On Jan 6, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Bud Osbourne wrote:
> Material success was far more understated, in those days (at least,
> where I lived), than it is today
> ("if ya got it, FLAUNT it", or, at least make everyone THINK ya got
> it).
I think you're right about that, Bud. There were limits, and most
people understood where those limits were. Today, there aren't any
limits that I can see.
But this wasn't true about cars! Go back and look at a '59 Oldsmobile
-- a car that many a middle-class family either owned or aspired to own
-- and tell me what was understated about it.
The year that car came out, my father bought a new SEAT. That guy
really understood understatement.
Mark
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