Fry Street Has Em' Up In Arms

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This one made me laugh.

Letters to the editor

09:25 AM CDT on Sunday, June 25, 2006

A clarification

Let me clarify the opening sentence from our previous letter about Fry Street [June 11], “Preservation of a cultural heritage is important, but the Fry St. area isn’t that.”

Culture, as defined by Merriam-Webster:

1: Cultivation, tillage.

2: The act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education

3: expert care and training

(“beauty culture”).

4 (A): Enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training (: Acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills

5 (A): The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations ( The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group © The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation.

6: Cultivation of living material in prepared nutrient media; also: A product of such cultivation.

Possibly 5 (A) may come close to Fry Street: Transmitting the knowledge of the “slacker lifestyle” to succeeding generations. Or 5 ( and 5 © as enunciated by Dean Wormer from Animal House: “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” 

And we all know there is too much of No. 6 going on in combination with 5 ( and 5 ©.

Once again, let’s create an area that ALL of Denton’s citizens can enjoy!

Dan Shea,

Denton