Bohunks back to Bohemia

The fifties, that was the era of the zip gun and the dramatic clicking switch blade. I was never sure why the switch blade was considered more dangerous than any other knife, I suppose it was that click. That’s when we used to conduct all our gang wars choreographed to music. Not us of course, but I remember hearing references to gangs, like such and such a gang hung out at Sawyer, but I don’t remember having any kind of interactions with them.

Certainly the fighting between them was less lethal. You know most of the shootings here are not even crime, not even gang fights, just some stoopid kid walking around with a gun and then somebody looks the wrong way at him or his girlfriend.

I’ve always been a heretic on how effective advertising is. One, it just seems so stupid, why wouldn’t you always buy what was cheapest? Two all companies are always advertising and all companies have sales rise and fall all the time, so I think they are just assuming that their sales rose or fell on their current advertising campaign, but actually it’s just the periodic rise and fall.

I don’t know why you are so upset with social crap, I find it quite entertaining. Of course ‘social crap’ is a pretty big topic, there is that one aspect where nobody likes someone who doesn’t act like everybody else, another unpleasant aspect is the way, once someone has been designated as somebody to be disliked everybody else joins in on that. I don’t care much for that, but I do love joshing. What specific part of social crap didn’t you like at the mill?

So you liked the seniority system at the mill? Did you worry that that way the most talented people weren’t able to rise, or was it more like the jobs were so similar that it didn’t matter who did them?

I did dismiss your annexation idea out of hand. One, the central Americans wouldn’t like it, people always prefer being fucked over by their own people rather than by strangers, two the American people wouldn’t like it, we don’t even want little Puerto Rico.

You want to give away half of the American west, and the part that has most of the oil, and toss ten percent of our population out of the rest of the country? What if we decided to make you move back to the southwest side of Chicago?

Note that it was a black man who wanted the southern states, white people wanted to send them back to Africa. And of course had the Indians had the wherewithal we would be speaking that goofy language with all the letters from the back of the alphabet and almost no vowels

Talk about social crap, this sounds to me like the worst of all social crap, deciding you don’t like people and kicking them out.

Yes, yes, I dismiss this all out of hand.