Retrospective Gifts

Gramophone dreams of mp3 player.

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

"I can remember when a dollar was worth $47.32."

Pop Culture for Teens

'Look at it another way. Happiness can't buy you money!'

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

"1971... 2015..."

"I worry about you, Dinkins. . . you seem to be losing the big picture."

'I only make predictions in retrospect.'

1998: A Look Back

"Did you ever have that baby you wanted so much?"

Your own tedious thoughts next 200 miles

Today's problems should have been solved in the 1950s, but in the '50s we were solving the problems of the '20s, and in the 20's we were solving the problems of the 1890's.

Food Pyramid, 1960

"Prospecting ain't what it used to be."

"Leon rents out his time machine to people who have to go back and 'un-day' stuff that's now considered offensive."

4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 I can't see the fours for the threes. F E

Denial Exit Now: Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance Next 4 Exits.

"George is a deep thinker, but his thoughts rarely come to the surface."

"If anyone asks, I'll be in my head."

'My body was a temple, now it's the Acropolis.'

'I'll tell you one thing - if I knew I'd live this long I'd have taken better care of myself.'

"I am retired now, but I was an accountant for 35 years 8 months 16 days 14 hours 26 minutes and 34 seconds."

Railroad Crossing. It's the last official weekend of the summer, Ernie. For me, summer has always been like a passing train. When I was a kid, both trains and summer went by at a leisurely pace. Ding! Ding! Ding! Now that I'm much older, summer is like a modern bullet train ... it's just a blur that seems to be gone in an instant!

Fred gets a new perspective.

Glass Explorters: Half Full and Half Empty.

'Oh, I don't have an appointment to see the doctor. I'm doing a report on magazine trends in the 1970's.'

In the Year 2525

His urn is half-full. The eternal optimist.

Solo

The way dogs see it

'Have you noticed how our days are getting shorter.'

'Still musn't grumble it could be worse!'

Institute for Advanced Hindsight - Research into what should have been.