Dan

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Name: Dan
Date registered: December 6, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Presidents’ Day is a confusing holiday — February 16, 2012
  2. Truth is, I like Hannah Montana’s Daddy better — December 7, 2007
  3. Silly studies make no sense to Baby Boomers — October 26, 2007
  4. The moral of a furniture delivery story — October 19, 2007
  5. Watch out for vampires and writers — October 6, 2007

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Feb
16

Presidents’ Day is a confusing holiday

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President’s Day is a little bit puzzling to me, but it didn’t used to be. When I was in elementary school and until 1971, we celebrated the holiday with two days off from school, one for President Washington and one for President Lincoln. Every school child knew that President Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. …

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Dec
07

Truth is, I like Hannah Montana’s Daddy better

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“Don’t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don’t think i’t understand!”—Billy Ray Cyrus. Teen idols are generally not well known in the over-50 crowd. Ask any card-carrying baby boomer to name a current teen star, even one as popular as the Disney Channel’s Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana. Few can do it. …

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Oct
26

Silly studies make no sense to Baby Boomers

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“A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies not soft and chewy cookies like you make.” (Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.) More often than not these days, market research and silly studies and polls make absolutely no sense to me, and …

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