Kids do it to you
I was trying to explain to my kids that we are a family with very long generations. My grandad was born in 1844 (other people's grandads were too young for WWII). And I was telling them that my Dad was born before aeroplanes, before broadcast radio, before TV (before John Logie Baird's TV). They weren't interested. So I said "I was born before computers". Their eyes went all round and their mouths dropped open "YOU WERE BORN BEFORE COMPUTERS??!!!??". That got to me, because I was 22 when mainframe computers really started selling in large numbers, about 5 years before the microchip was invented at Fairchild.
(GreyWolf lives outside LHC blast radius, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 18:01, 4 replies)

this is fantastic :)
A grandad born in 1844! Superb. He must have had some stories...
( revmoola was thinking about a software problem, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 18:31, closed)

Does he still
let you sit on his knee?
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 19:03, closed)

He died in 1928
...seventeen years before I was born...
(GreyWolf lives outside LHC blast radius, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 12:33, closed)

I'm from a family of long generations, too...
... on the one side, my grandparents, being Jews, fled Germany around 1930. Left quite a lot of judengeld behind them, too - or so I'm told.

On the other side, my granddad crewed a Short Sunderland that was bombing Gerries. So I guess that's payback.
(EvilTerran rearranged his letters on, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 14:02, closed)