XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 21/12/2025 19:29, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/20/25 05:39, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> On 20/12/2025 06:20, c186282 wrote:   
   >>> America invented Blues and R&B ... but the Brits   
   >>>    perfected it in the 60s. Not sure WHAT crevice of   
   >>>    the British soul is involved, but GOOD JOB !   
   >>   
   >> We had been through a war that white America had not.   
   >> Black Americans were born in a war.   
   >>   
   >> WE understood...life wasn't all about sunshine and surf.   
   >   
   >    Didn't spawn The Blues there ... but ...   
   >   
   >    DO like British kiddie books/films - the USA kind   
   >    are all butterflies and ice-cream. Brit plots   
   >    involve lots of conspiracies, oppression, suffering   
   >    and deadly threats  :-)   
   >   
   Swallows and Amazons. Teenagers with sailing dinghies defeat Nazis spies.   
   Or 'Just William' featuring Violet Elizabeth Bott, the prototypical Karen.   
      
      
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