[Misc] The Pop Culture Divide

Lenny Rider · Nov 11, 2020

Reiterated again this morning in the office when the youngest member of the firm at 25 had no idea Crackerjack was a TV programme let alone what a Crackerjack pencil was, and this is hot on the heels of a hearse ride back from the Crematorium the other week were two of the four people in the car didn't know who Shakin Stevens was.

I truly am getting old.

zefarelly · Nov 11, 2020

I blame the parents.

blue-shifted · Nov 11, 2020

Lenny Rider said:
Reiterated again this morning in the office when the youngest member of the firm at 25 had no idea Crackerjack was a TV programme let alone what a Crackerjack pencil was, and this is hot on the heels of a hearse ride back from the Crematorium the other week were two of the four people in the car didn't know who Shakin Stevens was.

I truly am getting old.

Well, when you were 25 how conscious were you of the TV which was on 10 years before you were born?

Tom Hark Preston Park · Nov 11, 2020

To be fair tho, Crackerjack was always not so much Light Entertainment as Shite Entertainment

And maybe I'm missing something, and apologies if I am, but on what planet is it appropriate to be be discussing the merits of Shakin' Stevens in a hearse on the way back from the crematorium? :lolol:

SpongebobSquarepants · Nov 11, 2020

They should know about is soon as Crackerjack is making a comeback!

Psychobilly freakout · Nov 11, 2020

Lenny Rider said:
the other week were two of the four people in the car didn't know who Shakin Stevens was.

I think you are lucky to get two people to admit they knew who Shakin Stevens was in the first place....

some things are best left....

zefarelly · Nov 11, 2020

blue-shifted said:
Well, when you were 25 how conscious were you of the TV which was on 10 years before you were born?

very, it was still on TV as repeats and we didn't have any alternative. other than playing outside in the dark with knives and stuff

Bozza · Nov 11, 2020

Crackerjack came back earlier this year...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000ddhn/crackerjack

Nathan · Nov 11, 2020

I have Shakin Stevens home telephone number in my little black book, never called him. Not even sure where Shakin Stevens or the little black book are now though.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Nov 11, 2020

Nathan said:
I have Shakin Stevens home telephone number in my little black book, never called him. Not even sure where Shakin Stevens or the little black book are now though.

Have you looked behind the green door?

:goal:

Nathan · Nov 11, 2020

Tom Hark said:
Have you looked behind the green door?

It will be somewhere in THIS OLE HOUSE.

Lenny Rider · Nov 11, 2020

Tom Hark said:
To be fair tho, Crackerjack was always not so much Light Entertainment as Shite Entertainment

And maybe I'm missing something, and apologies if I am, but on what planet is it appropriate to be be discussing the merits of Shakin' Stevens in a hearse on the way back from the crematorium?

Someone had Green Door as one of their funeral tunes, but Frankie Vaughan not Shaky.

hart's shirt · Nov 11, 2020

Tom Hark said:
And maybe I'm missing something, and apologies if I am, but on what planet is it appropriate to be be discussing the merits of Shakin' Stevens in a hearse on the way back from the crematorium?

It might only be appropriate if the deceased family name was Stevens and it was a particularly bumpy journey on the way there.

zefarelly · Nov 11, 2020

Lenny Rider said:
Someone had Green Door as one of their funeral tunes, but Frankie Vaughan not Shaky.

I'd have gone for Wynder K frog myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoTDiSaYLBc

Barnet Seagull · Nov 11, 2020

Tom Hark said:
To be fair tho, Crackerjack was always not so much Light Entertainment as Shite Entertainment

And maybe I'm missing something, and apologies if I am, but on what planet is it appropriate to be be discussing the merits of Shakin' Stevens in a hearse on the way back from the crematorium?

Never a bad time.

Klaas · Nov 11, 2020

Young people unaware of TV programme that ended in 1984 shock! :shrug:

timbha · Nov 11, 2020

Tom Hark said:
To be fair tho, Crackerjack was always not so much Light Entertainment as Shite Entertainment

And maybe I'm missing something, and apologies if I am, but on what planet is it appropriate to be be discussing the merits of Shakin' Stevens in a hearse on the way back from the crematorium?

I didn’t even know that Shaky had been ill or that he lived locally.

Dick Swiveller · Nov 11, 2020

Tom Hark said:
To be fair tho, Crackerjack was always not so much Light Entertainment as Shite Entertainment

And maybe I'm missing something, and apologies if I am, but on what planet is it appropriate to be be discussing the merits of Shakin' Stevens in a hearse on the way back from the crematorium?

It was the remix

"There's a great big oven and its getting hot, behind the Green Curtain (Green Curtain)"

darkwolf666 · Nov 11, 2020

This Shakin Stevens, who has a new single out...?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a9bQEdrBpXw

Comrade Sam · Nov 11, 2020

My 12 & 9 year old daughters love the Young Ones - the comedy not the tune. I have raised them on a diet of 70s & 80s culture - 2 Tone, Punk, The Jam, Subbuteo and Harringtons. My eldest is proud to wear Peter Ward's number 8 in her team. The wife is a little concerned as to whether this acquired knowledge will serve them well in the future.

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