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| From | "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca> |
| Subject | Re: Punky pop ideas for a teenager with awakening ears |
| Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:21:10 -0500 |
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First of all, I never said things were cooler back in the day, (my God, my
generation spit out just as much crap as this one...), and second of all,
kids find the music they like without any help from ANY other generation. My
older cousins tried to inflict their musical taste on me when I was a
kid...had they succeeded, I'd be listening to Celine, and pining away for
Pinky Lee and Shelley Fabres.
The Talented Mr. Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
> At 12:40 AM 11/25/2003 -0800, Greg Cagle wrote:
> >I kept looking for a few 8^)s here. Then it occurred to me that you
> >may actually TRYING to be an asshole. If so, good job.
>
> I considered using an emoticon or two, but:
>
> 1. It seemed to me that the tongue-in-cheekness of said post was
> self-evident, which apparently wasn't actually the case, and
>
> 2. I couldn't figure out the proper arrangement of typographical symbols
> to concisely express the idea of "Oh for godsakes, Old Mr. Wilson's going
> on again about how much cooler everything was back in his day and how
> everything that's come down the pike since is just a pale imitation of
that
> golden halcyon era." I thought about going with &(@&$#)$*@>@~~~~~~*#^%,
> but I realized that if you look at that backwards in a mirror, it
> translates into the ancient Luwian for "So the butler stuck his dick in
the
> mashed potatoes," and I didn't want to spoil the punchline of that joke
for
> any scholars of extinct Anatolian languages who might be lurking about.
>
> S
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