On Tue, 21 May 1996, Greg Earle wrote:
quoted 6 lines 20 years ago we were watching Monty Python and buying Elvis Costello> > 20 years ago we were watching Monty Python and buying Elvis Costello
> > records.
>
> How about "20 years ago we were re-enacting Firesign Theatre skits and buying
> Ramones records"? :-)
> (Elvis' first album was in late '77)
Uhh...you know what I mean. The Ramones don't illustrate the argument I was
making, and '19 years' didn't have the same ring.
quoted 4 lines 10 years ago we were buying Human League records>
> > 10 years ago we were buying Human League records
>
> We were? Somebody actually bought "Crash"? :-)
I can't remember another mid-late 80's band that would illustrate the point.
Modern English? Nik Kershaw? Simple Minds?
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