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Originally posted by JALLEN:
People are clieless about all sorts of things.

The girl who cut my hair last time had no idea who Mark Twain was.

I walked into the coffee room at the office back in 1987 to hear one ~20 something blonde reading the newspaper ask another slightly older blonde, “Just who was this Ricky Nelson guy anyway.”

I had a similar experience that's always stuck with me, except mine took place in 1980. I was 30 years old, and it was the first time I can remember "feeling old".

I was at a party, and overheard a young girl say to her friend; "The Beatles? Wasn't that the band Paul McCartney was in before he joined Wings?"

She was of course technically correct, but the way she said it made me realize The Beatles were just history to her.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
What it was was football.

I dropped ma big orange drink....

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
What an amazing coincidence. I'm watching The X-Files on BBC America right now, and Mulder and Scully are doing an investigation in a small town. Mulder just now made a reference to Mayberry. Literally said it right before I'm typing this. Cool.

I like the X-Files episode where Mulder and Scully infiltrate a small 'Mayberry' type of suburb, and they explain to their new neighbors that their names are Rob and Laura Petri.

H&K-Guy

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Originally posted by jhe888:
What it was was football.

Holy Crap! Now THAT is old! (and I've heard it...)

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Originally posted by arfmel:
"The girl who cut my hair last time had no idea who Mark Twain was."

I always get him mixed up with Samuel Clemens.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Why would you expect your 21 year old son to have any clue whatsoever what Mayberry is?

Maybe because despite being filmed over 50 years ago, it is still on TV .

I commented one day to a guard that one of our other guards was like Barney Fife. He's not a bad guy at all, he tries hard without being a tryhard super trooper, but he's rather goofy and gets flustered easy and is sometimes incompetent and I have to remind him to relax, he's doing a good job.

"Who's Barney Fife?"

You know, from the Andy Griffith Show, he's the deputy.

"What's that?"

It's a TV show, with Andy Griffith, and Don Knotts. It's on TV all the time.

"Never heard of it."

Are you joking?

"No."

Goddamned children. I'm 32, and I feel like an old man because I work with children.

The modern world is the First Page of Google hits otherwise it's irrelevant.

My son is 9 and Andy Griffith is his favorite show.

I'll bet he could stump many of us with about half the characters/places on contemporary shows, YouTubers, or singers that any high school kid would know.

I'm 52. I never saw the Andy Griffith show. I get the reference because I am on this board, and you guys use it a lot.

As a kid and probably like most of you, I watched a lot of tv shows much older than I was because that's what was on.

I guess the kids that always had 200 channels of cable were less likely to do the same.

Wouldn't a 30-ish person remember Andy Griffith from Matlock? This was on in the 1990s.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
I never saw the Andy Griffith show.

You really NEED to watch a couple of reruns. Great show about small town North Carolina, mid 20th century. Great comedy, Don Knotts is hysterical as the bumbling small town cop. Great bluegrass / old-timey music when the Darling family, played by the Dillard siblings, appear on several episodes.

Gooooooollly!

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Originally posted by NK402:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Why would you expect your 21 year old son to have any clue whatsoever what Mayberry is?

Maybe because despite being filmed over 50 years ago, it is still on TV .

So what? Are you up to date on every show that is currently on TV?

Training new guy at work, he's 23. Pulled out the credit card imprinter, started to say this is what we use for credit cards. He interrupted, where's the screen? No screen, no charging port, no internet buddy, just makes imprints of raised CC numbers. He looked at me all confused and said he'll have to see me use it, he couldn't understand it.

Exactly a year ago my wife and I went to London to see Clapton at the RAH. Prior to leaving we were shopping for a few things for the trip and my wife was in a department store shopping for shoes. The young woman who waited on her had never heard of Eric Clapton. I think that’s more strange than not being familiar with Andy Griffith.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

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Originally posted by jhe888:
What it was was football.

I dropped ma big orange drink....

Drank..."I dropped ma big orange drank."

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We live in a small community, 1.25 square miles and it is very much a small town.

you know that you are in tiny town when:
there are 58 bikes in the racks at the middle school, and nary a one has a lock on it.