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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote: OK, I will: Classic: "What I grew up using." Use of the word "classic" in almost any context except the ironic is a flag, I think, it desires breadth but is necessarily of narrow scope. I prefer the more honest "old". They *are* old, that term being relative enough as it is, but at least from context somewhat discernable (old pottery means 3, 4 or 5 digit ages; old food means minutes to hours). Same "classic" business applies to car nuts, or maybe they made it up in the first place; automobile fandom is compartmentalized to such an extreme as to make us look like one-world-one-computer. "Classic", like sausage, is unpleasant to contemplate too closely. Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com>