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To: OLDCU

I guess the point I’m trying to make is that sometimes on FR we sound like a bunch of sour old fogeys who see nothing positive in the present times.

And why would younger folks want to listen to us if we do?


12 posted on 06/24/2016 10:50:20 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Catmom

“sometimes on FR we sound like a bunch of sour old fogeys”

Point well taken, I suppose, but speak for yourself. I’m a cranky old curmudgeon.
I saw oldsters in the `70s and `80s try to curry favor with the younger generation by using young peoples’ patois/vernacular, listening to our music and wearing our fashions.
There was nothing as ridiculous (thought my class, judging from the snickering) as my 60+ year old political science professor showing up the first day in a Mao jacket, hair fashionably long and asking us if we thought a particular rock group was `far-out’.

mu·sic n.
1. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

My regular Army Dad liked John Phillip Sousa and country-western. They were music, but not my cup of tea at the time.
I would have been alarmed if had wanted to borrow my music, but when he spoke and I listened.
Why? R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what that means to me, yeah, sock it to me sock it to me ....


13 posted on 06/24/2016 11:42:06 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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