100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

GLKnight83 · 07-23-2009

Heh. Too true...

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07...er-know-about/

supermikeman · 07-23-2009

I miss arcades. (At least the ones where a quarter was all you needed). And when cartoons where cool. (I was a 90's kid) So alot of that applied to me up until about 2002 or 03

Keichan · 07-24-2009

How depressing.

Nihtgenga · 07-24-2009

1- Yes they would. It's cheap.

4- That was the case for me up until just last year.

As for the rest, ah, nostalgia. Some of that stuff's before my time, and other bits, I've noticed are gone.

Githmig · 07-24-2009

Umm, a lot of those are pretty pointless, and not really worth remembering anyway. I'm bored so:

1: Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something

Don't you have to do that with DVD's anyway? I guess, if everything is totally digital in the future, but doesn't that statement apply to Vinyl records too? Hell, even floppy discs, but then, everyone hates those :P

2: Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.

Can't comment. Though I do understand that these things were what a lot of film makers started with, I don't have any personal experience with them.

3: Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.

Again, similar to No.1 it's a pretty weak one. iPods and MP3s have their own intricacies to their use as well, I fail to see what loading a tape into it adds to the experience, if anything, modern music players are even -more- complicated, you have to go messing about with downloads and ripping CDs.

Eh...this could take a while, I'll just go by number xD

4: I think it evens out, on most tv services only a handful of channels have anything worth watching. While I'm sure those Ad only channels have their fans, they don't really offer anything interesting.

5: The author must be thinking of those single set TV's that sit in the corner. They made big tv's too back then, and those were -hulks- let me tell you. Wood panelling and all, we had one years ago, thing looked sweet, weighed twice as much as even the largest 'flatscreens' today.

6: Rotary dials? o_O What, have we gone back to the 1900s? (Yeah I know :P) I'm pretty sure they did have those, but simply saying TV's without remotes would have been fine. Remotes though are convenient, even if people could do without them.

Gah... I'll just pick out two more!

16: I don't agree that giving us the ability to watch tv when we want and what we want is a bad thing. (Or that the time before that worth remembering, suck it networks!)

18: Wires. I hate wires. They're so superfluous, like shoelaces! The sooner they're gotten rid of or minimized the better.

This is a very sad list. It happens. But it's nothing to be too upset about I guess, just a faint nostalgic sigh now and then. Things are destined to be forgotten eventually by everyone.

Hellstromm, Son of Satan · 07-25-2009

100 non-technological things your son/grandson/nephew may never know about:

1-"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", despite its title, has very low gore

2-Michael Myers doesn't torture people, and his victims don't squeal like banshees

3-Inspector Clouseau is Peter Sellers

4-The Joker was mutated when he fell on a vat of chemicals (and he looks like either Jack Nicholson or Cesar Romero)

5-Muslim people aren't our enemies

6-Michael Jackson was something OTHER than a big pedophile joke

7-Danny Ocean is Frank Sinatra, his ten thieves are the Rat Pack

8-Star Wars is a trilogy of live action movies worshipped by nerds starring LUKE Skywalker with Yoda in a non-asskicking supporting role

9-Eurythmics sang "Sweet Dreams Are Made of These"

10-Transformers Generation 1

11-80s Ninja Turtles cartoon

12-Harry Potter is a character from "Troll"

13-Homer Simpson is a character from "The Day of the Locust"

14-Buffy is Kristy Swanson

15-Stargate is a movie

16-Seeing a woman grow to giant size in the big screen is a rare thing

17-Traditionally animated WESTERN movies

18-"I Am Legend" is not a remake of "28 Days Later", it's the other way around

19-The Power Rangers are Billy, Kimberly, Trini, Aisha, Tommy, Zack, Adam, Jason and Rocky, and they fight Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd

20-"Disney actor" doesn't mean "teenage actor"

21-Slasher movies can have gore without being gore porn or torture porn

22-Gwen Stacy is supposed to die

23-Ghost movies don't have to be remakes of Asian movies

24-George W. Bush Senior

25- Dwayne Johnson is a wrestler known as "The Rock"

26-The Mummy is Boris Karloff

27- "King Kong" is a 1933 movie

28-"The Lord of the Rings" is a cheesy animated movie by Ralph Bakshi

29-Nobody gives a rat's ass what Ian Fleming thinks

30- When you want to start fresh with a dying franchise, you remake the original movie

