What A Difference A Century Makes!

Workplace – The "40 - 40" Rule

19^th Century – Do I plow the south 40 or the north 40? 

20^th Century – Work 40 hours a week in a factory for 40 years 

21^st Century – Invent a SmartPhone App & earn $40 billion by age 40

Relationships – “Dating Miss Daisy” 

19^th Century – Took Daisy to a barn dance, courted and wooed her, then asked her father for her hand in marriage. 

20^th Century – Took Daisy to live in a hippie commune, renamed her Sunflower. 

21^st Century – Had Facebook affair with someone he thought was named Daisy, got busted in F.B.I. kiddie-porn sting operation, instead. Sentenced to 20 years.

Justice – “Here Come De Judge” 

19^th Century – Hanging judges in the “Wild West” holding “Neck Tie Parties”. 

20^th Century – Chief Justice Earl Warren – “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." 

21^st Century – Jiving, jawing and jabbering judges like Judge Judy, Joe Brown, and Greg Mathislook like refugees from a "Three Stooges Movie."

Presidential Statesmanship – “Say What?” 

19^th Century – Honest Abe Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. “Four score and seven years ago...” 

20^th Century – Franklin Roosevelt had his Fireside Chats. – “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” 

21^st Century – George W. Bush and his Garbled Grammar – “The noo-cue-ler threatitudinal reductification proves Americans will not be intimidified by terrorosity.”

Exercise – “Dance Fever” 

19^th Century – Dancing upon “request” when a Western gunslinger shoots at the feet of a “dancing victim.” 

20^th Century – Dancing fads like “The Twist” and “The Macarena.” 

21^st Century – CEOs Dancing around the truth – Ken Lay of Enron, Martha Stewart, Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom, the Washington Mutual pirates.

Card Games-“I’ll Hold ’Em, You Fold ‘Em” 

19^th Century – Poker on the riverboat with the gunslingers. 

20^th Century – Poker on Monday nights with the guys. 

21^st Century – Poker on every ^%$*@#$* TV channel, with has-been celebrities and internet wannabes.