Thursday, October 24, 2013

Plus ça change, plus c'est ça même chose

I was working from home today, and had the TV on in the other room.  At one point, an old episode of "Good Times" (This was a 1976, early black Sitcom on TV, for those too young to remember)

They had two zinger lines: "Some day we might even have a Black president".

Then, the young school boy in the series had written letter to the Cuban government for info on a school project. He got a response, triggering an FBI investigation.  Momma said writing the letter might now be such a good idea. "Their security people probably opened your letter, and then when the Cubans answered, our security people opened the reply. There's a lot of letter opening going on."

Prescience and déjà vu in one episode. What more can one ask for?

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