home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Path: sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ttinews!metis!reid
- From: reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland)
- Subject: Re: What do you do when your kid things Metallica is cool?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.162811.21682@ttinews.tti.com>
- Sender: usenet@ttinews.tti.com (Usenet Admin)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: metis.tti.com
- Organization: Transaction Technology Inc.
- References: <199211171521.AA10495@tuna.wang.com> <Bxw29K.9to@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:28:11 GMT
- Lines: 20
-
- In article <Bxw29K.9to@news.iastate.edu> sinnott@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov (Susan B. Sinnott) writes:
- >A few years ago I read "Babit" (sp?), a book about a man having a mid-life
- >crisis in the 1920's (it was published in 1922 I think). It was very
- >interesting to me that the book mentions that all the "young people" were
- >"wild" because the listened to jazz and wore "short" dresses (ie dresses
- >above the ankle).
-
- Short skirts in the 1920's were above the KNEE, marijuana and cocaine
- were popular (not like today, though), and jazz was blamed for all of
- it. They weren't called the "Roaring Twenties" for nothing.
-
- Plus ca change...
-
- =====================================================================
- Reid Kneeland
- reid@tti.com (that's MISTER reid@tti.com to you!)
- Transaction Technology Inc., Santa Monica, CA, USA (310) 450-9111 x2499
- The opinions expressed above do not necessarily etc etc...
-
- Never trust a man who can count to 1,023 on his fingers.
-