wild_rose
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« Reply #30 on: November 20, 2009, 09:21:56 AM » |
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Only one of my students knows who John Stewart is.
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"[M]y toast just landed jelly side up so I think that bodes well for averting world-ending disasters. I have faith in bread although the toasted aspect may mean you're going to have withstand some heat for a brief time and some aloe jelly will come in handy." --Notaprof, the Great Seer
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biomancer
trying to be the person my dog thinks I am
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« Reply #31 on: November 20, 2009, 09:48:11 AM » |
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My students - both previous students at Pretentious SLAC and current ones here at Branch of Big U, don't get any kind of mechanical analogy for how a biological system works. My students have apparently never had physics at all in high school, nor have they ever helped someone work on a car, truck, or motorcycle. They wouldn't know a rotor if they were riding one at an amusement park. Levers are apparently a mystery as well.
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Clueless people can be dangerous. The acidic environment they can spread often needs to be neutralized, and humor is basic. - Dellaroux
Viruses invented people so that people would invent airplanes so viruses could get around better. - R. Duda
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« Reply #32 on: November 20, 2009, 10:07:07 AM » |
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My Simpsons references usually fall flat. Probably because they are all from seasons 1-7.
How about the reverse? I remember referencing the song Brother can you spare a dime? once when I was a kid. All the adults in the room were a little freaked out that I knew that one.
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Render unto Geedorah what is Geedorah's.
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« Reply #33 on: November 20, 2009, 10:17:06 AM » |
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I can still use the "I Love Lucy" candy conveyor belt scene to talk about glucose in the urine of diabetics. The clip must live on in lots of formats.
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Every educated person's not a plumb greenhorn. "where whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?"--R.L. Stevenson +-LR is wise. Listen.
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« Reply #34 on: November 20, 2009, 10:25:01 AM » |
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Fewer and fewer get my "Ghostbusters" reference.
Nobody got my Janis Joplin reference. :(
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I don't have time to read what I wrote!
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kaysixteen
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« Reply #35 on: November 20, 2009, 03:14:41 PM » |
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Beverly Hillbillies used to draw laughs, but now it draws blank stares.
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« Reply #36 on: November 20, 2009, 03:46:52 PM » |
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Beverly Hillbillies used to draw laughs, but now it draws blank stares.
I used two Gomer Pyle sound effects in a PPT presentation today (Golly and Shazam) and the only reaction came from the few non-traditional students in the class. |
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mythbuster
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« Reply #37 on: November 20, 2009, 03:58:05 PM » |
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The Chicken Pox. None of my students have ever had it (they were all vaccinated).
The Borg
Luckily, thay do all know Pac-Man, since it's now an iPhone game!
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post_functional
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« Reply #38 on: November 20, 2009, 05:03:15 PM » |
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A surprising number did know Airplane--"don't call me shirley."
Yeah, but that one goes back to Vaudeville. |
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Action is his reward.
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capper
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« Reply #39 on: November 20, 2009, 05:17:55 PM » |
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I show photos of Devil's Tower and no one mentions Close Encounters. Even when I ask.
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« Reply #40 on: November 20, 2009, 05:26:33 PM » |
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I'm in the social sciences, and none of my students get any reference to contemporary literature. Well, that isn't vampire-based or chick lit. I mean like Douglas Coupland.
And someone previously mentioned War of the Worlds--this happened to me, too! Only 2 students in a class of 30 knew what that was. And to their credit, they didn't just mention the movie. I provided them with the Orson Welles reference and the fact that it happened on the radio. But still--only 2?!?
I'll have to start keeping better track of this...There is a small cadre of weirdo students who usually get my jokes, so I just play to that crowd of 1-2 students. ;)
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« Reply #41 on: November 20, 2009, 05:40:41 PM » |
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Sesame Street, old school.
Yesterday I found myself saying "Yep, yep yep" to a group of students in response to their questions, and added "Uh Huh, uh huh" after. No one had any idea what I was doing.
That is strange, because one of those Martians (or whatever they were) was on Sesame Street just last year, going yip-yip-yip as he always did. |
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« Reply #42 on: November 20, 2009, 05:40:53 PM » |
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I once asked a student to take his blue tooth ear thingy out during class by mentioning that it felt to me like I was talking to a Borg. No reaction whatsoever came from the students.
And just today I explained in class that the mayor of Springfield in the Simpsons is an obvious reference to John F. Kennedy (and his tendency to sleep around). That was news to them.
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colette_capricious
Something is seriously agley if I'm a
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« Reply #43 on: November 20, 2009, 05:49:16 PM » |
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I thought I was the only one! It is truly amazing how much staying power those lyrics combined with that music can be! It has to be over 30 years since I've seen it. Must be Ginger. She always made a memorable impact. |
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colette_capricious
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« Reply #44 on: November 20, 2009, 05:52:41 PM » |
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You can all rest easy. I am bringing my children up properly and they will get most of these references. Except, I am mortified to admit it, the don't like Monty Python. Maybe I'll try them again with the Dead Parrot sketch. Everybody loves the Dead Parrot sketch, right?
And they didn't laugh enough at Tim Conway describing the siamese elephants joined at the trunk on the Carol Burnett show. I stlll laugh out loud at that one.
Phillistines, I tell ya!
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