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Title: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: saint on August 11, 2006, 09:07:06 pm: My kids and I are watching VH1-Classics, and VanHalen is on playing "Jump." My kids look at the long hair and spandex, and my daughter at first thinks it's a girl singing. Then they realize it's Diamond Dave, and my 7 year old son says: "That's how they used to dress in the old days."

Then he asks me to play ChumbaWumba - TubThumping.

Now my daughter says "I guess they didn't care what they looked like back then" and says their moves are really embrarrasing.

I'm getting old.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: M3talhead on August 11, 2006, 09:56:54 pm: Long live Diamond Dave! :cheers:
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: saint on August 11, 2006, 10:03:16 pm: More select comments:

Listening to/watching B-52's, Roam -- "This is my bedtime song" (son, 7), "he scares me" (daughter, 9).

"He looks evil" -- son, watching BillyIdol ("Dancing with myself")

"All these people don't have enough clothes on." -- daughter.

"All the girls look like guys and all the guys look like girls." -- daughter.

"No goddess would dress like that." -- daughter's friend.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: missioncontrol on August 11, 2006, 11:19:35 pm: yep it's official... you are getting old....
my solution send them to bed without supper.... they'll change their mind once they get hungry enough..........

I'm kidding
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: danny_galaga on August 12, 2006, 02:23:46 am: Quote from: saint on August 11, 2006, 09:07:06 pm
My kids and I are watching VH1-Classics, and VanHalen is on playing "Jump." My kids look at the long hair and spandex, and my daughter at first thinks it's a girl singing. Then they realize it's Diamond Dave, and my 7 year old son says: "That's how they used to dress in the old days."

Then he asks me to play ChumbaWumba - TubThumping.

Now my daughter says "I guess they didn't care what they looked like back then" and says their moves are really embrarrasing.

I'm getting old.

you dont look a day over 59 (",)
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: Harry Potter on August 12, 2006, 06:22:12 am: I can make you feel younger by accepting a free copy of your book.

I have no idea if it'll work but I could sure use the free book. ;D
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: shmokes on August 12, 2006, 10:09:03 am: Quote from: saint on August 11, 2006, 10:03:16 pm

"All the girls look like guys and all the guys look like girls." -- daughter.

Heh . . . this is my favorite. Pretty accurate.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: hypernova on August 12, 2006, 11:38:36 am: Quote from: saint on August 11, 2006, 09:07:06 pm
My kids and I are watching VH1-Classics, and VanHalen is on playing "Jump." My kids look at the long hair and spandex, and my daughter at first thinks it's a girl singing. Then they realize it's Diamond Dave, and my 7 year old son says: "That's how they used to dress in the old days."

Then he asks me to play ChumbaWumba - TubThumping.

Now my daughter says "I guess they didn't care what they looked like back then" and says their moves are really embrarrasing.

I'm getting old.

One major sign you're getting old is the fact that you're watching VH1 in the first place, saint!

uuugghhh...VH1. *shudders*
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: DaveMMR on August 12, 2006, 12:42:18 pm: Quote from: hypernova on August 12, 2006, 11:38:36 am
Quote from: saint on August 11, 2006, 09:07:06 pm
My kids and I are watching VH1-Classics, and VanHalen is on playing "Jump." My kids look at the long hair and spandex, and my daughter at first thinks it's a girl singing. Then they realize it's Diamond Dave, and my 7 year old son says: "That's how they used to dress in the old days."

Then he asks me to play ChumbaWumba - TubThumping.

Now my daughter says "I guess they didn't care what they looked like back then" and says their moves are really embrarrasing.

I'm getting old.

One major sign you're getting old is the fact that you're watching VH1 in the first place, saint!

uuugghhh...VH1. *shudders*

No, he was watching VH-1 Classics - music videos from a time when people actually gave a crap about music videos.

VH-1 is very 'pop culture oriented' now and no longer the 'unhip video station' it once was known as. They've become the new MTV: dumping their format to peddle cheap, tabloid entertainment (MTV, in the meantime, went straight for the lowest common denominator's jugular). Although, asking Michael Ian Black what his opinions of 1980's events and products are is always good for mindless fun.

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"All the girls look like guys and all the guys look like girls." -- daughter.

Unless you want to upset/confuse them, I'd keep the kids away from any copy of Poison's "Look what the Cat Dragged In" or The Human League's "Dare". "Daddy, why does Phillip Oakley wear mascara and listick?"
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: saint on August 12, 2006, 02:48:52 pm: Too late - we've been watching some Culture Club vids.... I should show them what Boy George looks like now . . .
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: ChadTower on August 12, 2006, 03:17:54 pm: Quote from: saint on August 11, 2006, 10:03:16 pm
"No goddess would dress like that." -- daughter's friend.

Holy CRAP I bet the agenda pushing in that kid's house is scary.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: saint on August 13, 2006, 01:07:00 am: Heh - nothing so twisted as that. One of the videos had people dressed up as dieties or angels or somesuch.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: gamecreature on August 13, 2006, 03:17:54 pm: Quote from: saint on August 12, 2006, 02:48:52 pm
Too late - we've been watching some Culture Club vids.... I should show them what Boy George looks like now . . .

Ah yes. Scared straight. ;)
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: DaveMMR on August 14, 2006, 08:10:18 am: Quote from: saint on August 12, 2006, 02:48:52 pm
Too late - we've been watching some Culture Club vids.... I should show them what Boy George looks like now . . .

