[ExI] jarring change

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
Subject: RE: [ExI] jarring change

 

>…Correction to previous… It occurred to me I wouldn’t have been going to Mr. Degirolama’s shop until later, about 1974….spike

 

 

 

Explanation of previous: Harry Lorrayne (or Lorraine, not sure) was a performer/lecturer of sorts.  If you read his description of his act, he did an early 1970s version of politically incorrect humor.  Examples of politically incorrect humor would be a show from that era called All in the Family, where the main characters (Archie Bunker and Michael Stivik) played parodies of the far right hard-hat and the far left draft-dodger perennial college student.  A more recent (perhaps the most recent) example would be Richard Fish from the Ally McBeal show: oh mercy that guy would get me rolling on the floor laughing.  He would be in court getting his ass kicked because he was a terrible lawyer, everybody would be so politically correct, then Fish would make his closing argument in what looked like a hopeless case.  The jury would be thinking and nodding, even the judge, pretty soon find the guy innocent and out ya go.  Oh, Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets.  Politically incorrect to the hilt.

 

But I digress.  The Harry Lorrayne lectures and show sounded like a lot of politically incorrect stuff that you just can’t do anymore: college students, forget it.  Little old ladies would laugh and enjoy the show but college students would have their delicate sensibilities outraged and would be so offended.  Back in the olden days, college students would laugh at anything.

 

I don’t know how college students and little old church ladies somehow switched places in attitude.

 

spike

 

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