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[Steve Heard]

I was at a group training session yesterday, and as an ice-breaker, everyone had the name of a famous person taped to their backs. We had to walk up to people in the room and ask them 2 'yes or no' questions about our character.

 

I went up to the first person:

 

Am I in the music business? - Yes

Am I a rock musician? - No

 

Next person:

 

Am I male? - Yes

Am I alive? - No  

 

So, I know that I'm a dead male in music business.

 

Next person:

 

Am I a singer? - No

Well that's confusing. 

Am I a musician? - No

 

Ok, so someone is wrong  here, unless I'm a producer or something. 

 

Next person:

 

Am I in the music business? - No

 

What the?

 

Then she says, 'she broke up a band'. What? I'm female?

 

So, it turns out it was Yoko Ono.

 

So, when I spoke to the group later, I had to let everyone know that Yoko Ono is female, is alive, and although not a very good one, she's a singer.

 

I heard, 'She's a singer?', 'I don't know who that is!', 'I thought it was a guy!' 'Never heard of her', and 'I thought she died years ago!'

 

Am I that old or was I in a group of clueless individuals? 

 

[nomad]

So were you the oldest guy in the room? I doubt a bunch of Millenials would know (or even care) who Yoko Ono is. 

[SCA]

I know that Yoko Ono is alive and female, but I didn't know she's a singer.

[Steve Heard]

I know that Yoko Ono is alive and female, but I didn't know she's a singer.

She's not a very good singer, but has released about a dozen albums 

[Who_Do_You_Trust]

 

Am I that old or was I in a group of clueless individuals? 

 

 

The answer?  Clueless.  The most clueless being whoever picked the names to go on the "back" signs.  they should have picked peoples' names with whom the audience would be familiar..  Lesson #1 in the trainer's manual is Know Your Audience.The trainer didn't think it thru very well.  I hope the rest of the training session was more intelligently conceived.  It was probably still fun, tho.  Maybe Yoko Ono secretly picked the names.

[Steve Heard]

 

The answer?  Clueless.  The most clueless being whoever picked the names to go on the "back" signs.  they should have picked peoples' names with whom the audience would be familiar..  Lesson #1 in the trainer's manual is Know Your Audience.The trainer didn't think it thru very well.  I hope the rest of the training session was more intelligently conceived.  It was probably still fun, tho.  Maybe Yoko Ono secretly picked the names.

I never thought of that angle! The theme was 'famous pairs' and once you found out who you were, you had to find your mate. They had 'Sonny and Cher' and 'John and Yoko' probably don't resonate with young people the way that 'Tim McGraw and Faith Hill' do.   

[tony]

Steve, I'm certainly old enough, but might have forgotten the part about her being a singer (although now that I think about it, I  remember her singing with John at some point). 

 

My favorite thing said to make me feel so old was about two years ago when one of my 10-year-old son's friends got in the back seat of my 1992 Corolla and promptly asked what the window cranks were for (no power anything in this car, except the steering and brakes). He completed the double header when he got out of the car and I asked him to lock his door, to which he replied, "How do I do that?"  Ah, the privileged youth of the 2000s.

 

Popular music provides lots of opportunities. I don't know how many times our teenage kids have expressed how they liked some current song, only to be notified that it was a remake of a song written in the 1960s. To which, they always answer, "was it the Beatles"? (I'm pretty sure it was never Yoko Ono).