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Somebody posted a link to a "country living" forum. I bopped on over there, found it interesting, but before I bookmarked it Netscape locked up. So I came back here, but can't find it :(

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), January 11, 2000

Answers

It was on the prep forum.

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Countryside

-- beckie (sunshine_horse@yahoo.com), January 11, 2000.


I hate those Senior Moments.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), January 11, 2000.

Thanks, Beckie!

BW, I don't have altzheimers, I have sometimers...

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), January 11, 2000.


I had sometimers, but it has now progressed to halfzheimers.

-- enoughis (enough@enuf.com), January 11, 2000.

Often exascerbated by Wisenheimer's...

-- DeeEmBee (macbeth1@pacbell.net), January 11, 2000.


I keep trying to find a common thread among us. First, I thought it might be science fiction. But that wasn't quite right. Is it possible we are all over 50? Did something happen in the '40's to make us into "preppers?"

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 11, 2000.

Pam...I'm still "wet behind the ears" at 43.

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), January 11, 2000.

Or maybe it was the '60's-------- Bean sprouts, homemade wholewheat bread, even wholewheat maccaroni salad, your own farm and goats milk for breakfast. Is it the updated for the '90's Back-to-the-Earth movement?

-- Pam Goodrich (jpjgood@penn.com), January 11, 2000.

To TM-- Another perfectly good theory down the tubes.

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 11, 2000.

It's all the subliminal stuff in Beatles and Stones music.

Chuck (DO you remember "Paul is DEAD?" and backwards messages??)

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 11, 2000.



PAM:

HELP! I'm only 29...though I have extensively read (and enjoyed!) Asimov, Heinlein, Clark, etc. since I was 11 yrs old.

I just busted your theory, SOMEBODY CALL FLINT!!!!!!

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), January 11, 2000.


Pam, you asked: Did something happen in the '40's to make us into "preppers?"

Er, World War II?

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), January 11, 2000.


I suffer from 'I coulda told ya if ya handn't asked me' variety of alzheimer's.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), January 11, 2000.

To Old Git-- I was born in '43 and was too young to directly experience much of WWII. Several people I have met on TB2000 are roughly the same age. I hadn't forgotten WWII maybe just underestimated it as a factor. My mother would tell me of being hungry in England during WWI because of rationing. We always had plenty of food stocked up so that would never happen again. There probably isn't only one reason that we are preppers--but I'll probably go on trying to find one

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 11, 2000.

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