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Zingerific

Zingerific

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This last weekend I tried to avoid the constant rehashing of 9-11, but I wasn't altogether successful. I heard numerous people lamenting the fact that "our children aren't growing up innocent anymore."

Really? Almost everyone who said such things grew up during the cold war, and I'd imagine that quite a few of them had nightmares of nuclear annihilation, as I did. Even though I grew up at the tail end of the cold war, I was quite a bit worried about it.

I guess this is more of a rant than anything else, but the short memories of people, especially with regard to politics, drives me crazy.
 
Zingerific said:
This last weekend I tried to avoid the constant rehashing of 9-11, but I wasn't altogether successful. I heard numerous people lamenting the fact that "our children aren't growing up innocent anymore."
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Good rant! Now it's my turn. :grrr:

The children born after Pearl Harbor didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after the McCarthy era didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after the (John) Kennedy Assassination didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after the Martin Luther King Assassination didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after the (Robert) Kennedy Assassination didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after the Viet Nam War didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after Watergate didn't grow up innocent.
The children born after Granada didn't grow up innocent. :lol:
The children born after the Clinton impeachment didn't grow up innocent. Oy vey!

What was the topic again? :confused:
 
Great list, chrisrobin. Here's another of mine; it's not exactly political, but it leans in that direction.

I hate it when people complain about how "Christmas has gotten so commercial!" As if they haven't heard exactly the same thing for every Christmas season of their entire lives. My Dad remembers the same complaint going back to at least the late 1940s. Not to mention it's the theme of the O. Henry story The Gift of the Magi, which dates from 1906!

So please stop complaining about the commercialization of Christmas. It's not new --it's not even an interesting critique anymore -- and it makes you look a little slow-on-the-uptake.
 
Zingerific said:
Great list, chrisrobin. Here's another of mine; it's not exactly political, but it leans in that direction.

I hate it when people complain about how "Christmas has gotten so commercial!" As if they haven't heard exactly the same thing for every Christmas season of their entire lives. My Dad remembers the same complaint going back to at least the late 1940s. Not to mention it's the theme of the O. Henry story The Gift of the Magi, which dates from 1906!

So please stop complaining about the commercialization of Christmas. It's not new --it's not even an interesting critique anymore -- and it makes you look a little slow-on-the-uptake.
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Anybody ever heard this skit? It pretty much sums it up: ;)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37bd7GjmitY[/ame]
 
I was in the generation that school taught you to hide under your desk when the ABomb hits.
I think they called it duck and cover. Not sure about that as my school didn't teach that. But being 20 miles out of San Antonio maybe they think the ABomb wouldn't reach that far.????


So I guess I grew up ok!
 
White Eagle said:
I was in the generation that school taught you to hide under your desk when the ABomb hits.
I think they called it duck and cover. Not sure about that as my school didn't teach that. But being 20 miles out of San Antonio maybe they think the ABomb wouldn't reach that far.????


So I guess I grew up ok!
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We had duck and cover atomic bomb drills in elementary school in the mid-1960s. I remember that they were for atomic bombs because the tornado drills had us ducking and covering in the hall rather than under the desk. (The "cover" was holding an open textbook over your head.) :eek:
 
Nobody grows up innocent. We just collectively choose to remember the past fondly and reject change out of hand. It gets worse as you get older.

I prefer the mantra "adapt or die".

Of course a good attitude always helps so with that thought this post made me think of one song instantly... an old favorite of mine with one really shit hot Chorus...

"the good times weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems".



Keep the Faith, Kid.....
 
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