these things really do.

By the way..... I ended up with a 560$ cell phone bill----(a 289$ credit has been issued.) I was charged a 200$ cancellation of contract fee....for no reason as I didn't cancel...a reinstatement fee, upcharges as my plan was changed and one of my 5 lines ran over minutes by 98$ as my anytime minutes were changed, OH and taxes for all this reinstatement, new plan and other stuff I did not ask for. It took 3 phone calls and a letter to straighten it all out....technology is great, but did you know they charge you to store pictures on your phone? They charge for all kinds of stuff. Our only problem was my son broke his phone, bought a new one and we needed it activated....I guess the person at the phone store was not listening...a bit like your experience Mel...

They get us hooked on this stuff and then before you realize it, you are stuck with a huge bill. My real phone bill was only 200$ (only, sheesh). I do carry 5 lines, as I have lines going for 3 kids for one more year of our two year contract...then back down to two phones.

Plus we have a land line, DISH and DSL thru that land line...that bill is huge too. I can't cancel the land line even if computer goes wireless...I still need my satellite TV...

I may end up Amish if this keeps up....I keep turning the heat down to afford my techy stuff. Is there logic in this....help me Mr. Spock.