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From: Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com>
Subject: Re: MT VOID, 05/17/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 46, Whole Number 2328
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On Tue, 21 May 2024 05:27:23 -0000 (UTC), Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
>> In article <v2cvjg$3ddkr$1@dont-email.me>, 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)

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