It’s already reached the point for most of today’s generation where old terms now mean new things to them. When I was young if you said you “swiped a card”, I would think you had stolen somebody’s Visa. 
Kids nowadays have a whole different idea of what that means.
This new generation has never had a chance to twist the phone cord around their fingers or wrist when they were having a heavy phone conversation with a friend. They only know Fergie as a Black Eyed Pea and not as a princess. To them, Ice Cube and Eddie Murphy are two nice guys who make good, wholesome family movies and Master P is this dude from Dancing With The Stars (not that these kids would be caught dead watching that show. Hee-hee).
Even today, I was telling a co-worker that Dick Clark had passed away. She gave no facial signs at all and merely said, “Oh, how sad”. After a beat, I said “You knew who Dick Clark was, don’t you?”
She replied, “He was an actor, right?”
I’m a dinosaur, I tell ya! No wonder Hank is thinking of something totally different when asked about an address. 
I'd have thought it'd be gettysburg@lincolnblog,com
That's Abe's corporate email. The one in the strip is the one uses with his "peeps".
Hahaha…
Four score and 140 characters ago…
Can't you just imagine Lincoln's Twitter feed?
"Freed the slaves today. Gonna catch a flick now. #fordtheater"
ROFL! Neither one of you are right!
I love it.
Red.
You know we keep it silly around here, Red. B)
1. How many of your readers will email that address?
2. What a great rendition you did of Abe. So life like
Yeah. He cheated on that one. ;`)
Jande, it's not cheating if it's on Google. xD
So you say. If it ain't drawn by George Ford, its cheating! ;`)
I consider it a reference piece.
1. I'm gonna try and see if it bounces back undeliverable.
2. Google Images is my best friend.
THAT WAS FRIGGIN' HILARIOUS! Bravo, George!
…and bravo, Abe!
I don't know why I kept channeling Abe. He must be on my subconscious for some inane reason.
I grew up in the 70's/early 80's so I know how you feel George! Great comic, Hank's awesome
It's funny to hear old songs where they're talking to the operator and she's connecting them to somebody else. Are there such things as live operators anymore? I don't know about you but it seems that time is speeding up, and that gap is getting wider every millisecond! Hank sums it quite nicely.
I believe live operators have gone the way of the gas station attendants. They're all extinct now.
Hmm I think Lincoln might have a more old school .aol address.
Well, he's still using dial-up (or is it wind-up?).
This is a good one for us really old pholks to reminisce about the good "really old" days.
When I was growing up there were no refrigerators or TVs, and the phone had a hand crank and you cranked it to get the operator and tell her the three-digit telephone number of the party you were calling and when they answered would connect your party line to their party line. Then she would ring them and anyone on her party line would hear the two rings or four rings and would all pick up their phones and listen in on the conversation. Sometimes you could have a 10-way conference call with the nosy neighbours.
We did have an ice-box into the top of which a 2-foot cube of ice was loaded every week or so.The bottom half of it held the meat, eggs, and butter, etc.
We got our first tiny black and white TV when I was 6 or 7 and there were only three channels which only had anything happening on them from about 6 am to 12 pm when they went off the air again.
Heh. I could go on and on, just like my granny used to about HER good old days! :`D
That was great, Jande! I guess I'm just tripping out because I never imagined that I would be the one regaling days of yore when times were really hard. I would roll my eyes at my parents when they would complain about how easy my generation had it next to theirs. I guess the fun is gonna come when my kids get grown and their children are gonna have it even easier. How, I cannot even imagine, but they will.
We had a discussion like this tonight at our house (eOe meeting) and I replied to that question: A now 22-year-old would when she was my age hear from her grandchildren "Comeon Granma! It's only 6-dimensional space! How hard can THAT be? (Rolls eyes)" The eye-rolling never goes out of style. :`D
I think once you reach a certain age, you perfect an amazing eye-roll.
Thanks, Tim! Those days were a fun, exciting time to grow up (in my opinion, at least).
The days before helmets and elbow pads.
Red.
I'm glad that I never had to ride my bike with a bunch of "gladiator" gear on. It was just me, my skills, and infinite miles of pavement to get scraped on.
I suppose he has his resume on Lincolned, too?
Hahaha! That was a good one, Nate. I bet he does.
Sounds right.
I'm tempted to check it out for myself. See if he emails me back.
I especially love the graphic at the beginning! That gave me a pretty good laugh.
Thanks, Jerry! I thought it was perfect as soon as I saw it.
Even I could memorize that version!
All I remember is something about four Skore bars and some years. I should have stayed awake in history class instead of doodling cartoons.
Just think if he had google he might have known that the critcs only gave that play 1.5 stars.
Lincoln should have waited until it came out on NetFlix. He could have been alive today. Well, er…probably not, but you know what I mean.
I try to follow my young daughter's conversations and I just can't keep up with the vocabulary! And they say the new math is tough…
I could follow the vocabulary. It's the SPEED with which they speak it that flummoxes me. ;`)
My stepdaughter and her friends live to create new slang in order to keep us old-folks off track. But, then again, my friends and I did the same thing. We had an entire brand new lingo at our disposal. We laugh about it nowadays.
Warren, I tried to help my daughter with her Math homework one evening. I kept getting the right answer, but she said I had to perform the work in some crazy, new-fangled way that I couldn't even begin to understand. o.0
Sounds like a spammer's email
Imagine Abe getting spammed for Swedish Penis Pumps and African Princess schemes.
I wonder if that email address would actually get through to anyone???
Let's try it and see if we get a reply.