Subj : Re: Shopping & Christmas was:
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Sep 06 2019 00:41:20

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 30-Aug-2019 10:36 <=-

 BM>>> A lot of times simple is better and easier.  ...Not to go too far and
 BM>>> make everything simple: here's a stick - our Christmas tree!
 BM>>> ('Festivus', anyone?!)
 NB>>> Shades of Charlie Brown.... ;)
 BM>> Possibly the Festivus stick-tree in _Seinfeld_ was based on the
 BM>> Charlie Brown tree.  Or just some tired tree decorator who put up the
 BM>> center of an artifical tree and thought 'this is enough'!
 NB>> Could be... Hard to hang any sort of decorations on a stick, though... :)
 BM>> True, though part of the 'Festivus' joke was the opposite of the
 BM>> Christmas decorating.
 NB>> Oh, ok.... Not being a TV viewer, I didn't exactly follow Seinfeld
 NB>> either...  :)
 BM> That would make sense.  Some show topics have gone mainstream -- more
 BM> or less. 

I'd hear (or overhear) discussions about some of those... without a
context, not surprising I might not retain much...  :)

 BM> Was reading or watching something where the comment was the
 BM> folks of one generation would be familiar with <topic> while another
 BM> generation the same topic was unfamiliar because they didn't live
 BM> through it/wasn't part of their social lives.

That could well be generally true.... an older or younger generation
/might/ have some familiarity with it, but only if there was some reason
that they were "spending time" in the other generation's social lives... 

ttyl         neb

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