Huh. I thought it was Canada’s southernmost province.
Does that explain rfk? He just forgot that flu can kill millions?
“But that’s not important right now.”
Which version did you watch!?
According to Google, it’s more common to call them bands.
IMHO, it is debatable if it was a band. 
Which group? Wings, Hootie and the Blowfish, or Nirvana?
Neither have I, but the meaning was obvious.
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…
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.)
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.
Ditto.
Nowadays, maybe. Not back in the '60s, when I was still listening to them.
I personally still call them “combos”
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.
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.
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I considered saying “flee to California” – would that have been better?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, I get it.
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.
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”?
Yeah, we all remember the song “The Weight” by the Group.