>>< Sputter> < choke > Have you no sense of history? Have you never heard the classics like ....
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>Heard? I usually watch the TV.
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And this is going to inspire the youth of our nation in 25 years???

ARGGGHHH Run Away!

(You have heard rumors about the existance of Monty Python at least? Something about a Holy Grail, perhaps? Firesign Theater maybe? Does "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus" sound vaguely familiar???)

What has happened to the icons of our past?

I have such fond, vague memories of Saturday evenings tuned in to WABC listening to the Dear Doctor, with a smoldering doo... well, we won't discuss things like that unless they're well beyond the statute of limitations. Yeah. Back in the 70s....< why is there this vague fog pulled over some remnant of departed grey matter??? >

>>I'm ashamed to admit we've failed to adequately corrupt the up and coming youth of our nation.
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>If you only knew ...

We can fix this given time, and an adequate supply of psychotropics. And it's well known that VB can cause mass hallucinations...droves of VB programmers saying "It's much easier to write the killer database app with rubber cement, smoke and mirrors" < g,d&r >

Go listen to some Lehrer - the New Haven Public Library even has some old recordings. It'll be funny even in the absense of the political context.

It was told that ages ago, we used to extract music from 12" diameter etched pieces of black vinyl spinning at a rate of 33.333 RPM or thereabouts. And once every week or two we could listen to some bizarre rwisted gnome of a man broadcasting the melodious sounds of Napolean the IVth singing "They're coming to take me away - Ha Ha. They're coming to take me away - Ho Ho..."

It'll help you to write better C code. It might make some sense!