I went to see Juno yesterday with my wife. First date in a long time. As soon as the movie started, I thought to myself, "Crap. I'm not going to understand anything they are saying." The reason: The main characters are teens. They spoke like teens. I understood about every fourth word. It took me a while but I followed the lingo pretty well. What the hell happened to the lingo we spoke as teenagers? Damn not only do I feel old, I sound old. I need the 80's/90's back. Well, at least the music.
Now I Know I'm Old
Heathers
That's just what people said about "Heathers," and "Fast Times at Ridgemnot High." Ah, the turn of the wheel of life.
Lookon the bright side dude, you didn't spent 3 hours trapt in PT Anderson ego watching "There Will Be Blood."
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Heathers
That was a f----- awesome movie! I haven't thought of that one in a while.
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Many moons ago
(Well 2000) I was still in the US Army stationed at Fort Campbell. Since KY doesn't have grocery sales tax, the harpy (now ex wife) and I would often drive to Hopkinsville, KY to Super WallyWorld to buy our food. (The commissary sucked ass and was always out of what we wanted.) At check-out I was watching a little girl in the ice cream parlor that was inside the WallyWorld try different ice cream flavors. The girl behind the counter passed another sampling spoon to the little cherubic child, and told her "This is bubble gum ice cream. It will turn your tongue blue, like a Smurf." Without missing a beat, the angelic little girl, with curly hair and blue eyes looked up at the girl behind the counter and said, "What's a Smurf?"
I died a little inside that day, and it's only gotten worse over the years.
-Will
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Welcome to Old Age
I knew I was finally getting old when my students (5th grade) while I was still teaching started talking about this really dorky show on Nickelodeon about a big family. They kept talking about how stupid the show was. I finally asked what show they were talking about...it was The Brady Bunch. I still remember watching it in primetime and LOVING it. Now it's stupid and on Nick-at-Nite. I think that was the year I also started noticing grey chest hair. :(
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Oh hell, I have to listen to
Oh hell, I have to listen to the mindless chatter of the twentysomethings who sit near me at work...if they are any indication of the future, we might as well forget about useless things like "facts" and "taste" (oh crap do I sound old now...)
Here are some of the things I've overheard (mostly useless entertainment stuff, but annoying nonetheless):
"If you stayed home one night and watched 'Billy Madison' and 'Happy Gilmore' back-to-back, it'd probably be one of your greatest nights ever."
Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" came on the radio. One kid says, "What is this? I've never heard it before. Who's it by?" Their "Boss" answers "Right Said Fred." I don't know what I was more bothered by: that I knew the song and who it was by, or that I know who Right Said Fred is...
"We didn't break up, I just told her that one weekend we'll do chick stuff and the next weekend is mine to do guy stuff. It's perfect." Dude, you just broke up...you just don't know it yet.
"Barack Obama's a muslim."
"I'm a Republican. Republican's don't recycle."
I'm sure every generation debates the intelligence of younger generations, but...
...be afraid. Be very afraid...
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To continue in this vein, we
To continue in this vein, we have a twentysomething neighbor that moved in downstairs who, in the brief time she's been in our 7 unit building has:
1) Saw me coming up the walk while she had the front door open, looked at me, and let the door shut in my face.
2) Confines a howling greyhound in her one bedroom condo and then suggests that "both dogs and small children make noise" when we asked if we could help her find a dog walker.
3) Bitched about the snow removal on the sidewalks around the building after she shoveled the front walkway herself, then bitched again when my wife borrowed her shovel to do the walkway this morning.
4) Put up a snarky note about making sure that the ice melting pellets we use on the sidewalk are animal friendly. I'd like to post one back that suggests that she is, herself, not animal friendly.
5) Forced my wife to chase after her to introduce herself. My wife is the president of the condo association.
6) Sent her parents to the condo association meeting last week rather than coming herself, and had them present her list of complaints, including that I apparently take a shower at the same time that she does, and that reduces her water pressure...
I haven't actually ever spoken a word to this person, and I'm afraid that when I do get the chance, my hands may be choking her before I can even say hello...
Whew...I feel better now...
