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This section is devoted to those of us who do not have a ready-made set
of various aged young people at our immediate disposal who could help
us understand what is of interest to children these days. In order to
help us escape from the bottomless depths of our grownup ignorance, this
page will provide insights from prominent small people into whatever happens
to currently pique the interest of the younger set. Armed with the information
contained herein, grownup pediatric anesthesiologists will be able to
converse knowledgeably with their patients about things important to the
children or at least be able to fake it until the induction is over. Things
will be kept simple since the target audience is grownups. As editor,
since I am also one of those aforementioned poorly informed grownups,
I will exercise little control over content, but may from time to time
help with grammar or comment on a particular topic. I welcome suggestions
for topics to be reviewed in future issues and will endeavor to find authors
of the appropriate ages for those topics. In response to the many requests
(both of them) I have expanded the age range here and following a review
of some new cartoons, there is a sampling of bands of interest to the
teen-agers.
Thomas J. Mancuso, MD
Cartoons
Cartoon Network
- Ed, Edd and Eddie Three best friends who are not popular with others. Edd
(aka,Double D) is the smart one, Ed is the dumb one who often acts funny
while Eddie is interested in money.
- Dexter's Laboratory This is about a boy genius, Dexter, who built a secret
lab beneath his house. His sister, named Dee Dee, had discovered the
lab and often disrupts the lab and interferes with the experiments.
There is another character, Mandark, who is also a genius but dislikes
Dexter. They are jealous of one another, each wanting to be the smartest
- Dragonball Z There a super strong characters who fight inhuman, super
strong villains. These characters have extraordinary powers. The main
good-guy characters are called Goku, Gohan and Cirllen and the main
bad-guy is called Vegata. An obvious rip-off of Marvel Comics
- Scooby-Doo is the same old cartoon but the children don't realize
it.
Nickelodeon
- Catdog This character is a dog at one end and a cat at the other
(don't ask how). Their parents are a blue alien and a frog. (I am NOT
making this up!) The two ends are brothers and have adventures, often
disagreeing with each other but eventually getting along. Catdog has
enemies who pursue them named the greasers. Individually they are: Shriek,
Lube and Cliff. Another character is a blue rat, named Winslow, who
lives in the walls of catdogs house.
Musical Interests of
Teens
- Radiohead, A 5 member, all male band from England whose
members actually play musical instruments. Theirs is music with a social
conscience. Very intellectual.
- 9 Inch Nails,
Another all male band. Very cool, alternative music. NB They don't actually
have 9 inch nails, although it may sound that way based on how they
play.
- The Corrs, A family,
one brother and his sisters. The band is from Ireland.
- NSYNC, The archetype boy band. None of the artists(?)
actually play instruments, but they apparently dance well.
- S Club7, A British
band with 3 males, 4 females. They sing, but do not play instruments.
- Samantha Mumba,
A female solo singer
- B'Witched, An Irish band composed of 4 females
- Souldecision , An all male band
- 3LW , An all girl band
- Green Day, A
leftover all male, grunge band. They do play musical instruments, but
not particularly well. NB the band has nothing to do with environmentalism.
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