i'm fairly certain I have ancestors that were born later than that

10/7/2008 10:07:50 AM

Totino's Pizzas cost like $1.80

10/7/2008 10:07:55 AM

your mom costs like $1.75

[Edited on October 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM. Reason : lol]

10/7/2008 10:08:17 AM

My mammy was born in ought-8 and grandpappy was born in ought-6.

10/7/2008 10:09:06 AM

your what?

seriously though... racist

[Edited on October 7, 2008 at 10:09 AM. Reason : .]

10/7/2008 10:09:28 AM

That was this year and two years ago. They're time travelers.

10/7/2008 10:10:58 AM

10/7/2008 10:12:40 AM

Quote :

"what kind of bullshit is this? Every relative I have in NC that was alive during the great depression said it was just a bunch of bullshit Yankees suffered through. Most people in NC never had to adjust anything different about the way they lived because they got everything from local farmers and loggers."

woah, sorry, didn't realize it was all roses down in the Carolinas.

it wasn't bullshit to us Yankees, I can assure you that. or to the folks on the Great Plains who had to deal with the Depression and the Dust Bowl.

10/7/2008 10:16:08 AM

I dunno, this book always made it seem like a cakewalk to me.

10/7/2008 10:18:09 AM

My grandfather put three brothers through college during the depression by selling narrow-gauge locomotives to banana plantations in South America. Considering he was born in 1901, he was at prime wage-earning age when the Depression hit. The man was thrifty as hell till the day he died.

10/7/2008 10:18:14 AM

My grandmother, when asked what life was like during the Great Depression, always said "We didn't know there was one. Nobody here had any money, we lived off the land and off the fish we caught."

10/7/2008 10:23:01 AM

i cant really complain about finances right now...

i might at some point.


but i just got a raise...........soooo

10/7/2008 10:23:35 AM

^^i think that was pretty much the situation my grandaddy was in.


somebody told us wall street fell
but we were so poor that we couldn't tell

10/7/2008 10:30:02 AM

gas in my hometown right now is around $3.40/gallon

it's still $3.90/gallon here.

my hometown is just 2.5 hours east.

10/7/2008 10:30:58 AM

most of us up North weren't that rich to begin with.

10/7/2008 10:32:31 AM

one station has it for 3.29 here in asheboro.. cash only

10/7/2008 10:35:38 AM

Was there anybody who wasn't rich to begin with that was actually adversely affected by the (potentially first) Great Depression?

10/7/2008 10:36:07 AM

MY FAMILY WAS POORER THAN YOUR FAMILY DURING A TIME PERIOD NONE OF US LIVED IN.

10/7/2008 10:36:28 AM

i'll start worrying if gadzooks goes out of business

10/7/2008 10:40:59 AM

So did anybody in here get really screwed this year in terms of stocks, mutual funds, bank failures, Wachovia's deal, etc.?

10/7/2008 2:48:15 PM

^nope

10/7/2008 3:14:11 PM

Neither did I.

10/7/2008 3:15:40 PM

it's coming

2010 is gonna but balls out nutty

10/7/2008 3:20:28 PM

I actually had to sell my computers for quick cash. I've resorted to yelling 1's and 0's through a tin can attached to a string tied around a time warner cable wire

10/7/2008 3:22:10 PM

My grandmother's family was rich as heck before the Depression, then they lost basically all of it.

10/7/2008 3:27:05 PM

10/7/2008 3:27:21 PM

^ hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

10/7/2008 3:28:35 PM

This debate does not make me feel better about the future of our country.

10/7/2008 10:08:07 PM

Quote :

"I actually had to sell my computers for quick cash. I've resorted to yelling 1's and 0's through a tin can attached to a string tied around a time warner cable wire "

Whoa that's hardcore right there

10/8/2008 10:06:31 AM

Quote :

"my plan is to live off of hostess and little debbie products for a few years, at least until i start my six-figure job "

and you're six figure weight too!

10/8/2008 10:09:41 AM

Quote :

"and you're six figure weight too!"

PLEASE TELL ME THAT WAS A JOKE Snewf... PLEASE...

YOU OF ALL PEOPLE TYPING "YOU'RE" INSTEAD OF "YOUR."

10/8/2008 10:15:55 AM

My dad's still unemployed, has been for six months. I'm not sure how he's paying his mortgage.

10/9/2008 7:17:31 PM

Maybe he's not

10/9/2008 10:20:46 PM

Guess this thread is useless now.

10/13/2008 11:12:29 PM

I wouldn't say that just, yet.

10/13/2008 11:18:10 PM

yeah, your dad probably isnt paying it....you got room for him to move in?

10/13/2008 11:24:23 PM

lolol, no

10/13/2008 11:25:05 PM

just think, all those years he provided you shelter, time to pay up!

10/13/2008 11:26:15 PM

So, three years. Unless we go by Bible ROI, then 30 years.

10/13/2008 11:30:34 PM

Anybody?

11/5/2008 11:36:52 PM

tostinos pizzas are 4 for $5 fool

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

11/5/2008 11:37:31 PM