As part of getting old, I have a hard time relating to what else is old. For example, this song. It was a big hit a quarter century ago. That means it’s as old now as Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa” was when I graduated high school. As old as I thought that song was, a high school senior today thinks of this song as just as old. I have a time wrapping my head around that.
Other than the fact that I’m old, what else should we talk about? Got something on your mind? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
“Old”?
Try workin’ — consarn it! — with dern fool kids who don’t even get “Austin Powers” references, nor “Cheers” or “MASH” ones. Jeez. Bugs Bunny neither. Nor Madonna, come to think of it. Nor Bush, for that matter….
My kid grew up with Bear in the Big Blue House and The Wiggles and Blue’s Clues. I hate that I can’t reference Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, or any of the other Warner Bros. characters with her – I just get a blank stare. At least the classic Mickey Mouse Club episodes were on late-night TV – she loved those shows, even in black and white. “Mee-Mow” (Mickey Mouse) was her second word, right after Mama.
Ah, bless “Mee-Mow.”
Had nephews who said the same thing.
I’m not old. I’m jerky.
I only know Simpsons quotes from the first 10 seasons.
I might as well wear bear skins and live in a cave…
Did Harvey / FrankJ ever find jobs?
Harvey no, Frank J, I gather from some of his recent complains about programming, yes
What ever California can screw up…California will screw up. Now they’ve screwed up your morning cup of Joe……………………….
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-drink-coffee-in-california-be-warned-it-may-cause-cancer-1516795200
Jimmy Van Heusen, who wrote the music for such great songs as “My Kind of Town”, “Swinging on a Star”, and “All the Way”, was born January 26, 1913, in Syracuse, New York. Here’s my favorite version of “Swinging on a Star”, performed by the late, great, irrepressible Dave van Ronk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb8hURRFwOI
“SGT Pepper” is fifty years old, and some of us still listen to it on oldy stations. When I was young, we thought Glen Miller was for the old folks, but fifty years before my youth, the tops songs included “Bicycle Built for Two”.
I am so old the eternal wisdom of “Get off my lawn!” is now part of my psyche.
The thing is that artists like Tupac, Ludacris and Snoop dog are classic oldies now. So, yes you’re old when the music you hated when your teenager played it is played on oldies stations.