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   Your Name to Lenona   
   Re: These Kids Today   
   31 Dec 22 10:29:04   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2022-12-30 20:12:56 +0000, Lenona said:   
      
   > On Friday, December 30, 2022 at 10:56:39 AM UTC-5, Bill Anderson wrote:   
   >> To him it’s a movie from the olden days. Sigh.   
   >   
   > Well, it WAS made before he was born...   
   >   
   > I'm reminded of when "Titanic" was released and an editorial cartoon   
   > showed people waiting in line to the theater.   
   >   
   > Some adults (in front of some teens who are, presumably, strangers) are   
   > talking about the sinking.   
   >   
   > Guess how the teen boy reacts?   
   >   
   > (But I think it just might have been a good idea, in the movie, NOT to   
   > reveal that, early on. Think of future generations, after all. Of   
   > course, that would mean rewriting it considerably.)   
   > At any rate, even though there are new movies every year, there will   
   > always be a handful of movies that no teenager will be unaware of, at   
   > least - and I don't even mean the 1977 "Star Wars."   
   > I'm thinking of Monty Python movies. Is it POSSIBLE to find even a   
   > dozen teens, from any one high school, who have never seen even one   
   > Python movie?   
      
   I've never seen any Monty Python movie either, but I was around when   
   they were made, so I do know what they are (which in turn is why I have   
   no interest in watching them).   :-)   
      
      
      
   > And I suspect that "Harold and Maude" is pretty well known even among   
   > millennials, but I'm not quite sure.   
      
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