Mark Hamill tweet:

[tblue37]

Link to tweet

You don't know what old really feels like until you meet a couple of 24-yr-olds who have never heard of Bob Hope.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. K&R

[Tetrachloride]

2. Hey Jude

a young teacher, 15 years ago, had never heard of it

[Midnight Writer]

3. "Did you know Paul McCartney used to be in a band called The Beatles?"

From a co-worker about 30 years ago.

[Rebl2]

15. Oh dear

Their parents must of only listen to country music. By the way, not knocking country music. I am in my sixties and don’t know many of the musicians in country music these days. Know a few of the generation my Dad listened to.

[Upthevibe]

28. Midnight Writer........

That's actually a Billy Crystal joke (at least the first time I heard it).

He said he was dating someone a lot younger than him and she said, "Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

[aggiesal]

4. What's a payphone? n/t

[AZ8theist]

40. They wouldn't know how to use it anyway:

[aggiesal]

47. Thank you for making my day ...

I remember that in 3rd grade we had a day of telephone instruction and tested.
By the end of the day, we knew just about everything, about a dial telephone.
We didn't have 911 back then, we just called the operator to get the fire department or the police.

[Mr.Bill]

5. I wish I had never heard of Bob Hope. n/t

[TNNurse]

6. I live in East TN.

In the hospital where I worked, we were trying to think of the name of the hospital in Nashville which bears Minnie Pearl's real name. It is Sarah Cannon by the way. A young nurse born and raised in TN had no idea who Minnie Pearl was.

In case you did not know, Sarah Cannon had breast cancer and the hospital focuses on cancer care. So we hear the phrase "he or she is getting treatment at Sarah Cannon".

[BaronChocula]

7. Or Simon and Garfunkel

As happened to me a few weeks ago.

[Tetrachloride]

8. An 18 year old student in a foreign land asked me last week

“Did Americans really land on the Moon ?”

She said she wanted to work at NASA

[Rebl2]

16. Oh my

[aggiesal]

48. Of course not, hasn't she heard ...

It was filmed in the Arizona desert.
Hasn't everyone caught on that all the "Live" moon video only happened when it was after dark in the U.S.?
Get with the program everyone, we never landed on the moon.

Do I need a sarcasm thingee?

[Tetrachloride]

49. most of the foreign lands are susceptible to government distrust

that’s where we are

they don’t care about university degrees. they care about survival, inflation, phones, air conditioning in my area. not far from me, the list of “caring” has a lot of revenge

[slightlv]

9. OMG! I've had more than a number of those encounters lately,

what with stars of my generation dying right and left. Many, many of these (if not all) these kids don't have the vaguest idea who they were or what they did. And if they have a clue, it's only because Mom or Dad have their music on in the background all the time.

Yes... we're getting old! Hubby bought a pair of jeans off the rack. Same size he's worn all his adult life. He's put them on to go to a party this afternoon and I told him he looked nice in them.

He informed me they're too tight around the waist, and are too long. I gave him a hug and told him, "Welcome to old age... where gravity shifts everything unconscionably. Why do you think I no longer have a butt? It's still there... it's just lays vertical instead of horizontal like when I was young!" Then I gave him another hug and told him he really did look good.

We're having issues growing older. Not with each other (although I do wish he'd get a hearing aid)... it's just neither of us can accept the changes in our body -- the way it looks AND less strength and stamina.

So, we crack jokes and make fun of the things that have changed on us. What else are you gonna do? Only the rich can put the "girls" and their butt back up where they go. And this old flower child is definitely NOT rich! (LOL)

[wendyb-NC]

10. No joke

Lol, I forget that the "Stars" from the 1920's through the 1950's are largely mythological beasts, if they are known at all, to my sons,

born in the 1980's in the 1990's.

[Sky Jewels]

11. Lucky 24-year-olds...

I could never stand that asshole, Bob Hope.

[Warpy]

12. Lucky, lucky kids. I've been listening to a lot of vintage radio

and have discovered something I suspected in my youth, he was distinctly unfunny. He sold punch lines with leers, and if you coldn't see the leer, the jokes just didn't land.

Oh, I'll give him big props for going out into war zones and entertaining the troops. he just wasn't that funny.

[Sky Jewels]

18. He didn't even write his own jokes.

He had very little talent at all.

[Warpy]

23. The cornball crap in "joikes for the john" was funnier than he was

Somebody else might have made those routines funny to some people, he wasn't that person.

[Brother Buzz]

36. Correct - He bought over 500,000 joke, now in the Library of Congress

630,700 items ; 873 linear feet (2,159 boxes)! All online and searchable....somewhere.



https://lccn.loc.gov/2018628950
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/jokes.html

To his credit, he credited all his writers

[Vinca]

13. Sometimes I tell people my name is Jayne spelled like Jayne Mansfield.

Unless they're old, they look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language backwards.

[Permanut]

20. Jayne Mansfield should be remembered for the Mansfield Bar..

It has saved a lot of lives.

[Vinca]

29. I had to look that up. I knew how she died, but I didn't know that.

All these years I've only thought of them as "car catchers."

[temporary311]

14. Not 24, but this reminds me of when I watched

The Muppet Show on Disney+ not too long ago. While it got better in the later seasons, in the first season I only recognized a handful of the celebrity guests.

