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Re: Age: is it relevant?
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Apr 8, 21:06 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Apr 8, 21:06 -0700
Frank R wrote: > 1) A question of common culture. There are other lists that I follow, which > I judge to have a significantly younger age distribution, where I might make > a reference to an American adult cartoon called "Family Guy" and people might > find it amusing. It's exported to many countries so that aspect of common > culture is not in doubt, but it makes a great many pop culture references that > are generation-specific. If ya don't get the jokes, ya don't watch the show > --of course and nothing wrong with that. There's an episode that makes one of > the funniest latitude & longitude references I've ever seen in pop culture but > I haven't brought it up on this list for that very reason: it is not part of > our common culture given the age distribution of the list (I could be wrong! > anyone know the lat/lon bit I'm talking about?) Frank (and list): One way we keep young is through our children. I've become a big Family Guy fan because my teen-age daughter started watching it. Although I now live in the San Francisco Bay area, I spent a lot of years sailing on Narragansett Bay. Family Guy is set in the mythical town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The local references are incredible to anyone who keeps up with RI -- for example, the middle son goes to the Buddy Cianci Memorial Junior High School. Buddy Cianci is (was?) the larger-than-life four-time mayor of Providence, now under US indictment for bribery, embezzlement, and host of other crimes. My favorite real-life Buddy Cianci story is that shortly after being elected, Buddy, who was separated from his wife, saw her in a Providence restaurant having dinner with another male. Not bothering to check that it was just a business meeting with the gentlemen, he stormed in the restaurant and beat the guy to within an inch of his life. His excuse, when arrested for assault and battery the next day? "Hey, I'm of Italian heritage and we Italians are passionate people!" I've probably seen every Family Guy episode twice and don't remember a L/Lo joke. Elucidate!!! Lu Abel