The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for December 26, 2012

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    Seiko  almost 12 years ago

    Far out!

    Not!

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    margueritem  almost 12 years ago

    Pretty true to life.

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    Bilan  almost 12 years ago

    They would rather see The Troggs.

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    emptc12  almost 12 years ago

    These days, I often see cartoons with this theme. Having kept a journal around 40 years ago, I looked into it and found I wrote that the Rolling Stones would probably still be a favorite among the then-current generation when they were old; that Grandma “Sunshine-Mandala” and Grandpa “Windsong” would be humming “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” while in rocking chairs..We sneered at Lawrence Welk , and The 1001 Strings – but maybe the current generation looks at The Stones and The Beatles the same way. Sometime in the future, most likely, Lady Ga Ga will be hawking her “Greatest Hits” on 3D TV, as will Eminem, 50-Cent, and any gangsta rappers that survived assassination..And by the way, people in their sixties and seventies (married as well as single) are pretty frisky these days – what with Viagra and other chemicals. Venereal disease has been rising among seniors for some time. What the heck, they got the time and the money. Why should Youth be wasted on the young?

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    finale  almost 12 years ago

    “Gimme Shelter” will be the morning wakeup song in the Home. I’ve already heard “Rock around the clock” in the physical therapy room where my great uncle is rehabbing after a stroke.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Haven’t seen the boys in a few years; “Bridges to Babylon” tour in BC in 98.

    I think I’ll wait for the “Steel Wheelchairs” Tour.

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    hippogriff  almost 12 years ago

    TheIrishInquisition: The “old days” seem better music because the lousy stuff is forgotten. Classics are that way, whether J S Bach or Beatles.

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    octagon  almost 12 years ago

    This is bogus!

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    prrdh  almost 12 years ago

    Well, it would take many lifetimes to listen to all the music that’s produced in a single day. And who gets to decide who’s “great” and “talented”? My ancestry is Central European; in the old country, in the old days, it was the landed nobility who decided which musicians qualified, and rack-rented the peasants to indulge their own tastes. At least the big record companies put it to a vote, so to speak; they make their best guess as to what the most people consider "great’ and ‘talented’ and use their promotional resources to call attention to them. If they guess right, they get big bucks, but if they guess wrong, with no peasants to gouge, they go out of business.Incidentally, Mozart isn’t a very good example of an unappreciated genius, but rather of a genius who (like so many others) made bad choices. The city of Prague loved him and kept begging him to move there, but he chose to stay in Vienna.

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    REDROCKER51  almost 12 years ago

    Check this out……. I am over 60 and i was playing a Rush Dvd, and a couple of high school freshman pounded on my door to turn the music down !!!!! Imagine that !!!!Young whippersnappers telling an old person to turn the music down??? LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Popeyesforearm  almost 12 years ago

    Hey, Ronny Wood just got married. There’s some sagging cheeks on that honeymoon.Watch a new DVD called “Charlie is my Darling”. 1965 tour of Ireland filmed. Classic Stones.

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    massha  almost 12 years ago

    @Gwen I think you are mistaken about Mozart. He was quite the celebrity.

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    johnwalk  almost 12 years ago

    I guess the stones finally bit the grit…

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    hippogriff  almost 12 years ago

    Mozart was well-paid for his period. He was not only a compulsive gambler, but not a very skilled one either, and lost it as soon as he was paid.

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