Thursday, 7 December 2017

Birthdays

Sixty-eight today: me and Tom Waits. Birthdays haven't been the same since Edmundo Ros (7 December 1910 - 21 October 2011) went to join the celestial rumba band. And of course the NigeCorp silver band has long been mothballed.
I guess I'm now a soixante-huitard, but in an entirely English sense...

5 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday! Is soixante-huitard like libtard, a term much used on social media?

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  2. Very like - one who has, as they say, 'drunk the Kool Aid'. I might have drunk it myself long ago, but was promptly 'red-pilled' and have been robustly reactionary ever since.

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  3. Once ran a French exchange to Rouen where one of my French counterparts was, indeed a soixante-huitard and knew Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

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  4. Belated Happy Birthday, Nige. May you enjoy many more.

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