Originally Posted by
droobieinop
WOW, where to start...
i acknowledge that i'm new here and may have little "street cred" but here goes...
there are too many posts to quote so i'll just have a stream of conscious moment here ala "on the road"...
pushing 40, i feel i must be the the oldest in this thread.
Nope, I'm your age. I just write a bit more concisely. (Ooooh, burn.)
Some 15th century European dandys wore codpieces stuffed with a cubic foot of cloth. Others adopted a 'sword fighter' stance, and dressed as if they were always ready to duel, yet were wimpy little powdered-wig punks that just sat around in bars and posed. Nothing is new here.
Well, now we all have cameras, myspaces, and forums, and email, and... etc. Just more ways for degraded communication to echo and make things seem a bit bigger and dumber than they are. It's a bit bewildering for folks raised on rotary phones and manual typewriters.