Questions that make you feel old.

[Jester]

Okay, so I can't be violent towards you. Fair enough.

But I AM capable of much viciousness, and am known for my evil practical jokes. And that has nothing to do with gender. I am an equal opportunity asshole in that regard,

In other words, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.....

[El Pollo Guerrera]

In other words, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.....

This is another sign of your age... you remembered that line from the TV series...

[draggar]

I took SDNY as a typo for CSNY - making CSN Crosby, Stills & Nash, with the other adding Young. But that's just me. I don't know of any classic rock band abbreviated SDNY.

Yep - typo and I don't even know how since S and C are more than one key away from each other on the keyboard! A momentary lapse of intelligence?

Being asked my thoughts on the new "V" when I remember the original. I don't think Monica has anything on Diana as far as being evil.

"How did you know about the 5th column?"

One I heard before:

"Who was that other ghost?" (In reference to the end of the non-re-digitized / original Return of the Jedi)

"Revenge of the Jedi"? Don't you mean "Revenge of the Sith"?

and..

"How can the Spock from the future be an ambassador if his planet was destroyed? Wouldn't that make him too old to be alive?

[lobo94]

In response to Draggar..."grin"

1.)Martin told me.

2.)Beetlejuice?

3.)Ya know, George, you could have started with Episode 1 back in the 70s and gone in chronoloical order...I'm just saying. BTW, Han shot first!

4.)When time travel is involved, all sorts of things are possible. I refer you to the Back to the Future movies, the first Superman movie, and the Donner cut of Superman 2.

[Bella_Vixen]

At work, I deal with the cashiers, baggers, and stockers. 6 graduated last year, 6 this year, a couple graduated a couple years ago and a few more will graduate within the next year or two.

Every day at work, I live this thread.

[1756GR2]

The local music store was having a huge sale. Daughter gave me a list of CDs to pick up for her, and I took advantage of the sale to pick up a couple that I'd borrowed from her quite some time ago and missed having after I gave them back. When I paid, I had two piles. One was hers, paid with cash since she'd reimburse me when I went to see her next. The other, as I explained to the clerk, was mine to go on my card. He looked at classic Disturbed, Rob Zombie and Dropkick Murphys, looked at me and my gray hair, and asked incredulously, "You mean, these are really for YOU?"

Never felt older.

To his credit, his look after he said it was one of "Did I say that out loud?" so I had no choice but to laugh.

[Jester]

So I was at Little Red's tonight to watch the basketball game, and at one point, was using her restroom. While there, I picked up one of her Maxim Magazines. Yes, she gets Maxim. Yes, just about every guy thinks that is freakin' cool as shit. Including me. In this particular Maxim, which was several years old, they had one of those silly quizzes. What it was about is besides the point. But one question asked about musical taste. "Does your CD shuffle contain this, that, or the other." In the first two possible answers, I literally had no idea who most of the bands were. So I wasn't sure how to answer said question. But I felt so completely out of touch. And coming just a few days after my 40th birthday, that was a real kick to the solar plexus.

(Side note: there were a few questions like that, and I had to basically fake it, figure out which was the closest to me. There was one question that I had no problem with, though. "What kind of car do you own?" Four different levels, and the second choice was not just like my car....it WAS my car!)

He looked at classic Disturbed, Rob Zombie and Dropkick Murphys, looked at me and my gray hair, and asked incredulously, "You mean, these are really for YOU?"

Many moons ago, in the late Eighties/early Nineties, I was at a grocery store and saw a bunch of cassettes on sale. After going through them, I picked out a couple I wanted, and went to buy them. The cashier looked at them, looked up at me, looked back at them, then back at me with a quizzical look on their face. "Yes, they're both for me." Which made the look go from quizzical to downright puzzled.

One was Black Sabbath. The other was The Mamas and The Papas. I have a wide and eclectic taste in music.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I have a wide and eclectic taste in music.

I get strange looks when I buy music as well... The last time it was Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and a Swedish heavy heavy heavy metal band called Meshuggah.

[lobo94]

My little brother, years ago, was one of Marilyn Manson's biggest disciples. When I expressed my thoughts that Manson was warped, our mother, being of level head, said that when I'd been a kid, Ozzy Osbourne had been the big shock thing, and for my older brother, it had been Alice Cooper.

Which made me ask myself two questions-1.)What would come down the pike for the next generation? 2.)Did I really want to know what that would be?

[Jester]

At one point The Doors were considered corruptors of the youth. So were The Who. The Rolling Stones were the "bad boys of rock and roll." Guns n' Roses were nasty. Hell, at one point parents objected to The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

One generation being horrified by the next generation's music is as normal as procreation itself. Your mother clearly recognizes this more than most and is, as you say, of level head. Kudos to her.

[dalesys]

...One generation being horrified by the next generation's music...

That's the whole point of rock n roll... and jazz... and...

"My granddad, viewing earth's worn cogs, said, 'Things are going to the dogs'
His grandad, in a house of logs, said, 'Things are going to the dogs'
His grandad, from the Irish bogs, Said 'Things are going to the dogs'
His grandad, dressed in caveman's togs, said, 'Things are going to the dogs.'
Well, here's one thing I'd like to state: The dogs have had a good long wait."