Many things

[Tom Jennings]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Define "non-Classic",


OK, I will:

 	Classic: "What I grew up using."

Use of the word "classic" in almost any context except the ironic
is a flag, I think, it desires breadth but is necessarily of
narrow scope.

I prefer the more honest "old". They *are* old, that term being
relative enough as it is, but at least from context somewhat
discernable (old pottery means 3, 4 or 5 digit ages; old food
means minutes to hours).



Same "classic" business applies to car nuts, or maybe they made it
up in the first place; automobile fandom is compartmentalized to
such an extreme as to make us look like one-world-one-computer.

"Classic", like sausage, is unpleasant to contemplate too closely.


Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>