Nichols: Embrace your soon-to-be old-fogey ways

Let me guess, you're like 21 years old? Okay, so you know everything including how "old" people feel. Maybe you should define what an "old" person is? I like what Ronald Reagan said one time. He was being harangued by a foul mouthed, long haired freak (you know, a young person) during his first campaign. This freak finally got a chance to be heard when RR called the crowd down. His statement was what did RR and people his age know about computers, space flight, nuclear power, and technology in general. RR looked at him and in his best grandfather voice told the youngster that RR's generation had invented all of that stuff for the youths.

Are your parents really out of touch? Or do they have some things figured out; like American Idol is just a TV show, Justin Bieber won't be remembered in about three years, who is Lindsey Lohan and why does anyone care about her, and maybe Paris Hilton is a self centered, shallow twit who has contributed nothing to civilization. You see that getting older means having to pay less attention to stupid things like pop culture and the latest app. It means taking care of business like paying your college bills, putting food on the table, and trying to understand what is going on the world to navigate around the rough parts for the sake of their family.

They write that you are the comedic relief at the Kansan. Why not a take chill pill, lighten on the old folks, and maybe mine the humor to be find in self absorbed college students about to be released into the world.

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• Posted by Calvin on February 20, 2011 at 5:25 p.m.
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Holy sh!t, Calvin. You completely missed the point of this column. "You see that getting older means having to pay less attention to stupid things like pop culture and the latest app" IS EXACTLY HIS GODDAMN POINT. JESUS CHRIST. Take a f-cking chill pill yourself, brah. And maybe take some reading comprehension courses while you're at it, you humorless f-ckface.

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• Posted by SenorChang on February 21, 2011 at 12:57 p.m.
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Mr. Nichols... As a man thrice your age (I'm speculating here) I want to inform you the dangers of the assumptions you make in this heartless, callous "column" you "wrote."

Unfortunately, people like yourself have no clue what it's like to grow old in our technology driven world. Regardless, I may not be as out of touch as you might speculate. For instance, I know exactly who Justin Bieber is and why his rap songs are so popular-- DRUGS! His audience is chalk full of chalk! His fans are so far gone they're on the Dark Side of the Moon! We witnessed the same thing in my day with The Who and look what happened to them! They're all DEAD! I bet you don't even know WHO they are (ah he he he).

So before you go thinking us oldsters revel in not wanting to know about anything new: THINK AGAIN! We may not like bright lights or ear recorders, but, at the end of the day, guess who figured out how to make emoticons? That's right, some Japanese guy 18 years ago, and, by your standards, he's "old" now, too!! 9-D

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• Posted by GreatEscape on February 21, 2011 at 2:28 p.m.
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Mr. Nichols, I'm not here to try to berate you for pursuing your chosen career. I think it's admirable that in this country we are able to chase our dreams. I do think it is more difficult to pursue careers that we don't have a natural talent and alas while writing can be taught and edited, humor is not so easy to correct. I feel that you haven't really had a funny column in a couple years now (I'm an avid reader) and I feel that this article proves that you are targeting people who you know very little about. It's embarrassing.

Why don't you do us all a favor, retake an aptitude test and maybe try to find a career that suits you. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just trying to save you from years of heartache and embarrassment.

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• Posted by thatsdoctortoyou on February 21, 2011 at 3:15 p.m.
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I think Senor Chang owes me an apology...hmmm?

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• Posted by Calvin on February 21, 2011 at 3:55 p.m.
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I'd like to congratulate everyone in this thread for proving that "oldsters" are not out of touch and don't complain all the time.

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• Posted by Blammo on February 21, 2011 at 5:05 p.m.
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PEOPLE...you are being ridiculous. Alex Nichols, (because "young people" don't say Mr. Nichols) is poking fun at young and old alike. In fact, I think he's making a sarcastic commentary on our obsession with seeming cool and keeping up with trends when eventually we get old enough to not care and accept who we are. We like what we like and the wiser we become (usually with age...hope that doesn't offend), we eventually give up on trying to keep up with the trends.

...I might go as far to say that it's actually more about feeling old once you graduate from college, especially with graduation looming in the distance...

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• Posted by anothergirl on February 21, 2011 at 7:29 p.m.
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I'm beginning to believe Calvin is an old man with Alzheimer's who has no idea what's going on.

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• Posted by JayhawkFromOuterspace on February 21, 2011 at 10:05 p.m.
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So I express my opinion and the civility goes right out the window. I don't take crap like Senor Chang puts out from my peers much less his sorry butt.

I see JKHfOS logged on just to make uncalled for comments about me. Very sad...

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• Posted by Calvin on February 21, 2011 at 11:04 p.m.
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Alex, I liked your column.

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• Posted by tmartinez2013 on February 23, 2011 at 12:02 a.m.
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Alex, Alex, Alex. Clearly, you suck at this humor columns. If you want to write a humor column, you're supposed to treat everything GRAVELY SERIOUSLY and LOOK TO BE OFFENDED. Look at all these helpful suggestions on this board. Maybe you could write a passionate plea for less genocide in Sudan. THAT would've been funny. Maybe you could write an article of why young people suck so much and are going to ruin this country. Take some cues from Calvin. He's hilarious. You should bash your target audience, shy away from sarcasm that subtly critiques your generation, and in general stick with "Take my wife PLEASE" jokes. Then, you will have gained humor nirvana.

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• Posted by xz007 on February 23, 2011 at 9:35 p.m.
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To "GreatEscape"...

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are still alive.

To "Calvin"...

No one owes you an apology.

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• Posted by mrothman on February 26, 2011 at 12:55 p.m.
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