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   The old geezer to All   
   Re: FZ on NPR this afternoon   
   10 Nov 17 10:23:23   
   
   From: JYOB@aol.com   
      
   This past summer while attending my Granddaughters 16th Birthday party I made   
   the mistake(after a few IPAs) of engaging some of her classmates in   
   conversation.  About their Summer Reading lists.  Blank stares.  Well, Are you   
   reading Animal Farm or 1984??    
    More blank stares.  Have you ever read any Orwell?  Who?? No,  but we've read   
   the latest Harry Potter! That's right,  keep them in Fantasy Land!  I felt as   
   I were Rod Taylor in the future in the movie of H.G. Wells' "Time Machine"!!!    
   And there was one    
   guy there with a Blue Mohawk!  All I could keep thinking was "wait until ghe   
   D.I. Gets ahold of him"!  Then I remembered that there is no longer a   
   Draft......   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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