MikeBravo
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For a second there, I read that as "old codger in his 30's"...
There an old codger in his 20's. His name is Shangas
For a second there, I read that as "old codger in his 30's"...
Well, right there is your problem. People starting colllege in 2002 would have been born in 1984 not 1980. That changes things by 4 years and makes me not trust a list published by people who can't subtract.
Why on earth would people do that? That said, I firmly believe that a 'reporter' reports news and current events. Facts. This happened on this day at this time and this was the result. A writer in a newspaper which does not write about such things, and which would therefore be classified as 'gossip', would be a columnist or a contributor.
As Thomas Fowler said in "The Quiet American", 'journalists have opinions. I'm not a journalist. I'm a reporter. I write about what happens. Nothing more, nothing less', or words to that effect (It's late at night, and I can't be bothered to find the actual quote).
You had to be very careful not to make any sound, since it'll just ruin all that patience you put into pressing the "pause" button. lolI remember when taping from a record player you had to be careful putting the lid of the record player down. If you weren't gentle, you would hear the bump on the tape
These days they call that piracy
:rofl:There an old codger in his 20's. His name is Shangas
Mindset list here would have that one 25 years ago. [huh]Here's a mindset list for those of us who were born fifty years ago:
10. Depending on where you live, dial telephone service has not always been available.
..now all that folks skipped the "land phone" phase and jumped into "cable-digital-wireless" one.
Same here!We always had a phone in our house, but only one. It was in the hallway, mounted to the wall, and had a LONG cord attached from the base to the handset so that you could walk around the entire house, room to room and the cord would still reach. Mo.m could stand outside in the front yard with the cord stretched out the door. For that reason, my parents didn't get a cordless phone until about 3 years ago.
When my Dad was a kid he thought FDR was the only President we had.
He was born in 1928
Around here the generations describe themselves by who was playing left field for the Red Sox when they were born.
Same here!
And then few years ago they’ve informed us that our phone will no longer function, since the town went digital. and we had to "retire" it. That was the only reason why we gave up on dialer-phone.
Around here the generations describe themselves by who was playing left field for the Red Sox when they were born. I'm the Yastrzemski generation, my mother is the Williams generation, my grandmother was the Duffy Lewis generation, my niece is the Greenwell Generation. You can see the quality tends to fall off there a bit.
There an old codger in his 20's. His name is Shangas
"If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed."Most newspaper "journalists" these days can't tell the difference either. Most will tell you "I'm not a 'reporter', I'm a 'columnist'...which means people *want* to read my opinion." Arrogance personified.
I prefer the term "curmudgeon in training" myself.I believe the correct term is 'young fogey'.
I was, of course, speaking only for myself; I have been known to be quite grumpy from time to time. Shangas is free to describe himself as he chooses.Nah, curmudgeon has negative grumpy connotations.
Shangas is a lovely young fellow