Things Younger Americans Should Know

I don't care at all either, but you seem a bit hostile tonight, unless I'm just misreading your posts on the standings thread.

 

Well said. I had to memorize the GBA for some class in college. One of my all-time favorite works of any form.

 

I think I speak for the entire younger generation why I say that if any history happened after the Teapot Dome Scandal, we don't want to know about it.
(It IS after 1900, though).

 

Oh, and to continue this soliloquy, I'm shocked not one person said: "To get off my damn lawn!"

 

dude - you never can take 'gola's and my responses to each other at face value, ever. maybe i should start using blue font with him ...

 

Harry Sinclair fixed the 1919 World Series!

(Actually, he didn't. But he did make a sucker's bet on the White Sox with Arnold Rothstein, who did fix the 1919 World Series.)

"How did he happen to do that?"
"He just saw the opportunity."
"Why isn't he in jail?"
"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man."

And while the Teapot Dome, and to my chagrin, the Black Sox scandal are probably not atop my list of Things Younger Americans Should Know ... the source of the aforementioned sequence of quotes definitely is.

 

(the) junkie sucks dick for rock - some vice cop in atlanta.

 

junkie - just messin', dog.

and how do you know that wasn't a real quote?

 

I don't remember the last time I had to diagram a sentence like this:
http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/diagram.html
so I'm not sure how important that skill is

Since I've forgotten how to do basic geometry proofs, I might not include that on the list either.

But I can agree with the rest of the list.

 

i didn't read the entire thread so apologies if i'm repeating some, but everyone, not just the younger generation, should have a strong grasp of both US and international history. If our current adminstration did, we'd be all better off..

on a less important note, i'd wish the younger generation would discover and appreciate classic movies (other than godfather) and music from the 60s and 70s. there is some real good stuff out there that speaks to all generations, so give it a shot...

I'm pretty sure most school systems at least try to get kids to read classic books but if they are liek i was, they won't really appreciate them until they are a little older anyway...

 

They should know these movie characters:

Holly Golightly
Holly Body
Holly Goodhead
Mary Goodnight

 

I'm embarrassed to say that I had to go to IMDB to look up all of those characters.
For Holly Body, am I correct in assuming you're referring to Melanie Griffith's character in 'Body Double' and not Christy Canyon's in "Holly Does Hollywood" (co-starring Traci Lords)