[lit-ideas] Re: OLD JOKES

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:39:42 +0100

I thought for a moment you meant you'd become both non-student and non-old! 
(I'm sleepy) -- hey great on non-student.

>Humor, like vernacular language itself, is generational

Vernacular, certainly, and I'm hopelessly old fogey where that's concerned.

Judy Evans, Cardiff
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: carol kirschenbaum 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:10 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: OLD JOKES


  Yo!
  It took just one month to obliterate my dual status--old and a student. Now 
that I don't have to pretend to share my sense of humor with students, am I 
free to analyze humor, thereby destroying any sense of it? Yes, I am, declares 
my inner (and outer) elder. Now we are one. 

  Humor, like vernacular language itself, is generational. Much of it today 
depends on TV. Actually, that's true for my era, too (anyone here remember 
riffing on "ooh! ooh!" from "Car 54"?)  Thing is, the 20s and 30s of today have 
no memory of the boomer's jokey stuff. Our jokey memories extend back only to 
our parents' 40s or so. 

  For a while, I kept up and volleyed back to the 20ish kids in their lingo. 
Shock and awe. I fit in. But for how long could I keep up the ruse? Ach phooey. 
Too much energy. 

  Carol

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