NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 09:30:13 +0000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom From: Andy Leighton Subject: Re: MT VOID, 05/17/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 46, Whole Number 2328 References: Reply-To: andyl@azaal.plus.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 09:30:13 +0000 Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-oQGyk7yZXt2KgiP2xiProuvnAdjlTKU+lF/R2C6UC4xR7AzPTM1x46URywRa1v4mJWuNMZZX3d0ubQz!Hd0FbzBDqvAn0eH/bWuqp6+WyMOyC+ROBKKFDL+LQsa6TXsnft9Zq0CFQ9+vD5bowzjuHAOPxTfA!TUn89H/k X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2254 On Tue, 21 May 2024 05:27:23 -0000 (UTC), Cryptoengineer wrote: > Paul Dormer wrote: >> In article , evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com >> (Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote: >> >>> Incidentally, a follow-up >> >> And another follow-up, just seen a plot description of a film on TV today >> in which a person is descried as a "latter-day Mary Whitehouse". >> >> For those that don't know, Mary Whitehouse was a teacher in the sixties >> and later who campaigned against the permissive society, but she didn't >> come to prominence until the mid-sixties, so latter-day is wrong. >> >> (Incidentally, the BBC did a biopic of her a few years ago, after her >> death. In one scene, she decides to start an organisation called Clean >> Up National Television. Her husband takes her aside to point out the >> unfortunate acronym.) >> > > The sixties were 60 years ago. How long ago does something have to be > to be able to say 'latter-day' for a new incarnation? Although Mary Whitehouse kept going until around 1994 (she died in 2001) -- Andy Leighton => andyl@azaal.plus.com "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Douglas Adams