Before I get back to the Joe/Bob Wars, I need to cover a couple of points.
I just had to mark THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SPAMS out. I do not ask you to put NO SPAM on top, in caps and as a separate paragraph, as an execrcise. I get HYPNOTIZED running through all thisspam, and I can and will miss what you say if you don’t put NOT SPAM at least once, preferably twice, in a separate paragraph at the top.
A second point relates to the comment below about Che Guevara stuff. Back inthe fifties when I was coming up we heard about the ’20s. In the 1920s the Charleston was the dance craze and college students wore racoon coats and carried banjos. But when I was coming up, THIRTY YEARS LATER, the idea tha anybody would be walking around ina racoon coat and playing the banjo and conidering himself Modern Youth would have been beyond imagination. The 1960s are now FORTY YEARS AGO.
I hear sixty year old men who still consider themselves hippies, Modern Youth! Let me repeat, very slowly, so they can read my lips:
That was FORTY YEARS ago, you old fart! Take off your racoon coat, put down your friggin’ banjo and get with the program!
#1 by joe rorke on 07/19/2006 - 4:58 pm
Not Spam. Now tell me that’s not funny! In two short paragraphs Ole Bob has me laughing off my seat. I think Ole Bob missed his calling. This is true standup comedy.
#2 by Elizabeth on 07/20/2006 - 8:10 pm
NOT SPAM
One thing those ’60s rejects do that really annoys me is to start talking
about JFK, his inauguration, and other early ’60s events — and to
assume that I remember them. (I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as
the first time my parents were very upset about something outside
our daily lives, but mostly because that was when we got our first
TV set. I was four years old.)
These people also like to beat up on Nixon and to discuss Watergate
in loving detail. Nixon was no saint, but he’s DEAD. Beating up on
him now has a lot in common with a schoolyard bully beating up
on some little kid who’s a couple of years younger and a foot
shorter than he — or she.