Sobering thought of the day

[captain_slinky]

The movie "Stand By Me", if it were to be released today with a similarly "Retro" setting for today's youth, would be about a group of kids who lie to their parents about going to see the movie "Stand By Me" as their cover for going to find a dead body.

Dire Straights "Money For Nothin'" is as hokey and old-fashioned to today's youth as Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" was to me at their age.

"Mister Roger's Neighborhood" is as old and foreign a concept to the kids of today as "The Howdy Doody Show" was to me.

I'm so old...

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[aurora77]

Argh.

Ignore that. I hung while trying to post, then copied (so I thought) my original post to re-post. I did a really quick paste/click and...there it is, the thing I was linking for work.

I was going to comment about a few things, but what makes me feel old is knowing that today's 15-year-old doesn't know what The Disney Afternoon was.

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the kids today would like the Howdy Doody Show. Puppets are always cool. Innocuous guys in cardigans, on the other hand, are CREEPY. VERY VERY VERY CREEPY.

Sorry, I was flashing back to the only time my mother attempted to make me watch Mr. Rogers.

Kids today have a difficult time understanding the idea of not having 300+ channels to watch; can't visualize a time when the internet did not exist. I'm starting to think the kids today are actually alien pod people who have come to take over the earth.

[aurora77]

They can have whatever show they want, whenever they want it, if they're clever enough. In MY day, we had to plan our schedules around our TV shows and, in a few special cases, we used precious VHS tape space to record a show. And eventually, we even learned how to PROGRAM the VCR so we didn't have to be home! Kids these days don't know how easy they've got it.

*grumbles about her lawn and shakes a cane for good measure*

[aurora77]

And in honor of January 4th, Trivia Day...

The numbers on King Friday and Handyman Negri's fire fighter helmets are "143". "143" was Fred Rogers' numerical way of saying "I Love You" by counting the letters in each word. "I (1) Love (4) You (3)".

Michael Keaton was the original operator of Picture, Picture and played Black and White Panda.

[dagna76.livejournal.com]

Hahaha!! Its true. Embrace it.