Actual bedtime conversation between Your Working Boy and Mrs. D.
Me: "So I never could figure out if I liked Epstein or Horshak more."
Her: "What?"
Me: "You know, 'Welcome Back, Kotter.'"
Her: "Honey, I was three or four years old when that went off the air."
Me: "Oh. It was around the era of 'Happy Days.'"
I started wondering when "Happy Days" was supposedly set in. According to Wikipedia, the program began in 1974, with a drama set in 1955. I was a Happy Days devotee as a kid, and the Fifties era it portrayed seemed like another planet to me.
Well, think of this, my fellow Gen Xers: A new sitcom starting this fall depicting a year as far removed from today as Happy Days was from 1974 would have to begin its drama in ... 1989.
Which, of course, was only yesterday.
Old. Old, old, old. Put a shot of Grey Goose in my Metamucil, and send me to bed.
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This is the first year there's been a serious presidential candidate who is (just barely) younger than I am. People running for president are supposed to be OLD.
"Put a shot of Grey Goose in my Metamucil, and send me to bed."
I can remember when the drink of choice for our elders was the Philips Screwdriver.
I was born in 1970, which puts me 'bout bottom-middle o' the pack, from what I gather. 25 years after the end of WWII, of which my father was a veteran. Nixon's second term. My youngest grandparent was born in 1900. (We mate old cuz we're ugly). My oldest grandparent was born in 1892 in Germany. I never met him, but my 3 year old son carries his name. Another grandfather bought some shrapnel in the Great War while riding a bicycle into town to do something which was probably no good.
I certainly remember "Mr. Kotta" and "Happy Days", of course. And Jimmy the Dhimmi Carter. My favorite show at that time was Popeye, but still.
Oh, and I just got my first gray beard hair.
Take that....
Blessed Lent to all.
"I was born in 1970...Nixon's second term." - HM
1st term: 1969-1973
2nd term: 1973-1974
Well whadda you expect? I was 2.
Heh.
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