{"id":609,"date":"2007-03-21T05:35:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/21\/you-might-not-be-a-baby-boomer-if\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:41:09","slug":"you-might-not-be-a-baby-boomer-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment-section gadfly<\/strike> gadflea<\/strike> gadmite<\/strike> gadamecium RickDFL wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On behalf of the younger generation can I just say that watching all you old baby boomers re-fight the war protests of your youth, only this time without the cool soundtrack and hot women, is really boring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I pointed out that I’ve banned people for less than calling me<\/em> a baby boomer. His response<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From wikipedia, \u201cThere is little agreement as to the exact beginning and end dates of the baby boom, but it is commonly identified as starting in 1946 and ending in 1964.\u201d So, if you were 38 on 9\/11 2001, you were born at the tail end of the baby boom. Hate to break it to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well. Wikipedia says so. I guess that settles it!<\/p>\n

Rick – didja catch that whole “there is little agreement” bit at the beginning of your pullquote? Slapping an arbitrary date on something that subjective is inherently unclear and lazy.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, that’s why I’m here.<\/p>\n

Baby boomers were the children of the World War II generation. While they largely started having their kids nine months after VJ day, and kept right on breeding into the early sixties, their Boomerhood was a factor of being children of the “Greatest Generation”.<\/p>\n

On VJ day, my dad was nine and my mom was five. They might have been old enough to fight in the Volkssturm<\/em>, but not for the US. Demographically, socially and morally, I am not a baby boomer. Never have been, never will be.<\/p>\n

But – and again, with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy – here’s a little quiz to help you decide what generation you really <\/em>belong to.<\/p>\n

You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…:<\/strong> you have more Clash, Springsteen and Sex Pistols than Beatles and Stones in your music collection.<\/p>\n

You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…:<\/strong> you have never used the term “Camelot” unironically to refer to anything after the 13th Century. Or if the word “Camelot” to you means dancing knights who push the pram a lot, rather than Jackie Onassis.<\/p>\n

You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…:<\/strong> the Teheran Hostage Crisis is more prominent in your memory than Kent State.<\/p>\n

You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…:<\/strong> you think Dennis Miller was a better Weekend Update <\/em>host than Chevy Chase.<\/p>\n

You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…:<\/strong> “Quadrophonic” and “Eight Track” mean the same thing as “Edsel”.<\/p>\n

You Might Not Be A Baby Boomer If…:<\/strong> “Woodstock” was a bird.<\/p>\n

Carry on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment-section gadfly gadflea gadmite gadamecium RickDFL wrote: On behalf of the younger generation can I just say that watching all you old baby boomers re-fight the war protests of your youth, only this time without the cool soundtrack and hot women, is really boring. I pointed out that I’ve banned people for less than calling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-geekery","category-history-and-its-making","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}