So yesterday was my nephew's birthday and I did a Taz cake for him. OMG - the kids (my other nephews and my sister's nephew) didn't know who he was!

Kids!

Maybe we should open up the boxes that also include Ziggy!!!!

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my friend about how I LOVED Pooh Bear and thought every child should have the "Pooh Bear Experience". She told me that her DIL never read Winnie The Pooh to her children and they "really don't know who Pooh is!". I almost DIED! I mean....WINNIE THE POOH! What did she read to them? I was devastated! LOL

Wonder what this generation will think about what THEIR children don't remember? LOL

Beth

when i worked in corporate america, I would frequently be seen walking down the aisles with my head thrown back in dispair, crying out, "I am surrounded by CHILDREN!!!" These college grads had no idea who Vincent Price was, and the ONE person who had heard of him, said, "Oh you know who he is! He's the voice on the Michael Jackson Thriller video!" aaaauuugggghhhhh!!!! They've no idea the term "Big Brother" came from the book "1984" because they've no idea what the book is about!!

My 16 year old was shocked, just last night, to find out the current song of "Eli's Coming", that is being played for Eli Manning (football - his brother is Indpls Colt's Peyton Manning) is taken from Three Dog Night's song "Eli's COming" from her mama's day in the 70's!!

A few years ago, some country singer did a remake of the song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin' " .... my warehouse clerk thought it was a cool song and I said, "Oh, you listen to oldies?" She said, No, it was a new song. So I had to explain it was a song from the 60's by Nancy Sinatra ("Who's Nancy SInatra?") and the boots in the song were Go-Go boots ("What are go-go boots?")

aaaaauuuugggghhhhh!!!! I am SURROUNDED by CHILDREN!!!!!!!

aaauuugggghhhhh! I *AM* the Old Lady on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No you aren't! I know everything you're talking about. No doubt, I'm older than you!

Sharon

I'm young (23) and I'm proud to say that I knew all of what you're talking about excluding the "Eli's Coming" (I do know who Three Dog Knight are though) and I didn't know about Nancy Sinatra but I was familiar with the song before Jessica Simpson re-made it for "Dukes of Hazzard-The Movie".

I agree that many young people are not well versed in the classics...how can they be when they barely keep up with the present?!??! I fear that when I have children that I will have to be much more of a supplementary education source than I had thought I would be.

I was talking with someone the other day about that and she mentioned a program called "Brighter Vision" which made me think of my younger years in elementary school. I remember "The Letter People", and Seasame Street (I still watch Seasame Street sometimes). My Parents read The Brothers Grimm to me and my siblings, and not the "revised" edition either. I was glad to find that copies of the original stories are still available online. BUT I still know who Winnie The Pooh is!!!

PS IndyDebi~ I'm from Kokomo and was just in town for R&R late July-early August. I'll be back again in November. Maybe I could swing by your shop...

Oh I have got to agree. The kids no days are lucky to know anything let alone the history. I watched a film called National Treasure with my children who are too young to know the history in the movie as yet but my nieces who are schooled by a premiere school out of state knew NOTHING of the history in the film. NOTHING. I was putting things together as much as I could as quickly as I could as the story line fills in the blanks quickly.
So when I realized that they ha no idea what was going On I challenged them to read history and find out if the facts are acurate or not. This is a neat show to prove to kids that one day you just might use what they teach you in history class. My kids are 7 and under so they were caught up in the magic of the treasure and mystery of the hidden places and the clues involved. They are so ready for history lessons which we try and give them in small chunks.
I have to say there are too many teachers etc involved in our childresn lives for one reason the paycheck and summers off. Teach your children you are truely thier only hope to know our history. My children are lucky to have great teachers who strive to make each child involved and interested. And it is a public school on the wrong side of the tracks so to speak......

I think I am older than you also Debi. I remember all those things. 1984 was required reading in mi English class. I am proud to say my soon to be 25 year old baby daughter would know all those things too. She even sings along to the oldies all the time.

aaauuugggghhhhh! I *AM* the Old Lady on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing Laughing

NO Indydebi, that spot is reserved for me. When malts were served in glass malt glasses, sodas were "pop" and came in glass bottles. You went to the drive-in theater on Tuesday night and filled your car to the max and got in for $1. Automobiles were made in the USA. People knew how to spell and use punctuation. ...and yes, cartoons were funny. Movies left much to your imagination. There is no end to the list.
Who can recite...Four score and seven years ago.....
or Listen my children and you shall hear.....

gotta go now, my tenderloin sandwich is done and my stack of 45's just finished.

