Comments on: Man Falls Asleep Reading Blog http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/08/22/736/ One more bite of the apple. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:06:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/08/22/736/#comment-71545 David Thayer Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:28:30 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/08/22/736/#comment-71545 Maybe the Flintstones Quarterly? Maybe the Flintstones Quarterly?

]]> By: David I http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/08/22/736/#comment-71544 David I Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:26:09 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/08/22/736/#comment-71544 "Non-readers confound and disturb those who like to read and these surveys tend to take on overtones of Fifties horror movies ( They don’t read…they’re not human.) This is viewed as contagion, part of the dumbing down process that leaps from village to village until The Dark Ages return. The last vestige of civilization will be a man in a Flintstone Blow-up Pool sound asleep listening to Ted Nugent." You've nailed it. This deserves to be expanded into a magazine article somewhere. I think for most of us, it's either Pod People OR the Fall of Rome. You've made me realize it's both. “Non-readers confound and disturb those who like to read and these surveys tend to take on overtones of Fifties horror movies ( They don’t read…they’re not human.) This is viewed as contagion, part of the dumbing down process that leaps from village to village until The Dark Ages return. The last vestige of civilization will be a man in a Flintstone Blow-up Pool sound asleep listening to Ted Nugent.”

You’ve nailed it. This deserves to be expanded into a magazine article somewhere. I think for most of us, it’s either Pod People OR the Fall of Rome. You’ve made me realize it’s both.

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