Subj : Shopping & Christmas was: To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Sep 06 2019 09:27:00 Hi Nancy! 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... NB> :) BM>> True, though part of the 'Festivus' joke was the opposite NB> 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. NB> I'd hear (or overhear) discussions about some of those... without NB> a context, not surprising I might not retain much... :) Agree: if someone talks about a cable TV show I'm pretty much lost. BM> Was reading or watching something where the comment was the BM> folks of one generation would be familiar with while another BM> generation the same topic was unfamiliar because they didn't live BM> through it/wasn't part of their social lives. NB> That could well be generally true.... an older or younger NB> generation /might/ have some familiarity with it, but only if NB> there was some reason that they were "spending time" in the other NB> generation's social lives... True. Computer stuff is relatively new and common but a 20-year-old might not have a clue as to "dial-up" and "modem" or a 'floppy disk'. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Q. Why did Pilgrims' pants fall fown? A. Put belt buckle on hat. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .