In the same riff of over-reaching toward cleverness that had him calling New Year’s Day a silly holiday, and saying that he wasn’t going to celebrate it in any way going into 2000…

… my brother went out of his way not to get news of the presidential election the year 1992. Somewhat specious, since anyone with an even faintly passing familiarity with the ebb and flow of the election knew that Clinton was going to tumble all over Bush. Nonetheless, he watched whatever Fox was airing on his black and white television in his room, while in the family room the election results were pouring forth on one of the 3 Alphabet, non-staticy, networks.

From his words, at one poing the Fox screen flashed with 3 faces and a bar graph. Bush, Clinton, Perot and votes. He closed his eyes and waited it for it to go away.

And the next day, he asked someone “Clinton won, didn’t he?”

For my part, someone asked me the next day at school (I was in the sixth grade) the same question, and clapped with the answer “yes.”

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