# If You're Old Enough... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703 "2007-12-30T16:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/1 "2007-12-30T16:29:13Z")
If you’re old enough to remember when Dilbert was funny, you’re Generation Y. If you’re old enough to remember when Garfield was funny, you’re Generation X. If you’re old enough to remember when Peanuts was funny, you’re a baby boomer. If you’re old enough to remember when Blondie was funny, you’re dead. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/2 "2007-12-30T17:20:12Z")
“Peanuts” is still funny; “Garfield” has been funny about three times. (Here’s one (paraphrased from memory): a litte baby bird hops up to Garfield and says, “Excuse me, sir, have you seen my Uncle Pete?” Garfield answers, “I don’t know. What does he taste like?”) If you’re old enough to remember when “Cathy” was funny, you’re from an alternate universe. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/3 "2007-12-30T19:12:43Z")
If you’re old enough to vote, you have been jaded to the whole process for years. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/4 "2007-12-30T19:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] If you’re old enough to remember when Garfield was funny, you’re Generation X. 😃 [/QUOTE] I was in Fifth grade in 1989. All my friends and I loved Garfield books and thought they were hilarious. Does this make me Gen X? I think kids today still like Garfield. He was, of course, never _really_ funny. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/5 "2007-12-30T19:54:51Z")
“Garfield” was never funny; Never, ever, ever. if, on the other hand, you’re old enough to remember when “Bloom County” made savagely funny mockery of Garfield (in the form of Bill the Cat), then you’re generation X. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/6 "2007-12-30T20:04:21Z")
And if you remember [The Academia Waltz,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Academia_Waltz) you had a friend at UT. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/7 "2007-12-30T20:24:59Z")
If you remember when _The Simpsons_ was funny, you’re disappointed every Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/8 "2007-12-30T20:47:27Z")
If you remember when Benny Hill was on daily TV following Tom & Jerry, you’re Gen X. And from eastern Massachusetts. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/9 "2007-12-30T21:33:05Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] If you’re old enough to remember when Dilbert was funny, you’re Generation Y. If you’re old enough to remember when Garfield was funny, you’re Generation X. If you’re old enough to remember when Peanuts was funny, you’re a baby boomer. If you’re old enough to remember when Blondie was funny, you’re dead. 😃 [/QUOTE] Dilbert was quite funny a couple of times this week. You need to be old enough to have worked in a hierarchy to understand it. When Garfield first came out of the inkwell, he was only occasionally funny. Jim Davis has a heckuva franchise going, and his fans are satisfied with drollity. Charles Shulz is dead, and everything you see now is something I saw the first time. These “classic” Peanuts strips are not being run in order, and the gags that took a few days to play out are lost. I do remember when Blondie was funny, but I’m not yet dead. [Ratso Rizzo] Hey! I’m walkin’ heah![/Ratso Rizzo] I wasn’t around when Dagwood was rich and Blondie was his girlfriend. They already had both kids when I was a kid, and Daisy was one of several dogs that all looked about the same. Dagwood hadn’t met Elmo E. Elmo yet. A running gag was Dagwood’s reaction to some crazy turn of events. In the last panel, he’d be in the kitchen, pouring a shaky stream of coffee into a cup. Blondie was still a stay-at-home mom, not working in the Deli-Catering shop. I was born in August of 1949. I learned to read at age three, and I’ve been following comic strips ever since. When Dad read the funnies at the breakfast table, I read the folded-over part of the comics page from the other side of the table. For a while, I read better upside-down than right-side-up. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/10 "2007-12-30T22:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] If you remember when Benny Hill was on daily TV following Tom & Jerry, you’re Gen X. And from eastern Massachusetts. [/QUOTE] If you are really Gen X, you were likely watching re-runs of both of these, I’m afraid… ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/11 "2007-12-31T00:53:14Z")
[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] If you are really Gen X, you were likely watching re-runs of both of these, I’m afraid… [/QUOTE] I didn’t say they were first run. But they were what seemed, even at the time, to be an odd juxtaposition. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/12 "2007-12-31T00:57:39Z")
What did the big flower say to the little flower? Hiya bud! I thought that joke was hilarious when I was four, and tormented my older sister by telling it to her 50 times a day. It had more to do with my age, than the year. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/13 "2007-12-31T01:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] If you’re old enough to remember when Dilbert was funny, you’re Generation Y. [/QUOTE] Dilbert’s supposed to be funny? I thought it was a documentary. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/14 "2008-01-01T02:22:52Z")
If you’re old enough to remember when _L’il Abner_ and _Pogo_ were considered sharp, satirical commentaries on society, you’re now looking for insurance to protect you against robots who eat old people’s medicine. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/15 "2008-01-01T02:46:12Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] If you’re old enough to remember when _L’il Abner_ and _Pogo_ were considered sharp, satirical commentaries on society, you’re now looking for insurance to protect you against robots who eat old people’s medicine. [/QUOTE] Never missed Pogo. And, about the medicine…you been reading my mail? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/16 "2008-01-01T04:56:26Z")
Who cares about old comic strips anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/17 "2008-01-01T06:47:29Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Who cares about old comic strips anyway? [/QUOTE] The Greatest Generation? ---
**Author:** ![Pel2na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Pel2na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pel2na)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/18 "2008-01-01T07:34:33Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Who cares about old comic strips anyway? [/QUOTE] “Who cares about (insert the name of anything people of lesser cool might like) anyway?” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/19 "2008-01-01T07:55:40Z")
You guys might want to check the batteries on your irony scanners and then run them over my username again. If you hear a whooshing sound you’ll know it’s working. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703/20 "2008-01-01T18:13:50Z")
If you remember when there were no reruns on tv, and you assumed that everything you watched would be lost forever . . . you’re either a very old boomer or . . . What would be the name of the generation sort of wedged between the Greatest Generation and the Boomers? The Post-War Generation? The Fifties Generation? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-old-enough/431703.md?page=2)