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Wow
you really like this girl. I can tell. Your wife better keep an eye on you, my friend.
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yep, it must be
yep, it must be love
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Choke away!
I feel sorry for you, your wife and your daughter. But, thank you for sharing, your life is more humorous than mine.
Joel
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Matt
I"m so old I don't know what to call that red thing on your head
Joel
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My wife is now worried that
My wife is now worried that Alena is going to end up like this twit because the twit's parents are obviously "helicopter parents" and my wife thinks we are too. I reminded her that the twit downstairs is in her mid-twenties, while our daughter hasn't reached the age of two and can be forgiven an occasional outburst of "I WANT SOME WATER!!" The twit downstairs, however, cannot.
I knew we were off to a really bad start when she decided to compare our daughter to her dog...
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re: Matt
It's called a do-See, I don't need a haircut-rag.
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Grumpy Old(ish) Men
In my day, we wore onions on our belts because it was the fashion at the time and we liked it!!!
(and Matt, male pattern baldness is nothing to be ashamed of or hide...)
Aye, there's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased scotsman...
Oh, I have a head of thick,
Oh, I have a head of thick, lustrous hair. I just love the do-rag.
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When I was a boy
You had the business up in front and the party in the back, OH the mullet I had, and had to fight tooth and nail with the folks about it because I KNEW that was cool.
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you know yer old when
some cheesy new wave song comes on and the female co-ed co-worker says "oh this song is sooooo old. i remember we used to dance to this song in high school."
and you say, "i bet this song came out when i was in HIGH SCHOOL. i'm guessing 1982?"
and she says, "I was BORN in 1982!"
ugh.
I got this one
I was home in Ct in the holiday season and saw one of my friends little bros ( he was born when we were in High School ) so 17 yrs my JR .
Was getting out of his car and pulling his Twin boys out of the back of it. He is 22 and the boys were 3.5 .
My daughter is now 2.4. Wow did I feel old.
Being called Mr. always make me cringe. Also turning 40 this year is an eye opener.
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These are good days we are having my Brothers!!!
Joaquin' brother
My wife said to a co-worker yesterday re: HeathLedger "This is just like River Phoenix." "Who?" asked her co-worker, "Joaquin' brother." "Ohhhhh..." Now that is old.
At my last job many of my co-workers couldn't identify Madonna's singging voice.
Kevin: You're from the great CT? Where abouts? I'm from West Hartford.
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The President Game
Back when I was working outside the home, we had a game that we played with the kids that worked at the front desk, Who is the first president you can remember, now keep in mind this was (lets see Mackenzie is how old?) 6 years ago now, and these were not like Jr. High School kids, we got Bush the first and Clinton. I am a Carter man myself.
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I read this article...
http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/news/red-121307-cusack-main,0,3551472.story
...about John Cusack. In the article, he says:
"Who's starring in the movie of me inside my head? [Some mix of] Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Bill Madlock, Julia Child."
In the print version, there was a callout box explaining who each of these people are...
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Here's another one...
I overheard my neice and her friends talking about "old" television shows and she says something to the effect of "My uncle claims that when he was a kid, they watched a TV show about a guy who drove a truck with a pet monkey"... and then they all laughed like it was the funniest thing they'd ever heard.
I sadly reminisced that I could name the show, the lead actors, characters, frequent guest actors, and even remembered "Buck and a quarter a mile, no questions asked"...
*sigh*
I wonder
what the Bear is up to these dayz.
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The Bear
Maybe the Bear will show up with a roll on "ER" too. It couldn't be any less entertaining if they had a new consulting, "Dr. Monkey," show up. Dr. Monkey will be brilliant but temperamental. When he fights with the other docs they will all shudder and say "Ooooo that Monkey," when he is out of earshot.
Also at a critical moment in surgery someone will ask for a scalpel and Dr. Monkey will slap a banana into the surgeons hand and they will all laugh.
Freeze frame. Star wipe, aaaand we are out.
Be Seeing You.
Hehehehehe
Of course if Dr. Monkey is too bad on ER they will all have to spank the monkey. LOL! Did I say that out loud?
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