*bangs head*

[textualdeviance]

So, I'm in the Mac lab tonight finishing up my editing project, and there are a few of my classmates there. Talk turns to the Front, and I casually mentioned that I was annoyed at having to explain common knowledge things in my articles (today I got asked to spell out MBA on first reference. Egad.)

I mentioned having to explain how a bill goes through Congress, and one of the people gave me a blank stare and said, "what's a bill?"

O_O

Okay, Yale this is not, but Western's minimum freshman admission GPA is upwards of 3.6. How does any high school student get a GPA like that and NOT know what a bill is?

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[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I had a vintage Barbie (with bouffant) and a Ken with plastic molded hair and a crotch bump(!)

I'm glad they were still showing schoolhouse rock at some point. I don't think I've seen it on tv for a long time.

[ex-sporknin.livejournal.com]

Once saturday morning cartoons started saying words like "sucks" (I vividly remember that day, and fully blame it for my current lack of interest in television) everything went down the tubes.