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From: Lu Abel (no email)
Date: Sat Apr 09 2005 - 00:06:11 EDT
Frank R wrote:
> 1) A question of common culture. There are other lists that I follow, which
> I judge to have a significantly younger age distribution, where I might make
> a reference to an American adult cartoon called "Family Guy" and people might
> find it amusing. It's exported to many countries so that aspect of common
> culture is not in doubt, but it makes a great many pop culture references that
> are generation-specific. If ya don't get the jokes, ya don't watch the show
> --of course and nothing wrong with that. There's an episode that makes one of
> the funniest latitude & longitude references I've ever seen in pop culture but
> I haven't brought it up on this list for that very reason: it is not part of
> our common culture given the age distribution of the list (I could be wrong!
> anyone know the lat/lon bit I'm talking about?)
Frank (and list):
One way we keep young is through our children. I've become a big
Family Guy fan because my teen-age daughter started watching it.
Although I now live in the San Francisco Bay area, I spent a lot of
years sailing on Narragansett Bay. Family Guy is set in the mythical
town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The local references are incredible to
anyone who keeps up with RI -- for example, the middle son goes to the
Buddy Cianci Memorial Junior High School.
Buddy Cianci is (was?) the larger-than-life four-time mayor of
Providence, now under US indictment for bribery, embezzlement, and host
of other crimes. My favorite real-life Buddy Cianci story is that
shortly after being elected, Buddy, who was separated from his wife, saw
her in a Providence restaurant having dinner with another male. Not
bothering to check that it was just a business meeting with the
gentlemen, he stormed in the restaurant and beat the guy to within an
inch of his life. His excuse, when arrested for assault and battery the
next day? "Hey, I'm of Italian heritage and we Italians are passionate
people!"
I've probably seen every Family Guy episode twice and don't remember a
L/Lo joke. Elucidate!!!
Lu Abel
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