Older DU'ers (say 35 and older)!

[FunBobbyMucha]

Do you ever fret that the references you're making are going to date you? I was just reviewing my posts and realized that my reference to Vic Morrow/John Landis probably sailed over the heads of our DU Jrs.

I've worked with kids for almost twenty years, and it's really sad now that, for instance, a joke about Kris-Kross making me jump-jump will be met by puzzled silence, even among my college students.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. See my signature...

That's me, age 7, in 1972 in my bedroom plastered w/ McGovern posters.

[rustydog]

2. Wanna see something really scary?

[FunBobbyMucha]

14. "Look at this old ape, this must be where he lived!"

[Richardo]

37. The Albert Brooks opening to TZ was the best part of that flick.

By far.

Of course, I'd laugh if he were reading the phone book. :D

"Thanks for the Fred Gwynne."
"Absolutely."

[Richardo]

38. "Look at this fos-sil! Let's continue to dig!"

Could not resist. Great earworm, but it's making me LOL in my cube. :D

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Kris-Kross?

At least you could go with something that lasted more than a year...

:7

:hi:

[FunBobbyMucha]

8. The joke I tell...er, told, is

"Listen folks, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, and one thing is clear. Though Daddy Mack will make me jump-jump, Mack Daddy does not move me in that manner."

I also like addressing the absurdity of rap with "It is, as the kids say today, the Schnitzel."

[kick-ass-bob]

12. tell it no more....

:eyes:

:D :hi:

[KurtNYC]

4. Nope

and pass the dutchie on the left hand side as 99 luftballoons go by because with a rebel yell she cried more more more.

[FunBobbyMucha]

16. She cried more more more because of her realization that

she forgot to do the safety dance. So catch her, she's falling as seasons change near the wishing well, to kiss and tell...

[KurtNYC]

32. Girl you know its true

ew ew ew I love you.

[blondeatlast]

35. From that reference, I Ran, I Ran so far away...

Couldn't get away!

:evilgrin:

[liberalmuse]

5. Oh, I got it.

But your cultural references tell me you are probably younger than I am. :)

[dr.strangelove]

6. It happens all the time

I made a joke the other day about something being similar to a Russ Meyer movie and all I got were two blank stares from the young guys (early 20s) I was talking to. That made me feel pretty old.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I really have a hard time when kids have no idea who the Big, big

Hollywood movie stars were. They know Michael Douglas, but have never heard of his dad. Joan who? Carey who? One of my daughter's friends had never heard of John Wayne, which I guess is a good thing in some DUers eyes. ;)

[Arkana]

26. I know who Kirk Douglas is

and I'm only 19. He's...Spartacus!

[mikehiggins]

9. I would be embarrassed to even mention Kris-Kross

so I guess I'm much older than you. When I was a kid the hot groups were Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and so on.

Gene Pitney, people like that.

I was in my twenties when Woodstock went down and my kid sister still gripes that I kept her fourteen year old ass from hitching up to the concert.

Kris-Kross? Might as well talk about Vanilla Ice.

[stubertmcfly]

10. nuh unh...

... i refuse to be labeled as "older". i am just as immature as anyone.

[vi5]

11. I get the same thing on occassion...

And I got both of your references (I'm going to be 35) so that makes me feel even older.

[benito]

13. If you tell a kid today...

that they sound like a broken record....they have no clue.
They never did update it to 'you sound like a scratched CD'.

[FunBobbyMucha]

15. You sound like a corrupted MP3!

[johnnie]

20. That's funny n/t

[fugue]

21. It's not the same

The "broken record" reference refers to when the record got stuck at a certain point and just repeat the same bit over and over and over . . .

I've never met a CD or an MP3 that replicated that effect. That's why the phrase was never updated.

[The empressof all]

17. Then there are the really oldy moldy ones here

I don't know who the heck Kris Kross is but I'm not sure if It's because he/she/them/it really weren't worth my attention or if I just don't remember :)

[Champion Jack]

18. Since when is 35 "Old" ?

[0007]

19. ....and I guess the poster would refer to a 71 year old as child like?

Get a fucking grip!

