genme ([info]genme) wrote,
@ 2006-04-14 08:52:00
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USA Today
The USA Today story came out yesterday (Thursday), and it looks great! There's a teaser on the front front page (It actually says "Meet the new 'Generation Me'"!!), and the article itself is in the Life section, and has a pic of the book cover and a small pic of me.

The online version doesn't do it justice, but here it is:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-12-social-youth_x.htm

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West East
[info]flw
2006-04-14 08:37 pm UTC (link)
That's a good pitch for rocking chair ensconced school-marms... What is a marm? And why are they always at school? Now they are in rocking chairs at school? It doesn't make any sense! Speaking of not making sense, I am going to do some reasoning by metaphor here, and if you don't respond, I'll understand, you seem awfully busy... I think you are coordinating a new type of book tour... a sort of virtual book tour!

Anyways, back to not making sense: I was doing some "meta-analysis" on WEALTH in this country since 1908 and it turns out we've become startlingly poor! According to the data collected by the Williamson Stocking Garter Company, wealthy men are 13 times as likely to own and use Williamson brand stocking garters as poverty stricken, drunken, lout-abouts! And according to their records, combined with records from the Roosevelt Era's Bureau of Useless Labor Statistics and Sheep Pen Management, stocking garter purchase among men has declined steadily, and thus we are all sliding into a degraded pool of drunken loutishness and and I add, oafery! Buffoonishness is, of course, a historical anachronism.

Just look at the facts:

1931
Employee . position . salary . sock garter? . oaf? . buffoon? . drunkard?

J. Tosh .. Manager .. $9/wk .. yes .......... no ... maybe .... no
B. Gibs .. stk boy .. $1/mth . NO ........... YES .. YES ...... YES

Well, the data goes on and on like this, and over time we see that oafishness and buffoonery are consistently associated with a failure to own sock garters. And sock garter owners consistently move up the ranks and become wealthy and powerful men. Now no one owns sock garters, and we are all POOR.

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Re: West East
[info]genme
2006-04-15 03:01 pm UTC (link)
All I can say is: You are truly strange. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.

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Re: West East
[info]sanpaku
2006-04-16 03:13 am UTC (link)
That's not very polite...

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Re: West East
[info]flw
2006-04-16 07:04 am UTC (link)
howso? Is this a joke I don't get. I just actually read the USA Today article, so now I feel like a real idiot. I always feel like an idiot. Now I feel like a rude idiot. Thanks, Wellbutrout.

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