Popular culture in my rear-view mirror
I'm expecting something in the mail, and I said so to a young co-worker.
"I'm as excited as a kid waiting for a package from Battle Creek, Mich.,'' is the way I put it.
A blank stare from the co-worker.
"You don't what I'm talking about, do you?'' I asked.
He shook his head, and I explained about cereal boxtops and how you mailed them off to Battle Creek to get your prize.
I'm just shy of 50 and I figure that if I know what "23 Skidoo'' means, it's not too much to ask that 20-somethings have some knowledge of the way the world worked in 1965.
"I'm as excited as a kid waiting for a package from Battle Creek, Mich.,'' is the way I put it.
A blank stare from the co-worker.
"You don't what I'm talking about, do you?'' I asked.
He shook his head, and I explained about cereal boxtops and how you mailed them off to Battle Creek to get your prize.
I'm just shy of 50 and I figure that if I know what "23 Skidoo'' means, it's not too much to ask that 20-somethings have some knowledge of the way the world worked in 1965.
posted by Michael Riley at 9:55 AM
8 Comments:
Why? They can just google it.
That shows you what clueless knuckleheads these kids are when they get out of school.You would think with all the taxes I pay for public schools someone would teach these morons history.Half these kids can't find the US on a world map, don't know who their congressman is,and wouldn't know the bill of rights if someone hit them in the face with it.But they are so "in touch" with their feelings and self-esteem.
I would argue that a good percentage of your generation prob. doesn't know those things either.
When you get your decoder ring in the mail don't be upset when the secret message turns out to be: Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine.
Can you interpret what half the kids' text message abbrev. mean or who the latest hip-hop groups are?
Not without that decoder ring!
It strikes me that a decoder ring might come in handy in deciphering those ubiquitous spam e-mail subject lines, too.
wtf?
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