Joltin' Joe Has Left And Gone Away

My Dear Princess & Dear Fellows,

Smock emailed me asking if we had any use for a graduate, to come in and do some work as a Baby BA. I said sure, there's plenty of work to be done, although I suspect it may actually be more work for me. 

What the hell. I get paid anyway.

I wrote back with a proposal, laying out how I thought The Graduate could be put to use and then added, "Now I can't stop humming 'Mrs. Robinson'."

This started a whole thing. "Ash won't know who Mrs. Robinson is!" she snapped. 

If you're wondering what "Ash" had to do with this, so was I. Apparently she was about to forward my reply to him. Don't feel bad if your psychic powers failed you on this, I came up equally blank.

Sure enough, Ash (who is in his 20's) did not know what I was talking about. Then we asked Tanvi, who is nearly 30. She was apologetic. She knew the song, but had never heard of the film. 

"What about 'Bright Eyes'?" asked Smock. This brought howls of protest from those older persons sitting around. We were all traumatised by "Watership Down" we said, and she had brought it all back. Tanvi, however, was unaffected. So someone found a picture of EVIL RABBITS online and showed it to her.

"I used to LIKE bunnies!" she wailed.

It is somewhat sobering to realise that our cultural references, the common currency of chat between people of our generation is falling into disuse. I think there should be mandatory lessons for the young people.

It will be a lesson for my graduate day one of his/her arrival.

S.