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The Whiskey Priest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:30 PM
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Come all you Flower Children "Imagine the folly of allowing people
Edited on Wed Feb-01-06 11:03 PM by The Whiskey Priest
to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s madness. Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games.":

Does that ring a bell?
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The Whiskey Priest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:05 PM
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1. I cannot believe that no one of the old sixties radical left
knew what I was talking about. Sigh, guess we all turned into stock brokers.
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:10 PM
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2. I was a little young in the 60's, but I get where you are coming from.
It seemed like for a while there was a chance that there might be some other path other than the yuppie materialism that sprung forth in the 80's.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:18 PM
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4. Magister Ludi
Herman Hesse
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magpie Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:16 PM
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3. A Brave New World
This is just a trick post to expose the old hippies like me,right?
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The Whiskey Priest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:18 PM
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5. Well it is nice to know who is the trenches with you
but, that really meant something back then, at least to me.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 11:19 PM
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6. Huxley, of course
(slaps forehead) O wow, I can dig it, you can dig it we can dig it, dig it!!
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