NOW WATCH THAT, BUSTER!
There's one sayin' I hear now and then that irks me a bit. I've said it. You've said it. Milton Berle probably was accused of stealing the gag line from other comics during the time of late night radio.
It is usually said when an older man gets married for the second or third time – especially if the bride is much younger than he.
“There's no fool like an old fool.”
I'd like to contest that idea to a disagree, not so much because it may be true, but because it is usually voiced out of plain and simple jealousy and envy. And some of the world's best, or worst, have been young. Foolishness is not, by any means, confined to the older age levels.
Waste the better part of your next minute or so to consider what it takes to make a true fool, With that tiny fragment of time, you will quickly come to the realization that you agree with another well-know adage: “It takes one to know one!”
It may well be that we are too free with out use of the term “fool” in our everyday speech patterns. We often speak of those “fool young drivers” who have their car motor and stereo at constant high settings.
It could be, also, that we are just about equally divided as either young fools or old fools. It is obvious that neither has a monoply on the trait. As with so many features of life - good and bad – the young tend to learn from the example set by the older members. I don't think either side can go around poking fun and ridiculing the other, with some serious damage to themselves.
Don't fall into the habit of considering what other people do which you don't understand.
When you do so there is a distinct danger that you may deserve the tag yourself for saying so.
Both sides. Get real.
A.L.M. October 20,003 [c334wds]
