Now launched on the world wide web!....... GORDON DEAN!

He is our celebrity icon!  The man in the know...A.K.A. - Max Miller!  The codger who's no bodger, apart from those weiry ole limbs!

Welcome to Gordon's corner!  Here, he will tell us the truth of the celebrities of HIS day! How would he know, I hear you say?  Well.....because he has lived it, mixed within their company and spent a life-time celebrating it!

Here is Gordon's introduction...........

We Are Survivors

(For those born before 1940...or not?)

We were born before television, before penicillin, polio shots, frozen food, Xerox, contact lenses, videos and the pill.  We were before rada, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ballpoint pens, before dish-washers, tumble driers, electric balnkets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes...and before man walked the moon.

We got married first and then lived together (how quaint can you be?).  We thought 'fast food' was what you ate in Lent, a 'Big Mac' was an oversized raincoat and 'crumpet' we had for tea.  We existed before house husbands, computer dating and 'sheltered accommodation' was where you waited for a bus.

We were before day care centres, group homes and disposable nappies.  We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, artificial hearts, word processors, or young men wearing earings.  For us 'time sharing' meant togetherness, a 'chip' was a piece of wood or friend potatoe, 'hardware' meant nuts and blts and 'software' wasn't a word.

Before 1940 'Made in Japan' meant junk, the term 'making out' referred to how you did in your exams, 'stud' was something that fastened a collor to a shirt and 'going all the way' meant staying on a double-decker bus to the terminus.  In our day, cigarette smoking was 'fashionable', 'grass' was mown, 'coke' was kept in the coalhouse, a 'joint' was a piece of meat you ate on Sundays and 'pot' was something you cooked in. 'Rock music' was a fond mother's lullaby, 'Eldorado' was an ice-cream, a 'gay person' was the life and soul of the party, while 'adis' just meant beauty treatment of help for someone in trouble.

We who were born before 1940 must be a hardy bunch when you think of the way in which the world has changed and adjustments we have had to make.  No wonder there is a generation grap today...but by the grace of God ...we have survived!

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