We were always welcome to criticize them and anything else we want to. This is America after all.
I you were welcome? To criticize tre Marx Brithers? On a milestone announcement?
Don’t wonder if you’re not popular
“We were always welcome to criticize them and anything else we want to. This is America after all.”
When the giant gang of us were little, we were reminded to say ‘I don’t care for it’, if absolutely forced, that is, asked, if we like something that others might enjoy.
We were taught that “it’s a free country, I can say whatever I want” is a mob response to any objection to being polite. The right to free speech keeps us out of most legal trouble, but to be used as an excuse to speak one’s mind rudely, taking away others’ enjoyment, will cause others to distance us socially.
This lesson was reinforced as we found it to be true
Now with social media, anonymity somewhat prevents this check on polite behavior, and to add to the insult, people mob up, gang up.
If a century old film is popular, one would be most careful to not point out the things about it, that they don’t care for, or they’ll be sure to be throwing a wet blanket on the fun.
20 years ago, my grandmother called me from the fab nyc apartment she’d lived in for decades to tell me they were playing the Marx Brothers (a marathon) on
Channel 5.
When we were young adults we watched the Marx bros
We were looking through the boxed set to find A Day at the Races just this past Christmas break
If we hear a loud noise someone will say, ‘you’ve got cockroaches… and the largest one’s got asthma’ and that the Gen Zers
We were looking for a flashlight, I said ‘I gotta have-a-de flush. The kids helped me look, saying ‘da flush, da flisk’
The Marxie’s as they’re known around here are part of the family. But they’re Americana.