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   > George,   
   >> My former source for these disappeared.  This is a site that Tucows   
   >> referred me to, to find Tucows old files   
   >> They have software, books, & movies, all for free!   
   >> Here's the old time radio link:   
   >> https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio   
   >> You might even find one of your former fave stations. . .   
   > That's when the programming was good, and you didn't have to worry about   
   > questionable content.   
      
   True -- but I never worry -- I know how to turn things off, or switch   
   stations, or ban stations.   
      
   I so all my radio on Accuradio now -- I have full control over what I hear --   
   I can ban songs or even entire artists; my fave is blending different   
   stations  together to make my own custom mixes -- hm, I should go see if they   
   have the  old-time radio shows or content - they do have some in Comedy (1950s   
   & 1960s),  as well as on the Novelty Records channel -- I've blended these two   
   together  for a grand mix of old-time background radio when I'm in the mood   
   for such.   
      
   I don't find commercial radio any good any more -- too many ads & too much DJ    
   yapping. But Accuradio fulfills my desire for background entertainment (music    
   &/orcomedy, usually both mixed in together)   
      
   I listen to my fave music era: 1964-1984 in one big mixed channel. Including    
   1970s' country (when it was still country,& not just rockabilly)   
      
   I've downloaded, from the original oldtimeradio site I discovered last    
   millennium, a bunch of MP3s. including the Bickersons & a few of other shows,    
   like some of Abbott & Costello's routines (I had no idea they had done a   
   series on the "Who's on First?" type of punnistry.)   
      
   It's funny to hear some of those old cigarette ads (now banned on radio) &   
   how  hokey they were (obviously they worked, though); none so dangerous as the   
   Coca  Cola print ads saying Coke is healthy for new-born babies! (I have some   
   of  those saved somewhere)   
      
   TRthis, to me, is far more objectionable than "bad" words. . . (I deny the    
   concept that words can be bad. I agree there is bad usage (grammatical and    
   contextual) and bad intent behinf d their use, but in that later, nothing is    
   beter -- as the euphemisms soon become just as bad as the original (think of    
   all the words for African-Americans you know have been used over the past    
   century --several suggested alternatives to the N-word, that quickly became    
   slurs on theirt own & new euphemisms were desired & now we have a plethora of    
   words and aren't allowed to use any of them, or anything that remotely sounds    
   lie them (One city councillor in Florida lost his job & his future options at   
   a career in public services simply for trying to advocate for more funds to   
   help  the inner city African-American youth in his city, by saying, "We should   
   not be niggardly in our response to the need."; that word has zero connection   
   to the  word that is now considered absolute taboo for whites to use.   
      
   As one comic put it, "We can't say the N-word because last time we had the    
   ability, we didn't do such a great job of it."   
      
   Works for me. But I'm with whoever said that by saying "the N-word"(that    
   phrase, not the forbidden word) the speaker is just implanting the actual   
   taboo word into our minds!   
      
   I'd have preferred that Huckleberry Finn was left uncensored, as it's a great    
   teaching moment:   
      
   "Mommy, what's n*gger mean?" & Mommy gets the oh-so-delightful job, handed to    
   her by her preceding generations, of explaining to little Johnnie, or Janie,    
   that it was a word people used for many years to hurt certain people just    
   because their ancestors were born closer to the equator than those from    
   European ancestry.   
      
   Then when sad parent gets a call from school because her child used said word    
   in an insulting/attacking way to a PIC (person of colour--the latest in    
   inclusion terminology that will soon become just as futile as al the others,    
   IMO.)   
      
   I don't believe in euphemisms -- but I do believe in inclusion and freedom   
   for  all humans, at least those who have not rejected society & its laws &   
   rules.   
      
   For instance, I'm crippled, yes, but I am not "A cripple."; I'm a person with   
   a mobility handicap(or disability, I don't care which is used, as most using   
   them don't get the distinction, so I auto-translate the meaning & intent   
   anyway.)   
      
   I wouldn't even use that adjhecti8ve for myself in the company of others I'm    
   not 100% sure are on board with this kind of plain speaking terminology for    
   themselves, as I know people are rote-trained to be overly sensitive to    
   language subtleties.   
      
   I'm happy to speak of Melanesian police officers & pale skinned firefighters,    
   and Asian mail carriers instead of the old terms, because they are more    
   accurate than the presumed gender-specific predecessors, & I love accuracy in    
   language -- English lends itself well to detailed & accurate descriptions of    
   almost anything or anybody.   
      
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