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Old 10-09-08, 10:43 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
Uh oh, not this "back in the day" bullcrap again. Yeah yeah, back in the "old days" everyone was polite, no one raped, molested children, murdered or wrote bad checks. Politicians were 100% honest and everyone was ruff tough and hard to bluff.
Reminds me of the line from Fiddler On The Roof:

"It's not what it once was."

"I'll tell you a little secret, my friend. It never was 'what it once was'".

And you're right, of course.

And America has been going to hell in a handbasket for 200 years. Just ask anybody on the losing side of any election.
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