Internet brewhahas....

[TheShredder1]

Someone posted a note about a Droopy toon in the animation newsgroup.  I expanded on that, stating on how I would like to see Extras on these classic discs, explaining referances that younger kids, and mid 20 kids just don't get anymore.  I certainly don't remember learning about most of the stuff in school, then again, when I read something I'm not interested in, I don't remember it as easilly, so I may very well have forgotten it over the years, since my area of expertize is computers, not history....   The original poster asked a question he didn't understand, he got an answer.   I thought it would be a cool extra to explain such things on the LT DVD's, and I get blasted at with this response..   > >  I don't know whatever it is that set you and Steve off, so I'm making no >  judgements there, but this is the kind of thing you see a lot of. 1) "I really wish they'd explain some of the jokes us kids of the 80's        and later just don't get anymore." 2) "For example, we all know some of the major guest stars they'll        immitate (SIC), but some others I wouldn't know if you pointed        them out to me." 3) "Or the old Wartime referances (SIC). I'm not too keen on wartime        history, so most go right over my head." If he isn't too keen on wartime history, and he wouldn't know some of the celebrity caricatures if I pointed them out to him, why should I bother to fill him in on wartime history, or point out celebrity caricatures? But the real question is, why do kids of the 80's and later need to have jokes explained to them, when people who watched the same cartoons as children in the sixties didn't? Tests aren't just in schools. We're judged for our knowledge in everyday life as well. Even cartoon watching requires a halfway decent education. (And yes, spelling counts.) And for extra credit, we got this gem... "If I have to read something I'm not interested in, as I did in School all those years ago, I don't remember the details as well.  I prefer to watch the History Channel instead..." Answering the questions in some posts is like pouring water in a leaky bucket. See ya Steve >>   I reply, and get this response....   >> > > But the real question is, why do kids of the 80's and later need to > > have jokes explained to them, when people who watched the same cartoons > > as children in the sixties didn't? > > Maybe kids of the 80s and later are just more willing, for whatever > reason, to ask questions? I was born in 1970 (just had my birthday > Sunday, in fact), and there were *lots* of jokes I just didn't get as a > kid. I worded my comment wrong. I understand that a child might not know about WWII. What I meant to ask is, why would a person who is in their mid-20's and out of school now know less about films and historical events of the 40s than someone who was in their mid-20's in the 70's or 80's? None of those people existed during WWII. It's "history" to all of them. The bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred nearly two decades before I was born, but I knew the basics of wartime culture by the time I was out of school. When I was 25, I knew that Goering was a Nazi leader, and that FDR had a scotty dog named Fala. I had heard records of Fibber McGee and Molly and Allen's Alley, I could recognize a  caricature of Greta Garbo or Mussolini when I saw one, and I knew that "Frankie" was what bobbysoxers who loved Frank Sinatra called him. None of this was particularly arcane knowledge to people of my age... It was pretty much common knowledge. It wasn't just that the 70's and 80's were closer in time to the 40's than the today either. I had seen silent Charlie Chaplin films, I knew about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and I could recognize photos of Caruso and Thomas Edison easily. All of that took place as far before when I was born as WWII is to someone in their mid-20's now. Has Generation Z (or whatever we are on now) slipped so far that they don't know much of *anything* that existed before their birth? See ya Steve >>   Now what would cause that brewhaha over a simple statement?