31-When people are in danger, they run away (they don't "parkour")

32-Being a goth (as opposed to being emo)

33-Someone with long hair and garish clothes is a person with poor taste in fashion (not a "flogger")

34-The go-to show about a group of people stranded in a desert island is "Gilligan's Island"

35-A man with womanly tastes and looks is effeminate (not "metrosexual")

36-Someone who doesn't eat meat is a vegetarian (not a "vegan")

37-Weed is primarly smoked by hippies

38-Rap is an uncool, kid-friendly thing

39-Ozzy Ozbourne is the singer from Black Sabbath

40-The king of goths is Alice Cooper (not Marilyn Manson)

41- MTV is supposed to show music videos

42- The Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel are supposed to show only cartoons

43-The go-to musical about teenagers and high school is "Grease"

44- "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy

45- A lesbian is someone from the island of Lesbos

46-Fox Kids

47-The correct music to be played in the event of a zombie invasion is "Thriller"

48- Vampires are affected by crosses and holy water

49-A werewolf originates by either being the seventh male son born, or being cursed by a gypsy

50-Batgirl is Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter

51-Animatronics, make-up and prosthethics as special effects

52-The word "muggles" comes from the book "Rah and the Muggles"

53- "Howl's Moving Castle" is a book by Dianna Wynne Jones

54-The go-to giantess in comic books is Giganta

55- In Marvel Comics, superheroes are the good guys and supervillains are the bad guys

56-In Marvel Comics, good is supposed to win over evil

57-The go-to show abot young people suddenly gaining superpowers is "Misfits of Science"

58-"The Mask" is a comic book filled with gore and dark humor

59-The Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles are character from a comic book filled with gore

60-The worst video game movie had nothing to do with Uwe Boll (and it was called "Super Mario Bros")

61-The worst comedy director is Michael Lehmann, not Selzter and Friedberg

62- It was called "Scary Movie" because that was the working title for "Scream"

63-You are not supposed to know that Jigsaw is John Kramer

64-The Punisher is Dolph Lungrend

65-A faggot is a musical instrument

66- The 300 Spartsans and the Battle of Thermopylae has nothing to do with Frank Miller or Zack Snyder

67-There are other movies made about the Titanic other than the Leonardo Di Caprio one

68-Leonardo Di Caprio looks like a woman

69-The original "riffing movies" concept comes from showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (and not Tom Servo or Rifftrax)

70-There are Tim Burton movies not starring the Johnny Depp-Helena Bonham Carter duo

71-"Mars Attacks" are a series of trading cards

72-"Twilight" is a crime thriller starring Clint Eastwood

73-"28 Days" has nothing to do with zombies

74-"Sabrina" is a young seductress, not a witch

75-Homer is a poet, not a cartoon character

76-This site didn't start as a message board

77-Werewolves are supposed to be scary, not erotic

78-M. Night Shyamalan is a scary, intelligent director

79-The worst movie of all time is "Plan 9 From Outer Space"

80-Animated movies not voiced by celebrities

81-The sequel to "Peter Pan" is "Hook"

82- "Wizard" and "magician" are NOT the same thing

83- The best comic book movie is "Superman"

84-The original "Dragon Ball" anime

85- The go-to anime about teenage heroes on giant robots is either "Gatchaman", "Mazinger" or "Voltron"

86- Willy Wonka is Gene Wilder

87-The Nutty Professor is a skinny white guy who drinks a formula in order to become cooler, hotter and suaver

88-Doctor Dolittle is white, and he sings

89-You are not supposed to know that Mister Hyde is really Doctor Jekyll

90-Hannibal Lecter is Brian Cox

91-Wolverine is not the leader of the X-Men, Cyclops is

92-The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by Gaston Leroux and a movie with Lon Chaney

93-The correct name is "Frankenstein's Monster"

94-His name is Captain Marvel, not "Shazam"

95-Green Lantern's weakness is the color yellow

96- The go-to movie about teenagers wanting to lose their virginity is "Porky's"

97-Duck Dodgers wears a green spandex suit with an antenna, and his enemy is called Marvin the Martian

99- Frank Miller used to hate Hollywood

100- The go-to Republican president associated with evil is Richard Nixon

07-23-2009	#1
GLKnight83 Process Disciple Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,226	100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About Heh. Too true... http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07...er-know-about/

07-23-2009	#2
supermikeman Lover of massive tits! Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 537	Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About I miss arcades. (At least the ones where a quarter was all you needed). And when cartoons where cool. (I was a 90's kid) So alot of that applied to me up until about 2002 or 03

07-24-2009	#3
Keichan More tsun than dere Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 191	Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About How depressing.

