I forget how the conversation got started. Perhaps we were talking about pop culture and Paris Hilton came up, but one of my university students, around the ripe old age of 19 years...keep in mind I myself was 29 at the time, said this gem:
Student: Who would ever name their child Paris?
Me: Well, not just Paris Hilton, but think of Paris from The Iliad.
Student: The what?
Me: The Iliad.
Student: *blank stare
Me: Um...Homer?
Student: No idea.
Me: Helen of Troy? No? Um...Achilles? No? Um....The Trojan war? Greece? Anything?
Student: No. That must be your generation. I'm too young.
Didn't know if I should be upset that he didn't know the story, or that I wasn't even in my 30s and I was being deemed a dinosaur. Yeah, Helen and I were cool until it all became about her.
<-----You know, old people drama.
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