Those enemies included well-nigh all the major media of the time. That, on a long fuse, ignited Watergate-the-event: a major political convulsion in which the enemies of Richard Nixon, who was re-elected to the Presidency by a landslide later that year, united in an effort to get him removed from office. You've probably seen notices in the media that today, June 17th, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Watergate burglary - or attempted burglary, the details still seem unclear.
"Two shillings a pound!"Ġ2 - Political outrage theater, then and now. Then, buy yourself a nice bag of strawberries and scarf 'em down with whipped cream. Go ahead, listeners, grumble about inflation. Why can't the Treasury just recalibrate the currency every so often: declare yesterday's five dollars to be today's one dollar? That would keep things nice and stable, wouldn't it?Īll right, I'm an economic ignoramus. The lesser inflation of strawberry prices is probably because back then the fruit was being picked by sturdy English peasants, while today the strawberry-picking is done by illegal aliens from Senegal. Prices there today overall are 24½ times higher than in 1960. If the price of strawberries in the U.K has tracked the U.S. My local Stop & Shop is currently charging $4.99 a pound for strawberries, 17 times the price in England back then. Two shillings was at that point twenty-nine cents U.S. At the point in the year when I first heard these vendors calling out, "Strawberries! Lovely ripe strawberries! Two shillings a pound …," I would know that my birthday was imminent. Twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays, people from the farms and villages all around would set up market stalls and sell their produce. At the center of the town was a large open space used as a market. I grew up in a country town in England's East Midlands. Indulge me a moment please while I reminisce. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your spasmodically genial host John Derbyshire with a mid-June survey of the passing scene.Īh, June. (A terminally diseased society.)Ĥ5:19 No wokery, please we're Hungarian. (End of the nuclear peace dream.)Ĥ3:25 Jail for George Floyd jokes. (Demography, destiny.)ģ8:47 Uruguay! (A better bolt-hole than Mexico.)Ĥ0:57 Nuke up, everyone. (Russia takes the lead over Ukraine.)ģ5:03 Deep currents. (Why not hulks?)Ģ8:58 David 0, Goliath 1. (Californians flee to Mexico.)Ģ0:56 Britain's immigration fiasco. (I wonder why?)ġ5:26 Life imitates art on the border. (Remembering Watergate.)Ġ9:51 Law-enforcement morale is low. To learn more, see the privacy policy.03:17 Political outrage theater, then and now. Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for.
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