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« Reply #45 on: November 20, 2009, 05:54:30 PM » |
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Abbott and Costello "Who's on first" skit.
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« Reply #46 on: November 20, 2009, 06:21:15 PM » |
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Monty Python always gets blank stares. "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!!" earned me no chuckles in class, just confused looks. Strong Bad http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html, surprisingly, is also news to my students. My Trogdor references fell on deaf ears. When I expressed my disbelief that they had never heard of Homestar Runner, one class told me "It's probably something from your generation." I'm 26!! Southpark and Family Guy references my students always pick up on. |
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« Reply #47 on: November 20, 2009, 06:36:11 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. Ginger? Pfft. Mary Ann! |
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« Reply #48 on: November 20, 2009, 06:41:05 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. Ginger? Pfft. Mary Ann! Mary Ann is, evolutionarily speaking, the better choice because she is more resourceful--you know, cooking, sewing, caregiving, and all that. ;-) |
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« Reply #49 on: November 20, 2009, 08:04:52 PM » |
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Every year, fewer and fewer of my students have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which is too bad, because that Nazi face-melting scene is how I explain the idea that there are certain divine things that human beings are not meant to know. Or pry the lid off of.
Also, just earlier this week, another Historical Marker That Sets Me Apart From Them (it sits on the shelf next to the fall of the Berlin Wall): I am apparently the only one left who remembers when we started saying Beijing instead of Peking.
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E: (staring at his phone) "Well? Shall we go?" A: (also staring at his phone) "Yes, let's go." Only their thumbs move. |
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« Reply #50 on: November 20, 2009, 08:17:17 PM » |
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I have the same thing with Star Trek, the Borg, and Hitchkers guide to the galaxy. I doubt most of them know who Mr. Spock is, much less that he has "green blood."
Total silence when I said something along the lines of collagen not stretching unless you're Reed Richards.
Not a clue.
The Fantastic Four movies are not that old! I was more partial to DC comics than Marvel when I had time/money to collect way back in the day, but I know who the characters are!
I never much cared for the Monty Python movies. No one is perfect.
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My work ethic is somewhere in Lake Buena Vista. I need to go look for it.
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« Reply #51 on: November 20, 2009, 08:55:10 PM » |
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Every year, fewer and fewer of my students have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which is too bad, because that Nazi face-melting scene is how I explain the idea that there are certain divine things that human beings are not meant to know. Or pry the lid off of.
Also, just earlier this week, another Historical Marker That Sets Me Apart From Them (it sits on the shelf next to the fall of the Berlin Wall): I am apparently the only one left who remembers when we started saying Beijing instead of Peking.
I totally missed the Calcutta/ Mumbai thing, too. And I figure geography was much easier when their were fewer countries in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Western Asia. |
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I like money. I like to buy stuff and experiences with money.
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« Reply #52 on: November 20, 2009, 08:56:18 PM » |
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They don't know Mary Lou Retton, or really any Olympic athletes prior to Michael Phelps.
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« Reply #53 on: November 20, 2009, 09:00:28 PM » |
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Every year, fewer and fewer of my students have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which is too bad, because that Nazi face-melting scene is how I explain the idea that there are certain divine things that human beings are not meant to know. Or pry the lid off of.
Ha! I will have to try this sometime. Awesome. |
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« Reply #54 on: November 20, 2009, 09:08:36 PM » |
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They haven't seen the first of anything - Star Wars, Die Hard.
They don't know what the Bay of Pigs was.
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« Reply #55 on: November 20, 2009, 09:32:30 PM » |
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I had students this semester who had no clue when the Civil Rights movement was. A couple guessed in the 1800's sometime.
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I have no tolerance for swinish behavior, except from actual swine.
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« Reply #56 on: November 20, 2009, 10:26:17 PM » |
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Some of these, I get, but what kind of parent would raise a child without having them watch Monty Python??
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« Reply #57 on: November 20, 2009, 11:19:38 PM » |
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I shall try to work-in some Muppet references and report back.
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« Reply #58 on: November 20, 2009, 11:21:31 PM » |
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Some of these, I get, but what kind of parent would raise a child without having them watch Monty Python??
I let my 8 year old watch the French taunting bit from the Holy Grail. She thought it was pretty funny, so I've got hope. Spouse didn't think I should be showing her though. My students have never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I try to point out how that mountain is a volcanic plug, but I get blank stares. |
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There is nothing more metal than riding in a rocket ship shaped like a guitar. Except for maybe " the lightning." "Dr. Isotope, you sure do talk about poop a lot." -- student |
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« Reply #59 on: November 20, 2009, 11:26:04 PM » |
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My students have never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I try to point out how that mountain is a volcanic plug, but I get blank stares.
Wait, are you one of my sockpuppets? I just showed that slide today and got the same reaction. Even after going "Doo doo doo doo dooooooooo." |
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