# I'm Old. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739 "2002-12-14T16:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/1 "2002-12-14T16:57:34Z")
The **Man-Cub ™** and his best friend Sean are in the car with me just now. They, along with the **Fem-Bot ™** and their pal Garrett are planning to form a band. They’re 12 and 11. I wholeheartedly encourage this. It’ll keep them off the streets and out of the opium dens. They’re debating a name for the band. My son says, ’ Hey we can just be The Band !!! Get it? The Band Band ! ‘. His pal Sean says, ’ Oh Cool. That’ it, we’ll be called The Band’. I call out from the front, ’ Hey guys, there’s a famous group called The Band already, ok? '. The **Man-Cub ™** mutters loudly, since when? I’m gonna take my mug of Postum and sit by the fire with an afgan and think about the good old days… when The Last Waltz wasn’t just the dance before your d.j. went home. How do I tell them about The Band? I think I need to go buy some music. Anyone else run up against this stuff, where their kids spout out something that makes them feel ancient? Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/2 "2002-12-14T17:02:31Z")
Which one of them’s going to be “the music teacher”? ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/3 "2002-12-14T18:00:53Z")
How about That Band? Have you seen That Band before? What band? That Band. It would help if I knew what band you were talking about. That Band, you idiot. BTW, never heard of The Band…maybe you are old. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/4 "2002-12-14T18:04:59Z")
Feast your eyes on the brillaince that was [The Band](http://theband.hiof.no/). And yes, that makes me old. And you too young. Off to bed with you !! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/5 "2002-12-14T18:05:25Z")
I don’t need my kid to make me feel ancient - I just got a coworker who’s young enough to be my son, if I had a son, which I don’t… My Perfect Child was aghast at the idea of black-and-white TV only, no remotes, no microwaves, and no cell phones. But mostly, my own body makes me feel old - every morning when it creaks as I drag my sorry self to the shower… [sub]hmmm, should I get a geezer like **'Toons** all riled up with thoughts of me in the shower??[/sub]:o ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/6 "2002-12-14T19:32:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I call out from the front, ’ Hey guys, there’s a famous group called The Band already, ok? ’ > > The Man-Cub ™ mutters loudly, since when? Oh man. The whole back of my head just went gray. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/7 "2002-12-14T20:38:35Z")
**Cartooniverse** , it’s happening here, too. I was telling my daughter the Xmas gifts I got for her brother. I said “I got him a $20 gift card at the record store”. She howled with laughter. “Oh, Mom !!! The RECORD store???” ☹ Plus, I keep seeing this old lady in the mirrors in my house. Who in the hell is THAT ??? ---
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/8 "2002-12-14T21:48:56Z")
Next time you’re at the mall with them, start acting confused and belt out a few lines of “The Night the Drove Old Dixie Down”. They’ll never forget who The Band was again. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/9 "2002-12-14T21:56:50Z")
I’m so lucky. My 16 year old daughter is almost as Aerosmith obsessed as I am. I took her to her first show when she was 8. ``` "Mama, that's *Steven*!" "Yes, I know Kelly!" ``` But my 15 year old son is into “emo” music. I had to ask what it was. That hit me a bit hard. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/10 "2002-12-14T22:18:37Z")
I’m going to steal one of my brother’s stories (I do it all the time, since his life is more interesting than mine) to add to this thread. He is a police detective (you know him as **Badge** ). He was taking a statement (confession, really) from a young person who had stolen a stereo system which included a turntable. To describe this item, he said, holding his hands about a foot apart, “One of those things that plays really big, black CDs. I’m not sure what they’re called.” Story from my own life: I was helping out at a PBS pledge event. The phone volunteers were all in the 17-19 year-old range, and the show that we were taking pledges for was a Three Dog Night concert. I wasn’t surprised that only a couple of them had heard of the band (“I think my dad has that album, maybe.”). But it took a while to explain what I was meant when I said I used to have that band on 8-track. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/11 "2002-12-14T22:37:55Z")
So, there really was a band named The Band? Because, reading these boards, I’ve never been too sure about whether there really was a band named The Band or whether it just was a nickname for some other well-known band that I’d get if… I… just… was… older… I’m going to go away from making you old people feel old now. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/12 "2002-12-14T23:14:37Z")
Yeah right. And I suppose you youngsters never saw a vacuum tube, either! Or remember when you loaded computer programs from magnetic tapes! 😉 CJ Sings "When I get older, losing my hair Many years from now. . . " ---
**Author:** ![Fifteen\_Iguana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Fifteen\_Iguana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fifteen_Iguana)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/13 "2002-12-14T23:40:59Z")
I’m a librarian. One day more than a decade ago (sigh) I was giving a tour to some college students. “And here we have the congressional hearings. Can anyone name a topic that congress has held hearings on?” Female student: “Watergate?” “Very good. You remember the Watergate hearings?” “Yes. They kept interrupting Sesame Street.” Of course, the students today don’t even remember the Clinton impeachment hearings… Fifteen Iguana ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/14 "2002-12-14T23:51:57Z")
My brother-in-law (age=mid-forties) was in a Beatles chatroom, when one of the online squirts asked, “Were the Beatles as popular in the sixties as they are now?” Um,…yeah, a bit. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/15 "2002-12-15T00:16:36Z")
Cartooniverse: Your’r NOT old. They’re young. And seem like good kids. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/16 "2002-12-15T00:55:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Witch \* > \*\* But my 15 year old son is into “emo” music. I had to ask what it was. That hit me a bit hard. \*\* **Witch** , I’m twenty and I don’t know what emo is either. (Or didn’t until I saw the thread about it earlier today) Don’t feel _too_ old. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/17 "2002-12-15T01:48:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Theobroma \* > \*\*My brother-in-law (age=mid-forties) was in a Beatles chatroom, when one of the online squirts asked, “Were the Beatles as popular in the sixties as they are now?” > \*\* Some years back, my husband was in a music store and overheard some young thing say in amazement “Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings???” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/18 "2002-12-15T05:03:31Z")
Most people under 29 years old that I know don’t know _anything_ about the Gulf War except that it was against Iraq. Half the time they’ve never heard of Kuwait, and the other half couldn’t find it on a map. Oh, and I’m 26, but I HAVE heard of The Band, 8-tracks, albums (a.k.a. LPs) and televisions with no remote control (my family didn’t even own a set until 1988). Heck, I even remember having a 45-rph record of “Devil Went Down to Georgia” that was my favorite album when I was about 5-6 years old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/19 "2002-12-15T05:05:20Z")
Oops, I meant under _20_ years old above. ---
**Author:** ![Mechanical\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mechanical\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mechanical_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/20 "2002-12-15T06:30:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*Most people under 29 years old that I know don’t know _anything_ about the Gulf War except that it was against Iraq. Half the time they’ve never heard of Kuwait, and the other half couldn’t find it on a map. > > Oh, and I’m 26, but I HAVE heard of The Band, 8-tracks, albums (a.k.a. LPs) and televisions with no remote control (my family didn’t even own a set until 1988). > Heck, I even remember having a 45-rph record of “Devil Went Down to Georgia” that was my favorite album when I was about 5-6 years old. 😃 \*\* Looks like you are a true youngster there sonny. They were called 45 - RPM’s 😃 Up On Cripple Creek. A true classic! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739.md?page=2)