This is part of a quote from a motorcycle board......I got a kick out of it..... "Old school" = before analyst's date of birth (consistent with currently fashionable philosophy: "the world was created simultaneously with my birth - nothing meaningful precedes my own experience"). For the typical squid/TV addict, that means 1987 is old school.
Wouldn't that make a dodge shelby Omni GLH and old school rod. I fuckin hope not. Mayby we should ask this guy.
Isn't that along the same lines as building a Nostalgia Ride. I can't wax nostalgic about something if I wasn't there? Actually the world must gave started at least 9 month's before I was born.
propagation promotion and reenforcement of narrow minded pea brain perspectives... that dood that is so fucking stupid it makes me sad..
haha, that omni GLH cracked me up. my old boss had a shifter from one on his desk because he swore that was one of the most badass cars he's owned. i was like 'the shifter looks busted, how did you get it out?' he said 'it broke off in my hand one day when i shifted into 2nd'. i said 'didnt that tell you something about your badass omni?'
Yeah, it's weird how the "oldness" of stuff seems to have changed. Back when I was in high school (1979-83) 25-year-old cars seemed ancient and cool -- mid '60s muscle cars. Now those same mid-60s cars are 40 years old, and no less cool. But a 25-year-old car today? That's basically an '81 Camaro. Yayyyy.
For me, the seventies cars are still "late model".....just my own personal perception.....just like the guy I quoted.
To me the term,"old school" refers to a person who was trained to do things in the,"traditional"(notice how I snuck the,"T"word in);that was the accepted method at sometime previous to his or her existence.It was actually a derogatory term in that it condoned the stifling of any new thought on a subject whether it was beneficial or not. But like everything else,the term has been bastardized over the years even to the point of not being spelled correctly,but then again very little IS spelled correctly these days.I guess it's just my thinking,"old school".
I just realized, I'm not old school, just old. Heh, heh...... What amuses me is the guys who refer to '90s music as old school! Shit, I aint even got to the '80s yet
The Omni thing made me laugh. We have a guy in the club that puts big block Mopars into almost everything he has. He as a 440 6 pack in his '64 Falcon. We talked about building a real sleeper cheap so the conversation moved into putting a 360 or a 440 in an Omni. That would be hilarious. The POS would probably turn into a pretzel the first time you nailed it though. I think "Old School" or "Traditional" has different meanings for everyone depending on when they were born. I was born 1970 but I couldn't stand late 60s to 80s cars even as a kid. I remember ads in the 90's saying "This is not your father's Oldsmobile". Damm right it's not. He had a 57 2 dr hardtop with a J2 371 and I get to have a lame V6 generic GM motor and the body style of a bread box. Not fair is it.
So wait a second here. That means that the infamous mullet, that icon of great 80's fashion, and bands like Flock of Seagulls are old school? How the hell did that happen?
Fuck analyzing, I'm going to call mine a 'hotrod'... an 'oldskool' or 'traditional' term seldom used... CC
How DID it happen????!! The other day I picked my wife up from the high school she works at in my winter beater, a 71 MAVERICK. Some high school kids ran up to me all impressed and called it "totally old school"! I wanted to chase them across the parking lot with a tire iron! OLD SCHOOL!?! I was embarassed to drive one of these to school back in 86!
AMEN Brother! Preach it. The lack of correct spelling gets to me also. But what really yanks my chain, is the corruption of the language by people who want to use "their" definitions of words instead of the real definition of the word. I think that is called "political correctness". Language is only useful if its standardized so everybody knows what you are talking about. If you go changing the meaning of words, then you mean one thing and I think you mean something else. That results in misunderstanding and you know what results from that.
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