OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER - (breathtaking...fabulous piece by an old timer; American history ALERT!)

PVBR.COM ^ | JUNE 30, 2005 | PHIL BRENNAN

[Kenton]

Cripes, I'm so old I can't remember what I had for lunch.

[nothingnew]

Happy 1 year (tomarrow) On FR!

SLERT ALERT

FMCDH(BITS)

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie bump

[reagan_fanatic]

Your Slerts are always entertaining, Charlite!

[cll]

I thought there was a rule where any time Ms. Coulter is mentioned a picture of her must be posted.

[rwa265]

"No zot for you! Slert may become a new word in the FR lexicon, though! ;)"

That would be hugh. Don't be stuned, I'm series. <;)

[nina0113]

Great read, but this part's not quite accurate:

never, thank God, that barbaric innovation of our times - Ms. - in those days ms. meant "manuscript"

My father, who was born in 1931, said his 6th-grade math teacher, in McMinnville Tennessee, insisted on that. I suggested that perhaps it was just the Southern way of pronouncing Mrs. (still very common - Miz Smith, for example) and he said that she had spelled it Ms.

The South's also kept the charming (to me, anyway) pre-nom for a married woman of Miss plus her first name - my name to the neighborhood children is "Miss Nina."

[Darksheare]

Excellent!

[AppyPappy]

I'm old enough to remember studying inflation in Accounting class in college.
I'm old enough to remember the Misery Index.
I'm old enough to remember Bert Lance and Hamilton Jordan
I'm old enough to remember when Michael Jackson was black

[what's up]

We were respectful to our parents, even when we reached the age when we were convinced that they were hopelessly behind the times and had no idea of what it was all about, and of course well before the age when we realized that they really did know what they were talking about, and far more, after all.

Well, this I'm not so sure about. A lot of old-timers are fierce devotees of FDR's New Deal and socialism that got the country in a complete mess.

Other than that, this is a great piece.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

SLERTS to ya, Char! :)

[Bahbah]

Slert may become a new word in the FR lexicon, though

I'll know you made it big when I hear my very first "This is a Fox Newslert".

[johnny7]

Im 25 years younger than Mr. Brennan... and things were pretty much the same in my youth.

After 1965, America began its downward spiral.

[w_over_w]

Thanks! My first Slert Alert . . . where have I been? No wait . . . where have YOU been? ;^)

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Mr. Brennan is made of much tougher stuff than I am.

I quail when I think of the decay of society in my 34 years. To sit back and contemplate 80 "personal" years witnessing societal changes culminating in the septic society we are mired in today would have me in constant tears (and I'm one of those Neanderthals who believe men don't cry.).

I have nothing but respect for you Mr. Brennan, strength like yours is all too rare.

[Utilizer]

Thank you for that post. I think the most moving part for Me was the reference to the great Ronald Reagan.

[Yardstick]

Slert. That's a keeper.

[GoLightly]

Dixie bump. At least somebody admits it

Is that rare? I've always known it, as it is the way it was taught in school, in Wisconsin, hardly a hotbed of southern sympathy.

[mware]

I am old enough to remember Wagon Train and Rusty of B Company.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Fantastic read! Thanks for posting.

I was born before there were any artificial satellites.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis - my dad suddenly had to leave port with his ship and we had daily bomb drills in school.
I remember all the kids in school talking about the Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan - I missed it! :(