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3Hotdogs

(12,374 posts)
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 12:00 AM Aug 2021

It was a thing of beauty.

My N.j. suburban high school, 60th. class reunion coming up. Our class produced many high achievers: several M.D.s, engineers, lawyers, business executives and even one Nobel laureate. (Sorry, I was not one of the high achievers.)

Reunion plans have proceeded with the usual email stuff of who is planning to attend, describe your life and so forth. This was fine for me until my best friend in elementary school. Donny, posts two photos of himself in MAGA regalia. One was Trump 2020 and the other was "Make America...."

Two days went by without anyone responding. Then comes Dr. C....., M.D. He was our class president. His email tag takes about 1/3 of a page: .... C, M.D., Professor of Medicine, well known medical school, Founder and Director Emeritus of ..... Department of Medicine at school and other titles and positions.

He responds to Donny, "Don, I hope you are pulling our leg with the Trump costume. He then goes on, paragraph after paragraph about the harm Trump has done to our country, our politics, the environment, our international relations and on and on.

It was a thing of beauty.

"Go, go, go, Class of 60" --- our class motto.

That was last Sunday. So far, there has been no response from Donny.

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It was a thing of beauty. (Original Post) 3Hotdogs Aug 2021 OP
See, I would have gone with the much simpler... ret5hd Aug 2021 #1
A classic...movies you can watch multiple times and still enjoy as if new. cayugafalls Aug 2021 #5
The good doc seems to have excised the toxic element SheltieLover Aug 2021 #2
"I hope you are pulling our leg with... 3catwoman3 Aug 2021 #3
Your class motto made me think of mine. Or what it might have been. GulfCoast66 Aug 2021 #4
Can you link the MD's response? Thanks. n/t aggiesal Aug 2021 #6
Funny story NJCher Aug 2021 #7
Hi, fellow class of 60'er. lark Aug 2021 #8

3catwoman3

(23,973 posts)
3. "I hope you are pulling our leg with...
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 12:12 AM
Aug 2021

...the Trump costume.

I so wish I could read the rest of Dr. C's response. Any chance you could get his permission to share it?

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
4. Your class motto made me think of mine. Or what it might have been.
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 12:17 AM
Aug 2021

We wanted it to be ‘unless destroyed by Nuclear War, we’re the class of 84’

For some reason the school would not allow it. I can’t remember what the actual one was.

lark

(23,094 posts)
8. Hi, fellow class of 60'er.
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:28 AM
Aug 2021

I'm not going to my reunion, too many people indoors in an area totally innundated in Delta. Hope yours is safe. There's way too many idiots here. My old friends' wife, they are both repugs, said not to trust the other repugs, they lie about getting vaccines when its convenient. They are pharmacists, scientists, so got the vaccine early. They know the repugs we graduated with, they stayed here and in contact the whole time. After talking to her, I'm not going. She's right, there will be way too many crazy drumpfers there not vaccinated or wearing masks.

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