Link-Suffused Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- I'm the eldest student in the class I'm taking. Occasionally, the teacher makes comments referencing things that I'm the only one that is old enough to remember (as an example, from Wednesday's class: [when talking about parallel parking] "You pull up even with the front car, roll down your window, and say, 'Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?'"). I am quite amused.

-- Random movie-parody title thought (after seeing the special school-route version of the 66 bus go past every morning while waiting for the full-route 66): "Brighton Bus Memoirs"

-- Is refusing to eat carob on Tu b'shvat the Bokser Rebellion?

-- I listen to WFNX all day (yay for streaming audio) at work. They've got an ad they've been running a lot in anticipation of Valentine's Day for PajamaGram. Every time they play it, I start singing to myself: "The Pajama Gram/Is the Gram I'm in..."

-- You can bid on eBay to put your name (or another name of your choosing) on the Fleet Center. I've seen lots of good suggestions. Me, I'd probably want to name it "Fred" or somesuch, so it's a good thing I'm not entering the auction.

Comments

[perpet.livejournal.com]

How *young* are the people in your class? I'm 22, and I distinctly remember Grey Poupon. My god, that's how we used to amuse ourselves on car trips. [Imagine five kids desperately making the 'roll down' motion, then shouting in unison "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon'? Luckily, most people were amused.]

I would insist that Fibber McGee be put onto the Fleet Center. Or possibly Timmy, in rememberence of my dead fish.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Most of the students in the class seem to be about 15-18. It's scary-amusing sometimes.

As for Fibber McGee, then I think we'd have to rename North Station (the train/subway station right next to the Fleet Center) "Molly." :-)

[donovanstitch.livejournal.com]

One funny age-based and cultural blind spot I bumped into recently involves utter ignorance that the popular catered-simcha standard known as "Asher Bara" is actually "Land Down Under" by Men at Work, circa 1982.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I remember going to a neighbor's wedding party and practically laughing when the Men at Work song came on, rather than Asher Bara :-).

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the very act of rolling down a window... :-)

[running-girl4.livejournal.com]

I just got the rolling down a car window thing...boy am I old. :)
I only could think of a car window that way.