In a message dated 8/11/02 10:19:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com writes:
> Well, I must admit to getting my 17 to qualify as an old geezer, but I would
> not have made it if it were not for some lucky guesses. Thank goodness for
> multiple choice! I am 41 but many of the answers were not from personal
> experience, but rather second-hand information.
> I am not sure that I understand the one reference earlier to the internet;
> was somebody researching the answers? Is that kosher?
>
When I said that all of this stuff is on the Internet, I should have added
"and on the History Channel, and a thousand other places." I was not
indicating that the Net should be used to find the answers. Nor would I
cheat on an official "Old Fart's Test." ;-)
I was just saying that the Information Age has made all of this sort of
information available to all of us in thousands of ways. With so much
information available, it's hard for me to believe that the vast majority of
Americans over 25 wouldn't know most of the answers right off the bat. For
instance, I wasn't born until five years after Caroline Kennedy had been a
President's daughter, but who here hasn't seen her pony Macaroni on the
History Channel, in various Kennedy documentaries and even in a few movies
about the Kennedys? You didn't need to be there to know that.
However, I did miss the question about which band did that song I'd never
heard of -- perhaps too much time watching the History Channel at the expense
of not watching MTV? Hmmmmm....
Chris Eck
59 Bugeye
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