On 29 Nov 2003, "JTEM" <jaytem@yahoo.com> screwed up his face, groaned,
pushed hard, and farted out the following message in
news:0NCdnRtIKaScnFSiRVn-tw@comcast.com:
>
> "Douglas Berry" <penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote
>
>> Don Kresch <ROT13.qxerfpu@jv.ee.pbz.com> wrote
>> > 33 years AFTER THE FACT is not contemporary, you fucking
>> > idiot.
>
>> Indeed. It would be like me writing an account of the Vietnam
>> War and calling it comteporary.
>
> Not quite. Back then, maybe half the population survived to the age
> of 20. Of those, they might reasonably expect to live another 20
> years.
In other words, it would be like someone a good forty, fifty years from
now writing an account of the Vietnam War and calling it "contemporary".
--
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly
realized I was talking to myself!"
--Peter O'Toole.
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