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On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:52:57PM -1000, david wrote:

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> Brent Busby wrote:

>

>>> If the current system of complete bombardment and brainwashing is allowed

>>> to continue unchecked we are all complicit in the results.

>>

>> I don't mean to be offensive, but that does sound an awful lot like

>> what parents were saying when Elvis came out.  :)

>

> I studied and played ragtime quite a bit. That was the "popular music"

> my grandmother loved when she was young. One time when I was playing

> some ragtime at her house, she came over and said, "Oh, you're playing

> that dirty ragtime music." That was what her parents had said about

> ragtime when it was popular!

>

Yes, wasn't it the music of whorehouses? The piano player would sit there in the parlor, striding away, while the gentlemen were waiting for appointments or flirting with the ladies.
-ken

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