And non existent to the rest of the world.
I know made by Americans for Americans first and foremost but still
I know made by Americans for Americans first and foremost but still
It was stupid when I first learned about it and it's stupid now.
Do square dancing instead.
Do square dancing instead.
That sort of thing goes back to TOS and "Charlie X," where Kirk says "It's Thanksgiving on Earth." Riiight, because that's a global celebration...
Anyway, the fact that Sadie Hawkins dances even became a tradition in the US is a testament to how culturally influential newspaper comic strips such as Li'l Abner used to be.
At least TNG also tried every now and then like when Data mentioned Diwali.
That is certainly an unusual cultural quirk. Like if we had a James Bond dance or something.
Why wouldn't you?
Assassinating your dance partner for treason against the crown might be frowned upon in a school dance
But think of the action sequences!
Think of the introductions!
I'm Captain, Corporal Captain. May I have this dance?
You have to use the line, "She's just dead."
I'm Captain, Corporal Captain. May I have this dance?
You have to use the line, "She's just dead."
That doesn't really work as an analogy, since the idea of Sadie Hawkins dances relates to the nature of Sadie Hawkins Day in the comic strip, the inversion of the culture's usual courtship rules so that the girls chase the boys. Having a day where girls can invite boys to a dance is a logical outgrowth of that. In fact, there were events like that before Li'l Abner existed, so the strip didn't introduce the custom, just provided a name for it. A better British analogy would be something like Boxing Day, where employers are expected to do nice things for their workers or servants instead of the reverse.
It's always been the case that popular cultural works have an impact on society. There's an International Sherlock Holmes Day (Doyle's birthday), and British pop culture is surely full of references to Bond, Doctor Who, Eastenders, and so forth. It's just that for a time, newspaper comic strips were as big and influential as TV shows are today. They had songs written about them ("Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly eyes"), they inspired cultural memes ("Dick Tracy 2-way wrist radio"), and so forth.
It was already dying out by the time TNG was on the air. A decade later, I don't think any of the high schools in my county had one (though my girlfriend's did, in a different part of the same metro area).
Is that because it had become as normal for girls to ask guys out as the other way round?
dJE
Black Friday is becoming a global event, even countries which don't celebrate Thanksgiving or have their Thanksgiving at a different time of the year (like Canada having their Thanksgiving in October) now recognize the Friday after the American Thanksgiving as Black Friday and have huge sales in their stores. With that in mind, it's not that much of a stretch to think American Thanksgiving might someday become worldwide.
I think it probably had more to do with the end of Li'l Abner than anything else, but girls not feeling that they couldn't be the one to ask probably also made a difference.
Maybe the term's meaning has changed (at least at the Academy). Data doesn't elaborate on what made it awkward for him; we're only left to assume it means the same thing it does to us, but what happened for Data there? Nobody asked him to go? Everybody asked him? He wound up caught unwittingly in a love triangle when the girl who asked him had a jealous boyfriend? Some girl asked him as a prank? He disappointed someone by saying no?
The pronunciation of "transparent aluminum" stands out in this respect.
Not only is Federation Standard the English language. It seems to use the American spelling and pronunciation instead of "aluminium" (al-i-min-yum) which is used by the rest of the English speaking world and IUPAC (the global authority for chemistry standards).
I've mentioned this in the personal head canon thread before .. But I've wondered if maybe Starfleet predates United Earth and was originally an American agency that was absorbed into United Earth when the United States or a successor state of the U.S. became a member.
It would explain Starfleet being based in San Francisco, the "USS" moniker on Starfleet's ships as being a vestige of when Starfleet used USS to designate them as American ships, and why Starfleet mainly uses the customs and traditions of the U.S. Navy. It would also explain an outsized American influence within United Earth which bled over into the Federation.
Not only is Federation Standard the English language. It seems to use the American spelling and pronunciation instead of "aluminium" (al-i-min-yum) which is used by the rest of the English speaking world and IUPAC (the global authority for chemistry standards).
I've mentioned this in the personal head canon thread before .. But I've wondered if maybe Starfleet predates United Earth and was originally an American agency that was absorbed into United Earth when the United States or a successor state of the U.S. became a member.
It would explain Starfleet being based in San Francisco, the "USS" moniker on Starfleet's ships as being a vestige of when Starfleet used USS to designate them as American ships, and why Starfleet mainly uses the customs and traditions of the U.S. Navy. It would also explain an outsized American influence within United Earth which bled over into the Federation.
The US was the least nuked.
That was Roswell, New Mexico.
Quark's Treasure crashed in Roswell, but they were taken to a military base elsewhere. Denning references the "idiot in Roswell" who leaked the story, which is a phrasing he would not use if he and his listeners were in Roswell themselves. In UFO mythology, Area 51 is where the wreckage of the supposed crashed flying saucer in Roswell was taken for study, and since "Little Green Men" was based on the Roswell myth, it's a reasonable inference that the base in the episode was meant to be Area 51.
The son of the Dancing Doctor can't dance?
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