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Benson, agree with you on the accumulation of stuff. I think that the boom boom days of buying like drunken sailors are over and that there is a new appreciation of thrift and the oppressiveness of “stuff”.
Slopey, we were discussing The Jeffersons in last night’s OT After Dark, but you went AWOL.
How many bathrooms did they have when they moved on up to the East Side, and in what episode did George run from bathroom to bathroom flushing each toilet?
Sorry M4L, Test failed!
“The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray was a great book. Some of the PC-police tried to shoot it down because of a couple of observations it made, which were not even central to its main points. If one reads the book, however, it becomes obvious that Murray was trying to make a very humane point about the sorting and stratification of society that has taken place, and its downsides.
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Lech is very NORMAL
“Oh, and for comic relief, there are those dotty sisters nearby who run a still for their own purposes and think they are merely making medicine.”
Those would be the Baldwin Sisters. And I can’t believe I remember that since I haven’t seen the Waltons since the early 70s.
“A lot of variety fits in that bell curve.”
Yeah, exactly.
Where is everyone today????
Lech, not to say your family isn’t “normal” but real families are filled with colorful and idiocyncratic people, that don’t match the Waltons. A lot of variety fits in that bell curve.
My daughter and I watched a bunch of Waltons episodes a few years back, all from season 1. Every episode was more or less the same. Some stranger or group of strangers arrives in town — gypsies, a fading broadway star, a wrongly accused fugitive from justice, a Chinese family, etc. The kids love them and want to take them in. John and Olivia handwring about Christian charity versus exposing kids to strange values. In the end they help them and defend them from the reactionary mob in town, then send them on their way with good wishes and a story for John-Boy to write. There are frequent lessons in thrift. Oh, and for comic relief, there are those dotty sisters nearby who run a still for their own purposes and think they are merely making medicine. Bootleggers try to get in on the action.