07-24-2009	#4
Nihtgenga Come into my parlour... Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 7,239	Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About 1- Yes they would. It's cheap. 4- That was the case for me up until just last year. As for the rest, ah, nostalgia. Some of that stuff's before my time, and other bits, I've noticed are gone. __________________

07-24-2009	#5
Githmig Process Fan Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 87	Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About Umm, a lot of those are pretty pointless, and not really worth remembering anyway. I'm bored so: 1: Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something Don't you have to do that with DVD's anyway? I guess, if everything is totally digital in the future, but doesn't that statement apply to Vinyl records too? Hell, even floppy discs, but then, everyone hates those :P 2: Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds. Can't comment. Though I do understand that these things were what a lot of film makers started with, I don't have any personal experience with them. 3: Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager. Again, similar to No.1 it's a pretty weak one. iPods and MP3s have their own intricacies to their use as well, I fail to see what loading a tape into it adds to the experience, if anything, modern music players are even -more- complicated, you have to go messing about with downloads and ripping CDs. Eh...this could take a while, I'll just go by number xD 4: I think it evens out, on most tv services only a handful of channels have anything worth watching. While I'm sure those Ad only channels have their fans, they don't really offer anything interesting. 5: The author must be thinking of those single set TV's that sit in the corner. They made big tv's too back then, and those were -hulks- let me tell you. Wood panelling and all, we had one years ago, thing looked sweet, weighed twice as much as even the largest 'flatscreens' today. 6: Rotary dials? o_O What, have we gone back to the 1900s? (Yeah I know :P) I'm pretty sure they did have those, but simply saying TV's without remotes would have been fine. Remotes though are convenient, even if people could do without them. Gah... I'll just pick out two more! 16: I don't agree that giving us the ability to watch tv when we want and what we want is a bad thing. (Or that the time before that worth remembering, suck it networks!) 18: Wires. I hate wires. They're so superfluous, like shoelaces! The sooner they're gotten rid of or minimized the better. This is a very sad list. It happens. But it's nothing to be too upset about I guess, just a faint nostalgic sigh now and then. Things are destined to be forgotten eventually by everyone.

