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| From | "Jim Poatway" <poatway@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Not that there's anything wrong with being 60... |
| Date | Tue, 05 Aug 2003 20:19:53 +0000 |
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Welcome to the 21st century. Paraphrasing the late Ian Dury...
Sexagenarians & prescription medications & rock 'n roll.
>Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:16:02 -0400
>From: "Harris, Will" <wharris1@bcharrispub.com>
>To: "Audities (E-mail)" <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Not that there's anything wrong with being 60...
>Message-ID: <C9ED0F8208946344829EBA2E1C7C85E2B4169C@OXFORD>
>
>...but, man, does the media really need to have so much fun with it? Dig
>the teaser line for a current story on the Stones:
>
>"British rock legends the Rolling Stones postponed a concert scheduled for
>Tuesday in the Spanish coastal resort of Benidorm as sexagenarian frontman
>Mick Jagger succumbed to laryngitis, town officials said."
>
>"Sexagenarian"? I mean, come on...that's just another way of sneering the
>word "geezer"; otherwise, they wouldn't go out of their way to use a word
>that isn't exactly one that finds its way into the paper on a regular
>basis.
>
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