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.
Those of us who were the last to be born before man landed on the moon to actually remember seeing a man walk on the moon for the first time..
Does anyone here remember Chicken McNuggets Shanghai? Wacky Pack stickers? Body Buddies Cereal? Star Studio home recorders? Eight track players? Pizza actually made by Italians instead of Pakistanis and Mexicans?
westmex wrote:
Seems like this place is overrun with kids...I was born in 23
.....Westy......
But I definitely know about a real Italian pizza made in a real Italian pizzeria. Pizza Margherita, baby!
Do you remember he started out as a stand-up comic... and a fine one at that...
I remember Tim doing Stand-Up. Kind of a west coast version of Mort Sahl. I think that also helped enormously with his timing later on in television and film.
One of my favorite Tim Thomerson roles (besides Jack Deth) was as an old "Rice Paddy Daddy" and buddy of Sgt. Zack in an episode of CBS's "Tour Of Duty". Tim's charcter had "Been There" and "Done That". Was a screw-up and drunk back at the Base Camp, but rock solid in the bush.
Come to think of it. Tim would have made a fairly decent "Sgt. Rock".
Jack.
I'm 47 and I got ya beat. My grandfather was born in 1845 and fought in the Civil War. My father was the next to the last child of his 3rd wife and was 42 when I was born.
ME TOO
I remember hula hoops, boston coolers,autograph jackets, low vamp loafers, racks(now burnouts),test patterns on TV with 3 channels.I could go on and on
If that is not enough to do it for you, here are some other signs you are getting old.
1. You have been in the record store for 15 minutes before it dawns on you that they don't sell records anymore.
2. You remember when elevator music was some toned down version of a beatles song and now you are enjoying listening to the Rolling Stone on your ride on the lift.
3. That 40-year-old next to you looks ok.
4. You sell your Hot Wheels set on ebay and realize it was 35 years ago that you were playing with the darn thing.
5. You can't read without reading glasses. You are getting older when you buy 10 pairs of reading glassess at the dollar store and scattered them everywhere you might need them 'cause you can never remember where you put just one pair.
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