Pertinant Old Radio Nonsense, that is...
I think there's too much "Thinking outside the box" these days, instead of good old fashioned thinking inside the box. Basic "common sense" is being replaced with lunacy by whatever the 21st century folk describe as Yuppies (Yes, I am from THAT generation...) think will get them ahead by being bold and daring to split infinitives where no man has split infinitives before.
The funny (Well, peculiar, I suppose) thing is, that the places where this lunacy is highlighted for us all to see it in it's Y-fronted glory is in the world of satire.
Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Douglas Adams...
Or for those who don't have time to read, Monty Python, or my old favourites - The Goons.
These good folk show us how common sense makes sense, by making it seem ludicrous. They also make the ludicrous apparent by making it seem sensible.
I recently heard "Bridge Over The River Wye", and this snippet really gets to thecore of what I'm saying here:
For all the Gen-Y Yuppies (Genies? Jennies?) out there - let's build bridges across the river, instead of trying to be the first to think outside the cludge by building a pontoon along the length of the Kwai.
On a separate note, I have once again shrunk my head to 72 dpi...
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