[Warpy]

21. I stopped recognizing most celebrities in the late 90s,

not that I'd ever been an expert in pop culture, period. Not recognizing the characters on the scripted "survival" series and it's evil sibling spinoffs was a sign of good taste, IMO, but not recognizing singers was borderline unforgivable. It was at that point that Irealized I was no longer in the most sought after demographic of the hip and fashionable 18-45 year olds.

Yeah, kids, it'll happen to you, too, if the world lets you live so long.

[sakabatou]

17. I don't remember hearing of him, and I'm in my mid-30s

[johnp3907]

19. Mentioned Barney Fife at work today.

My 35 year old coworker had no idea,

[ProfessorGAC]

22. And That Show Is Still On

It runs on Sundance 4 days a week, and on TVLand & MeTV 5. Multiple episodes.
BTW: our first yellow lab was named Barney. When he got agitated I'd tell him "Put your bullet back in your pocket, Barney!"

[keithbvadu2]

24. I said 'Happy Birthday, Jack Benny' when my son turned 40.

I said 'Happy Birthday, Jack Benny' when my son turned 40.

He had to look it up.

[Lars39]

34. My username is a nod to Jack Benny...

I’m 39 and holding.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

25. I've been watching YouTube reaction videos to old music.

There are opera singers / voice coaches who've never listened to Queen doing a live version of 'Someone to love' or the live @Paris version of Phil Collins 'In the air tonight' analyzing how the great artists get their vocal effects.

Another group I watch are young 20 somethings who get gob smacked by these old dudes and gals who made such magic music.

It's especially satisfying how both group's eyes widen in shock at the drum fill in Air Tonight, even when they know the song and were expecting it.

We're in a weird age where the younger cohorts have easy access to their elders media and can discover them all over again.

[oldsoftie]

26. Lots of. young people dont know what a dial tone is.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Was talking with a young clerk in a pet food store who was pushing a store brand called "Redford."

I jokingly said something like "Oh, is Robert Redford starting a pet food line like his old buddy Paul Newman?"
Nothing.
"You know, Robert Redford the movie star? The Sundance Kid?"
Nada.
"Super handsome, like 'Brad-Pitt-wakes-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-crying-because-he's-not-Robert-Redford-handsome?"
Zilch.
"You watch the Marvel movies? Remember the guy who was Secretary of State but secretly head of Hydra? The guy that shot his maid?"
Bingo! But I decided to declare victory and go home.

[patphil]

30. One thing I've noticed about old age.

The floor is farther away.
It must be! It takes longer to get down there, and longer to get back up again.
Also, beer is heavier. I don't how they did it, but a case of beer is at least twice as heavy as it was 20 years ago.
The only thing that seems lighter is my wallet.

[jybarz]

31. Bob Hope said

Bob Hope said you know you’re getting old when you notice cops are getting younger 😊

[keithbvadu2]

35. ...when the bank sends their free calendar, one month at a time.

...when the rebellious songs of your youth are being played on the elevator... on the pan flute.

[LudwigPastorius]

44. I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas because I might not get my money's worth.

I'm so old, when I was a kid, the Dead Sea was just sick.

BADABUMP!

[The Blue Flower]

32. How about when your kid passes the 50 mark?

He was 7 when the first Star Wars came out. I still remember the t-shirt he wouldn't take off, the one with the picture of the Millenium Falcon.

[highplainsdem]

33. Oh, that sort of feeling can start when you're in your 30s and out with

a college student you met at a university library, who'd assumed you were his age when he asked you out, and who you'd hoped was older than he looked (some guys are, and he was really cute so I didn't ask his age or grade level). Then you go to a local bar playing classic rock, and you discover he'd never heard a song that was a huge hit when you were in high school. And you realize you'd babysat kids born several years before he was. And that possible relationship ends...

[Beartracks]

41. This is an oddly specific, but probably totally theoretical, example.

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[highplainsdem]

45. LOL. About as theoretical as Mark Hamill running into those 24-year-olds.

There've been times I wished I had less of a conscience. That kid was really cute. Reminded me of a young B.J. Thomas. Lovely soft Southern accent; he was from Bowling Green KY. About 6'3", which I liked because I'm tall.

But I should have had more of a conscience and asked him how old he was before going out with him. Then I could have avoided feeling like a cradle robber.

[lambchopp59]

37. Hell, I'd spouted my first grey hair at the record store 30 years ago

When the young bobblehead at the music/VHS rental store retorted "Olivia Newton Who?"

[Martin68]

38. No loss: Bob Hope was a jerk.

[LudwigPastorius]

39. In defense of the 24-year-olds...

Bob Hope was at peak popularity 55 years before they were born.

By that standard, I should be familiar with the work of Harry Watson, Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Watson_Jr.

Sorry Mr. Hamill, but a baby Mark was closer in time to the Wright brothers first powered flight than a baby born today is to the Beatles.

[Sky Jewels]

43. Exactly.

This would be kind of like an older person being aghast that I didn't know of silent film era stars when I was young in the 80s.

[highplainsdem]

46. I think we baby boomers might expect the culture we grew up with to stay popular

because some of it has, especially a lot of the music and many films. Certainly a lot compared to what kids in the 1960s knew about the culture circa 1910.

[republianmushroom]

42. Yep, agree