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  • Re: Gideon Bible

    From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to alt.usage.english on Tue Sep 30 19:17:28 2025
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    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
    In article <Gideon's-
    20250928103655@ram.dialup.fu-
    berlin.de>, ram@zedat.fu-
    berlin.de says...
    Similar:
    The Stones in "Mother's Little Helper": super conventional
    - rock musicians warning parents about the dangers of drugs!
    Are they warning, or are they
    savaging what they perceive
    as the hypocrisy of parents
    who object to their
    children's drugs?

    Your Socratic push actually made
    me rethink my whole take on this.

    That opening line, "Kids are
    different today", is clearly a
    mom talking about other people,
    and from there it's not a stretch
    to picture a mom talking about
    rock musicians, who were
    basically "kids" back then.

    The Stones were living in a time
    when people were seriously
    worried about young folks using
    certain drugs, but nobody was
    really questioning the more
    socially acceptable ones that
    were just as damaging. That
    climate had to play into the
    song, whether the writers meant
    it straight-up as a shot at
    hypocrisy or whether it just
    came out of the air they were
    all breathing . . .


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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to alt.usage.english on Wed Oct 1 03:08:26 2025
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    In article <10bd1b0$2pfju$1
    @dont-email.me>,
    peter@pmoylan.org says...


    When I was in California I made a point of sitting on the Dock of the
    Bay. I even had my traditional Christmas Day swim there, but I didn't
    stay in the water very long.

    (I now can't find that place on a map. Somewhere on the east side of San Francisco Bay.)

    An even better thing to tick off my bucket list: when visiting Monterey
    I accidentally stumbled on Cannery Row. Until then I hadn't known that
    it was a real place. A rather sad-looking industrial area, but I still
    got a thrill walking down the street.'

    Somewhere downstream from Glasgow I found myself roaming in the gloaming
    on the bonny banks of Clyde, wi' a lassie by my side.

    I think I've mentioned before that my bucket list is basically complete;
    I don't think I need to do anything else. I ticked off the last entry a
    year or two ago when I finally got to the top of Munibung Hill. (A hill
    not far from my home.)

    That's the best bucket list
    I've ever heard.


    Melissa

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