# You'd think everyone would know about **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800 "2025-08-07T06:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/121 "2025-08-08T02:01:03Z")
Huh. I thought it was Canada’s southernmost province. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/122 "2025-08-08T02:09:12Z")
Does that explain rfk? He just forgot that flu can kill millions? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/123 "2025-08-08T02:13:48Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It’s a country, somewhat nearby to Cuba. “But that’s not important right now.” ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/124 "2025-08-08T02:20:35Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > I was in my 20s when I saw Apollo 13 with a friend who was the same age. After the movie she told me she was really hoping that the astronauts would survive. Which version did you watch!? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/125 "2025-08-08T02:22:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > To me, those are “groups”, not “bands”. According to Google, it’s more common to call them bands. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/126 "2025-08-08T02:41:46Z")
IMHO, it is debatable if it was a band. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/127 "2025-08-08T02:44:38Z")
Which group? Wings, Hootie and the Blowfish, or Nirvana? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/128 "2025-08-08T02:54:10Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > I don’t think I have ever seen a reference to “Hiroshima Day”. Neither have I, but the meaning was obvious. > [@Tibby](#): > > I’m always amazed by how many folks have never heard of the Spanish Flu Back in 2020 a Facebook friend threatened to unfriend anyone who mentioned the Wuhan flu. I barely managed to resist the temptation to ask if it was okay to talk about the Hong Kong flu, or the Spanish flu, or German measles, or… > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I would bet that no more than three out of ten people could accurately summarize the plot of _Grapes of Wrath_ even at the blurb level. I couldn’t have, but after reading this thread I’ll say it’s about a family of Okies named Joad who move to California. Correct? (I read &Travels with Charley\* in eighth grade, but have never mentioned the other two books you mentioned.) > [@Johanna](#): > > That’s funny. What century do you think this is? Do you think JFK has a chance to beat Nixon? Seriously, I don’t think I ever heard them called “bands” before the last ten years or so. Not that I ever spent much time talking about such things. And I usually listen to Classical, which has orchestras, and country, which mainly has solo singers. JFK was the first president I actually have memories of. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Of those 5 the Ramones are the only ones I’ve ever heard of. And I can’t tell you what decade the Ramones date from, nor what genre they play, nor any of their tunes. If forced to guess I’d say late 1950s to early 1960s. Ditto. > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > According to Google, it’s more common to call them bands. Nowadays, maybe. Not back in the '60s, when I was still listening to them. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/129 "2025-08-08T02:57:39Z")
I personally still call them “combos”😀 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/130 "2025-08-08T03:03:56Z")
Grandfunk Railroad. _“We’re an American band, We’re coming to your town_…” They are in Reno, Nevada tonight at the University, a Free show. Probably started. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/131 "2025-08-08T03:12:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > I couldn’t have, but after reading this thread I’ll say it’s about a family of Okies named Joad who move to California. While not wrong in the broadest of strokes, that makes it sound like a Chevy Chase vehicle or a knock-off of _The Beverly Hillbillies_. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/132 "2025-08-08T03:25:33Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > While not wrong in the broadest of strokes, that makes it sound like a Chevy Chase vehicle or a knock-off of _The Beverly Hillbillies_. I considered saying “flee to California” – would that have been better? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/133 "2025-08-08T04:25:14Z")
My husband was in his first _band_ when he was in middle school circa apx.1965. I mean trap set drums 2 guitar players and bass guitar, singer with a cow bell…not kidding.😆 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/134 "2025-08-08T06:07:59Z")
I find it totally understandable that not everyone is conversant in pop culture (insert your decade of choice here). Personally, I’m bloody hopeless, and plenty of times I’ve come up with a blank stare when someone has mentioned (insert you fave band or movie here). I get that. But events that have had an impact on the entire world should be common knowledge. And I mean common to the lowest common denominator. The events in Japan in 1945. The Holocaust. The space missions, man landing on the moon. The atrocities of 9/11 and so on and so forth. Even more recently, the Hamas attacks on October 7th and the consequent annihilation of Palestinians across Gaza should be ‘common knowledge’. I can guarantee that my friends have no fucking idea about anything, and that they are not alone in their ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/135 "2025-08-08T06:18:05Z")
Have you ever considered it’s your friends? I mean if it’s 10 people and only one gets any of those things you listed. You’re not hanging with very knowledgeable folks. OTOH, the older I get I discard/forget dates and lesser important facts about things on the daily. Maybe they’re cleaning house(in their head). We are in the information age. It’s not like these things are not easily Goggle-iable. I like to make room up there to toss around daydreams and shoulda, coulda, wouldas. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/136 "2025-08-08T06:46:59Z")
Yes Beck, it is my friends. And it’s a gazillionumpty other people out there who are information-retarded. It’s not JUST my friends. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/137 "2025-08-08T06:50:41Z")
Oh, I get it. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/138 "2025-08-08T12:13:05Z")
I carry a pocket knife. It is useful for opening packaging. I am the last person on earth that knows how to press the little spring to close a folding knife. ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/139 "2025-08-08T12:24:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Nowadays, maybe. Not back in the '60s, when I was still listening to them. Presumably you weren’t listening to them on the radio - didn’t every Top 40 radio station in the 60’s sponsor a “Battle of the Bands”? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800/140 "2025-08-08T12:29:59Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > > > According to Google, it’s more common to call them bands. > > Nowadays, maybe. Not back in the '60s, when I was still listening to them. Yeah, we all remember the song “The Weight” by the Group. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-everyone-would-know-about/1021800.md?page=8)