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Tonight on the Cranky Old Insomniac Show: 25 ways young people today are worse than we were at their age.

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  1. tom says:
    September 9, 2024 at 6:32 am

    Is there a companion program for people who are cranky and old but not insomniacs?

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  2. Occasional Correspondent says:
    September 9, 2024 at 1:28 pm

    Only 25??  Maybe it’s only a six-hour show . . .

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  3. Occasional Correspondent says:
    September 9, 2024 at 1:29 pm

    What does Dr. Boli remember of his own youth, say, ca. 1803-1813?  Marbury v Madison! Burr v Hamilton!  Elbridge Gerry and his salamander!  Louisiana Purchase! Louis & Clark and Pike Expeditions!  New Madrid earthquakes!  War! (1812)  Pride, prejudice and Austen (anon.)! (Did Dr. Boli give it a good review?) 

    (Elsewhere, Napoleon continued a pest; pest control finally effected.)

    A life filled with exclamation points!  Was the letter M still in Dr. Boli’s future or already an accomplished feat? (surely in his past, else Marbury vs Madison would be known as Arbury v Adison)

    And, to the point, were the youth of Dr. Boli’s generation better, far better, than that of succeeding degenerations?

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    • Martin The Mess says:
      September 9, 2024 at 1:38 pm

      I’m sure Dr. Boli remembers the Napoleonic Wars, and it was the Peninsular Campaign from that war that created all those Portuguese refugees, necessitating Dr. Boli using his fortune from inventing the letter M to construct Portugal in which to house them. I can only assume the grateful Portuguese named the city of Madeira in honor of their benefactor’s previous achievement.

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    • Dr. Boli says:
      September 9, 2024 at 8:32 pm

      When Dr. Boli was young, the better class of elders were certain that the youth of today were going straight to the Pit, mostly on account of their inexplicable and unforgivable refusal to wear wigs like respectable gentlemen when they went out in public. There was also quite a bit of railing about this Beethoven stuff they were listening to, which broke all the rules of harmony and counterpoint.

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