07-25-2009	#6
Hellstromm, Son of Satan Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 325	Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About 100 non-technological things your son/grandson/nephew may never know about: 1-"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", despite its title, has very low gore 2-Michael Myers doesn't torture people, and his victims don't squeal like banshees 3-Inspector Clouseau is Peter Sellers 4-The Joker was mutated when he fell on a vat of chemicals (and he looks like either Jack Nicholson or Cesar Romero) 5-Muslim people aren't our enemies 6-Michael Jackson was something OTHER than a big pedophile joke 7-Danny Ocean is Frank Sinatra, his ten thieves are the Rat Pack 8-Star Wars is a trilogy of live action movies worshipped by nerds starring LUKE Skywalker with Yoda in a non-asskicking supporting role 9-Eurythmics sang "Sweet Dreams Are Made of These" 10-Transformers Generation 1 11-80s Ninja Turtles cartoon 12-Harry Potter is a character from "Troll" 13-Homer Simpson is a character from "The Day of the Locust" 14-Buffy is Kristy Swanson 15-Stargate is a movie 16-Seeing a woman grow to giant size in the big screen is a rare thing 17-Traditionally animated WESTERN movies 18-"I Am Legend" is not a remake of "28 Days Later", it's the other way around 19-The Power Rangers are Billy, Kimberly, Trini, Aisha, Tommy, Zack, Adam, Jason and Rocky, and they fight Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd 20-"Disney actor" doesn't mean "teenage actor" 21-Slasher movies can have gore without being gore porn or torture porn 22-Gwen Stacy is supposed to die 23-Ghost movies don't have to be remakes of Asian movies 24-George W. Bush Senior 25- Dwayne Johnson is a wrestler known as "The Rock" 26-The Mummy is Boris Karloff 27- "King Kong" is a 1933 movie 28-"The Lord of the Rings" is a cheesy animated movie by Ralph Bakshi 29-Nobody gives a rat's ass what Ian Fleming thinks 30- When you want to start fresh with a dying franchise, you remake the original movie 31-When people are in danger, they run away (they don't "parkour") 32-Being a goth (as opposed to being emo) 33-Someone with long hair and garish clothes is a person with poor taste in fashion (not a "flogger") 34-The go-to show about a group of people stranded in a desert island is "Gilligan's Island" 35-A man with womanly tastes and looks is effeminate (not "metrosexual") 36-Someone who doesn't eat meat is a vegetarian (not a "vegan") 37-Weed is primarly smoked by hippies 38-Rap is an uncool, kid-friendly thing 39-Ozzy Ozbourne is the singer from Black Sabbath 40-The king of goths is Alice Cooper (not Marilyn Manson) 41- MTV is supposed to show music videos 42- The Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel are supposed to show only cartoons 43-The go-to musical about teenagers and high school is "Grease" 44- "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy 45- A lesbian is someone from the island of Lesbos 46-Fox Kids 47-The correct music to be played in the event of a zombie invasion is "Thriller" 48- Vampires are affected by crosses and holy water 49-A werewolf originates by either being the seventh male son born, or being cursed by a gypsy 50-Batgirl is Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter 51-Animatronics, make-up and prosthethics as special effects 52-The word "muggles" comes from the book "Rah and the Muggles" 53- "Howl's Moving Castle" is a book by Dianna Wynne Jones 54-The go-to giantess in comic books is Giganta 55- In Marvel Comics, superheroes are the good guys and supervillains are the bad guys 56-In Marvel Comics, good is supposed to win over evil 57-The go-to show abot young people suddenly gaining superpowers is "Misfits of Science" 58-"The Mask" is a comic book filled with gore and dark humor 59-The Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles are character from a comic book filled with gore 60-The worst video game movie had nothing to do with Uwe Boll (and it was called "Super Mario Bros") 61-The worst comedy director is Michael Lehmann, not Selzter and Friedberg 62- It was called "Scary Movie" because that was the working title for "Scream" 63-You are not supposed to know that Jigsaw is John Kramer 64-The Punisher is Dolph Lungrend 65-A faggot is a musical instrument 66- The 300 Spartsans and the Battle of Thermopylae has nothing to do with Frank Miller or Zack Snyder 67-There are other movies made about the Titanic other than the Leonardo Di Caprio one 68-Leonardo Di Caprio looks like a woman 69-The original "riffing movies" concept comes from showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (and not Tom Servo or Rifftrax) 70-There are Tim Burton movies not starring the Johnny Depp-Helena Bonham Carter duo 71-"Mars Attacks" are a series of trading cards 72-"Twilight" is a crime thriller starring Clint Eastwood 73-"28 Days" has nothing to do with zombies 74-"Sabrina" is a young seductress, not a witch 75-Homer is a poet, not a cartoon character 76-This site didn't start as a message board 77-Werewolves are supposed to be scary, not erotic 78-M. Night Shyamalan is a scary, intelligent director 79-The worst movie of all time is "Plan 9 From Outer Space" 80-Animated movies not voiced by celebrities 81-The sequel to "Peter Pan" is "Hook" 82- "Wizard" and "magician" are NOT the same thing 83- The best comic book movie is "Superman" 84-The original "Dragon Ball" anime 85- The go-to anime about teenage heroes on giant robots is either "Gatchaman", "Mazinger" or "Voltron" 86- Willy Wonka is Gene Wilder 87-The Nutty Professor is a skinny white guy who drinks a formula in order to become cooler, hotter and suaver 88-Doctor Dolittle is white, and he sings 89-You are not supposed to know that Mister Hyde is really Doctor Jekyll 90-Hannibal Lecter is Brian Cox 91-Wolverine is not the leader of the X-Men, Cyclops is 92-The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by Gaston Leroux and a movie with Lon Chaney 93-The correct name is "Frankenstein's Monster" 94-His name is Captain Marvel, not "Shazam" 95-Green Lantern's weakness is the color yellow 96- The go-to movie about teenagers wanting to lose their virginity is "Porky's" 97-Duck Dodgers wears a green spandex suit with an antenna, and his enemy is called Marvin the Martian 99- Frank Miller used to hate Hollywood 100- The go-to Republican president associated with evil is Richard Nixon Last edited by Hellstromm, Son of Satan; 07-25-2009 at 04:26 AM.