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"Geoff Miller" <geoffm@u1.netgate.net> wrote in message
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> Dave C. <mdupre@sff.net> wrote:
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> > The Weather Channel is the #1 television channel of
> > any type in all retirement homes and nursing homes.
> > Maybe when you get older you'll understand.  (I don't
> > either)
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> It's one of those mysterious "old people" things, like
> their marked preference for Buicks or the way they're
> so enamored of cafeteria-style restaurants.  Maybe
> people get indoctrinated into this stuff when they join
> the AARP.
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> (Strange but true: there was a cafeteria-style restaurant
> in a town in Oklahoma that I lived in back in the '80s
> whose female serving staff dressed in nurse's uniforms.
> This was obviously intended to put the oldsters at ease.)
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Nurse Uniforms, or Cafeteria Lady uniforms? Look in some old-timey photos of
institutional food service- the outfits are very similar. As to Buicks, they
were long considered a 'nice' car, but not show-offy like a Caddy. As to
Cafeteria-style restaurants- although many aren't <really> any cheaper than
a ma'n'pa sit down place, people feel frugal when they eat there.

All these little quirks are harmless, and when you start getting AARP
mailings of your own, 'them young punks' will say similar things about you.

aem sends....