I've never heard the original, but i remember my had occasionally listening to the (Australian) parody Not the Sunscreen Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4 when i was a kid. The line "never go to Adelaide - it's a hole" is stuck in my brain.
Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
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Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#12It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#13Mary Schmich was the speaker at my graduation from North Central College in Naperville IL in June 2000. She gently prefaced her remarks with the clarification that she, and not Vonnegut was the source is the song’s text.
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#14It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
38 here, things just don't heal as fast and tend to ache for weeks or months.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#15Had totally forgotten about that one, what a nostalgia trip. Now 20 years older (and wiser?), I can say it is shock-full of good advice.
Mostly it makes me think about high school and how difficult and uncertain my life was at that point. I didn’t even really know my life was all that difficult and uncertain, but I really disliked high school :)
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#16I've never heard the original, but i remember my had occasionally listening to the (Australian) parody Not the Sunscreen Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4 when i was a kid. The line "never go to Adelaide - it's a hole" is stuck in my brain.
Adelaide isn’t a hole but don’t tell anyone before I buy a house there.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#17In high school before I had even heard the song on the radio, we went on a field trip to local pharmaceutical lab. One of the chemists there had printed out copies of the lyrics for us from an email that had it mislabeled as being from Kurt Vonnegut.
That was during the era where people of a certain age, even a scientist in a chemistry lab, would believe anything sent to them in an email.
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#19Brings back memories, but also reminds me of the more recent 'Ring' by Mint Royale:
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#20I've never heard the original, but i remember my had occasionally listening to the (Australian) parody Not the Sunscreen Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4 when i was a kid. The line "never go to Adelaide - it's a hole" is stuck in my brain.
You just beat me to posting a link to Safran's song.
But most of all, don't aim too high,
You're probably only suited to an office or factory job