Life Styles of the Rich and Clueless . . .
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timberlandko wrote:...brings me to recall a semi-political gathering I atttended back in the late 'Fifties...
Wow and all this time I wuz thinkin' you were about 19!
caprice wrote:Wow and all this time I wuz thinkin' you were about 19!
LOL ... the flannel shirt I'm wearin' (a plaid, quilted Pendleton, with chamois elbow patches) right now is older than that! Thanks for the compliment ... I think.
Hee hee! You're welcome!
And I wasn't equating younger with immaturity...just the "vibe" I got from your posts. Perhaps you have a young spirit!
I've met the ol' Timber in person, an' he don't look a day over 25 . . .
(send that check to Setanta, Hilliard, Ahia, New Nited States, Boss . . . )
A day over 25...twice over?
Oops! No uhm...insult intended Timber! Just playin' along with Setanta.
Its in the mail Set ... us young whippersnappers gotta stick toghether, ya know :wink:
You're a sweety, caprice. I'm a first-wave BabyBoomer ... I actually remember Truman as President ... not real well, mind you, but I remember well the morning my folks were all excited and happy to discover Dewey in fact had not defeated Truman, and I remember being aggravated that a speech of Truman's pre-empted a favorite radio program ... that happened a few times, at least. That may be at root of my feelings yet today about The Democratic Party
timberlandko wrote:I actually remember Truman as President
I was at a party in 1988 with a friend, who had assured me many young, nubile college women would be present. He was almost correct, although "nubility" is difficult to determine when one is blasted as are the objects of one's affectionate attention. One struck up a conversation, and then commented on her fellings the day Kennedy was shot. I gave her kinda squinty look, and inquired if she were really old enough to recall an event which had happened twenty-five years earlier (what the hell, i was too wasted to get laid anyway). She blushed and said she meant she remembered how others described it. She then decided to change the subject and asked who was president when i was born. I replied: "Truman." She said: "Who?" . . . i moved on . . .
Aw, Timber, did Truman interupt froggy's magic twanger for you?
Yet Truman could be the one Democratic president that the conservative Republicans can admire. Busch (that Freudian slip misspelling could have stemmed from how much Georgie Porgie slugged down those brews in college) has even tried to identify with Kennedy with his tax cuts. Hardly bearing any resemblance to the tax cuts Kennedy put through however.
LW, there's a bunch to admire about ol' Harry. I think ... its sorta foggy, really ... but I think he usually bumped The Lone Ranger and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, or mebbe it was Hoppalong Cassidy and one of those others. Saturday morning stuff. Evening fare was more along the lines of The Armstrong Radio Theater, The Shadow, Highway Patrol, and Gunsmoke (narrated, if I recall, by William Conrad, later of Cannon fame on TV).
My Mom loved to tune in Truman's speeches. She delighted in seeing how long he could go before the station bumped him off the air for swearing.
Okay, timber, I really didn't believe he bumped "Let's Pretend" and the only show I would have resented being preempted would be "The Shadow." The radio Westerns suffered in not being able to show the action -- TV's "Gunsmoke" is now a classic. Harry's radio speeches are almost a model for Bush's but he's too obviously reading the material.
