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Andrea Eschen's avatar

Most of this was beyond me, Marjie, because even though I'm clearly a boomer, I'm not exposed to this stuff being away from the US. Or maybe I just tune it out or it's not important. What I did get was your mother singing "Hang on stupid, stupid hang on." When Fabio was young he used to sing "Lettuce be, lettuce be, singing words of wisdom, lettuce be."

In any case, I'm always how diverse and creative your mind is. There's nothing you can't do.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

😂 lettuce be!! That’s fantastic!

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Victoria SkyDancer's avatar

Of course I had to check out the website after you mentioned it, and fell madly in love with it at first sight. Window shopping for now, but their Horchata Chai is actually reasonably priced. I know what I'm getting for a birthday treat in a couple of months.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

Oooh! Let me know how it is!

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Andrea Giso's avatar

Fabulous, Marjie! So on point!!!!

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

Ok boomer! 💕

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Andrea Giso's avatar

😁

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Kay's avatar

This is one of my favorite stacks. I’m GenX so we basically get ignored and are fine with it, but the whole fury against Boomers is so stupid. Get off my lawn, youngs.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

They’ll all be the older generation some day!

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Aaron H.'s avatar

What's interesting to me, is the fact that "boomer" is starting to be used as anyone who doesn't share "my views on this subject". It used to be about generation, but now it's more of a cudgel used to incite violent emotions from those individuals the words are directed towards. Perhaps more interestingly, it's being used to describe good things from the past. (I started to say nostalgic, but that's wrong, most of the people using this term weren't born)

https://www.inverse.com/gaming/boomer-shooter-definition-origin

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

Wow! That’s interesting. And yes, “boomer” means anyone older who I disagree with, or whose policies I dislike.

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Eric Goebelbecker's avatar

"I died in your arms tonight, musta been somethin' I ate."

Not sure if it's a proper Mondegreen or just what I wanted to hear.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

Tomato, tomahto

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Tiffanie Bederman's avatar

my favorite is still the classic "'scuse me, while i kiss this guy."

great read, thanks marjie!

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

So classic!

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Eileen Anderson's avatar

OK, you are probably going to get a ton of these, but here is child-Eileen's:

"...blue-eyed, bunny, bunny in the weeds"

https://www.8notes.com/scores/3648.asp

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

😂😂

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Ann Turkle's avatar

Born in 1942 (eek!) I share a car with my 18-year-old granddaughter. She leaves the radio tuned to assorted pop stations and I’ve committed to listening. I’ve found things I like! E.g. Noah Kahn (sp?) and Miley Cyrus. Yours was a good rant.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

Thank you. And I enjoy both those artists.

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Valerie Pollard's avatar

First of all "waving cane in the air" - hahaha! Secondly, I can't remember if we ever talked about a book that I read when I was twelve called "The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall. This book deeply affected me as far as understanding the concept of someone really being born in the wrong body.....however I do think that things have morphed (as they do) into other meanings since that really impossible time.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

No! But I’ll read it.

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Marjie Alonso's avatar

😂 we just can’t help ourselves!

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