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This month's O&M calendar page is the cover of the second collection, <i>Never Mind Pants</i>. I've seen a similar picture in "Pearls Before Swine," which likes to spoof famous paintings on Sundays. So I must ask DCS, what painting would that be?

"That's no painting! It's a Nirvana album cover!"<br><br>At least, that's what it's a parody of . . .<br><br><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... c&n=507846' target='_blank'>Here you go . . . <b>Nevermind</b></a>

<!--emo&:o--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> I've decided I like the Timulty version better...

Anyone who doesn't know that reference was officially not paying attention to pop culture in the early 1990s. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br>Of course, the cover of <a href='http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg' target='_blank'>Nirvana's "Nevermind"</a> has been widely parodied by people other than me, like, for instance, <a href='http://akimitsu-n-hp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ ... eepend.jpg' target='_blank'>Weird Al Yankovic</a>.<br><br>"Nevermind," incidentally, remains one of my favorite albums.

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jun 2 2005, 09:43 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 09:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone who doesn't know that reference was officially not paying attention to pop culture in the early 1990s. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Oh, come on, give the young 'uns a break <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-VisibilityMissing+Jun 2 2005, 03:44 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ Jun 2 2005, 03:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jun 2 2005, 09:43 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 09:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone who doesn't know that reference was officially not paying attention to pop culture in the early 1990s.  <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Oh, come on, give the young 'uns a break <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> We had real music back in those days! Also, values! And school was uphill both ways!<br><br>...the fact that I'm being asked to give young 'uns a break, and I'm still safely in my 20s, makes me feel that we get old faster than ever these days. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Just another chance to practice being crotchety?

<!--QuoteBegin-VisibilityMissing+Jun 2 2005, 03:49 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ Jun 2 2005, 03:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Just another chance to practice being crotchety? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I have this feeling that the transition to being a crotchety old guy with a garden hose, in about 50 years, will be a very smooth one for me.

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jun 2 2005, 03:43 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone who doesn't know that reference was officially not paying attention to pop culture in the early 1990s. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I was in elementary school at the time. I had not acquired a taste for teen angst, so I pretty much hated Nirvana.

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jun 2 2005, 09:00 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 09:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-VisibilityMissing+Jun 2 2005, 03:49 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ Jun 2 2005, 03:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Just another chance to practice being crotchety? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I have this feeling that the transition to being a crotchety old guy with a garden hose, in about 50 years, will be a very smooth one for me. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Heh. When I grow up, I plan on being a curmudgeon. My own mother says I'm well on my way, although she also says I'm still too young. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--><br>

<!--QuoteBegin-Zaaphod+Jun 2 2005, 06:43 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Zaaphod @ Jun 2 2005, 06:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Heh. When I grow up, I plan on being a curmudgeon. My own mother says I'm well on my way, although she also says I'm still too young. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Going to be a curmudgeon?<br><br>I believe I'm already there.<br><br>Kids these days . . .

Oh we're not all bad <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> .

I love "Nevermind", it's an awesome album.<br><br>And no, it's not angst.

<!--QuoteBegin-Arloest+Jun 3 2005, 01:26 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Arloest @ Jun 3 2005, 01:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I love "Nevermind", it's an awesome album.<br><br>And no, it's not angst. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I thought you had <i>good</i> taste in music. <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo--> Oh seester...why!?

Out aof all Nirvana's albums, I like Bleach and In Utero more than Nevermind. Nevermind was what the record companies wanted them to sound like, not what they actually did. That's why the band disliked the record when compared to any of their other stuff.<br><br>Ah, I remember sitting up with my big sister to watch the unplugged live set on MTV when it first hit these shores. I think that was 1994, no? That would have made me 9.<br><br>I love grunge. Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Temple of the Dog, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Kyuss....Ah, the memories.