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  • Registered: 2011-06-27
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Topic: Bad predictions, circa 1961

I just bought a old book on race car drivers ("Men At Speed", published 1961). The opening page tells how heroic race drivers are:

"... he is a figure that gets into our daydreams as a famous movie actor, or orchestra conductor, or baseball player might. But Paul Newman will never have to deal with a tire bursting at 130 MPH..."

Funny they picked PLN as the actor - maybe he read that once and decided to prove them wrong.

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Re: Bad predictions, circa 1961

I haven't dreamed about an orchestra conductor lately.

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Re: Bad predictions, circa 1961

squidbreath wrote:

I haven't dreamed about an orchestra conductor lately.

In college the conductor of the orchestra I played in was a very good-looking young professor...  She populated my dreams for a while....

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Re: Bad predictions, circa 1961

copulated your dreams? what?

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