I guess for many folks, that would be people who lived up through 1920....?
2007-12-17 14:06:21 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Thumbing through the sale papers I came across an electric martini shaker. Even I find that pretty freakin' astounding...and proves that the world is rapidly filling with indolent dolts.
2007-12-17 15:07:54 · answer #1 · answered by §hizz. 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well...seeing as my great grandmother is still alive (born in '11), as well as at least three of her siblings, I would think that most things would probably not astound her all that much. She seems to take things in stride pretty well. She has a cell phone, doesnt need the internet, and probably has a few other new technology items as one of her sons is pretty well off with money. But I do know that she is still impressed by "that colored man's dancing" as she mentioned last time i saw her (she meant Michael Jackson). lol.
2007-12-18 08:12:57 · answer #2 · answered by Toledo Engineer 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Mine would be astounded by televisions, cell phones, laptops, DSL.... Gosh, they'd be blown away, if they were alive. My DAD is just getting over all this technology. :D
Did they have electric refrigerators in the 1860s? Coz I'm thinking no. They might be amazed by little things like that too. Electric central heating and air...atm machines.
2007-12-17 22:21:15 · answer #3 · answered by dumbuglyweirdo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Internet
2007-12-17 22:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Spaceships and man walking on the moon astounded all of us 40 years ago. Not much that's that spectacular since then but I think Grandma have been fascinated by my fancy new robotic vacuum that roves around the house cleaning the floors, and Grandpa would just die for that awesome Kegorator sittin' by my computer!
2007-12-17 22:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Helen the Hellion 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Lethal Injection.
My great grandfather-maternal side, lived until 1926 and received a pension from the Civil War.
2007-12-18 12:47:45 · answer #6 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmm..had to think about this one for a bit. I think if it was my great-grandparents, it would probably be the advent of air travel. I can only imagine how they would have felt at the Concorde, let alone the flight to the moon.
My Dad was born in 1922 so his grandparents were around back then..I believe.
2007-12-17 22:14:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the GPS things would be pretty astounding and has cut down on many a marital "discussion" of going and just ASKING directions.
2007-12-18 00:14:24 · answer #8 · answered by icunurse85 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably everything, beings that my great grand parents were born during and shortly after the civil war (1850's-1870's). Infact I think the last one passed away in the early sixties or late fifties.
2007-12-17 23:15:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
WOW! Great Grand parents? HMM Mine would be well into their 100's! I would have to say flight to the moon (walking on it), microwaves, electric washing machines (my mom got her arm caught in an old wringer type in the 1930's) so that would probably be the most exciting for them. I think just about everything would be so weird for them to see. I think just since my Grandmother died in 1987 things have changed alot where she would be awestruck...
2007-12-17 22:14:13 · answer #10 · answered by 2kids mom 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