Mrs. Peel

Al probably had a Bowie knife. Not because he hunted or gutted fish, but because it had something indirectly to do with David Bowie.

Happy birthday, Graham!! Here, have a Tostada on me.

My husband went to a Vocational Agricultural high school for his senior year in the mid 80s (the old fart), and he said just about every guy had a hand gun in their backpack, or at least a rifle in the back of their pickup. It was just the accepted norm.

Absolutely. The parents may complain about their kids' sense of entitlement, but when you are giving your kids anything they want without having to work for it, as many of these kids are, what do they expect is going to happen? They don't think they should have to do anything they don't want to do, resulting in a poor work ethic and being argumentative if something unpleasant is asked of them. I don't believe this was common in past generations. Kids were taught the importance of hard work. Again, a sweeping generalization.

I disagree that teenagers have always been the way they are now. I think SOME of them were. I feel now that the MAJORITY are. And it is carrying on well past the teen years.

I'm glad you agree, but I'm sorry you agree because you're smack dab in the middle of it!

I don't think the generation is dumb. I do, however, think as a whole there is a glaring sense of entitlement that wasn't much of an issue in past generations. But, I try not to generalize about a hugely diverse group of people like an entire generation. So I'll say in my area, the majority of teenagers and 20 somethings I come in contact with have a disgusting sense of self importance and a horrible lack of work ethic.

Jammin' on the one.

He opened for Isbell on his last tour. He was freakin' great!!

Or maybe they have made contact and we just haven't been informed. *just playing the conspiracy game

You are correct, sir!

We're watching that tomorrow here at work. "We" being the designers.

I have a tape of my grandparents singing Happy Birthday to me. They bought me a cassette recorder and recorded themselves before they gave it to me. I also have a whole tape of me with one of my cousins acting out skits when we were probably 7 or 8.

I would love to get my hands on some of those tapes. Yours, not Jeff's.

After they started making the cassette players that could detect the end of a song when on fast forward and then stop, it was all downhill from there.

I'm going to dig through my stuff tonight. Al and I used to make mixes for each other a lot. His were always more cohesive than mine. My biggest musical shift came about because of a mix tape. A really cool guy my cousin had dated made her a mix tape as part of an attempt to get her back. She immediately gave it to me because she wanted nothing to do with him. I think I was maybe 13 at the time. It had Camper Van Beethoven, Crowded House, The Cure, XTC....oh, I wish I could remember more. But that tape changed my perceptions of music forever. Up to that point I was either listening

Damn, I still love that song.

I had trouble sticking to a genre myself. Does anyone remember the group of 2 second songs at the end of They Might Be Giants' "Apollo 18"? I cut those apart and scattered them between other songs all over a mix I made in high school. I'm sure the same one probably had Blatz, Pearl Jam, and Harry Connick Jr. with at least one children's song mixed in. Obviously I was the only one who could ever truly appreciate my masterpieces.

The Klinger Khronicles!!!

Not a single New England date??? WTF!!

Have a great one, Sarah!!

I'm with you 100%. I can't stand watching animals being used for sport.

Hey, you have a tribe! Happy birthday to the only OceanMan that matters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7F3O6WYfHQ

You got that right! Happy birthday, wherever you are!!!