Questions that make you feel old.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I graduated high school in 1988. So hush up.

1987.

I've seen all six Star Wars movies in the theater...in their original run. (I was 7 in 1977.)

Ditto... but only the first three (the ORIGINAL three, that is). For me, the "Star Wars" franchise is like "Highlander". After the originals, nothing else exists.


Other instances I can recall...

I have had to explain to someone that the Korn's "Word Up" is a cover... Then I had to explain what a 'cover' was...

I just got my "Evil Dead" DVDs back from a guy at the gaming club. He had never heard of the movies and didn't know who Bruce Campbell was.

Oh, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. During a game we started referencing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" ("What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?", etc.). One guy in his 20's had heard of the Black Knight bit but didn't know it was from a movie.

[Racket_Man]

I just thought of another one.

when Sears still actually had a catalogue the size of a New York phone book

Wait. What is a PHONE BOOK????

Every year I would wait very patiently for the Christmas WISH BOOK and all of those TOYS TOYS TOYS

[Evil Queen]

Sorry Jester, you can't be the cranky old fart of the forum. El Pollo is older than you. So on you and your need to one-up people!

I may only be 23 but I still get tired of "Who's Bill Nye?" questions!!

[draggar]

I've seen all six Star Wars movies in the theater...in their original run. (I was 7 in 1977.)

I was 4 and I barely remember seeing Star Wars in the theater (easier to remember seeing the other 3).

I even ran for public office in 1992.)

We need that story.

I have had to explain to someone that the Korn's "Word Up" is a cover... Then I had to explain what a 'cover' was...

I have to do that often and luckily I usually have the original of whatever song is being covered on my iPod.

I just got my "Evil Dead" DVDs back from a guy at the gaming club. He had never heard of the movies and didn't know who Bruce Campbell was.

Smack them.

Oh, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. During a game we started referencing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" ("What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?", etc.). One guy in his 20's had heard of the Black Knight bit but didn't know it was from a movie.

No D&D game is complete without at least 30 minutes of Monty Python quoting.

Speaking of that - I met a younger "die hard" Dungeons and Dragon "fanatic" - he didn't even know what Spelljamer was.

I just thought of another one.

when Sears still actually had a catalogue the size of a New York phone book

Wait. What is a PHONE BOOK????

Every year I would wait very patiently for the Christmas WISH BOOK and all of those TOYS TOYS TOYS

And put pieces of paper as bookmarks to tell mom & dad what you wanted?

[draftermatt]

I just thought of another one.

when Sears still actually had a catalogue the size of a New York phone book

Wait. What is a PHONE BOOK????

Every year I would wait very patiently for the Christmas WISH BOOK and all of those TOYS TOYS TOYS

That wasn't "so" long ago, I remember that and I'm 25. I loved that freaking Wish Book.

I've heard the "Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings" thing before, though I'd never heard of Wings, I only knew of him as a member of the Beatles.

The oldest I felt was when I turned on Scooby Doo (the original from the 60's) for my 5 year old nephew, and he had no idea who Scooby was. He wanted to watch Spongebob.

Now he asks me to turn off Spongebob to try and find Scooby, heh.

I remember when my parents got cable, it was in the early 90's. We had a 13" TV in the basement and a 25" Console TV in the living room. And we had a cable box, that was the only remote we had. We had to get up and turn the TV off.

[Crossbow]

I was 4 and I barely remember seeing Star Wars in the theater (easier to remember seeing the other 3).

Hey, I remember seeing the cut footage in the theater.

We need that story.

Seconded!

No D&D game is complete without at least 30 minutes of Monty Python quoting.


Speaking of that - I met a younger "die hard" Dungeons and Dragon "fanatic" - he didn't even know what Spelljamer was.

I can *ALMOST* understand not knowing about Spelljammer. While it was cool and I love it as a setting, it wasn't really all that successful. Not knowing about Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance, on the other hand.... (And yes, I've played with someone who thought the only AD&D world that ever existed was Eberron.)
Luckily I haven't had to beat a player into a pulp for uttering "Gary who?" yet.

