Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:11:50 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> ase at wdn.com 04/01/02 11:27PM >>>
>
>Erica VD Ginter wrote:
>
>> OK, you can fess up: any of the younger folks not know what the =
Equal
>Rights
>> Amendment is/was? I'm curious and promise not to be disdainful.
>
>Equal Rights Amendment: one of the better failed ideas of the '60's (or
>was it the 1970s?). Briefly, called for all American citizens to have-
>wait for it- equal rights to the benefits of being a US citizen,
>regardless of gender or skin color. IIRC, it also involved equal
>opportunity to get drafted. Don't quote me about that, though- it's
>entirely possible I'm totally wrong. I haven't thought about American
>History in anything but the most cursory fashion in two years.
>
>Did you know that the AP US History tests now have questions extending
>into the Regan regime? The hot rumor two years ago was that one of the
>upcoming tests would have a major essay question on the '80's. How's
>that for making you feel old?
>
>> Erica
>> who saw the Beatles live on Ed Sullivan, watched Classic Trek first =
season
>> in first run, but didn't get to a Worldcon till 1986
>
>Ase(Three years old when Erica attended her first Worldcon. I am but an
>egg.)
><*>

My first Worldcon was 1974, and there are two folks on this list who go =
back further; before you were even a gleam in the parental unit eye . . .

mjw