We were at a buffet this evening along with my brother and his family and our parents. I was filling my son’s plate and asked him if he wanted a pickle.
“I don’t want a pickle,” he replied. “I just want to ride on my motor-sickle”
sniff
My five-year old made a cultural reference dating from the 1960s. It sailed over my 27-year-old brother’s head.
I’m not sure if I should be proud that he’s got the wit to do that or rather I should be ashamed of myself for exposing a 5-year-old to Arlo Guthrie.
I’ll take pride any day Homebrew. You’re a lucky man.
Homebrew, I hope to someday be as good a parent as you are.
Ah, that is so damn cute.
I caught my at the time 3-4 year old daughter sing “Oops I Did It Again” by Britney Spears, I told her that song is not to be sung in this house, it was kind of funny to here her sing that song though.
She asked me what she could sing, I told herr Shania Twain, so she goes into “Man I Feel Like A Woman”.
Be careful what you wish for. He also likes to moon people.
My 7 year old son went though a mooing phase when he was 5. Now he’s embarrased when you say words like butt and weiner.
Watch out Homebrew, he may turn on you!
One day when my daughter was in about the 5th grade, she came home really, really angry with me.
She: That’s old music!
Me: Huh?
She: The Jackson Five, The Rolling Stones, The Whispers. They’re all old. You have me listening to old music!!!
Me: You didn’t know that?
She’s listened to nothing but Top 40 ever since.
My kids (ages 10 and 17) make jokes about Fibber McGee’s closet. That’s even beofre MY time.
LOL*Sounds like yer a pretty good parent, Homebrew.
My pop culture training started when I was born. My dad was out in the waiting room watching Star Trek when I was born and supposedly he came into the delivery room yelling something joyful in Klingon.
It’s been a mess of pop culture streaming through me noggin ever since.
IDBB
This isn’t exactly culture, but recently my nephew, who was visiting along with his mom and our other sister, , saw the latter dialing my rotary phone. His forehead got kind of creased and he asked "How do you do that? Kid probably had never seen a rotary dial phone in use.
Heh, I would have lost it Homebrew. Alice would be proud.
My ten year old son walks around singing that song all the time.
Um… ok.
I’m such a loser. I used to listen to my dad’s music when I was younger, and the oldies and classic rock stations. Some of the CDs I have is old stuff too. I have in the past listened to those old time radio programs (740AM Houston) on a Saturday night. :eek:
I was the only kid in my school that knew that there was a batman before George Clooney, or Micheal Keaton.
I also was the only kid to hear about Alfred Hitchcock before he got his own show at Universal, Orlando. As amatter of fact, I was the only kid who knew that there was a pshyco moviw in black and white before the $hitty one with Anne Heche @#%&! that movie sucked! they ruined Hitchcocks work.
When I said “Jerry Lee Louis” my friends said “WHO??”
Thanks Dad!
I remember that once, my sister came home from a junior high school dance. My brother asked her how the dance was:
Credit it to me and my brother… or amybe her listening to sappy pop music. My brother does have a pretty diverse CD collection…
F_X
Summercamp dance, about 1980-something. Shortly after “U Can’t Touch This” made it big. Our counselors (all at least 10-15 years older than us 11-year-olds) make a point of putting “Superfreak” on the soundtrack that night.
My cabin mate comes running up to me, completely insensed, screaming “Someone stole MC Hammer’s song!!!”
I was starting up the movie High Fidelity just as my daughter was going to bed. The opening credits were rolling over a tight close up of a record revolving on a turntable. My daughter (7 years old) asked what that was.
“A record album”, I told her. “Do you know what those are?”
“Oh, I know”, she replied excitedly, “those are what they used to listen to in the olden days!”
I say that all the time when asked if I want a pickle! I was born in 1964, so I do not remember when the album first came out. (“The Motorcycle Song” is on the Alice’s Restaurant album) Nevertheless, I am an Arlo Guthrie fan! I have been to several of his shows, and even got to meet him and get his autograph after a show at the Ark in Ann Arbor.