Hey, say that all ya want, but when my stepson beat me two out of three times in basketball, I knew I was getting old. To make matters worse, he almost beat me in tennis!
I ain't what I used to be. ;-)
Posted on 09/28/2004 2:57:44 PM PDT by rdb3
...OLD! And here's proof. Every year Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin publishes what it calls "The Mindset List"--fun facts and figures about the incoming crop of freshmen so professors will be able to relate to their new students.
So to better understand how the class of 2008 thinks, read this and feel your age:
1. Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986. 2. Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Cary Grant have always been dead. 3. "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson, not a warm welcome from Ed McMahon. 4. The Energizer bunny has always been going and going and going. 5. Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in magazines. 6. Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less. 7. They never got a chance to drink 7-Up Gold, Crystal Pepsi, or Apple Slice. 8. Baby Jessica could be a classmate. 9. Parents may have been reading "The Bourne Supremacy" or "It" as they rocked them in their cradles. 10. Alan Greenspan has always been setting the nation's financial direction. 11. The U.S. has always been a Prozac nation. 12. They have always enjoyed the comfort of pleather. 13. Harry has always known Sally. 14. They never saw Roseanne Roseannadanna live on "Saturday Night Live." 15. There has always been a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 16. They never ate a McSub at McD's. 17. There has always been a Comedy Channel. 18. Bill and Ted have always been on an excellent adventure. 19. They were never tempted by smokeless cigarettes. 20. Robert Downey, Jr. has always been in trouble. 21. Martha Stewart has always been cooking up something with someone. 22. They have always been comfortable with gay characters on television. 23. Mike Tyson has always been a contender. 24. The government has always been proposing we go to Mars, and it has always been deemed too expensive. 25. There have never been any Playboy Clubs. 26. There have always been night games at Wrigley Field. 27. Rogaine has always been available for the follicularly challenged. 28. They never saw USA Today or the Christian Science Monitor as a TV news program. 29. Computers have always suffered from viruses. 30. We have always been mapping the human genome. 31. Politicians have always used rock music for theme songs. 32. Network television has always struggled to keep up with cable. 33. O'Hare has always been the most delay-plagued airport in the U.S. 34. Ivan Boesky has never sold stock. 35. Toll-free 800 phone numbers have always spelled out catchy phrases. 36. Bethlehem has never been a place of peace at Christmas. 37. Episcopal women bishops have always threatened the foundation of the Anglican Church. 38. Svelte Oprah has always dominated afternoon television; who was Phil Donahue anyway? 39. They never flew on People Express. 40. AZT has always been used to treat AIDS. 41. The international community has always been installing or removing the leader of Haiti. 42. Oliver North has always been a talk show host and news commentator. 43. They have suffered through airport security systems since they were in strollers. 44. They have done most of their search for the right college online. 45. Aspirin has always been used to reduce the risk of a heart attack. 46. They were spared the TV ads for Zamfir and his panpipes. 47. Castro has always been an aging politician in a suit. 48. There have always been non-stop flights around the world without refueling. 49. Cher hasn't aged a day. 50. M.A.S.H. was a game: Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House.
LOL join the club.
I saw the thread title and clicked because my daughter was born in '86!
My how time flies!
Hey, say that all ya want, but when my stepson beat me two out of three times in basketball, I knew I was getting old. To make matters worse, he almost beat me in tennis!
I ain't what I used to be. ;-)
After reading thru some replies I feel compelled to add:
I interviewed for a job at the NYC Playboy Club (didn't get it!)
Some other bygones & my memories:
Corporal punishment in school
B&W TV, no remote
No cable TV
No computer, no internet
You could ride your bike into town and not worry
A (was it 8 or 10 oz.?) GLASS bottle of Coke from the machine was 10 cents.
When I was in JHS cigarettes were 35 cents a pack from a machine.
People smoked on TV talk shows.
Nobody got offended if you flew the American flag.
When I started elementary school, you couldn't wear denim or shorts to school. (rule changed when I was 5th or 6th grade I think).
I told my kids if I'd only known I would have kept all of my ugly 70's clothes lol
"...7-Up Gold, Crystal Pepsi"
"I was born in 67, and I don't even remember these drinks. Huh?
Just damn. That hurts. That means for these kids, I've ALWAYS been married! (Just celebrated our 19th anniversary last week)
that was a great bit in a barney miller episode...
wojociewitz was taking down information from a drunk and asked his age...
63... and wojo typed 63.... i was 59 in 63.
wojo stubbornly erases the error and then calculates it to be ... 63...
i miss barney miller.
.....Westy......
And then, I shot him.
Grrrr.... Senior Freeper my drooping butt.... ;-)
Just turned 33 last week. I'm sure AARP will be sending me information now.
Must've never made it out of the test market.
I was thirteen before there was a McDonald's in my neighborhood....
Born in 47.
Of course, I could be wrong. I thought I was wrong once before, but I was mistaken.
I'm sure if I got this date wrong, several people will be glad to point that out.
Actually, that was number 26. Was that a senior moment, or just fat fingers on the keyboard?
I was 29 before the first stoplight was installed in the county I grew up in. Way back in the dull 90's. The occasion even made the Eveninmg News in Sacramento.
We had it in Cleveland, which is/was a test market. I remember the McDLT as well. That sure didn't last long.
McDLT: The sandwich for dicriminating adult palates. Or some such hoo-haw.
Born in 1976 here. I never realized how old I was until I stopped by a local restaurant frequented by high schoolers in my parent's neighborhood a few months back. I was 28 going on 60 that night.
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