So I’m reading this piece on Gawker and it describes how some of the troops in Iraq flashed their "Shocker" foam fingers during the network’s obligatory "thanks to the troops" Super Bowl coverage.

I knew from the context of the article that the "Shocker" thing was one of those "If the adults only knew what this means" situations, but the real shocker was that I actually qualified as one of the adults. Now I’ll give myself credit; I was able to surmise what the "Shocker" probably represented, but I did have to read the article to make sure.

Depressing.