nessus2 wrote:
You know, my kids wouldn't have followed any of that. They don't have watches, they use their phones which are set automatically by satellite, and they think trains are subways.
Reminds me of a story a friend who is a school teacher told me a few years back.

After a DARE assembly at which the kids were told if someone came up to them and offered them drugs, they should sound like a broken record when they said "No!".

The very first question he got when he got is class back in the schoolroom was "What is a broken record and what does it sound like?". It dawned on him that none of these kids knew what a LP or 45 record was or how it worked. Heck, they had no idea what a cassette tape was.

Fortunately, he had a old portable record player and a vinyl record with a nasty scratch on it. He brought it into school the next day and showed his kids what the DARE folks were trying to tell them.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson