[Misc] The Pop Culture Divide

[Lenny Rider]

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]

I blame the parents.

 

[blue-shifted]

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]

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?

 

[SpongebobSquarepants]

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

 

[Insel affe]

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]

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]

Crackerjack came back earlier this year...

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

 

[Nathan]

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]

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?

 

[Nathan]

Have you looked behind the green door?

It will be somewhere in THIS OLE HOUSE.

 

[Lenny Rider]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[timbha]

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]

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]

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

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

 

[Comrade Sam]

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.