"Makes you feel old"

[fugue]

22. Didn't say "old"--said "older"

From the original post, I'd say what was meant was "not young anymore."

And I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but if you're over 35, you're not young anymore. You're not really old yet, but you're not young. (I'm 39, so I can speak to this.)

[FunBobbyMucha]

25. Can't pinpoint the exact moment, but it was at or near

the time that Madison Avenue decided that thongs should be marketed for eight-year-olds.

I have a 25-year-old friend who complains that he feels old in clubs, fer chrissakes.

My Swiftian modest proposal has always been: If we want an intelligent pop culture, every parent in America agree to pay no allowance for two years. Vin Diesel, Puff Daddy, Lindsay Lohan, and Insane Clown Posse would all be working third shift at In & Out Burger by 2007.

[MI Cherie]

23. Silence is golden ...

... I'm still not quite over some young wild thing at the check out telling me that my checking account has been around longer than she's been alive!

Oh, what a night. It's like, wow, far out man. Gag me with a spoon!

Old enough to know better, too young to resist.

[redqueen]

24. Nope!

Why worry? Nothing you can do about it...

[FunBobbyMucha]

27. I agree with the grandad in "She's Having a Baby."

"Nobody grows up anymore, they just stay assholes forever."

[redqueen]

29. Gah, isn't that the truth?

Never saw that movie... cool line. :)

[NamVetsWeeLass]

28. not quite 35 yet... But

My Son said something to me and started the sentence with "Hey Mom, You remember the Olden days, way back in the 80's Right?" I about fell over.

[Lady Effingbroke]

30. I'm 34, and while I still consider myself to be a young person,

I admit I'm not a kid anymore. Hell, "Nevermind", perhaps the defining album for my generation, is now 13 years old - along with the babies of 1991. There are young adults who cannot remember a time before MTV. Kriss-Kross, MC Hammer, "grunge" and Lollapalooza are now bygone relics of my misspent young adulthood, (although Perry Farrell has tried to revive Lollapalooza several times, the original "Lollapalooza" kids of the early 90s have grown up, assumed adult responsibilities, and moved on, and the original spirit behind the event is becoming impossible to recapture).

These are natural reactions to the aging of the generations. The remaining members of the G.I./"Greatest" generation are now 80+, the Silent generation which follows them are the active elders of today's society, the Baby Boomers are (if they're lucky) entering the traditional "retirement" years, while my generation, the much maligned "X", is edging into (eek!) middle age. The generation of young adults now coming of age, known variously as Generation Y or the Millenial generation, has and will have their own cultural milestones and touchstones, as distinctive from and often incomprehensible to other generations as ours are to them.

As it was in the past for our ancestors, so it is now for us, and (hopefully) will be for our children - and theirs.

Sometimes it's tough to realize that you're getting older, huh?

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Don't Care

I post what i post and those that get it, get it. That's cool. If they don't, that's ok too.

I harbor no illusions about everyone reading with intense passion, every word i write. Anybody who reads a single one of my posts and comments on it is fully appreciated.

So, if someone doesn't get a reference, them's the breaks. I write what i write for the people who care to read it and i hope they agree. If they don't and they disagree agreeably, that's good too.

But, i know how old i am, and i'm not going to try to hide it. That's more effort than it's worth.
The Professor

[complain jane]

33. I'm 36 and I worked with a girl who never heard of Led Zeppelin.

[Skittles]

34. Nah, I don't worry; we know and they don't

what's to worry about?

[Bucky]

36. Kris Kross will make you JUMP! JUMP! (But Christopher Cross will not)

Thanks for that flash back. I'm going to go to the teacher's louncge now and put my shirt on backwards. Thanks, Fun Bobby!

[stlchic]

39. I was in a book store a while ago...

and I was near the music section where there where two pre-teens talking about all the books they were looking at. I don't know what preceded it, but I heard this exchange:

kid 1: "Hey, was Paul McCartney ever in a band?"

kid 2: "Yeah, it was called 'Wings' "

:wow:

[greyfox]

40. Why?

Is age a BAD thing?

[Beer Snob-50]

41. I feel old

when the oldies station my co worker listens to plays something that I bought when it was first out.