<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 19, 2010, at 6:10 PM, John Grigg wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>I am so tired of people whining about this subject! lol I remember<br>when I first joined this list *eleven* years ago, people were pining<br>for the "golden age" of years past...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I joined the list in early 1993 and from the very first day I've been hearing about how all the young wiper-snappers who were on the list nowadays were just a bunch of second raters and they couldn't hold a candle to the giants the list once had back in the good old days. On the whole I don't think nostalgia is a positive emotion and I certainly don't believe it is conducive to accurate recall of past events; giants from the past may not really be all that much larger than some people from today. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>