2016 Postmortem
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This is mostly what I hear on GDP:
A little less civil, but about this level of discourse. Just to be sure, we DO know the Republicans are our adversaries, right?
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)about utiliizing a Madison Avenue product for your argument, given that almost all candidates on both sides of the aisle are packaged and presented by Madison Avenue?
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/07/jon-stewart-bull-speech-daily-show
DFW
(54,050 posts)I remembered something from when I must have been about ten years old, and found it to be on a similar level, that's all.
**on edit--at that age, the only thing Madison Avenue meant to me was it was one of the streets we had to cross to get from my grandparents' apartment to get to Central Park.
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)485 MADison Avenue, the epicenter of my universe
DFW
(54,050 posts)At that age for sure!
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)in 5th and 6th grade.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)DFW
(54,050 posts)I think these days it is more of an upscale address, but in the fifties far less so. My grandfather didn't have the kind of money needed to buy an apartment like the one he lived in today. He worked his way through the depression doing odd jobs, including taking my mom and the kids in her class to and from school. Although very much a Noo Yawkah, his ancestors were deadbeat Mississippi river boat gamblers who fled to the relative anonymity of NYC to escape their debts.
Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)Iirc, my sister used to live on East 89th, right around the corner from Elaine's, back in the 1980's. Happy Thanksgiving.
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)I guess the hourly rates are more than some can afford these days!
My grandfather sent out a Christmas card when he was 99. It had a photo of himself--looking very much his age--and had the caption: "Compliments of the Seasoned." He never lost his wit until he died--3 years later. For that matter, at age 80, he took up painting, and DID paint his impression of a Madison Avenue boardroom:
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He called it "The Blockheads" after the "Peanuts" epithet. He could have sold that painting 100 times. I still have it on my wall here in Germany. No way in the world that painting leaves the family as long as I'm still alive!
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)or co-opt it for concensus or expediency or money.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Because the lesser of the two evils is still evil.