Baby boomers - Page 2

steeljack · 07-07-2007, 00:24

I'm just surprised that so few of the children born in 1945/46 wern't given the name "Burtonwood "

(from what my late Mother used to say it seems it was a very popular place for young ladies from the north-west who liked to fraternize with the US troops stationed in the UK prior to the D-Day invasion )

shillelagh · 07-07-2007, 01:20

My dad born in 1918, mum born in 1926 - i was born in 1967 - so what does that make me?

And before you say it - yes i probably was the mistake!!!!

garinda · 07-07-2007, 08:32

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Originally Posted by steeljack

I'm just surprised that so few of the children born in 1945/46 wern't given the name "Burtonwood "

(from what my late Mother used to say it seems it was a very popular place for young ladies from the north-west who liked to fraternize with the US troops stationed in the UK prior to the D-Day invasion )

...and for the lucky few they got to go and be married ladies in America after the war and live in Hollywood mansions, or do I mean shacks in infested swampland?

Gayle · 07-07-2007, 09:54

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Originally Posted by garinda

Good news for you Gayle, according to this you're in Generation X with me.

Generations: Dealing with Boomers, Gen-X, and Beyond

Well, looks like there isn't a definitive period - see this one

What happened the year you were born?

Lilly · 07-07-2007, 09:59

I always thought that baby boomers were babies born soon after the war ended when the men had come back home.The war ended in 1945 so that would make a baby boomer born in 1946.How do they work out that someone born in 1964 can be a baby boomer?That's 9 years after the war finished.

cashman · 07-07-2007, 10:06

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Originally Posted by Lilly

I always thought that baby boomers were babies born soon after the war ended when the men had come back home.The war ended in 1945 so that would make a baby boomer born in 1946.How do they work out that someone born in 1964 can be a baby boomer?That's 9 years after the war finished.

see maths wasnt yer best subject Lilly.

Lilly · 07-07-2007, 10:15

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Originally Posted by cashman

see maths wasnt yer best subject Lilly.

Lol,you're right actually,it wasn't,but that mistake is particularly bad! I'm shaming here

.On a public forum too! Anyway,1964 is a long time after the war finished,19 years? Is that right?

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Splinter · 07-07-2007, 10:49

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Baby Boomers 1943 - 1960 (43 - 60) Idealists

I was born in 1953

mallard · 07-07-2007, 11:41

Well i must of been one of the baby boomers i was born in the 60s

yerself · 07-07-2007, 11:54

Was Brian Blessed a baby-boomer?

garinda · 07-07-2007, 16:43

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Originally Posted by yerself

Was Brian Blessed a baby-boomer?

Booming yes, but having been born in 1937, can't claim to be a true baby boomer, not matter how loud he booms about it.

West Ender · 07-07-2007, 17:28

I was born in 1943 so I was a war baby, pre-boom. My eldest child was born in 1964 and I can't equate her with being a baby boomer. I thought they were 1946 to 1956.