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Dan Huneke's avatar

FYI --- I love Herman's Hermits. We went to see them a few years ago and they were really good. Instead of lighting our lighters at the end, they just shined a light on all the white haired people in the

audience.

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Rita Jane Gabbett's avatar

So good. Thanks for this one.

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Anne-Marie Epp's avatar

So true, so true, say I, nodding my penitent, wizened head. Loved the column.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

I love your comments, you old Paraguayan Mennonite....

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John C Abell's avatar

But you had to have seen it coming, based on Jones’s earlier column calling TV “a silly fad” (“Nobody thinks radio needs pictures”). And of course my personal favorite, “Steve Jobs should just get a job.”

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Robert  Basler's avatar

I lost interest in Paul when he declared that power steering would be gone in a year....

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Robert  Basler's avatar

I guess my tastes matured a bit....

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Nathan's avatar

Curious to know how it came about that you, initially put off by the “nightmarish” sounds of The Who, then developed bonafide aural tastebuds for the selfsame band.

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Susan Applegate's avatar

Hey, at least you never wrote a glowing article about that up and coming business tycoon , Donald Trump!

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Robert  Basler's avatar

True, and a New York Times did just that, long ago, even mentioning his Robert Redford good looks....

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Susan Applegate's avatar

Did Barbara write that one?

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Robert  Basler's avatar

No, I'm the only one she could describe as having Robert Redford good looks...

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Paul Vitello's avatar

Many of us were still prisoners of AM radio in 1967. So in the mix as I remember it — Nancy Sinatra, the Cowsills, Bobby Vinton,, Neil Diamond— the Who might have been disconcerting and Herman’s Hermits well yeah, kinda ‘refreshing.’. This doesn’t expunge the record of your incorrect judgements, comrade.The record is the record. But.. it coulda been any of us.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

is this you cheering me up, Paul?

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Lynda Gildea's avatar

Enjoyed! We are so full of ourselves when we are in our twenties! Confession is good for our soul! Lynda Gildea

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Robert  Basler's avatar

thank you for reading and commenting, Lynda...

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Bob,

So true!! And it's even worse now, with the internet. When I was a reporter I used to live in fear of what I called a Tea with Hitler episode -- writing a story on someone who turns out to be a monster and missing it. You're a brave man, to look back at those stories. I was gratuitously snippy to so many people. I'd like to forget it.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

Thanks, Joyce... I've seen your Permanent Record, and it's not bad...

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Sharon Butsch Freeland's avatar

Do you remember the given name of your first grade teacher, Miss Judd? There was a teacher named Miss Judd at IPS School 60 in the late Fifties and early Sixties. I'm thinking she may have been the same teacher you had in the early Fifties.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

Yes, it's possible she took a cut in pay just to get away from me. Many teachers did that... No, I don't recall her given name. When you're in the first grade, that's way above your pay grade.

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Sharon Butsch Freeland's avatar

I tried to find her in the R. L. Polk Indianapolis City Directories of the 1950s but was unsuccessful.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

It's also possible she was actually MRS. Judd, and thus had no given name of her own.

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trixiebettsDornoch's avatar

Amen

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Julia Whitehead's avatar

Good stuff!

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