What did Franz Liszt drive?
Who is John Galt?
Andy Clarke said:
Joe Rusz said:
What was the question?
Joe, i’m not sure, but I believe the answer is ““cherry pie””…
Ummmmm…CHERRY PIE
Perhaps neither “stupid” nor “uninformed” but merely “learning disadvantaged.” Generation “No Child Left Behind” is starting to catch up on us. We are warned by university professors, who are seeing these kids entering their classrooms, that Generation NCLB is unable to write clearly and logically, that the kids lack an ability to draw logical conclusions from a set of facts, but that they can sure take tests well when all they have to do is pencil in a circle on a multiple choice scantron exam. There are, of course, notable exceptions to this generalization, but people in the professional world who will have to hire this Generation are really worried.
Joe Zullo said:
Who is John Galt?
Stay on topic. No thread jacks until the third page. 
Maybe Calvin & Hobbs sum it up succinctly.
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These kids today are growing up in a video game world.
You think it’s bad that the kid didn’t know who Mario Antretti is, wait till the day comes that this country needs these kids to start running this country.
Randy Stone said:…wait till the day comes that this country needs these kids to start running this country.
Could they REALLY do all that much worse than the “Boomers” and “me” generation?
Mik just Mik, darn it! said:
Randy Stone said:…wait till the day comes that this country needs these kids to start running this country.
Could they REALLY do all that much worse than the “Boomers” and “me” generation?
I really don’t think so.
With out a doubt, the stupids have arrived… I manage a furniture warehouse, and have 19 employes, It is rare to find the good ones, and often we have to settle for the OK ones. A recent employee could not even fathom why I would not let him ride his motor cycle thru the warehouse and jump it off a loading ramp and go airborne into the dock area!
Don’t even get me started on what they put on job apps. State prison is not really a good job reference.
Andy, sorry, but I prefer apple. Or maybe Key Lime made from real Key Limes, not just whatever the other kind are. Steve, I believe Franz Liszt drove a Liszter Jaguar. Mik, about Sears: good or bad, I still like their car batteries. Just bought one for our vintage Camry the other day. Kids: yeah, sometimes ya wonder. But my neighbor’s oldest who’s a freshman in high school, gets up early to take an extra class in Japanese (I woulda picked Chinese). Great kid and no computer gamer (he’s a jock). Kids and video games: I agree that there’s too much of that. Kills creativity,which may explain why there’s so much crap on TV and why there are remakes of movies that have already been remade more than once. Still, I think “The Simpsons” is one of the cleverest shows ever. I met one of its producer/writers, Ian Maxton-Graham, on a cruise ship where his father, John, a legendary writer of books about ships, was giving a lecture. The old man told us that his other son was one of the guys behind “Beavis and Butthead,” so what does that tell you about that family? About Boomers: my wife’s one, so they’re OK. I’ve always been associated with 'em because of my youthful appearance, but I’m a few years off the mark in age. BTW, Mik, she knew all about Dan Patch, prolly because, as a fan of musicals, it’s one of the lines in “Music Man,” something to the effect that, “Who woulda thought a man would ever sit atop a horse?” I haven’t Googled it to check. but she said prior to horse racing, there was only harness racing. But as a city boy, all that was lost on me. Finally, Dave, very funny post. And since you mentioned it, one of my stupid stories is about my former next door neighbor. One night, Im walking past her house, and as I look inside her garage through the open door, I see flames, which are coming from a steak she is broiling on a small grill. So I yell, “Jeez, Becky, that things on fire!” And she says, “It’s OK, it’s electric.” Oo-kay.
Joe Rusz said:
Andy, sorry, but I prefer apple. Or maybe Key Lime made from real Key Limes, not just whatever the other kind are.
Joe… If it’s keylime pie you want, I know this place down in Georgia… The last guy I knew who had their keylime pie couldn’t stop puckering for a week… 
Modern medicine is the problem! It has slowed down the cleansing of the Gene pool!
Example: Brothers neighbor 16 yr. old kid, + three friends.
The set up… Mountain Bike, Trampoline, Near by garage roof, and their pool. 1 Kid with a vid camera, 2 kids on the trampoline, 1 kid on roof on the mountain bike.
The plan: Ride the bike off the roof, launching down on the trampoline, propelling two kids airborne into the pool.
What could possibly go wrong? Now he’s a junior in high school and I can only guess he didn’t take physics very seriously.
Bottom line:Kid 1 - Broken Neck, Broken Back, Broken Femur, 4 mths in hospital. Kid 2 - broken leg, arm, ribs. Kid 3- broken wrist, concussion.
He thought that it would be fun. The hospital put this kids gene pool back into circulation.
two law suits are still pending…the U tube video was pulled due to the pending limitation.
But the pool was OK!
Dave.
Kids have done really stupid sh-t from time immemorial. They just didn’t put it on video.
Old folks have complained that the young folks were sending the world straight to H-ll, at least since Socrates time, too… we ain’t got there yet
I know a BUNCH of adults who, in my Gram’s words, “Ain’t got the sense God gave a turnip!” (because turnips know roots go down and leaves go up?), all but two still managed make pretty good money, and haven’t killt anyone… yet. The oldest in the group is 72 and has great-grandkids, so Darwin better get busy.
Mik has a point. I remember this time when I was maybe 12 and decided that we should tie a bedsheet, like a parachute, to my buddy’s younger brother and have him jump off the roof of their almost three-story house–probably 20 feet. But first, I suggested a test flight using an inanimate object, a chassis from one of those old-time, tube style console radios, which weighed maybe 20 pounds. So we pushed that baby off the roof and she plummet straight to the ground at 16 feet per second per second or whatvever the speed objects fall at. I reminded my pal, who laughed uproariously. At least that’s how I remeber it. But my pal got me laughing even harder than him when he refreshed my memory of the incident by telling me what happened to that radio chassis on the way down: it got hooked on some part of the house, swung inward, and took out a window. Fun times. And no video camera to record it! Heck, no TV, yet. :0
Steve Featherkile said:
Joe Zullo said:
Who is John Galt?
Stay on topic. No thread jacks until the third page.
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My brother and I have a theory - there is only so much intelligence and/or common sense to go around. the more kids born, the less there is for each one.
Victor Smith said:
Steve Featherkile said:
Joe Zullo said:
Who is John Galt?
Stay on topic. No thread jacks until the third page.
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Think we wouldn’t have done something similar? Fortunately, non of my exploits were that tragic.
Joe Rusz said:
… Still, I think “The Simpsons” is one of the cleverest shows ever. I met one of its producer/writers, Ian Maxton-Graham, on a cruise ship where his father, John, a legendary writer of books about ships, was giving a lecture. The old man told us that his other son was one of the guys behind “Beavis and Butthead,” so what does that tell you about that family? …
…That its one heckova smart savy family?
B & B has made MILLIONS of dollars for the creators over the years, so they are HuhuhhUhhhUhhHHHhhHhhhhuuuuhing …all the way to the bank.
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