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2007-11-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by lotp 2007-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 I was 9. Don't blame me

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-10 06:29|| 2007-11-10 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh God...Tom tries to become the voice of another generation...

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-10 09:03|| 2007-11-10 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 "The Second-Greatest Generation" doesn't sound like a great marketing meme

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-10 09:04|| 2007-11-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope the advance isn't fully recoverable.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-10 09:08|| 2007-11-10 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I hate the boomer generation - the most self-absorbed spoiled self-righteous bunch of pricks to ever influence the US.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-11-10 09:14|| 2007-11-10 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 And the second greatest generation are those kids right now engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan doing historically incredible work. And they VOLUNTEERED for it.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-11-10 09:15|| 2007-11-10 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Only thing worst than a damn hippie is a Neo-Hippie.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-11-10 09:31|| 2007-11-10 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 How about the Worst Generation?

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2007-11-10 09:55|| 2007-11-10 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, it could be us Boomers (although some of us tried ....)

But the generation who were too young for WWII and too old to be Boomers had a lot more negative influence than they get public scorn for. Lots of alcohol, wife-swapping, lefty politics without consequences & destruction of the West from the Peyton Place generation.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-10 09:58|| 2007-11-10 09:58|| Front Page Top

#10 1968:
The Uniform Monday Holiday Act was signed into law.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuted on NBC.
Sony introduced the Trinitron color television set.
The FCC ruled that anyone could make devices to attach to the phone network.
Mattel introduced Hot Wheels.
Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.
The Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
The first 911 emergency phone system went into service.
Legoland opened.
Intel incorporated.
Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrated his pioneering hypertext system, NLS.
The Jacuzzi Whirlpool bath was introduced.
The crew of Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so.

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-10 15:28|| 2007-11-10 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 The greatest self veneration!

Posted by Andy Thrinegum8597 2007-11-10 21:17|| 2007-11-10 21:17|| Front Page Top

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