Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/17/25 12:14 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:58:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:19:56 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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On 2025-03-16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:32:07 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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... Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side".

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“he was a she” ... bit woke, don’t you think ...

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It predated "woke", and even PC 1.0.
And it didn't politicize sex.

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Have you really forgotten what the song was about? Or were you too young
to notice, back then?

 Did you miss the part about 'politicize'?  Apparently there was a version
the changed 'and the colored girls' but I never heard it. If Candy wanted
to suck Holly's dick while being screwed by Little Joe nobody cared. They
were all too zoned out on Valium.

   Exactly ... it was "social" rather than "political".
   Nobody was keen to make 'Lola' or whomever "more
   equal" under the law. Weird people at weird affairs,
   only the ultra-stuffy puritans cared in the least.
   They were the ones in the wrong, trying to make the
   weird people "less equal" under the law, "SEND IN
   THE VICE SQUAD !!!"
   Never heard any version missing "and the colored girls sing".
   Late 60s they WERE "colored girls", "black girls" came a bit
   later in the USA. We still have the NAA(CP).
   Oddly, by the late 60s/early 70s, racism was worse in
   northern big cities than in 'the south' by and large.