This is pretty much it. At the time, the plane crash that killed several band members was fairly recent history (six or seven years prior). So it was just kind of silly that a couple of guys who were familiar with Skynyrd’s music were apparently unaware of the band’s fate. (Of course they were right in a way - the band had broken up, for a while anyway, after several of them died.)
In 2013 I was at a movie theater to see the new production of Much Ado About Nothing, and overheard a young man say to his date, “It’s, like, modern Shakespeare, but still in black and white.”
This wasn’t overheard, but I’m including it because it’s so dumb. My dad worked with a woman who insisted it was good to dry cloth diapers in the sun because the baby could get vitamin D that way.
Maybe if the baby was wearing it at the time…
RE: The Skynyrd Thing
I find it funny that they are still going and never will seem to quit, despite deaths and plane crashes and anything. Break up? Shit! You can’t kill this band!
As far as overheard shit, I used to have a few tidbits I used as sig lines way back in the day. But they won’t fly today. The Axl Rose one was my favorite.
Reminds me of how some of my Shakespeare students are convinced, after we watch a film clip, that the words the actors have been speaking are a modern-English translation, and are amazed to discover that the language is exactly the same as in their written text. (Why, yes, it IS English and you CAN understand it perfectly well, just like I’ve been telling you all along!)
It’s a commercial, not overheard, but it fits in with the stupid conversation thing.
Now that’s genius.
And I grew up in LA.
YouTube’s trailer of other suggested vids includes a couple of the fair’s other ads that are equally stupid/funny poking fun at LA people. Worth a couple clicks at 30 seconds apiece.
While not a textbook fit for the OP, I feel strongly that this young lady would want to be included:
Many years ago at an event, late in the evening a small group organized a casual poker game to kill some time (strictly penny ante). So everyone has pulled change and dollar bills out of their pockets (this was in the 70’s, everyone had all kinds of change in their pockets) and another person wandered by and the following conversation ensued:
Bystander: “Are you guys playing poker?”
Player: “Yup”
Bystander: “Where are the chips?”
Player (without missing a beat): “We’re using the money to represent chips.”
Bystander: “Oh, cool” (wanders off)
To be fair, they sort of did.
As someone with a fear of public speaking, I sympathize with that woman. When I get in front of a crowd and start to panic, I get stupid.
But you would think, as a pageant contestant, she would be used to speaking in public.
It would have been slightly believable had he been born in New Mexico given how many clueless people don’t believe New Mexico is a state, although it wouldn’t rise to an “I know just what you mean” moment because it would amount to once or twice in your life having to deal with a clueless bureaucrat (as opposed to dealing with clueless liquor store cashiers more often than that), versus having to go through processes that were placed there on purpose.
I overheard someone in the audience saying this at the Stratford Festival in Canada. “I like how they’ve modernized the language and made it understandable.”
To be fair, the Lynyrd Skynyrd kid was right, they literally did “break up” in a plane crash.
Overheard in a coffee shop downtown. I’m sitting at a table, reading the paper, and having coffee. A young woman at the next table is talking on her cellphone:
“Well of course you can afford to join us for Spring Break in Jamaica. What do you think student loans are for anyway?”
The receptionist was a Birther and she didn’t even know it!!
Good thing he wasn’t born in New Mexico, or he’d have had to learn English too!
I don’t think babies can get enough vitamin D this way, but I’m not 100% sure. I think they’d get some. In the case of humans I think we get vitamin D in the sunshine by excreting cholesterol in our skin oil, some of which the sunlight converts to vitamin D, and then we absorb that through our skin. I do know about cats, though – they excrete cholesterol in the oil that spreads over their fur, which the sunlight converts, and they clean themselves with their tongues and ingest it that way.
So, depending on how good the laundry is at removing oily cholesterol from the diapers, babies may be able to get some vitamin D. Maybe the numbers don’t work out, but it’s not obviously ridiculous at first glance.
That’s amazing.
Decades ago I was in a technical school learning to program on the very modern business computer, the AS/400. It used an 8-inch floppy drive, DSDD, to which we wrote our work at the end of the night (one at a time!).
One night I was working in the lab and overheard two other students discussing the fact that one of their disks was out of space. The other student said, “It’s double-sided. Just turn it over and use the other side.” I was so stunned I didn’t correct this misinformation.
No, I don’t know if they tried to do it, so I don’t know what the upshot, if any, was.
Your understanding is incorrect. UVB rays convert a type of cholesterol to a precursor of vitamin D inside the skin. From Wikipedia:
“The skin consists of two primary layers: the inner layer called the dermis, and the outer, thinner epidermis. Vitamin D is produced in the keratinocytes of two innermost strata of the epidermis, the stratum basale and stratum spinosum, which also are able to produce calcitriol and express the VDR.”
(VDR = Vitamin D Receptor)
This is why people in northern Europe evolved to have pale skin. Dark skin blocks UVB, so in the less intense light of northern Europe it can keep a person from developing enough vitamin D.