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I know about Al Roker as a result of his gastric bypass surgery - and loved Jon Bon Jovi when he appeared as Carrie's boyfriend in Sex and the City. They are both over 50 - not exactly "new news". Robyn
Robyn, I think that's actually why Al Roker came up in our poolside convo. We ladies may have been talking about people who kept weight off after gastric bypass surgery. I cannot imagine any other reason his name came up. Oyyy, I know, we're so superficial and unworthy of intelligent discourse.
Caladium, no, he's not new news and has been on the national scene with the Today show for a hundred years! Maybe the name Willard Scott would ring a bell...lol.
It's funny to read the comments about Al Roker. Yes, I get the point that was being made , that it's important to be able to discuss current events and people in the news. But as a side note, I think it's funny that Al Roker is still considered a current person in the news. I think of Al Roker as a person in the news during the 70s.
LOL, am I getting old or what? When I think of Al Roker, I remember when the Mary Tyler Moore show had a character called Gordy, and there were people who thought it was a dumb joke to have this character because a whitebread city like Minneapolis would never have a black guy who wasn't the sportscaster. Then a year later Al Roker gets the weatherman job in Albany. It seems like just yesterday we were standing around at work laughing about the significance in all this. To me that was one of those "quintessential moments of the 70s."
Al Roker isn't only a current person "in the news". He's still on the news - on TV (the Weather Channel and the Today Show IIRC). Robyn
I read all the news on my computer. Most of us retirees have the time to become informed and are, I am happy to say, interested in the news on a large scale. That is what makes us a strong voting block. We know the issues and vote our feelings. It is too bad the younger generation doesn't have the interest or they would make the time. The things people don't know never ceases to shock me. One person, age 49, asked me what is the difference between the 'blue' states and the 'red' states. HOW CAN SHE NOT KNOW THAT?!
I read all the news on my computer. Most of us retirees have the time to become informed and are, I am happy to say, interested in the news on a large scale. That is what makes us a strong voting block. We know the issues and vote our feelings. It is too bad the younger generation doesn't have the interest or they would make the time. The things people don't know never ceases to shock me. One person, age 49, asked me what is the difference between the 'blue' states and the 'red' states. HOW CAN SHE NOT KNOW THAT?!
OMG, that's pretty bad. I had a couple 30-ish friends who moved to CA when our company opened a new practice there. I went to visit them about a year or two later, right before election time. As we were driving around, one of the friends said to the other, what do all these signs mean -- "No on 18", "Yes on 6", etc. I could not believe that after all that time in CA, she had no idea what the signs meant or understanding of CA's proposition ballot process. Heck, I even knew about them and I lived 3000 miles away.
OMG, that's pretty bad. I had a couple 30-ish friends who moved to CA when our company opened a new practice there. I went to visit them about a year or two later, right before election time. As we were driving around, one of the friends said to the other, what do all these signs mean -- "No on 18", "Yes on 6", etc. I could not believe that after all that time in CA, she had no idea what the signs meant or understanding of CA's proposition ballot process. Heck, I even knew about them and I lived 3000 miles away.
Your coworker was likely from the east or south, then, where many states don't have a ballot or initiative process.
I felt the same way the first time I went to Florida and drove a highway that had huge billboards about every 20 feet - we have pretty strict billboard laws in most of the west, and I'd never seen so many.
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