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History doesn't repeat, it rhymes

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News from 1930

Found this on the Motley Fool. A guy each day is going to the library and pulling the Wall Street Journal to get a feel for the day to day news and commentary to see how it compares to today's situation.

Very interesting stuff.
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Dr. Whitney of G.E. suggests using high-frequency radio tubes for home heating to produce a “fever heat” in the body. G.E. officials say “he has not conducted any experiments ... nor is the idea backed up by any fact.”
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Who needs central heat when I can just stand in front of a microwave transmitter?
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So totally busted by history:
Canadian government carries out aerial bombing raids on schools of porpoises blamed for predation on cod.
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France attempts to eliminate some tipping and restaurant/hotel service charges and taxes to promote tourism.
No tipping!
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“Got a sweetheart yet, Tillie?” “Yes, and he's a regular gentleman.” “You don't say so.” “Yes, he took me to a restaurant last night and poured tea into a saucer to cool it; but he didn't blow it like common people do – he fanned it with his hat.”

I don't get it. :(
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yossar wrote:“Got a sweetheart yet, Tillie?” “Yes, and he's a regular gentleman.” “You don't say so.” “Yes, he took me to a restaurant last night and poured tea into a saucer to cool it; but he didn't blow it like common people do – he fanned it with his hat.”

I don't get it. :(
Yeah, I can't even see where I don't get it.

I'm trying to picture Fozzie or Rip Taylor going "You see. Because he's gentle and he had a hat. This stuff is funny." But I got nothing.
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yossar wrote:“Got a sweetheart yet, Tillie?” “Yes, and he's a regular gentleman.” “You don't say so.” “Yes, he took me to a restaurant last night and poured tea into a saucer to cool it; but he didn't blow it like common people do – he fanned it with his hat.”

I don't get it. :(
You had to be then.

Pouring tea into a saucer to cool it is gauche, even if one uses one's hat to fan it rather than blowing it.
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Nade wrote:
yossar wrote:“Got a sweetheart yet, Tillie?” “Yes, and he's a regular gentleman.” “You don't say so.” “Yes, he took me to a restaurant last night and poured tea into a saucer to cool it; but he didn't blow it like common people do – he fanned it with his hat.”

I don't get it. :(
You had to be then.

Pouring tea into a saucer to cool it is gauche, even if one uses one's hat to fan it rather than blowing it.
I would imagine that fanning with one's hat would be more so.

Doubly even. A har har har.
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I think it's funny. I envision a pair of Eliza Doolittle types, pre-makeover. (And it's genteel... not gentle.)
wot?

To be fair, adolescent power fantasy tripe is way easier to write than absurd existential horror, and every community has got to start somewhere... right?

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“Got a sweetheart yet, Tillie?” “Yes, and he's a regular gentleman.” “You don't say so.” “Yes, he took me to a restaurant last night and poured tea into a saucer to cool it; but he didn't blow it like common people do – he fanned it with his hat.”
I guess the modern tranlation would be something like:

“Got a man yet, Tylee?” “Yeah and he's totally like, really smooth.” “Right?” “Yeah, he took me to a movie last night and in the middle he pulled out his iPhone; but he didn't talk on it like those jackasses do – he just texted and read me some tweets.”
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And now we're famous.
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noxiousdog wrote:And now we're famous.
That's awesome.
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That is awesome indeed.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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"Keep yer fork, duke. There's pie!"
wot?

To be fair, adolescent power fantasy tripe is way easier to write than absurd existential horror, and every community has got to start somewhere... right?

Unless one loses a precious thing, he will never know its true value. A little light finally scratches the darkness; it lets the exhausted one face his shattered dream and realize his path cannot be walked. Can man live happily without embracing his wounded heart?
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Then again, as the above spam post shows, history does repeat itself sometimes...
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Well this is cool :)
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His name makes me think of a small, burrowing rodent anyway.
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