worst generation

remember Crystal Gravy?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/291086/saturday-night-live-crystal-gravy

crystal waters was way more popular than all of the above at the time

re "right now" - god, i hated that song so much

right now, michael is thinking about a SOLO project

right now, ed's got his hands full

the generational divide splits those who remember life before "100% Pure Love" and "Gypsy Woman."

Based on this model, baby boom years for other countries regarded for having a baby boom are as follows:

Ireland 1946–1982

lol Catholics

Crystal Pepsi, iirc, tasted a little like flat 7-Up. Which was not totally unlike:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/archive/2008/11/1_123125_2152319_2180454_2204595_081126_drink_zima.jpg

okay if my generation was any carbonated beverage it would have to have been this, surely

http://www.travelnotes.de/computer/bilder/jolt.jpg

it's SO gen-x to sniff at contenderizer's list of gen-x traits...lemme guess, you're grad students too! awwwwww...

goddamn it alfred

http://youtu.be/zQX2q6WCrbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQX2q6WCrbE&ob=av2e

wow I had always assumed that crystal pepsi was regular pepsi just clear

that it was just another 7-upy soda is disappointing, what's the point of that

I had no idea kona pepsi was a thing

wtf

srsly who told gen Xers they had good ideas?? xp

if our generation designed crystal pepsi it would be way better, also probably an app

made with real crystals too I bet

Dark Crystal Pepsi for gen x nostalgia

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Crystal Skeksi

Crystal Meth Pepsi

do u gen X'ers think of Obama as one someone from your generation? i've always thought of him as more of a minor boomer to clinton's boomer major but he was born in 1961, so on the threshold for sure

as one someone

i've always thought of obama as a tv person, so he's hard to relate to actual human beings born at actual points in time

Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, OK U!

clinton was also a tv person but u could taste the boomer thru the airwaves

also if greatest generation = worst generation then we have a contradiction so by reductio it's not that

see, logicians are good for something

do u gen X'ers think of Obama as one someone from your generation?

Nah, dude seems oldish to me, but I'm on the young end of Gen-X. Plus that whole thing where all fully-functioning adults seem oldish to me.

obama is def gen x

a. sold out

if obama is a gen x'er i feel like i have a whole new take on the last 4 years

lol iatee

I think of Obama as gen x

clinton was also a tv person but u could taste the boomer thru the airwaves

that's a good point. i guess i see obama as being on the cusp. just a little too old to be ggwau one of us (i'm already old for a gen exor), but not obviously boomer-ish like clinton was. cool dad type, but not too much of either.

http://366weirdmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/naked_lunch.jpg

Every agent defects; every resister sells out.

http://www.artistdirect.com/video/every-generation-got-it-s-own-disease/23336

A square wants to come on hip xp

Seems v wrong to me that someone b in 1961, i.e. over 50 now, could be a Gen X-er.

xp - of course, everyone else just is or isn't

Like "boomer minor vs boomer major".

W obv boomer major.

Generation Wurst

Not a cola but definitely generational:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/OK_Soda_Original_4.jpg

oh god, i remember when that came out! i think that's around the time me & my then-bf started referring to "K, the alternative consonant"

yeah, was so weird. like a "serious" alternative soda. was great to see clowes getting his work out there for the 7-11 massive to see, but otherwise incomprehensible. plus kind of gross.

also goes back to my earlier comments about gen x's "obsession with marketing". suggests the inverse of what's commonly assumed: what made gen x special wasn't, perhaps, their anxiety about being marketed to, but rather the ways in which corporate culture catered to that anxiety. the self-consciously robotized vacuity and despair of ok soda.

Suck.com had a thing talking about Tom Brokaw's coining of "the greatest generation" being part of an effort to change how people thought about old folks, so that Gen Xers didn't treat old Boomers with the same disdain that Boomers exhibited to their own parents. So yeah, still self-directed.

oh look, here it is:

"Year of the Rat"

http://www.suck.com/daily/98/12/29/

from 13 years ago, written by Reason.com's ex-libertarian-in-chief Nick Gillespie

When OK Cola came out, my friend started calling Pepsi Epsi-Pey.

Crystal Skeksi

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 9:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IRL LOL at this, thanking u.

:D