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A NEW SERIES: WALT’S OPINIONS
WALT’S OPINIONS
This post will initiate a new series of posts, Walt’s Opinions.
To put matters in perspective I will quote a saying of a fellow officer I knew in the air force. Here is the PG version: Opinions are like anuses. Everyone has one.
Here you will find my opinions. I doubt that many of you will agree with most of what I have to say, but some knowledge may be offered and, hopefully, resulting in some consideration of your opinion on the subject being considered.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN:
You remember presses involved in self-publishing were once called vanity presses.
UKRAINE
INSPIRED
With the passing of the bill to provide aid to Ukraine I am inspired to know:
That congress CAN accomplish something.
Some members have finally developed spines.
Putin is shitting his pants.
LESIURE SUITS CAUSE CANCER
LEISURE SUITS CAUSE CANCER
I bet that caught your attention.
This piece goes along with my series of, YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN, because this statement comes from a TV show from a while ago which I found to be hilarious. The show began as Fernwood Tonight and morphed into America Tonight.
The host was played by Martin Mull. His presentation mocks the job of host. The band was Happy Klien and the Mirth Makers. Happy Klien exudes the excitement of a brick.
That’s the atmosphere which made this program so great. It was mocking late night shows by comically presenting a show which appeared to be serious.
In the skit involving the leisure suits, a ‘scientist’, an obvious huckster, said he found that leisure suits caused cancer. He had with him rats dressed in little leisure suits.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
If they did, there would probably be a leisure suit society, if one exists, on the phone to a lawyer.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN . . .
You remember being able to visit a national park without a reservation.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GROWING OLD WHEN . . .
You remember the regular testing of air-raid sirens. Where I grew up, in Newark, New Jersey, that test was done every Saturday at noon.
YOU KNOW YOU’ER GROWING OLD WHEN . . .
You remember when public and home fallout shelters were common.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN . . .
You remember when banks gave away small appliances, such as toasters, to those starting new accounts.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN . . .
You dwell on the past more than the future.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN . . .
You read the birthdays of the day in your local newspaper for celebrities and those famous and you realize you recognize most of those over 50 years old, but very few under 50.
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