So, I was walking past a table of twenty somethings at whole foods last week...

[Javaman]

and I overheard this snippet of a conversation...

"I was just reading about Leonard Di Vinci and how he built the sixteenth chapel..."

I had to pause in my tracks to fully comprehend all that was so totally and completely wrong with that sentence. I just turned around and looked at the person, mouth agape. I shook my head and walked away.

It made my brain really really sad.

[MrCoffee]

1. i'm just amazed that a trained ninja turtle could build that whole thing

turtles have mad skills.

[Javaman]

3. It has something to do with their retractable heads and ninja stars...

not sure which.

[Squatch]

2. At least he was reading...

"I was just reading about..." That's kinda rare in the X-box generation

[Javaman]

5. With so much wrong, what was he reading????

:scared:

[supernova]

4. Cuz the first fifteen were soooo, like, haarrrdd, Dude

[SteppingRazor]

6. As a member of his/her generation, may I just ask that you please treat that...

the way you would any other anecdotal evidence. A lot of us are actually, you know, smart and stuff.

[Javaman]

7. Okay, next time I will politely ask their ages before I slap them upside their heads.

:rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

10. Why didn't ya give their ears a good thunk for 'em?

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

8. In case you never noticed, every generation has its' idiots.

It's really not fair to indulge in generational stereotyping just because that poor child got left behind.

-LM, age 26

[Lance_Boyle]

15. dammit

future generations are going to need those apostrophes you're wasting! :P

-LB, aged sufficiently

[Bake]

19. Most excellent!

I salute you!

Bake

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. thats hillarious.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Like the group of 20-somethings that talked all the way through the Roger Waters concert,

and the group of 20-somethings that talked all the way through the Police concert, and the group of 20-somethings who talked all the way through the Rush concert.

And that, oddly, they were the ONLY groups that talked all the time at all concerts.

[SteppingRazor]

14. Maybe if the Police, Rush, and Roger Waters didn't suck so bad, they wouldn't be talking.

:popcorn:

[Bake]

20. OK, Rush maybe, but not the Police and Roger Waters!

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

Bake
aka Old Fart

[LisaM]

12. Oh, at a college bookstore where I worked in the 1980s

a woman walked up and asked for "Winesberry of Ohio", by Anderson Sherwood.

And she was reading it for a class!!!!!!

[KamaAina]

13. How on Earth did he have time to do that while he was filming "Titanic"?

And, who built the other fifteen? :tinfoilhat:

[JVS]

17. It was long for a movie, but the movie was still only a few hours long.

It couldn't have taken the actors more than a day to do all the acting.

[DarkTirade]

16. Brain... hurting... trying to escape... through ears...

[PVnRT]

18. I don't get it

Is this a reference to something, or what? What am I supposed to be laughing about, other than it should be "Leonardo" and not "Leonard"?

[huskerlaw]

21. It's not the sixteenth chapel

It's the Sistine chapel. ;)

[LisaM]

22. Well, and he also didn't BUILD IT

He painted the ceiling.

[CGowen]

23. He was one year late, he arrived in 1513 to stay for 3 years in the Vatican,

but the ceiling was already finished in 1512.

[Javaman]

26. Michaelangelo painted the ceiling...nt

...

[LisaM]

28. I know! I just realized that and went back to fix it

but it was too late.

[huskerlaw]

27. Hahahaha, true!

I couldn't get past the Sixteenth Chapel, but you're entirely correct of course.

[baldguy]

24. If it wasn't for the horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

[devilgrrl]

25. Uhhhhh..... Michelangelo Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Leonardo Di Vinci painted the Last Supper...

Jesus H. Christ, is stupidity a virtue these days or what?