Comments | daecrist: 88 miles per hour!

daecrist

88 miles per hour!

Oct 02, 2006 19:48

I had my first "old" moment in my physics lab last week. One consequence of switching my academic focus towards dentistry at the end of my undergraduate career is that I now find myself taking classes with people who were in middle school when I graduated. Another consequence of this is that our pop culture vocabularies can sometimes be wildly ( Read more... )

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intendent October 2 2006, 23:59:35 UTC

I've never seen a full Back to the Future, but I get the joke. :P

britishamerican October 3 2006, 02:16:02 UTC

tsk tsk..it's make like a tree and leave :P

or make like brocolli and veg out....but I digress, how long till your a dentist? *L*

I'm in the market for a good one that I trust...

crazy_texxx October 3 2006, 13:50:36 UTC

pfft...kids these days. So what movies can they reference, "Old School", "American Pie", and "Fast and the Furious"? Please...lam0rz.

I laughed at your Back to the Future reference, so you get a gold star for 80's geekery today. :)

The Back to the Future movies are still shown on cable from time to time, but chances are the younger generation is too busy playing XBox and blogging on their emospace. Now if you only made a "The Last Starfighter" reference that would really send them into a land of confusion.

jj_texan October 3 2006, 14:25:06 UTC

Oh...my...Gawd...

I'm stunned! Now we know what's wrong with kids today. They think they're all hot stuff because the "get 80's movies" after watching Breakfast Club and 16 Candles? Puleez!

wanderbohemian October 5 2006, 14:56:41 UTC

Back to the Future is on cable constantly. Not as often as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, mind, but still! There is no excuse for them not to at least get the reference. Pity them their ignorance...it was a great joke.