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From: "James Stone" <>
Subject: Re: OLD words
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:59:16 -0700


I don't mean ta scare ya.

I saw "Saving Private Ryan" last summer. Being single, I went by
myself. Just so happened that all the seats in the theater were full
except one next to this thirty-someting woman. So I sat there. In
the course of making small talk, I asked "Do you know anyone who was
in WWII?" I just about let the seat fold me up cuz she answered "NO!"
I said, "My dad was in WWII." She asked (I kid you not), "did you get
in for free?"
honest
James

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard L Turner <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: OLD words

>Hello, Bob and all!
>
>Goodness gracious! Didn't get "brody" or "quisling"? How young were
these
>kids? I'm not THAT old (born 1960), and I recognized Mike Brody's and
>Vidkun Quisling's names. It's probably just a case of cultural
>illiteracy, like not knowing that a striped pole means Barber and
that a
>wooden Indian with a handful of cigars means Tobacconist. How many of
us,
>I wonder, know that a bush tied to a pole means Wine Shop?
>
>I got into an argument with a 20 year old just last year (stupid of
me,
>perhaps... like teaching Heinlein's pig to sing) who didn't know who
Mao
>Tse Tung was. I dread to think that the names and histories of other
>butchers of humanity like Stalin and Hitler would be unknown to him
as
>well! That's not a fault in his generation, surely, but a flaw in a
>culture that values fads and consumerism more than history and
tradition.
>Or maybe he was just green. :)
>
>Yours Aye,
>
>+Fr Andreas Richard Turner.
>
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