Warren Newson wrote:
In high school I used to work at a hill billy grocery store that played country music from a satellite radio station over the PA system every single minute it was open. When I worked there, there was a particularly cheesy country song about kids riding bikes in the 60's called "Western Flyer" that was in heavy rotation. One of the verses in that song is "well I was Audie Murphy, he was John Wayne." Neither I nor the people I worked with had ever heard of Audie Murphy (we were teenagers and this was the 90's) and one of my co-workers was convinced that the verse went "well I was Eddie Murphy, he was John Wayne." I remember telling him that there was no way that a song set in the 60's would have mentioned Eddie Murphy, but I also didn't know why the song was mentioning someone by the name of Audie Murphy. It was about six years later when someone brought up Audie Murphy casually in conversation, that I was able to make the connection. Now, every time I hear that name, I think of that stupid song.
That's what being a kid in the '80s and '90s was, kids. Getting inconsequential shit wrong and waiting around for the fucking internet to get invented.
