At 12:23 AM -0800 1/30/01, petro wrote: >>> Kids born in years between large bumps end up caught on the edge - >>> perpetually too old for the ones behind, too young to ever be accepted in >>> the society born before them. >> >>That more or less happens these days - there is a sort of lost >>generation born between the late 1950s & about 1970 who managed to be >>the first age cohort in 200 years who were poorer than their parents, at >>least in Britain (where else did punk rock come from?) > > Long Island. > > The Ramones. The explanation for this came from a band that is not primarily punk, The Tubes: "White punks on dope." --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns