Kids these days

[starlady]

Text of an email from one of my awesome roommates, sent yesterday afternoon:

Subj: I'm eating in the law school

and right next to me are a couple of profs who are talking in COMPLETE MYSTIFICATION about one guy's daughter. I quote:

"She gave me this big compliment, she called me 'Dad-tor'. No, it's-- I guess it's the NEW Doctor Who? She's a complete devotee."

"I've never heard of it, but apparently there's this thing called... Tumblr? And she has all these friends? I've looked at it once or twice, and now I understand why my daughter never goes to bed on time."

"She follows this show called Supernatural. There's all this stuff on it that makes NO SENSE to me."

"Prof A: She uses this thing called Soundstage to make things with her friend.
Prof B: So she's never actually met this friend?
Prof A: Yeah, it's pretty wild."

"This new BBC show called 'Sherlock'. It's some kind of parody of Sherlock Holmes, I guess?"

I'm trying really hard not to laugh at them because that would be rude.

Comments

[yeloson]

It's like hearing Grampa Simpson have a conversation with himself...

[starlady]

Yeah, it's pretty wild.

[epershand]

This is the best post that has ever happened to me.

[starlady]

Every time I read it, it makes me smile. A lot.

[jesse_the_k]

"never goes to bed on time" isn't half of it. Congrats on keeping yr lip zipped.

[yifu]

That e-mail wins the internet.

[recessional]

"I've never heard of it, but apparently there's this thing called... Tumblr? And she has all these friends? I've looked at it once or twice, and now I understand why my daughter never goes to bed on time."

It would be impossible to improve this in any way.

[thingswithwings]

This post is gold. I would watch and entire TV show that was just these dads being baffled by their daughters' fannishness.

[starlady]

Sort of like Sh*t My Dad Says, but fannish - Sh*t My Daughter Does!

[umadoshi]

Hee! That's just wonderful. ^_^

[contrary]

In a very meta moment, I ended up reading this while once again eating lunch in the law school cafeteria. Dear law school profs: you have now made me giggle into my turkey sandwich two days in a row. Truly you bring happiness to all around you.

[thistleingrey]

And they are still ahead of all their age-mates unaware of these things! :))

[melannen]

I think I'm going to use that explanation for Sherlock from now on. It's more accurate than most of the others I've seen! :D

[starlady]

I can't decide which is my favorite, because they're all just too good.

[heartbeats]

When I was in high school I lived in fear that my parents would have this conversation with someone.

[starlady]

I was living with my dad while I was really getting into fandom and the OTW. The dinner over which I explained slash using Kirk/Spock as an example was memorable to say the least. Oh, my poor awesome father.

[ninj]

This is awesome. Made my morning.