tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post993592450170565637..comments2024-03-28T06:41:07.968-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Look at me, it'll make you feel better...Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86685704821108633422020-04-21T16:12:27.499-05:002020-04-21T16:12:27.499-05:00Your concluding paragraphs bring to mind the moral...Your concluding paragraphs bring to mind the moral of a Thurber fable. "The saddest words of pen or tongue, are wisdoms wasted on the young."<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-57391337821892166262020-04-21T14:11:50.014-05:002020-04-21T14:11:50.014-05:00I have never sipped the Farcebook Kool-Aid, but in...I have never sipped the Farcebook Kool-Aid, but in recent days I have seen at least three warnings from the talking heads on local TV nooze, regarding the "supporting" of the unlucky Class of 2020. Somebody, somewhere, may have started this craze with honorable intentions, but it has since become a gold mine for hackers and scammers.<br /><br /> Even our local Better Business Bureau and "Scam Squad" have told good-natured geezers not to do it. Apparently, it's like handing the charlatans your house keys. Too many people use the name of their high school and the year of graduation as security questions on their computers. And fraudsters are using that same information (one's alma mater and what class you were in) for con games, identity theft, and other nefarious shenanigans.<br /><br />Over the years, some of my fellow Boomers have called me foolish, and even paranoid, for refusing to join the teeming billions.They keep telling me that Farcebook would allow me to stay connected to family and friends, as in "real" friends, not merely the dubious ones who "friend" you. I have few friends and family left in my life, and I've always felt it was simply another way be victimized, similar to e-mail scams and phone scams. And I have other reasons for not joining up...but this reply is already too long.<br /><br />I'm not going to say "Told you so!" and gloat. The news about the "senior picture scammers" just makes me sad. Good people everywhere are constantly preyed upon by human vultures, who are also everywhere. The senior photo craze (and scam) is merely just another sorry example. Who knows? The scammers themselves may have even started it. It wouldn't be the first time.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41780170994369856562020-04-21T13:59:59.431-05:002020-04-21T13:59:59.431-05:00When I read that parents of potential 2020 grads w...When I read that parents of potential 2020 grads were posting graduation photos of themselves from back in the day I thought Why? How does that possibly assuage their kids’ disappointment at not finishing out the school year, not having graduation pics taken or a graduation ceremony or the ability to attend prom, etc. How did it become “all about the parents”? Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373960140777556685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37452383384980941622020-04-21T12:30:44.811-05:002020-04-21T12:30:44.811-05:00Same here. Why in the world would anyone, of any a...Same here. Why in the world would anyone, of any age, want to see my high school yearbook photo? <i><b>I</b></i> don't even want to see it. I didn't want to see it the first time I saw it, which is why I threw away my yearbook shortly after it came in the mail.<br /><br />This whole post-your-yearbook-photo thing strikes me as a digital version of Grandma paging though a photo album while her grandson squirms next to her on the couch, wishing he were anywhere else.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78232429598411443402020-04-21T11:31:38.147-05:002020-04-21T11:31:38.147-05:00I passed on the yearbook photo request. Too lazy ...I passed on the yearbook photo request. Too lazy to dig it out more than anything. Unsolicited advice..eh...it's happened. But "drive safe", "be careful" not as much advice as they are small prayers.Diane Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06509402029731074394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43890606511690228342020-04-21T11:00:02.180-05:002020-04-21T11:00:02.180-05:00I honestly could not figure out how posting 20 yea...I honestly could not figure out how posting 20 year old photographs of what old people looked like 20 years ago would cheer up or help current young people. (Or in my case, 40+ years ago). I also would not think to post a youtube video of a song from the 1970s as a way of communicating... anything... with someone born in the 21st century, but that's just me. The one and only exception to that rule is I think every young man should hear "Little Things Mean A Lot" by Kitty Kallen (1954) and listen to it until he memorizes every word... he will then be so good at knowing how to treat a woman that he will be grateful he heard those lyrics. I am not being ironic.PadraigElliothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02129677070567100371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70009451279920257762020-04-21T10:21:10.821-05:002020-04-21T10:21:10.821-05:00C'mon Coey, that's the whole point! It wou...C'mon Coey, that's the whole point! It would undermine what I'm saying if I stuck my face atop it. Besides, by the time they got done airbrushing, my senior picture looks as much like I was at the time as your senior picture looks like me, ie, not at all.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-32725308017906501032020-04-21T10:16:47.653-05:002020-04-21T10:16:47.653-05:00Maybe, "there but for the grace of God?"...Maybe, "there but for the grace of God?"heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61631061513045858732020-04-21T09:18:43.889-05:002020-04-21T09:18:43.889-05:00C’mon, let’s see your full photo!
Spot on with th...C’mon, let’s see your full photo!<br /><br />Spot on with the graduation pic thing. What consolation is some 17 year old supposed to find in seeing these relics?Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2664379084495877972020-04-21T07:58:22.676-05:002020-04-21T07:58:22.676-05:00Awesome Neil! Thanks for the walk down memory lane...Awesome Neil! Thanks for the walk down memory lane! Think the hairstyles are coming back?Ralphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06847875162240216919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-71323085425240605822020-04-21T07:56:20.664-05:002020-04-21T07:56:20.664-05:00Beautiful. Nice tie. Left the Leisure Suit and F...Beautiful. Nice tie. Left the Leisure Suit and Fro in the closet that day. Good move. That could have haunted you well past the grave.Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406704590565406630noreply@blogger.com