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Dec 15, 2015 10:08:24 GMT -5
Post by gailkate on Dec 15, 2015 10:08:24 GMT -5
Love both of these! the only thing the doc left out as a sin worth living for was chocolate.
How many people would get the Mormon Nailer joke? I'm getting more and more aware of the things I consider part of our culture that really aren't shared memory any longer. We watch Jeopardy as we go through the dog-feeding, coffee-making routine in late afternoon. Really smart people with loads of knowledge miss questions that "ought" to be easy.
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Dec 15, 2015 10:36:27 GMT -5
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Post by Jane on Dec 15, 2015 10:36:27 GMT -5
Bill loves Jeopardy, but he too always says, "How can they not know that?" about things that seem so easy from our long, long memories. But then he misses one about Lady Gaga, so there you have it.
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Dec 15, 2015 14:45:12 GMT -5
Post by gailkate on Dec 15, 2015 14:45:12 GMT -5
Yes, the music, the books and comic books, even the TV shows are beyond us. I believe in being aware of popular culture, but there's simply no way to catch up. Some of it might actually be good, but think of the work! I just ordered the complete Count of Monte Cristo - unabridged, the "definitive" translation according to hundreds of Amazon reviewers - it might take me all winter, so how can I learn all this new stuff?
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Dec 16, 2015 9:50:12 GMT -5
Post by BoatBabe on Dec 16, 2015 9:50:12 GMT -5
I didn't get the Mormon Nailer one until I said it out loud. I think that joke reads better.
That's right, you folks live where Jeopardy is shown in the afternoon. We see it at 7:30 p.m., so it's a lead-in to prime time viewing instead of a daytime game show. My Mom had never seen it until she came up and stayed with us, and she loved it.
Comparing long memories, Mom's went waaaaaaaaay back but her ignorance of "popular culture" started way sooner, too. Between her memory and ours, we had a lot of the questions to the answers. We still routinely missed the Lady Gaga era ones.
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