So, I was talking to my local teenager today when a black van drove past us.
I said, "What's the point in getting a black van if you're not going to get the ubiquitous stripe down the side?" He said nothing.
I said, "George Peppard could build an automatic machine gun turret out of a barrel and a steering wheel then use it to prevent a gang of federalis from invading a town. Howlin' Mad Murdock could build a 2-seater helicopter out of a palm tree and the engine from a crashed Chevette. This guy can't be arsed to run a paintbrush down the side of his van for 30 seconds?" He said, "Maybe he doesn't like stripes as much as you do."
Then there was a silence.
"Have you ever seen the A-Team, local teenager?" He replied, "Does that mean, like, the first team?"
There are days of my life that I feel very old. (Those days tend to be the days that my back sounds like breakfast cereal does inside your sock.) But when you're talking to a college student and he informs you that his entire life occurred in the post-A-team era... wow. Maybe its time for me to decide on a favorite soup or something.
I'm going to keep this short before I upset myself.
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I was getting ready to comment when I looked back at the title again. That has to be the best lyrical title yet. (I was already humming the song, but now it's going to be stuck in my head all day.)
That's more than just being too young, that's simply ignorant. It isn't as if we know nothing about shows that were important to earlier generations. If I hear someone say, with a balled up fist, "One of these days. Bang. Zoom. Straight to the moon." I realize that they want to discuss their love of domestic violence, but are too afraid of the repercussions to do so without euphemisms.
A similar recent experience that was scary to me (because of the type of guy I am--the kind who wastes his life playing games) was talking to someone who had no idea what was meant when some of us were talking about an NES. "You know, Nintendo?" "Which one was that? I never played games? Which one had that Mario guy?" Some people walk around in their own little world.
Listen, hon, I'm older than you but I never watched The A-Team. They had a van?
Craig, I like your middle paragraph.
I look back at my love for watching things like The A-Team, and Dukes of Hazard, and I wonder if I was a screwed up little girl for watching stuff like that.
But then I realize it was just a prescience of how much ASS I would kick later in life really.
I think my love for shit like The Love Boat balanced it all out, anyway.
Tomato bisque. *sigh*
Now I gotta go get some kids offa my lawn...
I agree with Craig. It's called "TV Land" and it's the perfect excuse to skip class. I'm fairly certain my political science professor saw my face only 1 out of 3 classes because of the A-team, and Macgyver reruns.
Totally worth it.
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