Reply #5: yeah, I remember that bit

[BrendaBrick]

Wow, how fortunate for you to see him live! I seem to rememeber a bit he did about age. About how you *strive* for this age, then you *reach* for that age...something along those lines was pretty funny.

Also another bit he did about the cultural dilution/minimization of certain phrases regarding the horrible, psychological aftermath of war for veterans. How at first after WWII, it was called exactly what it was: "Shell shock." Then later, something else a bit milder, after that - a bit milder and *clinical* still....

I love how he was such a consummate *wordie* and brought to our attention the ways in which the (deliberate?) morphing of language and certain popular catch-phrases of the day were/are indirectly responsible for the mentality to decribe/veer from *reality* in such a way as to try and obscure the inconvenient truth of what REALLY goes down!!!