http://disqus.com/people/15fbf6b024954527407427e51f6394f9/enFri, 27 Mar 2009 13:41:44 -0000http://footnotes.disqus.com/rising8230slowly8230/#comment-1821604He said "yinz!"<br>I thought I'd never hear (see?) someone use that word in real life!scottFri, 06 Jun 2008 12:42:07 -0000http://louobedlam.disqus.com/o_bedlam_fine_heres_a_bsg_finale_review_superbowl/#comment-7398647Sadly, I agree.scottSat, 21 Mar 2009 10:58:42 -0000http://luckyshirt.disqus.com/meme_throwdown/#comment-7563097What I think is especially interesting (as a teacher, myself) is that there are memes that live long hearty lives solely ensconced in the confines of the web. It's interesting to see the faces in a room - and there are never more than a few unless it's a group aged largely under 25, and those people "get" such things - light up when something that was funny as a meme is brought up in class. I mean, the number of people even now in a college classroom who understand when a speaker says "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" tends to be small. It illustrates, I think, that the assumption that all young people are completely plugged in (there were a couple of videos of a 60 Minutes show on "Millennials" that went into detail -- they're on YouTube) isn't as true as it seems. "These young kids and their newfangled stuff" doesn't always include the group knowledge we, as older people, assume it does.scottFri, 27 Mar 2009 13:41:44 -0000