"When we have a colored President..."

[hunter]

I found this inscription in my great aunt's high school yearbook, class of 1924:



...When grapes grow as big as pumpkins
When Rockefeller hasn't got a cent
When bull-frogs start singing Bee's Knees
When we have a colored President
When Ivory Soap sinks in the water
and the crust of the earth falls thru
and when we don't have any more movies
Then I might forget about you...

This is my great aunt in her dad's car:



Don't think driving humongous cars in the years before a Great Depression is anything new...

What's different this time is that we've got Barack Obama as our President. Repairing and rebuilding our crumbling economy doesn't seem so impossible now.

[MineralMan]

1. Wonderful!

Reading inscriptions in high school yearbooks is wonderful. That one is priceless.

[Dis Pater]

2. Lindsay Lohan Praises “Our First Colored President"

http://yeeeah.com/2008/11/11/lindsay-lohan-praises-our-first-colored-president/

[hunter]

3. Lindsay Lohan wouldn't be out of place in a 1920's Hollywood speakeasy

With or without Samantha.

[Deja Q]

12. 'Speakeasy' - I thought that was a place that sold alchcolic beverages illegally and not a brothel?

[hunter]

16. In some speakeasies it's traditional to throw your underwear at the DJ.

But best be careful getting into a car afterwards with all those the paparazzi around.

If guys commonly wore skirts, they'd be underwear throwers too. Maybe they do somewhere.

[LisaL]

4. Hey. Little genetic engineering, and the grapes might grow as

big as pumpkins too.

[hunter]

5. And Bullfrogs singing Bee's Knees!

We know these days where the crust falls thru: It's called a subduction zone.

Hmmm. Maybe we could make a pumpkin smaller too, sort of the reverse of the giant pumpkin contests.

In 2001 Ivory Soap held a contest where you could win money if you found one of 1051 bars of soap that didn't float.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E4DD1231F936A15753C1A9679C8B63

[Bobbieo]

6. Is that car a Pierce Arrow? Looks like a 'bootleggers' car to me. My dad used to workrk

on them in a town on the New York/Canadian border.

[hunter]

11. I wouldn't put anything past them.

It's never been clear to me what my family did during prohibition. I can picture my grandfather driving that car for my great aunt's dad. He was rather a dashing and dangerous fellow. It wouldn't be surprising if a guy like that married one of the boss-man's daughters.

;)

[Quantess]

7. Cute.

[rebel with a cause]

8. there are country people here that still use the term....

'colored people'. I use to correct everyone that I heard say it whether I knew them or not. I gave up a few years ago (as long as it was just a mistake on their part and not racism), figuring that most of those who use this term will die off before I got around to correcting all of them.

[Hekate]

9. I think of it as a very old-fashioned term -- not bad, just out of date by several generations

I think you're right that the term will die a natural death.

Hekate

[Bucky]

15. But "person of color" isn't out of date. Language fashion is so random

I always think of that SNL skit where Sinbad played a Civil War soldier who said, "We prefer the more respectful term of 'boy'!"

[Hekate]

10. 1924 was when my mother was born. As for your great-aunt...

2 Sweet
2 Be
4 Gotten

:hi:

Hekate

[hunter]

13. Yours until toothpicks bloom!

(That's another in her yearbook)

:hi:

[Bucky]

14. I that car a hybrid?