A new PC classic!

[MadMadge43]

I could not help but share this with you (sorry if this isn't appropriate but I'm dying here!) PC is my problem child at work. 

So PC gets a potential customer that deal with Medieval themes. It's a pretty big contract and I'm overseeing (read, doing all the work) the proposal. I sit him down and explain how we need to appeal to their customers and to them and how much fun it would be to put a Medieval flare to the proposal, (I'm very familiar with the SCA).

PC says, well I don't know much about the 1900's. Umm, ok, so I explain a little bit about the Medieval period.

Later on in the conversation PC says I think we should focus on Julius Caesar and theme the entire site around him.

He is now reading various sites about the Medieval time period and I'm bringing in my Camelot book. He has also been instructed that he is no longer to contact the client without me and I will be at every meeting and phone call. At which he will not speak.

But I am still just laughing to myself. UGH!

Modified to add: I can't talk about actual disciplinary actions on this forum as it is open to the public, so please be patient when I don't respond to those .

[Rose2Bear]

What, didn't you know Julius Caesar was the greatest Medieval figure the 1900s ever saw?!

[Lunadiana75]

While you're at it, throw in some cave drawings of wooly mammoths!

[FoxPaws]

Mid-evil? Isn't that somewhere between a little mean and truly heinous.

[Yarnspinner]

MadMadge,

Julius Caesar, well known King of Camelot during the Edwardian period, was best known for making the immortal speech about abdicating his throne in favor of living out his life with Florence Nightengale, the woman he loved.  Made the speech over radio, I believe, which was picked up by all the internet servers in the world back then...

If I wasn't at work, I would so be laughing so hard I would be crying.  Or in serious need of changing my underwear.  In the words of Bugs Bunny "whadda maroon!"  My goodness.  Oh. My. Goodness. 

Once upon a time my (then) boss had to deal with a snippy, self important business woman who was (of course) doing her daughter's homework and required information about dinosaurs.  Then-Boss brought her the books.  Self Important called her back and snapped "These illustrations won't do.  My daughter needs PHOTOGRAPHS and VIDEOS of live dinosaurs.  Where do you keep those?"  I've since read tales of teens demanding videorecordings of George Washington giving his inaugural address or of Abe Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address. 

It scares me as much as it amuses me that people have so little sense of history.

[Evil Duckie]

That is scary and funny.

It is funny that he has history so mixed up.

It is scary that he and many others have no clue about history.

[CosmicPossum]

That is scary and funny.

It is funny that he has history so mixed up.

It is scary that he and many others have no clue about history.

My DS was substitute teaching a group of 5th or 6th graders last week (age 11-12).  One girl had never HEARD of John Kennedy--it wasn't that she didn't know much about him.  She had no clue.

[Betsy]

That is scary and funny.

It is funny that he has history so mixed up.

It is scary that he and many others have no clue about history.

My DS was substitute teaching a group of 5th or 6th graders last week (age 11-12).  One girl had never HEARD of John Kennedy--it wasn't that she didn't know much about him.  She had no clue.

Yikes! By 5th grade I knew who Kennedy was and what I didnt know I could have found given any library with a card-index and about 15 minutes. What is the world coming to? (FWIW 5th grade was 12 years ago so not too far in the past)

[Lunadiana75]

Huh, I realized recently that the kids in my drama class know Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton but have never heard of Ginsberg or Keroauc.

Yes, they are Romanian kids,  but I don't think they are that much differernt from American kids in this respect.

I told them "You have no idea how much this hurts." 

[RoseRose]

That is scary and funny.

It is funny that he has history so mixed up.

It is scary that he and many others have no clue about history.

My DS was substitute teaching a group of 5th or 6th graders last week (age 11-12).  One girl had never HEARD of John Kennedy--it wasn't that she didn't know much about him.  She had no clue.

Yikes! By 5th grade I knew who Kennedy was and what I didnt know I could have found given any library with a card-index and about 15 minutes. What is the world coming to? (FWIW 5th grade was 12 years ago so not too far in the past)

Same!  Only, I'm not sure if I could use a card-index.  It was all electronic (though DOS-based) at the local library by the time I was in 5th grade... which was about... 9 years ago.  I can use a card index, but it takes me a while to figure it out.  On a computer, I can find the book (only in Dewey Decimal, I haven't learned Library of Congress yet), in 5-10 minutes.  Add 5 minutes for Library of Congress to find the guide and figure it out, and I'll have the book, and be looking up what I want to know.

I wonder how many 5th graders can't even do that... using a computer catalouge.  I know some of my classmates were hopeless doing research in high school.

[Suze]

Really mess him up and sit him down with a few of the "Classics"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Princess Bride

Robin Hood - Men in Tights

Ya gotta laugh - saves messy clean up if you don't kill him

[o5prey]

Forgive me but I am relatively well educated (BS) and I don't know who either Ginsberg or Keroauc are.

[Alida]

MadMadge,

Julius Caesar, well known King of Camelot during the Edwardian period, was best known for making the immortal speech about abdicating his throne in favor of living out his life with Florence Nightengale, the woman he loved.  Made the speech over radio, I believe, which was picked up by all the internet servers in the world back then...

I am dying here, rolling on the floor! 

[MadMadge43]

Thank you all, this has totally made work easier.

[Suze]

MadMadge,

 I've since read tales of teens demanding videorecordings of George Washington giving his inaugural address or of Abe Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address. 

It scares me as much as it amuses me that people have so little sense of history.

Or could it be that TV has always been a part of their lives, so much so that they can't imangian a time that DIDN'T have it?

With so much of History Channel "specials" with actors in reenactments.  Who knows what they think that is on film somewhere.

The dino's are just a hoot though.