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PCIntern

(28,338 posts) Sat Oct 3, 2020, 03:58 PM Oct 2020

Hey! Older folks like me!!! Remember when

it would be reported that funeareal dirge music would start playing on Soviet radio, and three days later, lo and behold, they’d announce the grim passing of the Premier?

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Hey! Older folks like me!!! Remember when (Original Post) PCIntern Oct 2020 OP

I remember well. calguy Oct 2020 #1

Three days? No. Three hours, at most. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #2

Sometimes days.... PCIntern Oct 2020 #3

Yep Cirque du So-What Oct 2020 #4

Yes! mindfulNJ Oct 2020 #5

Oh. My. Gods. Hekate Oct 2020 #6

Are we being prescient? MoonRiver Oct 2020 #7

"Wider than a mile..." PCIntern Oct 2020 #8

Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake was a favorite. nt crickets Oct 2020 #9

calguy

(6,149 posts)

1. I remember well.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 03:59 PM

Oct 2020

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

2. Three days? No. Three hours, at most. . . . nt

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:00 PM

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PCIntern

(28,338 posts)

3. Sometimes days....

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:01 PM

Oct 2020

It depended....

Cirque du So-What

(29,696 posts)

4. Yep

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:14 PM

Oct 2020

I had a grudging respect for the practice, even though they waited three days.

mindfulNJ

(2,444 posts)

5. Yes!

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:17 PM

Oct 2020

God I'm old.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)

6. Oh. My. Gods.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:20 PM

Oct 2020

MoonRiver

(36,975 posts)

7. Are we being prescient?

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:27 PM

Oct 2020

Asking for a friend.

PCIntern

(28,338 posts)

8. "Wider than a mile..."

Reply to MoonRiver (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:49 PM

Oct 2020