… on the Bubble Quiz.
Her bubble,’thesda, appears here, under “Washington.”
The key to her unconscionably low score is her failure to watch television.
Mr UD used to drag her to Ponderosa Steakhouses, but he hasn’t in a long time. If he had not caved in to her demands that he stop taking her there, her score would have been better.
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Notes of a Neophyte
April 10th, 2016 at 9:48AM
This test is strikingly age-sensitive, I think. My score (40) would be much lower if I’d been born in the ’60s rather than the ’40s.
April 10th, 2016 at 10:20AM
Mr Punch: Why would it be lower?
April 10th, 2016 at 12:52PM
I tend to agree with Mr Punch. Several of the questions deal with unions. Current union membership is lower than it was over a century ago. Rank and file reached it’s peak sometime in the 70’s. Collective bargaining has been eviscerated over the last 40 years, and when do you ever hear of strikes or any union activity on MSM? It stands to reason that the younger you are, the less familiar you will be with unions and far less likely to belong to one….
April 10th, 2016 at 12:59PM
UD,your significant other took you to that gristle palace? Where did you guys go for a nightcap, Dairy Queen?
April 10th, 2016 at 1:30PM
charlie: I think it was really a matter of a learning curve. He had to be made to see what Ponderosa Steakhouse was.
April 10th, 2016 at 4:34PM
I got a 32 without being in any unions. I suppose it helps to have gone to school in Socorro,NM (pop.12,000) and having a pickup. Still, a 32 makes me feel quite the parole among the readers of this blog.
April 10th, 2016 at 4:35PM
Auto correct doesn’t know prole.
April 10th, 2016 at 5:04PM
Pete: I think Mr UD (score: EIGHT) and I (nine) are extremely eccentric – his parents were both architects; my father was a scientist and my mother a scholar. We both grew up and have always lived in “Super Zips.” I think we’re statistically meaningless because we’re so far to one side. In the world outside this blog, a score of 32 is somewhat low.
I’ve been thinking about our bizarre outcomes much of today, while gardening, reading, writing, playing piano, waiting for Mr UD to come home in our small Prius and turn off the Comparative Religions course cd he listens to while he drives… You get the picture. Apparently we’re not just stereotypes – we’re ARCHEtypes.
April 10th, 2016 at 11:16PM
In the mid- 90’s, I secured an internship with KPFK in Los Angeles, a station affiliated with Pacifica, which is a non-commercial radio network. My first assignment was recording interviews with residents at Sunset Hall, a retirement community for socialists, pacifists, labor organizers, black listed writers and progressive thinkers. Many of the retirees were near 100 and had experienced historical events that an ignorant Baby Boomer like me didn’t know existed. My generation’s context was an ascendant America, but those folks knew that was an aberration. They would have scored off the charts, I scored a 19. I suspect that my grandparents would have been on the upper scale as well…
April 11th, 2016 at 7:48AM
49.
I would estimate that no more than a dozen of the nearest 50 neighbors have college degrees, and about half of those are fellow professors here. Lots of heavy, manual labor when I was young, too.
We don’t have a Ponderosa–wish that we did. They do rather often seem to be near a DQ. What don’t you like about Ponderosa, UD? We pay probably 2-3x at the local medium-brow steakhouse for the same quality food.
April 11th, 2016 at 10:07AM
tp: Mr UD says: “The steaks at Ponderosa are not great but they’re perfectly good – there’s nothing wrong with them.” And I too don’t remember finding the steaks all that bad there. For me, it was more about the depressing atmosphere: Too much food on offer all over the place at endless “food stations” – a sort of pig-out heaven. Cheesecake Factory can be depressing too as you realize everyone’s happily eating way over-sized portions; but at least at CF you’re not watching, while you eat, a loud Grand Central Station pig-out.
April 11th, 2016 at 1:07PM
OK, UD, I have a two-word nightmare for you:
Golden Corral
April 11th, 2016 at 1:37PM
tp: LOL. I’ve heard of it. I’ll find one around here and see what it’s all about. Will report back. There’s one 16 miles away – though there are none, I note, inside my SuperZip area… On their website I read of their “legendary endless buffet,” so …