I'm going to try to head into the city today (NYC) and get a picture of Boy George doing community service. :cheers:

"Winners Don't Do Drugs"
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: MYX on August 14, 2006, 08:39:31 am: Um yeah
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: MYX on August 14, 2006, 08:40:12 am: Uh ... ???
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: MYX on August 14, 2006, 08:40:50 am: Oh my gosh... It even gets better.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: MYX on August 14, 2006, 08:46:27 am: David Lee Roth Before and After. From Eruption to over spill.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: TOK on August 14, 2006, 08:52:49 am: David Lee Roth now looks like David Lee Roths grandmother.
I imagine he looks even more haggard since they threw him off the radio because of that awful radio show in NY and Philly.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: Bones on August 14, 2006, 09:09:03 am: Quote from: saint on August 11, 2006, 09:07:06 pm
I'm getting old.
Don't also forget out of touch.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: missioncontrol on August 14, 2006, 12:06:59 pm: Quote from: DaveMMR on August 14, 2006, 08:10:18 am
Quote from: saint on August 12, 2006, 02:48:52 pm
Too late - we've been watching some Culture Club vids.... I should show them what Boy George looks like now . . .

I'm going to try to head into the city today (NYC) and get a picture of Boy George doing community service. :cheers:

"Winners Don't Do Drugs"

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_226053739.html
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: DaveMMR on August 14, 2006, 01:48:47 pm: Quote from: missioncontrol on August 14, 2006, 12:06:59 pm
Quote from: DaveMMR on August 14, 2006, 08:10:18 am
Quote from: saint on August 12, 2006, 02:48:52 pm
Too late - we've been watching some Culture Club vids.... I should show them what Boy George looks like now . . .

I'm going to try to head into the city today (NYC) and get a picture of Boy George doing community service. :cheers:

"Winners Don't Do Drugs"

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_226053739.html

I was under the impression he be sweeping garbage dressed in usual garb. He looks like Bill Murray in those pics.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: ChadTower on August 15, 2006, 10:28:45 am: Hey, everyone gets old, and rockstars age quicker because they can live a life that makes them.

That said, Roth was always a total homo and continues to be a total homo. He just doesn't have image consultants fixing his homosity for him anymore.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: NightGod on August 16, 2006, 12:29:38 am: You should try listening to some of the newer music-it's suprisingly better than I expected to find when I grew up. Granted, there are the same crap pop star ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- we deal with in every generation-Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton's music makes me want to stomp puppies (luckily, my kids agree), but there's quite a bit out there that isn't bad.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: saint on August 16, 2006, 08:57:41 am: Oh I do :) Aqua, E-rotic, a few others are favorites...

Quote from: NightGod on August 16, 2006, 12:29:38 am
You should try listening to some of the newer music-it's suprisingly better than I expected to find when I grew up. Granted, there are the same ---meadow muffin--- pop star ---Cleveland steamer--- we deal with in every generation-Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton's music makes me want to stomp puppies (luckily, my kids agree), but there's quite a bit out there that isn't bad.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: M3talhead on August 21, 2006, 11:01:20 am: I wonder what all the rap artists and gangbangers are gonna look like in 25 years when they have to pawn platinum-coated teeth to pay the rent....
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: ChadTower on August 21, 2006, 03:18:55 pm: Quote from: M3talhead on August 21, 2006, 11:01:20 am
I wonder what all the rap artists and gangbangers are gonna look like in 25 years when they have to pawn platinum-coated teeth to pay the rent....

They won't have any platinum coated teeth after the embalmers steal them.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: NightGod on August 21, 2006, 09:39:53 pm: Not many people actually get their teeth caped these days, most of them just get grills (which, in my mind, must be one of the most uncomfortable things ever). If you see someone with caps, they're probably old school.

As for what they'll look like in 25 years, just check out Flavor Flave, it's been close to 20 years since his heyday.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: cdbrown on August 22, 2006, 07:12:40 am: I guess he'll keep milking that tv show for many years..... I would. Meet a beavy of women, end up with one, start again the following year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_of_Love
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: ChadTower on August 22, 2006, 08:44:14 am: Quote from: NightGod on August 21, 2006, 09:39:53 pm
Not many people actually get their teeth caped these days, most of them just get grills (which, in my mind, must be one of the most uncomfortable things ever). If you see someone with caps, they're probably old school.

A LOT of celebrities get their teeth capped... but not with gold or anything, just stupid looking fake white teeth. Tom Brady just had it done and now he looks like Nancy Kerrigan (who also has them). I've talked to them both in person a few times and they both just look weird.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: bleemus on August 22, 2006, 11:52:45 am: Did anyone see DLR do a bluegrass version of Jump (http://youtube.com/watch?v=kX9qcggRo18)?

Pretty sad, he has this nervous grin the whole time he is doing it... I think this is what they make you listen to if you go to hell. Makes me want to gouge my eardrums with a steel Qtip.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: ChadTower on August 22, 2006, 12:03:23 pm: That was actually really good bluegrass... it would have been great if DLR didn't suck it up so damn hard.

That guy is SO gay.
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: NightGod on August 22, 2006, 10:33:36 pm: Quote from: ChadTower on August 22, 2006, 08:44:14 am
A LOT of celebrities get their teeth capped... but not with gold or anything, just stupid looking fake white teeth. Tom Brady just had it done and now he looks like Nancy Kerrigan (who also has them). I've talked to them both in person a few times and they both just look weird.
Valid point, though I was definately refering to the platinum caps (and gold, by extension, I guess).
Title: Re: I must be getting old . . .
Post by: NightGod on August 22, 2006, 10:42:14 pm: Watch in awe as DLR manages to make a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPOHq8XF2Zs) with naked women, swords and a midget STILL look exceptionally lame.

Dunno how he did it, but WOW.