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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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