Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Gulf War I, II, Afghanistan, The Arab Spring, Rise and Fall of Bush II and Obama. The end of the USSR. The Rise of Video game and other tech. The full impact of culture of the internet and aol. My time in the Corps. the disaster in Japan. And hopefully not the 3rd world war.
Who watches the watchmen?
I see the Awesomeness.
Aol CD's. And why there's no longer free CD's to turn into wheels for small toy cars.
Fight smart, not fair.
'80s TV Action Hero
What all those dirty-cream boxes with buttons on the front that don't seem to do anything were for, what people in other countries are like, the concept of the 'nation-state' as opposed to the 'city-state'.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
What cartoons were like before they were all computer animated or made with Flash.
Ideally though, I'm going to have my future kids watch all the same cartoons I watched as a kid anyway, since I have a big DVD collection of them. And they'll know what DVD's and VHS tapes are.
My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.html
Dog and Pony Show
I'll have to explain to my kids that the world was once an enchanted place where people could encounter Olympians and Faerie and magi, until Isaac Newton, the last magus in Christendom, concentrated all the world's magic and took it to Heaven with him, forcing us to rely on the science he left behind.
“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard
Was?
Well, that's a more elaborate story than Santa Claus at least.
Jackass Detector
Whatever the hell my avatar is.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.
SURPRISE
IRC. Touhou.
Was Jack Mackerel. | i rite gud
Mate Griffon To Mare
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Do you expect me to submit to such madness? Oh, wait...
Dog and Pony Show
I expect you to submit with a simple offering of earth and water.
Mate Griffon To Mare
I'll do the submitting, pass on the earth and water thingy.
Dog and Pony Show
Well there goes the "madness" joke. 
Mate Griffon To Mare
Well, then I'm glad I didn't lead SPARTA!
Is that cake frosting?
Reality TV.
They need to know why my decision to escape the civilized world and raise them in the middle of the Gobi desert was morally necessary.
edited 5th Apr '11 10:21:17 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
SURPRISE
Tch, Reality TV will be around forever (heh heh heh).
Was Jack Mackerel. | i rite gud
Is that cake frosting?
Perhaps, but the middle of a godforsaken desert tends to have poor reception.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
"So you see, children, the civilized world was ruined by the advent of television shows following the daily lives of stupid people."
"But Daddy, couldn't you have simply turned off the TV-"
"THAT'S ENOUGH BACK-SASS OUT OF YOU *savage beating with belt*"
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
You gotta get yourself some marble columns
It's not as easy as turning off the TV, though. It's like bell peppers: you can take them out, but the whole dish still tastes of bell pepper. Even if you don't watch reality TV, you live in a culture full of people who do, and in a culture influenced by it.
The child is father to the man —Oedipus
Oh, I know that, I just couldn't resist the joke.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
What is this
"What was Pokemon like when you were a kid, daddy?"
"Well, there were only a hundred and fifty and if you had any brains at all your team would just be psychics."
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant Morrison
Jackass Detector
There was 151, you cretin.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.
Writer of horse words
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE RELEVANT
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Deboss reminded me: Dial-up.
(This has probably been said before, though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jfzXaoF30
It explains all the life itself. I dont need to say more.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death itself may die."
Usenet. And, conversely, the years before "Web 2.0"
The child is father to the man —Oedipus