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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] smoke 'em dano<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Every society has its silliness, and the USA is a powerfully-silly place. Of all of them, the 60s were a most powerfully silly decade. …<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…I think humans are a powerfully-silly bunch of any age (of, at, whatever)…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was given the nickname Spike as a misunderstanding of someone calling me “Spock” from Star Trek. The real Spike Jones was before my time, but it really worked, so that became my professional name, the one I used on my badge for nearly my entire career.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>By fortunate accident, I became a tech lead at age 28. It would appear a bit unseemly if I went to lunch with my own guys, so I went along more with the other leads, who were all typically 50s and even 60s. So… they had a lot of fun making Spike Jones references that I didn’t get because I didn’t have any of his records and none of that stuff was on the radio by the time I had a radio. It was a lotta fun for these guys: they would always be making these comments that went over my head, stuff from their misspent youth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately… all of those guys are passed on now, all of them, sigh. This was one of their favorites, not Jones but rather Bing Crosby:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>These yahoos were always making references to Spike Jones lyrics and thought it great fun that I had never heard of any of it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>