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I use to like quoting Jim Carrey lines. I got some of the best looks with my Ace Ventura and The Mask impersonations 
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Hmmmm....
I get both. A lot of the younger folks I associate with don't always get my refrences.... and when a lot of the older folks I associate with check out stuff I recommend, their kids have usually already heard of it.
Don C.Comment
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My problem is I use some pop references allegorically. For instance, The other day a friend was mentioning that he had stored his kids spare toys in an enclosed shower in the old empty house he owned. The pile of these toys had grown to close to 3-4 ft high. I laughed and made a mention of "Fibber McGee's closet". I had to explain it to him. Then I pointed out his problem was equal to a 70 year old comedy bit. ;DComment
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Well it happened again folks..
At work yesterday our ice machine was jammed and wouldn't give any ice. I said "Hit it like the Fonz and itll work". I got a blank stare cause no one knew who the Fonz was
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"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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Old people use to say things to me like "you don't know Bobby Vinton?!!" and act all horrified and laugh. Don't be that guy. Young people hate talking to that guy. Times change. Get some newer references.Comment
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Because we had less input as kids. Television for example- It wasn't uncommon for a popular TV show to hold 50-60 percent of the tv-watching audience. Anything that happened on that show or was referred to became an almost common language. I never watched Laugh In as a kid, but I sure as heck knew about "sock it to me." Mow kids have hundreds of channels from which to choose. The same is true for all kinds of information. Its easier today to really dive deep into very specific pools of information. We really had more exposure to a wider, more shallow pool of info.
I've actually made a conscious effort not to be that guy, but sometimes it's hard to find someone to replace my Deney Terrio references.WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.Comment
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>We really had more exposure to a wider, more shallow pool of info.
True. Plus, we were kids at a strange time; during the cumlmination of several media shifts. There was an expansion of tv in the 50's, and another in the late 60's/early 70's.... with the opening up of more UHF stations in a lot of areas. So there was a need for material to fill those new spaces. Hence why so many old shows were still in circulation. (Black and White died in the 70's, but the shows persisted in syndication as filler for a MUCH longer time.) I was amazed to learn just how much of my childhood was recycled; especially that so many of the Saturday morning cartoons I loved were older than me.
Another weird shift happened in the late 80's/early 90's. Two, actually. The first was the '89 Batman. It made SO MUCH money off a franchaise the industry had considered marginal that the rights to EVERYTHING were scooped up by someone in the hopes that it would be the next big thing. That's why so many of the old cartoons disappeared; they weren't cheap filler any more 'cos SOMEBODY had a death grip on the rights, in case it turned out to be the next Batman. The other big thing was production going digital. As places shifted over it meant a lot of older stuff was no longer showable 'cos the station didn't have the hardware to play it, or it looked so weird or outright bad it was unshowable. The big boom in digital cable back around '00 is why you're seeing so much old stuff suddenly come back. Since there were so many cable channels filler was again required, so it became worth the while of the bigger companies to either sell off the properties they'd been sitting on, or convert them to digital for an affiliated/subsidized/place holding cable network. Or DVD release.
So it's all contributing factors to the seemingly large gap between us and them durned whippersnapper kids these days.
Don C.Comment
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"No. No no no no no no. You done got me talkin' politics. I didn't wanna'. Like I said y'all, I'm just happy to be alive. I think I'll scoot over here right by this winda', let this beautiful carriage rock me to sleep, and dream about how lucky I am." - Chris MannixComment
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For the record I've caught myself being "that guy" about a zillion times. It probably just comes with age and can't be helped.Comment
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Recently I could not get over the fact that a 22 year old bartender claimed that she never heard of the TV show Cheers. Other people in their early 20s agreed it was weird though, but Im positive I made a jerk of myself while poking fun at her.Comment
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Surely, I get the scenario you're referencing. And, yeah, it sometimes pays to quit while you're ahead.
I'm not usually a glass is half full kinda guy, but I more remember the "flipside" experiences in this context.
Like when you're hanging with a cute 20-year-old girl, and you use a Boba Fett reference in some part of the conversation, then stop mid-ramble, and think, and say to the girl "Oh, but you probably don't know..."
and she cuts you off by interjecting: "I KNOW who Boba FETT is." in an almost indignant manner.
It's times like that, that one can't help to fight holding back a full-blown smile, bordering on a laugh of overt joy."No. No no no no no no. You done got me talkin' politics. I didn't wanna'. Like I said y'all, I'm just happy to be alive. I think I'll scoot over here right by this winda', let this beautiful carriage rock me to sleep, and dream about how lucky I am." - Chris MannixComment
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Really funny to bring up someone like Johnny Carson to people under 30. Even more funny to mention Ed McMahon and get a response like "Don't you mean Vince McMahon?"Comment
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