Becoming aware of my character defects leads me to the next step--blaming my
parents. :)  - Vicky Love (from an unidentified source!)


At 11:26 AM 12/8/1999 -0500, Steven Bird wrote:
>Notwithstanding P.K. Geevarghese's possibly valid observation (in some
>people's opinion), I do believe that the real message here is that the more
>things change, the more they stay the same.  ;-)
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>Steve Bird
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>At 12:38 PM 12/7/99 -0500, P.K. Geevarghese wrote:
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>>Socrates did not know what we know now.  You and I and their parents made
>>them the way they are today.  Don't blame the young alone but 99% of the
>>blame goes to others like us and their parents.  Let's treat them better
>>and they will become better!  Dr. Geevarghese.
>>
>>On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Oralia Preble-Niemi wrote:
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>>>      "Youth today love luxury.  They have bad manners, contempt for
>>> authority, no respect for older people, and talk nonsense when they should
>>> be working.  Young people do not stand up any longer when adults enter the
>>> room.  They contradict their parents, talk too much in company, guzzle
>>> their food, lay their legs on the table and tyrannize their elders."
>>>
>>> who wrote this????  Scroll down for the answer. . . .
>>>  ..............
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>>> Socrates, indicting the youth of athens, greece, circa 500 B.C.
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>>> **************************************
>>> Oralia Preble-Niemi,Ph.D.
>>> Professor and Head
>>> Foreign Languages & Literatures
>>> University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>>> Chattanooga, TN  37403
>>> ***************************************
>>>
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>Dr. Steven Bird
>Director of Orchestras
>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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