Do you know who Chuck Berry was
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Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
rick81721
Lothar
Never understood why the big geek always got gonged. Kick ass guitar player!
Mr.Moto
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The original America's Got Talent. When you look at this out of context, you wonder how it was even watch-able. It just grew into this bizarre, zany, off-beat show that lived off the enormous energy of Chuck Barris.
StayHydrated
Swedish Chef
I came to defend Millennials. Or maybe just myself? 26 and know who Chuck Berry is. But I feel like most of the similarly aged people on here also know him because MTB = cultured and well-rounded youth...AMIRITE?
Team Millennials, help?
Team Millennials, help?
MikeyBikey2000
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Which Doobie You Be?That's cuz he got busted for taping "The Doobie Brothers" concert.
jnos
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32 here, so I'm at the older end of the millennials. I know every reference in this thread so far. @UtahJoe, aren't you an engineer? That means your average coworker is oddly sheltered from general history. That said, I did just poll the 24 year old engineers behind me and they knew Chuck Berry.
StayHydrated
Swedish Chef
I'm also an engineer, so that's n+1 for the young nerd dataset.
Monkey Soup
Angry Wanker
MikeyBikey2000
Well-Known Member
Not to beat a dead horse but.. the host looks like Ken Berry..millenials not knowing his body of work is a travesty
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
I bet the coworkers know everything about "The Legend of Zelda" doe.
You guys know I'm just bust'n... right?
Mountain Bike Mike
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My in laws are big doo wop / 50's music people... Father in law asked if anyone heard that Chuck Berry died...we had this conversation on Saturday around the dinner table.. most of my kids knew from the Back to the Future reference..
Who remembers this, cause this would be what I was eating around the time Chuck Berry was played in my house. Personally, I prefer count Chocula
Who remembers this, cause this would be what I was eating around the time Chuck Berry was played in my house. Personally, I prefer count Chocula
MikeyBikey2000
Well-Known Member
My in laws are big doo wop / 50's music people... Father in law asked if anyone heard that Chuck Berry died...we had this conversation on Saturday around the dinner table.. most of my kids knew from the Back to the Future reference..
Who remembers this, cause this would be what I was eating around the time Chuck Berry was played in my house. Personally, I prefer count Chocula
Hell Yes.. but I was/am a BooBerry man.
Also who else cut Tom Seaver out of the bottom of a Chocodiles box?
StayHydrated
Swedish Chef
This 'cross season, I left the UCI live broadcast tab open for CrossVegas for days before the race (I was so amped. Too amped). The night before the race, I happened to just flip over to the tab and saw that some wiseguy UCI production assistant had momentarily put this up on the live feed before turning it back off:
Priceless.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
My in laws are big doo wop / 50's music people... Father in law asked if anyone heard that Chuck Berry died...we had this conversation on Saturday around the dinner table.. most of my kids knew from the Back to the Future reference..
Who remembers this, cause this would be what I was eating around the time Chuck Berry was played in my house. Personally, I prefer count Chocula
Duh? Dat be me.
rlb
Well-Known Member
I work at an engineering firm (doesn't really make a difference, but I'm throwing in in there as part of the context of the thread). I'm part of a 4 person team, we're a support group not engineers. Ages are 41, 36 (me), 33, 32 and we're always making fun of the millennials. I cling to gen x as much as I can.
I gave an intern a stack of drawings to scan. First one he starts feeding in the wrong way, despite doing this a million times before. Glad I caught it before the whole stack was scanned. He also scanned a drawing with a transmittal stapled to the front of it. When I pointed this out he said "that doesn't matter"
Same intern was looking for work, so one of the guys on my team hands him drawings to scan. Intern says that's too much work, I don't want to do it.
Another millennial complained to a guy on my team after he busted his balls in front of a "subordinate".
We got a resume for an internship, the kid couldn't even be bothered to correctly word his major on his resume.
We have some empty offices on the floor. Most visitors from other offices put themselves in an empty cubicle for the day, but millennials take the office every time.
/rant. You can complain to me on AIM.
I gave an intern a stack of drawings to scan. First one he starts feeding in the wrong way, despite doing this a million times before. Glad I caught it before the whole stack was scanned. He also scanned a drawing with a transmittal stapled to the front of it. When I pointed this out he said "that doesn't matter"
Same intern was looking for work, so one of the guys on my team hands him drawings to scan. Intern says that's too much work, I don't want to do it.
Another millennial complained to a guy on my team after he busted his balls in front of a "subordinate".
We got a resume for an internship, the kid couldn't even be bothered to correctly word his major on his resume.
We have some empty offices on the floor. Most visitors from other offices put themselves in an empty cubicle for the day, but millennials take the office every time.
/rant. You can complain to me on AIM.
Roadie
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Gotta go with Booberry!My in laws are big doo wop / 50's music people... Father in law asked if anyone heard that Chuck Berry died...we had this conversation on Saturday around the dinner table.. most of my kids knew from the Back to the Future reference..
Who remembers this, cause this would be what I was eating around the time Chuck Berry was played in my house. Personally, I prefer count Chocula
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
It cuts both ways ... I watched a little of one of those 8 million music award shows - can't recall which one it was - but the whole time it was on, some infant was name-dropping all these "artists" that were going to appear, and I swear I didn't recognize a single one of them. And then I'm also willing to bet that a lot of the people who would be surprised that some haven't heard of Chuck Berry have themselves never heard of Sibelius or Mahler or any other composer whose been dead or out of vogue forever.