I am 29 and I knew most of those things too. I have to read 1984 in high school. Great book.

[quote="krystyne_wilson"].....I knew all of what you're talking about excluding the "Eli's Coming" (I do know who Three Dog Knight are though) and I didn't know about Nancy Sinatra but I was familiar with the song before Jessica Simpson re-made it for "Dukes of Hazzard-The Movie"..........quote]

Ditto here. Well except for the fact that Jessica Simpson re-made the song and I have Nancy Sinatra's version on my i-Pod.

I'm 39, so I guess I'm not one of the young 'uns who doesn't have a clue, but technically Nancy Sinatra is a bit before my time along with the go-go boots. lol Who knows, maybe I actually am familiar with the song "Eli's Coming" but just don't know the name. (I do that every so often - my DH will mention a song and I stare at him drawing a blank until he sings a few lines and then I'm like, "Oh, THAT song!"). lol

"These boots are made for walking..." This song brings back a lot of memories for my hubby. When he was little (couldn't read yet) his father marked the 45 single with shoe polish so that my hubby could play that song over and over without trying to figure out which side it was on. This was before his father left the family for another woman. He still thinks of good times when he hears it.

Oh Indy-D! What ARE we going to do? I STILL sing the "Buckle Up for Safety" Song to little kids when they get in my car! They usually laugh and say "Auntie B! That's a funny song!" LOL

I also sing "C is for COOKIE 'that's good enough for me'" by The Cookie Monster on Sesame Street. Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame Streeeeet! LOL

Oldies... the REAL Oldies (sorry youngsters...NOT the remakes) are the BEST!!

Beth in KY

I am a phlebotomist at the hospital. (I draw blood from people). When we have children, I prefer to give them a cute bandaid, but the when I ask them if they want Taz or Bugs Bunny, they look at me like I was just speaking French! Thank goodness we have Hannah Montana and Batman stickers, or they'd never forgive me for poking them!

Ok so I TOTALLY had this huge thing written out and it went bye bye...ggggggrrrrrrrr

Anyhow I was trying to say that the National Treasure films are fantastic! My gradnparents took me to see Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, Indian Reservations and anything else entertaining and educational on our road trips from IN to CA in the summers. We also went to my uncle's Civil War re-enactments and to Hershey, PA. I learned so much and had such a good time!!!

I also wanted to mention the American Girl series as an option to those of you who have young girls in your life between the elementary and middle school ages. They are a FABULOUS series about different girls who grow up during important historical times in America. They are historical fiction and when I was younger I read them all. Now they have new girls and I actually want to read their books too! PLUS, there are dolls that go along with the books...check it out

http://www.americangirl.com

American girl has movie out too. This is a really good idea.
Go history, go!
If you dont know where you have been how do you know where you are going?!

My daughter still speaks with amazement in her voice, that she was the only one in her middle school class who knew that the answer to '_ _ _ King Cole' meant Nat, not old!

The group is Three Dog Night.

From Wikipedia: vocalist Danny Huttonâs then-girlfriend June Fairchild thought of the name when she read a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs, and if a night was especially cold, it was a âThree Dog Night"

I am 35. A few years ago I started college. I was taking an Honors class in American History where we had to do group projects. At the time, "Lost" was a new show. I asked one of the guys to tell me about the plot, and when he finished, I said that it reminded me of "Twin Peaks." Of course, they had no idea what "Twin Peaks" was, and then went on to inform me that I had graduated high school before he was even born. That was the first time in my life I realized that I truly was old enough to be someone's mother! And that someone was an adult!

Y'all make me so proud of my son, and thankful to my parents.

He's a freak for history, science, religion, philosophy, and civics. He never watches ABC, NBC, or CBS. It's always Discovery Channel, Military Channel, PBS. He loves films, especially Film Noir from the 30's and 40's - Bogart, Cagney, Robinson. He goes to museums and actually reads the plaques next to each display in the exhibits. His taste in music runs a gamut from Classical and Opera, through Big Band, the British Invasion, Classic Rock, through the 80's and 90's with Nine Inch Nails and the 21st Century, featuring Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphy (Irish Punk).

I'm so proud of him to be so versed that he can hold his own with the best, yet is willing to listen to another person's opinion, as long as they can defend it.

And I thank my parents for instilling those interests and ideas in me, so I can pass them onto him.

Theresa