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« Reply #100 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 10:58pm » |
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If the Europeans would get off their asses and make some babies they wouldn't be in this predicament. Wouldn't have the labor shortage or the immigration problems. Accept your fate, adapt or die. Buy a rug.
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Re: The Rape of Europe
« Reply #101 on: Dec 12th, 2006, 3:46am » |
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Interesting direction this is taking. Here's my contribution:
In the early fifties we were scared in elementary school because we had air raid drills every other week. Civil Defense was big and tv was full of spots for it and examples of how to survive an attack. It would show up after cartoons too.
In the late fifties, MacCarthy was gone and Stallin was dead for several years. Khruschev was a blowhard but I believe he knew just how dangerous we were too. At least these people read the same stuff we did and liked to have a little fun. Life for them wasn't something to be discarded so easily. They were on the same page.
The missle crisis: This was 1962 and in my town, anyway, no one ran for the hills or hid in the cellar that I knew of. It was unsettling but it was a time when you had more faith in what you heard on TV. You believed Kennedy. There was a kind of Orson Welles 1938 "War Of the Worlds" feel to it. My parents said they knew of no one anywhere that panicked at that broadcast; mostly, the same for the missle crisis. The real panic was on tv. I and my friends were glued to it...especially watching as the Navy actually turned around the cargo ships. It was something and the immeciate aftermath had a 9/11 kind of everbody pulling together effect.
Just some observations.
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on Dec 11th, 2006, 10:58pm, Maffumatt wrote:| If the Europeans would get off their asses and make some babies they wouldn't be in this predicament. Wouldn't have the labor shortage or the immigration problems. Accept your fate, adapt or die. Buy a rug. |
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We just had two rooms tiled, and are looking at rugs. I am leaning towards the Scrabble rug.
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Maffumatt
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Twister would be more fun...........
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on Dec 12th, 2006, 8:53am, Maffumatt wrote:| Twister would be more fun........... |
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Ooh, twister. Break out the Partridge Family 8-tracks!!
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Re: The Rape of Europe
« Reply #105 on: Dec 12th, 2006, 8:58am » |
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on Dec 12th, 2006, 8:55am, floridian wrote:
Ooh, twister. Break out the Partridge Family 8-tracks!! |
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and the baby oil....
(did I just say that?) 
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Baby oil? What in the world would you use that for? Does it make the Crisco slipperier?
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