I should have lied about knowing Steve McQueen

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[papercorn2000]

Wasn't it you that was first onto the beach on D-Day?

 

[mondobongo]

Could of been worse could have asked you if you knew Archduke Ferdinand.

 

[papercorn2000]

What did you do to the Great Whore Dad?

(I have waited sooo long for a suitable feed line for that one!)

 

[Kovu]

Could of been worse could have asked you if you knew Archduke Ferdinand.

My sister asked my dad that ......

 

[Maz]

I once upset an old yank who was telling me about his time in the army.
I said "Union or Confederate?"
He was not amused.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Could of been worse could have asked you if you knew Archduke Ferdinand.

and embarrassed yourself by saying "yes, and i quite like snow petrol too"

 

[4F]

My daughter asked me if I was born in the middle ages

 

[Maz]

My daughter asked me if I was born in the middle ages

Maybe cos you're middle-aged?

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

It's hard when they ask you what 'the olden days' were like.

 

[mr_hippo]

I think the best question any of mine asked was "In the olden days, was everything in black and white?" We were watching an old black and white film and she was not just talking about TV!

 

[summerdays]

My son asked me if I had been sad when Queen Victoria died (after watching a program on TV). I pointed out I hadn't even been born when the current Queen came to the throne. But it made me feel old - I'm sure I remember doing the same sort of things to my parents.

 

[Hilldodger]

Queen Victoria is dead?!

When did that happen, then.

 

[papercorn2000]

Until his funeral, I had no idea that my boring dad had escaped from a German prisoner of war camp to England, or that he'd been a commando in Normandy prior to the invasion there. He told us he'd just been doing his job, just like everyone else. I always thought that was pretty cool.

Superb!
When I was a window cleaner, we had an old boy as a customer. One day we were having lunch on a bench outside his house and he comes out to offer us some tea. We got talking and it turns out that he was on HMS Rodney during the Battle of the Atlantic and the hunt for the Bismark. He had loads of hair-raising stories and some great photos.

Likewise a very old music teacher I had when I started secondary had fought in the Battle of Britain.

I even remember being out hillwalking in Perthshire (whilst in my early teens) and meeting a very old boy (he was in his 90's then) who had fought in WW1!

 

[Scoosh]

In Edinburgh we have the Museum of Childhood, where nowadays
one goes in and says things like "Oh, I used to have one of those when I was wee", then quickly lowers ones voice to a whisper

And in primary schools they study the 60's as part of History ....



(yeah, yeah - the 1960's before anyone gets too smart