[dalesys]

I graduated high school in 1988. So hush up.

I was provicted from high school in 1969 for "Appearance unbecoming to school status"...
And I have a daughter less than two years younger than Jester...
And I'm not the oldest on the board.

[Magpie]

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has everyone's attention down here in the Keys, since it could very well affect us in so many ways, and it is a common topic of conversation. Discussing it with a coworker, I mentioned something about it in relation to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. "What's that?" Until now, I told her, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, up in Alaska, in 1989. "I wasn't even born yet." She was born in 1991. The year I became legal to drink.

Hold up, that doesn't make sense. She should have learned about it in history. (Yes, NOW I'm making all of you feel old).

To be fair, the younger generation has a long history in this country of not voting. The older generation that chastises them? They didn't vote all that much when they were younger either. It's just another case of teenagers being teenagers, no matter what the calendar says. This crop of teenagers will grow up and most of them will end up voting.

And this was apparently true when I was 18, but I don't understand it. I don't understand how anyone in high school who is able to vote would survive not doing so. I mean you could try to hide the fact from all your friends, but all the people who's birthdays are after the election date would KILL you if they knew that you could vote when they couldn't, but chose not to.

We had a unique upbringing with clocks. My mom has always had a taste for some artsy stuff, and we had two clocks in our house that had no numbers on them. One was merely a black face with one white circle at the twelve o'clock position (this is actually a rather famous Movado minimalist "museum clock which you have probably all seen a variation of--this one is virtually identical to the one we grew up with), and the other was a turquoise clock with twelve circles at the appropriate points, but no numbers. My mother still has both of these. Needless to say, the three of us do not need to see the numbers on clocks to know what time it is.

Ball clock anyone? (I want one! We used to spend time watching it, the trick was to catch it between 12:59 and 1:00. This is the one clock that I would not want to be 24 hours - you'd always be asleep for the cool part.) I think my parents' had exactly the first picture on that page.

[Becks]

On Facebook somewhat recently, a coworker did one of the "what song was #1 on the day you were born?" apps and got Paula Abdul's "Rush, Rush".

She's never heard of it.

[tropicsgoddess]

"What's a modem?"

I get that question all the time...and it's not because I'm "old" if ya know what I mean.


A cw around my age was telling me about how he'd like to find a Sega Game Gear online (on Ebay) and buy one because he never got one as a kid and then this kid cw piped up "What's a Game Gear?" .

[Sheldonrs]

"Who's Hitler?"

...:

Somebody that Glen Beck sees EVERYWHERE! lol!!

[Dreamstalker]

One of my ringtones is a dialup modem handshake; never fails to get a "WTF" reaction. One kid asked me if it was some new techno music.

"What's this text saying C:\ with a blinky thing? You broke my computer!"
"DOS? What's that?"
"Nobody needs to use that anymore." (then why am I using it to salvage your computer?)

"Cell phones couldn't always play games/music/polyphonic ringtones?"

"What's Usenet?"

I remember when newscasts only had two anchors sitting behind a desk and maybe a television monitor in the background, none of these flashy sets and shiny effects.

[sarasquirrel]

On Facebook somewhat recently, a coworker did one of the "what song was #1 on the day you were born?" apps and got Paula Abdul's "Rush, Rush".

She's never heard of it.

the number one song for me was Cyndi Laupers "True Colors", i told this to my boss and made her feel old haha. i tend to do that to most CWs (most are older than me).

though i cant say ive had many questions that make me feel old

i dont know your mentioned song though lol.

[protege]

Wait. What is a PHONE BOOK????

The yellow thing...that's currently being used as a monitor riser Considering how much info is on the 'net now, I'm actually surprised those things are still in print. I've been in my house nearly 4 years, and I've only opened a phone book once. Such a waste of paper

But if you *really* want to feel old, tell a younger person that you once played Space Invaders or Pac Man on an Atari...

[BookstoreEscapee]

the number one song for me was Cyndi Laupers "True Colors", i told this to my boss and made her feel old haha. i tend to do that to most CWs (most are older than me).

Mine was Fame by David Bowie.