Show & Tell
Remember when you were in grade school, they had show & tell day? A younger business associate of mine is taking night classes to get an associates degree in accounting. The other day, he told me one of the chapters in history book was devoted to the Hippy movement. He asked if I would come for show & tell. I didn’t know whether to laugh or get pissed. Oh, well. I guess it happens to all of us, if we live long enough.
October 23rd, 2005 at 9:41 pm
I’d laugh my head off, 1st be honored that the history of our country now officialy includes the counter culture persons of the 60’s. 2nd and the most important fact about it is I’m sure your folks said that you would never amount to anything acting like that back then, you are now an important piece of history. Turn on, Tune in, and drop out.TL.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:37 am
You’re right l.1. Funny, what goes around comes around. I’ve felt like telling my kids the same thing. Then, I remembered it being said to me, to no avail….. Oh, well.
October 24th, 2005 at 11:16 am
I hope you went. And we all want a full roport. Who woulda thought we would make the history books.
October 25th, 2005 at 7:40 am
Yeah, it might be nice to be in the history books, but you got to wonder who wrote the history – Someone from the outside looking in, who wouldn’t know beans about it, or somebody who was on the inside looking out, and that would only be the parts they could remember…..
October 25th, 2005 at 11:04 am
Sure would like to read that chaper. How many pages I wonder?
October 27th, 2005 at 10:02 pm
Anon, alas, I politely declined. It’s been too long since I took the Dale Carnegie course, to want to do any public speaking.
October 27th, 2005 at 11:00 pm
“If you can remember the 60s you weren’t really there”
Paul Kantner
October 28th, 2005 at 1:19 am
That Paul Kantner quote has become a double entendre. For most of us who were around in
the 60’s, it’s not a pharmaceutical problem anymore, but one of advanced geezerhood.
October 28th, 2005 at 8:59 am
Randalph, it could be a pharmaceutical problem, but not of the same pharmaceutical genre. Now it’s blood pressure, cholesterol, anxiety medication, etc.
October 30th, 2005 at 12:26 am
And don’t forget Viagra. Robin Williams says that medical science can now keep us
harder than Chinese algebra.