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Post #97,199 by rcareaga 4/17/03 11:35:40 PM 4/18/03 11:33:01 AM Reply	superballs ...a new technology (from the Wham-o Corp., better known as the makers of Frisbee) in 1964. I purchased one at age twelve from the local dimestore ("Grant's," a long-vanished chain) and, walking home bouncing the thing along a heavily-travelled boulevard, contrived accidentally to direct it into the street, where it was struck by a bumper and vanished from sight. nostalgically, [edit: amend infelicities] "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist." Edited by rcareaga April 18, 2003, 11:33:01 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #97,203 by boxley 4/17/03 11:46:01 PM Reply	doing the math :-) and looking at your picture I suspect you are elder by 3 years. Will have to get a scanner one of these days and put some of my old stuff up. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] Carpe Dieu
Post #97,210 by rcareaga 4/17/03 11:54:01 PM 4/17/03 11:57:59 PM Reply	Re: doing the math :-) looking at your picture I suspect you are elder by 3 years Older--not, of course, necessarily wiser. I did grow up thinking that, notwithstanding the evidence of my own parents, grownups as a class somehow had it figured out, and that in the fullness of time I, too, would come into my inheritance, this knowledge, this self-assurance, this certainty that I knew how the world was wired. Probably before I was thirty it had dawned on me intellectually that the grownups were in fact making it up as they went along, and that each generation invented the wheel, but I believe I made it all the way to my early thirties before this awful conclusion finally resonated in my gut. ruefully, [edit: semi-current pic returned after much-appreciated time off; 1971 pic returned to hibernation] "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist." Edited by rcareaga April 17, 2003, 11:57:59 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #97,332 by dmarker 4/18/03 5:57:24 PM Reply	Such wisdom in one so young :-) Some sayings (LRPDs?) The more I learn, the less I know. Someone who 'knows it all', does so because of so little learned. In a world of knowledge, each answer given will pose many more questions. Cheers Doug Marker Spectres from our past: Beware the future when your children & theirs come after you for what you may have been willing to condone today - dsm 2003 Motivational: When performing activities, ask yourself if the person you most want to be would do, or say, it - dsm 2003

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