The problem with getting old, is you start telling jokes the younger generations don't get......
So, I'm in the deli of my local grocery store buying some sausages, and the very nice young Gen Z serving me has the nametag "Eric B". And I couldn't help myself, I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, I had to ask him "How's Rakim?". And, of course, he just looked at m...
No, you're not alone...
My employee walked up to me yesterday and opened up the box full of cannoli. "Would you like one"? I instinctively quipped back: "But do I have to leave the gun though?" An eerie silence and awkward looks ensued as if I were from another planet...
There's a larger message in that story, methinks. Humor in general . . .
. . . has been diluted in recent years. The arguably funniest film of all time is Blazing Saddles. It couldn't be made today. 😐
The bagger at our local Trader Joe's responded to a one-liner of mine . . .
. . . with an affected, "Well." I replied, "Channeling . . . . . . Jack Benny?" "Jack who?"
Generational illiteracy gets worse. Some fifteen years ago, one of my co-workers . . .
. . . said, "Paul who?", in response to a comment I made about Paul Newman. And Paul was still alive at the time.
How much we lose with the passing of each generation.
I was listening to music at a party with a friend who is 20 years younger. I told him the vocalist on the track that was playing reminded me of Mick Jagger. He asked “who’s that ?”
Jack Benny, 69 years ago
Was playing at the Naval Training Center San Diego … With Si, Sy, Su Cazalea
You will get the same blank look from any teen if you mention “Prince”
Luckily i switched the kinds on to 80’s funk and the are familiar with the “classics” lol. I guess you could say what classics.
That's okay, it's a bit before your time :)
But if you like to listen to any modern-day rap or hip-hop, all the artists today owe a debt of gratitude to the artists of the eighties who founded this genre of music. And one of the earliest and most influential duos were Eric B & Rakim.
