History branched down here 150 years ago. You have what happened and is reported everywhere else, and then you have the version that only exists in the South.
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]]>OTOH, when you send your kids to vacation Bible school, they are apt to believe that magic is real, depending on how the course is taught.
We live in a country where it is felt to be essential to label hairdryers ‘DO NOT USE IN THE SHOWER’, so I don’t rate people very highly. But then, if we had fewer warning labels, we might have smarter people…
]]>— Badtux the “Yes, they really ARE that stupid” Penguin
]]>On a related note, you don’t see re-runs of WKRP in Cincinnati because the producers didn’t buy the rights to package the music they played with the re-runs, only for the regular prime time broadcasts. Rather short-sighted on the part of both sides of that issue.
Thers made the point at his place that we need more censorship so we know what’s worth reading. The banned book list isn’t a bad canon of literature.
]]>I got my copies of Vols. I and III the old-fashioned way, out of the trunk of someone’s car after a gig, cash-and-carry. Vol. II, on the other hand, I purchased legitimately, one of the Hal Leonard reprints. Who says there’s no such thing as progress!
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