Yesterday posters didn’t understand Abby Hoffman throwing money on the stock market floor. Read “Revolution for the Hell of it”. It’s right next to “Steal this Book” in hippie bookstores everywhere. Don’t know if it’s on Kindle yet.
Joe, you’ve stated that you neither knew nor cared who Abbie Hoffman was, yet yesterday you went out of your way to say that Lewreader’s reference to him was mistaken. The Yippies’ stunt on the trading floor may have taken place while you were otherwise occupied, but it was more than 40 years ago and has attained iconic status. It was hardly an obscure reference, and it was in fact relevant to the to the exchange of a dollar between the businessman and the homeless man. Just because YOU can’t make the connection, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
You’ve had some interesting and varied experiences in your life, but you have an attitude of “Everything I know is important and interesting, and nothing that I don’t know is of ANY interest or importance.” When a joke or reference hinges upon some fact or event that is outside your area of knowledge, you disparage it. When you disapprove of something according to your own sensibilities, you take it upon yourself to disapprove on behalf of everybody else.
As far as “hiding” behind a fictitious display name, that’s the norm. If YOU choose to share your personal information with the world, such that anybody with access to a computer can find out everything about you with very little difficuly, that’s your choice. However, the majority of the online community would consider that imprudent.
Lewreader, another treatment of the same concept is shown in the movie “I Served the King of England”. A young man in Czechoslovakia (between the Wars) rises from being a hot-dog vendor in a railway station to being the owner of a luxury resort. He’s very money-conscious, but he will only bother with paper money and is contemptuous and dismissive (literally) of coins.
A recurring sequence involves him, a lowly and socially-invisible wage-slave, serving roomfuls of wealthy industrialists and Barons and so on, and he’ll strategically drop a pocketful of coins on the floor, and then watch in amusement as these “dignified” millionaires scramble around on their hands and knees gathering up small change…
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Yesterday posters didn’t understand Abby Hoffman throwing money on the stock market floor. Read “Revolution for the Hell of it”. It’s right next to “Steal this Book” in hippie bookstores everywhere. Don’t know if it’s on Kindle yet.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
I’ve been meaning to buy “Steal This Book” recently, but as you can imagine it’s difficult (and risky) for even hippie bookstores to keep it in stock.
(And Lew, I think it was only one poster who didn’t understand the reference, although he misunderstood it several times.)
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Joe, you’ve stated that you neither knew nor cared who Abbie Hoffman was, yet yesterday you went out of your way to say that Lewreader’s reference to him was mistaken. The Yippies’ stunt on the trading floor may have taken place while you were otherwise occupied, but it was more than 40 years ago and has attained iconic status. It was hardly an obscure reference, and it was in fact relevant to the to the exchange of a dollar between the businessman and the homeless man. Just because YOU can’t make the connection, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
You’ve had some interesting and varied experiences in your life, but you have an attitude of “Everything I know is important and interesting, and nothing that I don’t know is of ANY interest or importance.” When a joke or reference hinges upon some fact or event that is outside your area of knowledge, you disparage it. When you disapprove of something according to your own sensibilities, you take it upon yourself to disapprove on behalf of everybody else.
As far as “hiding” behind a fictitious display name, that’s the norm. If YOU choose to share your personal information with the world, such that anybody with access to a computer can find out everything about you with very little difficuly, that’s your choice. However, the majority of the online community would consider that imprudent.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Lewreader, another treatment of the same concept is shown in the movie “I Served the King of England”. A young man in Czechoslovakia (between the Wars) rises from being a hot-dog vendor in a railway station to being the owner of a luxury resort. He’s very money-conscious, but he will only bother with paper money and is contemptuous and dismissive (literally) of coins.
A recurring sequence involves him, a lowly and socially-invisible wage-slave, serving roomfuls of wealthy industrialists and Barons and so on, and he’ll strategically drop a pocketful of coins on the floor, and then watch in amusement as these “dignified” millionaires scramble around on their hands and knees gathering up small change…
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
“The Magic Christian” was a 1969 movie with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. From a novel by Terry Southern.
scrappy05 over 14 years ago
here here fritzoid. that was a wonderfully worded rebuttal.
rotts about 14 years ago
Amen, fritzoid. I couldn’t have said it better myself!