In a message dated 6/29/05 7:08:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Oh No, Thomas Alva not in the top 10 - I can't see how many of these famous people are greater than Edison - eg. Oprah talkshow vs invention of the lightbulb, movies & recorded sound! I don't think so. I made (and make) a point not to watch anything even remotely like this kind of reality-feedback crap. The culture is so totally superficial and there's about as much memory in it as you have in a common housefly. In fact, I'll bet the housefly is more aware of the world around it than the people it pesters. I know quite a few kids, in their 20s and younger. They're nice young people. They like my old car, so I've asked them what happened in 1918, just to relate it historically. You get that vacant look. Not one could think of anything that happened in 1918. One took a stab, "World War II?"
O godz. I feel like a tourist in my own country. : o Edward
