Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for March 16, 2023

I never got into Happy Days myself.

At least he knows who Ron Howard is. I would have answered, “Yes, but that was before he became a director.”

Ya mean the kid who played Opie?

Tony asked, about 7 hours ago

Opie or Richie?

Whatever.

Get some videos of “The Andy Griffith Show” and let him see Ron Howard as a little kid named Opie. Why do I suddenly hear whistling?

Of course if Happy Days was made now it’d be set in 2001.

That is a problem today….kids now can’t relate to TV shows of the 70’s or 80’s!

Jumping the Shark? Squash the squid? Mash the Minnow? Punch the Perch?

Hey, he’s not wrong. All you had to do was close the loop with, “Yes, and he was an actor before that.”

It’s conversations like this that make adults feel old.

The generations gap at work.

It’s a generational thing…..

Yeah. I like to do the NYTimes Crossword puzzle. And afterwards I like to read the blog by Red Parker about how he solved it. Not too long ago one of his guest commentators mentioned that she had never heard of a name in the puzzle: Opie. Sigh.

Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?

It’s fun to watch language develop. In another generation we might have a new word like “jumppashak” that means to outlive your original premise or something like that. This is why I don’t fret over literally meaning figuratively and other linguistic developmental oddities.

Pete, you are raising that kid all wrong. His education is sorely lacking.