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MikeWaters · 05-21-2010, 02:54 AM

That's cool. Doesn't matter to me. My life is better now as a result.

SeattleUte · 05-21-2010, 05:13 AM

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So in some ways it is merely a trade of me for Robin.

Not exactly, actually.

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Given that to some degree CP was a reaction to Robin (not entirely, but partly), and that CP is arguably what led to the downfall of CG, the whole thing has a kind of snake-swallowing-its-tail irony and harmony.

CG's downfall?

I think it would be a shame were there no CG.

tooblue · 05-21-2010, 11:38 AM

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The even bigger problem are their children ... a generation that only knows how to ask Y'. Y can't you do it for me; 'Y' is this so hard; 'Y' can't you wipe if for me; 'Y' can't daddy just buy it for me?

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/art...8genx0608.html

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"It's called the 'Me Generation' because they came of age during one of the most difficult times to be a kid," says Chuck Underwood, founder and president of the Generational Imperative Inc., a Cincinnati-based consulting firm that researches generational differences for businesses dealing with marketing, sales and product development.

"Gen Xers were kids in the '70s, '80s and '90s. Key, critical, formative years when they were watching adults in government and business cheating and failing," Underwood says. "And in 1986, when almost every Gen X group was in a classroom, they watched and saw the Challenger explode with a teacher inside."

But perhaps the biggest blow to many Gen Xers came closer to home when their moms and dads divorced in unprecedented numbers.

... They're much less concerned with hierarchy than boomers. They are independent and aren't concerned about face time with the boss. They're also more comfortable with female bosses and, of course, they're not intimidated by authority, says Underwood.

MikeWaters · 05-21-2010, 01:24 PM

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CG's downfall?

I think it would be a shame were there no CG.

downfall is short hand.

MikeWaters · 05-21-2010, 01:26 PM

Gen X is the last generation to have memory of the Cold War, the last generation to know what it is to live under the threat of nuclear holocaust.

Of course, boomers like Obama seem to have no memory of it. Maybe it wasn't acknowledged in Indonesia and Hawaii.

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MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Gen X is the last generation to have memory of the Cold War, the last generation to know what it is to live under the threat of nuclear holocaust. Of course, boomers like Obama seem to have no memory of it. Maybe it wasn't acknowledged in Indonesia and Hawaii.